What did you do today?

[Floorist]

I dont know but 'merica but here they don't have to ask. Utility has eminent domain.

They can't here. It was a phone line. And it was not in their easement. Even the city can only dig 7 feet into the yard.

 

[highup]

Doing some laundry last night and I happen to have my phone in my hand.
Note to self, don't put phone on top of washer.
Anyhow bumped it and it went back behind them. Kind of a pain to get them out so I McGyvered it out. Plugged in my hot glue gun and put a glob of glue on a short piece of base shoe I had in the truck. I just lowered the stick, set it lightly on to one corner of the phone case and let it sit for a minute. What an easy retrieval. I let the hot glue get warm not molten hot, so after retrieving the phone it peeled right off. If not rubbing alcohol would release the glue anyway. I don't know why I felt like such a genius after this but...
...but I did.
I'm going to finish up a job tomorrow I just have one more room left. Contractors put down Cortec throughout the house and of course the homeowner wanted the matching trim to abut the carpet. I was hoping to use naploc. I hate those reducer trims that they have. There's over 45 ft of this in doorways and the living room. For some reason when this trim comes, the tube has sections of track with it. The track has no gripping edge and the track does not fit the width of the place is supposed to grab onto. I called a rep for Cortec quite a while ago and told them that the track doesn't fit. He replied, we don't make a track for that material. I said, well it came in the tube along with the molding. He repeated himself, we don't make a track for that material.
Anyhow, between glue and hot glue I got it all put down but I'm thinking of adding some 1 in brad nails in the doorways and the traffic areas. I did a test, and they shoot right in without fluffing up the material or damaging the surface.
Seem to take forever to do the living room because of a couple of angles. There was about 21 ft along one edge of the room. Then I turned and tacked the whole thing backed up with tack strip. This material was thin enough that my electric tacker worked to do this. I wish these tackers went beyond 9/16. Even another 16th would make these things usable in some situations.
I was hoping I could tweak the angle of the pattern into the 45° that was on the floor. Nope, Wasn't even worth attempting.

 

[C.J.]

I’m just blown away. Installing the transitions is part of the floating floor install. I’ve known many carpet guys that don’t touch anything beyond flat bar or naplock.

The pattern doesn’t follow the angle

 

[Tom Picciani]

A T & T sent someone out to dig a trench across our yard to run a line for a neighbor. No one had asked, so it is not happening.

In our neighborhood, the front 20 feet of property is township owned. That allows them to dig as they please. Even my driveway has a crack filled with tar at the border. On the county property map, my property borders do not extend to the street.

 

[Mark Brown]

I’m just blown away. Installing the transitions is part of the floating floor install. I’ve known many carpet guys that don’t touch anything beyond flat bar or naplock.

I run into so many of these dicks I just stopped.

The last one I was asked to do, I refused the laminate install because the product was garbage, so we did the carpet and left. Someone came and did all the laminate and then I get a phone call.... "hey can you guys come put all the transitions in" uh... what?

Long story short, I said sure we can... for the price of the laminate installation. There was even a hatch in the laminate that was untrimmed and did I mention no one had purchased/brought transitions?

I settled the hatch and 4 doorways for 300 and figured that was good enough but wtf

 

[Floorist]

In our neighborhood, the front 20 feet of property is township owned. That allows them to dig as they please. Even my driveway has a crack filled with tar at the border. On the county property map, my property borders do not extend to the street.

The city says they own the first 7 feet but it is my job to maintain it. A T & T just wanted to trench my side because it would be easier. I don't want my yard torn up. I made them go on the neighbor's side, it is his new line anyway.

 

[Tom Picciani]

On my diy project, the laminate transitions were outrageous. $10/foot! For 400 square feet of coretec, it cost me close to $900 for all the transition pieces.

 

[highup]

I’m just blown away. Installing the transitions is part of the floating floor install. I’ve known many carpet guys that don’t touch anything beyond flat bar or naplock.

The pattern doesn’t follow the angle

It sure doesn't.
One can only try. Miracles not performed here.

