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FLOOR sa FLOOR -- WOODEN sa FLOOR CARE sa FLOOR COVERING sa FLOOR FINISHING sa FLOOR FRAMING & SHEATHING sa FLOOR INSULATION sa FLOOR PAINTING & STENCILING sa MODEL & MINIATURE FLOOR xx HOUSE Eight pages of photos and ideas on how to dramatize a room by emphasizing the floor. Covers the use of area rugs, sisal carpet, bleaching a hardwood floor, stenciling a pattern on a painted floor, painting a floor with a random "cloud" pattern, painting a "rug" on a floor, laying vinyl tile and covering an entry floor with a grid of dark particle board squares and pine strips. Building a basement sub-floor. How to lay the screeds and install the plywood subfloor. Tip: How to eliminate or reduce the noise of squeaky floors. Eliminating squeaks in your floors. Tips on installing rigid Styrofoam insulation over an existing floor. Flooring with a flair. Investigating available flooring options. Some tips. Preventing interior water damage. Tips on installing plumbing to avoid leaks, building floors to contain leaks, shower curtains, etc. Ten sure ways to silence squeaky floors. Maintenance for midwinter. How to eliminate squeaking floors. How to locate and correct squeaks, cracks and groans in floors. How to silence floor squeaks using rubber-based panel adhesive applied to the underside of the floor at each joist. How to silence squeaky floors. Covers both working from below and working from above. How to fix a sag in a floor that has plywood underlayment. When the sag is caused by the failure in the plywood, article describes how to rout out an area, replace the defective area with a patch, and re-tile the surface. How to get rid of floor squeaks. How to straighten sagging floors and ceilings. How to build stronger and neater with modern construction adhesives. How to insulate block walls, install subflooring, build a deck, etc. using adhesives. Tips on stopping floor squeaks. Tips on eliminating squeaks in subfloor or underlayment. Guide to squeaky floors, their causes and cures. How to level a concrete floor. A method for identifying the low spots and then filling them. Tip on fixing a squeaky floor with construction adhesive. How to silence squeaky floors. Tip on using hot melt glue to fix a squeaky floor. Muffling a floor squeak through carpeted floor. Silence those floor squeaks. A variety of techniques shown. Tip: Correct sagging floor beams (joists) in a 200-year old house by "hanging" them from the rafters. Laying an interior brick floor with mortar. Floor framing. With production techniques and the right materials, a solid, squeakless floor is a day's work. Tip: Build this large T-square "third-hand" for laying tongue-and-groove plywood subfloor sheets. Replacing and/or repairing damaged floor joists. Some tips. Use a small joist block "sistered" to the original joist to quiet squeeks in floors. Tips on using a pourable, self-leveling underlayment to level an old floor. Tip on cutting a retrofit joist for reinforcing a pier-and-beam floor which is easier to insert into place. Advice on alternatives to particleboard subflooring in order to eliminate chemical off-gassing. Tip on installing floor-tightening screws through a small slit cut into a carpet and pad into the joist underneath. How to keep furniture from damaging wood, resilient, and carpeted floors. How to frame floors. Part 1. How to frame floors. Part 2. How to fix sagging and uneven floors. Proper underlayment prevents indentations. Take the sag out of floor joists by fastening a 2x4 across the underside of several joists and then renailing the subfloor. Tip on leveling a floor by starting with the subfloor and using various thickness sheets at various locations to achieve the desired degree of level. Flattening the floor. An easy cure for floors that bow up or dip down is to apply a layer of mortar topped with 1/4" plywood. Tip on silencing squeaky floors by tightening hardwood flooring or subflooring. Fixing a squeaky floor. A few simple repair ideas. Stepping up. Change the design of a room by adding a floor platform to create a multilevel space. Basic construction information included. How to frame a floor over concrete. How to eliminate squeaks in floors and stairs. A short course in engineering. Part 2. Floor systems. ABC's of floor fixups. Repair of sags, squeaks and damaged tiles or linoleum. Tips on installing a jack post to eliminate sagging floors and joists. How to raise the sag without cracking plaster. Building a floor on top of concrete. How to install wooden sleepers, subflooring, vapor barrier and the top surface for various types of floor coverings. How to take the squeaks out of your floors. How to install a new, level bathroom floor over "sleepers" placed on top of the old, uneven floor. How to prop up sagging floors. Using shims, joist "wideners", jack posts, etc. How to correct sagging sills and drooping floors. Describes how to examine a house and suggests solutions to house-settling problems that an amateur can tackle. Nine clever fixes to silence a squeaky floor. How to stiffen sagging floors in an old house. A review of some of the major structural ailments that can afflict old house floors and what can be done to correct them. Part 1. Methods for stiffening floors that can be worked on from the cellar. How to stiffen sagging floors in an old house. A review of some of the major structural ailments that can afflict old house floors and what can be done to correct them. Part 2. How to correct problems on upper stories and techniues for repairing flatboards. Plugging cracks between floorboards using felt roll weather stripping. Fixing old floors. Part 1. How to deal with sagging, sloping, squeaking old floors. Fixing old floors. Part 2. Construction types and sub-floor repairs. Includes the use of jack posts to eliminate sags in floor. Fixing old floors. Part 3. Repairing and replacing floorboards. Tip on removing squeaks from wood floors by eliminating spaces between finish floorboards and the subfloor. The bare facts about early floors. Looks at floorboards, painted floors, coverings, carpets and rugs. Repairing antique floors. Includes instructions for making a patch plug (dutchman). How to lay masonry floors (brick, slate, flagstone, marble, etc.). How to install underlayment. How to silence squeaky floors. Tip: How to correct sagging joists by temporarily leveling them and installing a new joist. Tip: How to add underlayment to a subfloor of ordinary boards (not tongue-and-groove) in order to eliminate severe squeeking. Underlayment, the key to all floor covering projects. Tip on installing and repairing underlayment. Tip: Use sand to locate joist locations before drilling holes in a floor. Practical way to insulate a concrete slab floor. Add furring strips, two layers of rigid foam insulation, subfloor, and floor covering. How to locate the source of squeaky floors and silence them. Some tips. SPECIAL SECTION on house renovation and home improvement. Features the best from public TV's "This Old House" series. Projects covered include (1) leveling a floor, (2) raising a stud wall, (3) converting a garage, and (4) building a deck. Silencing squeaky floors and stairs. Several easy solutions are illustrated. How to take squeaks out of a floor. Simple tips for fixing squeaky, warped, cracked, and rotten floor boards. Tip: Floor construction uses a series of rebated stringers into the floor joists in order to eliminate squeaks and increase rigidity. Correcting floor squeaks from surface with glue. Using foam plastic and tongue-and-groove plywood decking to convert cement slab in garage to warm, dry, resilient floor for converted living area. How to cover a sweating concrete slab with a plywood sub-floor. How to stop squeaky floors. Tips on finding and fixing causes of floor squeak. | |||||||||
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