Thank you. Love these types of videos.

Do some more of these types of reviews! They're awesome.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Will do. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@thorny_mcthornerson3945

5 жыл бұрын

You guys seem like you're around some of the best and newest stuff out there. It's cool to hear about how these things wear and tear.

@hitabo

5 жыл бұрын

Heck yea. Nobody covers stuff like this. I just dropped a ton on Shaw flooring and it’s beautiful but there’s a lack of content on durability and what is out there is mfg driven and not always on point. Great content. Love it.

I had glue together Pergo installed. The installation didn't use enough glue so I had some water issues. Probably solved by the new click lock style. I had 2 Rottweilers that weighed over 110 lbs. After 10 years they never made a scratch. However the Pergo was slick and I had to add throw rugs to make sure they didn't slip and hurt a leg or hip going around corners. A friend who installs great floors kept asking how the floor was holding up with the big dogs. After 5 years he stopped asking.

Laminate flooring is the amazing! Should be installed in all junkyards.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

ha!

Off topic from flooring, do you remember the paint color you have in the background there for the walls? Looks great with the white and blue cabinetry.

Loved hearing you pull out the Janka Hardness rating! Ipe has a 3,680 lbs. rating btw.

Hi Jordan - just wondering how your project with Hurst Hardwood pre-finished w/ Bona went. Would you still recommend this? I'm considering this for my own home and would be interested in your thoughts on this.

Can I install this over oak pre finished engineered hardwood floors? It's wearing horrible! I installed it 3 years ago and want to lose my mind every time I look at it. Was expensive and installed perfect but wear layer is problematic to say the least.

did you get the flooring unfinished? If so did you stain and then add the Bona Naturale or just the Bona?

It depends on the home and region. -- In the Pacific Northwest, I like strand woven bamboo. Really, you can do anything there. Shellac tends to be rather nice. No dirt to destroy the finish, and it's super easy to touch up. -- In the Southwest, white-oak on top of a wood sub floor, amber shellac with aluminum oxide cap coat. The dust gets everywhere and turns any other finish into a haze. The prettiest wood finishes I've ever done were in the Southwest. Extreme chatoyance. 90 degree days, fans going, 15% humidity. You can wipe on shellac in a 1lb cut and it'll be dry by the time you finish the room. One time, I did a pine floor made of old train car planks. Sanded down to 320 grit. Provincial stain. Clear shellac 1lb cut, 4 coats. 2 coats of sealcoat, 2 coats of satin A.O. It doesn't wash out in the light. It just pops. But it's one of the most labor intensive finishes I've ever done.

I live in a vinyl siding wasteland. Expensive houses - all two-story "Colonials", but the exteriors are plastic. I'd love you to do a take-down of vinyl (siding, windows, soffits and trim...). I prefer Hardie for look, durability and quality, but you may have other options worth touting.

Wondering what grade of walnut that is? Width? We are in the market and have been looking at Hurst.

Thoughts on Mesquite flooring?

Very interesting info. Sorry I found you just recently. I installed a nice wood product, brand name Kahrs, Brazilian cherry in the main areas of my home 16 years ago. My husband told me then cherry is soft. Lol he was right, 8 grands & 1 great grand later, we have lots of dents and scratches to prove it. The floor is still beautiful but in hind sight I would have chosen a harder wood.

Glue to try Echo those above, like this type of review. Very personable and give insight into how things last when you use them. I put bamboo in part of our last house, used urethane glue. Appreciated the strength and resilience, but it could be a nightmare to work with. I'd open a can and sometimes find the first few inches got enough moisture to harden and I'd need to cut through it. Then I'd need to use it up within a few days or it would start to skin over and thicken. If any dripped on the surface of what I'd put down it was a race to clean it up before it started to cure and really became a mess. And when our dog ran in to say "hi" and stepped in it and tracked it over the new surface, ugh. Then on our current house when I put in stranded bamboo (very high janka numbers) I tried a different glue, "Meta-Tec MS Plus" from Taylor. Found it much easier to work with and to clean-up, and lasted longer once opened. Nice adhesion, good resilience and sound properties. Took more for coverage than was initially estimated, but 4+ years later I'm happy with it. I did still use urethane on the stair treads, wanted the highest strength and adhesion. If I do it again, I'll probably go with the Meta-Tec again. MIght want to check into it.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Great comment. I will have to try the Taylor stuff next time. That's why I do these videos. Hopefully others learn something, but I always learn from others experiences in the comments. Thanks!

any long term experience with any of the oil finishes(Rubio, Osmo, etc.)? getting lots of requests due to the idea that they are made with greener chemistry

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Not on floors. I had a butcher block counter top finished with Rubio in one of our past houses. I loved it so much that I was going to use it on this floor, but my flooring installer had just had a rough time on another job with Rubio's durability, so we went with Bona. As far as environmental and health impacts, Bona is Greenguard Gold certified. They use it in hospitals and schools specifically because it is so low in voc's. I think they are both great products, but I still need to do more with Rubio on flooring.

I've always wanted to Janka test engineered floors. In my anecdotal experience I've seen more denting in engineered floors than solid of similar species. Even though the ply is Birch and should be stronger than the walnut in your case, it may be allowing more surface compression. This could also vary from manufacture to manufacture depending on how their ply is constructed. Would be a cool Build test!

