New Floors

I've been helping my friend put new floors in his house over the last few days. He decided to go with laminate which is completely new to me. I worked in construction for a couple of years and saw a few different types of floors installed during that time. Hardwood was probably the most interesting (and best finished product) to see being installed. The guy that did our hardwood flooring was named Dan and he drank Busch out of cans from the time he arrived on the job site until he left (probably when he was too drunk to be interested in working anymore). He had a very large mustache (presumably soaked in Busch beer for most of his waking hours) and i referred to him as the "floor whisperer". Who knew a drunk man could put in such beautiful floors, but he sure did. The laminate in my friends house is designed to look like wood and they are getting pretty good at making it look real. There were some tricks to installing it, but once we figured it out it went pretty fast. It's primary advantage, though, is its low cost. Wood is expensive and, drunk or not, Dan's work doesn't come cheap.