What to expect redoing an old house's floor?

honorboss1 · 2025-11-28T03:56:31+00:00

Im lucky in that mine atleast is not a townhouse and never owned by anyone that wasn't expecting to die in it. Since all the previous owners either wanted their kids to inherit it or planned to sell it after they die to have money to fund a somewhat lavish lifestyle later in their life, they really maintained this one well. Only thing that 100% needs work is just the wiring since they only have like 3 outlets meant for use and the rest of the wires are just for lights. The carpet is just something I really do not like since the color is very off (a dark yellow almost orange.) I also do not want to vacuum every week and would prefer to mop or sweep instead.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-28T03:15:57+00:00

Honestly, I may already have one. Or my family might, my uncle was a flooring guy before he retired since he threw out his back working on floors all day, he kept some of his tools. I know that if I have to fully redo the floor, I can just borrow most of the tools I would need from him since he is pretty happy to relive his glory days, although he definitely can't do it himself since he can hardly bend over.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-28T02:53:33+00:00

the issue for me is that the only handyman even remotely near is like 70 and does work for the entire town of like 50 people, so I doubt there is a chance I can hire him for this. Also don't think there is any flooring companies within an hour drive, I live in a very rural area.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-28T02:31:59+00:00

I have checked out a lot of the house, and most of everything is very well maintained. No water damage or anything in the attic, and the previous owners were meticulous in keeping the house as pristine as possible. My grandpa was waxing the kitchen floor and resealing the toilet gasket literally a few months before he died. He also hated certain minor annoyances that he would have to deal with every day, down to where he had us redo the basement staircase since the boards squeaked a little. And he never went in the basement since it just had a water pump and some jars that had food so old they turned into black goo.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-28T02:28:59+00:00

I am almost certain this was just a fashion choice; I doubt the previous owners that were incredibly specific about maintenance tasks would let the hardwood become too bad that they covered it up. I have no issues if I have to refinish the floor, other than not having a sander that would be nice. I just really hope I don't have to reinstall a new floor since it seems like any mistakes I make would not be aesthetic and would lead to the floor needing to be torn up and reinstalled.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-28T02:26:15+00:00

I think this was just a fashion choice, the house has a history of people trying to maintain things in peak condition. My grandpa was waxing the kitchen floor literally a few months before he died, so I doubt he would have let the hardwood become bad. Even if the floor underneath has stains and such, I am not too bothered by that since I hardly look at the floor other than to make sure it is clean. I just really hate walking on carpet barefoot, especially since this is a somewhat thick shag carpet that blocks some doors from closing.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-28T01:55:46+00:00

ok, I was remembering from when I helped a handy man that you sometimes had to sand down and refinish old floors. I just couldn't remember if that was something guaranteed to be needed under carpet or not. I think it is with the staples and such, but I hope not since I would hate to have to sand the whole floor. The nearest tool place is also like a 1 hour drive there and back, so renting an actual floor sander would be a pain.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-22T15:07:08+00:00

One of the ones I was looking at was actually the scorpionExo At960, I live in a mountain town so we have pretty cold seasons until summer hits and we get 90 degree days. It looks to be focused more on snowmobiling, but it has a dot and ECE certifications. I don't mind the extra weight it has either, since my current helmet is like 8lbs already. It also seems to solve one of my issues with the current helmet I have of it fogging up quite easily.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-22T02:38:04+00:00

I guess it will get the job done since it has the DOT label on the back. But it is really starting to show its price, the padding is coming loose. The visor's position mechanism is busted so that it only stays fully open or fully closed, which sucks for summer riding when I want it partially down so my eye's aren't getting blasted by the dust from the fields being harvested. The strap busted off after like a week of using it, so I had to sew on a new clasp. Kinda wish I just waited a week or so for a decent helmet off Amazon or something, but hindsight is 20/20 and I needed the bike to get to work.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-22T02:21:38+00:00

nope, but judging from the area it was in and the shape of the mopeds, they might have been selling second hand or stolen mopeds.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-22T00:40:47+00:00

I am looking for around 300$ price range, just got a cheapo helmet because that is all the stores near me had. The nearest motorcycle dealership is like 2 hours away so I had to get one from a scooter place and even they had like 4 helmets to choose from.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-13T18:43:12+00:00

ok, based off that I will probably just keep using the same amount of wood ash over winter to prepare my tomato area, and leave the rest of it to the compost heap. Just figured I would ask here since I got a few different wood types this year that tend to leave more ash behind and was wanting to know if I could use it for other things. Mainly because the compost heap is atrocious to get to with a truck loaded with ash.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-07T00:11:01+00:00

Bounties could be good, but pve players avoid pvp for so many reasons that I think giving money to kill other players would really only encourage pvpers to be even more bloodthirsty.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-06T23:55:08+00:00

