Tilted Home Improvement

Actually it can be done either way, wet or after you let it dry. If you do let it dry, you must apply the paper tape onto the wet mud. Otherwise it will not stick when you apply the mud and tape over the joints. Personally I do it wet. With some practice you can do it without the tape shifting any at all. It just takes a little skill.

 

flooring is my specialty(25 years in the trade)....ask me your questions....xoxoxoo

 

Bobby - Any tricks to getting a plywood sub floor to stop squeaking at the joists, without having access to the joists? I'm still skeptical of those split-pitch screws with the snap heads that seem to be the common solution.

 

This house is still kicking my ass.

Many months ago, Junior decided to flood the upstairs bathroom. The end result was a gaping hole in my kitchen ceiling, a broken toilet (thanks to me slipping on the vinyl floor and crashing into it), and a gutted floor/subfloor. Now, most of the kitchen ceiling is repaired, new crown put up in there, and the cement board is down in the bathroom, ready for tile. Along with it, will come a frameless shower door.

I spent all of yesterday painting my living room (undoing turd brown color #2). Today has been touch up and window sills, and next will be the stripes on the feature wall. The color is a big improvement (a dove grey color), but now I don't like the fireplace surround or the stupid checkered tile half wall (they tried to be trendy and use that stupid square glass tile in an assortment of browns and beiges, and I absolutely hate it), so those will have to go this fall. Will be sure to post up pics when done with the painting. The plan is to change the window treatments, find a new couch, and put up a gloss back mirror collage on the feature wall.

 

Having had the flooring people in last year - Watch out for Bitchumin. The black glue they used on old tile floors will leak through new vinyl flooring leaving marks that can not be moved. Where I already had old tile flooring, they suggested it would need skimming first, a thin layer of concrete for the new floor to be laid on.​

Handy tip - Know where the first aid box is before you start, and make sure someone replaced the band aids.tp://www.thetfp.com/threads/tilted-home-improvement.1286/#ixzz1w8lK4EJB​

 

You need to be careful with the bitumen under vinyl, especially the old stuff they used many years ago. it's made of asbestos, so if you're trying to pry or sand it off, you're asking for trouble. Asbestos is nasty stuff once it gets airborne.

 

Updates! My vertical stripes came out awesome using the base coat over tape, then stripe method. Also, they've got most of the bathroom tile down.

 

Never knew that Lish. The chaps were sort of giving it funny looks - guess thats why.

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CC, check this link out
if you google the words "vinyl flooring glue asbestos", you'll get a whole heap of websites

http://www.ehow.com/how_6160322_remove-vinyl-tile-asbestos-adhesive.html

 

Our cheap ass ClosetMaid system came out of the wall and collapses yesterday. We learned just how poorly it was installed by the builders... the hard way. So we just installed a ClosetMaid ShelfTrack system that totally rocks. And, it's anchored with super duty drywall screws, so it's not going anywhere. Minor mods, but a big deal for us.

 

I can't believe how expensive those stupid shelving units are. I bought enough stuff to put up some wire rack shelves in my garage, and when I was done, looked at it and said "THAT cost me $400?"

 

I haven't directly performed much of anything obviously, given my age, but I have been That Guy (and earlier That Kid) that sits there and realises "I could tell them but they wouldn't listen".

So my advice is simple: Always listen to the person not tits deep in it, because they've got not just a better physical vantage point but a better mental one as well. There's a reason the evil overlord list requires being able to deliver satisfactory answers to inquisitive children. If you don't have kids, borrow them. Nothing spots mistakes like a seven year old asking "is that supposed to be that way?" or "what if they just used the wrong color wire originally?"

 

Meh... Ours were $125 each. And the extras I got today was another $40. So it was a wonderfully well-spent $300.

 

LBC had a bird cage laying in my living room by the fireplace for over a year. Plain grey POS that she never did anything with. So, while she was out this afternoon, I cut it up, did a little welding, and made a new floor lamp out of it. Need to find an old-style filament bulb or make an inside shade for it now.