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for the record, staircases ****. I think it took me as long to remove staples from a single flight of stairs as the entire upstairs.

HD sells a Rigid 7" heavy duty scraper that works wonders for this. I took care of one room pretty quickly followed by a hallway.

I'm thinking some kind of flat shovel or long handled scraper. I need to see what HD has in stock. I have a lot of padding to remove and not nearly enough time to do it in.

Cool, thanks.

Would a flat shovel work to make the job of removing old carpet padding and staples easier? I don't care about the subfloor so that can get dinged up.

Cool, thanks for the info. Now if I can just find it for a price that doesn't break the budget.

My wife wants to recarpet our 2nd floor with Mohawk SmartStrand. Has anybody run into any problems with this carpet?

Here is a picture of the finished job without the two changes requested. The mechanical room is the new basement of the addition.

The inspector considered both issues to be "minor".

The Inspector failed the boiler. The overflow pipe is slightly too short and a valve is needed on one side of the pressure reducer. Should be easy fixes for the heating company.

Day 7. It looks like they are hooking up the 2 existing zones to the boiler (luckily it was "Warm" last night since we had no heat). They did say that all of the lines have been pressure tested so that is good. Edit: Well they are "done" until drywall is up and they can install the new...

Day 6 since start and the boiler is now moved into its new location and the oil has been transferred to the new tank. No new baseboards are hooked in though and they have at least another full day tomorrow and no ETA on hooking up new baseboard (maybe waiting for drywall to be done?)

Unfortunately they are dragging their feet. They started on Wed and will HOPEFULLY be done on Monday. Something supposedly "came up" that sidelined them from finishing on Thursday and Friday (in their defense this is one the area's that was hardest hit by the April flooding so there is plenty...

I have no idea what a fair rate is for the work involved but $6900 seems more than fair for what should come out to 2 days worth of work for 2-3 guys.

I still don't know why the first place hadn't responded until yesterday but they are starting work next week.

Just received the 3rd quote...$11,500 for the same job. Which puts the range from $6900-$11,500 for the above mentioned work.

Well he finally called back last night and gave me the 2nd estimate I was looking for which brings the total up to $6900 for the whole job which I have no clue if that is a good price or not. What he is doing is: The $4000 section of the quote: - Already extended the exhaust pipe into the new...

These are 6" recessed lights that are IC rated. I will have to see if I can disassemble them from the inside. Thanks.

This past weekend I went through verifying that the wiring for all of the recessed lights was good and correctly hooked up but my FIL pointed out that all of the junction boxes that are part of the light won't be accessible when the ceiling is installed and that that is against code. Does...

That is basically what I figure. I called again today and talked to the wife who was surprised that the owner hasn't called me back yet. I received another quote for over double what this quote was for but the new one also included installing baseboard for 2 new zones, although I don't...