 

[highup]

The contractors that worked on this job put down the flooring, not the flooring guys. Overall it looks fairly good except it is tight here and there. I did notice numerous places where the end joints don't look absolutely tight and some of the side joints don't look absolutely tight.
..... Just saying they don't read the instructions cuz I doubt if they tapped it together after locking the pieces in place. I'll mention that to the contractor so if they do it again they understand that tapping is rather ummmm, Important.

 

[highup]

Stopped over at the steel supply place and bought a 4-in by 5 ft 3 in Long piece of 1/8-in aluminum. I just needed an 8-in piece. It would have cost more to cut it than buy it. It almost cost me $4 to buy way more aluminum than I need. Oh darn I guess I can cut it myself.
There's a boat ramp a block over from the steel supply place. There's a ship there that's just about loaded up and heading to who knows where..... China? ...probably.
I've heard the tuna aren't far offshore. These tuna are actually on shore hanging out with their Taliban friends.

 

[Don Monfils]

For Randy…
Today’s job

 

[C.J.]

On my diy project, the laminate transitions were outrageous. $10/foot! For 400 square feet of coretec, it cost me close to $900 for all the transition pieces.

I don’t pay for transitions so I’m not up to speed on their exact price. A single 6’6” transition piece is $65? Used to be maybe $25 per transition. I figured current prices somewhere around $35 to $40 but damn $66 just hurts. I’d have @highup doing Z bar up to a clean cut raw edge for that price. I suppose the installers these days would have to be able to leave a clean straight edge though.

 

[Floorist]

I don’t pay for transitions so I’m not up to speed on their exact price. A single 6’6” transition piece is $65? Used to be maybe $25 per transition. I figured current prices somewhere around $35 to $40 but damn $66 just hurts. I’d have @highup doing Z bar up to a clean cut raw edge for that price. I suppose the installers these days would have to be able to leave a clean straight edge though.

"Installers leave a clean straight edge"? Dreamer.

 

[Mark Brown]

You guys all understand that we are all "installers these days" right??
I would beg to offer that there are a lot of highly competent and fastidious installers out there, just we do not typically run into them seeing as they are off doing their own thing and do not need us to go and repair their work.

 

[Floorist]

I would not let any of the local installers put a floor in a doghouse for me. I would not do that to my dog.

 

[C.J.]

"Installers leave a clean straight edge"? Dreamer.

Prolly dreamin a little but if you’re not gonna cover your jagged ol janky assed cuts with a transition then a clean edge would certainly help to make you look like you know what you’re doing. Do customers actually accept a nasty lookin edge like that? I guess so if they accept that the installer doesn’t install transitions.

 

[Mark Brown]

I would not let any of the local installers put a floor in a doghouse for me. I would not do that to my dog.

You are a local installer in your area....

 

[zannej]

Damn, a 27 year old that I have known since he was a baby died of covid this morning. He just got married in June.

I'm sorry to hear that. It really sucks. My brother had a co-worker who was 22 and didn't seem to have any evident health issues who died from the first wave of Covid. Over 50 of his co-workers got Covid within the first few months.

The trip was for observing. Just a coincidence that the Perseid Meteor shower happens that week. And the 12th is my birthday too. Anyway, the storms in northern Pennsylvania and the smoke from the west coast made it less than ideal so we canceled.
Instead, I decided to paint my bedroom, which I wanted to do for past 3 years.
Came out pretty good. Done in 2 days. No trim to paint though.

That is a very nice color! What paint and color is that?

Younger people get it but they aren't usually affected by it much. That's the surprising part.

I've been reading and hearing that the Delta variant is hitting younger populations much harder. More children are getting sick. They had the first proven infant death from it in Florida I think last week.

A T & T sent someone out to dig a trench across our yard to run a line for a neighbor. No one had asked, so it is not happening.

I'm glad you were able to stop it. The city / utility companies can do whatever they want in town. They dig in people's yards and don't even cover it back up. They tear up driveways and don't fix them. The mayor is getting some sort of kickbacks so he lets them run all over people and overcharge.

