Switch for the winter and servicing. Timer is nice if it gets hot enough to trip the thermostat early in the day when it's pulling in as much hot air as it's exhausting
the only problem you can run into is if you use a smaller size or worn out bit, or don't put the bit in all the way and let it strip the head/bit (which really, is the only way to wear it out), you can easily turn the square head into a circle
but that only happens if you let the bit get stripped in the first place
With the old Phillips, I would worry about destroying the screw and have to replace the screw (which I have a box of). But with the new Torx, I worry about destroying the bit, which I only have the few that came in the box.
I'm not thinking of the #2 bits, those are a dime a dozen, but the blue deck screw bits were pretty solid.
I was on here a couple of weeks ago talking about pulling up my gf's kitchen linoleum tiles to find a hardwood floor Project is still not done. can't decide on whether to just sand and finish or put another floor back over top
definately extra effort trying to retrofit new stuff into old designs. reframing window openings, creative ways to run electric to the basement from 2nd floor while staying within code - walls go unfinished as to not to have to reopen them while working on another room above it...
the living room is the same hardwood, but the thing about the kitchen is that her dogs have peed on it to the point that the linoleum tiles were peeling and the underlayment was rotting, so that hardwood is kinda soft and warpy
my fear is that if we try to sand it, it'll just disintegrate where it's soft
and it's a budget project, so cost is one of the foremost factors
otherwise we'd just get some nice vinyl floating floor planks and toss that down.
yeah, that's one of the reasons I want to avoid sanding, because it's the kitchen. I suppose I could do the whole clean-room taped plastic sheeting thing, but that just seems like overkill.
Refinishing is a fair amount of work and not everyone loves hardwood floor in a kitchen (I do, in fact we refinished our original floors on the whole first floor).
if you don't want to refinish it might be best to go with a different floor covering
that's kinda my thinking as well. It's actually a "breakfast nook"/dining room kind of space. the kitchen is behind the island in the top left of the picture
it's only about 80 ft.^2, so we could really put just about any floor we want without breaking the bank, but she keeps talking about the $.89 laminate floating floors at Lowe's, and that's her baseline, but everything I've read says to stay away from them, especially for a potentially wet area
I've never rented from a private owner, but I fail to understand why anyone would improve the property in such a situation when they would gain 0 financial benefit
yeah, I put up a fence around the back yard, she's painted the walls
I dunno, we'll probably just seal it all in and paint it.
in other news, I'm moving into a house that was built in 1920 and added onto about 3 times, best I can tell, so I'm sure I'll have plenty of projects to talk about in the coming year. :-)
