Tiling your floor with pennies.

[John_Mace]

The authorities are still too busy going after folks how clipped off the tags on their mattresses.

[Poysyn]

A friend of mine did it - she glued them to tiles, then to the floor. Less time crawling, you can sit in front of the TV making tiles.

[ftg]

@beowulff

Looks like something Donald Trump would do.

Trump wouldn’t use pennies. Fake gold coins or some such. But yeah. Tacky.

Definitely would hurt the price of a home when it comes time to sell.

[lieu]

You damn sure better be fond of Abraham Lincoln.

[Mangetout]

@gnoitall

Hell, that’s the only way they’ll retain their copper-ness. Modern pennies have such a thin layer of copper that the slightest amount of wear would turn all the coins zinc-grey. Can you imagine? All the traffic areas would be dreary grey-silver (zinc is not a particularly pretty metal). Think “galvanized sheet metal” grey.
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As I understand it, there are still a lot of solid copper coins in circulation - UK pennies are really easy to sort by magnet (as the new ones are copper over steel) - and I think there’s a reliable method for the US zinc vs copper ones - if you wanted to use coins with their actual surfaces exposed.

[Common_Tater]

@TriPolar

Kind of cheap looking. I’d use silver dollars, or at least quarters.

Pshaw! $20 gold eagles

[TroutMan]

It’s a look that would pair well with a painting of dogs playing poker.

[TruCelt]

I like it for a small powder room, with a smaller pattern,like this one. But for a larger room, just no. It’s too much.

I do like this sun pattern, but I couldn’t live with that floor every day.

[bibliophage]

@Amateur_Barbarian

Unless you’re going to use old copper cents, which would significantly increase the cost of the floor (are there any copper cents worth less than 20-30 cents now?)

Pre-1982 cents which were 95% copper have a melt value of about 1.8 cents, or they would if it were legal to melt them. You can buy them in bulk on eBay for about 2 to 2.5 cents each, including shipping.

[Gatopescado]

There was a bar down the road from here with a bar top full of pennies under epoxy. Of the thousands, only 2 were “tails”. You had to spend a lot of time drinking there to find them.

I knew them by heart, of course.

@Guinastasia

Honestly? I think it looks tacky.

Yep.

@beowulff

Looks like something Donald Trump would do.

But he would bronze them first.

@TroutMan

It’s a look that would pair well with a painting of dogs playing poker.

Penny Ante?

[snfaulkner]

@WOOKINPANUB

…

There’s a car around here that someone’s cover in pennies. I can’t recall at the moment what model, maybe a K-car (?)

That must’ve quadrupled the value of the car.

[Bad_News_Baboon]

@aceplace57

Depends on how it’s laid. I would put down Quarter-inch backerboard. Just like they do for vinyl flooring. Backer board gives a smooth surface to tile or apply these pennies.

To remove…
Set a circular saw to 1/4" depth. Use a multipurpose wood & metal saw blade. Cut out manageable size squares. Pry up and toss in trash.

Then you could put down new finish flooring. Hardwood, Travertine or whatever.

I’ve had to do this remodeling old houses. They might have 5 layers of old vinyl sheeting in the kitchen. We just cut it out and dropped in new plywood.

On job sites, I’ve seen crews epoxy a floor beautifully and quickly… but I’ve also seen a few disasters that have held up the project.

Since you’ve remodeled houses, I’m sure this project would look good. I just think of all the DIY disasters one sees online and can’t help but cringe at this idea for the average person.

[Darren_Garrison]

@TriPolar

Kind of cheap looking. I’d use silver dollars, or at least quarters.

Cheap? Let’s say that the floor needed 13,000 pennies. That would cost 13 thousand dollars!

[Weisshund]

@buddha_david

Misread the thread title, but I’m not saying as what.

Umm, Tilting your floor with penises is what i first thought i saw, and i though what on earth