Anyone here ever install a hardwood floor?

[wifehatescar]

I'm building a new house and considering laying the engineered wood floor myself. I've done my homework on tools and technique a good bit. Any DIY'ers out there do this before? I'm fairly handy but it would be my first time.

[Chaney]

my dad never pays to have anything done, and when we redid out kitchen we paid to have it done...

Nothing like bad knees and then being on them for 8 hours...

If you rent all the equiptment, and have a good idea then i would say go for it.

[mogwai]

I helped install laminate "wood" flooring at my parent's house. It's pretty easy. We just bought like 15 boxes of Harmonics laminate flooring to finish up the rest of the house.

[OI812]

If it is the real deal, then I would hire it done. Hardwood flooring is a skill all by itself. If it's the imitation stuff, that's not so bad (laminate flooring).

[wifehatescar]

It's real wood but the toungue and groove stuff that is prefinished.

[OI812]

If it is the real deal, I would consider having someone else do it. You want someone to back it up, when it starts to swell and shrink like wood does. I don't pay for anything to be done on my house, but that is one thing I would consider having done.