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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 12, 2009, 01:20:18 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=287x7841
Oh my.
quakerboy (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 10:22 PM
Original message
What do I do about floors
I am (hopefully) buying an upstairs condo. The carpets are thrashed. Clearly a smoker lived there for a good long while. Being allergic and asthmatic, the carpets got to go.
So, what should I replace it with? Cost is an issue, and I strongly suspect that this means I will have to do any necessary installation mypersonalself. How hard are the "click-lock" floors that I keep hearing about to install? I am leaning towards that at the moment, based on what little help I was able to receive in a preliminary visit to a Lowes.
The sparkling husband primitive who, like all men, nightly pitches his tent one day's march closer to the mausoleum:
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-12-09 12:29 PM
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3. I would straongly advise buying Alloc Original if you want laminate flooring
http://www.alloc.com/us_laminate_floor.html
Click "residential"
Click "original"
We have it in our kitchen and our foyer. Both high traffic and high abuse. Both are several yars old. Both are like new.
Alloc Original has a unique aluminum locking device on each plank that makes the stuff easy as pie to install and to stay together over time. We put a less expensive click lock floor in our rental and it was a pain in the ass to install and has shown some separation with time.
The product is somewhat more costly than other flooring you can find, but it is, in my view, well worth it.
**Well** worth it.
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What?? He's not puttin a "green" floor in?
Bad, bad DUmmie
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It all depends on how level the existing floor is. If the place is older and has any deviation from complete flatness, the laminate flooring will be an expensive disaster, and new carpeting is the only real choice. Hopefully it's as ripply as the North Atlantic and he buys the laminate first on a no-return clearance sale. :evillaugh:
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He should just do what everybody else does - commercial grade resilient tile. Cheap. Easy. Self-adapts to uneven floors. Toss a nice area rug on top. Ta-freakin'-Daa.
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"Peel and stick" should do the trick....
Anything else would be beyond their capabilities....
Outside of a throw rug, that is....
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Dummie can use their Pony Skin rug, while waiting for Obambi to pave the floor with gold...
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Orange and white checkerboard?
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It all depends on how level the existing floor is. If the place is older and has any deviation from complete flatness, the laminate flooring will be an expensive disaster, and new carpeting is the only real choice. Hopefully it's as ripply as the North Atlantic and he buys the laminate first on a no-return clearance sale. :evillaugh:
Especially when you consider the flooring he's recommending is just as expensive, if not more, than frikkin' carpet!
What an idiot!!!!!
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I sure hope that the DUchebag does not charge rent.
Alas I assume that like taxes are for other people to pay that a DUmmy believes that profit is bad except when they are profiting.
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Just paint it brown to match the bong water spills.
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Get dazzling floor plans for your home & office from rtaflooring.com which is our new outlet.You will get many types of flooring plans here in our site.
Is there a pet feces pattern available?
Ya know...to hide the stains I live with every day?
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Is there a pet feces pattern available?
Ya know...to hide the stains I live with every day?
:cheersmate: :cheersmate: :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
If you find that pattern, let me know
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:cheersmate: :cheersmate: :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
If you find that pattern, let me know
Anything that has a multi-colored, random pattern with lots of browns and yellows should work.
Think barf in Technicolor. :rotf: