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Originally posted by vthoky:
I'm afraid the adhesive will get funky over time, and end up ruining the floor.

Kinda like the rubbery drawer liners in the tool box, y'know? In time, the rubberry stuff sticks to both the drawer and the hammer (or other tool).

These are the rubber boot style protectors I have on some chairs and a table. So far so good.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL...er%2Ffelt%2Bleg&th=1

Thank you!

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
Does hardwood require "luan" underlayment? I know vinyl does.

So far, nothing I’ve read mentions it.

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
Does hardwood require "luan" underlayment? I know vinyl does.

No it doesn't and luan is not particularly good under vinyl because it's so soft.

Ideal subfloor for wood flooring is wood. Wide planks laid across the joists on a 45*. That's how it was done in the past.

Next ideal is 5/8"+ plywood.

"OK" is 3/4" OSB but OSB doesn't hold nails as well as plywood or wood. Make sure to nail through the OSB into the joists where possible.

Unacceptable is partial board.

T-minus 36 hours, friends. Roughly.

In about a day and a half, we’ll start putting down oak.

Over the weekend, I got the bedroom and office emptied (mostly), and we started putting paint on walls. The gray I picked out for the hall and small bedroom looks… um… light blue. Well, it looks light blue in the hallway. In the small bedroom, it’s closer to the gray it’s supposed to be. I’m crediting the overhead light in the hall for this weirdness. The light fixture looks great, but the innards are LED. (Thanks, eco-weenies! Grr.)

There’s a darker gray set to go on the bedroom walls. If it looks good enough, I’ll switch things up and do the office with that instead of the lighter gray.

My “other brother” painter didn’t show today, and that was a bit concerning. I called him after work and he said, “I’m broken, man.” We put in about 7 hours yesterday, and he’s a sore fella. Oddly, my fingers are sore (along with my back and shoulders). Fifty-leven trips up and down two flights, getting stuff out of the way, plus a whole bunch of carpet-yanking. I guess my hands have gotten a heck of a workout.

Anyway, I finally got [most of] the carpet out of the office tonight. It’s on the trailer now and headed for disposal tomorrow. I still have to pull up the remaining padding after work, plus a boatload of staples. And I’ve got to get my desk frame out of there. That’s going to require some disassembly.



I’ve marked some squeaky spots, stained the final stair tread (probably needs several more coats), and picked up more loose staples (ouch!) than I can count.

I’m ready to kick this project in the butt and get things moving! Can’t wait to have the office back to normal and functional, and to get the bedroom comfortable again.

You don't need to disassemble the desk, put it up on it's end out of the way, once you have half the room done just put it on the new floor side and finish the room.

You can put a moving blanket on the new floor where you put it, doesn't look heavy so weight won't be a factor.

JMO....

The desk frame isn't all that heavy -- it's four pieces of leftover aluminum extrusion from a job my former company worked, on, plus a few pieces of 80/20 extrusion. The heavy part is the 60x30 butcher block top!