Lois Flooring Warranty

Warranty--VOID

Not so long ago, we did a post on cleaning up flooring. See Cleaning up flooring and New flooring under Client Projects - Lois Remodel, for more.

The wood, though beautiful, grain perfect, long and straight Douglas fir of the type not really available anymore, was rougher than I thought. And dirtier. It required a lot of cleaning where the old cracks were and as a result, we jointed the grove side of the boards to 'crispify' the face and edge.

I chose to do nothing on the groove side to avoid re-milling the flooring from scratch, which wasn't in the budget. As it is, the floor has already taken longer than anticipated for both clean up and installation. Those long skinny 2.25" boards just don't cover very quickly.

All in all, I've been worried that the cost might be too high. But then, the quality of the floor Lois is getting is amazing. A superb floor from beautiful, old wood, but not inexpensive. It's probably about $10/sf all said and done. It's also not perfect, being old and recycled and installed on a sub-floor with less integrity than those I build. A squeak here and there but absolutely exquisite, with that old material patina.

But now I have an out for a squeak or a dip or a groove. Warranty--VOID--thanks to the cup of tea Lois spilled on the floor!!