That was good pad back when they actually made it out of real rubber.... Again I think were talking 50 years...
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And then they started making it from clay. It would get hard as a rock and stick to the floor.
That or turn to dust... Swept up many a roll...
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45...... Grandpa and i put some in a "Mini theatre" in '77
Red Green would approve of the duck tape job under the carpet. LOL.
My friend came out on Sunday and got the old water supply lines disconnected easily. Said they weren't even on that tight. Either I tried to turn them the wrong way or I have really weak hands. LOL. I couldn't get them to budge. I had him run the new lines into a bucket until the water ran clear (as clear as my tap water gets) before hooking them up so there wouldn't be any heavy sediment shooting in right away. Got them hooked up, took him to the grocery store and got him some food and put gas in his car so he could get to work on Monday (paycheck hasn't landed and he didn't have enough gas to make it back to work). He's been having to drive to a place 2 hours away for work because the tech at the other casino is down.
I slept all day Monday. No idea why I was so exhausted. Just had zero energy. I didn't even eat. I got up and cooked for Mom and went straight back to bed. Tuesday I bingewatched this Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/Thecrazyframer and then went to Samsclub. Got back home, napped, binegewatched more, cooked for Mom, napped, and am back to binge-watching. I'm on season 2 episode 29 of the building a house alone series. Dude frames houses by himself. Only help he gets is from other crews in the area lifting materials up for him from time to time. I think he had it done two or 3 times in a 29 day period. He doesn't really take his own safety very seriously and had to get nagged by viewers to take more precautions. He also really hates his Dewalt nailgun. LOL. Almost forgot I had to clean up after one of my cats who lodged protests around the kitchen sink for no apparent reason. My brother refused to rinse out the pressure cooker that he used because she had managed to crap right on the handle for the kitchen faucet. I cleaned it up with disinfectant.
After I finish bingewatching and the sun comes up so I can see better in here (no working lights) I want to see if I can find my stuff to work on my bathroom floor. I now have running water in there so I don't have an excuse not to work on it.
My friend came out on Sunday and got the old water supply lines disconnected easily. Said they weren't even on that tight. Either I tried to turn them the wrong way or I have really weak hands. LOL. I couldn't get them to budge. I had him run the new lines into a bucket until the water ran clear (as clear as my tap water gets) before hooking them up so there wouldn't be any heavy sediment shooting in right away. Got them hooked up, took him to the grocery store and got him some food and put gas in his car so he could get to work on Monday (paycheck hasn't landed and he didn't have enough gas to make it back to work). He's been having to drive to a place 2 hours away for work because the tech at the other casino is down.
I slept all day Monday. No idea why I was so exhausted. Just had zero energy. I didn't even eat. I got up and cooked for Mom and went straight back to bed. Tuesday I bingewatched this Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/Thecrazyframer and then went to Samsclub. Got back home, napped, binegewatched more, cooked for Mom, napped, and am back to binge-watching. I'm on season 2 episode 29 of the building a house alone series. Dude frames houses by himself. Only help he gets is from other crews in the area lifting materials up for him from time to time. I think he had it done two or 3 times in a 29 day period. He doesn't really take his own safety very seriously and had to get nagged by viewers to take more precautions. He also really hates his Dewalt nailgun. LOL. Almost forgot I had to clean up after one of my cats who lodged protests around the kitchen sink for no apparent reason. My brother refused to rinse out the pressure cooker that he used because she had managed to crap right on the handle for the kitchen faucet. I cleaned it up with disinfectant.
After I finish bingewatching and the sun comes up so I can see better in here (no working lights) I want to see if I can find my stuff to work on my bathroom floor. I now have running water in there so I don't have an excuse not to work on it.
Yeah, I found that under my grandmother's wall-to-wall carpet (circa. 1972 re-streched ~1997). I came across the rubber waffles a couple times in commercial but it was Grandma's that sticks in my memory. The dust was horrible in the traffic areas and then under the furniture I'd find the hardened, clay-like waffles melted into the varnish. So as you scraped it it would pulverize into dust or at best little chunks roughly the size of the waffle squares. To make matters worse they stapled it with a zillions staples so as to burst the razor scraper blades.
In the dining room under the pad was this fantastic inlay pattern with the hardwood under the pad. Shame I didnt have time to play. I was doing the re-stretch on a vacation trip for a family reunion outside Pittsburgh. I live in California. Were I to do the re-finish it would take me weeks. But I really wanted to try it was so interesting.
There was something about the finish on the hardwood that wood destroy the pad. On hardwood was the only place that I found it was stuck to, otherwise it was dust.
I remember in the 70s covering so many beautiful wood floors with carpet.... Seemed silly to me even then...
How about kitchen carpet? Glued many yards over beautiful lino. I actually put in white carpet over pad in a whole house once, including kitchen, bath and utility room. People are nuts.
Duct tape holds the earth together.
Great that your friend was able to help you out and you helped him That's what makes the world go 'round.
.......well, that and duct tape.
Ever listened to 70's rock and roll in a room with hardwood flooring?
That's why God created 2" shag.
I heard they used to mix leaded gasoline into polyurethane to seal hardwood floors. In fact, there was a case where a guy almost got executed for arson & killing his parents even though he swore it started from his mom dropping a cigarette. They said they found gasoline on the floor (but not the carpet and pad above). A volunteer fireman called bs on the prosecution's case and hired experts & did analysis. Leaded gas hadn't been sold in 15 years before it happened & since it wasn't in carpet and pad it was on the wood already. What they thought was a pour pattern was where the carpet and pad had been mashed down from constant foot traffic.
