Tiling Success
A few years back, I started researching if it would be possible to get matching tiles made for the great room. I found the original…
Tag: Flooring
Filling in the Holes
One last project completed while I was on vacation was the final cleanup of the crawl space and plugging the many holes in the concrete…
Eating things one should not: Cardboard
Regular readers of this little blog know that we have two large parrots sharing our world. While Tenar and Thlayli (Thy for short) are basically…
Flooring all done. Time for before and after.
First the damaged area by the sliding glass door upstairs in the great room: Then the damaged area at the foyer and great room. I…
Sanding is a Sandy Business
Once the repairs in the teak were finished, it was time to get down to the really messy part of the floor project–sanding and refinishing…
Click-Lock
While the teak repairs were happening, another guy who specializes in repairing and installing the type of flooring we have in the blue room and…
Teaky Teak
Before the teak that runs through most of the house could be refinished, a lot–and I mean a lot–of repairs had to be made. There…
Craigslist, Chicago, and Lumber Liquidators
It’s been a while since regular posts have gone up, and even though we’re under a shelter-in-place order, we’ve been incredibly busy with projects. From…
In the Teaky Teaky Teaky Teaky Teaky Room
The house, built in the late 60s, has teak parquet flooring throughout the main living areas–north hallway, foyer and great room. We know from old…
10 Reasons to Never Buy from Lumber Liquidators
While I wrote an earlier post about getting hardwood flooring installed in two rooms, the saga took a few extra turns. To be brief, Lumber Liquidators…
We have pretty electrons now
When we were in escrow and having inspections done, the electrical service to the house was noted to only have 175 amps. For out here…
More Flooring Tales
I did some research online as we have teak parquet flooring throughout half of the house. It is original to the house and was looking…
New Floors…almost
When we bought the house, the carpets in the north office (now my office) and the PO’s daughter’s bedroom (the purple room) were in awful…
A week in review?
The image below is the view of the house compound from our well. The well sits about 200 feet above the house. (Walking anywhere on our…