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| bio | website | volomike.com |
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| location | Myrtle Beach, SC | |
| age | 45 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
| seen | Oct 29 '12 at 7:17 | |
| stats | profile views | 8 |
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Oct 2 |
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How do I properly jack up one side of my house? Just got off the phone with a home improvement builder. He had never used self-leveler or roofing shingles, but said that was interesting. Instead, he used a system called scribing, which is far easier than cutting angled shims. Scribing is great for large sections of floor, although shimming might be good for final adjustments. Scribing involves cutting long thin strips of pine with a table saw at different heights, but never angled. You then lay these about a foot apart on top of nail glue and nail it down. Then, nailglue it again and tack OSB down on that. |
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Oct 2 |
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How do I properly jack up one side of my house? Yet another technique is fascinating -- they use cheap, low-quality asphalt roofing tiles in layers and then lay another OSB (or hardwood flooring) on top of that. askthebuilder.com/getting-a-new-hardwood-floor-level |
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Oct 2 |
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How do I properly jack up one side of my house? After asking around on the web, it appears that indeed you CAN use self-leveling compound on a plywood floor, but you must prep it first using latex floor primer that you roll on with a roller and then touch up near the walls with a brush. The plywood subfloor must be made leakproof, essentially. Basically -- you can't afford to let the self-leveling compound seep through the floor, creating massive stains on the ceiling below. More info is here: ehow.com/how_7624294_use-leveling-compound-plywood.html |
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Oct 2 |
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Can Hi-rib cementing be used to level a second story floor? What about self-leveling compound, which I assume is a kind of plastic resin and therefore much lighter? (I'm guessing on that, so please let me know as I'm considering something like Mapei Self Leveling Compound.) |
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Oct 2 |
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How do I level an unlevel floor? @MarkD Can this compound be used like an upstairs floor where I pull the carpet up, pull the baseboards up, expose the subfloor, and pour directly on the wood subfloor? Or, would I need to treat the subfloor with a brushed on polyurethane to seal most of the gaps first? |
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Apr 15 |
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Reducing Attic Fire Risk @sharptooth. It's the strangest stuff. I tried to ignite it in a container in my garage. It was resistant to melting at first, but then melted rapidly after the flame got hot enough. It had only weak fumes, no smoke, and never caught fire. It was like it absorbed the fire and put it out. |
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Reducing Attic Fire Risk It was blown poly -- that's all the guy said to me. It's soft to the touch, like cotton, but plastic. Doesn't scratch your fingers like fiberglass. Smells like plastic but only if you hold it up to your nose. I'm thinking of taking some of it out in the backyard and setting it on fire, to see how fast it burns. If it burns super fast, I'm going to have to do something about this. |
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