Thursday, May 18, 2006
Long hard and twisted
“Honey, where is the dog?”
“Chewing on her toy”
“Oh ok, isn't she a good girl!"
"Mmmm that's nice"
Minutes pass.
“Can you turn it up?”
“Where’s the remote?”
“I thought you had it?”
"Its not here"
Damn dog.
Started screwing down the floor. I am using these 2 1/4 inch square drive trim screws. They have worked great but I would prefer a more aggressive thread. I think these are intended for metal studs. I tried to find wood threads but the only ones I could locate were stainless and I was not going to spend that kind of money. I didn’t look very hard. The poor craftsmanship I mentioned in the last post is hard to over come. Each layer of floor is supposed to be 90 degrees to the one below it. This keeps the cracks from lining up and causing a soft spot. The genius who put this floor down didn’t do that. I can
get most of the movement out but not all and that is just the way it is going to be. I only have like a gazillion screws left and it will be done. My crack goo continues to be problematic. I might have to look into renting a different machine since I can not buy the paper I need for this one locally. Its ok the beast and I have been going round and round and I am a little pissed at it. It seems to feel that the paper I do have isn’t good enough for it and would like to spit it out in small chunks with a loud and repetitive phaaaaak noise. I on the other had would prefer it didn’t do that. So far swearing at it has not fixed the problem.
