Thread: This seems like a cheap place for flooring...but is it any good?

Never heard of them.
Neither has my contacts in Newcastle, Sydney or The Gong.

For what its worth I would only buy flooring after I have seen it!
If its cheap it could be seconds ie bent,bowed, short lengths or even made up from a number of left overs from milling runs that might not match each other tongue and grooves.
A sales man will be quick to assure you that it is "good stuff" but you are the one who has to work with it after all So the better the stuff the better the finished job!

It is feature grade. What exactly are the features that will be in it??

they are reseller selling mainly boral timber as said the page opens with a feature grade price @ $66m2 select is $98 m2 chance of finding a feature floor in grey box would be slim ,hence they would offer an upgrade to select .
But if you can get it feature grade is only timber defect ,pin hole gum vien knots,not milling defects . if you are happy with that grab it

I wouldn't touch feature grade flooring. I've seen floors supposedly graded that way and they were packing crate rubbish. The person who'd bought it was terribly embarrassed.

In my experience your cheapest option, assuming your getting it laid, is to get quotes from layers for supply and lay select. I haven't had a price for a while but last I looked you could get it laid for about $120 - 130 a meter.

2c.

if this is boral timber there is no reason why you could not pay these carpet guys in sydney and collect from boral melbourne, but chances are its not boral so you wont be able,

not sure of stock levels of 8in greg gum, but think you might be pushing it to get a dececnt qty of feature grade.

There isn't a lot of Grey Box around.
Most of our stock goes to Hardwood Floors at Marrickville.
Actually Feature Grade Grey Box is fairly clean. small feature mostly backsawn hobnail.

Thanks guys. To some degree it seem you are all right. Despite the site stating they have feature grade Greybox and being assured it was available, when push came to shove they responded like I had asked for half a trailer load of rocking horse poo.

On the upside it looks like my partner has fallen in love with Blackbutt flooring and I would be going against her at my own peril.

Looks like it's back to the drawing board....although I might try and get a quote for the full supply and installation as recommended.

The problem I have is that I do not know the quality of the product they are selling. I was wondering if any of you people further north had any experience with them and could provide any recommendations. It's a pretty dangerous game buying timber sight unseen so I think I really need a least some level of certainty before I put my hand in my pocket.
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Your 'problem isn't the vendor you're looking at. It's the product you're looking at!

Doesn't matter who you get it from. If you purchase 'feature grade' floorboards you're purchasing second rate quality timber at best. 'Feature grade' is just a fancy term used to describe second rate timber to make it sound more attractive than it's potential structural integrity would warrant.

The 'features' in 'feature grade' timber are knots and all manner of other defects. Might make the timber more visually appealing, to those who want to see more visual variety, but it also detracts from the board strength. 'standard grade' timber is better quality, and 'select grade; is better again.

As Damien stated, 'feature grade' timber is basically just packing crate quality rubbish.

Part of the problem is people see the word feature and think it's full of quilt, flame, tight burl, birdseye, and this fantasy is helped by the carefully selected samples they have in the showroom.

When the floor goes down nowdays you get bug tracks, knots and all manner of awfullness. And now it's laid it's too late...

It's cheap for a reason.