[Magdalen] Rent.

[Marion Thompson]

The bedroom floor was plywood sheeting under this newer part of the old 
house, but he wasn't interested in doing anything at all about the 
carpet we inherited from the previous owners, or maybe even the fellow 
who did the original work..  I'd have been happy to live with the 
plywood sheeting if removing it stopped there, but,  oh well.  Ancient 
history.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 8/5/2016 6:21 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Can't afford to until I get some money back from that money pit in
> Tennessee, which must still go through probate (don't ask!). Then we can do
> some things on this one.
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>