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So far, I'm thinking I may be able to save what's there. Floor seems solid, I don't notice any bad smells or anything. IF I can plane down the ridges and, if necessary, put down an underlayment to smooth it out, I THINK I can save it.

I haven't tried planing the ridges down, yet. I've been back to shelf building in the storage area in order to have room to clear floor (originally to be able to put down finish floor, now to see if I can save the dricore). SO, shelf building is complete, I expect to be clearing the floor over the weekend and give the planing a shot. I should know more then.

In the meantime, I think I've found a new carpet. The carpet I had planned matched up perfectly with the GOM and paint and was PR$CEEEEY. This carpet is about half the price and all synthetic so in the event of ANOTHER flood, I can pull it up and dry it out. Unlike the original choice. I found this one through Stargate Cinema and the pattern is similar to what I was planning on. I ordered and received a sample and although this one is darker, the burgundy background is actually multi-toned. The originals are MUCH redder, but I think the new one will pick up some that red. And I think being a little darker on the floor will make the room less mono-chromatic and once the lights go out, no one will see it anyway.

Original choice:

new choice:

Thanks. I may even go with a shade darker paint so that the GOM breaks up the color a little bit.

Also, probably will rearrange what I was planning to do this weekend. I just saw an add from HD.....the 6 panel Jeld Wen doors are $19 this weekend, looks like ALL sizes are same price. I need 4, all different sizes. I was going to wait until the finish floor is down so I don't have to undercut the jambs while installing the floor, but the MultiMate with the flush cut blade makes it easy to do.

Also, the fan on my whole-house humidifier froze up. I didn't know it until I had the HVAC guys in to do the Fall maintenance. It's a Skuttle. They quoted $350 to fix it and replace the pad. A new one runs about $450. I got online and ordered a new motor and pad for $100.00. So I'll be doing that as well.

Geezy-peezy I must be in the wrong business. To replace the motor, you remove the fan blade, take out four screws to release the housing, the motor is held in the housing with four nuts on posts. And there is one electrical push-in connector. Come ON, $250 for what should be 30 minutes work at MOST? I'm all for making a profit, but, sheeesh.

I managed to replace the humidifier motor in about 10 minutes. Turns out there are TEN screws to remove the housing from the cover. Then four nuts to remove the motor. Oh, and TWO wire connections to the controller, not one. Which are CLEARLY marked.

I didn't even get to take pictures it went so fast. But the old motor was DEFINITELY rusted. I cranked the humidistat way up but couldn't get it to start up until I remembered that you have to have the heat on. So I cranked up the heat and it started right up. Then I shut it all down because we were back up in the hi 70s-lo 80s.

Now the ironic thing....and let's not tell Big......

As I've been working in the basement I'd been thinking it is still way too humid. Seems like anything I do down there I break out in a sweat. I still have Big's DE-humidifier from the first flood. I tried to start it up after this flood, but it wouldn't come on, so I'm figuring I'll be replacing it. Then, I give it one more go last night and it starts up and water is accumulating within about a minute. Guess I didn't have the water basin seated properly so the float wasn't engaging.

Either that, or it quit in protest until I fixed the humidifier. ANYTHING can happen in Dimension X.

Thanks for the bump RT!

Oh, I'm here. Just not getting ANYTHING done. Well, not NOTHING.

I finished up the shelving in the storage area and got everything put back in there. That turned into a day long project, because a LOT of what was in there was overflow from the first storage area. Which is a ton of "stuff" about which if LOGANESS said one more time "Oh, I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THAT!" or "THAT'S where that is!" I was going to be a widower.

I built the frame for the back bar.

And I put some casters on that very first cabinet I built for the bar which, with Big's help, we immediately decided was the wrong size. Since I had glued and screwed it, it seemed a shame to waste, so I put some casters on it and figure I can use it as rolling cabinet for my drill press, chop saw, router table, bench sander or whatever. My Bucket Head vac will fit in there so if I add a switch and extension cord on the outside, I can make a nice little woodworking cabinet/table with built-in dust collection.

