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Home improvement - where to start?
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Dog paws slide on bare hardwood. By carpet I don’t mean shag. Lol.
Yeah, marine plywood would be cool but too much $$$. Looking for the cheaper, uglier step child version.
How’s this - $55/ea seems not bad?
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Thinking of replacing tile on our mid floor with some type of laminated wood. Kitchen and living room. Im thinking of remodeling the kitchen as well. Id like to do the floor first because Im not sure what to do with the kitchen. That being said is the space going to be livable while I do it? Is it just gonna be a dust bowl? Ive laid tile but never tore it out.
We have Kahrs engineered wood flooring throughout and I am gonna do the opposite and get it taken up in our kitchen and put in tile. Wood and water don't mix.
I dont put a lot of water on the floor. And we got a sh!t tile. Its like an uneven flagstone. Almost an exterior tile. Previous owners. Ill keep it in the bathrooms.
Pull one up and you’ll have a pretty good idea what the rest of the job entails.
The ones I’ve pulled up here sucked wicked hard. The dust isn’t bad just very labor intensive with the tiles not always coming up intact and all the adhesive to scrape up.
Yes. Obviously I will keep the tile in the bathrooms but this uneven flagstone really holds the ketchup. Ketchup just gets a grip. Im destroying mops grinding it off. I get more ketchup on the floor that water.
What about rubber mat(s) for back of truck
Easy to cut stay flat if thick enough and easy to dry and keep clean. Find a ole door for your work table jyst add some 2x4's for legs using 2 screwed together like a "L" for each keg and you got a sturdy work bench last a lifetime.Demo will be a mess, cannot stop all of the dust but tarp off as well as possible.
Just finishing a 3 month upstairs kitchen/flooring remodel, was fortunate to have downstairs quarters to live and cook in, we used a heavy duty zipper door to seal off upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms from the carnage, it worked well. Kitchen and living room on other side of said zipper were complete carnage, completely unlivable. Living room became appliance storage and workshop. Don’t get any hope you can still live in the work areas. So glad it’s over.
Changed our mind. We are just gonna move
Lots of rain cracked the clay sewer line where the house line joins the common line (installed 1924 on our property....common line joins sewer main a few houses down).
After pulling home-owners permit, spent last few days after work digging out a trench for a new 4 inch line, will abandon about 25 ft of line in-place. Have hired pro to lay in the new black iron line and to T into the common line
Am regretting all those times I sassed back to the folks about being fine with being a ditch-digger after a less than stellar report card. That clay is tough!
PS
In top image, tape on red driveway marks cracked//blocked line
Under the yellow leaf is another crack in the 6 inch (ED) common clay line (blue) and running parallel to it is the gas line (red).
After pulling home-owners permit, spent last few days after work digging out a trench for a new 4 inch line, will abandon about 25 ft of line in-place. Have hired pro to lay in the new black iron line and to T into the common line
Am regretting all those times I sassed back to the folks about being fine with being a ditch-digger after a less than stellar report card. That clay is tough!
PS
In top image, tape on red driveway marks cracked//blocked line
Under the yellow leaf is another crack in the 6 inch (ED) common clay line (blue) and running parallel to it is the gas line (red).
Did you put the yellow leaf there as an indicator? Or just happen naturally?
Doofenstein has a driveway in SF? Someone has more money than he lets on
“Had” money, until this home improvement project started about 22 years ago
his ungrateful nephews will not thank him for the multi million dollar gem he leaves them one day
oh wait that second part might be me never mind. Little punks
Every time I think I whine too much about my imaginary 1st world issues, along comes Mod-loving pico and his ketchup-caked tile to give me some perspective on how hard some people truly have it
See, I know exactly what subfloor is, and i even worked with it briefly in my early 20s, but just seeing the word in text makes me want to call my handy man for sage words of calm reassurance that everything’s gonna be alright
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