Solve your carpet cleaning problems

"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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someone whose husband did floors, he got out because of the
fumes, I thought how strange ... then I found out not so strange
after all.

The new high tech hardwood floor finishes are water based, hardly any
odor at all.

That *was* the water based.

nancy

Nancy Young said:

"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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someone whose husband did floors, he got out because of the
fumes, I thought how strange ... then I found out not so strange
after all.

The new high tech hardwood floor finishes are water based, hardly any
odor at all.

That *was* the water based.

How long ago? I had my floors done about 2 years ago with the new
Bonakemi finish. There was very little odor and in 24 hours was dry
enough to walk on in socks, fully cured in one week. I see now they
have a new dust collection system. I had to deal with the dust storm.

Watch the video
http://www.bona.com/?sr=us

Sheldon

"Sheldon" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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That *was* the water based.

How long ago? I had my floors done about 2 years ago with the new
Bonakemi finish. There was very little odor and in 24 hours was dry
enough to walk on in socks, fully cured in one week. I see now they
have a new dust collection system. I had to deal with the dust storm.

This was about 10 years ago? Somewhere around there. I could
taste the stuff. Horrible. I don't remember a big dust problem, but
rest assured, there must have been. Heh, we'd tried refinishing the floors
ourselves, everyone says it's so easy ... finally called in the pros like we
should have in the first place. (laugh) Guy said, wow, who did this, they
didn't do a very good job. You *know* what I said. Yeah, those people
we bought the house from ...

nancy

Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

I'll be solving the carpet cleaning problem next year. I'm yanking the
carpet up and having the hard wood floors redone.

Word.

I just wrote the check for bamboo. But first we have to get the slab
leveled. Something about mudjacking.

Now there's a mental image! I believe our nice lawn will soon be a
viscious pit of slimy horrors. Try to imagine a machine powerful
enough to stuff liquid concrete under a couple of thousand feet of
solid concrete with enough force to move it up a couple of inches.
Then imagine that machine rolling into your yard.

While you're at it, imagine writing that check.

modom

Sheldon said:

Roberta said:

Yep :P I we have a 3 and a 5 year old and a carpeted dining
room....that's probably all I need to say LOL

That just means your kids are crawling in filth, FILTH! When in a few
years they develop allergies and respiratory disease they can blame
you.

Right now, totally picturing you sort of wild eyed and crazy, standing on a
street corner screaming about the four floorcoverings of the apocalypse!
REPENT!! FOR THE VACUUM IS NIGH!!!!!!

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Step off, beyotches, I'm the roflpimp!

modom <[email hidden]> looking for trouble wrote in
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Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

I'll be solving the carpet cleaning problem next year. I'm yanking the
carpet up and having the hard wood floors redone.

Word.

I just wrote the check for bamboo. But first we have to get the slab
leveled. Something about mudjacking.

Now there's a mental image! I believe our nice lawn will soon be a
viscious pit of slimy horrors. Try to imagine a machine powerful
enough to stuff liquid concrete under a couple of thousand feet of
solid concrete with enough force to move it up a couple of inches.
Then imagine that machine rolling into your yard.

While you're at it, imagine writing that check.

modom

We had it done to the side patio and the front porch. It wasn't that
expensive if I recall correctly.

Michael

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“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.”
_Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's franchise

Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

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While you're at it, imagine writing that check.

modom

We had it done to the side patio and the front porch. It wasn't that
expensive if I recall correctly.

That's reassuring. But the check for the bamboo was pretty steep by
itself. And moving my foundation scares me. The leveler comes well
recommended, but still there are water and gas pipes and sewer pipes
down there, too.

modom

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Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

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While you're at it, imagine writing that check.

modom

We had it done to the side patio and the front porch. It wasn't that
expensive if I recall correctly.

That's reassuring. But the check for the bamboo was pretty steep by
itself. And moving my foundation scares me. The leveler comes well
recommended, but still there are water and gas pipes and sewer pipes
down there, too.

modom

<<<shudder>>> I didn't realize it was that extensive. Some of our gutters
drain to the street. We had to remove the sod, have the drain pipe
repaired and haul in dirt. Interestingly enough we managed to save the
sod. That alone was about $800 dollars. My main issue this spring is
tuckpointing. I'm terrified at the cost. We had the vinyl siding put on
last year. It was not a big job. We had wood siding on parts of the
house, including two roof gables, which got wood rot thanks to my watering
practices. It was about $2000. These older house will nickle and dime you
to death.

Michael <- *still* saving for a new kitchen

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“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.”
_Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's franchise

modom said:

Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

I'll be solving the carpet cleaning problem next year. I'm yanking the
carpet up and having the hard wood floors redone.

Word.

I just wrote the check for bamboo. But first we have to get the slab
leveled. Something about mudjacking.

They had to do all that to put in hardwoods? Why didn't they just
correct the subflooring?
Bamboo is nice. Not particularly my taste, but *really* nice. My
friend has it in natural. I am a Cherry girl, myself.

-L.

-L. said:

modom wrote:

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I just wrote the check for bamboo. But first we have to get the slab
leveled. Something about mudjacking.

They had to do all that to put in hardwoods? Why didn't they just
correct the subflooring?

In our house the floor sits on a slab of concrete. There isn't
anything between the foundation and the floor. The slab was poured in
1952, and the soil around Cow Hill heaves astonishingly with changes
in moisture. Though it has substantial footings and poured beams with
lots of rebar in them (according to the blueprints I have, at least),
the slab has cracked under the stress of the shifting soil. One wall
is sagging visibly so that windows don't function properly in it.
What were rectangles are now parallelograms.

The original cork tile floor was covered over with carpet long before
we bought the house, and we bought it knowing that the slab needed
work. It's pretty obviously uneven. Even thick carpet and a thick
pad below that don't hide the problem.

So Saturday I meet the mudjack man, and we talk turkey. (OBFood)

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Bamboo is nice. Not particularly my taste, but *really* nice. My
friend has it in natural. I am a Cherry girl, myself.

Of course you are!

modom

modom said:

In our house the floor sits on a slab of concrete. There isn't
anything between the foundation and the floor. The slab was poured in
1952, and the soil around Cow Hill heaves astonishingly with changes
in moisture. Though it has substantial footings and poured beams with
lots of rebar in them (according to the blueprints I have, at least),
the slab has cracked under the stress of the shifting soil. One wall
is sagging visibly so that windows don't function properly in it.
What were rectangles are now parallelograms.

The original cork tile floor was covered over with carpet long before
we bought the house, and we bought it knowing that the slab needed
work. It's pretty obviously uneven. Even thick carpet and a thick
pad below that don't hide the problem.

Oh, ok. So you sort of had to do it, hardwoods or not, eh? Bummer...

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So Saturday I meet the mudjack man, and we talk turkey. (OBFood)

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Bamboo is nice. Not particularly my taste, but *really* nice. My
friend has it in natural. I am a Cherry girl, myself.

Of course you are!

Oh, am I that transparent?!? Shucks!
-L.