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Gonna be a hurtin' unit tomorrow!
NeoBlackdog
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I laid about 700 sq. ft. of carpet today. About 650 feet in one big room and a hall. Ouch. I may be approaching the point of being excessively chronologically advanced to be engaging in such activities!
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Residential? Stretch in? Berber,cut pile, loop? Jute back,kanga back?
Alegro Bisque ?
Montenegro Absolutium?
French Broad Bisque?
Man Cave?
What the heck, are you talking about @montanajoe? 🤔😉😂🤣
After a certain age "Writing the check" hurts a whole lot less (and in not as many places)🙄
On concrete or wood?
Stretch and tuck?
loose lay?
Glue down?
12' or 15' roll?
Single drop or you do drop cuts?
On cork board or plywood?
Lift and tuck? (Or............)
A good lay? (Never a bad thing.)
Epoxied down?
Two can play this game @montanajoe.
He didn't give enough info on install. Didn't even mention prep, tack strip, padding,,,,,
Musta really pooped him out, he's already done for the night. Rest well @NeoBlackdog
good luck healing I hope it goes fast for you is long slow and pain full as we get older
not much on me is not worn out from days of construction when I was younger they could remake the six million dollar man and replace every thing in me I guess LOL
I never laid carpet however I worked around a lot of floor crews their knees and legs and back, have to be worn out also
from all the kicking the stretcher boards and being bent over all day
I believe the proper and correct verbage is "installed". You had us going for a moment!
Damn! MontanaJoe sounds like he may know a thing or two 'bout bumpin' fuzz!
Karastan Rustic Revival Winter Bark residential 12' cut pile stretched and tucked on concrete over Karastan Karastep 9 pound pad which is perimeter glued. The main room is 31' 3" by 20' 9" with a stone fireplace in one corner so there is a 31'3" side seam and an 8'9" T-seam. There is also about a 4'6" side seam where the hall connects and another 30" side seam into a bedroom that I had 'installed' previously. Seams were done with a 6" iron and Orcon tape Most of the existing tack strip was re-usable but I did have to install (glued and nailed) about 70 lineal feet around a new tiled entry (installed last summer) and down the hall which had previously had tile in it. The hall tile was taken out last Friday and the area cleaned up for carpet.
3 new arch top alder doors were installed, one each to the utility room, a bathroom, and my reloading room. Those doors will get trimmed out today and base boards put down. Normally I'd have the base in prior to doing carpet but in this instance went the other way due to the very rough backing on the carpet and the base being a fairly soft wood, Alder.
Lawdy. I don't know nothing 'bout birthin' no...carpets.
Or construction, or cabinets, or tile, or plumbing, or...
But I'm an expert at writing checks.
Yikes! Hope you're feeling better today, Neo.
I got roped into layout some carpet years ago. A club I belonged to had bare wood floors, and we wanted carpet. Haven seen carpet installed a few times I was elected to head up the installation committee. It took a week to get my knee strength back after using the kicker. I never laid any carpet after that. Like Rocky, I could write a check a lot easier.
Joe
Yes sir, you got a workout. Sounds very nice, you'll have to put up some pictures when you get it all done.
Nice, sounds like your reloading room is coming along.....
Kinda... It's kind of a tiny space under some stairs, about 4' wide and 8' long. I'm putting down a tile floor in there and need three more tiles. They're 2'x4' tiles so they cover a lot of ground quick. I had one left over from a previous project so I put it in so I'd have something to tuck the carpet to. The dang things are spendy and right now the shipping would cost more than the tiles.
I'll try and get some pictures put up later today when it's closer to done.
I hate laying carpet. It's heavy. It's rough. It's floppy. And it's on the floor; the furthest point from my eyes it could be without being above me. Mostly I just hate being on my knees all the time. And the up and down when you are 6'3"- 220 sucks asp too so there is that. So, have at it Steve. I ain't doin' it.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I have never laid carpet but I have laid hardwood floors and the last hardwood I laid was about five years ago. Two bedrooms that totaled about 420-450 square feet. When I finished I thought I had actually injured my knee.
Turns out ...... I am just getting old.
I have laid carpet , tile etc many times in the past. Now a days it aint happening . Too fat and too old . Still have all the tools though .
If you are lucky, you reach the age where you have learned to balance the cost of doing it yourself versus what your medical co-pay comes to. As Dirty Harry once said, "A man's gotta know his limitations."
"Well doya punk"?
I used to lay Linoleum, but never got her sister Formica....
I dated sisters once.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Wondered how long that would take. Your name ain't Rastus is it".
All this folks, AND running all the same direction ,with fuzzy side up. Well done Neo
Look, they weren't MY sisters.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Same direction... Wait...
What?