Stephen Camardo
rehab techniques for a concrete block framed condo.
Hi - have a few general questions on building on top of concrete block in a condo..1. For flooring - obviously ceramic is ok (directly applied) as well as floating floors. If you did a hardwood floor, would you use s...
Ravi P.
Condo Hardwood Flooring
We would like to install hardwood or laminate flooring into our 2nd floor condo. The only problem the HOA is considering to ban any type of flooring except for carpet in rooms other than the kitchen or bathroom. The...
Christopher Bayes
1" concrete backer behind 1964 tile in bath
We are about to renovate a 1964 house in Florida. When we began chipping off the old 4x4 tile on the bathroom walls we found a slab behind each wall about an inch thick of concrete to which the tiles are adhered to di...
Bryan Wilhelm
Rotted Girder, Sill, Joists
BP,I would like to know what some of you have done with a house that needed all new girders and joists. Specifically, what are the benefits/cost comparisons for putting in all new wood vs. pouring a slab. There is no ...
Ben C.
Commercial Building Wood Vs Concrete. Help needed!
Hello BP Community!I am considering installing a concrete sub floor on a commercial building (instead of your standard TGI framed flooring system). Can you briefly outline the construction the process for installing a...
Janett Fisher
Horrendous cat pee problem
I rented my house to a retired military vet, who claimed he knew what clean meant. When I got the keys to the house back, I had to enter with vesperator masks, as the smell was so bad. The entire house was covered in ...
James Heller
Renovating my townhouse in San Diego
Hey everyone -- I have a ~1000 sqft townhouse (on 2 levels) here in San Diego, and I'm looking to do some updates and modernize the place. The necessities are floors (LVP), windows and paint for the interior. Bonus wo...
Account Closed
SHOULD I MAKE MY TENANT PAY FOR THIS? NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE!
Hello folks,First of all, thank you reading this post, I value everyone's feedback and I would like to see what you think about an issue my tenant called me with last night.STORY: I rent out a single family home to wo...
Sonu Sharma
Recurring Foundation Problem
We have a 1957 built house which had foundation problems when we bought the house in 2016. The house had a crack all the way on one side of the house - stretching from living room, dining, kitchen and bedroom. Our con...
Lei L.
How to fix such a terrible basement in an old house?
This is an old house (Indianapolis area) built in 1930. The basement looks really ugly to me. It's a partial basement. As a newbie, I don't know how these old basements are built. I only saw the concrete basement befo...