Comments on: Signing My Life Away http://deanish.com/posts/signing-my-life-away Re/views on life, music, movies, games, politics, technology, the internet, and more. By Dean E Nelson. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Dean http://deanish.com/posts/signing-my-life-away#comment-2490 Dean Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:33:23 +0000 http://deanish.com/posts/signing-my-life-away#comment-2490 Michael, your wisdom is much appreciated. Wanna come over and help put it in? ;) jk - you guys really should come over though, it'd be great to hang out with yas... <small>with Alice Cooper...</small> Michael, your wisdom is much appreciated. Wanna come over and help put it in? ;) jk - you guys really should come over though, it’d be great to hang out with yas… with Alice Cooper…

]]> By: Michael http://deanish.com/posts/signing-my-life-away#comment-2489 Michael Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:02:48 +0000 http://deanish.com/posts/signing-my-life-away#comment-2489 Dean, I just wanted to let you two know that if you go with carpet, it's pretty easy to put in. It's a bit more complex than this, but the general idea is that you get the floor bare beneath then staple down carpet padding. The cheap padding is less than $1 per square yd. and the more expensive is somewhere around $2.50 per square yd. (I haven't looked at prices since we did it for Takara's room when Rochelle was pregnant though). After that you put down carpet tac strips which are nasty pieces of wood you hammer into the floor around the edges of the room but the parts that are sticking up have lots and lots of spikes that are angled towards the walls. Finally you put the carpet edges onto these spikes and stretch the carpet so that when you have it all it there's no "bubbles." Obviously it's stretched because you're hooking to to spikes along [at least] 4 walls. Home Depot sells a DIY kit for putting the carpet in. One warning though, the tool used most is called a knee-kicker. Basically it grips the carpet edges and has a pad that you slam your knee into so the carpet is set as close to the wall as possible. It makes the job infinately easier but if you're not wearing a knee pad you'll have a really nasty bruise the next day...if you ARE wearing a knee pad you just won't be able to feel your knee for a while. Enjoy! (P.S. carpet will help keep the place warmer too, so I'd suggest carpet for common areas and bedrooms and for high traffic areas throw down a couple rugs also, like in the hallways and living room.) Dean, I just wanted to let you two know that if you go with carpet, it’s pretty easy to put in. It’s a bit more complex than this, but the general idea is that you get the floor bare beneath then staple down carpet padding. The cheap padding is less than $1 per square yd. and the more expensive is somewhere around $2.50 per square yd. (I haven’t looked at prices since we did it for Takara’s room when Rochelle was pregnant though). After that you put down carpet tac strips which are nasty pieces of wood you hammer into the floor around the edges of the room but the parts that are sticking up have lots and lots of spikes that are angled towards the walls. Finally you put the carpet edges onto these spikes and stretch the carpet so that when you have it all it there’s no “bubbles.” Obviously it’s stretched because you’re hooking to to spikes along [at least] 4 walls. Home Depot sells a DIY kit for putting the carpet in. One warning though, the tool used most is called a knee-kicker. Basically it grips the carpet edges and has a pad that you slam your knee into so the carpet is set as close to the wall as possible. It makes the job infinately easier but if you’re not wearing a knee pad you’ll have a really nasty bruise the next day…if you ARE wearing a knee pad you just won’t be able to feel your knee for a while. Enjoy! (P.S. carpet will help keep the place warmer too, so I’d suggest carpet for common areas and bedrooms and for high traffic areas throw down a couple rugs also, like in the hallways and living room.)

]]> By: Kristian http://deanish.com/posts/signing-my-life-away#comment-2464 Kristian Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:02:45 +0000 http://deanish.com/posts/signing-my-life-away#comment-2464 We have that exact laminate flooring in our bedroom and in our basement. It is high quality stuff, but, it just doesn't feel solid. It almost feels like you are walking on air at some points. I have a box of the stuff too. You can come check it out and walk on it and see what it looks like and how it goes together. When we moved to Camas, it was VERY tough on Claire to move away from her friends and school. It is just nice to know that she is now in a place that she will graduate with the kids she starts Kindergarten with next year. Same for you guys too, I am sure. :) We have that exact laminate flooring in our bedroom and in our basement. It is high quality stuff, but, it just doesn’t feel solid. It almost feels like you are walking on air at some points. I have a box of the stuff too. You can come check it out and walk on it and see what it looks like and how it goes together.

When we moved to Camas, it was VERY tough on Claire to move away from her friends and school. It is just nice to know that she is now in a place that she will graduate with the kids she starts Kindergarten with next year. Same for you guys too, I am sure. :)

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