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16th April 2007, 09:56 AM #1
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Is this too expensive for hardwood floor?
Friend was just quoted nearly $6000 for 27 SqM of select grade spotted gum - secret nailed and glued over existing floor.
this price includes Sand and finish with 3 coats of oil based lacquer
Can anyone tell me of this is about right or is it too expensive.
All my reading of the forums would indicate that it is a bit to much
thanks anyone
Phil
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16th April 2007, 10:20 AM #2
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Yep - works out to be about $222 / m2
I think you should be looking around the $130 - $160 mark.
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16th April 2007, 11:16 AM #3
75 sqm of Northern Beech just cost me roughly:
$3350 cost of timber delivered
$1000 installation, including hire of secret nailer, gluing and labour cost
$2000 sanding and finish - professionally done.
Total $6350 or $85 per sqm - all inclusive.
If I had of done the lot myself I would have saved about $1500 and it would have come in around $65 per sqm.
I purchased the FEATURE GRADE Northern Beech through Studley on these forums. The difference between the select grade and the feature grade was about 30% for the timber . In other words, if I had run with select grade it would have come in at around $100 per sqm.
The Caveat: There are quite a few professional floor people who post on these threads, I think they may have even more succinct advice regarding floor costs. Mine may be lower, because I have shopped around and generally know the people doing the work that I am not.There was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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16th April 2007, 07:43 PM #4
Thinking about this further. Maybe break it down into three different jobs.
1. The purchase of the timber.
Now if your friend is getting a floor secret nailed then that would mean it is 80mm wide (not 140mm) which for 27 sqm would be about 350 lineal metres. I reckon the most you should pay for select grade spotted gum would be about $6 per lm (max. again) or about $2100 in for the timber.
2. The finishing of the floor.
The professional floor sander we just got in, charges $27 per sqm all inclusive for sanding of new floors (like your friends) or $35 per sqm for old floors.
Assuming $35 per sqm the the finishing of the floor should cost about $900 in total (max.)
3. The installation of the timber
Which would then suggest that after $900 for the finishing and $2,100 for the timber, then your friend is being charged $3,000 for the installation of a floor over 27 sqm. Say $60 per hour, that would be 50 hours to install the floor? I don't think so somehow. I would have thought, that at most, to install the floor would take 2 days.
Remember, these figures are all conservative. But I reckon you could get a better deal elsewhere.
CheersThere was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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16th April 2007, 07:56 PM #5
It's a rip off.
Mine was $7000 for over 50 sqm. of solid timber Spotted Gum glued to existing chip board floor. It's the 12mm thick boards from Boral sanded and finished.
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17th April 2007, 07:03 PM #6
G'day Phil.
I called one of our merchants in Sydney today.
Spotted Gum Select Grade 80x19 Secret nailed Endmatched.
Supply, install, sand and seal would be $150 M2.
Price is Sydney.
He said that Canberra is full of theives when it comes to timber flooring.Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor
Grafton
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18th April 2007, 09:56 AM #7
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Ben, Namtrak, Gumby and Glock40
Thank you for your replies, confirming what I thought. The theives comment has caused great laughter due to it's accurate nature for some businesses....
Can anyone recommend a timber flooring guy in Canberra who is not trying to buy a mansion or ferrari?
It's funny that Sydney with it's supposedly higher cost of living from the wonderful ACT can be so much cheaper for a lot of building materials and tradesmen.. no doubt due to scale and volume, me and SWMBO was looking a display homes in sydney a few weeks back and could not get over the cheap prices compared to Canberra, tens of thousands difference.
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18th April 2007, 03:30 PM #8Some days we are the flies; some days we are the windscreen
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