F-ing tiresome smug bastard middle class decoration post

[hirez]

Those of you who've braved the M25 forcefield will know that most of the flooring at Squalid Acres is nasty brown crapet. The hall needs sorting out properly, and it seems to me that the only vaguely sensible answer is some flavour of not-crapet.

I think sanding back to the bare boards is out since that'll echo like hell. I'm personally un-keen on laminate because it's going to have to butt up against real floorboards at the door to the front room, and that'll look odd. There's vinyl off a roll like we've got in the decontamination suite, vinyl tiles or Proper Lino.

The tiles and the lino are about the same sort of money, and while the patterns from the mad and tread-plate end of the big book of vinyl tiles are very tempting, the lino is winning.

Unless anyone else has a better idea.

If my posts are echoing, it's because they're coming from a stupidly large HD that I'll never manage to fill. Not unlike the previous two stupidly large HDs that I was never going to fill. Until I did. This one's five times the size of the previous example and I think was twenty quid less. Mad. Of course I had to change the m/b at the same time, which is nice in a kind of much quieter and at least four times the horsepower of t'other way.

Windows RAID is a bit shonky, isn't it?

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[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Boards + a rug to dampen the sound.

Proper lino is lovely though - nice and thick and warm. But it is £££.

HDs: Alison's McBook crapped out last weekend, so we toddled off to TCR to get a replacement. 60 quid for a 320Gb laptop disk. Tempus fugit!

RAID: Do it in hardware or suffer.

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

Boards + a rug to dampen the sound.

My name is easterbunny, and I approve this DIY endorsement.

I have 3 rooms with sanded bare floorboards, and they look much better than the previous I Can Believe That's Not Wood laminate and manky carpet. There's no problem with echos in the living room or bedroom due to curtains, upholstery, cushions, and what might be termed an unhealthy codependence on red velvet. However, sneezing in the dining room can escalate atmospheric turbulence enough to prompt irate phone calls from highway patrol at Tacoma Narrows. We should probably stick a rug in there.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

In the future I shall leave all my home decorating decisions to the LJ committee. What could possibly go wrong?

I must also admit to a hankering for one of those ethnic rugs with the Russian gunships and Stinger-waving tribal types depicted thereupon. It'll go so well with the Iran Air snowglobe featuring a 747 flying next to the World Trade centre.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh. And. Icon: Watch yer bassbins I'm tellin' yer.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

John & Wendy got Marmoleum (read: proper lino made from linseed oil and digestive biscuits), in tile form, and hold it to be lovely.

Somwehere, I have a set of samples of decent rubber floor-tiles, in UFO-style big round dots and so on. Much rubberier than vinyl. Will try to dig them out.

You could, if you wanted, do it in real alloy tread-plate...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. I've been fondling the Marmoleum sample book. On the other hand, 600 notes for the front hall? I could buy another car for that.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Ow. Don't do that.

We did the sewing room in some kind of sturdy industrial carpet. Cheap, strong, monochrome. Get two colours - black and grey, say - and you could stanley-knife disturbingly non-euclidean stripes into it.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I vote for a tiled entrance. They are easy to install yourself. If you get tiles in a natural-looking design, they won't look out of place next to your natural wood flooring. Easy to clean since it's tile and you can find a nice throw rug to put on top of it (and can easily change the color scheme by getting a different rug).

If you're thinking of the stairs as well ... well, hire a professional. No matter what you pick for the stairs (new carpet, wood laminate, bare board, etc.) it is a bitch of a DIY job.

We have a hardware-based RAID share and it works lovely.

When I said tiles, I meant ...

[jendama.livejournal.com]

... ceramic or stone ones, not laminate ones. Just so you know.

[reddragdiva]

If you must use software RAID, at least make it Leengux or BSD.

[spride.livejournal.com]

> Windows RAID is a bit shonky, isn't it?

s/RAID //

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, quite.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

Sanding down to the bare boards will only increase the noise factor for the moles.
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