Just a quick note on flooring. In S. Fla we had all tile [NEVER get white floor tile !!!!], but here we have a mixture of carpet, tile and wood. A few months ago I started seeing water squish up from between the floor panels - quite exciting as it was in the middle of the house. Turns out the PO had installed the air handler in a front hall closet and put in a sump pump, which had locked up. Out comes the shop vac but I was quite concerned about the wood floor. PO said not to worry as it was solid wood and would settle down fine when it dried out. He was right, and you can't even tell where it was wet. It is my impression that laminate will not do that - or is my information based on old technology? BillR Jacksonville FL
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Finks Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:05 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT House Build Quality On the topic of flooring: We have such an aversion to carpet for a multiple reasons. A new-build house we're looking into says it has carpet and hardwood floors. My wife was wondering if we could get them to make the stairs and halls hardwood. I told her that would probably be very expensive, because it was not designed that way, and they'd have to design in the hardwood stairs just for us. Think so? brian Royce wrote: On the subject of laminate flooring...I did just about the entire house with it in our last house. The rooms that didn't get it got commercial grade carpet squares _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
