Wood look tile for new build in colder climate??!
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Comments (21)Jeff, First let me tell you what a SC is suppose to do. The bottom drain is collect and remove any debri that is in the pond that is heavier than water. This heavier than water debri is moved to the SC where it is suppose to settle to the bottom of the chamber where it can be removed. They are normally setup so that the water comes into a round sc at an angle so that the water moves around the outside of the chamber until the debri falls out of the column of water. The reason for letting the debri settling out instead of removing it with a basket in front of a pump. If the debri gets into the pump will break up some types of debri. The main type of debri wanting to be removed this way is solid waste from the fish. By removing the solid waste this way the bacteria in the filter doesn't have to break down debri. This is way they are suppose to work but most do not. Most do settle debri out but not the debri that we are trying to remove. This debri is very close to the same weight as water. It is very fragile and had to see. The only way to remove this debri is for the water to move very slowly and for a long time before leaving the sc. If the water moving through the piping to the sc is moving to fast it will break this debri up. If the water is moving too fast in the sc it will not settle out. If the outside walls of the sc are not smooth they break this debri up. The shortest period of time that the water should be in the sc is 20 minutes. The water has to move from the bottom drain to the sc needs to move by gravity. As an example if the sc is 200 gallon then the max flow to the sc is 600 gph. With this flow rate then the drain is only going to remove debri from a very small area. Moving water through it faster than that the heavier debri will settle out and it will look like the chamber is working great but this is the same debri that a pump basket would catch just fine. If I had to guess I would somewhere over 90% of the sc's are not doing what they are suppose to do. This is why I seldom use settling chambers. To get an sc to work correctly then the best way is to build the pond to be a sc so that the drain can remove it from a very short distance from the drain. But this leads to other problems. Mike...See MoreNew Dawn for colder zone
Comments (48)Glad your ND is doing well, JJpeace. You're kind to call my replacement rate perseverance, when many times it's just plain forgetfulness (or willful ignorance of the facts). This year for instance, I replaced Crescendo in J&P's $9.99 rose sale when I meant to replace Catalina - Crescendo is doing just fine. Ah well, I have different microclimates in the yard and roses do better in some spots than others. I've had roses die in my ultra-protected sunny zone 6 spot (Remember Me, Oklahoma, Royal Parks) that do quite well in other more shaded or harsher spots of the yard. Most are the reverse, which is why my hot sun spots are getting really crowded. Part of the reason I replaced Blue Moon so often was that I insisted my lavender bed was going to be in part shade to protect the color, but since lavenders are wimpy roses they really need to be in full blazing sun to survive my zone. Live and learn! Patty, I meant to say that your kind offer was welcome but I've about decided that New Dawn is too much of a monster to put the effort into for my yard, and three tries is enough for me. Steve's comment that it would take extra time to establish is that much more of a reason to pass on this one, unless a ND happens to drop into my lap like a free one I got a few years ago. There are other climbers I like more. Glad GT has survived well for you JJ, and I've found that experimenting with grafted or not, or different beds can really make a difference in rose survival. Freak deaths once or twice aren't necessarily enough to put me off a rose (yet). Cynthia...See MoreTile dilemma in new build - flummoxed
Comments (79)You don't have to grind down concrete unless it's really bad. Instead, there are liquid self-leveling products that can be poured on that harden dead flat...but you need to know what you are doing. And they are only good to level 1/4" or less. Ask me how I know. (crying)...See MoreMake new wood floor look old? Wide plank wood floor.
Comments (22)We lived in Florida. Wood moves with the seasons, so glue would not allow the movement. Since we laid the floors ourselves in 1997, am working from memory here. We had plywood subfloor down then stacked the flooring in the air conditioned house for several weeks. We face nailed only. I really wanted an antique look and we used cut nails. All those are hammered in by hand. After all the flooring was installed, I mixed two colors of MinWax stains, Puritan Pine and one other ( memory fails me) in a one gallon paint can (new empty cans are sold by paint stores and Lowe’s) so my color would be consistent. No one else can be in the house for over a week while the staining and oiling are being done. Authentic Pine Floors gave me a formula for the finish I mixed in another unused gallon paint can, but I think I would use straight tung oil now. Tung oil must have five or six applications with sufficient drying time between coats. This cannot be rushed. We used tung oil on the cherry floors we laid two years ago in the kitchen of our current house and love it. Our Florida house had carpet upstairs for noise control, so I estimate we had over 2000 square feet of pine floors. My sister used the same material for her house in the Midwest 16 years ago and the floors are still beautiful. My daughter has about 3000 square feet of the same flooring, finished the same way. We all have dogs and active lives. Some people age their floors by dropping chains onto the surface, spreading sharp gravel on the floor and walking around with work boots to scratch the floors, or you can (with extreme caution) roll burning logs onto the hearth area to put a few scorch marks. Then stain and oil the floors. We did none of that at any of our three houses, preferring to let the floors show our history. All wood moves with humidity. It is not much, though. It certainly is not huge gaps....See MoreJAN MOYER
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