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Basil

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Tomorrow I am picking up about 500 sq ft of 3/4" solid oak flooring for my biggest home improvement project yet - to replace the carpet in my living room with solid oak flooring...by myself!

There is about a 6ft square area at the front door that is tiled, and I plan to tear that out and put wood there as well. Also, I am going to tear out my tiled fireplace hearth and re-do that area with stone - then lay down the wood floor. What will be interesting is dealing with the 52inch big screen and the upright grand piano! (but I have a plan!)
 
If you didn't plan on it before, now is the perfect time to run wiring for inwall surround sound speakers. Trust me, even if you don't want them now, you will. Here's a couple of pics of the setup we went with.

Wall termination for a 7.1 setup and HDMI to the TV

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The centers - because it's above the fireplace, I had to put them high. They have adjustable tweeters, which have been set to give a better spread. I wired them in parallel. The amp has plenty of grunt, so powering them isn't an issue...

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You get the idea. We paid for the flooring to be done - but then we had 1750sf put in on this floor. Just unloading it nearly killed me...
 
:lol: It must be that fixing the lawn leak gave you just the push you needed to truly be an allaround 'handyman'????
 
Basil will do anything to keep from working on that Jag!
 
Basil, speaking from experience (I've done almost 1500 sf in my house)I have one major suggestion and two minor ones. The major one is use an air nailer if possible as it will save a lot of time and wear and tear on your nailing arm. The two minor suggestions are use quality nails (bosch, etc.), and get some good furniture leg pads and you'll be able to move that piano and other heavy furniture with ease on your finished floor with no scratching.
 
I assume that the electrical set up is at least 2 circiuts.
Here it would be listed as a fire hazard if there was just one circuit.
 
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