[Magdalen] Rent.

[Marion Thompson]

What's under it?  Nay!  Consider what is_in_ it!!!! Especially in the 
bedroom.   Dust mites by the billions. Allergens by the ton.  Rip it 
up!!!!  Her strongly-worded advice fell on the deaf ears I was living 
with for another 10 years, but my doctor strongly advised that the 
bedroom carpet be removed so that my endless sinus-y bronchial whatevers 
would stop.  She reckoned that it was all allergy generated.  I reckon 
she was right.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 8/5/2016 5:00 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Our entire upstairs (except bathrooms) is carpeted, and the carpet is
> GROSS. I shudder to think, however, what's under it. Only the floors in the
> living room, which we don't use, and the TV room, which functions as our
> living room, are hardwood. The entryway is linoleum and the kitchen/dining
> area is a hideous mauve-colored ceramic tile. The builder constructed this
> place out of leftovers or whatever he could, um, appropriate from building
> sites he was working on. S/O maintains that he also apparently constructed
> the place without a plumb line.....
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yes it is : )
>>
>> Slabs can be quite interesting too... plumbing is cemented in while the
>> slab is poured.... depending on the soil condition (we have a strong sand/
>> clay mix in this part of the state), extreme drying out can cause the
>> 'hourglass effect' where the clay dries out and the sand moves into the
>> voids... causing damage to the slab... we've always been told to water the
>> perimeter of our homes weekly during the hot weather.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>
>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
>> by Richard Rohr
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 3:05 PM
>> To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Rent.
>>
>> I admit it took me more than one annual visit to our Benedictine
>>> community's abbey (a large home in Houston, with a two-story "great
>>> room" that has been fitted out as the oratory) before I realized there
>>> is no basement. :)
>>>
>>> I guess I visualized and assumed a basement was there but eventually
>>> decided I had never figured out where the door to the stairs was and
>>> had never heard of anyone going down there. It's a different climate
>>> and geological/geographical category there, from here between a Great
>>> Lake and the midwestern prairies.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All the homes I've lived in in Detroit suburbs and in Syracuse had
>>>> carpeted hardwood throughout. The kitchen floors were also hardwood covered
>>>> with linoleum. It wasn't until into the 70s that it started changing to
>>>> plywood. Down here in southern TX most homes constructed since 60s are on a
>>>> cement slab first floor and plywood upstairs.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>>
>>