Ot about colors

My theory is that your odds of winning aren't *that* much different whether you play or not... ;-)

Best wishes, Ericka

Wood over tile is dicier than wood over lino or vinyl.

Best wishes, Ericka

Yes, it can look pretty darned good. However, if you cook much, I'd be cautious about doing it in the kitchen. It is a very durable floor, but it pretty much guarantees that anything you drop on it will break and, more importantly, it is *really* hard to stand on for long periods of time (like tile or any other flooring with no give to it). My parents have tile in their kitchen. It looks nice, but requires more upkeep than I have patience for and whenever I go over there to do some serious cooking it doesn't take long before I'm really feeling some pain. With other rooms, you can get the look but put area rugs wherever you need to, but I wouldn't really want rugs in the kitchen. Mom swears she'll never have a hard floor in a kitchen again.

Best wishes, Ericka

I haven't a clue about the wet solution. I dry swiffer ;-)

Best wishes, Ericka

True, but they are slightly higher if you have a ticket than if you don't, and someone's gotta win.

I only play when the jackpot reaches a certain level, so I'm not spending nearly as much as those who buy a ticket every week, but have better odds than those who never play.

And there was a winner not long ago ... maybe two months? ... who won big the first time they played! Now *that's* what I'd like!!!

Helen

We live in Arizona 6 months of the year and have ceremic tile in the kitchen and family room. It is very hard to stand on for any time at all. We found some foam mat/rugs to put in front of the sink and the stove. It sure helps the back. You just have to be careful to lift your feet when approaching those areas. They are at least 1/2 inch thick but do not slip around like a rug would do. Clarice in AZ/MN

Tell your mom that I agree with her 100%. I wouldn't ever do tile in the kitchen either. Lucille

I have three cats and have wet-jet swiffered my floors with no fatalities...?

Over time, I'm basically breaking even. My boss and I once split $90, which offset a lot of losses. That's the most I've ever won on one ticket, but I do get a fair number of onesie-twosies.

And after the last 6 years of singing "if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all", my luck has GOT to change. Several friends of mine believe your life changes completely every 7 years, so we're coming up on that point PDQ.

Which is why I prefer to bank my $5 each week; at least one gets interest that way!! LOL!! As it is,what the heck, spend it on floss!!

Gillian

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I saw a rerun on HGTV tonight where the floor under the linoleum in the kitchen turned out to be pretty icky, so the designer and owners ended up agreeing to put in plywood squares. They were about 1 1/2 ft x 1 1/2 ft and were set in so that the grain in one square was perpendicular to the grain in the one next to it. I was doing dishes while the show was on, so didn't see the whole floor section, but the designer said that the floors were surprisingly sturdy as long as they were finished well. The finished floor at the end of the show didn't look bad at all. I might bring that idea up to DH since we now have a ripply kitchen floor due to a leaky water heater under the sink several years ago. It's not just the vinyl flooring that's ripply, it's the actual floor underneath. We probably could come up with enough to buy a few sheets of good, thick plywood.

I'd also like to rip up the carpet in the rest of the house, but can't afford the flooring to replace it, so the carpet stays. When I talked DH into carpeting 15 years ago when we moved in, I was thinking of my mom's house in the suburbs and was not taking into account the amount of dirt and dust involved in living in a rural area. With a 1/2 mile dirt/gravel driveway and routine visits to the goat or chicken pens, I shudder to think of the amount of dirt that must be buried in our carpets by now! :-)) Liz from Humbug

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Jangchub wrote:

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I saw a rerun on HGTV tonight where the floor under the linoleum in the kitchen turned out to be pretty icky, so the designer and owners ended up agreeing to put in plywood squares. They were about 1 1/2 ft x 1 1/2 ft and were set in so that the grain in one square was perpendicular to the grain in the one next to it. I was doing dishes while the show was on, so didn't see the whole floor section, but the designer said that the floors were surprisingly sturdy as long as they were finished well. The finished floor at the end of the show didn't look bad at all. I might bring that idea up to DH since we now have a ripply kitchen floor due to a leaky water heater under the sink several

years ago. It's not just the vinyl flooring that's ripply, it's the actual floor underneath. We probably could come up with enough to buy

a few sheets of good, thick plywood.

I'd also like to rip up the carpet in the rest of the house, but can't afford the flooring to replace it, so the carpet stays. When I talked DH into carpeting 15 years ago when we moved in, I was thinking of my mom's house in the suburbs and was not taking into account the amount of dirt and dust involved in living in a rural area. With a 1/2 mile dirt/gravel driveway and routine visits to the goat or chicken pens, I shudder to think of the amount of dirt that must be buried in our carpets by now! :-)) Liz from Humbug

We had ceramic tile in the kitchen, dinning and bathrooms at the last house, the 3 before that I had real wood and wood parkay. I didn't like the ceramic tile or the wood. Here we went with high quality carpet and linoleum. The new stuff is the same as they use in schools and stores, it comes by the square and has many colors. It's cheap (78 cents a foot I think), not to hard, and lasts forever (literally) because the color is all the way through. I use an acrylic floor coating and a buffer ocaasionally keeps it shiny. I would recommend it highly. Lowes and Home depot carry it.

Dana (who has a family that can kill most floors in short order)

Check out Snopes - pure urban legend. Cheryl

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Yours trying to roller blade in the house too?

Cheryl

I'd like to second this. The floor under the lino in my kitchen is not in good enough shape to be bothered refinishing it, so we will have it taken up and replace with wood or covered with new linoleum. I will not put down tile because I know that my back would not take it. Cement might be easy care (I actually have my doubts about how easy it would be to sweep or mop textured cement), but it would be killer on anyone trying to stand on it for any length of time to cook or wash dishes. Brick would actually be easier on the back as it is softer, but I wouldn't want it, either. Still too hard.

Elizabeth

Yeah, we looked at a house in a neighborhood where the historic preservation wackos reigned supreme. They supposedly had a guy who would come and measure the grass on your front lawn, and if it was an over an inch, you got reported to the city. Luckily the neighborhood we are in now is pretty lax about that sort of thing and everyone here rebuilds/remodels as they want. That can be a bad thing though. There are lots of beautiful crafstmen bungalows in this neighborhood that have had their gorgeous front porches screened in. It just totally ruins the front facade of the house (IMO) but I understand why people do it. I plan to build a porch off the back of the house and screen that in...

That look is absolutely lovely! I know this is going to sound strange, but I like to play The Sims 2, and when I decorate their houses, I go for the "stained cement" look. I like the look of stained cement countertops for the kitchen too, but when I saw the granite my Mom put in her kitchen, I fell in love!

Ericka Kammerer wrote: Yes, it can look pretty darned good. However, if

My parents just put beautiful new tile in their kitchen and my Mom now has a slipped disc that is causing her extreme pain from her hip all the way down her left leg. What types of flooring would be best for comfort?