I’ve been asked to consider putting in an IKEA engineered wood floor. The product is called “Tundra”. Does anyone have any experince with this product ?
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I think all the IKEA flooring is made by Pergo. All the joints are glued (i.e. not Swiftlok, etc.). Hope that helps.
Aaron
Actually, the IKEA flooring has something called "twist-lock" and is assembled without glue or additional hardware (although there are some extra bits you need to finsh edges, etc.) - that I can get off the website. I was wondering if anyone had installed it or had seen a real-life example in use.
It's about 1/3 the cost of Pergo right now..
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
Philll, I did a couple of floors with Ikea snap lock flooring.
89¢ sq foot. That is the cheapest they have, the pattern looked like short lengths of 2" oak/birch/unknown fake wood picture.
It was made in Germany, the joint lock fit was perfect.
Their old stuff was glue together, just like Pergo was.
The pad underneath I used from a huge roll I bought at a shipping container warehouse. Comes in rolls about 5o" by forever. About 4' diameter for I think about $80 last time I bought one. Yes, it's the same stuff for 10% of what Ikea or Pergo want.
The first time I saw Ikea flooring it was in one of their stores. They were tearing it up for a remodel and underneath it were patches of old glued on carpet pad that hadn't been removed when the floor went down.
I looked around the places that were still down and couldn't see any problems from having this stuff under it. Seemed like if it could stand up to the traffic in that store it was probably ok.
That's the old store in the Tustin Marketplace here in Orange Co CA.
Joe H
They've got some maple on sale right now at roughly US$.80/ft which works out to under a buck including their underlay. and it looks like a morning job to do a 10.5' x 10.5' greenhouse breakfast area (replacing WtW carpet)..
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
It's a lot easier than the glueit stuff. you can get away with pulling the base on only 2 sides if you have room to slide it under the other 2.
Anybody wann buy a half dozen of those clamps with the straps for the old glueit floors?
Joe H