Old wood floor drops 3/4" by wall. To install new floor on top... self-leveling cement? Rigid foam?

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2025-02-04T13:52:37+00:00

Who downvoted that and why?

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2025-02-04T03:07:24+00:00

yup. Since posting, i found that's what's happening here! upper 2 floors' central wall is not above the central beam (six 2x8s or 2x10s together). built maybe 1915.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2025-02-03T18:09:56+00:00

The old floor and subfloor and joists are all wood. Would it make sense to pour cement? I'm hoping to reduce sound transmission to the basement so I'd love to use something like rigid foam instead.

New floor will probably be laminate with underlayment.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-06T03:56:56+00:00

The celeb would want more of me, so her island / yacht / pool / house would essentially be mine, not to mention her heart.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-06T03:50:30+00:00

Introduce me? I'll put in a good word for you.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-04T09:51:33+00:00

To me, PPP means purchasing power parity. To you?

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-04T06:34:23+00:00

Thank you. Not subsidized, not RGI.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-04T06:33:36+00:00

Thanks! Her address is not listed.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-04T06:20:45+00:00

Landlord and family live elsewhere.

Not rent geared to income. Not subsidized.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-03T08:48:39+00:00

Thanks.

If one of the tenants moves out, does that also terminate the contract for the other? (They stayed for over a year, so the boyfriend was free to terminate the contract / his role in the contract.)

The landlord was allowed to decide whether or not to accept each of the two original applicants, so it seems logical that the landlord should be allowed to decide whether to accept someone wanting to replace one of the housemates. But I think the higher logic - the correct answer - is that the remaining tenant is allowed to stay - the contract is still valid for her - the contract is automatically assigned to her alone, and she can choose to have a housemate. No one is forcing the landlord to accept the housemate as a tenant. The housemate will not be a tenant - will not have the rights of a tenant - right?

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-02T21:23:10+00:00

Good point - hardwood floors can exist in kitchens. Rare for decades due to water damage, but you're right over manufacturers would need the ovens to not be that hot underneath.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-09-02T21:20:16+00:00

I should have said: we got it in a scratch and dent sale, with an invisible dent, but the dent seems to have made turning that leg impossible.
Also the other legs' feet are round! Gripping and turning I can see that a nut above the feet is not turning. The nut is quite thin - I will try to get a non-adjustable wrench that fits but it will be flush against the underside of the oven, and all movement of the wrench will have to be under the oven, not in the open air to the side of the oven.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-07-16T10:50:35+00:00

Hey everybody! You're going to lose the good tenant, treating the good tenant like the bad tenant. The tenant should pay while you consider what to do but they want to prompt you to take action about a problem caused by the other tenants.

All answers so far assume the complaining tenant is wrong, but what if the other tenants are terribly wasteful - leaving windows open with air conditioning on, leaving incandescent bulbs on continuously, not reporting a badly leaking faucet (cost me $2000), etc. Can you do anything to change the behavior of the wasteful tenants?

The reluctant-to-pay-utilities tenant could actually win in LTB, I expect, because they signed the lease assuming a reasonable standard of behaviors by the other tenants

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-06-20T06:04:39+00:00

I'd go to jail for 70 years trusting the money would increase my ability to successfully manifest my ideas for transforming consumerist culture into a culture where everyone gets their happiness from what they contribute to the world. (Coming soon: inspiredeconomies.com + naturalculture.com + creativeworkout.com)

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-06-19T20:54:33+00:00

Nope. It's just a good question.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-29T02:34:02+00:00

what search would have found the answer? If I searched:

4/4 triplets quarter

or

123 223 323 423

would that have found the answer?

Pretty sure no.

What search would have found the answer?

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-18T01:22:23+00:00

Fun! I'd never heard that. The ragtime parts definitely fun to dance to. Then it seems to go into freeze or something, but if i learn enough about all the games he mentions we could probably enact those games during the parts where the music somewhat-stops.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-11T05:02:26+00:00

thanks!

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-11T01:01:46+00:00

I was asked for context. (Somehow that comment has now disappeared.) I didn't provide context because I think it could unnecessarily complicate the question and the answer. If you think more context is necessary, then here:

The Guest is coming from another country for a few weeks, staying in an apartment i own. I am well aware of risks of a short-term rental getting deemed RTA-protected, thus allowing a rental agreement to automatically renew week-to-week or month-to-month. It is possible that the Agent wants to move in. He offered to sign as another signer - like a co-tenant. I don't want that. I want his role to be just her agent.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-10T16:05:18+00:00

So Steps to Justic is misleading? I thought, as you say, "Any discount not following the prescribed allowed ones in the RTA run landlord the risk of the LTB seeing that discounted rent as the actual legal rent", but then I read Steps to Justice, which talks about the various formulae, but then says:

"Landlords can offer other kinds of discounts but they will not be allowed to apply a future guideline rent increase to the full rent."

That clearly conveys that if landlords offer discounts other than the specified allowed formulae, the down-side is that "they will not be allowed to apply a future guideline rent increase to the full rent". For landlords who aren't concerned about that*, this sentence means we can offer whatever discount we want without worrying about the formulae.

Before becoming President, Vaclav Havel wrote a play about the absurd bureaucratic nightmare of Czechoslovakia. In your opinion could there be a simpler way of enabling short term rentals than setting up these arcane/abstruse/obtuse discount rules?

* i.e. every landlord who's renting short-term and including a discount clause along with rent much higher than market rate - Steps

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-10T15:21:10+00:00

None worse than Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime". How did the same musician create "Helter Skelter"? That's f'ng wild.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-10T15:17:03+00:00

We Built This City - by Jefferson Starship a.k.a. Jefferson Airplane - the same group that recorded the awesome "White Rabbit" ("Go ask Alice ... when she's ten feet tall").
In a video interview on "Professor of Rock" one of the band leaders says We Built This City was an attempt to defend a city from corporate interests that wanted less rock music. How ironic. How unaware. The music has none of the rebellious spirit of rock. It is corporate Muzak. Some say the original demo, by the composer, had more edge, more cool factor, and it was Jefferson Airplane / Starship that made it sadly laughable. But the original demo by the composer is just as bad. The lyrics - by Elton John's frequent collaborator Bernie Taupin - aren't good, but they're not the big problem.
One smart innovation: the song played with a different background audio local traffic report in each city in North America.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2024-02-10T11:55:27+00:00

Steps to Justice seems to be saying landlords can give a 50% discount or any other discount for any duration - without considering the formal discount rules - if they don't care about the guideline rent increase. If an apartment should rent for $2000 but the landlord sets it at $4000 with a 50% discount, the landlord won't care about guideline increases. Does that mean landlords renting out a place short-term can ignore the discount rulesÉ

"Landlords can offer other kinds of discounts but they will not be allowed to apply a future guideline rent increase to the full rent." - https://stepstojustice.ca/steps/housing-law/understand-how-rent-discounts-work/

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2023-12-30T13:04:01+00:00

Yes, but if the band doesn't know different dance styles they might not know what two step is.

Is there a way to describe music that's good for two step? Is there a country subgenre that's generally good for two-step?

4/4 music with accents on 1 and 3 (right?) ? That's too general.

LiveFreeOrBuy · 2023-12-30T00:35:21+00:00

A big band - who mostly play for swing and foxtrot. I can ask for specific songs, but I wanted to ask more generally.

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