Sourcing cheap wood flooring and limestone tiles

[Mark A]

Hi chaps,


Can anyone suggest where I can get hold of the following for a very good price:

* Approx. 120m2 of wood flooring
solid pine/oak floorboards, engineered or convincing laminate at a push. Not parquet

* Approx 40m2 of limestone/travertine floor tiles

I'm renovating our house and for the quantities I need it's going to cost a fortune with store-bought flooring. I've been watching eBay and Bidspotter, but nothing is coming up for sale within 200 miles in the right quantity - mainly leftovers from tiling jobs etc.


Cheers,
Mark

 

[MrDavidRoberts]

There you go! Clearance Travertine as cheap as you will ever find it, signup for the trade discount if you can and its about £6/sqm!
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Beige-Ho ... m/p/206960

Bought around 25m2 of it myself recently and it's top stuff and looks just smashing once its done (only a bit fragile to handle).


For flooring- Solid pine floorboards from timberyards about- £8/sqm ( a bit soft however due to it being pine?)
You won't find that quanitity on ebay from left-over jobs ( I have tried as well ) + it takes AGES to hunt down something good + everything is only near London.

However most of my house floors are from ebay leftovers ,where you can usually get about 15-30sqm at a time for circa £5-7sqm for good oak. I have 3 different shades of flooring, somehow it still looks very good!

Good luck with your hustle Mark!

 

[Mark A]

Yeah, I bought up all the cheap Wickes travertine tiles from Haverfordwest last week (only store relatively local with more than few packs in stock) and I intend to buy more when I next pass a Wickes which still has any left.

New softwood T&G boards from a timber merchant could be an option; though I hate the yellowy colour of varnished pine, and I've experienced blotchiness when I've stained softwood in the past. However, that's probably down to my ineptitude with regards to finishing.

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