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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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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