Home improvement (2 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

if you can't match the existing floorboards, you're looking at a total replacement. IIRC she mentioned the room was nearly 10m x 10m.

jaysus.
thats a bigger floor area than a lot of houses!
I'd stick with the chipboard.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Wouldn't you just get new boards ripped to match?
Then stain them all the one way?


Anyone says anything, break out the chipboard story


Of course, I'm basing all of this sight unseen and on 3rd hand info
So I may not have thought of quite everything

 

[ann post]

Is this that cocainey place that was on here recently?

 

[Deadmanposting]

Bump

 

[ernesto]

Wouldn't you just get new boards ripped to match?
Then stain them all the one way?


Anyone says anything, break out the chipboard story


Of course, I'm basing all of this sight unseen and on 3rd hand info
So I may not have thought of quite everything

I'm midway through reflooring my upstairs. Went with 18mm hard plywood.
floorboards are for losers

 

[Deadmanposting]

I'm midway through reflooring my upstairs. Went with 18mm hard plywood.
floorboards are for losers

Plywood is an amazing product. I love it.
And a wonderful subfloor.

I'd rather live with, and look at floorboards than almost any other flooring finish though

 

[magicbastarder]

you can't* make bass guitars out of ply though.

*i'm sure you can.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

you can't* make bass guitars out of ply though.

*i'm sure you can.

Are plywood bodies necessarily a bad thing

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lots of guitars made of plywood in the 80s/90s.. although not always ply in the normal sense

 

[ernesto]

Plywood is an amazing product. I love it.
And a wonderful subfloor.

I'd rather live with, and look at floorboards than almost any other flooring finish though

I'm priming and painting them all so will do as regular floor u man til we bother/can afford to put carpet or engineered flooring upstairs or whatever

 

[the_jen]

I'm priming and painting them all so will do as regular floor u man til we bother/can afford to put carpet or engineered flooring upstairs or whatever

We put down OSB as a subfloor, sanded and varnished it and didn't, eh, surfloor it for years. It wore fairly well (would have survived better upstairs) was lovely underfoot and had a similar look to a cork floor.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Post job clean up. Nothing like a trip to the bring centre in the cold pissing rain,

 

[magicbastarder]

which bring centre took that stuff? collins avenue?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

which bring centre took that stuff? collins avenue?

didn't even know there was one on collins ave?

heading to the mothership in north strand. they take EVERYTHING with a charge

 

[magicbastarder]

yep, directly opposite the main entrance to DCU. i've dropped big cardboard boxes and WEEE stuff there before.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

yep, directly opposite the main entrance to DCU. i've dropped big cardboard boxes and WEEE stuff there before.

good to know - the north strand one can be tricky to get into with the cycle lane chaos on going at the moment

 

[Deadmanposting]

We put down OSB as a subfloor, sanded and varnished it and didn't, eh, surfloor it for years. It wore fairly well (would have survived better upstairs) was lovely underfoot and had a similar look to a cork floor.

Was just gonna say the exact same thing
A clear wearing finish would look great - better than paint anyways

But that's a matter of taste, I suppose

 

[Deadmanposting]

good to know - the north strand one can be tricky to get into with the cycle lane chaos on going at the moment

It is bonkers
Like how much excavation do you need to do for a fucking bus lane?
It seems like massive overkill

 

[magicbastarder]

The reason the works are so extensive is that they're replacing a water main.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

It is bonkers
Like how much excavation do you need to do for a fucking bus lane?
It seems like massive overkill

they've also had to do some serious work along northstrand by the flats there, where they've had to move a retaining wall that's probably been standing the past 100 years or so.

Got in and out ok though today. I timed my run well, being very gentle on the breaks so I didn't get scalped by a flying sheet of cladding.

 

[Deadmanposting]

they've also had to do some serious work along northstrand by the flats there, where they've had to move a retaining wall that's probably been standing the past 100 years or so.

Got in and out ok though today. I timed my run well, being very gentle on the breaks so I didn't get scalped by a flying sheet of cladding.

Just seems like massive overkill for what's basically a bus lane

We can't get out of our own way