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They have good taste. I like the design. Really nice work! Oh, I like those shoes. I have a couple pairs exactly like them.
I have been getting the business from folks for about a month now. Truth is, their finally comfortable. I’ll get a new pair when snow is on the horizon. Also they feel great when I’m on the Harley!!! Like air conditioned feet.
We used quite a bit of epoxy/urethane adhesives with all the rubber flooring. So if I could remember at the end of the day I'd slather the toes with the glue and then take them off in the truck to harden on the ride home. You just had to be careful because it would scratch some surfaces. So then I'd put blue tape or duct tape whatever was handy. I'm way too cheap to buy those rubber toe covers.
Tom ! That job deserves its own topic in the Carpet forum…. Looks great ! Who pre-fabricated everything? Or are you fabricating on site ? Start a new topic to showcase your work
Thanks mike.
I wrap the step with rosin paper & draw on whatever size border the customer wants. Same with the landings. Then I have the customer look it over and sign off on it. I number them and take them to our warehouse to cut them out & trace onto the carpet. Then I either bind them or take down to Syracuse for surging. It’s a process but I’m always happy with the results.
I wrap the step with rosin paper & draw on whatever size border the customer wants. Same with the landings. Then I have the customer look it over and sign off on it. I number them and take them to our warehouse to cut them out & trace onto the carpet. Then I either bind them or take down to Syracuse for surging. It’s a process but I’m always happy with the results.
I kinda miss that process, the brothers co. Dropped their designer work back in 2008 so that type of work is very sporadic and now at 63 my ability to complete them too 
The binding looks to be 7/8” wide and looks good. I prefer 1.25” wide with sisal and a straight stitch if possible , but Some sisals bound straight stitch could break apart from the perforations. I remember applying latex afterwards to help stabilize the edge. Like you said, that type of work is a process on top of a process
Got any pictures from bottom up ?
The binding looks to be 7/8” wide and looks good. I prefer 1.25” wide with sisal and a straight stitch if possible , but Some sisals bound straight stitch could break apart from the perforations. I remember applying latex afterwards to help stabilize the edge. Like you said, that type of work is a process on top of a process
Got any pictures from bottom up ?
Been long enough but I finally got the stair nose installed today. Glad I’m not the one doing the floor!
That looks good. I assume laminate floor?
I did but being a spiral staircase I could only get a couple steps at a time. Pictures were boring so I deleted them. LolI kinda miss that process, the brothers co. Dropped their designer work back in 2008 so that type of work is very sporadic and now at 63 my ability to complete them too
The binding looks to be 7/8” wide and looks good. I prefer 1.25” wide with sisal and a straight stitch if possible , but Some sisals bound straight stitch could break apart from the perforations. I remember applying latex afterwards to help stabilize the edge. Like you said, that type of work is a process on top of a process
I also like the wide binding on sisal. But it’s not what we like, it’s what the customer wants.
. These folks have no problem paying for what they want, so I give them what they want!!Going tomorrow to finish up. I’ll get more pics.
1/4” floating engineered wood floor
It’s doable but you know the floor will move. Guess that’s for someone else to figure out when the time comes.
If things work out right, maybe I'll find another in better condition, but not running.Take the money and drive it like it is. Put one of them band aid stickers on the boo boo and tell people Chuck Norris spit there.
If they total it and I'm able to swing a deal buying my pickup back, I could swap my engine and tranny into the other one... if I can find one.
The paint on mine looks bad, but the dent makes it look 10x worse.
Ill just wait for their initial offer and go from there. Insurance issues and accidents are as familiar to me as Pokemon, ballroom dancing and needlepoint.
I'm not so sure I'd even want your skills.More to come. There’s still 3 other flights & a few big landings…..
Shoot me please! This is the only carpet I do anymore. Custom **** the other crews can’t be trusted with.
.....I'm gonna go have a nap and a nightmare right now.
Where did you learn doing stairs like these? Those are high end artwork. Beautiful stuff right there.
....they use the elevator, don't they?
I thought of this forum while watching Hot Bench earlier. Woman was suing a handyman she hired to install laminate floors. He was supposed to be done in a week but kept having things come up-- got Covid, car broke down, got in a motorcycle wreck, etc. He tore out the old floor and put in the new floor but he didn't do proper prep for the floor underneath and he did half the flooring on one side then on the other and tried to get them to meet up but they didn't lock properly. After a couple of weeks the floor shifted, pulled apart, etc. Apparently he left some of the underlayment from the old flooring in some places but it was removed in others and was very uneven. He came and pulled it out and was supposed to come re-install it later (which is when he got Covid). His assistant told her and showed her that the locking mechanisms on the flooring broke when the flooring was removed and that it could not be re-used. She had paid the guy up front because he'd done other work for her and she'd been happy and thought she could trust him.
