Home Improvement

There was definitely a huge difference when I picked out stuff for my remodel. Like lurker said though not just price. Was important to pick a color, design, style combination that all went with the room so that it looked more natural and didn’t stand out as fake. A lot of natural light made some of it sheen and look plastic, some of it was way too uniform in their “natural” style. I liked what I picked but probably would do it differently in this new house. The feeling under foot, barefoot and with shoes, was just strange.

lurkingdirk said:

Installed some vinyl plank flooring for a friend today. I had never worked with that stuff, it's super easy and nice to work with. Easy to cut, lays down fast. I did almost 800 square feet in a short day.

Now, all that said, I think it is ugly. Doesn't look amazing, but there are certainly places for it. This was in a basement in a room full of exercise equipment. It doesn't have to be cozy. And the basement has flooded twice. We're pretty sure that's fixed now, but no sense putting carpet back in until you're sure, and this guy found the stuff at a Habitat Re-Store. Super cheap, looks better than bare concrete, done in a day.

I've done other click-install, floating floors, but never vinyl. Others have thoughts on it?

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I mean pergo stuff is meh but for his application why spend money on something like wood floors? For a basement exercise room I’d be most concerned about how well the material will hold up. Consider that + looks + price would be my deciding factors.

Dunno how well that vinyl stuff does but come back in maybe 8 months and update us for curiousity’s sake.

BrutulTM said:

My whole upstairs is vinyl plank. I love it. Dogs can't do shit to it, don't worry if I spill water on it, fairly easy to install. What's not to like?

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I do like the idea of water not affecting it. I’ve seen wood floors that have warped due to water spills that weren’t caught.

Got new gutters two days ago. Having them piped to underground drainage on monday. Pretty stoked. House really needed it to get that pooling water away.

I had two masonry contractors come to take a look at the cracking on the house. The majority of the cinderblock cracking seems aesthetic. Some definitely needs to be grinder out and remortared. One guy seemed to think only the bigger cracks warranted remortaring and told me to just paint over smaller cracks.

Other guy was much more thorough taking pics of every crack and wants to remortar all of them. Not sure how that’ll look for cinderblocks where crack is in the actual block… I tried to get across that I need these patches to look unnoticeable texture wise (house will be repainted).

What do you guys think? Do small cracks in cinderblock need remortaring or just paint?

Here are some pics of smaller cracks to give you an idea.