Q. Last fall we had the walls removed between our living room, dining room and kitchen. We had a new kitchen installed with an island plus a wall of cabinets. Now the new flooring is rising at the seams, everywhere.
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By Monte Leeper
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3/5/21
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Q. I am selling my house and found out that my second floor is not legal because the previous owner never got a permit and also never got anything for the breakfast room or deck. We got a shed and pool permit 10 years ago . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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1/10/20
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For 10 years, Rossy Qureshi roamed store aisles trying to catch potential thieves as a loss-prevention officer in Australia. Then in 2013, at the behest of her friends, Qureshi decided to write a novel about her and her co-workers experiences on the job.
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By Melissa Koenig
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10/11/18
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Q. We’re redoing our kitchen and need to decide about flooring. The kitchen will be open to a large family room, and the living room blends into the kitchen also. We need a long-lasting floor that will hold up to our kids and . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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5/25/17
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Q. I’m a faithful reader of your column, and I don’t have a question, just an observation. I started to redo my living room and dining room wood floors last week, thinking I knew everything I needed to about the job. I rented a sander . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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2/11/16
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Q. We’ve lived in our split-level house for 40 years, and never had this kind of trouble. My insurance company says I have a basement and my house has four floors. They want to call our first floor a basement . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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7/29/15
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Q. Before my grandfather left us, he gave my wife and I the house we now live in, so we never had an engineer’s report to find things like structural problems. Our floors are sagging on both the first and second floors . . .
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8/27/14
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Q. My floors are buckling. I was in the middle of putting on an addition when Sandy hit.
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9/5/13
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Q. My floors are buckling. I was in the middle of putting on an addition when Sandy hit.
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8/28/13
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Q. We’re confused about what to do with our basement slab. Water keeps coming up through it, and we have to do something.
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Monte Leeper
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3/29/13
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