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We decided on wood look ceramic tile. Should hold up better to the dogs
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Hardwood. Because it can be refinished a boatload of times.Speaking of flooring - hardwood or engineered hardwood?
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Yeah, the hardwood in my place is from the '40s.
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Also: a friend grew up in a house in PA from 1870s; original floors still on fine shape.
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Absolutely not, IMO. The vinegar will eat away at the coating, regardless of how much you cut the solution with water. I highly recommend Bona's hardwood cleaner.White vinegar for cleaning hardwood floors?
Yes or no?
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+1 for Bona
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+2 for bona
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TIL about Bona...good timing. just replaced about 1,200 sq feet of floors last month, and i hope to be walking on these planks in 30 years.
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I also recommend the Bona hardwood floor spray mop. Does a much better job than the Swiffer (even with Bona's cleaner in the Swiffer container).
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I didn't think it would be so hard to install a pedestal sink, but after 4+ hours over the weekend, I'm tearing it down and starting over. Why the manufacturer decided to put the mounting holes on the underside of the sink right next to the faucet lines is a mystery to me. As if that wasn't hard enough, the pedestal doesn't sit right on the sink itself, making it nearly impossible to level the sink. What a cluster.
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Yup. Had to get an earring out of my wife's pedestal sink drain and it was a dodint trying to get a pipe wrench into the 'hidden' area. Good riddance.
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Gotta get you a basin wrench.
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if we started over from scratch with how we do electric and plumbing, knowing what we know now, applying new technology, using new parts that may have never existed...would we do things at all similarly to how we do it now?
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Source of the post Gotta get you a basin wrench.
Source of the post Pex.
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When we redid out kitchen at our old house. I plumped out entire kitchen (sink hot and cold and a supply line to the dishwasher) in Pex in the same amount of time my father in law sweated and capped one copper pipe. Pex is the bee knees.
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Pex + SharkBite. A winning combination.
I don't think much at all has changed with electric. Romex is romex.
I don't think much at all has changed with electric. Romex is romex.
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Both miss the point. I had no issues putting the faucet in. I did that before I put the sink in place. My issues were with the mounting holes to affix the basin to the wall, and their proximity to the faucet stub ins. I'm not even sure a right angle drill could work in my situation. A stubby screwdriver was too long to fit into the space allowed. I ended up using a tool that looks like a half-dollar with 4 flat blades at 90 degree intervals around the circumference.Source of the post Gotta get you a basin wrench.Source of the post Pex.
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I'd be interested in seeing a picture of the area you're referring to, because I've used a basin wrench to do precisely what you're trying to do in the past.Both miss the point. I had no issues putting the faucet in. I did that before I put the sink in place. My issues were with the mounting holes to affix the basin to the wall, and their proximity to the faucet stub ins. I'm not even sure a right angle drill could work in my situation. A stubby screwdriver was too long to fit into the space allowed. I ended up using a tool that looks like a half-dollar with 4 flat blades at 90 degree intervals around the circumference.Source of the post Gotta get you a basin wrench.Source of the post Pex.
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I was replying to dodint.Both miss the point. I had no issues putting the faucet in. I did that before I put the sink in place. My issues were with the mounting holes to affix the basin to the wall, and their proximity to the faucet stub ins. I'm not even sure a right angle drill could work in my situation. A stubby screwdriver was too long to fit into the space allowed. I ended up using a tool that looks like a half-dollar with 4 flat blades at 90 degree intervals around the circumference.Source of the post Gotta get you a basin wrench.Source of the post Pex.
I think I put a screwdriver head on a ratchet wrench to do this. I think...
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Can't post the image for whatever reason, so just see Step 8 in following link: https://www.lowes.com/projects/bed-and- ... nk/project
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I thought that, but I'm going to end up scrapping the anchor bolt and replace with a hex head. Why it came with a flat head screw is beyond me. Why anybody uses a flat head screw is beyond me.I think I put a screwdriver head on a ratchet wrench to do this. I think...Both miss the point. I had no issues putting the faucet in. I did that before I put the sink in place. My issues were with the mounting holes to affix the basin to the wall, and their proximity to the faucet stub ins. I'm not even sure a right angle drill could work in my situation. A stubby screwdriver was too long to fit into the space allowed. I ended up using a tool that looks like a half-dollar with 4 flat blades at 90 degree intervals around the circumference.Source of the post Gotta get you a basin wrench.Source of the post Pex.
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Square drive is the optimal screw head.
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