6' 6"? Now I'm feeling like Napoleon.....
....without the complex.
How 'bout making a form the shape of the toilet and filling it with concrete ...ehh? ...ehh?
What did you do today?
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....without the complex.
How 'bout making a form the shape of the toilet and filling it with concrete ...ehh? ...ehh?
I went to measure up a job today.
A large portion of the home including a good size bedroom and living room and dining room were carpeted. From the baseboards it appears that the home was probably built in the late 30s possibly into the mid-forties?
Pulling a string across the carpet from one corner of the living room through a wide opening into the dining room indicated a half inch belly in the floor between the two rooms.
I was curious what was under the carpet, so I grabbed my pliers and pulled the corner of the carpet back exposing rebonded foam pad.
I folded the pad back and there was felt pad under it and the tack strip was on top of this felt. It's sort of looked like Ozite. I think it's a felt pad. Maybe not?
Strange thing was the felt pad was glued down with notches like what you use for gluing an old paper backed vinyl floor.
.....the felt pad was glued on top of a paper felt which was glued to 3 and 1/4 inch wide fir flooring.
Starting with the top layer was the rebonded foam.
The next layer was this redish felt.
The felt was glued to a paper type felt.
Under that was a fir floor.
I'm wondering what you guys think.
Maybe the paper that was glued to the fir floor was an insulator made to stop their movement coming up through the floorboards?
I don't understand why this other reddish felt I was glued to the paper.
Could this possibly be an early version of Ozite?
What about the paper that was glued to the fir flooring? Do they make a paper back then that didn't contain asbestos? Like I said late thirties, to mid forties.
If coretec will be installed then this padding oh, this reddish felt, must be removed.
A large portion of the home including a good size bedroom and living room and dining room were carpeted. From the baseboards it appears that the home was probably built in the late 30s possibly into the mid-forties?
Pulling a string across the carpet from one corner of the living room through a wide opening into the dining room indicated a half inch belly in the floor between the two rooms.
I was curious what was under the carpet, so I grabbed my pliers and pulled the corner of the carpet back exposing rebonded foam pad.
I folded the pad back and there was felt pad under it and the tack strip was on top of this felt. It's sort of looked like Ozite. I think it's a felt pad. Maybe not?
Strange thing was the felt pad was glued down with notches like what you use for gluing an old paper backed vinyl floor.
.....the felt pad was glued on top of a paper felt which was glued to 3 and 1/4 inch wide fir flooring.
Starting with the top layer was the rebonded foam.
The next layer was this redish felt.
The felt was glued to a paper type felt.
Under that was a fir floor.
I'm wondering what you guys think.
Maybe the paper that was glued to the fir floor was an insulator made to stop their movement coming up through the floorboards?
I don't understand why this other reddish felt I was glued to the paper.
Could this possibly be an early version of Ozite?
What about the paper that was glued to the fir flooring? Do they make a paper back then that didn't contain asbestos? Like I said late thirties, to mid forties.
If coretec will be installed then this padding oh, this reddish felt, must be removed.
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Better send it off to be tested
I'm not taking it up. I'm just the measuring guy.
Just curious on ideas as to why the paper felt was glued to the flooring boards and why the pink felt was glued to the paper. Could it have been an Ozite product.
I'm thinking since this right here is a logging town and this house is from "back in the day" when men were men and women weren't.
Maybe the felt it was actually a flooring surface and not a pad?
Just curious on ideas as to why the paper felt was glued to the flooring boards and why the pink felt was glued to the paper. Could it have been an Ozite product.
I'm thinking since this right here is a logging town and this house is from "back in the day" when men were men and women weren't.
Maybe the felt it was actually a flooring surface and not a pad?
Anything is possible. I remember my dad putting lino down over newspaper.
Lining felt. It was the old way of prepping floors for linoleum before we had plywood and the like. People use to not be crazy i suppose.
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I would say at one time the felt {Ozite} was used as pad and was cut back for the tackstrip. I've done that many times, also the paper was probably put down to cover cracks to stop drafts and used as a surface for the old lino rugs, which could have adhered to the lino just by sitting on it. Lino rugs had a tar paper back.
I remember those days as we used to use a grey kinda rag paper over T&G timber floors
It was meant to stop the T&G boards showing through the flooring products but it really didnt work as the paper was glued
It did quieten the flooring down a little when walked on though
I spent most of my working days installing carpet and vinyl. Our floors are hardwood and ceramic.Long ago in the far far away.... when floors were for walking on not magazines
My house is ceramic and carpet.
Not 15 min after I was done it, my kids were dragging my 80 pound mastiff around the kitchen island by her rope toy. Floora are made for living on. It will get scratched, it will get dented and it will get used. People are funny. I get when you pay tens of thousands of dollars for something you want it to be nice... but hell, it's for walking on and taking a ****.
Not 15 min after I was done it, my kids were dragging my 80 pound mastiff around the kitchen island by her rope toy. Floora are made for living on. It will get scratched, it will get dented and it will get used. People are funny. I get when you pay tens of thousands of dollars for something you want it to be nice... but hell, it's for walking on and taking a ****.
