Got two bedrooms and the hall between. A 15 foot hall with 6 doorways that had to be carefully fitted.
Gah!
And because the planks click on in a certain direction, when we got to the end of the first bedroom and entered the second, we had to start from the outer wall and work toward the mate-up with the line extended from the first: we were 1/4″ off, and the fix involved a rope snagging the whole floor and a lot of pulling, to shift the entire composed floor into line. Pix do exist. Jane has them in her camera.
You two are amazing!
Gotta finish the sawing I have to do today, because tomorrow I have to start the eyedrops for the second surgery…on Wednesday. After that, I should be able to see the same colors with both eyes. 😉 Right now our living room wall is blue to the right eye, and green to the left one.
having the wall appear different colors in either eye could be a real problem if the walls were say, pink, or yellow….
hope things go well…keep your fingers clear of the saw blade!
I had another root canal done this morning. She’s very good at what she does. Minimal pain, other than one quick “ouch” when the filling material exuded from the tip of the root and “excited” the surrounding tissues. :O, but it subsided quickly. The endodontist was able to save this tooth from extraction.
I am glad I got dental insurance, even though it’s capped at $3,000 per year, and the new year just started on Friday. My share of this was about $468, out of an $1,100 bill. I have another appointment next Tuesday with my regular dentist to get a crown on this tooth.
A lot more pleasant than extraction, for sure.
yes, now if I can get the furnace replaced tomorrow, I’ll be warm in my home again……it was bitter cold last night outside….
Not only world building but house building as well. I’m impressed.
I am paying close attention to your floor fitting adventures, because in a couple of years we are planning to pull up our horrid carpet (it was reasonably nice when installed, but over a decade of cats have rendered it shabby) and put in laminate. We’ve done it before, but in DH’s shop, where there are only 2 rooms with a connecting door which miraculously lined up first go. This will be a living room and main bedroom, connected by a hallway; I am now thinking we should start along the longest continuous straight run, where the hallway merges into the living room, rather than the bedroom, to keep it lined up.
The problems are:
1. you need a quarter inch space between floor and wall, which allows for expansion with humidity and shrinkage with lack of it.
2. baseboards have to accommodate this.
3. the linkup for individual boards is right to left, as one reads a book. This means if you are doing a room which lies to LEFT of a hallway, you have to do some careful measuring, and use underlayment, so that if it is a hair off when your floor meets the boards incoming from the hall, you can literally shift the whole floor to make it mate up. THis room is about 13×15, and we managed it by snagging a corner with a rope and pulling. We had about an eighth to a quarter of an inch to move it to make it mate neatly with the line from the hall.
4. instructions for laminate now warn you of buckling and other horrors if you don’t use their provided T-moldings for all doorways. I asked a professional installer about this…citing our hallway, 15 feet involving 6 doorways, and my estimation that that many ‘thresholds’ would constitute trip-hazards and an eyesore. He said just be careful and be precise, and he agreed. So we did it with thresholds only where it meets other kinds of flooring (2 of those). The other is a case of two rooms lying straight ahead of each other, but each having to be floored right to left. This means in THIS room, we had to meet that hallway line, established by room #1, and make a perfectly matched click-in. We did that. The little office joins in the same way, but it will be easier than this room, if we have to move the flooring as a unit. The room after that is the living room, where we face the problem of two fish tanks and a piano that have to be moved. We know how. But we don’t have the muscle. So we are hiring the muscle (movers) and will teach them how to move a 1500 lb fish tank with minimal sweat and no destruction. 😉 The piano will be a cinch. We could do it, but if they’re here…eh? And the 700 lb fish tank will, again, be almost within our capability, but we want them to do it. The biggest pain is going to be housing the fish and corals safely in the process, which I think we’d better allow 2 days for: that’s a long room, and getting the flooring ready to take that weight is going to be a scramble if we tried to do it in one day. We’ll have to shift the tanks over onto the subfloor, then move them (gently) up onto the laminate without causing the laminate to buckle—even though we will only have about an 8′ run of it complete, and the whole edge unsecured. I’m thinking of using the piano as a ‘paperweight’ to help stabilize it as we move the big tank onto that floor.
Our tract house is one of the first generation built here, with cement block outside walls and singlewall interior construction; that means that rather than the usual load-bearing 2×4 studs with sheetrock to cover, we got tongue in groove bleached redwood for interior walls, held in place by the baseboards and top molding. Luckily, termites hate the redwood as much as we like it, but a side effect is that the electrical outlets are placed along the baseboards, which are 1×4 with a large groove milled into the backside for wiring. Pulling off the baseboards and associated wiring to slide in laminate is nobody’s idea of fun. I’ve been toying with the idea, if I can’t slip the laminate into the slot under the baseboards where the carpet was, of picking up matching quarter round molding and tacking it to the baseboards to cover the joint where the laminate butts against the baseboards. We will have 3 doorways with different flooring (unless DH decides to redo the computer office and rip up the linoleum tile, doubtful) which will require the T-moldings.
That would work, actually, if everything is nicely solid. You can get molding in all sorts of shapes and finishes. Simple quarter-round is enough.
Just ask for “shoe”.
We hope the second eye surgery went well.
yes, indeed, we do!
Toes crossed that all went well!