House projects!

[SnSstealth]

Looks like good times stinks! Cant wait to be able to get a lil 88000 dollar fixer upper up north. It is so much more rewarding when you diy...to me at least...thanks for sharing!
whiskeytango

SnSstealth Reviewed by SnSstealth on 09-30-2008. House projects! I've been a little busy these days with multiple jobs and a home renovation project. I thought I'd share some of my misadventures with a flooring install! Here's some pics, before and after. Also a pic of the type of crap (literally) I've had to deal with in this nasty house. That's several pounds of mouse shit that I removed from the upstairs kitchen... eww. The living room floor in the upstairs apartment was covered with thick-pile harvest gold pee stained shag, over broken asbestos done Rating: 5

[weedmaster]

your doing a great job their stinky:thumbsup:but was thinking that if you removed the skirting board and started the floor against the wall you probally wouldnt have to nail the boards, as the t&g locks it in place and the skirting put back holds all the edges down, in the u.k we call it a floating floor, but looks like you doing a great job there, the way your doing it.
is that a white boxer with a black eye?

[stinkyattic]

She's half Boxer and half Olde English Bulldogge.
I had planned to remove the skirting board (this side of the Pond we call it 'base-board') but it's a 2- piece trim that has a bunch of wire-mold attached to it from a recent electrical upgrade, as well as being glued to the original horsehair plaster from c. 1900, and if I remove it the walls will crumble in those spots and require a lot of repair. I decided to leave them, butt the new floor up tight, and then lay a small piece of cove-molding along the joint to hide and protect it and fix the floorboards in place. I also decided to nail them down because a friend who has done a lot of construction warned me to think of the future, when sand and grit works between them and causes wear on the tongues, and lets the floor get loose over time. I think if the boards were thicker and longer I'd be able to get away with fewer nails through them, but they are only 1/2" and 38" long.
Thanks! I'm glad it's coming out right at least!

[weedmaster]

i know what you mean,i took of all the base board of my daughters room and being the old style sand and lime plaster ended up haveing to replaster the whole room.
love the dog reminds me of my last boxer,that was white with a black eye

[dragonrider]

It looks great! I'm planning to do a similar project in the next year. Most of our floor through out the house is covered in nasty wall-to-wall that was nasty when we moved in 8 years ago! I'm planning to nail down as well. I've got enough square footage that I might buy, borrow or rent the nailer.

[hydrocannabis]

woow right on gal. the wood floor looks great really great.

damm I wanna meet a chick that likes growing green and doing house projects. then I would be set with my 3 fav things bout me dreamgal. gro,smoke,home projects.
:thumbsup:

[Nightcrewman]

Just saw your pics Ms Attic, please tell me you didn't cover those lovely old flagstones.

NCM

[Nightcrewman]

Did anyone else clock the broomstick in pic 1 post 2 LOL

NCM

[Nightcrewman]

No wonder her crops are so damned good

[stinkyattic]

Yeah that's right, I feed them snakes n snails n puppydog tails... correctly composted and treated with MycoStim, of course!

Nah that's not flagstones- that's composite subflooring with the remains of grime and adhesive in a grid pattern where I popped up the asbestos tiles that had been glued to it. No flagstones in my house... YET. The next re-flooring project is cutting out an inch-thick layer of assorted sheet linoleum and tile products off the downstairs kitchen and hall, and laying slate flagstone in its place. That will be epic.

I got in a minor dispute at the nail salon on Wednesday, actually, when I went in for a fill with my nails looking as if I'd been clawing at bricks, and had a complex exchange with the nail tech over why I flat out REFUSED to have the old set removed and replaced with pink gel ("but it look more pretty!") instead of the untinted epoxy. I had to explain repeatedly that I don't like pink, and finally the last word was that I don't get fake nails to be pretty, I get them because they are more strong! She harrumphed at me and grumpily put on the untinted epoxy. Maybe next time I will go pink... naaaah!