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Date created: 2010-11-15 Location: Springfield, mo

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"Johnson Kempas Flooring"
We bought and these floors 3 years ago and installed them in a bedroom suite and landing area. We purchased these pre-finished with a 5 layer polyurethane sealer and a red tone stain. Kempas is normally brown in tone with a walnut type coloring, is extremely hard being harder than oak but not as hard as maple, it is an exotic hardwood with a unique shimmer in the grain unlike the flat grain of other woods, it can go by other names but you can easily Google Kempas and learn more. This red finish makes the floors look like traditional cherry and we used a few cherry pieces for threshholds,etc... and they look very compatible. We did that because our supplier didn't carry trim pieces but it was not an issue. The Kempas has the advantage of lower price and the beautiful shimmer. The wood was so hard that we had to drill the starter holes and use the rented nail gun at a higher setting to get proper penetration but we very quickly discovered what worked. We are very satisfied with this product and installed it on a 3rd floor over plywood subflooring that we took the time to screw (not nail) down every 6-8 inches to prevent squeaks in the future. We removed the loose floor nails from the house's original construction, also. We laid down 30# tar paper as underlayment instead of the 15# and nailed right over that. The floors have not been repaired and we have experienced only 1 hairline crack that we determined was stable. We did discover that this wood can be brittle when following the grain and can create extremely sharp and hard splinters that would and do feel like getting metal in your fingers. We have also determined that it wears very well on the surface so the splintering was only an issue at installation if you weren't being careful. The quality of the pieces was excellent, no rejects for finish or inconsistency. The fit was extremely good though a few pieces were not the exact width. Our boards were all tongue and groove on sides and ends and 3" wide. We purchased approximately 550 sq feet for $3.25 per square foot through a local discount supplier. Prices for Kempas at Lowe's and Home Depot were slightly higher and no red finish at the time. They now sell another related wood product. This wood is 3/4" thick, solid Kempas. We would buy more of this flooring and actually intend to do so and would highly recommend it to friends or family. It gives a luxury appearance and at a reasonable price. Being solid and not a veneer this wood can be refinished as needed over the years. I would consider this as durable as any old fashioned hardwood floor but with the advantage of modern finishes which allow for damp mopping and clean installation without nasty chemical outgassing in the home. You can walk on it immediately, too. This flooring was cheaper than laminate and increased the value of our home unlike laminate (which is literally a photo on thin paper laminated to a backer and coated with plastic- cheap junk). The comparable laminates were 2 times the price per square foot. The nail gun rental and nails cost $50 and we did the floor in one day- hubby and I with no prior experience though we did research a lot prior to rental and installation.