I dont know but 'merica but here they don't have to ask. Utility has eminent domain.

I think it depends on the city ordinances and state rules. Even though I am waaaay out in the woods, the power company can come in, cut my trees, and poke around my yard without permission & police will let them. Doesn't mean I have to let them. Or more precisely, doesn't mean I have to let my cow let them. She usually takes care of trespassers for me. We've never had anyone come back and snoop around the yard since my cow chased people.

I don’t pay for transitions so I’m not up to speed on their exact price. A single 6’6” transition piece is $65? Used to be maybe $25 per transition. I figured current prices somewhere around $35 to $40 but damn $66 just hurts. I’d have @highup doing Z bar up to a clean cut raw edge for that price. I suppose the installers these days would have to be able to leave a clean straight edge though.

I looked at transition prices for stuff a couple years back and they have doubled since I last looked. Stuff that I thought was high at $30 is now $60. I saw some for over $80. A lot of stuff is out-of-stock too.

Reminds me, I wanted to get this for the transition from vinyl plank to sheet vinyl in the bathroom: A&A Surfaces Antique Mahogany 0.3 in. T x 1.77 in. W x 94 in. L Luxury Vinyl Reducer Molding-LVR6520-0017-R - The Home Depot
But it's out-of-stock. A single piece would do two transitions, but I'm not too worried about the transition inside the closet since it won't be visible, so a 48" one would do. Any idea where to get that? It doesn't even have an option to get an e-mail when it's back in stock. I even drew it in as best I could for my bathroom sketch in Sketchup.

Yesterday I had a dental appointment. Couldn't sleep the night before so I drew in the wallset for the shower that will be in as best as possible. Did the cutout for the window, plopped a pre-made sink that I adjusted to be the right width and depth into the vanity, etc. Then went and had two teeth drilled and filled. When they were done they told me to get up at my own pace. I hopped right up and was ready to go. Good thing I'd eaten at like 5 or 6am because I haven't had an appetite since then for whatever reason. Was really exhausted. Dentist had her work cut out for her on that back tooth. She had to put a metal ring around it to push the skin/gum away and give her something to support the filler material to rebuild the back of the tooth. I had to go pick up an RX for the next appointment (next Thursday) and had to wait 30 min for it. Picked up mail on the way home and then racked out. Mom woke me up sometime mid-evening wanting food-- my brother had refused to get her something. So I got her food and went straight back to bed. My brother woke me up even later asking if I was patching something. I told him I'd been asleep & wasn't using the internet. Racked out again and didn't wake up until almost 4pm. Checked on mom and made her something to eat and then back to bed again. I'm still feeling sleepy and not hungry. I was going to get some Ramen but my brother had left his chair knocked over on it's back in the kitchen in the way of the sink. I couldn't lift it and couldn't move it. He came out and tried to tease me about something but just the sound of his voice agitated me so I told him "shut the hell up". He seemed pretty shocked because he's always interrupting me and telling me to shut up but I don't reciprocate. I'd just overheard him yelling at our mom and being rude to her when she asked him to please move the chair so I was irritated with him. He tried to page me about 20min ago but I turned the volume down on the phone & ignored it. I don't know what he wanted but I'm too cranky and tired.

I just took my thyroid meds so I have to wait about an hour to eat anything. I'll probably nap some more. Just feeling very drained for no apparent reason.

 

[C.J.]

@zannej Zamma makes all kinds of matching transitions for just about any flavor of LVP out there and that’s who HD uses for just about all their transitions. Maybe check their website out? How about Lowe’s? Zamma is pretty big so I’m sure they’re available in more places than just HD. You may have to wait until they make that specific flavor again if they are out themselves but that could be sooner than HD is ready to place an order for that flavor.

Floors by southern boys has a YouTube video showing how to peel the LVP skin layer off and adhere it to a reducer for a perfect match. That may be an option if you can’t find a matching reducer out there.

 

[highup]

For Randy…
Today’s jobView attachment 12718

You're saying today's job is to unload the boxes? Damn, it's going to be easier working for you than I thought it was. You supply lunch, right?