You?My wife must want something. Tonight we had pork chops, with homemade gravy, made from scratch biscuits and mashed potatoes.
You?My wife must want something. Tonight we had pork chops, with homemade gravy, made from scratch biscuits and mashed potatoes.
You talking carpeted rooms and the kitchen would receive plywood?I'm looking at every transition and realizing that if my floor was 1/4 inch higher, i.e. laying down lauan plywood, everything would be much easier. Will talk to my carpenter Tuesday to see if that's a good idea.
Would take 10 sheets at $15/ ea.
Then the bathroom is level. The kitchen is level. And even the carpet transitions, especially after I get new carpet and padding (which will probably be thicker) will all be closer to the same height.
Have to see.
The talk of transitions reminded me to check to see if HD ever got in the transition strips for the flooring we got. The strips are sort of hollow but they have a bit that grabs a rail at the bottom- the rail is screwed down & they click on to it. The picture shows the rail going down lower than both flooring pieces, but from the "teeth" on the gripper part, it looks like it's adjustable height somewhat. I'm trying to figure out which transition pieces to use where (if I don't just keep existing transition pieces & clean them up a bit.
PDF of the installation guide https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/bb/bbb82774-76fe-4b93-bf7b-fc4411dd5118.pdf
I have 5 doorways for the room. 1st is the kitchen which has old parquet flooring. It is thicker than the new planks but I'm not sure how high the subfloor will be once I'm done fixing stuff so the transition type will depend on finished height. I'm guessing it will either need t-molding or reducer.
2nd is to the exterior door which will have a metal threshold so I likely will not need a transition strip there
3rd is a small closet opposite the exterior door. It has very thin sheet vinyl so I'll probably use a reducer there.
4th is a bedroom next to the closet. It has carpet & I think it already had a wood transition strip that could be stained or re-finished to match better if the heights aren't too different.
5th is a bathroom that will have sheet vinyl so reducer will be needed there.
I forgot to take my meds for a few days so my thyroid hates me & I'm exhausted. Still researching best way to fix my water pump situation. I went out to shut off the water from the holding tank & I think the shutoff isn't working. Water continued to spray from the inlet to the pump. I need to find some way to at least temporarily plug it where the threaded PVC goes in.
Sell it.I got paid $200 to adhere 4 pieces of some exotic wood onto the face of a TV base a customer made. I made it into a 2 day job. She's and excellent chef and besides I let the glue dry overnight before removing the clamping setup and adhering the last 2 pieces.
He didn't want nails in the wood. The guy is as methodical as I am and we think much alike. I'm the only one he trusts helping him on oddball projects. Anyway, he designed and constructed an overkill 2x4 and plywood support to hold the new 70" QLED 100 lb tv.
He made the support overkill because it has a one inch thick black granite top and a shelf in the middle for a CD player, TV box and whatever else. Heavy tv and heavy top.
He made 4 pieces of 3/4" wood to fit his design and routed a bead on the edges to 'snaz it up a bit. He wanted me to figure out how to glue them. The wood is really heavy. Because of the progressive/regressive proportions of the panels top to bottom and what was available to put clamps on, it really needed two days to do this so the upper and lower panels could set before doing the middle parts.
.........Oh did I mention that he asked me if I wanted to haul off his old 70 inch TV? He gave me the manual. Taped inside was the Wally World receipt from 2012 ....$2400
TV works fine......... he bought the new QLED because he removed a huge tree and it brightened up the room causing reflection. QLEDS don't do that as much.
How'd I do Rusty? 3 or 4 hrs actual work, 3 hours lunch and watching glue dry and $10 for gas and glue.
Wondering if the TV can help me get another van.
Beautiful and deadly.......... what a combo.Linwood Ks, tornadoView attachment 9462
My old box truck has over 300,000 on a Ford 300 6. But gas mileage was terrible. It runs but I just use it as a storage shed.Ford's inline six is supposed to be almost bullet proof and the mileage would be a definite improvement over my Chevy 350.
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