modom wrote:
>
> 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.

Oh, ok. So you sort of had to do it, hardwoods or not, eh? Bummer...

>
> 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!

Oh, am I that transparent?!? Shucks!
-L.