MASSIVE THANKS - Home DIY Help!

I'd like to thank Denis (Skoup) and Ursula for the help and taking time out there day to install our floors in our new place. Once again amazing the lengths we as clan members go for each other and especially Skoup for taking the time to help out.

Really amazing to do that and Claire and I couldn't be more appreciative for the effort that you put in!

We will once again repay you with many a dinner invite no doubt and hopefully entertain you guys once we all settled and moved into the place!

Even this small thank you cannot describe the gratitude with all my heart felt sincerity really guy, you helped us with a household milestone without even hesitating!

Just goes to show guys we have something very special, all of us! For this I am extremely appreciative we should never take that fore granted!

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Look great Stu. Is taht the lamenant?

I also wanna do my floors, but fancy a lighter colour.
From what i have heard the wear rate on those lamenant floors is excelent.

It was a moerse plesier Stu, glad we could assist. Hope you guys have a lot of fun in your new house. Just by the way, what is the exact colour of those floors? I would actually not mind getting the same (or something similar) in my one room.

Looks very tidey guys great job! First thing I'm gonna do in my first house aswell :P

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Originally Posted by TygerBS

Look great Stu. Is taht the lamenant?

I also wanna do my floors, but fancy a lighter colour.
From what i have heard the wear rate on those lamenant floors is excelent.

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and cleaner, more hygenic, and and and.

regarding the wear of them, if you have a chair with wheels on it in which you use a lot, for instance the one in front of your pc, then I will suggest you just put a carpet beneath it. I actually messed up my one room's laminate because I did not had a carpet underneath it and ended up replacing the floor there. (then again, I may be slightly heavier than the average person)

On another note, what was the total cost for that floor in that room?

Lol good advice.

Yes i would have my chair there.
I also don't exactly come in light :p

just slightly heavier? :p Yeah Tyger I'd suggest Laminate they very durable provided you maintain and care for them properly. Also so much cleaner than carpets which was what we were going to install! So glad we chose laminate!

@ Skoup if you need help installing let me know :D

@ Russian, Total cost for over 30m sq was 3800.00 including all the fittings and extra's so that is from start to finish...

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Looks very tidey guys great job! First thing I'm gonna do in my first house aswell :P

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No Russian! It should NOT be the first thing you do in your house dude! The first thing you do in your house, especially if you are planning laminate flooring is to take a grinder and grind some grooves in your floor in order to network your whole house. (read this: http://blog.skoups.com/?p=8) then when you have grinded in the grooves in your floor, layed all the Cat5 you can get your hands on, only then do you go and install the laminate flooring over the grooves. Doing it this way round, means you do not need to worry about fugly wires dangling from your ceiling etc. Also, a word of advise, if you do decide to grind the grooves into the floor, if you take two grinder disks and stack them together, and cut the whole depth of the grinder, then the width and depth is just enough to actually allow for 4 to 6 Cat5 cables to be laid neatly in said groove. The groove is also small enough not to impede on the installation of the laminate flooring (and you can just install it over said grooves.)

Looks awesome! Congrats on the new place too.

Sexy color.

Why not CAT6 :p

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Why not CAT6 :p

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You really want to know or are you just bored and looking for an argument? (no, CAT5 remains my suggestion unless you plan to go 10Gbe)

Looks great, Stu! Your home now has an extra bit of specialness and blessing due to the help you received. It makes my heart glad. :)

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Looks great, Stu! Your home now has an extra bit of specialness and blessing due to the help you received. It makes my heart glad. :)

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yip! A little bit more of care and whatnot from friends and family makes it all the more of a special place!

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No Russian! It should NOT be the first thing you do in your house dude! The first thing you do in your house, especially if you are planning laminate flooring is to take a grinder and grind some grooves in your floor in order to network your whole house. (read this: http://blog.skoups.com/?p=8) then when you have grinded in the grooves in your floor, layed all the Cat5 you can get your hands on, only then do you go and install the laminate flooring over the grooves. Doing it this way round, means you do not need to worry about fugly wires dangling from your ceiling etc. Also, a word of advise, if you do decide to grind the grooves into the floor, if you take two grinder disks and stack them together, and cut the whole depth of the grinder, then the width and depth is just enough to actually allow for 4 to 6 Cat5 cables to be laid neatly in said groove. The groove is also small enough not to impede on the installation of the laminate flooring (and you can just install it over said grooves.)

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Thats actually a flippen good tip and one I'l defnitly considder in the future :P

Nice work... looks awesome!

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Originally Posted by Skouperd

No Russian! It should NOT be the first thing you do in your house dude! The first thing you do in your house, especially if you are planning laminate flooring is to take a grinder and grind some grooves in your floor in order to network your whole house. (read this: http://blog.skoups.com/?p=8) then when you have grinded in the grooves in your floor, layed all the Cat5 you can get your hands on, only then do you go and install the laminate flooring over the grooves. Doing it this way round, means you do not need to worry about fugly wires dangling from your ceiling etc. Also, a word of advise, if you do decide to grind the grooves into the floor, if you take two grinder disks and stack them together, and cut the whole depth of the grinder, then the width and depth is just enough to actually allow for 4 to 6 Cat5 cables to be laid neatly in said groove. The groove is also small enough not to impede on the installation of the laminate flooring (and you can just install it over said grooves.)

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Just add sore knees, aching backs and loads of hours to that !!!

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Just add sore knees, aching backs and loads of hours to that !!!

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is that why you didn't come help? nice one! :p ahahhaah

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Just add sore knees, aching backs and loads of hours to that !!!

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That's why we built our house from scratch - got the builder to lay cable piping for networking every room in the house :)

Best thing ever, having a fully networked house.

having wireless best thing ever! :D but yes networked house is a good thing. Just too much to do at this stage so that will fall under phase V of my house plans