vinyl plank flooring

[dirtwarrior]

OK in my living room approx 480 square feet I have an old carpet that is going to be gone soon. I went to home depot and ordered some vinyl plank flooring.
I ordered this
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/400/31/31a0a12a-55d4-4835-94f3-e3c50889430d_400.jpg
which will look like this installed
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/400/4e/4ec38ae4-e523-4b6e-999e-069feb00b638_400.jpg

My concern is the knots and lines in the wood pattern is not random enough.
What do you all think.
I still can order something else

[dirtwarrior]

I like this one too
http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/400/92/928f097c-8ebc-4ad1-ae26-c8bd7a24d2df_400.jpg


http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/400/45/45212b57-5b00-48e6-a1b4-988d688c76a0_400.jpg

[dirtwarrior]

The first one I can get for 1.79 a square cause it is a stock item

The second one is special order for 1.99 a square

Should I get the first or second for my living room?

[GREG LANE]

get the one you like best. If your spending a grand for the flooring whats 10 percent more if you like the the other one better. Theres no change in labor. Pull the trigger and just do it.

[dirtwarrior]

I think I like the second one best. More random look

[GREG LANE]

both will look good with everything in the room

[Strick]

Either one is going to look good compared to carpet. If you are marred have the wife pick. That way she wont have anything to bitch about after it is in.

[Swilly]

Dirt,

Don't they discuss floor tile over at the "bike with a car tire" board:laugh4:

Is that the Allure Country Pine? If it is, nice shit! I'm putting 800sq feet of the stuff in a 1899 retail building. Bought 2 boxes, laid it out, looks fuckin great. Stagger the ends all over the place, not the usual 1/3 or 1/2, and the repeat seems to disappear.

I haven't done the whole floor, so I can't give it 100%, but I checked a large install of the stuff and it looked good.

Above all else though, +1 on Strick's comment. If YOU pick it, the wife is gonna hold it over your head for the rest of your life, Hold it up next to two ugly ones and let her go from there. Maybe even some Diamond Plate?

Swilly

[919jackass]

there is a tool shaped like a Z it helps. one end after a while will bent but you can just bend it back. trust me. it is the only way to get them tight so they don't shift. getting started and getting into a rhythm may take a few minutes but after that it goes fast

[919jackass]

by the way i like the second one a little better but it's HER house and you got to live with her

[TI 3VOM]

I am liking the first one best. Pick whatever makes the wife happy though. A happy wife is a happy life.

[dirtwarrior]

Divorced in 2000 and GF left me last year after 8 years. What is that Z shaped tool?

[dirtwarrior]

Dirt,

Don't they discuss floor tile over at the "bike with a car tire" board:laugh4:

Is that the Allure Country Pine? If it is, nice shit! I'm putting 800sq feet of the stuff in a 1899 retail building. Bought 2 boxes, laid it out, looks fuckin great. Stagger the ends all over the place, not the usual 1/3 or 1/2, and the repeat seems to disappear.

I haven't done the whole floor, so I can't give it 100%, but I checked a large install of the stuff and it looked good.

Above all else though, +1 on Strick's comment. If YOU pick it, the wife is gonna hold it over your head for the rest of your life, Hold it up next to two ugly ones and let her go from there. Maybe even some Diamond Plate?

Swilly
The first is Country Pine the second is Antique Elm

[919jackass]

the tool is used to get and keep to flooring tight together. you lay the flooring down put this tool down and hit the tool and it just tighens the flooring together. when you see it you will see how it goes.

[dirtwarrior]

OK guys after asking advice which I appreciate a lot. I went to Home Depot to get some tools I need.
I saw some nice textured carpet in a med brown.
I will get that.

[JWB]

I like the second one. Is this stuff basically Pergo? If it is you will like the way it wears. That shit is practically indestructable. My bro has two 90lb labs and a 3 year old rug rat and it has held up really well.

[rotorheadguy]

I put that stuff in all the time at work, I'm an handyman currently, its great stuff.
I think you'll like it. Gotta be careful about getting the pieces tight together but after that its pretty indestructible.

I personally like it better than pergo style flooring just because of the way those floors sound when you walk on them.
The vinyl doesn't sound hollow when you walk on it, more of a dull sound like real hardwood.

[Corpsegrinder]

21 yr'd residential carpenter here.... floating floors are junk!

Grab a prefinished hardwood Dirt (how the fuck are ya anyway?)... Then throw another coat or 2 of poly on it...

[dirtwarrior]

21 yr'd residential carpenter here.... floating floors are junk!

Grab a prefinished hardwood Dirt (how the fuck are ya anyway?)... Then throw another coat or 2 of poly on it...
Doin OK since I got my disability. Trying to fix my home without breakin' the bank

[Corpsegrinder]

What are ya payin per sq. ft?

Ever look here? www.lumberliquidators.com I see both locations are about an hour from you.

I've bought from here for my own house amd there prices were better then HD or Lowes. Maybe worth takin a look.