Darn. Why didn't I think of that? Regards.
Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:19 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Teddybear cottage, the floor. > Max you need to lift the building up a few inches and suspend it so that > the > floor is sitting there all by itself and when you are done putting down > the > flooring then lower the building back down onto the floor and you are good > to go. > Grin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Max Robinson > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:30 PM > To: Blind Handyman > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Teddybear cottage, the floor. > > Next, the floor. The floor provided by the builders was most > unsatisfactory. First of all, some of the pieces of plywood were thicker > than others. There were large headed nails driven in at an angle. The ones > that were straight kept popping up. No matter how many times we pounded > them down they kept rearing their ugly heads again. > > On the advice of the people in the flooring department at Lowe's, > > we put sheets of 3/4 inch MDF over the old flooring making sure not to use > the same layout so seems would not coincide. It was fastened down with > liquid nails and woodscrews in the corners. It came out nice and flat. > > Next, we put down laminated floor tiles with padding on the back. > > The tiles are approximately 4 feet by 1 foot and have edges something like > a > tung and groove with a catch on the tung that catches in the groove and > holds them together once locked in place. These are on all four sides. The > instructions say to alternate the short seams which gives a stair-step > appearance. > > The first row was just laid down and locked together end to end working > right to left. To start the second row the first tile had to be cut in > half. These went down and the third row started with another whole tile. > > It wasn't quite as easy as the salesman said it would be. The long edges > were fairly easy, just lift up the edge of the tile, lock it to the > previously laid one and lay it down. It would lock in place. That was OK > for the long edge but the second in a row, and all subsequent ones to the > left, required that the newly added tile had to be slid to the right > without > being lifted up to engage the short seam. One of the half pieces was > pressed into service for this. It was placed against the short seam which > matched so considerable force could be put on it without damaging the > wanted > tile. The cut end could be pounded on with a hammer to force the good tile > to move and engage the next one down. Then the "tool" could be removed > leaving an undamaged edge for the next one in line. This piece of tile was > a scrap that was of no further use. > > When the wall on the left was reached a tile had to be cut to fill the > remaining space. The "tool" could not be used here because all the space > had been filled. The tiles had to be cut short enough to allow something > to > be wedged in between the end of the tile and the wall to force it to the > right. We started by prying with a large file but that wouldn't go far > enough. Next we inserted the claws of a claw-hammer into the crack and > pried against the wall. This resulted in some damaged paneling and also > broken edges of the tiles. Most of the damage was covered by the base > board > and quarter round but there are still a couple of broken places showing > both > in the paneling and the floor tiles. Some well placed furniture will cover > these mistakes. > > It seems impossible to make the last one in line lock in place without > doing > some damage to the wall and tiles. I wonder how the hell the pros do it. > > Regards. > > Max. K 4 O D S. > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:max%40maxsmusicplace.com> > > Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net > <http://www.funwithtransistors.net> > Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net > <http://www.funwithtubes.net> > Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com <http://www.maxsmusicplace.com> > > To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:funwithtubes-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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