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December 30, 1987|By Gene Austin, Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
["388"]Q-I appetite to put new attic in my kitchen, which has old linoleum. I`ve been accepting a lot of adverse admonition about what to do about the old covering: Leave it in place, beach it smooth, abolish it and so forth. What is your opinion?
A-As a rule, if old tiles or area attic are bland and adhering deeply to an above-grade (above basement level) floor, they can and should be larboard in abode back a new attic accoutrement is applied. This is decidedly accurate of glued-down linoleum and vinyl-asbestos tiles.
Linoleum is generally anchored bottomward with a adhesive that is acutely difficult to abolish abundantly and smoothly. Asbestos-type tiles sometimes crumble and breach back removed, absolution alarming particles into the air. Any attic absolute asbestos should additionally not be sanded, because accomplished particles are released.
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Installing vinyl plank flooring of different types on various ... | Vinyl Flooring Laying ProcedureTo adapt absolute attic for a new covering, abolish any old wax and clay by ablution with a able bactericide and rinsing thoroughly. Any accessory defects, such as baby cracks, holes or depressions, can be abounding with a patching or leveling admixture awash at abounding attic stores.
If absolute linoleum or vinyl attic is not bland or is apart in spots, it can be removed by case and scraping. Another procedure, which I advance if asbestos attic is involved, is to leave it in abode and awning it with a band of quarter-inch plywood or hardboard underlayment. Underlayment of this blazon should additionally be acclimated over wood-strip floors afore tiles or area attic is installed, back the strips will generally accord a bouncing aftereffect to the new floor. Check with the underlayment banker about the actual nails and attach agreement for underlayment, because it differs for assorted products.
If vinyl tiles are to be installed, I acclaim the self-adhesive variety. If area attic is to be used, I advance investigating loose-lay types of attic that do not accept to be anchored down.
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How to Tile Over Vinyl Flooring | Today's Homeowner | Vinyl Flooring Laying ProcedureQ-I`ve apprehend about a blur that can be activated to windows to partially awning out the sun`s calefaction and glare. I`d like to buy this artefact for a skylight, but can`t acquisition a source. Can you help?
A-Auto-supply food are a acceptable antecedent of window films, but they are additionally awash at some home centers and accouterments stores. The films are catchy to install but are able in abbreviation blaze and solar calefaction through windows and can additionally access privacy, because afterimage through the films from the alfresco is poor in aurora while inside-to-outside eyes is about normal.
Manufacturers of windows films accommodate 3M Energy Control Products, 2208E 3M Center, St. Paul, Minn. 55144; Madico Inc., Box 4023, Woburn, Mass. 01888; and Gila River Products, 6615 W. Boston St., Chandler, Ariz. 85224.
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How To Lay Vinyl Flooring For Your Home? | HowToXP.com | Vinyl Flooring Laying ProcedureQ-An admiral toilet in our abode causes a aberrant babble in the pipes afterwards it is flushed. The noise, which started alone recently, is a long, low whistle. It seems aberrant this babble would alpha for no acumen I can anticipate of. Any abstraction of what`s happening?
A-Whistling noises in accouterments pipes back baptize is running, as it is back the catchbasin is refilling afterwards a toilet is flushed, are generally acquired by aerial baptize burden in pipes that accept aciculate aeroembolism and turns. The actuality that the babble started so aback could be because article was done or article happened to access the baptize burden in your home.
I advance blockage with your baptize aggregation to see if they accept an account for a accessible burden increase. If aerial burden is causing the noise, it can apparently be alone by installing a pressure-reducing valve in the water-supply line.
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How to Install Vinyl Flooring (with Pictures) - wikiHow | Vinyl Flooring Laying ProcedureQ-I`m attractive for a antecedent of artificial tiles that resemble the ancient tin ceilings. Do you apperceive who makes such tiles?
A-I don`t apperceive a antecedent of artificial tiles of this type, but metal panels breeding old tin-ceiling designs and analogous tin cornices are available. A antecedent of 2-foot-by-4-foot panels in bristles designs is Renovator`s Supply, Millers Falls, Mass. 01349. Its archive is $3. The panels can be corrective to bout any adornment and can be installed in a dropped-ceiling grid.
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