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Alt.Home.Repair - Home Improvement Usenet Group
Alt.Home.Repair is a worldwide Usenet news group that is used to discuss various aspects of Home Improvement.
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choice of finish for covered (but not enclosed) porch floor [5 articles]
kansascats - 2009-12-01 12:48:00 [In: Flooring | Painting Finishing & Wall Coverings | Porches & Sunrooms | ]
I have a wrap-around porch that's covered, but not enclosed. It's
T&G. We get about 40 inches of rain a year. The existing paint is
peeling along the outside (most exposure to elements) and ri...
Looking For Discontinued Tile - Westminster F100 [10 articles]
Larry B. - 2010-11-22 16:12:00 [In: Flooring | Windows & Doors | ]
F100- Bright White Glossy 4"
Well, wasn't I surprised to go looking for some replacement tiles and find
that they had shuttered their doors in 2008.
Is there a cottage industry in discontinu...ICE MAKER ---> No Water - No Ice????? [9 articles]
We have a fairly new Roper fridge and we just finished tiling the kitchen. While we were working on the kitchen we had rolled the fridge in the dining room and had it running but no water hooked up...Dual-saw [7 articles]
Have seen that 'Dual-saw' advertised on TV. Lots of questions! Any good? Specialised uses? Under powered? May be worm drive? Seems expensive, for what it is, (around $180) as advertised on TV? ...Water and house exterior [9 articles]
tom_sawyer70@yahoo.com - 2009-12-04 11:54:00 [In: Budget & Money Saving Tips | Flooring | Foundations & Excavation | Walls & Ceilings | ]
We live in a tri-level house that has a apparently has a crack or
issue somewhere in the front of the house. When we get an inch or
more rain in a 24 hour period, we get water build up somewhere be...Sealing Tile Grout [11 articles]
Dottie - 2010-01-30 01:41:00 [In: Flooring | ]
My ceramic tile looks o.k. but the grout is very dirty. I remember
when it was laid, the man said he wasn't sealing the grout for some
reason. I didn't questions it - now I wish I had. I am think...Laundry Floor Replacement [4 articles]
Our laundry rooom floor has that 1-inch square ceramic tile glued to plywood. It's over a crawlspace, if that matters. The little squares are coming lose in a couple of the high-traffic areas but th...Patio Door Installed Incorrectly -- Need A Fix [14 articles]
jim evans - 2009-12-12 09:00:00 [In: Decks & Patios | Flooring | Plumbing & Water Supply | Windows & Doors | ]
As I understand it my patio doors were supposed to be installed on a
step down cut into the slab so it wouldn't leak water into the house.
They weren't and I have four of them. Whatever the reason ...Laminate Over /\/\/\ WAVY /\/\/\ Concrete?????????????? [12 articles]
We are in process of remodeling our 25 year old Florida home and don't care to have any carpeting, so we're looking at laminate flooring. We have found some wavy spots in the concrete where there v...OT: Parking lots reveal patrons [31 articles]
Some may recall that I've been approached twice in Home Depot parking lots by what I though were would-be muggers. After I unholstered my gun they both came up with complicated but believable excu...Pergo End Joints????? [7 articles]
We just laid our first of five rooms of Pergo in one of our spare bedrooms and prior to installing, we did cement floor leveling as there were some "waves" in the room which helped a lot and we used...Pergo Questions??????????????? [20 articles]
infiniteMPG - 2009-12-23 18:27:00 [In: Flooring | Windows & Doors | ]
We're about to do 5 rooms of Pergo in the house and have a few
questions. We have the first room about ready to go, did self
leveling floor coating and all cleaned. Have the vapor barrier all
rea...Laying carpet [22 articles]
stryped - 2009-12-23 15:57:00 [In: Flooring | ]
My wife is complaining that our 12 year old carpet int he house needs
ot be replaced. I am a do it yourselfer and wondered how hard this
would be to do myself working one room at a time?
...Installing Hardwood floor over existing Older Doug Fir T&G Floor [13 articles]
scungio - 2009-12-22 10:52:00 [In: Flooring | ]
Is it possible to install a new Hardwood floor over an old Hardwood Doug
Fir T&G
floor from the fifties. Do you need to put plywood down first and if so
how thick
should it be.For the most par...Construction of sprung dance floor? [22 articles]
I dance 3 or 4 nights a week on the Willowbrook Ballroom dance floor. It is a 6200 square foot bare maple floor constructed in the early 1920's. It has had dancers on it continuously since then dan...