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  1. M

    Need Advice on Plywood and Underlayment Choices for 1967 Kitchen Reno with Ceramic Tile Installation

    Hello everyone, I'm in the process of renovating my kitchen, which is on the first floor of a house built in 1967. After removing the old vinyl tile, I found a layer of 3/4" plywood followed by a paper barrier and then a plank floor with tongue and groove. I've decided to replace the 3/4"...
  2. Z

    Old 1950s half bathroom floor help

    My diy half-bathroom project isn’t going the way I had planned. First, it was the rock lath wall. And now this: looks like the used cement to do the floor and the pipe is sticking out. I’m not even sure what that pipe is for. Am I way over my head? Is it possible to DIY this? Im thinking new...
  3. J

    How do you remove asbestos when you're broke?

    I know the most popular answer might be "You don't", but there is a multi-layered flooring debacle (squeaking, groaning and possibly rot) going on in our kitchen and I wanted to know if there are any leads or insights on how to remove asbestos (bottom layer above subfloor) without paying 20k...
  4. Frank

    Where the floor meets the wall!

    I had to do some sheetrock work beneath my window and when I pulled the baseboard off I noticed that there were different size gaps in the flooring of the wood and I can feel cold air coming through different spots from underneath the house which is a crawl space. I was wondering what could I...
  5. K

    Reclaimed Wood - Your Opinion Of Our Project Please!

    Hi everybody, we are currently in the middle of a basement renovation. We had originally shown our contractor this picture ... Unnamed by kilg0retr0ut posted Mar 5, 2020 at 10:17 AM ... as our idea for the floor. We were told this is "reclaimed wood" and when it was originally installed it...
  6. A

    Asbestos under wood tiles?

    Hey everyone. So I was helping a friend dig up an old wooden parquet style floor in a foreclose he bought. The house was built in 1966. While digging up the wood panels a lot of dust was in the air, and thinking it was just concrete I didn't have a ventilator. Does anyone know if they use to put...
  7. A

    Asbestos in concrete?

    Hey all. I was helping a friend dig up an old wooden parquet style floor in a foreclose he bought. The house was built in 1966. While digging up the wood panels a lot of dust was in the air, and thinking it was just concrete I didn't have a ventilator. Does anyone know if they use to put...
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