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

We'll have to give it a try!

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb

5 жыл бұрын

@@JordanSmithBuilds I had Bruce engineered floor and it dented extremely easily too. Installed solid floor of same species and huge difference is real-world density. Solid floor barely dents - you have to drop something very heavy to make a mark.

I was looking for a video you posted thaf I seen a few days ago it was something to do with the house wrap wasn't waterproof I think it was called building a house like this should be illegal or something like that did you end up pulling it down cuz I can't find it?

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Pulled down... Lawsuits threatened. Sorry

@COCHILOCO420

5 жыл бұрын

@@JordanSmithBuilds that's not good... wouldn't be any lawsuits if they're building houses right..

This is off topic but was curious about your counter tops. Are yours 2cm or 3cm? Looks like just a straight edge no miter? Getting ready to do ours and I really like the look of yours.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

3cm Straight egde. I like the clean simple look. The routed edges can look dated fast imho.

Great video. The floor looks very nice. You always do an excellent job explaining things.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

American Walnut 4500N on the Jenka Scale, Ipe 16,390N, you want dense timber get some Australian Bullock 22,500N on the Jenka scale

My friends bought a house with pre-finished engineered hardwood. One year later it's covered in deep scratches. They have no kids and a 20 lb. dog.

Why move out of a house you designed and built? Just curious. It must be something really good.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Onward and upward, right? We moved to Austin to continue our careers, and this house is too far away to commute.

Why don’t you PREFER VINYL OR LAMINATE FLOORING? Thanks 🙏

Great experiences with Monocoat in a number of places.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. I like the Rubio product really well, as well.

Do you think you could do a video talking more about that disaster you showed on Instagram a few days ago? The one with the walls made out of home wrap and spray foam and the crazy gaps? I was really blown away by that and I would love to hear you talk more about it. I think it could be really illuminating for a lot of people including myself and your Instagram post left me with so many questions lol

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned next Thursday! I shot an episode onsite.

@SmallMartingale

5 жыл бұрын

@@JordanSmithBuilds Awesome!

Is that satin?

I like Precision Polyethylene

The downside to prefinished floors are the joint lines between the boards get a dirt buildup that is difficult to keep cleed with pets and kids. Site finish makes a more monolith surface.

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

I know. I wonder if the "microbevel" could be eliminated in a pre finished floor? My guess is no, since it would be hard to get rid of the inevitable high/low condition.

Wood floor density is diminished by the softer birch core layers (lack of support). Thickness if veneer is a factor, but engineered floors will dent easier than a solid because of softer core .

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

That makes sense for woods that are harder than birch. In this case, the walnut is softer than the underlying core. However, it would be fun to test different woods in their solid vs. engineered state as well as overlay thickness. I bet your point would be proven, especially in the thinner overlay versions.

@BiggMo

5 жыл бұрын

Your right, I had it in my head that walnut would be denser, but it appears they are about the same (depending on the specific species of each) www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-density-d_40.html

Nice video and the floor sheen was great. I may be experiencing some Mandela effect. Up until a couple a years ago, I thought I remembered walnut being very hard, more so than oak, which is why oak was pegged with walnut.

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb

5 жыл бұрын

You're dead wrong

What of concrete flooring? I'm a total idiot with these things but I have this idea of putting down concrete in my kitchen. I'm talking the polished kind and I'm talking about trying it myself as a complete novice.

@YSLRD

5 жыл бұрын

I like the look of polished concrete. The downsides to me are the wear and tear on human joints and because I drop things, it bothers me that anything fragile that hits it is pretty much a goner.

@CynHicks

5 жыл бұрын

@@YSLRD Thanks for the reply and making perfect sense there. I do have industrial rubber mats in mind though. Only in the key area of course. No reply expected. Again, I appreciate any response....I have a small kitchen and a fairly small square of mat would cover the working area. My question is more about difficulty in making it happen without hiring a pro.

Full hardwood will give you great floors for a very long time, Pergo can take a walk in my opinion its just waiting for water damage with no ability to fix just replace.

So it sounds like your not a fan of the ceramic tile that looks like wood...

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Not a fan. Not a hater either, but I would go with a pretty long format tile over the fake wood on my own projects for sure.

Looking at his Kitchen, I don't think Jordan is "roughing it".

So basically it takes all the fun out of socks on a slick wood floor

#askJordanSmith Who is Pearl Homes???

@JordanSmithBuilds

5 жыл бұрын

A home builder in Victoria Texas. Met him at IBS and he gave me a super comfortable shirt. Don't know a whole lot about him other than he gives out comfortable shirts 😉.

Dude, you are getting confused with your terms. "Dimensionally more stable"....YES, "more consistent strength"...YES,..."structurally more sound?" ARE YOU KIDDING ME,...? you are really sticking your neck out there using that term.....considering you infer you are a builder. And there is no question that in 80 years,...an engineered walnut floor will be gone,...and a solid one will most likely still be there!

Pretty lame someone made you take down the video of the tract home builder's shoddy work.

It’s the finish not the layers of cheep plywood under it. The guy is wrong