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About Me:
Homemaker, almost empty nester, grandmother, mother, doglover, part-time job, wife, gardener
Favorite area of home improvement:
painting and re organizing some rooms, our garden around the house,
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The Fun Part
After 5 days of sanding, I finally get to see the beauty that can come from doing proper prep.
This is a Red Oak Floor refinish for a client of mine. These pics shows the main living ...»
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CommentedThat looks great! Hopefully I will end up with something like that.
Flooring: Do I need underlayment, when installing new wooden floor over old
I want to install a new floating engineered hardwood floor over an existing hardwood floor. Do I have put down underlayment in between?
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CommentedWell, thanks to every bodies advice we have decided against the floating engineered wooden ...»
Home Maintenance & Repairs: How do I protect painted floors?
We recently painted over our worn hardwood floors in the house, because we could not effort to have them refinished. We used a good porch and patio floor paint from BEHR, two coats in a walnut brown. It looks very good, however, it is so sensitive to scratches, scuffs and dirt. You see every footprint! If I wipe it with a moist rag, you even see the wipe! (It says its not supposed to get washed until it cures after 4 weeks). Is there anything I can do to protect the floor and make it
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CommentedThank you for your help. We have decided to go ahead and lay a new wood floor on top of it.
My Proudest DIY?
I've done a lot of projects I loved but I chose my DIY Greenhouse for this weeks #ProudestDIY topic because this is the one that
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: Do we need a new furnace?
Our furnace has been going out a few times over the last few weeks. The plumber told us after the first visit, that it wasa bad sensor. But then it happened again and we were told that if
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CommentedI changed my mind about getting a new furnace. Just can't afford it right now. The furnace ...»
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Commentedwow! I love the shower curtain you made!!
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Heating & Cooling: Cover or keep old whole-house fan?
I have a question: does it make sense to have a whole-house fan, the ones that are in the ceiling in a home, when you have air-conditioning .. or is it just a big cool-air leaking hole,
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CommentedWe actually only have a tiny crawl space up there, so it will probably be hard. But I will ...»