Blue~Go wrote:I don't know about anyone else, but I'd really enjoy seeing more photos here. I can look at things on Pinterest for about four seconds, and then their self-advertisement slides up and takes over the screen and I can't see any more. Boo!
Is that because you don't have a Pinterest account?
Skillet wrote:Well done remodel! I'm tackling things little by little as well (and as money permits) with my next big project being the carpet removal/replacement. How expensive was the paint job? I've gone to two places and been quoted $3500 and $4500. I'm leaning towards the $4500 because he also does paint jobs for a local car dealer and has all the right equipment.
My Pinterest board contains a lot more pics and info. It also mentions that I masked and painted it myself. Cost less than $200 in paint, tape and vinyl borders. No way was I going to spend a lot of money on a '94
My main trick was to only paint the large sections, and then use 1/2" vinyl pinstriping (~$20 for 150 feet) for the borders. Much quicker and far less to mask / paint.
Plus it's only stripes, so it's relatively easy. Does your 2002 have the Millennium paint job? I can see why that would cost a lot.
Skillet wrote:I'm tackling things little by little as well (and as money permits) with my next big project being the carpet removal/replacement.
If I ever had to do it again, I swear I think I would remove the dinette and sofa first. I think it'd be easier to pull up the carpet as one piece, than endure the time and pain of slicing it along the edges.
Besides the trimming, the biggest problem with putting in a wood floor was dealing with a few bolt heads that stick up about 3/8". (They're usually hidden by the carpet padding).
Some people grind them down, but hey, they hold the body on, so that was not an option for me.
What I ended up doing was using a hole saw on the boards from the back, but stopping halfway through. Then I used a small screwdriver as a chisel to continue removing material from behind, almost to the top laminate layer.
This left a tiny guide hole on the top, which is easy to fill with wood putty and is invisible, while the large opening underneath neatly fits over the bolt.
(When my daughter helped lay the boards, she came to the bolt section and said "
Uh oh! What will we do here?" I said grab the next board on the pile... it has a hole for the bolt. She saw the tiny guide hole on the top and said, "
But Dad, that isn't anywhere big enough!". I told her to flip it over, and she went "
Aha!"
)
(I have already started to take out some sections of the carpet/pad. Heavy workout on the vise grips and 5-in-1 for pulling the many looooooong staples. It's rewarding though. Guess that'll be another thread.