SIDEBAR #48 - Arias/Alexander forum

[Nore]

Hi, run an empty tub with vinegar water~

 

[YESorNO]

Michael K. Jeanes, Clerk of Court
*** Electronically Filed ***
04/01/2015 8:00 AM

03/30/2015

MINUTE ENTRY

(Lots of :sweep: "housekeeping" :blah::blah::blah

http://www.courtminutes.maricopa.gov/docs/Criminal/042015/m6766147.pdf

 

[neesaki]

another view of the floor. (I messed up) LOL

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My husband and I really like old homes like yours, and love that tiger oak fireplace. They don't make them like that anymore. So you put new wood over your old floor? It turned out really well. Back in the 90's we built a house and did the floors in old pine, 6 inch wide boards. We loved it, though being a soft wood it did scratch rather easily, but we didn't really mind as it just added to the character. Funny how people pay big money for pre-done floors that have been distressed and with big grooves carved in them now, :giggle: . Go figure !

 

[jane the dood]

Why Helen Mirren is only the coolest person in the world:
(and yes...I am a straight woman....lol)

[video=youtube;wK5S-IuzIt8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK5S-IuzIt8#t=150[/video]

 

[atthelake]

YesORNo

How is your spring coming along?

 

[neesaki]

I need some advice. Since I sold my filly for a nice chunk of change, I am using the money to update my house. I should have done this a long time ago, but horses have been the priority. My kitchen floor is hardwood, and the person I had do the floors 3 years ago did a lousy job and the finish is off, the color is orange/brown UGH. Should I keep the hardwood or change it to Travertine tile? The dogs go through the kitchen all the time to get to the laundry room where the dog door is. Does anyone have a tile floor? And do you like it? Thank you so much!

ETA: My cabinets are furniture grade cherry, with a deep brown hue. I am replacing the island with a glazed ivory maple cabinets and putting Cambria Windermere Quartz on the countertops.

Hi Zuri, we have wood floors throughout our house except our kitchen, baths, and laundry room. In those rooms we have tile. I like tile, I just regret the particular tile I chose for my kitchen as it is a light color and shows every spec of dirt, etc., and my dog tracks in a lot of stuff, lol. I had picked out a darker tile which was a warm tan with a little goldish and some splashes of terra cotta, it was really pretty and I loved it. Unfortunately, when we received the actual tile, the color was pink and totally clashed with my counter tops. And what's worse, is the tile had already been laid when I saw it ! :gaah: I said, so what, this isn't what I ordered and I absolutely refused to accept it, so my husband and an employee tore it out themselves, and what a job that was :scared: Then the sorry @#*^&$#^% tile company refused to give us a refund even though I had six separate samples to prove the tile color was defective, so I was like wow! Really !? :gaah: I still to this day get all upset when I think about it and that was over five years ago.

My point being, if you choose tile be sure you look at it before it is installed as the samples themselves are definitely not always reliable. Then if the color is off you can return it if it hasn't already been installed. I would not wish what we went through on anyone, what a nightmare ! :scared: Also, you might not want a really light color like what I ended up with, I just chose it because of the disaster with the first tile, and it's all I could find in a hurry. Good luck ! :seeya:

 

[neesaki]

Zuri, your kitchen plans sound beautiful. I would think dogs would do less "damage" to tile with their nails and mud-tracking if that is a concern. Easier to wipe tile? I really do not know, though.


WHAT is going on with ads interspersed between our posts now? :stormingmad: This is driving me nuts at a time I cannot handle changes very well. Don't they know I have too much going wrong already? :chuckle: (guess they don't cater just to me, hey?)


Lost a very dear Aunt this morning. What a week it is. sighhhh

Oh no, I'm so sorry Spellbound. (((hug)))

 

[Niner]

Good afternoon!

YESorNO - that link you posted for "the year you were born?" - That was great! New inventions when I was born (1947): Pocket calculator, transistor and the Poloroid camera! I copied all the years pertaining to my brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, nephews and the Huz. I will include them at the back of my 2016 calendar for everyone! :tyou:

okay - I missed it... what does SWBB mean?? :waitasec:

Someone mentioned a note of JSS - Boston bombing trial over in 16 days?? Boy, that WAS quick! :judge:

The weather guy here says we should be getting rain - late Sunday through Tuesday!!

I sure HOPE they are right - we really, really, REALLY! need it!!

Oh YESorNO - so sorry to hear you are still having snow!

