Warped parquet flooring

Thanks for the suggestions... I had this happen before when the waste pipe to a butler's sink leaked and it was easily repaired by a floor crew my gc brought in while we did some touch up maintenance. I would go with them again, but while they did a great job on the repair, they did a poor job refinishing my modern kitchen floor and a very poor job of replacing a few boards in the dining room as per my original post... I let them install two larger thickness boards on the threshold between the dining room and kitchen, but would not let them do the same for a damaged board more toward the center of the dining room floor where it would look so completely out of place as to be risible due to the thickness issue and the fact that the color and grain were not properly matched.

For now, my plan is to air the room out and keep the heavy objects in place for a few weeks slowly moving them onto the warped portion in the hope that this will squeeze them back into shape. Has anyone tried this? I'm also thinking about getting a steam iron or some other steam shooting device and seeing if I can heat them up and coax them back into place like a wooden ship builder. Has anyone tried this?

Posted by: SJ at August 5, 2008 4:01 PM in response to Warped parquet flooring

I've been many times and enjoyed brunch as well as dinner. I like the guacamole, although I would question the comparability to Rosa Mexicano without a side by side challenge. I certainly think that it is better than Maria's, and at least on par with Alma (I am still not happy about the recent menu change... The grilled shrimp were excellent). I have had the huevos rancheros which were quite good, as well as the steak which was excellent and the salmon which was quite good as well. My only complaint was the soft tacos instead of chips with the guacamole and last time I was there, they served chips...

The service has always been great when I was there and they have always been incredibly accommodating and friendly.

Lastly, as a life long resident of park slope, it is really great to see a restaurant in that space that is not only really good, but has a decent shot of prospering... Please, no more nail salons, even if they have free drinks with your manicure.

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Posted by: SJ at August 6, 2008 2:31 PM in response to Restaurant of the Day: Barrio

I had this done some years back and the whole process is very messy. They came in and drained the oil from the tank, then they had to cut it up into 4 pieces to get it out of the basement. After that, they completely drained the water from the system, disassembled the oil burner and took it out of the basement. Then they had to turn off the gas where it came into the house, run a sufficiently large enough gas pipe to the boiler location and install the new gas boiler.

It took about five hours. I am not sure what the cost was, 1.5-2k comes to mind but I can't recall for sure. Also, I got the boiler for free from keyspan as an inducement to switch. I am not sure if this program still exists though.

Posted by: SJ at August 13, 2008 11:26 AM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

This guy is really too much. Just stop. Everytime you post, you turn more and more potential customers off. You just need to accept the fact that all these posts were a series of incredibly big mistakes and that by continuing you are only digging yourself a deeper hole. Please, just stop.

Posted by: SJ at September 27, 2008 1:45 PM in response to ALLSTAR LOCKSMITH

The term 11th street basin refers to the small canal coming off of the gowanus at 11th street. In this context, a basin is a small canal that boats can lay up in and allow other boats to pass and/or turn themselves around. It is analogous to a railroad siding.

Posted by: SJ at October 6, 2008 9:23 AM in response to 11th Street Basin

Finstraw,

The google map you are looking at is incorrect. Click on the satellite image and you will see the basin extending into the canal on what would be the extension of 11h street.

Posted by: SJ at October 6, 2008 4:33 PM in response to 11th Street Basin

There is absolutely no reason that your modem would have to be located in any particular place in your home, except that the installer was either incompetent or too lazy to run the necessary cables or make sure that your home has enough bandwidth coming in from the street.

I would suggest calling them back and having them send someone else to properly wire your home.

That being said: I use a D Link DGL - 4500 on the third floor and am able to get a signal in the basement.

If you can't get them to install the modem in a more convenient place and the signal is bad, you can get a wireless range extender like a DAP-1522 (I haven't used this model) and put it on the first or second floor.

Lastly, if you're using a cordless phone with your service, you may get interference in your wireless network. I would suggest using a 5.8 ghz phone system and a 2.4 ghz wireless router to avoid these problems.

Posted by: SJ at October 13, 2008 9:34 AM in response to Extended range wireless router?

