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The wood is used for flooring in U.S. and European markets where it is commonly sold under different names. Both licensed and unlicensed mills harvest the wood.

Ile · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:50 am Post subject:

Thanks for information.

Tedd · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 156 Location: Ontario

Ever consider bamboo flooring? Lots of different looks and very affordable.

Ile · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:40 am Post subject:

Tedd · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 156 Location: Ontario

Bamboo is starting to get very popular here, judging by a local Home Show we attended yesterday. We must have seen at least a hundred different looks, patterns, and colours there. There was even Bamboo plywood and cabinetry built out of bamboo.

Bamboo is very stable and we have been told the boards can be glued down, or nailed. It is also available as interlocking floating floor. I doubt termites would be interested in it either, as it is very dense, as it is produced under high pressure and heat and uses plastic resins. Wink

A friend used it for his riser (which is about the size of our rooms). The lower level is carpetted. Didn't sound all that appealing to me when he told me of his plans, but when I saw it, I was very impressed!

Ile · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:22 pm Post subject:

Then it will be next year boom here, now it's only few different looks, patterns, and colours available locally. Actually it could be quite good for riser, because it can be attached straight to struttings no need for boarding like some other stuff.

It's so damn cold here that we don't have termites. Thumbs Up

Tedd · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 156 Location: Ontario

That's how it started off here.

We can hit -40 here occassionally and there's still termites.

magnamargret · Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 1

The wood can also be used to extract a dye. Merbau can contain a "gold" fleck that runs through the grain, considered to be attractive by some. Due to extensive logging of the tree, it is endangered in many places in Southeast Asia, and almost extinct in some.

Merbau

Ile · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject:

Installed outgoing air duct silencer to crawl space and insulated it few weeks ago. Yesterday I got ceiling and wall insulation ready. Just in time, tomorrow it should go below -10° C. Now it's bit warmer to install sheetrocks to ceiling.

Ile · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:05 pm Post subject:

Been busy with snow lately, but have got also something ready at theater room. Installed sheetrocks to ceiling and started to chisel old cellar ceiling. 4" concrete isn't actually so hard to brake just with sledge hammer that I thought. Picture is taken after about one hour beating. Very Happy

Took also winter shot from back yard terrace for perisoft, picture wont show that there is about 2 feet of snow now.

Ile · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:48 am Post subject:

Got cellar ceiling removed and started to lower cellar inner masonry to below new floor level.
Bad news is that two outer walls have also concrete wall between inner masonry and outer masonry. I need to get also that lowered to new floor level, it could be problematic without destroying outer masonry. I guess I need to rent concrete saw for that.

dturco · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:43 pm Post subject:

Ile could you draw a cross section of what you started off with? I'm having a hard time figuring out what was the ceiling for the basement. Was it only 1.5 meters deep? Was it just for storage or are those pictures just throwing things out of perspective?

Ile · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:51 pm Post subject:

dturco · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject:

Doah

It was soooo long ago I forgot. Twisted Evil

Ile · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:31 pm Post subject:

Little cut off sawing today.

That was mother of all power tools, want my own K960 with 16" diamond blade! Laughing

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5321

Sweet! Hopefully you had hearing protection in...or you will be only watching movies in the new thater and not listening to them. Laughing

Ile · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:25 am Post subject:

Sure, I used earplugs all day.

Also used full-faced fresh air respirator, because of saw exhaust gases. There is that orange spiral hanging from ceiling in some of my previous pictures, that is for breathing air from compressor through filters.

There was no concrete dust because saw have water connection.

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Ile · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:04 pm Post subject:

I beat brick wall down between garage and storage room and installed new ventilation pipes for remaining cellar.

Next I should bear all those bricks and concrete blocks from cellar to somewhere. There's few cubic meters of that crap. Thumbs Down