Recent content by psych1

I have also used stripper and a heat gun. Can be done in place, but you need a lot of ventilation to do it safely. I would argue that it is worth saving the old moulding. For one thing, the grain is often different than new oak (I don't recall the terms or definitions, but something about...

:eek: wow that must be a complex job. I would have guessed you could do it in oak for that ;) I agree that it would be worth doing the rockwool as an initial step. Wuzzat, are you reccomending cellulose? I hadn't thought of that, but it is pretty dense and soundproof as well.

you may get some small benefit from filling the cavity with rockwool, but probably not a huge one. The kind of sound you are getting floor to floor is different than what you get from outside. Most of it is probably from direct impact on the floor above and so is transmitted by vibration of...

One suggestion I would make is to not call yourself a "flipper" that smacks of someone out to make a quick buck with the minimal investment of time, effort and materials. Not someone I would buy a house from. It is the "flipper" mentality (The derivatives market is based on "flipping"...

I've got about 200 square feet of old linoleum I just tore up which suggests you are wrong. BTW after spending several hours scraping the black stuff up, I spilled some water on it and found it to be water soluble and therefore easily wiped off. I should note that I was very careful in the...