What did you do today?

[highup]

Job's turning out great. You couldn't see the seam even in good light. It's flawless, 100% invisible.

 

[zannej]

Looks good, Highup. Sorry to hear you cut your finger. Very irresponsible for the blades to be left there. Glad you found your knife at least. It was nice of you to get the stuff out so the customer's grandkid won't get hurt. The old medicine cabinet in our house had a slot where people could drop old razorblades down. When we took the wall panel off we found a ton of old razorblades in the wall.

I got up and had to get a new bag of cat food opened & set in the storage bin (got one of those feed bins for cats/dogs in the pantry), swept up the hallway (cats had left a dead mouse and other dirt there), took out the trash, put a new trash bag in (I mention it bc the rare times when my brother takes the trash out, he usually doesn't bother to put a bag back in-- and trash is the one chore he's supposed to do). Went outside and picked some stuff up off the lawn & put it on the porch so it wouldn't get ruined, went and got the stepladder and dragged it back to the porch (its bulky & I'm a wuss so it was harder than it sounds-- kept tangling on weeds). Did some light cleaning in the kitchen. Made myself some pork chops for lunch and am about to nap. I just had to go back out to the truck to find something I forgot in there the other day. Mom had grabbed some muffins and I totally forgot about them. I had a banana nut muffin & she had a blueberry muffin.

I need to put some gloves on and get some clorox wipes out and start cleaning up stuff that keeps falling on the floor and put it away in plastic bins. I got another bin to put stuff in because the cardboard box ripped and stuff keeps falling out.

 

[JPfloor]

Can't imagine the use for oscillating? Cutting with the hook blade like that is just a straight pull. I'm going to say the majority of the guys I've been working with are using hook blades to cut carpet tile. I rarely did but it works pretty good. You know, it's more what you train yourself for rather than one is certainly better. Then even with that you need to switch up with all the different backings.

I'd imagine there's some utility to that tool, just not carpet. Maybe if it took some of the strain off when you're just whacking in carpet tile that gets cove base so you don't get tendonitis. If I were still working I'd try it. I'm a junkie.

Maybe for slicing up a glued down carpet for removal. Maybe with a push, not a pull… I dunno, maybe not…

 

[highup]

Don't tell me you haven't done this.
You're out of town and you're a tiny bit short on pad.... The carpet you were using is the same height so it's probably just as good as pad right?
That said you put it over in the corner of the closet not in the doorway of the closet.

 

[MSLI]

Rookie move =‘s Veteran repair nice fix High !

The three omigo’s did breakfast, then 5 hours to complete a 100 yd apartment with steps. Then a few beers at the Country Place

Hey boyz ! Have you ever used your 6’ straight edge to separate the bond between the seam tape and pad ?

 

[highup]

for the doorway I cut a piece of pad from the corner of the closet.
I doubled the tack strip in the big bedroom so I had little strips of pad left over
Just doing my part to save the Earth.

 

[MSLI]

Just doing my part to save the Earth.

From Global warming

 

[highup]

No, from murdered flooring installers.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Rookie move =‘s Veteran repair nice fix High !

The three omigo’s did breakfast, then 5 hours to complete a 100 yd apartment with steps. Then a few beers at the Country Place

Hey boyz ! Have you ever used your 6’ straight edge to separate the bond between the seam tape and pad ?

T square works good also. but tp under the tape works better.

 

[C.J.]

I used to use TP when I first started. Some pads and tapes stick more than others.

 

[MSLI]

T square works good also. but tp under the tape works better.

My cousin Harry made me do the toilet paper trick when I was behind the

 

[highup]

Rookie move =‘s Veteran repair nice fix High !

The three omigo’s did breakfast, then 5 hours to complete a 100 yd apartment with steps. Then a few beers at the Country Place

Hey boyz ! Have you ever used your 6’ straight edge to separate the bond between the seam tape and pad ?

I've done that a lot, especially with heavy carpets or long seams.

 

[highup]

T square works good also. but tp under the tape works better.

I do that a lot under doorway seams...... Did one today and one yesterday.

 

[JPfloor]

I remember seam tape that came with tissue attached before the silicone backed stuff. I think it was Orcon… It worked well. Don’t know why they stopped making it.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I remember seam tape that came with tissue attached before the silicone backed stuff. I think it was Orcon… It worked well. Don’t know why they stopped making it.

I remember that tape also, but don't think it was Orcon. I think it was Burgess. There were a lot of different tape companies back then that have disappeared like Conso which was one of my favorites. Burgess also ha one that had a dye in the thermo that colored it when it was the right temp to move the iron.

 

[Floorist]

Daris, what was that cheap, crappy tape?

 

[DarisMulkin]

Daris, what was that cheap, crappy tape?

There were lots of them, most were under $3.00 at the time, you got to figure strip was $ 4.50.

 

[Floorist]

There were lots of them, most were under $3.00 at the time, you got to figure strip was $ 4.50.

I remember one that had fewer beads of glue on it, but that was in another life.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I remember one that had fewer beads of glue on it, but that was in another life.

It was called hand sewing with latex tape, no beads.

 

[JPfloor]

It was called hand sewing with latex tape, no beads.

And pin tape for the doorways...