Home Improvement Today?

This room is 39.5' long. Long damn grout joints. The customer is always right.....

 

That kinda makes sense if its supposed to look like a wood floor though

 

I would do the longer planks just to keep the wood floor look. We bought about 10 squares when we did ours to get a rough idea and didn't like the look.

Of course if your grout lines are small it might look good for you. We used 1/8 spacers on ours.

 

For those of you wanting a simple washer and dryer, look at the Roper line made by Whirlpool. Still uses mechanical clock drives for the controls. I've had my set for nearly ten years and I've only had to make two repairs to the washer: one time a wiring harness loosened and burned itself out ($15 part) and the other time the pump seal started leaking ($50 part replaced myself).

 

Bought these about 6 months ago and they do everything but load the laundry....

 

I like it.

 

We had a roper stove in our rental before we remodeled. Basic as shit = awesome.

 

Sort of home improvement related, finally got around to getting new tires for my Toro SandPro. Front wheel was a pain to get off, had to remove the drive motor and pull the axle bearing to get the wheel off.

 

Why do you own a Toro sand pro, those are used for raking bunkers I thought

 

Bunker raking is one of the many functions they serve, mine has a 6' gannon and scarifier teeth attachment. It works great for maintaining fire clearances and doing light grading work. I also added a ball hitch to use for towing a small garden trailer. I purchased it from a neighbor who used to work for a company that built golf courses.

 

Here's the kids riding around in the trailer behind the SandPro a couple years ago.

 

Picked up these six embossed leather chairs today. Late 1800, French Renaissance

 

Put down new 3/4 subflooring and glued it to the joists. Nary a squeak. In the process, cut out the toilet flange/pipe past the elbow in the basement - will replumb after I get the tile down - question: would the flange be better on top of the tile, or should I secure it down to the hardibacker (using hardibacker for the elevation to match the hallway) and tile up to it?

Hung new drywall. Had to cut a new hole in the subfloor for the heating duct on the right side of the picture. The old one got pretty beat up when removing the old subfloor.

Still have to rip some 1/4" subloor fillers for along the wall where the skillsaw couldn't get. Will patch in around the pipes at the vanity and then prep for mudding. You can see here why I decided not to pull down the tile surround for the tub. Re-tiled my upstairs bathroom and decided I will never do that again. In a non-square house, patience is a virtue.

 

The toilet flange should be secured to the subfloor

 

Would I set it to the top of the tile and drill through the tile to secure with screws, or set it flush with the subfloor and build up the floor around it as I add layers?

 

The tile should butt up to the flange , you can add a plywood ring underneath the flange or use a double wax ring , depends on the thickness we're talking about but the flange should not go over the tile

 

Excellent, thanks

 

Just finished installing outside cans on the shop.



Only outside items left are painting 3 man doors and doing a little landscaping around the perimeter

 

I finally got power to my shop and I wired the outdoor outlet today. I also finished the overhead light wiring portion. I need to hang one more light, run a couple wires for about 4 more outlets inside and then the out side light and I should be good to go.

 

This is motivation for my future shop. Looks awesome!