Monday, August 30, 2004
About a month ago Margaret and I bought some flooring. We both wanted a light finish wood floor - not a laminate and not a Pergo type. Wodd-wood. We looked at prices of Mapls and the cheapest we could find was at Lumber Liquidators. There it was about $4.40 per square foot.
I check the classfied ads in the Star Tribune from time to time and saw an ad for Maple Flooring for $2.25 a square foot. I couldn't beleive the price, so we went and looked at it. It is solid wood, tongue and groove all 4 sides and pre-finished and it's new in the box. It isn't true maple, since it comes from somewhere in the Orient, but it looks nice.
We bought 3,000 square feet of it. Now we have to find a place to store it. We rented a 10 x 10 mini-store place and put it in there.
We had 144 boxes of the wood to move - 3 full pallets. It weighed about 4 tons. I had to rent a big truck to move it all at once.
I also bought a load of plywood from the re-use center. It was cheaper than any of the home centers and was made using special process which is supposedly better for the environment - something called the forestry stewardship council.
I check the classfied ads in the Star Tribune from time to time and saw an ad for Maple Flooring for $2.25 a square foot. I couldn't beleive the price, so we went and looked at it. It is solid wood, tongue and groove all 4 sides and pre-finished and it's new in the box. It isn't true maple, since it comes from somewhere in the Orient, but it looks nice.
We bought 3,000 square feet of it. Now we have to find a place to store it. We rented a 10 x 10 mini-store place and put it in there.
We had 144 boxes of the wood to move - 3 full pallets. It weighed about 4 tons. I had to rent a big truck to move it all at once.
I also bought a load of plywood from the re-use center. It was cheaper than any of the home centers and was made using special process which is supposedly better for the environment - something called the forestry stewardship council.
