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!
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...
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...
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...