Prepping stairs for new hardwood, Need help
Miranda Keller
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Painting Oak Staircase...Need Prep Help!
Comments (5)y'know, really don't take this the wrong way, but why are you doing the prep ?; for a decorative painter in the business of having the homeowner do the prep and coming in behind someone else doing the most important part of a job and then use products over someone else's pre work, tisk-tisk. Really, I am not trying to be rude, but personally I would never have a homeowner do that part of the job and then we come right behind something maybe blind sided. don't know maybe that was what the bid called for. ntl- I would use the soft contouring 3m sanding pads. They work great of things like this. They are thin and conform to your hand. also whizz makes a curved roller just for curves and spindles. good luck....See MoreNeed help with curved staircase in my new house
Comments (18)"the marketplace constantly telling tradespeople how little they are valued....Oh, sure, everyone loves us now, but just wait until the economy slows again. We're the first to go and the last to be rehired." Sorry to the OP for going OT, but I can't let Joseph Corlett's pity party go unchecked. During the recession, people lost their livelihoods, their life savings, their homes, they had to pull their kids from school, they became homeless, they couldn't feed their families, they couldn't pay for needed medicines or medical treatments. And in all that sadness, a person may buy a $4.00 eyeliner (to use your nonsensical analogy) because that little gift was the small shining moment that they could afford. So no, Joe, they couldn't hire you to install new kitchen counters during the Great Recession. How egocentric are you? Millions of people lost jobs of all kinds, and you somehow translate that into "the market" telling tradespeople they aren't valued....See MorePrepping an area for constructing new home. Need some help please.
Comments (10)Talk to your excavator, they should be the only trailer besides backfill, and they can unload at the street or if you already have the drive installed, they can back in. Only thing helpful at the pad location would be a turnaround, that just depends on your soil type if you're not dumping gravel for that. If you have a basement or sloping site needing graded, the bucket or blade will be tracks so the pad condition isn't important. If just a slab on grade it'll probably be a backhoe so soft spots filled and stumps ground around the pad perimeter. Concrete and delivery trucks after that are probably all tandem axles so they're used to 3-point turns. For a well rig can't run a construction entrance to where that will probably be....See MoreNeed help with stairs in new home.
Comments (1)I used LVP on my basement stairs I love them and IMO the laminste should have stairnosing to match and i think a muchb better choice than trying to match the color with real wood....See MoreMiranda Keller
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