One of the joys of home ownership (as opposed to renting) is maintaining your home. Most people are aware of the basics such as lawn care, snow shoveling, mowing the lawn, etc… What most people are unaware of our even find themselves a bit frightened by is appliance problems. While many appliances in our modern…
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The New Flooring Part 2: Installation
Last week (or so) I told you about how I was getting my bedroom ready for a new wood floor. The picture on the right is a series of planks from the first box of wood. As you can clearly see they are about three inches wide and of various lengths. Each piece has a…
The New Flooring Part 1: Out With The Old
For those of you following along at home I recently purchased about 200 square feet of hardwood flooring to redo the floor in my master bedroom. Most of the rest of the house has hardwood flooring from when it was built in the 1950’s but an addition was added on in the 1990’s that did…
Hardwood Floors
For some time now my wife and I have been planning on ripping the carpeting out of our house and refinishing the hardwood floors that lie beneath. Our bedroom is the one exception in that it does not have hardwood floors beneath the carpeting. It has a fake wood-grained vinyl flooring instead. Being the industrious…