Recent content by Al from Durham

Thank you.

Thank you, kind Sir. One would expect that the information that a vendor gives us is at least half true, but no. It was a small low spot. It just happens that I was looking at Arden Feather Finish before your message came along. User reviews say that you can mix it to any consistency you...

Hello. I hope that you are well and enjoying life in general. Spreading goo is something that the man on the street thinks that any dope can do. But I'm a special kind of dope, because I can't do it and I never could. This is new-from-the-store Henry 345 filler on well-sanded Luan plywood...

Doesn't that just kinda look like a dirty floor?

And who would ever know if nobody told them. Thanks. Ammonia absolutely destroys lacquer finishes. I wish I could have learned some of these things without ruining people's stuff.

Oh, thanks....but... Textured? Mom told me that you can't clean textured floors clean, and my experience is that she was right.

Hey, I like VCT and everybody says that there's something wrong with me.

Just as an aside, the kitchen in question has all dark old knotty pine walls and cabinets, and a grotesque knotty pine valence with curlicues cut in the bottom over the window. VCT tiles would be too high class for an environment like that. The floor is the LEAST of that room's problems...

Thank you for your kind and generous response. I probably should use the horrible pretentious "Luxury" stuff, since I have to consider resale value. One more distasteful thing that people have to do in this increasingly synthetic world, I guess. Conformity doesn't come naturally to me. A...

As some of you might remember, I like VCT in kitchens. Kitchens should have VCT. VCT is what kitchens should look like. But the Brain Control Marketers have apparently convinced the whole world that they need "Luxury" floors, despite the transparency of the manipulation. "Luxury". "Luxury"...

Paul Graham: You could pay someone to write for you, like JFK, or plagiarize, like MLK, but if you couldn't buy or steal words, you had to write them yourself. And as a result nearly everyone who was expected to write had to learn how. Not anymore. AI has blown this world open. Almost all...

I just unintentionally bumped into the Home Depot user reviews for Armstrong VCT tiles. It's page after page after page of people who are absolutely delighted with them. And many reviewers who said that if you buy them from Home Depot expect half of them to arrive damaged, which was my...

Have you not noticed that some of the answers turned out to be misguided? People say all kinds of stuff off the top of their heads. Like you just did. But if you don't have a conversation, you don't get to what's real. C.J. was helpful and informative and never took an attitude. Thank you...

Isn't that kinda what I've got now? You're not looking at the actual floor boards, you're looking at just what you're describing. I'd certainly use leveler for the areas that are a bit wavy, and screw down any upward blips, but I think that what you want is what I've got. I know from luan...