So - no one here but me and Daisymae - before I started posting this... so off I go to read some other threads! cguru:

:seeya:

 

[Chelly]

Juan Martinez Prosecutor Support Page
27 mins · Edited ·
Troy Haden has confirmed the sentencing will be live streamed at 8:30 MST on April 13th, and they will have one camera and he will follow her to Perryville, where the doors will close and that's the end.
Troy is also in the works for an interview with Juan Martinez. Saying right now, Juan is playing hard to get. Lol
Admin 1

 

[atthelake]

Hi Zuri, we have wood floors throughout our house except our kitchen, baths, and laundry room. In those rooms we have tile. I like tile, I just regret the particular tile I chose for my kitchen as it is a light color and shows every spec of dirt, etc., and my dog tracks in a lot of stuff, lol. I had picked out a darker tile which was a warm tan with a little goldish and some splashes of terra cotta, it was really pretty and I loved it. Unfortunately, when we received the actual tile, the color was pink and totally clashed with my counter tops. And what's worse, is the tile had already been laid when I saw it ! :gaah: I said, so what, this isn't what I ordered and I absolutely refused to accept it, so my husband and an employee tore it out themselves, and what a job that was :scared: Then the sorry @#*^&$#^% tile company refused to give us a refund even though I had six separate samples to prove the tile color was defective, so I was like wow! Really !? :gaah: I still to this day get all upset when I think about it and that was over five years ago.

My point being, if you choose tile be sure you look at it before it is installed as the samples themselves are definitely not always reliable. Then if the color is off you can return it if it hasn't already been installed. I would not wish what we went through on anyone, what a nightmare ! :scared: Also, you might not want a really light color like what I ended up with, I just chose it because of the disaster with the first tile, and it's all I could find in a hurry. Good luck ! :seeya:

If you are doing tile to hardwood, I suggest a separator that is flush to the floor vs. those that have a hump. This white piece (it is not wood, it is some type of stone???) showing is from my laundry room to the back hallway. I did as others suggested for tile, and did a darkish tile with a dark grout as I bring in Georgia clay from the yard when walking in from the garage through the laundry room.



OK, I'll put in my two cents as to putting in tile vs. hardwoods in your kitchen. I thought the same think when I redid mine. But I went with hardwood and OMG OMG it made the house look twice as large as the rooms flowed into each other with the same flooring. It was a SHOCK afterwards as to how large everything was once I did it. Plus, I don't like the cold on my feet from tile, unless you live in Florida. And I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, so standing on tile does indeed hurt my back.

And as to horror stories on putting in hardwoods... I purposefully went with a company that had a storefront so that they would not be "fly by night" installers in case I had a problem. (Putting in these pecan floors was over $10k, so wanted to ensure it was done RIGHT) Anyhoo, glad I did such as I had to have the installers RIP OUT the job twice when 1/2 finished each time.... a long story ... but so glad I did such and was able to get the owner out to review and make right (FYI first issue was the used the wrong sized trowel for the glue that was not specs to the installation... "not according to industry standards" and second time did not level kitchen as requested)

Off to do my laundry and waste water.... 'cause I can!



ETA: Trying to turn picture! :gaah: can't figure out how to rotate...GOT IT after 3 tries

 

[Spellbound]

BBM I had a Downy ball years ago, but never used it and eventually lost it (?) or threw it out.

Amazon has them for sale:

http://www.amazon.com/Downy-thomasw...sim_hpc_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0CH0C3AZA50BY5945EB0

Why, thank you, Y/N! I have been picking them up at yard sales, but it is good to know I can actually purchase them if needed --- maybe it will die fast and I can get something simpler.

 

[Hatfield]

My husband and I really like old homes like yours, and love that tiger oak fireplace. They don't make them like that anymore. So you put new wood over your old floor? It turned out really well. Back in the 90's we built a house and did the floors in old pine, 6 inch wide boards. We loved it, though being a soft wood it did scratch rather easily, but we didn't really mind as it just added to the character. Funny how people pay big money for pre-done floors that have been distressed and with big grooves carved in them now, :giggle: . Go figure !

I love natural wood the way you described it. Knotty pine is my favorite. I once did a whole den room for a person by angling the boards down at a 45 degree angle to where it would meet in the middle. Then where the boards met, I covered the ends with a 1 inch X 2 inch strip of pine.

The den came out real nice and I wish I would do my own living room like that. Knotty pine just makes me feel relaxed and I just love the finish of the wood.

I like any natural wood though.

There is a great show on one of the cable channels where a guy goes into old barns and salvages the barn wood. Some of the old beams are just amazing. He sells the wood to builders who use in modern homes for giving the homes a rough wood feel. They are amazingly expensive because they just dont make wood like that anymore.

 

[Hatfield]

If you are doing tile to hardwood, I suggest a separator that is flush to the floor vs. those that have a hump. This white piece (it is not wood, it is some type of stone???) showing is from my laundry room to the back hallway. I did as others suggested for tile, and did a darkish tile with a dark grout as I bring in Georgia clay from the yard when walking in from the garage through the laundry room.

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OK, I'll put in my two cents as to putting in tile vs. hardwoods in your kitchen. I thought the same think when I redid mine. But I went with hardwood and OMG OMG it made the house look twice as large as the rooms flowed into each other with the same flooring. It was a SHOCK afterwards as to how large everything was once I did it. Plus, I don't like the cold on my feet from tile, unless you live in Florida. And I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, so standing on tile does indeed hurt my back.

