What did you do today?

[Jon]

Look what I can do om Tuesday
I can go to work
Been good though not having to deal with all sorts of bull.......t one has to go through to work

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[Floorist]

Hey how much whiskey do you put in scrambled eggs? I found that a cup was pretty good.

 

[DarisMulkin]

It is a guy who did beer commercials.

Hey how much whiskey do you put in scrambled eggs? I found that a cup was pretty good.

The question should have read how much scrambled eggs do you put in a cup of whiskey. Makes a big difference. Actually none who would want to ruin a cup of good whiskey.

 

[zannej]

Yesterday was a complete waste for me. I woke up with abdominal pain radiating through my back and all the way down. Lying down made it worse. Took naproxyn and sat in the the bathroom for about an hour just to be safe. Went back to bed for awhile, started coughing nonstop. Took Delsym & Mucinex. Didn't work. Kept coughing, ran out of cough drops. Started sneezing. Took an allergy pill. Kept coughing violently, went to the bathroom & threw up the allergy medicine & water. Spent awhile in there coughing & throwing up. Found some cough drops (I'd set the bag in the bathroom) & went back to bed. Mom woke me up a couple hours later wanting food & got enraged that I wasn't feeling well & asked for a little time to wake up more so I wouldn't be tripping all over myself. Princess (the dog) decided she wanted me to get up so she sat at the end of the bed, whined at me, and wagged her tail when I showed signs of movement. I got up & re-heated some leftover stroganoff for Mom, went back to bed. Slept until she woke me up again- but she was trying to call my brother & hit the wrong number. Went back to sleep & didn't wake up until sometime after 3am. Mom said my brother made rice but was too sick to put it away & asked me to do it, so I scooped it into two containers & put them in the fridge. Checked the internet a bit and went back to sleep. Just waking up now after 4pm. Not as much coughing today & don't feel terrible. Just a little tired. I didn't eat anything at all yesterday so that will hit my stomach soon. Took my meds and have to wait 45 min before eating.
Mom said my brother had been coughing so badly his eyes were bloodshot & puffy. She put eye drops in his eyes for him. I'll check on him in a bit. I'm trying to wake myself up more.

 

[highup]

You've been feeling bad fore quite a while. I think a Dr visit is needed.

 

[highup]

Went to seal a couple seams in some Jonsonite commercial flooring today.
Last week the seams were invisible. Instructions on the sealer said to wait at least two hours, but they didn't advise of a maximum length to wait.
I can now insert a strip of poster board in the seam gap.
Now I might have to find an installer that heat welds.
Kinda ticked me off as the vinyl had been unrolled in the giving room for almost 2 days before I glued it and cut the seams.

 

[Jon]

I hoped you used a good acrylic based adhesive not a latex based one
We dont have any trouble with Jonsonite I googled, called Tarkett here which is normally one of the better flooring products, most layers would rather lay than other brands

 

[highup]

Used their adhesive. 995 I think? It was IQ Granit. Says heat weld, but "Cold Weld" (liquid sealer) is supposed to work with it.

 

[highup]

When using the cold weld sealer it says 'net fit seams'
Now I wished I set my underscribe 1/32 to tight and cramed it together.
Heat in the house was on for a week before I started and the floor temperature was 74 degrees. Yes I measured it.

 

[Jon]

We gave up with cold weld years ago
Too slow to make a "nice" seam
Heat welding a lot quicker and charge NZ$2.50 a lin metre
Also I use the tip of the gun to "seal" the internal mitres
Other guy I know uses silicone but I dont know how he gets away with it

 

[highup]

Finished the job and next day wood floor refinisher started, so I waited a week to seal it. I did seal seams under fridge and another 18 inch seam. The recommend heating seam area to 100 degrees to make inserting the needle easier. I did that and seams closed up, so the look fine. That said, the fill pieces were narrow.
Here's the ones that bother me. Doorway and one 7 footer that will go under washing machine or dryer.

 

[highup]

No gaps when I cut em..... Invisible.

 

[Jon]

We never waited to cold weld a seam
Tooooo far to go back with our parking lot motorways

 

[Jon]

No gaps when I cut em..... Invisible.

What would happen if you run along the join with the point of the knife backwards, or the pointy sharp end of your straight edge to bur the gap then seal with your sealer?

 

[highup]

I got one side with my Armstrong trimmer for non patterned material, so zero Burr on one side. Miniscule Burr on the other.
I finished 7:00 on a Sunday. So these two seams were the last thing I did. Says in instructions to wait minimum of 2 hours before sealing.... doesn't say "seams must be sealed"within a certain time frame.
Because of that, plus the vinyl had been layed out flat for a day and a half, I figured it had stabilized. The IQ Granit instructions said seams need to be sealed to keep out water and dirt, but didn't say that it will shrunk up like a wool jacket in a rainstorm.
Makes me wish it was Armstrong Brigantine. Those seams wouldn't move if the house was flooded or torn apart by a tornado.

 

[highup]

We never waited to cold weld a seam
Tooooo far to go back with our parking lot motorways

This was 4 1/2 miles away like most of my work. Heck in the past 2 months I have done 3 jobs on one street less than 10 houses apart and another .2 tenths of a mile down the road from those...... and three of the homeowners are related. The motorway is two lanes, one each direction like it's supposed to be.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Just wondering here. If you was to heat it with Hair dryer/heat gun could that make it expand enough to seal it before it shrinks back? Just thinking out side the box again.

 

[Floorist]

Flat metal

 

[Jon]

I got one side with my Armstrong trimmer for non patterned material, so zero Burr on one side. Miniscule Burr on the other.
I finished 7:00 on a Sunday. So these two seams were the last thing I did. Says in instructions to wait minimum of 2 hours before sealing.... doesn't say "seams must be sealed"within a certain time frame.
Because of that, plus the vinyl had been layed out flat for a day and a half, I figured it had stabilized. The IQ Granit instructions said seams need to be sealed to keep out water and dirt, but didn't say that it will shrunk up like a wool jacket in a rainstorm.
Makes me wish it was Armstrong Brigantine. Those seams wouldn't move if the house was flooded or torn apart by a tornado.

No try to fill the gap by burring the vinyl. Okay it will leave a little hollow Even do this with little gaps with vinyl planks. It just seems to fill them. We used to do that all the time on commercial type vinyls just to tidy up the joins before heat welding came in. You will always get a better looking seam if one double cuts as that "lump" where it goes over the bottom layer makes it "tight"
Too hard to double cut commercial type vinyls as one has to make more cuts to get all the way through both layers

 

[highup]

Just wondering here. If you was to heat it with Hair dryer/heat gun could that make it expand enough to seal it before it shrinks back? Just thinking out side the box again.

That worked a bit on the 12" wide seam that will be under the range and fridge. Because the fill piece was so narrow, it didn't shrink as much as these two did. I can't imagine the chemical sealer being strong enough, especially if the seam doesn't make full contact with both edges.
I called another installer that does welding. Checking on how long it takes to get welding rod. I showed him the images.
Customers turned the heat off or way down because the house is being worked on so much with the doors open a lot running in and out.
Maybe have em crank the heat up for a few days until the floor temperature reached 74 degrees like when I installed it....... and the heat up the seams.
Maybe Jonsonite uses the same plastic formula as Manninngon did on their Fine Fields and Magna crap.