Home Improvements

[SunMo]

i'm still leaning towards ignoring it until i get lung cancer

[hbionic]

Because its a natural ocurring organism, mold is, you don't get lung cancer but you will get lung herpes. Which is ten times itchier. You ever tried scratching your lungs with a coat hanger? It's a bitch.

[Sgt PSN]

Laminate flooring is made from the dead skin of satan. farg that stuff, you have to acid wash your subfloor before starting.

False.  I've not only installed this in my own home, but have also helped several friends install it in their homes as well.  No acid washing required. 

[SunMo]

ok, and i get that i can do that...two issues.

1.  It's gonna be hard, there is a closet to cut into by the front door and the fireplace hearth.

2.  the carpet in the living room continues over to the next room, so i would have to cut it and seam it somehow.  something i would have no clue doing.

[smeags]

Laminate flooring is made from the dead skin of satan. farg that stuff, you have to acid wash your subfloor before starting.

Laminate wood floor is an easy install, other than it takes a day.  Just buy the underlayment stuff, and put the floor on top, pretty easy, and relatively cheap.  Problem is, you've never solved your issue, and its gonna happen again.  I'd caulk the shtein out of the wall

i just installed pergo throughout the dinning room & living room. just make sure the slab is flat and use good underlayment. easy install. they sell trim to seperate off the rooms. you'll have to put that in with concrete botls though. something i have to do this weekend. if you can handle simple cuts with a table saw its easy.

[Diomedes]

chuggie is making sense...don't spend money on fixing the symptom...find out wtf happened before you spend money and time.

[SunMo]

i understand that, first time ever happened in my 3 years living there during the most rain in like 50 years.

i'm chalking it up to freak occurrence. 

also playing into that mindset is that i'm not planning on living here more than a few years

[Diomedes]

hey, fair enough

when it happens again in three years, as your "girlfriend" is trying to sell the place, keep your farging idiot mouth shut about it

[SunMo]

lol why is girlfriend in quotes

[hbionic]

Don't act stupid.

[hbionic]

i understand that, first time ever happened in my 3 years living there during the most rain in like 50 years.

i'm chalking it up to freak occurrence. 

also playing into that mindset is that i'm not planning on living here more than a few years

Last thing I'll say on this...Water finding its way inside a home and soaking things up IS NOT A FREAK OCCURRENCE. It is the begginning of a shtein storm if you don't nip it in the bud. Part of being a homeowner is dealing with bullshtein like this. Good luck...but ignoring this now is like ignoring cancer in stage 1 thinking you have until stage 5 to deal with it.

[SD]

Why buy when you can rent? By the time you own the shtein you're knocking on deaths door.

[smeags]

Why buy when you can rent? By the time you own the shtein you're knocking on deaths door.

i hope i am not writing a bucket list by 52.

oh and tax write off says hi ?


sunny, you need to check around your house where the water came in. the grade, concrete seperation, down spout location, whatever. issue could be a simple fix actually but what isn't getting into your living area could be causing other damage to your block/footings.

early repair > demolition not covered

[Tomahawk]

Laminate flooring is made from the dead skin of satan. farg that stuff, you have to acid wash your subfloor before starting.

Laminate wood floor is an easy install, other than it takes a day.  Just buy the underlayment stuff, and put the floor on top, pretty easy, and relatively cheap.  Problem is, you've never solved your issue, and its gonna happen again.  I'd caulk the shtein out of the wall

i just installed pergo throught the dinning room & living room. just make sure the slab is flat and use good underlayment. easy install. they sell trim to seperate off the rooms. you'll have to put that in with concrete botls though. something i have to do this weekend. if you can handle simple cuts with a table saw its easy.

When we tiled my kitchen, we used the table saw to cut the transition from the tile to the hardwood.

[shorebird]

My bright idea for a herringbone border...



Gonna' look good, but why, why, why did I have this brainstorm? Not even close to done yet and I have a pile of sawdust twelve inches high behing my miterbox. Talk about tedious work.