6 months went by and he still never came back to fix it and she had to get someone else in and they said the flooring was ruined so she had to buy all new flooring again (same kind). Not sure if they had a deal with the flooring sales place or if it was true. Might have had weak locking system to begin with. So, she was suing for her $ back and for the cost of replacing the flooring.
He said he guaranteed his work but that things just went pearshaped and kept making excuses. Judges said an excuse can still be true, but that it wasn't the plaintiff's fault and ultimately, it was his problem. She'd been asking for some $ back for awhile, but he ghosted her. Claimed his phone broke. She got her $-- although, I still think he should have been paid for removing the old floor at the very least. They said he hadn't made an effort to contact her or rectify things bc he kept saying he needed more time. Felt bad for the guy, but plaintiff was out the $ on the job.
Anyway, I took out some trash, did a little more cleaning, napped, got woken up by my oldest cat who was checking up on me. Still trying to figure out how to replace the drawer rails with something sturdier on the kitchen drawers and how to get rid of the damn roaches without using something that will poison us or the cats.
6 months went by and he still never came back to fix it and she had to get someone else in and they said the flooring was ruined so she had to buy all new flooring again (same kind). Not sure if they had a deal with the flooring sales place or if it was true. Might have had weak locking system to begin with. So, she was suing for her $ back and for the cost of replacing the flooring.
He said he guaranteed his work but that things just went pearshaped and kept making excuses. Judges said an excuse can still be true, but that it wasn't the plaintiff's fault and ultimately, it was his problem. She'd been asking for some $ back for awhile, but he ghosted her. Claimed his phone broke. She got her $-- although, I still think he should have been paid for removing the old floor at the very least. They said he hadn't made an effort to contact her or rectify things bc he kept saying he needed more time. Felt bad for the guy, but plaintiff was out the $ on the job.
Anyway, I took out some trash, did a little more cleaning, napped, got woken up by my oldest cat who was checking up on me. Still trying to figure out how to replace the drawer rails with something sturdier on the kitchen drawers and how to get rid of the damn roaches without using something that will poison us or the cats.
Diatomaceous earth.
Nice work for such a technical job!
CJ, that's what I've been using but the buggers seem to be surviving it.
Tom, that looks great!
Went to the post office to pick up mail and then popped in to Walmart to get stuff Mom requested.
Got in the truck and checked the temperature.
It actually went up to 108 while I was driving, but I couldn't take a picture for obvious reasons.
Did major cleanup in the kitchen. The DE did help a little with the roaches in the drawers but they are still running amok.
I made the mistake of opening my brother's rice cooker. He last cooked in it over a month ago and didn't remove the leftovers. There was some violet sludge with maggots swimming in it and dead maggots all over the underside of the lid, inside the rubber seal, & just all over. It was nasty. I cleaned it while I was making yellow rice in the pressure cooker.
I still have a lot to clean in the kitchen but my back is hurting so I needed a break.
Tom, that looks great!
Went to the post office to pick up mail and then popped in to Walmart to get stuff Mom requested.
Got in the truck and checked the temperature.
It actually went up to 108 while I was driving, but I couldn't take a picture for obvious reasons.
Did major cleanup in the kitchen. The DE did help a little with the roaches in the drawers but they are still running amok.
I made the mistake of opening my brother's rice cooker. He last cooked in it over a month ago and didn't remove the leftovers. There was some violet sludge with maggots swimming in it and dead maggots all over the underside of the lid, inside the rubber seal, & just all over. It was nasty. I cleaned it while I was making yellow rice in the pressure cooker.
I still have a lot to clean in the kitchen but my back is hurting so I needed a break.
The homeowner likes it enough but literally looked me in the eye and said “this is probably the most expensive template in history”. Then said she doesn’t love the small binding & will probably have me do it again next year with a wide binding. .
Her interior designer & herself wanted it this small. But to be fair, their contractor has been here almost 3 years. They’ve redone projects multiple times. These people have you do something then pay you to demo/redo it all the time. Money clearly isn’t an object with them?
. Her interior designer & herself wanted it this small. But to be fair, their contractor has been here almost 3 years. They’ve redone projects multiple times. These people have you do something then pay you to demo/redo it all the time. Money clearly isn’t an object with them?
