Recent content by mackconsult

Its all dry and no delaminated carpet. Next is to get some padding for free on craigslist, buy new tack strips, and then rent a knee carpet installer. Should be back in shape by end of the weekend :beer:

Well I went ahead and pulled the carpet up, and cut out as much foam padding as possible. Then I rented two carpet dryers from parkrose hardware and propped the carpet up with a cutting board. Will let these fans run for 24 hours and see were we are at. The sub floor looks fine at least.

Xmas eve morning my wife calls me and says the carpet is wet in our closets of the master bed room. My first instruction was to have her go turn the water main off. I got home about 2 pm and saw that yes the carpets in the closets was all wet, but the sheet-rock looked fine around the area. I...

Know that I have decided to sell my house and move to a bigger home. I need to put a new roof on. It has its original first roof, and hoping I can just buy composite shingles and put a new roof on. There are no leaks currently. Any comments on this? I was a roofer in past life but that...

So I just got back from the house after a licensed/experienced contractor took a look at my house. $100/ft @ 800 ft^2. He said that he would do it if I wanted to do it, but did not recommend it. $80,000 to add 800 ft^2 does not make good financial sense to me. Walls would have to be torn...

I like that. This would be done in the summer time, which is usually very dry here July - September.

I don't know why it would be difficult. The second story addition outer walls would line up with all four walls of the existing implementation. House is 2x6, and getting into the garage (probably currently 2x4) and adding 2x6 wouldn't be to bad. Besides having to re-sheet rock. 1) My wife...

In the early stages of this .... and just joined this forum. So I will take the time to do some searching, so if folks don't want to comment "no worries". We live in a 1500 ft^2 single level home here in Vancouver, WA (a suburb of Portland, OR). 3 bedroom, 2 bath, T configuration, with a...