Flooring recommendations


I’m getting ready to put down floors and I’m looking for recommendations. The job is 1100 sq ft and we’d be providing the flooring ourselves. The underlayment’s already down — all we need is someone to install the new flooring. Anyone have anyone they can recommend? Thanks –

Categories: Floors
By quayzar | 06/08/2009 11:40 AM | Comment

paint stripping


Can anyone recommend a paint stripper? Not a product (I’ve been trying to do it myself with Peelaway 6 and it’s sheer drudgery) but rather a person who does it for a living. Many thanks –

Categories: Stripping
By quayzar | 03/06/2009 10:50 AM | Comment

squirrels in the ceiling


Apparently our building has holes in the cornice through which several generations of squirrels have bred so at the first whiff of spring they crawl in and start building a nest. The cornice repairman won’t seal the cornice until they’ve bred and left. Anyone have any suggestions as to ways of encouraging them to leave?

Categories: Environmental
By quayzar | 03/02/2009 5:09 PM | Comment

Flooring around existing trim


I live in an elderly brownstone with original trim on all the doorways. However, the space never had proper flooring put down. Instead of having underlayment and finished flooring on the subfloor, there’s just the subfloor. There never was more either — all of the doorway trim comes right down to the subfloor. I’m going to have someone come in and put down flooring. What’s the standard practice in this situation? Have them cut off the trim high enough to run above the flooring? Have them cut the flooring to fit the trim? Anyone else been in this situation before?

Categories: Floors
By quayzar | 03/01/2009 7:32 PM | Comment