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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

Ha! There is a bit of a story behind it. A childhood friend of mine built a house around 1977. He was going to put this in as the flooring, but he had two little boys at the time and they lived in a deserty area. He decided to put in carpet instead and asked if I wanted to buy it for $1,600 delivered for around 2K sf. (around .80/sf). I initially said no, but after he bugged me for awhile, I bought it, saying I would put it in a house I would build someday. Well, years & years went by. People would ask what I was going to do with that big pile of oak flooring, and I would tell them I was going to use if in a house someday. After a while, they would say, "Oh yeah"? Anyway, I stored it in my garages until I built my house & moved in around 2 years ago. I've since learned the flooring is no longer available except by special order (it's mostly quarter sawn - what ever that is, plus it's inch & a half plank), and costs in the range of $9/sf. I'm told there will come a time when I'll prpbably have to have a repair done because of a water leak or something. I'm now dreading that because of the cost now. If yours is an old floor with similar planking, a future repair might be costly to you too.

You can still get your floor, all day long. I just finish a room to match the rest of the house about two weeks ago for a client.