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Oct. 3rd, 2004 09:13 pmWe have moved into the new house.
Well, it was new a hundred and twenty years ago. Now only the shell is new. But you poke at something - and its pretty rotten under that shell.
The kitchen has more square footage than our entire apartment that we have moved out of.
We decided that we'd like to put hardwood floors in one room. So we went to check what's available. We must have looked like two aliens. Everybody else was figuring out the price and seeing how durable the finish is. We were holding the boards up to our ears and tapping on them to see how resonant they are - since we'd like to be able to record in that room.
It turned out that bamboo is the most resonant choice. It is also the most flexible, which will come in handy.
Today we ripped off the old carpet from that room. Under it was an absolute mess of half-rotten plywood that was all buckled up. So the floors had to be lifted and flattened out. And that's exactly how we spent the day - propping jacks under the joists in the basement and then cutting 4x4s and hammering them in there. It's pretty flat now, not perfect but better than before, and hopefully the flexibility of bamboo will take up some of the unevenness. It looks like the plywood will have to be replaced - it might be rotten enough that it will not hold a square flooring nail :(
Well, it was new a hundred and twenty years ago. Now only the shell is new. But you poke at something - and its pretty rotten under that shell.
The kitchen has more square footage than our entire apartment that we have moved out of.
We decided that we'd like to put hardwood floors in one room. So we went to check what's available. We must have looked like two aliens. Everybody else was figuring out the price and seeing how durable the finish is. We were holding the boards up to our ears and tapping on them to see how resonant they are - since we'd like to be able to record in that room.
It turned out that bamboo is the most resonant choice. It is also the most flexible, which will come in handy.
Today we ripped off the old carpet from that room. Under it was an absolute mess of half-rotten plywood that was all buckled up. So the floors had to be lifted and flattened out. And that's exactly how we spent the day - propping jacks under the joists in the basement and then cutting 4x4s and hammering them in there. It's pretty flat now, not perfect but better than before, and hopefully the flexibility of bamboo will take up some of the unevenness. It looks like the plywood will have to be replaced - it might be rotten enough that it will not hold a square flooring nail :(
