Hi fellow renovators,

I am plannning on putting down floorboards in my unit, pending approval from the owners corp.

I will be ripping up the carpet myself and pulling up the existing parquetry floor. The existing parquetry has already been partly removed by the previous owners. Some of it has been replaced with sheets of particle board just loosely placed over the cement. Much of the remaining parquetry has become unstuck from the cement so you can just pick it up without having to chisel it off. A very small portion needs to be chiselled off, but the glue is pretty bad so the wood comes off very very easily. I'm thinking the carpet and boards wont take too long to pull up, it will probably take longer for me to clean up afterwards.

Now, getting to my question... I will be laying my acoustic underlay myself. But, I'm going to get the floor man to lay the boards for me.. I'd do it myself but I just dont have access to a table saw (or any other type of saw) to cut the boards to size, and I'm making the assumption that the floor person will have access to the required tools and machines.

Its a floating floor, engineered boards, going straight onto the acoustic underlay (no plywood). The area to be floorboarded is approximately 30 square metres. Its basically two rooms: the shape is a big square with a hallway off one side and a smaller square attached to another side of the bigger square. I hope that made sense. What I am trying to say is that it is not a very complicated shape.

How long would you say it would take a professional floor person to put that sort of floor down? I'm just trying to work out time lines of work!

Thanks


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