On 2 Feb 2006 16:28:31 -0800, "-L." > wrote:

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>modom wrote:

>>
>> I just wrote the check for bamboo. But first we have to get the slab
>> leveled. Something about mudjacking.
>
>They had to do all that to put in hardwoods? Why didn't they just
>correct the subflooring?

In our house the floor sits on a slab of concrete. There isn't
anything between the foundation and the floor. The slab was poured in
1952, and the soil around Cow Hill heaves astonishingly with changes
in moisture. Though it has substantial footings and poured beams with
lots of rebar in them (according to the blueprints I have, at least),
the slab has cracked under the stress of the shifting soil. One wall
is sagging visibly so that windows don't function properly in it.
What were rectangles are now parallelograms.

The original cork tile floor was covered over with carpet long before
we bought the house, and we bought it knowing that the slab needed
work. It's pretty obviously uneven. Even thick carpet and a thick
pad below that don't hide the problem.

So Saturday I meet the mudjack man, and we talk turkey. (OBFood)

>Bamboo is nice. Not particularly my taste, but *really* nice. My
>friend has it in natural. I am a Cherry girl, myself.
>
Of course you are!

modom