I admire your guts.............. and smarts on moisture stuff. I rarely touch any real wood (engineered) wood products. Most everything here is on wood flooring systems with some slabs. Usually basements. I've never installed any wood on concrete.
I admire your guts.............. and smarts on moisture stuff. I rarely touch any real wood (engineered) wood products. Most everything here is on wood flooring systems with some slabs. Usually basements. I've never installed any wood on concrete.
Not even cork tiles over concrete?
They can look strange if there is a moisture problem
Got my 48 foot living room finished today. I'll try to get a few images. Crappy camera, crappy images.
Hardest part was all the angles. The first image is some 4x4 supports set in place so that I could set up a temporary wall to stretch from. No way can you stretch off a 45 degree wall.
I cut the seams and thermo sealed them, then pre-stretched both sides of this long seam. It's about 42 feet long.
I made one side of the seam straight using a string, then made the second side conform to it.
Every effort stretching one way or another required setting up wall supports like the one in the first image and reversing the stretcher setup to go the opposite direction. No way can you stretch a long room like this, stretching it in just two directions.
From start to finish I probably set up my stretcher and moved the temporary wall supports dozens of times. 4 hours for me and my brother today just stretching the room from end to end................ we had already stretched it width wise the day before after putting the seam together and stretching one side of the length along the fireplace.
Good appreciative customers make it all worthwhile. Might get $1600 out of it if I stick to my bid. They thought this and an office nightmare would be a 3 day job. I told her I'd be a relative by the time I got done........ and explained why.God bless you. Back in the dsy i would tackle that but wouldnt touch it now days for 100 bucks a yd.
Yes ..I had a high estimate in my mind of $2400 and told them it looks like at least $1800. They sort of freaked so I didn't press for the high mark I can't afford to lose work. I figured $10 a yard plus $400 for the steps and misc including the 14 foot office and this 48 foot long living room. $2400 was low wasn't it?
Stick to your guns , and charge them .. i can see that was no fun job..I had a high estimate in my mind of $2400 and told them it looks like at least $1800. They sort of freaked so I didn't press for the high mark I can't afford to lose work. I figured $10 a yard plus $400 for the steps and misc including the 14 foot office and this 48 foot long living room. $2400 was low wasn't it?
I did a restretch in a geodesic dome house once. Too many doorways and heater vents to stretch towards the walls. Everything would move too far and no extra material to do repairs and patches. ...so I stretched inwards from opposite directions and stay tacked the seam and cut material out of the seam and re-seamed. Room was almost 36 feet wide, so I had to do that to two seams. The wrinkles were big and I couldn't take everything from just one seam because I had to control movement of the doorways and vents .Ever do an octagonal house? I have, one pole in the center to stretch off of.
Many people think that installing carpet is "grunt" work. It can be hard to figure angles and also material.Highup, I think sticking to your price is the right thing-- especially since they are appreciative & you never gave them the high number. That looks like a nightmare to stretch. I had no idea that stretching carpet could be that complicated. That sun room looks awesome though.
I'm still feeling tired & am trying to motivate myself to get up & clean.
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