Deaconblue
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Looking good! Air powered brad gun for all that nailing?
Looking good! Air powered brad gun for all that nailing?
LK, what do you do about warped wood? Do you just try to buy the straightest stuff you can to work with and go from there? I built some more shelves for my basement this weekend and had a hell of a time finding decently straight 2x2s and 4s
took advantage of some mild weather this weekend:
Sweet; nicely done. Where did you find the plans?
I'm thinking of ripping up the carpet in my finished basement this week/end in advance of bulky item pick-up in my neighborhood next week. I definitely want to replace the flooring eventually and figured this would be a good start. It would be nice to dispose of the carpet for free and without having to haul to the dump.
However, it might be a while before I am able to afford replacing the floor. I am currently just using the basement for storage, laundry, workshop and cat boxes. Any reason (besides comfort on my bare feet when I go downstairs) why I shouldn't just go down to bare concrete slab for what might be months? Frankly it might well be a year in which case maybe I should just wait until next year's pick-up.
I had a pipe break so the carpet did get wet. there is also a potential mold issue. I thought it might be good to let the concrete air out or something, before my plan of gluing vinyl to it.
No, you should be good with going down to the concrete (and possibly better, as compared to carpet, in terms of mold/moisture issues).
Before you do anything on top of the concrete you should test it for moisture, though - duct-tape some plastic sheeting on top of the floor all around the edges and look for condensation build-up. if you've got a lot of condensation building between the floor and plastic, you should address that before gluing/recarpeting/installing other flooring.
Strongly consider tile in the basement..carpet is asking for mold/moisture issues..throw down a rug here or there to cut down the noise..we had some moisture/water issues before our new sump pump was put in and were really grateful we had tile. Easy to clean up and dry out. The anger issue was much better than if we had carpet down there
thanks, good idea.
Definitely not replacing with more carpet. Got a quote from a handy friend for vinyl strips that look sort of like wood. He uses them a lot in basements. Might be worth pricing out tile too though, thanks! His other suggestion for cheapest would be etching/staining the concrete directly.
Does anyone have any advice for DIY leather repair? I have a set of nice, leather bound dining room chairs that have collected some wear and tear (nicks and shallow scratches, no punctures). Enough to notice and thus motivate me to touch them up, but not serious enough to bring them to a professional (if such a profession even exists). Any products out there that would help?
Thanks in advance.