ᐅ Engineered wood flooring instead of solid hardwood floorboards offered
Created on: 24 Dec 2021 01:58
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Ysiysaia
Hello, actually a quiet reader until now, but I have a question.
I am renovating an old half-timbered house step by step and trying to base it on the original building materials.
Therefore, oak solid wood planks were planned as the flooring. Since the floor is still in quite good condition, with only some boards repaired, and the floor needs to be raised anyway because of the other rooms, the plan—discussed with the flooring installer—was:
to sand the old floor level and screw the new planks onto the old ones.
I want to avoid using adhesive, filler, or plastic materials.
Now he gave me an offer invoiced at €90 where he intends to glue 3-layer engineered parquet onto a filled floor at about €150 per square meter (approximately 14 dollars per square foot).
This does not correspond to the order at all and seems quite expensive to me (both per square meter and for the entire offer).
How should I proceed with this craftsman?
It feels like: he is creating an impossible offer that will never be accepted and wants to get paid well for it...
I am renovating an old half-timbered house step by step and trying to base it on the original building materials.
Therefore, oak solid wood planks were planned as the flooring. Since the floor is still in quite good condition, with only some boards repaired, and the floor needs to be raised anyway because of the other rooms, the plan—discussed with the flooring installer—was:
to sand the old floor level and screw the new planks onto the old ones.
I want to avoid using adhesive, filler, or plastic materials.
Now he gave me an offer invoiced at €90 where he intends to glue 3-layer engineered parquet onto a filled floor at about €150 per square meter (approximately 14 dollars per square foot).
This does not correspond to the order at all and seems quite expensive to me (both per square meter and for the entire offer).
How should I proceed with this craftsman?
It feels like: he is creating an impossible offer that will never be accepted and wants to get paid well for it...
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Myrna_Loy25 Dec 2021 18:12pagoni2020 schrieb:
€100 per square meter for installation is, in my opinion, completely unreasonable; I would rather pay by the hour. I believe you will find the right hemp specialist once you have found the right supplier; try asking a local sawmill or look online. From what I have read from you, it seems the customer and the tradesperson are not a good match here! With all due respect, as long as we don’t know the quote and its scope, that’s nonsense. It would be like saying €80 for a haircut is too much without knowing whether it’s just a men’s trim or a full cut, color, and styling of long hair.
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pagoni202026 Dec 2021 09:16It only becomes nonsense if I say that it IS just like that. However, I deliberately wrote "in my opinion," and an opinion can be just as wrong as it can be right. I never know all the details in a case presented here, so my stance can always be wrong because the original poster may have omitted or forgotten an important detail.
In this case, I understood it as massive wood planks being installed over an existing wooden floor, and for that, I personally would find €100.- too much. I am assuming normal local conditions; of course, certain circumstances can drastically increase the price, but I had not read about any such factors.
I understood your clear response and agree with you that blanket statements can never be made, but please, nowhere at all!!! I had already extensively described my own situation, which we have just implemented like this ourselves, and what is described here would have led me to take this position. I am not an expert by any means and feel even less like one. So it always remains MY OPINION, nothing more but also nothing less, and a poster should compare it with their own extensive circumstances. Otherwise, no one could ever form an opinion about anything because we only ever know about 10% of the whole context.
I recently paid €35.- for a haircut, although I usually go for the quick €15.- version. I, again personally, find that a bit excessive, just like the often €80.- amounts at the hairdresser (I happen to have some industry knowledge in this area and therefore feel entitled to this view). Nevertheless, I might go back to the €35.- hairdresser because I liked it... or I might go back to the €15.- place, we’ll see, and I’ll continue living happily either way if someone else pays €150.- for a haircut. But if they ask me, I would tell them that a decent hairdresser can also be found for €80.- or less; if they don’t ask, I stay quiet. Here I was asked!
Dear original poster, I take back that statement because I don’t want to convey nonsense to you in the end. I was referring to my own recently completed case. I don’t know your case well enough, so it’s best that you do whatever you feel comfortable with, and don’t let anyone else (possibly calling it “nonsense”) talk you out of it. Trust your own judgment and live with the result: D
@Myrna_Loy I do understand the intent behind your statement very well and I am ALWAYS against blanket judgments here. For the season of goodwill, though, that could have been said in a gentler way; with all due respect, I found the word “nonsense” a bit harsh on an early Christmas morning, but apparently that is normal for you, we just think differently. 😱
In this case, I understood it as massive wood planks being installed over an existing wooden floor, and for that, I personally would find €100.- too much. I am assuming normal local conditions; of course, certain circumstances can drastically increase the price, but I had not read about any such factors.
I understood your clear response and agree with you that blanket statements can never be made, but please, nowhere at all!!! I had already extensively described my own situation, which we have just implemented like this ourselves, and what is described here would have led me to take this position. I am not an expert by any means and feel even less like one. So it always remains MY OPINION, nothing more but also nothing less, and a poster should compare it with their own extensive circumstances. Otherwise, no one could ever form an opinion about anything because we only ever know about 10% of the whole context.
I recently paid €35.- for a haircut, although I usually go for the quick €15.- version. I, again personally, find that a bit excessive, just like the often €80.- amounts at the hairdresser (I happen to have some industry knowledge in this area and therefore feel entitled to this view). Nevertheless, I might go back to the €35.- hairdresser because I liked it... or I might go back to the €15.- place, we’ll see, and I’ll continue living happily either way if someone else pays €150.- for a haircut. But if they ask me, I would tell them that a decent hairdresser can also be found for €80.- or less; if they don’t ask, I stay quiet. Here I was asked!
Dear original poster, I take back that statement because I don’t want to convey nonsense to you in the end. I was referring to my own recently completed case. I don’t know your case well enough, so it’s best that you do whatever you feel comfortable with, and don’t let anyone else (possibly calling it “nonsense”) talk you out of it. Trust your own judgment and live with the result: D
@Myrna_Loy I do understand the intent behind your statement very well and I am ALWAYS against blanket judgments here. For the season of goodwill, though, that could have been said in a gentler way; with all due respect, I found the word “nonsense” a bit harsh on an early Christmas morning, but apparently that is normal for you, we just think differently. 😱