That does not make sense to me, but I probably don't fully understand your situation. All you need for the modem is a cable connected to the cable company's system and power. If you already have a cable coming into the house on an upper floor, all you would need to do is get a splitter and hook up the modem there.

Posted by: SJ at October 13, 2008 9:57 AM in response to Extended range wireless router?

You're talking about a complete conversion from a oil system to a gas heating system right?
Just yesterday, I was quoted 5500-7000. If you need a hot water boiler too that would be an extra 700. This includes carting away the gas tank too and a discounted boiler from Keyspan. It doesn't include asbestos removal if you have that stuff on your pipes which you need to have taken care of before anyone will work on your heating system.

Posted by: helppls at August 13, 2008 11:58 AM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

Oh and the inspector had mentioned something about if your current gas line is not big enough (or something,) they need to dig out to the street to replace that. But that would be an extra 10k. Maybe someone here can explain this better as I was overwhelmed with info during the inspection.

Posted by: helppls at August 13, 2008 12:04 PM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

I am pretty sure that the gas company is responsible for the gas into the house(and so is the electric company for electricity). the only one who you are responsible for getting into your house is the water company...once its in your house with all of them its your responsibility.

We had 4 people working here 8 hours each just to put in the gas water heater. The boiler was disassembled but hasn't been removed yet.

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 13, 2008 3:23 PM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

thanks

Posted by: bayridgegirl at August 14, 2008 10:09 AM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

That quote for $5500 - $7000 sounds too good to be true. I have received quotes for $20,000 plus to convert a single oil fired steam system to individual (2) gas boilers (circulating hot water system)with hot water heaters. I have a two family that I would like to have the tenants now become repsonsible for their own heat and hot water.

Posted by: wingo947 at August 14, 2008 4:59 PM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

Its more expensive to reconfigure a house into two separate systems. The entire house needs to be re plumbed with piping so the heating systems are truly separate. Just replacing the existing boiler and hot water is much less work then setting up two wholly separate systems(the pipes to the radiators need to be replaced to separate them as well as the hot water into the apartments which currently run on one common system, the difference can be more than $10,000 so the lower quote just to replace the boiler and hot water is not that out of line.

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 15, 2008 7:02 AM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

The NY State Public service commission confirms its the Utities responsibility to change the service

Your local gas utility (Con Ed?) is responsible to bring the gas all the way up to and including the gas meter at the building. Anything past the meter is the responsibility of the owner.

Posted by: smeyer418 at August 15, 2008 9:19 AM in response to Replacing Oil Tank

Dear All Star Shlocksmith, er... All Star Shmucksmith, er... allstarlocksmith...
Excuse me...I seem to be having trouble typing today.
How unfortunate to be the owner of a security company with such serious security problems as your own. Not a very good advertisement for the services you're peddling. I guess that explains the sale. I can only imagine how it feels for you as an owner to see some chump posting such annoying trash using your name. Certainly no decent business owner, or any owner in their right mind would annoy potential customers the way the chump-poser-supposed owner of your business is annoying readers of this forum. Certainly no decent business owner would assault a community forum with spam directly linked to his own business. Certainly no decent smart intelligent business owner would ever invest good money in the trash graphics that are being posted on this site under your name. Certainly all smart intelligent decent business owners understand that when they post on a public site, they have to live with the results of their public invitation to comment on services and charges--the good, bad, and according to more than one responder, apparently terrible. Oh, woe is you! To have to hired such a chump and given him your name and password, unlimited internet access, and to have him on your payroll too. Does it take one to know one in your business, or is it possible there's a chump check-off line on your job application?

Posted by: vinca at September 27, 2008 2:19 PM in response to ALLSTAR LOCKSMITH

Aha! I guess that's the one right next to the dump and lowes - Thanks for the info.

Posted by: Green Roof Guy at October 6, 2008 2:37 PM in response to 11th Street Basin

Really? because Google maps, Probably might be a little inaccurate only mentions the basin between 6th and 7th Avenue, strangely says only "11th street" between 5th and 6th, unlike other streets which only mention street names between 4th and 5th, and 6th and seventh.

Posted by: funstraw at October 6, 2008 3:29 PM in response to 11th Street Basin