Flooring

Polyurethane will give a long lasting easy to apply finish. Use a water based polyurethane ans clean up will be much easier. You should get years of wear from a good polyurethane finish.

If the length of the ramp is L feet, then tan(20) = 18/L

so that L = 18/tan(20) = 49.45 feet.

For beautiful wood floors, use Orange Glow (C) And Armstrong (C) floor cleaner works great on tile! Hope it helped!!

$175 - $500 depending on how bad it is still stuck and the contractor

There are 4 6X6 tiles per sq foot. So looks like 4 tiles X 5 Feet=20 tiles.

Would greatly depend on how many feet in a box. Not all makers pack the same amount, so you would just have to divide 240 by # of feet in box. You will want to add about 10% for waste.

Grout is very porous, and will stain fairly easily. Anything that can stain can be recolored.

Getting the color deep enough or getting the shade right will be very difficult, but it could be done. Stop by a paint store or a home center & find someone with enough gray hair to know how to match colors without the computer & ask them.

Try whatever remedy you come up with under the fridge or stove & make sure you like what you get.

As for damaging the tile, ceramic & porcelain are basically glass & you can get very aggressive with removing any oops or boo boo's. This will turn into a job you will wish you had never started but you did ask.

Another possibility is to have an installer regrout for you. Lots more money but more permanent results.

Try WD 40 and a nylon sink sponge. Start lightly, not much good in removing the paint and scratching the floor. Some laminate will take this abuse some won't.

Every species you can imagine & some you cant has & is used in flooring.

Oak, Walnut, Maple, Birch, mahogany, Teak & Pine are probably in the top 5 but may exotic species from the rain forest are used these days as well.

Solid Wood: today most people consider solid logs cut to size and finished with a Tongue & a groove to be "Real wood" usually at least 3" wide & at least 3/8" thick. sizes bigger that 4" are called planks & thicknesses from 5/8" up to 1 1/4" are all common & readily available. Almost all solid wood floors require nailing to keep the wood in place ad they are still very susceptible to swelling in the wet & heat & shrinking apart in the cool & the dry.

Engineered Wood: Looks like Plywood (it's NOT) with one side finished with a high quality species & a great factory applied finish and or stain.

The engineered wood starts with anywhere from 3-10 layers of veneer glued together under very high heat & pressure. The top layer is usually the most premium of all the veneers & is often thicker than all the rest.

The veneer, boards are referred to as engineered, since they are man made and built for a specific purpose, like flooring.

Engineered wood is actually harder, stronger & much more stable than the same thickness of solid wood. It can also be glued down in areas where nailing is not possible like slab floors & basements.

Engineered wood also resists swelling & bowing, because the layers are rotated in different directions as the boards are laid up before they are heated & pressed together.

Environmentally the engineered wood uses less wood & the veneering process leaves almost no wasted wood and no sawdust.

Once its on the floor even most experts cant tell the difference & the price is about the same for a good solid or a top of the line engineered.

Save the money, the swelling & cracking and the forest & go with the engineered if you find a color or style that you like.

There are 9 (4X4) tiles in one square foot and you have 25 sq feet. Multiply 25 by 9 and the answer is 225.

an average price to seal a floor properly is 1.00 per sq.ft. plus the cost of sealer used.

This is a very poor answer, it depends greatly on what kind of tile, the use, how much & in what city.. Use average if you like, but on average your going to right as much as your wrong & that IS no way to run an airline! Grumble, grumble & dissent!

What is under the linoleum? If it is stuck down well, you can put new tiles on there once. However, if you get to "the bottom of things," you may be able to fill in any dips in the floor and correct any other issues that will make your vinyl tiles look even better. It will take elbow grease and a crowbar and some major adhesive remover to take off the linoleum, but it can be done.

If you choose to tile over the linoleum, make sure it is super clean and free of any grease.

There are 144 18 square inch tiles in an area of 18 square feet.

If the pool is TEN feet long and FIVE feet wide andeach tile is ONE square foot. TEN times FIVE is FIFTY. so you would need FIFTY tiles.

This is actually incorrect. If you want to SURROUND the pool, it would be 30 tile, 10+10+5+5. This would not include any flange area on the pool edge, and would only be 1 row of tile. If you are covering a deck area surrounding the pool, more deminsions would be required (such as the width of the deck on each side of the pool). 50 would be correct if you were filling in the floor of the pool.

There are 2.25 square feet in 1 18" x 18" tile.

Counting for NO waste, you would been 71 tile. Since tile this large with surely have some waste you will want to buy around 78 tile.

Gauge in floor tile is the thickness in thousandths of an inch.

.080 is simply 8 one hundredths of an inch or about 1/12th of an inch thick

.125 is 1/8" of an inch so it is 1/8" thick.

Since 12" x 12" tile are 1 square foot, 50 of them would be 50 square feet.

Labor Prices

Fees & charges change from town to town, region to region, the best ways I can suggest to find a good range is :

Run a short ad in Craigslist, that will likely get you someone hungry & maybe unlicensed so you will know the cheapest price.

Then call the local Home Depot or Lowes & ask what they charge if you buy your tile from them???

That will be the highest price in the market

Now you would have a good range & then its time to look for quality & references... a steal on tile or a great price on labor, can be VERY COSTLY if you give the job to a butcher..

My bet will be you will find someone on the low end at about $2 per sq ft & that the depot will be $6-8 bucks a foot after they do all the add ins...

Get it in writing...Never pay for it all upfront

The current range for residential wool carpet would run from $20 per yard on the very cheap side to $100 and up. per square yard.. ($2-22 per square foot)

One other comment if I may..

Wool is allergenic to many people & absorbs water/stains like a sponge. If you like the style, color or need the snob appeal of wool, then choose wool. If you want better performance at about half the price, go for a good nylon.

try white vinegar

Try the Magic Eraser. Great for getting scuff marks off base boards; it might work on laminate floor as well.

-- Carol

Cleanicity, Founder

You can use thin-set on the wall, just like the floor. The trowel size is different though. A latex modified thin-set with 3/16 x 5/32 V - notch trowel is most common for tile up to 12" on the wall.

Heres the formula

Length X Width = Sq Feet surface

sq feet X depth ( or decimal equiv if less than a ft)= cubic feet

Then divide cubic feet by 27 to get cubic yards (3X3X3).

smaller tiles would make it look bigger