Perhaps stain white oak part twice? First with a cherry layer and then rub it out. Let it dry. Then stain everything with uniform color?
Well, I should just give up on the floors, but I didn’t. Miss Picky could not stand the very visible patch from front entry. I sent flooring guy off to get some red oak. Tore out the pieces of white oak and made him meticulously lace in matching red oak. Install, sand, sand and buff the patch. 4 hr delay and $200 extra enticement.
Well, ya’ gotta do whacha gotta do. If you’re happy now, it was the right thing to do.
Sounds good…and the rest of the white oak is OK?
The installer really should,have known the difference before he started laying the floor.
Now we have solid red oak in older part of house and new white oak in kitchen, living and master bedroom. The other patches on old floor are not noticeable like this one was. The entire flooring may not match up at the join into living room area but hopefully the stain will minimize the difference
Sounds like it was prudent to fix that patch and I’m sure you and your excellent floorer will figure out the perfect stain. I just LOVE wood and have heard of others who thought their oak was white oak but when they stained it, they found out it was red oak, whoops! The red oak tones show up with certain stains, as you have discovered.
We finally, finally, finally made it to the first coat of stain at 5pm this evening. Took all day to tear out the small patch, install the red oak patch, sand, putty, sand, buff and clean the entire house up of all the dust. We are going to let it dry, put on a coat of sealant with a slight grey wash and then analyze again on Monday to see if we need more color added to neutralize the red tones of the oak.
Meanwhile, we spent too much time clearing out the downstairs to get ready for the new flooring. Look down, and there is just a mess on the floors. The guys are going to have to spend hours scraping and cleaning the drywall mud off the floors.
Finally finished the parking patio fence, but it needs cleaning and then waterproof staining. Started work on the fence in the front to the left of the driveway. I am lengthening the fence to come to the driveway so it will hide all of the trash cans. We are taking out the old tired lattice in top part of fence and replacing with contemporary horizontal lath. Unfortunately, every part of the fence we touch or look at crumbles with termite damage and wood rot. We are now at the point of replacing and building portions of the fence.
Anderson replacement panel finally got delivered to the project today. That was a debacle, the special Customer Service person kept emailing me telling me it arrived on Tuesday Sept 29. I kept requesting delivery ASAP. Finally walked into Home Depot and tried to figure out what happened. Oh Gee, it’s here but has never been scheduled for delivery. Amazingly, it arrived with some minor scratches in same place on exterior, but they were very minor and did not compromise the integrity of the vinyl clad or waterproofing.
Spent some hours today putting it all back together and getting locks and screws and wood pieces installed. For some reason the dang lockset sticks out from the door about 1/4" and we just cannot figure it out. Looks like that is the way it is supposed to be, but just looks horrible and doesn’t make sense.
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I have Andersen sliding patio doors, and the locks on mine don’t stick out like that. The door would not close and seal properly if it was sticking out. A space like that would allow water/dirt/insects into the door.
Something is wrong - either it is mis-installed somehow, or they gave you the wrong hardware.
We even tried switching the plates to the other side - they don’t suck in. The holes are lined up perfectly. I will need to investigate it.
It does close flush - no air or rain gap
Its defective- dont settle for that unit. No matter what.
Demand a replacement. Get the Anderson rep out to the sight to see it for himself.
Does the plate from the damaged unit work in the replacement unit?
The replacement panel was one of the fixed panel - not the sliding panel in the center where we mounted the lockset. Lockset is matching to the holes on the side (that have a cover plate now) so we don’t want to drill any new holes and negate our warranty.
I guess I’m going to get the Anderson rep out.
My concern is that the knob and a screw at top are sticking out and someone could scratch themselves walking through there and brushing against left panel.
Lots of needed rain pouring in San Diego last 2 days. Unfortunately, because upstairs is getting coats of stuff and downstairs floor is getting prepped, we were planning on working in front yard for a couple of days. Had to send core crew home.
Meanwhile i went to Home Depot in pouring rain with my list of plants from landscape design. They had about 60% of what i needed. A really nice lady helped me load everything onto 2 flat carts. I even found giant bouganvilla and vines on sale at $38.88 which can go in big pots down on parking patio.
We pushed it over to Pro Desk and they were really nice and arranged for immediate delivery for only $20!!. Probably because they didn’t want a bunch of big trees clogging up the Pro checkout area.
Of course, after $500 worth of plants and bags of amendment arrive, it doesnt even look like it will make a dent in the front of the house:). Oh well, its a start
“Bags of amendment”?
I don’t know much about construction, but still . . . .
Soil improvement stuff - we mix it into our crummy soil and it helps for new plantings.
Loaded photos of the plants I have purchased so far
Those plants with some nice mulch or stones will look terrific…and especially if some are in nice pots.
The outside is looking great!
This is a pretty amazing flip. It’s nice to see the house was saved:
[Hoarder’s Disaster Gets Epic Restoration](Hoarder’s Disaster Gets Epic Restoration)
^^^ amazing transformation!!!