SVreX
SuperDork
2/19/12 9:26 p.m.
In reply to curtis73:
If $500 is too much for your kitchen floor, I recommend enjoying what you've got until you've saved a little bit.
Please think hard about that Masonite idea. You could easily burn more than $500 if you are wrong and have to rip it out and do it again. It's not an approved product for subfloors.
If I saw it used as a finished floor product in a house I was buying, I'd immediately knock $5000 off the purchase price. It's pretty good evidence that shoddy workmanship was used in the house.
I know you will have plenty of links to refute this. I'm not gonna give you any, just my opinion from 35 years in the industry. Like I said, think hard.
You didn't say. Other than looks what is wrong with what is down now? Nothing is "greener" than leaving it.
My parents cut oak 4x6 boards into 3/4" strips and layer them as tile using adhesive. Worked/looked great for the 10 years it was down and the house sold in a week so I don't think it affected resale. They where dropoffs from an Amish post and beam place so the materials where free. It did require buying a sliding chop saw and ate 3 blades.
Also a lot of places give away pallets. A used planner and a router and you could have a very cheap very green hardwood floor.
If done right alternative materials can add value to a house. It can't look cheap like you painted the subfloor but if part of a larger design things like stained plywood can look stunning.