Mostly been trying to dry out the humidity before deciding about the dricore. It's been in the 60 range for a couple of weeks but over the last of couple of days has gotten down to the low 50s. I was emptying the dehumidifier twice a day, now it's once a day and when I went down there this morning, it was still running. Turning on the heat for a couple of nights probably REALLY helped, too.

Then there's life. Last weekend went to the Redskins/Eagles game, this weekend it was putting up the Halloween decorations. This year's addition is the singing pumpkins. I couldn't get it to work last year, but this year it came together. Next weekend is the neighborhood Halloween party. It's ALWAYS something.

Thinking about getting the material to skin the bar and back bar, though. I'm getting tired of looking at it the way it is.

OK, a little progress...

I put some skin on the bar

Front


Left side


Right side



Also, looks like I can save the Dricore. I took my little B&D planer to see if I could knock down the curled up edges. I started behind the bar and after a few adjustments, set the cut depth to between 1 and 2/64ths. Seemed to work so I did the hallway at the bottom of the stairs, the hallway to the storage area and started the area in front of the bar. At least until the planer crapped out.







The lighter areas are the area that was cut away. As you can see, some of the cuts are wider than others, indicating the height of the curl to be cut. The cuts leave a slight indentation, but I don't notice it in walking over them. I'm sure that any padding under laminate or carpet will take care of that.

So I'll be picking up another disposable planer and finishing up.

It's 1/4" oak. Also, I'm planing to add trim and finish all of the corners and edges. The strips of wood on the bar top are for the drip rail. As you can see, I left a bit of room at the bottom thinking that in the event of ANOTHER flood, I may get away with just replacing the trim and not the sheets of oak.

Definitely planning to stain.

That's been the source of most of my recent frustration. LOGANESS suggests (I say that because I can't admit she's righ...ri...r....and I can't even type it!) that I should pick out the floor and then stain as it's easier to match the stain with the floor.

So I'm trying to get the real construction finished so that I can pick a floor.....so that I can paint and stain. Then it's the finish work.

I've also done some work on the back bar; just need to get some pics uploaded.

Pay however much extra it cost and have it delivered to the basement. Worth every penny. If need be, find some, uh, "temporary workers" and pay them to do it.


There are two poles that define the entrance to behind the bar. I don't need to hang anything off them so my plan is to simply use the pole wraps you can get at the big boxes and stain to match.

You may want to enlist BIG to design something a little more substantial.

...and back to page three today. Sheeesh.

It's not that nothing is getting done, it's nothing picture worthy. And I'm working on a little project that I'm NOT going to show until it's done. I AM trying to document this little project.


But I know why this taking so long. I spent 7 hours in the basement on Friday and could barely move on Saturday. It was 5 o'clock before I got down there on Saturday, and then I could only stand for an hour. Then Sunday was leaf raking and final lawn mowing day because once the Christmas lawn decorations go up, the lawn isn't getting cut again.

Again, not nothing. I've been working on my little secret project.

AND, I THINK I'm through with the table saw. I bought all the 3/4 oak trim fro the bar and ripped 45s in the corner pieces. I bought 7 8-foot lengths thinking that should be enough to trim out the entire bar. Three lengths ripped with 45 on one side is enough to do all of the outside corners. Thinking I was done, I looked around and saw the back bar. Which, being pushed over to the wall and used as a table, I had completely forgotten about. Turns out, I had just enough on-hand to rip the outside corners for that, too. So now I need to get more for the straight trim. Probably 8 more to do both.

SO I SHOULD be able to put the table saw away and make a dump run next weekend to have the space cleaned up to start actually, you know, FINISHING the theater area. THEN finish the rest of the room.

So.....question......
Sanding and staining will be up shortly. Is it better to sand and stain an 8 foot piece of trim and then cut it to size, or cut everything to size and THEN sand and stain?

Thanks. That's the way I've been leaning. Seems like it would be easier to handle smaller pieces, too.