Did you ever wonder about a job you had done? I remember putting white carpet in a house where the people had toddlers and several house dogs. I always wondered how long it lasted.
Amen brother, I want to be able to live on my floors as well. Things meant to only be looked at are called pictures and hang on walls.
There have been a lot but one comes to mind. Black, piano finish maple we installed. The WORST floor i have ever had to touch in my whole life. Everything showed, even of you breath hard on it. Well about 2 years had passed and I get a phone call from Craig. He was looking to have a board replaced, said the furniture movers had damaged it and they were covering the nut. No problem I said. Showed up... walked in and blow me over, that floor looked exactly the same as the day I left. Not a scratch, scuff, dent, ding... you name it. Buddy rips me over to the "damaged" board...... well you wouldn't notice it if you didn't know it was there, but apparently he knew it was there. Fixed everything up and away we went but I couldn't help but wonder how or why someone would want to live so cautiously to maintain that floor. If cleanliness is likened to godliness then I'm the devil himself.
You guys have such a long conversation going, I'llll step in later.
Just for the heck of it I stopped by the pawn shop to see if they had a fitting wrench because I have to change the fuel filter in my pickup.
I don't know why I went there but something was just tugging on me, Randy...... go to the pawn shop. Okay I said to myself as I twisted my arm.
I got to the pawn shop and there were two ladies standing outside. One was the owner. They have long benchs on each side of the door outside with various tools they have to display.
One tool next to the door had a sticker on it that said "free"
I said, "I'll take it, I like trying to fix stuff"
I asked what's wrong with it? She said it sounds weird.
I proceeded inside, bought some wrenches for $8 and she said, "don't forget that tool"
So when I got home I plugged it in........
.....and it works just ....Fein
It's a newer model than the one I bought in '07. The lever release had just come out. That had a higher amp motor.
So in 2007, I paid $235 for mine.... no case, just a box. It's 2 amps
Today I got a better one for nuthin' and its a 2016 with 3.6 amps
....it looked like crap before I cleaned it up.
I must be living right...... not really.
Just for the heck of it I stopped by the pawn shop to see if they had a fitting wrench because I have to change the fuel filter in my pickup.
I don't know why I went there but something was just tugging on me, Randy...... go to the pawn shop. Okay I said to myself as I twisted my arm.
I got to the pawn shop and there were two ladies standing outside. One was the owner. They have long benchs on each side of the door outside with various tools they have to display.
One tool next to the door had a sticker on it that said "free"
I said, "I'll take it, I like trying to fix stuff"
I asked what's wrong with it? She said it sounds weird.
I proceeded inside, bought some wrenches for $8 and she said, "don't forget that tool"
So when I got home I plugged it in........
.....and it works just ....Fein
It's a newer model than the one I bought in '07. The lever release had just come out. That had a higher amp motor.
So in 2007, I paid $235 for mine.... no case, just a box. It's 2 amps
Today I got a better one for nuthin' and its a 2016 with 3.6 amps
....it looked like crap before I cleaned it up.
I must be living right...... not really.
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Nicely played man.
I think the best pawn shop score I ever got was
Bosch drill, Recip saw, another drill two Large batteries and 3 smaller batteries and a fast charger for 150 dollars. Hell, at the time the one fat battery pack was around 120 dollars. I am still using those batteries to this day and that was something close to 7 years ago. One of them went dead and I sold the recip saw for.... you guessed it, 150 dollars with a small battery pack and my old normal charger.
I still think your brand new oscillating fein for ... uh, free trumps that by a country mile.
I think the best pawn shop score I ever got was
Bosch drill, Recip saw, another drill two Large batteries and 3 smaller batteries and a fast charger for 150 dollars. Hell, at the time the one fat battery pack was around 120 dollars. I am still using those batteries to this day and that was something close to 7 years ago. One of them went dead and I sold the recip saw for.... you guessed it, 150 dollars with a small battery pack and my old normal charger.
I still think your brand new oscillating fein for ... uh, free trumps that by a country mile.
When I first inquired about it and asked what was wrong, she said there's a plug inside you can listen to it. I said no I'll trust you.
I think I know exactly what happened.
I think she thought it was an angle grinder. I'm still feeling guilty but I'm sure that will be over with tomorrow morning.
To be fair, the blade lock was gummed up because it looks like the thing had gotten wet and rained on or something. I did free that up so the blade lock works now, so I guess I did do some work for it.
I mean, if you count my time, and my $3 in gas to go get it, it's not like it was actually free. And no it didn't come with a blade on it.
I mean, if you count my time, and my $3 in gas to go get it, it's not like it was actually free. And no it didn't come with a blade on it.
You tell yourself whatever it is you need to sleep at night
Best pawn shop score for me was a Roberts jr stretcher with poles and case, $100. That was back in the 80s, used it for about 40 years. I did buy a Roberts iron for $2 and used it for years, still works good. We always hit a pawnshop near a big store just before Christmas. Guys were selling some of their tools because things were slow. I always put back "winter money".
