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    Favorite Childhood Toy

    Got to be the GI Joe action figures. Man, we played with them non-stop, whether it was war, football, whatever. I had an army jeep they fit into, and we crashed it, blew them up, all the cool little boy army figure stuff. Good times!
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    need a little advice on floor tiling

    Linoleum is not an adequate subfloor for ceramic tile. You need a rock solid base to prevent cracking and grout crumbling. Your best bet is to lay a 3/4" plywood subfloor right over the top of the existing linoleum. Sure, it will raise the floor, but you use a marble or oak saddle at the...
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    Removing Old Flooring in Half Bath

    Impossible to tell what is the subfloor. But from the picture, you basically have a vinyl roll goods floor installed with black emulsion ashesive over the wood subfloor. The pattern is actually a very thin layer of vinyl, the white in the picture is the backing to the flooring, and the black...
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    Drywalling a basement, Outlets and Bulkheads.

    I cna't tell you how many times I hear that "if you drywall your basment ceiling and you have a problem, it's hard to get to it".....but look at the difference between a drywalled ceiling and a drop ceiling! I've done three basements in my time, and the last two I've used drywall on the...
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