Home Improvement

Removing veneer?

montela — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:01:10 GMT

Want to refinish a night table. It has a veneer coating which has cracked and chipped. I'd like to get it off.
Any suggestions,

New toilet plumbing

devidmike — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:32:49 GMT

I am adding an upstairs master bath in a small room connected to the master bedroom. There is a wet-wall containing plumbing for an existing upstairs bath and existing downstairs bath. The existing upstairs and downstairs toilets each have their own wastepipes to the main drain in the crawlspace. Can a new toilet connection be added to the vented vertical wastewater pipe that serves the downstaires toilet or would this be a no-no? If not, can a 2-way toilet arrangement (one on each side of the wet-wall) be installed on the vented upstairs vertical wastepipe?

cleaning up old hex tile

DaveMorris — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:26:11 GMT

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The 50-yr-old hex tile in my bathroom didn't weather our remodeling project too well. Because this bathroom was one of the few rooms left untouched, it was used as something like a utility closet for the duration.

Now that the crew is gone, I can see this use didn't go over well with my old tile.

I've been using a razor blade to scrape off what looks like drips of stain or polyurethane (they refinished some woodwork in there, but apparently didn't use a dropcloth). But how to get the splotches of dripped grout off? That's not coming off with my blade. Also, the whole thing just looks really dingy and stained. It never looked perfect, but the imperfection was of the "gives it character" sort. Now the imperfection is of the "wow, do you ever clean your floor?" sort.

Any ideas?