We helped a friend move into a condo on Saturday, then went for Ukrainian food in the evening. On Sunday, we bought some asphalt felt to use as a moisture barrier for the floor in the sunroom. NB stapled it down Sunday afternoon. It's made the house smell like tar and was apparently unpleasant to work with. We made some chicken souvlaki and Greek salad on Sunday evening, and used home-grown cucumber (El Gordo -- nearly a foot long!) and home-grown oregano as ingredients. Sweeter Yet has turned out to be a very tasty and mild variety of slicing cucumber, although El Gordo started to get soft at the tip and we had to perform some surgery before we ate him. The other cucumber that has matured seems fine. We plan to eat it next week.
This morning we woke up and discovered that all the tar paper NB tacked down so carefully has buckled up in the night. We can't really put down hardwood on an uneven surface -- we're not sure what we ought to do next. Or rather, we're going to rip up all those staples next and remove the paper. We're just not sure what we'll do after that to keep it from buckling again.
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Drink lots of tea and gets lots of sleep. Time tested cure.
Is the asphalt felt the same as roofing felt? I don't know why it would buckle, but I always like to throw in a SWAG. My choice is that the sub-floor was moist. Did they use exterior grade plywood sheathing - it should be stamped on the wood (but but.., I know it is interior). Check to make sure that the surface ply of the sheathing isn't what is buckling - pushing the felt up with it. I wouldn't expect exterior grade to do that, but interior grade would degrade with trapped moisture. Hopefully my SWAG #1 is completely wrong and it is just the felt doing something weird. Which leads to SWAG #2. Since neither the sheathing or the felt will pass moisture, maybe it is trapped moisture warming up and just forming a nice warm air bubble between the felt and the sheathing. You would want to poke a small hole in the felt to release the bubble, but then it would no longer be a moisture barrier. Can you squeeze it sideways to an edge the way you do with a bubble under wet wallpaper?
I would sure be interested in knowing what happened.
Re: NB's work at home with Linux and Windows. A while back I read an article extolling the virtues of running Virtual Machines. Just curious whether you use dual boot or do you use VM ware?
The cow slug looks like a little cayman to me - a natural defence by looking like something much more fierce than a slug. The picture of the other slug isn't very good because of the shallow depth of field, but did you like the nice slime blob?
We went to the inner harbour to watch the annual Nanaimo Dragon Boat Festival last weekend. Enshie got a good (or is that bad?) sunburn. It was interesting because a woman across the street was in the competition. We also saw our neighbours (who have not moved in yet) there, and it turns out their daughter was also on the breast cancer survivor team.
We went out for breakfast yesterday. A furniture store was close to the breakfast place, so we wandered in to browse around and bought a sofa hide-a-bed. Took it home in the Highlander, and nearly killed ourselves getting it into the house. After carrying that thing, I think the guest bed should have been a foamy on the floor.
We had a nice visit today with some friends who are taking a cruise on a working ferry. It stops at villages that are not accessible by road and ends up on the west side of the island. Then they drive back home to Malahat (north of Victoria). It sounded interesting, but we haven't found a dog-sitter yet, and we didn't want to take Buddy, so it was no cruise this time.
Cheers.
#15 asphalt felt is used for roofing too. It's kind of yucky. I have a pair of pants and socks which I'm going to use for the rest of the sunroom work, and then throw away. I'm glad I'm using a knife with disposable blades too, because the blade is also covered with a nice coat of sticky brown goop.
I'm not sure what kind of plywood was used. Hard to check now, because it's completely covered. I'm pretty sure this is not the problem, though, because I think I know what _is_ the problem. We have two hot air vents in the room, and I forgot to cut one of them out. Blowing a bunch of nice hot (not just warm) air under it can't be the best choice ever.
I'm going to cut out the other hole, stack the nice heavy hardwood boxes back on the floor, and hope for the best. I don't particularly want to lay that stuff down again, in addition to having to rip the old stuff up.
The slug pictures are great. I'm afraid I didn't notice the slime, though.
Barring a few oddball things like grand pianos and some appliances, I'm not sure there's anything heavier than a sofa-bed. Does this one have the traditional back-breaker bar in the middle?
Well, there you go - look for the simple solution first. I'm glad to hear that you have a quick solution - with the poker event coming up you don't need any more stress. Any word on whether you will be going to VR for the match?
We are very excited to hear that both of you will be here in August. Practice your hugs!
The sales blurb said our hide-a-bed features a lowered bar to avoid the bar-in-the-back syndrome. It also has a better 7" (17 cm) mattress. It's not a huge sofa that folds out to a queen bed - this one is a "double size" bed.
I hope you have fun doing some handyman stuff - installing the hardwood should go pretty quickly. Do you have a good saw for that, and maybe a 40 to 60 tooth carbide blade or will you rent that and a compressor with a nail gun? Oh boy - lots of tools to play with.
One of our friends said he'd lend us a floor stapler. That should be pretty exciting.
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