Been awhile, not much to report other than some beers slaughtered.
Been working on getting my pressure cleaner going.
House project, it all started with a squeaky dryer. Pull it out and lubed the rollers and dry lubed the friction pads, but it’s old so we’re going to replace.
So, new dryers, wife said hmmm, think I’ll paint the walls while washer/dryer is out, the floor looks dingy, she didn’t ask for it to be replaced, I volunteered to do it. WTF was I thinking?
Ok, just doing vinyl loose lay over the old, get the material and then start thinking, did I use embossing leveler when I did the bathroom? So we go to breakfast, then to HD to get leveler and glue, cause I was worried the loose lay may not work under appliances. So now I’m planning on gluing over old, with the leveler.
Well, at HD, they don’t have the embossing level, and nothing that indicated it could be used over old vinyl. So, I bought this high end glue, said it sticks to anything ( it does, more later) and we go home. Once I look at old floor again, I decide the patterns will likely transfer through the new vinyl, so, Guggenheim it, I’ll just remove the old, it’s only 6’x8’, right? Just bend me over with a ungreased broom stick now.
Take water heater out, looking at supply where it comes out of wall and see it’s corroded. Ok, I’ll go back and get material to fix that after floor is in. ( try after breakfast the next day). Start to strip floor with a couple of floor scrapers, ****, it’s stuck good. I had a putty knife attachment for the saws all, it worked great........ until it broke. So I make a few more out of old blades, and later new blades, took me all day but I got it done!
On to glue. The glue I bought is roll on instead of using a notched trowel. Instructions said to let tack up, then install vinyl. So, I’m letting it tack up and I took a break and read up on glue to see if I could find out more than what was on can. Found a video, it showed it being used for plank vinyl, as in strips, not sheet. F me, it just dawned on me it’s like a contact cement, sticks soon as it hits. I pre trimmed vinyl before gluing, so this was really going to be fun. I get the wife to help, her in one door, me in the other. We each needed at least one more hand each. I’m thinking how Bob H probably would of had this in already by himself!
I finally just step out onto the glued floor to get vinyl started in the right spot, ripped my shoes free of the glue, took off and wife set in garage, I’m now standing on vinyl laying the rest of the way down. It’s in place, roll with a three wheeled Formica roller. Done!!!!
Found my shoes the next day, stuck together in the garage.
I didn’t go back and rent stripper cause I thought it’d take too much time. I should of sat down and read into glue more, but I was too damn busy scraping floor up. The glue does stick. Wife got some on her and lacquer thinner only thing that got it off. She hates chemical smells.
