Order of operations question.... Our basement has old tile on it and we are planning to lay carpet over it. I want to replace the trim. Planning to paint, then do you lay the trim down before the carpet or wait till the carpet is down and then install the trim? I’ve read that you can put the trim on but leave a half inch or so for the carpet tack board, but “it may depend on the carpet installer’s preference.” Any ideas?
I've never in my life seen trim go down after carpet in residential construction All ive ever seen was cabinets, trim, paint flooring in that order (again, in residential, commercial is different)
That feeling when the city hauls away alllll of the tree/shrub/brush trimmings off your curb, week after week.
Ceramic tile maybe, but all tile guys carry floor trim saws Snap together wood yes, it would be easier to trim after Vct/vinyl yes easier to trim after But I can't even imagine how you make base boards look good trying to put them on top of carpet I guess if you are doing all the work yourself, you can do it however you want But in the standard construction world flooring comes last I mean, how do you paint trim up against carpet efficiently at all?
If you have the option why would you ever put trim down before what ever flooring material? Can't think of any reasonable reason to.
Does anyone have a bathroom style vent in their laundry room? Our laundry room has a musky smell from time to time, wet clothes, sports clothes, washing machine mildew, whatever it may be - it'd be nice to have a vent with a timer switch in there but I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen one.
Wife went to Home Depot this morning and priced out some carpet, and the associate said that we can put the trim down before the carpet. I am replacing all the trim and getting it painted white, so I was going to paint the entire room, install the white trim, and then have it carpeted. I think.
I always feel like a kid waiting on the ice cream truck when I’ve got a pile of debris on the curb and it’s “big trash haul away” day for my neighborhood
Nothing crazy here and doesn’t look professionally done but my first from scratch project that wasn’t prepackaged pieces. I’m proud. We bought the house October 18 so getting rid of this has been on the list from the start.
You see, in whole home construction the painter is a different guy than the trim guy, and the floor installer is yet again another guy And aint none of them coming back twice
I am with bigred77, if you need to paint the trim, why not do it before the carpet is down? If you lay carpet and then have to paint the trim, you have to tape everything up and cover all the brand new carpet. Carpet was the last thing we laid.
Anyone know much about Third Federal for mortgages? They advertise great rates but some reviews make it sound like they're more interested in getting your info and selling it than they are actually getting you qualified. Trying to shop some legitimate rates to see if we can negotiate with our builders.
Trim and painting definitely happened before our carpet was laid. That was the last thing done on our remodel.
My back yard has a retaining wall in one spot, there’s one area they gets standing water anytime it rains/snows. Is it possible to add some kind of make shift drainage in that despite it obviously already being built.
As stated in my previous post there’s standing water due to the possible inch per hour rain we’re receiving lol so I’ll get out there tomorrow and post a pic.
So I have a weird little setup. My back yard has a slab of cement for a basketball hoop (assume the previous people had kids or whatever), so it seems the issue is the water runs off the cement to the “top” of the retaining wall where water builds up. That part is currently dirt/mulch. I would guess if I built that up with dirt, the water would just settle on my cement until washing it back out over time.
What material is the retaining wall? Solution seems to be a French drain along that and a drain/out spout in the retaining wall
That was kind of what I was thinking, I guess I just wasn’t sure how “easy” it is to get the drain through the wall itself. It’s basically just like cement “blocks”
You can punch through with a hammer drill and insert a small portion of pvc or other drain and then mortar around it. I had a retaining wall repaired a few years ago and they French drained the front/top part and installed the out drains and it’s amazing how much water runs out in a heavy rain
Under contract, on a 84 year old historic home. Completely renovated in the last 3-4 years, but sign me up for all the maintenance
Everything updated. Only major maintenance in 5-10 years should be upstairs a/c, that was new in 2009
we just did one here for the house. hammer drill and a hole saw to cut through the curb. That was the easiest part. Trenching was a bitch though.
I installed a French drain and 3 foot deep 50 foot long trench to run some under ground drainage myself. Just me and a pick axe. It took a few weekends and sucked but my ass and forearms have still never looked better.
Photo dump: Really excited about this place. Even comes with the architectural plans... fortunately I know a guy & got an insane rate too Spoiler