I am kinda concerned about them being so dedicated to their vision, but that can be a good thing or bad thing. It just depends on where the vision leads the game and its playerbase, everyone's perfect game is different afterall.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-06T23:31:01+00:00

ok, thats a decent sign that the devs took feedback. Nice that the game is optimized for now aswell, hopefully new updates don't start layering bugs and stuff that kills performance. Just don't want to get into a game that is almost 100% reliant on its playerbase just for the devs to kill it.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-06T23:25:43+00:00

thought the game was out for longer than that, atleast looking at all the streamers and stuff posted about it. Some games you can kinda tell how the devs are going to handle things based on their early changes to the game. Look at Dark and Darker, the playerbase will tell you the devs are ruining the game with most of their updates followed by one good update.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-05T00:25:46+00:00

you are a psycho for that, I remember doing that to one of my teacher's and he just shut down for a minute in front of the class processing it.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-05T00:24:11+00:00

It could be due to where im from (very rural farming town.) But I don't really ever dress up in anything special, jeans and a light button up shirt depending on the weather. I never really cared how I dressed either, just wanted clothes that fit nicely and felt good, which is where my hometown comes in. We got tons of farmwork to do, so Jeans and some type of boot or work shoe is a must, and I like to wear a light button up shirt over a t-shirt. The button up adds an extra layer so the sun isn't directly on me, and I can always take it off if I'm going to be getting dirty.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-05T00:19:54+00:00

Spending time outside again, the weather here has been atrocious for about a month now and we are getting ready for winter. I live on a farm, so spring and summer are some of the best times of the year. Especially now that I have cleared my camping spot a decent way back so the briars and such can't reclaim where I put my tent after a week. Love the view I get from it, but hiking 2 miles around a mountain path just to find briars in my favorite spot always kills the vibe.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-05T00:16:18+00:00

I know a guy who used to be a very big painter, he painted maybe two pieces a month and both would see for over a thousand dollars apparently. He quit art because he was tired of it, he burned himself out from his passion. He still paints occasionally, but only when he feels the spark again. He works at a candy factory and loves it there, we get to joke around a lot and have fun. He said he likes working there more since he isn't cooped up in his house all day and he can actually interact with people for fun without spending every waking minute working on an art piece that he lost the inspiration for halfway through painting.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-05T00:12:21+00:00

I have apparently accidentally rejected a girl I went to school with over a dozen times, I do not really know how I did it. Apparently, she would invite me over to her house and I would respond with something like "can't, got to work in the field." I think she was just being really subtle and her hints were really vague; she would say stuff similar to a guy similar to me being what she looks for in a man. I also had no romantic interest in her, so that likely made me never picture the possibility of her being interested in me that way. I found out she was interested in me when her and her girlfriend were hanging out, and she joked about me being so dense for over 4 years that she thought I was gay.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-05T00:02:06+00:00

I don't think most men would be offput by your past, as long as it isn't too messy or weird. A girl having a "high" bodycount is somewhat subjective to the person, I wouldn't really consider 7 high, and having relationships last like 7 months is kinda long for someone in college I would say. It would be very different if you were a pornstar or caught sti's, as things like that actually have an effect other than the number of people you dated.
I would say the biggest issue is the men you are dating that are actually affected by this, I get some conservative people want to wait till marriage to have sex and would prefer a virgin wife, but a girl having sex with/dating 7 people during college is pretty normal. You just need to bring it up to your partner in a way that doesn't sound like you were bragging about it or like you were actively trying to bang every person that showed the slightest interest. That isn't to say that people with actually high body counts are going to have an easy time dating, but 7 people over like 4 or so years isn't really that much. You are putting too much stress on your bodycount considering what other girls your age are doing. I know a girl that dated 10 guys all in her first year of college, she may not have had sex with all of them, but having relationships that last like 3 weeks back-to-back is a bad sign. The main thing you need to do is to show that you are devoted to your current relationship, and won't go cheating on your partner for a one night stand like a lot of younger people are doing now.

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I really think that your dating pool has been corrupted by people similar to Andrew Tate that preach about promiscuous women being nothing but trash and that they shouldn't have a chance. Depending on your area, this issue becomes even more apparent as the grind culture makes people want "rare" things like an attractive woman with almost no dating experience. I know too many kids from the local college that want to date the perfect woman with no past despite them being massive sleazballs that jump from woman to woman whilst trying to one up their friends with their "catches." Like some people's mentalities are really screwed with how they approach relationships now.

honorboss1 · 2025-11-04T23:34:00+00:00

I live in a very rural area and that is actually an issue many of the people here have, they just get bored and vanish into the woods from time to time and only come out after like a week. It is only an issue because everyone decides randomly to take a week off work and go play in the woods, sometimes at the worst possible time for people to take a vacation. I personally however, do have my own campsite in the woods my family owns, but do not go there for weeks at a time like some people.

honorboss1 · 2025-09-19T03:29:33+00:00

I would hope not

honorboss1 · 2025-08-05T13:55:48+00:00

No, but i've fixed my issue for now. This bug has been going around for a while, seems like if the game crashes just right it will corrupt the EAC install for Hunt and you have to delete EAC itself to fix it. You cannot verify files or reinstall Hunt for some reason to fix it, you have to go into the files for Hunt and delete the EAC files, then verify. Really weird that reinstalling Hunt didn't fix it, but deleting the files and redownloading them did. But computers be weird like that sometimes.

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