One of the local flooring store owners asked me today at the lumberyard if I was still laying carpet. I said, why, can't find any installers? He said, can't find any good ones. Never changes, does it?
What did you do today?
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Nick
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Talk Money and days off with him Floorest ..
There was this box for you to put in a business card at Big D flooring supply. Turned out it was western states flooring looking for installers. They are having a difficult time finding good installers. Maybe I'll win a tile saw.
I doubt it because I have written them up for numerous installation claims.
Nick
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lol. good Luck with that one ..
I think I will talk to him about some part time stuff. I still have my van and tools. I did a few jobs for him years ago.
Daris, I got the fence today. It works great. PMed you. Thanks a lot. I tried to use it without one and it almost bit me.
Cleaned out the old work van and loaded my tools back in it.
Nick
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There ya go !! Get some Icy Hot ..
I may be 70, but I don't feel a day over 69.
Went out and done a 20 yd BR this AM myself. Drop, easy money for an 1 1/2 hours worth of work. Did 120 yd house a week ago, starting to get back in shape again. Now all I have to do is get calluses on my knees again and the hair worn off.
Nick
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Go get em Daris..
Don't know that
I want 120 yds. But drop bedrooms would be nice.
I did one yesterday about that size .........in 11 hours and the second bedroom (slightly smaller) today .......in 3 hours.
11.5 by 14.5 and 11.5 by 13.5
It helps when the correct carpet is specified for the job. Customer (and installer) not happy when the installer brings the wrong stuff.
Customer went to pick out a different carpet after the color issue got figured out.
I was expecting one room yesterday, not two.
I was expecting a one piece room.
Next, I discovered only after calling in the carpet cuts, that the carpet that was chosen for these rooms was supposed to match the hallway. That meant laying it the other direction and now requiring two closet seams.
Had the warehouse guy make another 8 foot long cut for the closets. I drove down to the warehouse with the tearout material from the rooms and then loaded up the carpet cuts and pad.
I installed the pad and the customer assisted getting the carpet into the rooms. They left to pick up their dog and I unrolled the carpet. This carpet looked nothing like the hall carpet. Way too light and had a longer pile. After they returned home and saw the problem, and by the time the decision was made to reject the carpet and pick out a different one, it was 4:45pm. They came down to that warehouse and looked everything over and made another choice. I got the carpet to the house just after 5 and left close to 9pm after helping the customer re-load the room.
The floors in the rooms were particle board but the base was that 1960's wooden base with the shoe sculpted into it. They put that kind of base on hardwood floors but I'd never seen in on a particle board floor. Nightmare to tuck carpet against.
Long day, with one room done and my ass was whipped. Time for Ibuprofen. Spent 1/2 they day wasting time.
Customer is very happy so that's good.
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If that is the base that looks like cove base with the toe, I used to run into that stuff on a regular basis. It is a total bitch to tuck to. If I never saw that stuff again it would be to soon.
Been out cutting up a tree. Came down in the 60 mph winds last night. Cracked the windshield on the wife's Nissan
That's the stuff. I hand trimmed both rooms because I feared the trimmer might cut it consistently short or consistently long by a tad.
The carpet was nice to work with and that helped. It's A new PET product the Carpet One dealer is stocking. It's from a new mill that from what I was told is pretty high tech. It only produces PET products and does so under tightly controlled conditions to make the product have characteristics as close to nylon as it can get. The feel and texture of the product is very nice and looks like it's going to become a possible game changer in the PET products.
I really like it.
The carpet was nice to work with and that helped. It's A new PET product the Carpet One dealer is stocking. It's from a new mill that from what I was told is pretty high tech. It only produces PET products and does so under tightly controlled conditions to make the product have characteristics as close to nylon as it can get. The feel and texture of the product is very nice and looks like it's going to become a possible game changer in the PET products.
I really like it.
We've been
Our summer winds usually change to a breeze at night. Gusts to the high 20's is as bad as it usually gets, so nothing compared to that. Worst thing about spring and summer winds are the trees are decked out in leaves making them easier to topple. 40 to 60 mph gusts in the winter don't do a lot of damage here. Our trees are used to that.
having our usual summer winds which can run day and night sometimes. Nothing close to that. Is the car still driveable?
Our summer winds usually change to a breeze at night. Gusts to the high 20's is as bad as it usually gets, so nothing compared to that. Worst thing about spring and summer winds are the trees are decked out in leaves making them easier to topple. 40 to 60 mph gusts in the winter don't do a lot of damage here. Our trees are used to that.
Nick
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Same here Daris .. Always seamed to get a 80 oz cpt to work with to ..
Put z-bar around the entire room for a neat and even edge .....yea, that's the ticket.