I've started looking for all of my tools/supplies I wanted to use on the bathroom floor & I'm trying to motivate myself to go attempt to level it. Got my trowels, the mix, the additive (if I don't use it the stuff crumbles), measuring cups, sifter to make sure there are no lumps in the dry mix, mixing tool, etc. Now I need to find something to kneel on bc my knees don't like the plywood.
I've started looking for all of my tools/supplies I wanted to use on the bathroom floor & I'm trying to motivate myself to go attempt to level it. Got my trowels, the mix, the additive (if I don't use it the stuff crumbles), measuring cups, sifter to make sure there are no lumps in the dry mix, mixing tool, etc. Now I need to find something to kneel on bc my knees don't like the plywood.
When did you do the leveling compound?
Nothing available these days takes much more than an hour to be walkable.
Additive is typically used only for very thin skim coats to make it bond better. Unless it's a very thin skin coat, you just need water.
Several hours. I got the ratio of the mix wrong so it wasn't fully dry. I'm also in a humid area that slows drying process. I read reviews of the product that said it can take awhile to dry fully. It was almost completely dry when I checked on it a couple of hours ago, but it still takes longer to cure. I'm not putting anything really heavy on it for several days because I want to make sure its good and cured. It poured thicker than I intended and when its thicker it takes longer to dry. I tried to feathercoat but the trowel I was using did not want to cooperate and just kept sticking to the stuff and making a lumpy mess. I had to use several different tools to try to smooth it out. It doesn't have any major lumps or depressions now that would show through the vinyl sheet.
If my back hadn't given out on me I would have done more and tried to feather it better. I did actually drag some of it into older pits from previous pour jobs to fill them in. Accidentally spilled some without realizing it and had to clean that up later. At least my shoe mark is gone now. I'll take pics again in the morning when there is more light from the window.
Watching high school football. My old team was ranked 3rd in the state and won tonight, 34-7. Last week 62-7
According to Angie, we get a few pennies if you use the ads at the top to purchase what you were going to buy anyways.
I'll have to remember that next time I want to buy something from Amazon.
I cleaned up the floor under where the sheet vinyl will go and folded the sheet vinyl back over to try to get it flat. Ran the water supply line through it without any trouble. It has some bubbles from not being smoothed out but my back and legs were not cooperating. I feel like I tumbled off a cliff and everything is sore. I'm going to go back in and clean up on top of the sheet vinyl (dragged in lots of dirt) and try to smooth it down and get it oriented the way I want. Will have to pick up stuff that is sitting on it to get it out of the way. Probably have to take some stuff out of the room. I'll have to take pics before I smooth it out and then after.
I'm an addict.....
My excuse is
....... I'm giving money to Habitat so they can build houses.
.......either that, or I really needed this wrench.
I can't find a wrench with this handle shape. The manufacturer is Bemis & Call, Springfield Mass. The handle is metal. Many are wood, many are metal, but this exact handle shape won't come up on my searches.
It's a 9 inch wrench. I came across many virtually identical wrenches but without this particular handle shape.
Iffin' ya get board, maybe your search will come up better than mine. Correctly or not they're called monkey wrenches, railroad wrenches.....
They're just one of the early adjustable wrenches.
My excuse is
....... I'm giving money to Habitat so they can build houses.
.......either that, or I really needed this wrench.
I can't find a wrench with this handle shape. The manufacturer is Bemis & Call, Springfield Mass. The handle is metal. Many are wood, many are metal, but this exact handle shape won't come up on my searches.
It's a 9 inch wrench. I came across many virtually identical wrenches but without this particular handle shape.
Iffin' ya get board, maybe your search will come up better than mine. Correctly or not they're called monkey wrenches, railroad wrenches.....
They're just one of the early adjustable wrenches.
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That is a very cool wrench! Reminds me of one my late elderly friend had. Don't know what happened to it after he passed.
I got up and did some organizing in the kitchen. Emptied junk out of some bins and moved stuff out of the way. Then I made myself clean the pantry. I didn't want to but I kept arguing with myself internally about how it had to be done. Dead mouse smell is gone from it now. That was a real pain because I discovered my brother "cleaned" the trash up in the kitchen by just shoving trash into the pantry and hallway. I filled two 55gallon contractor bags. In fairness, the pantry had a lot of expired stuff. Bloated cans, Mt Dew that expired in 2014, mouse-chewed boxes. Found a shallow wooden box that once had Korean tea spilled all over. Box was ok so I set it aside. Turned around to move it and a cat was sitting in it.
They managed detach the velcro on my desk tray so it won't stay in place. I'll have to fix that. They also got one of the speakers to come off. So, I need to get some doublesided sticky tape for the bottom of the velcro. The velcro itself bonds really strong but the adhesive they used didn't work that well. I think I'll use larger adhesive strips on the desk and put more velcro pads on the bottom of my tray. It has little feet so I have to fit it on the feet.
I got up and did some organizing in the kitchen. Emptied junk out of some bins and moved stuff out of the way. Then I made myself clean the pantry. I didn't want to but I kept arguing with myself internally about how it had to be done. Dead mouse smell is gone from it now. That was a real pain because I discovered my brother "cleaned" the trash up in the kitchen by just shoving trash into the pantry and hallway. I filled two 55gallon contractor bags. In fairness, the pantry had a lot of expired stuff. Bloated cans, Mt Dew that expired in 2014, mouse-chewed boxes. Found a shallow wooden box that once had Korean tea spilled all over. Box was ok so I set it aside. Turned around to move it and a cat was sitting in it.
They managed detach the velcro on my desk tray so it won't stay in place. I'll have to fix that. They also got one of the speakers to come off. So, I need to get some doublesided sticky tape for the bottom of the velcro. The velcro itself bonds really strong but the adhesive they used didn't work that well. I think I'll use larger adhesive strips on the desk and put more velcro pads on the bottom of my tray. It has little feet so I have to fit it on the feet.
