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    crain vinyl 100lb floor roller

    shipping might be spendy, someone literally just stole mine yesterday from a jobsite. Nothing else, just the damn roller. Who the hell does that.
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    Need advice

    you say vinyl tiles, but are they in fact vinyl (and are they the actual bottom layer), and are they well adhered (attempting to remove them super difficult in all places). Is the objection to removing them time or money. If you are DIY and simply want to remove them easier there are ways that...
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    Layout for LVP Flooring

    question, is it glue down or is it click lock.
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    August 6th

    Well, not anymore it isn't
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    new interior wall

    I personally drill and tap in aluminum drives to set my tack strip in basement or over concrete scenarios. There are adapters and solid square tungsten carbide tips that do not cost an arm and a leg. You would simple either replace the steel concrete nails that come pre-affixed to concrete...
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    Prep for laminate- Hydronic Floor Heating

    you can see where they nailed to the joist system, simply use decent 2" screws to firm up the attachment to the joists. If there are still squeaks its from delamination or movement between the layers of your sub-floor over what I am guessing is the router-ed runs of the in floor heat system...
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    Tile saw?

    Pearl VX10RS its a heavy damn beast but it kicks ass for large format stuff.
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    My old electric tacker is dying

    What I always found fun was taking pot shots at my partner whenever I did stairs. However having to find the loose staples was less fun, but still satisfying.
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    My old electric tacker is dying

    My trigger on my duofasts have gotten weirdly sensitive lately. Both of mine seem to like to multishot lately on normal trigger pulls. We took em apart and cleaned up the innards and put em back together, but they have stayed touchy as hell for some reason.
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    Pile direction on stairs

    My teacher taught me years ago, always fall down the stairs. Ive held that lesson close for 15 years now.
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    Flooring pictures

    I have been recruited to do 5 showers in 5 days for a church retreat. I will post when I get back next friday
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    Engineered measure....

    So a couple days ago I measured a job for the company I have been taking contracts for. A lakeside cabin in my area. Upon entering the structure I noticed that the exposed original lumber was rough hewn dimensional lumber from god knows when. Modern nails were exposed but the structure was...
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    Flooring pictures

    a bit out of focus
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    High, take it back

    That is a funny part of the country, I was trained in hardwood, carpet and vinyl there.
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    Congoleum DuraCeramic Tile

    I only grout sealed one floor when it first came with the store I was with, the job is still looking fine 7 years later (was actually just at her house last week for more work and saw its current state) I have also installed several jobs with no grout sealer, and the vast majority with grout. I...
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    Luan over an old plank subfloor for Coretec Plus?

    If the 'ply' layer of you 7/32 plywood looks more like a sticker applique with two layers of some core filler, run away sir run away. Do not cheap out, use true 5 ply 1/4" underlayment. You get what you pay for with floor prep, do it right. Additionally, I would definitely put some screws in...
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    Carpet tiles

    Ive done a fair share of entryway or three season rooms in carpet tiles and basement areas but I am in a rural area where mud rooms really are mud rooms. I have also done bathrooms in carpet tile where people want the comfort and stability of carpet but not the slickness of vinyl flooring. Its...
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    A Flooring Guy

    Well most of the people who made their millions from Winnebago have since fled to warmer climes and upscale neighborhoods. Though we do have some honest to god mansions here. DW
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    So yo want tile over that huh....

    Its the schluter trim pieces that are loose. Normal traffic causes it to deflect completely as though it is not supported from below at all. The whole thing is a hot mess. Given the time frame during in which it was originally installed, I would suspect that the floor heat was not on during...
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    A Flooring Guy

    Ive been ghosting in these forums for some time. I am a flooring guy from northern Iowa. I was apprenticed for carpet, hardwood and vinyl goods years ago and came to tile work somewhat later in life, because hell, everyone needs to invest in another van load of tools just for the hell of it...
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