And as to horror stories on putting in hardwoods... I purposefully went with a company that had a storefront so that they would not be "fly by night" installers in case I had a problem. (Putting in these pecan floors was over $10k, so wanted to ensure it was done RIGHT) Anyhoo, glad I did such as I had to have the installers RIP OUT the job twice when 1/2 finished each time.... a long story ... but so glad I did such and was able to get the owner out to review and make right (FYI first issue was the used the wrong sized trowel for the glue that was not specs to the installation... "not according to industry standards" and second time did not level kitchen as requested)

Off to do my laundry and waste water.... 'cause I can!



ETA: Trying to turn picture! :gaah: can't figure out how to rotate...GOT IT after 3 tries



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OMG That pecan floor is just BEAUTIFUL !!!

I would love to have that flooring on my torn vinly kitchen and I would do just as you say and I would rip out my carpeted living room and let the wood flow right into the living room to make things look bigger. I just need to hit the lottery to be able to do it. LOL

I see exactly what you mean how it makes things look bigger. I could tell that just by how the wood angles around the corners.

TOTALLY AMAZING AND BEUUTIFUL!!!

 

[YESorNO]

YesORNo

How is your spring coming along?

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Just like the pic you posted. -although today the sky is very blue, the sun has been shining, and it reached 40 degrees (don't want to press my luck
because "the gods will be angry" if I'm too happy or arrogant). :facepalm:

 

[YESorNO]

Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78

"...Gary Dahl, the man behind that scheme — described variously as a marketing genius and a genial mountebank — died on March 23 at 78. A down-at-the-heels advertising copywriter when he hit on the idea, he originally meant it as a joke. But the concept of a “pet” that required no actual work and no real commitment resonated with the self-indulgent ’70s, and before long a cultural phenomenon was born...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-dies-at-78.html

I never bought one. I thought it was stupid :floorlaugh:

BBM see what I mean about SWBB (selfish, wasteful Baby Boomers) and everyone saying we are terrible. :gaah:

 

[Bernina]

Hi Zuri, we have wood floors throughout our house except our kitchen, baths, and laundry room. In those rooms we have tile. I like tile, I just regret the particular tile I chose for my kitchen as it is a light color and shows every spec of dirt, etc., and my dog tracks in a lot of stuff, lol. I had picked out a darker tile which was a warm tan with a little goldish and some splashes of terra cotta, it was really pretty and I loved it. Unfortunately, when we received the actual tile, the color was pink and totally clashed with my counter tops. And what's worse, is the tile had already been laid when I saw it ! :gaah: I said, so what, this isn't what I ordered and I absolutely refused to accept it, so my husband and an employee tore it out themselves, and what a job that was :scared: Then the sorry @#*^&$#^% tile company refused to give us a refund even though I had six separate samples to prove the tile color was defective, so I was like wow! Really !? :gaah: I still to this day get all upset when I think about it and that was over five years ago.

My point being, if you choose tile be sure you look at it before it is installed as the samples themselves are definitely not always reliable. Then if the color is off you can return it if it hasn't already been installed. I would not wish what we went through on anyone, what a nightmare ! :scared: Also, you might not want a really light color like what I ended up with, I just chose it because of the disaster with the first tile, and it's all I could find in a hurry. Good luck ! :seeya:

My 2nd ex and I used to lay saltillo tile floors. We ALWAYS checked the boxes before we excepted them because there was variations in color, even if they came from the same company. Then we had the homeowner sign that the color was acceptable. The last thing we wanted was a complaint filed with the Registrar of Contractors.

I would have dumped all the pink tile on the contractors front door step or the tile company, but I'm kinda touchy about paying someone to do something. Do it right or get out of the business.

 

[YESorNO]

OMG That pecan floor is just BEAUTIFUL !!!

I would love to have that flooring on my torn vinly kitchen and I would do just as you say and I would rip out my carpeted living room and let the wood flow right into the living room to make things look bigger. I just need to hit the lottery to be able to do it. LOL

I see exactly what you mean how it makes things look bigger. I could tell that just by how the wood angles around the corners.

TOTALLY AMAZING AND BEUUTIFUL!!!

I had a laminated floor in a cherry color in my living room and kitchen in my house in Pa. and it looked beautiful. It was indestructible and easy to clean, too.
I would love to have wood/laminate floors again in this house, but I don't want to invest the $ because I might be moving after my son is done with grad school to a 55+ retirement community
so, I would be selling this place.

 

[neesaki]

Grout sealer.

Yes, and use grout the color of the tile, don't use white or very light colored grout.

 

[atthelake]

BBM see what I mean about SWBB (selfish, wasteful Baby Boomers) and everyone saying we are terrible. :gaah:

I have changed my "clothes" lmao! Reminds me of... two years ago... one night a bunch of us did cougars as our avatars hehehe. :thinking: wonder why we did such :giggle:

 

[Bernina]

Jerry Brown is putting California on a drought restriction.....................25% less water usage.

Just an FYI.