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Sunday at 6:10, lots accomplished

2/11/2013

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Reclaiming wood , removing Old nails, screws, Staples. Siri has her ways. My hands are still affected by carpal tunnel small tasks like typing are difficult, using voice command. Used saw horses to paella like materials production wise, went pretty fast. Nail pulling pliers Jean gave me a few years ago works well to pull the nail through instead of pulling it out from front with claw hammer.
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Kitchen floor has vinyl over 1/4" sub Flooring then another layer of floor tile. Before mentioned technique of sawing through Top layer with a for mentioned Technique of using circular saw worked great. Bottom layer of tile much more challenging due to the tiny long staples used to attach subflooring over old tile.
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Ta da! good-sized sheets of flooring remove first .
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I find it best to remove long tiny staples that held down the first two layers and then using wide putty knife tap and scrape up the bottom tile layer. Fortunately the rest of her floors came up Easily. This will take a while.
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Removing first two layers of flooring in bathroom I will have to remove the sink and toilet.
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Foundation under toilet will need to be reinforced, not sure if I will use the same commode or get a taller one for by old-age.
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