Bamboo Floor Project Gallery

[drscott]

Here's the Bamboo Floor Project Gallery I promised. Punted the gym today -- I was just too tired.

There are lots of little consequences to changing over to wood floors -- we've had to put felt dots or rubber cups under most of the furniture (so you can slide it without marring the wood) and will be shopping for a nice area rug for under the coffee table, plus a few runners for special situations (like next to the beds and high wear areas.) More shopping fun awaits us. We also had to rip out the built-in shelves in Mike's office, since they interfered with the installation and weren't nice enough to keep permanently, so there's another shopping trip (and Ikea furniture-building session.)

There was so much sawdust on the bottom of the pool I only finished cleaning it today, and I'll put in a new filter since the old one is beyond its design life. These filters are basically big paper filters, rather like a 3' tall car air filter, and after a few years no amount of cleaning will fix them.

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[qbear.livejournal.com]

It's Eichler-rific! Makes me want to rip up our ratty carpeting and put down bamboo.

We're in the process of replacing the outer front door into the atrium. The guy doing it is great--it looks wonderful. All it needs now is paint and our new Modern house numbers.

We'd love to see your Eichler sometime (shamelesly inviting ourselves over). We could do a progressive dinner--very 60's!

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

We also considered what it probably a more practical strategy - bamboo for the living/dining area and berber carpet plus dense pad for the bedrooms. It's hard to find a carpet installer that knows how to select pad for R-Value; almost none of them care if your heating bill is twice as high. The carpet and pad installed here 14 years ago had an R-value of about 4, meaning over those years about $5,000 of gas heat was went into the soil below the concrete pad and not into the house.

If you would consider doing it yourself, I found a good source for well-designed carpet squares -- dense Berber carpet with a rigid plastic integral pad. They have peeloff glue pads on the back, and only a few have to be glued down; plus you can create cool designs with them. While a bit expensive compared to roll carpet, it lets you do one room at a time yourself and allows you to replace a square at a time as booboos happen.

See http://www.interfacefloor.com.

..and I thought you were going to say, "The guy doing it is great--HE looks wonderful." :-)