Firebush looks horrible!!
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My new marble hexagon's look horrible- please help
Comments (24)There is no license needed to install tile. It appears that your installer had little experience with marble installations. When installing marble or Limestone tile ALWAYS: 1.Before grouting, on a very clean and dry floor, apply a grout release or a first coat of sealer onto the tile to make it easier to clean off the grout. Use only clean water to rinse the flooring. Note use a penetrating sealer and if you don't want the color of your stone to darken, do not use color enhancing sealer! 2. ALWAYS USE UNSANDED GROUT. Sanded grout can scratch the surface of your stone. 3.After grouting and a day or two to allow the grout to dry. Make sure the surface of the marble is clean and apply a final coat of sealer. 4.DO NOT use a haze remover that is acidic only use one that is specified for marble floors. Acid will etch the surface of the marble and ruin it. 5. CLEANING , use stone soap which can be purchased at most big box hardware stores or tile suppliers or water and mop with a damp mop. Rinse your mop frequently and change the water often as the dirt in the water can get into the grout and/or scratch a polished marble surface. I do hope that your tile problem has been resolved. There is nothing prettier than natural stone for flooring....See MoreHelp fix this roof looks horrible did not turn out like plan
Comments (34)Momto2boys, maybe it's been addressed, but if seeing the apex of the clipped gable rising above the roofline is what's bothering you, raise the grade in the area where it does that as one approaches the house. This will alter the angle of your sight line and drop the apex below the roof line. All you need is inches, so it could be done extremely subtlely, or you could conceivably even create a graceful separation between front garden and street by creating a path approaching between two gentle berms, and raised a little itself as it courses through. Another outside option, one that can fix far larger problems than this, is to strategically place a beautiful tree or trees. There are few front yards so lovely, and very few houses so beautiful, that they wouldn't benefit from this. Perspective can be your friend, helpful in a whole bunch of ways. :)...See MoreWhite vinyl windows look horrible with dark stained trim
Comments (21)Its not love of "all" wood. Its love of desireable high quality old growth wood that you generally find in old vintage houses. Not always, but usually. This is wood that was harvested from old growth forests that used to blanket north America up til the early 1900s - yellow pine, chestnut, oak, etc. This wood is vastly superior to the modern lumber of today - which because of growth accelerants is splintery and of poor quality. Old growth wood is very dense, hard as nails, and has a beautiful tight grain. Because wood was so plentiful then, they used the best and most beautiful knot-free pieces for floors and trim. If you doubt the value of old growth wood, look at prices in an architectural salvage place. If its "too dark" then its not the woods fault, its the old shellac which darkens over time. So then just remove it and put on a light finish. I hope this gives you some insight about why some of us are so passionate about this. No, painting is not the end of the world - if you do it over shellac as described above so that it is reversible. I would just ask "why," since OP didnt say he disliked the wood - it was the vinyl inserts that were the problem. i should have said in my reply that instead of spending time and money on paint or special custom shades you can get wood sash inserts that fit in an old window frame without removing the trim, so it looks pretty much like the original window. Lower cost too than yanking out and replacing entire window....See Moreengineered wood floor look horrible...
Comments (8)OK...so the details are easy to find for this floor. Total Thickness: 5/8" (decent thickness) Wear Layer thickness: 4mm (decent thickness) Appearance: Wire Brushed and smoked Finish: UV cured polyurethane with carbide infusion for scratch resistance Right. So now we know what you are living with. The humidity is still an issue until we know what the humidity is sitting at. The instructions to the homeowner clearly states: https://pantimhardwoodflooring.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/instruction.3-ply_Generic-604.22-50y.pdf "...care should be taken to control humidity levels within the 35–60% and 60°–75° Fahrenheit temperature range." We see the issues you are complaining of when a floor becomes too dry. If your home is sitting in the LOWER range (35%-39%) then POP IT UP to 45%. We need to get this wood into it's Happy-Happy Range. It is also possible the installation time was quite HUMID (4 months ago = July). Summer is the WET time of the year (re: indoor humidity levels). It is entirely possible your floor was installed when the humidity was in the UPPER RANGE (like 60%). Now that it is winter time which is the dry time of the year, your home might still be inside the 'range' but that means the humidity could be as low as 35%. That's a loss of 25% humidity. Wood doesn't like that big of a SWING. Wood can handle a swing of (roughly) 10%. That means if the floor was installed at 60% humidity (as an example) then the LOWEST you would want it to get is 50% humidity. The other issue which is probably 'helping' this floor become the way it is = wire brush finish. Wire brush ADDS texture. That is to say it GOUGES OUT wood (the soft wood between the grain) to give it that 'worn' or 'rustic' look. This texture (stress...they stressed out the wood in the factory) then allows for a more fragile floor. This fragility is not to say the floor would deteriorate the way it is. It should not. So long as the INTERIOR living conditions are maintained in the Happy-Happy range for the entirety of the floors life in the house (25-100 years). Please let us know your indoor humidity/temperature readings RIGHT NOW. And please let us know how this floor was installed. How long was it allowed to acclimate before it was installed? Do you remember the type of weather that was happening around the time the floor was installed?...See Moremanature
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16 years agoI have two Firebushes near our fence in the backyard. One wasn't doing so well last year so I cut it back quite a bit. Here's a picture of it this year. It bounced back and then some. It seems to be my wildlife magnet at the moment. I've got a couple of bumble bees on it every morning, birds, butterflies...you name it :)
Hopefully if you cut it back, it'll flourish next year.
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