riogrande5761 I always love those posts with: this is how you could have done it - but you didn't - responses, in a self congratulatory tone.
I always love those posts with: this is how you could have done it - but you didn't - responses, in a self congratulatory tone.
I hope my posts and responses don't have such a tone. I certainly don't mean to sound self-congratulatory, and if I do (or ever have) I apologize.
Sincerely,
Robert
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The padded stuff is $4-5/sq at Lowes. There's an ioutlet store called Ollies that recently listed the padded stuff at the same prices Lowes charges for the non-padded. Not sure how much and of what colors they have, that's always the gamble. Would be nice to get enough of the padded stuff for under $2/sq.
One thing about it I'm not sure of, because I never looked that closely at it yet, is what if I don;t go wall to wall, such as just doing my walkway area from the front and garage doors over to the stairs, how do you trim the open edge? With wood/laminate there's edging to use.
--Randy
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Robert, you're good!
The padded stuff is pricey it sounds like.
We scored the cut edge with a utility knife and snapped it off. All the edges were not even. Most were slightly under the drywall which is about a half inch above the floor. The baseboard covers all the edges.
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The "padded" stuff I bought was about $3 a sqaure foot. The wear surface is 20 mils thick.
I used this in our place in the north woods of WI., my train room down here at home in SE. WI., is concrete with a few carpet sections.
I think what you used looks great. Much nicer than my train room floor looks.
With vinyl plank flooring, you just have to maintain a 1/4" space around anything permanent.
Mike.
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Mike, that sounds about right. When you consider most finished rooms have a baseboard, and possibly also quarter-round, then the gap at the sides, even is hidden, which is normal.
riogrande5761riogrande5761 wrote the following post 23 hours ago: oldline1 I built my new layout with the legs cantilevered from the outboard side of the benchwork down to the baseboards. It is strong and lets me clean the floor without having to fight legs in the way. No problems with tripping over them. oldline1 I always love those posts with: this is how you could have done it - but you didn't. Most of my layout will not be against a wall, so unless you have some anti-grav units I can install ... My last layout had legs all around and not in-set, and I don't recall ever tripping on the or kicking them. But am in-setting them this time around as a precautionary measure.
Randy,
I don't understand your issue with my post. I said that's how I built this layout. I don't see your point? What part of my post offended you THIS TIME?
oldline1
I'm kind of late to this thread, but I wanted to tell what happened to me with some flooring.
We have a very dry basement with bare concrete floors. When we moved in, I decided to put an unfinished bedroom in just to use as overflow.
I found some carpet squares with glue backing on a closeout for about 90¢ a sq foot. You just peal and stick - nothing to it. It looked great when I finished.
Several years later, the carpet didn't look so good, and I was ready to put in more permanent flooring. I pulled up the carpet squares, and you know what was left - a layer of glue.
I tried everything including some chemicals that nearly made me pass out. Finally, after ending up with more of a gooey mess, I went to the flooring experts. They suggested several commercial products that would remove the glue.
None of them worked.
I finally used very hot water on small sections, and on my hands and knees on the sticky floor, I scraped as much as I could with a razor blade.
I have no idea why the commercial products didn't work. I have no idea why nothing worked.
I have some of the old carpet squares left if anyone wants them. But you have to be someone I don't like before I give them to you.
York1 John
oldline1 I don't understand your issue with my post. I said that's how I built this layout. I don't see your point? oldline1
I don't understand your issue with my post. I said that's how I built this layout. I don't see your point?
The topic is about benchwork legs being in-set, not alternate methods of suspending benchwork, for what it's worth. Have a
riogrande5761The topic is about benchwork legs being in-set,
...and that's the question he answered. His are set-in 100%.
Lighten up - if you really want to be the stay-on-topic police, you should have called out Randy (or me for responding) for his C-bracket post which was more of an "alternate method of suspending benchwork" than oldline1's post.
I have the right to remain silent. By posting here I have given up that right and accept that anything I say can and will be used as evidence to critique me.
riogrande5761 oldline1 I built my new layout with the legs cantilevered from the outboard side of the benchwork down to the baseboards. It is strong and lets me clean the floor without having to fight legs in the way. No problems with tripping over them. oldline1 I always love those posts with: this is how you could have done it - but you didn't. Most of my layout will not be against a wall, so unless you have some anti-grav units I can install ...
oldline1 I built my new layout with the legs cantilevered from the outboard side of the benchwork down to the baseboards. It is strong and lets me clean the floor without having to fight legs in the way. No problems with tripping over them. oldline1
I built my new layout with the legs cantilevered from the outboard side of the benchwork down to the baseboards. It is strong and lets me clean the floor without having to fight legs in the way. No problems with tripping over them.
I always love those posts with: this is how you could have done it - but you didn't.
Most of my layout will not be against a wall, so unless you have some anti-grav units I can install ...
Gary
carl425carl425 wrote the following post 36 minutes ago: riogrande5761 The topic is about benchwork legs being in-set, ...and that's the question he answered. His are set-in 100%.
Gotta point there!
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