Tiling Success
Original-style tiles fill the old furnace register holes in the kitchen and guest bath.
Tag: Flooring
Filling in the Holes
Plugging the huge furnace holes in the concrete, so the closet now holds our 3D printer.
Eating things one should not: Cardboard
The boys eat things they shouldn’t, starting with cardboard, and Tenar ends up at the vet on fluids for a week.
Flooring all done. Time for before and after.
Before and after shots of the refinished teak floors, plus one new squeak.
Sanding is a Sandy Business
Sanding and refinishing the teak through half the house, after moving all the furniture out.
Click-Lock
Patching the old furnace holes in the click-lock floors of my office and the blue room.
Teaky Teak
Repairing the teak floors with a box of matching parquet the previous owners left behind.
Craigslist, Chicago, and Lumber Liquidators
Our discontinued bamboo flooring, found again thanks to Craigslist and a friend in Chicago.
In the Teaky Teaky Teaky Teaky Teaky Room
Our teak parquet floors needed a full revamp after the furnace project, and that started a saga.
10 Reasons to Never Buy from Lumber Liquidators
Ten ways Lumber Liquidators messed up our flooring order.
We have pretty electrons now
Voltz Electric upgrades our 175-amp service to 200 amps and replaces the fifty-year-old panel.
More Flooring Tales
Bringing the original teak parquet floors back to life myself instead of having them professionally cleaned and polished.
New Floors…almost
Replacing the filthy carpets in two rooms with bamboo flooring, starting with an unhelpful flooring store and ending at Lumber Liquidators.
A week in review?
The view from the well, 200 feet above the house, why a rusting 10,000-gallon metal well tank is a problem and the Whale’s broken camshaft at LeMons.