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Originally Posted by Rook
Joe.......once again you have proven what is always true for me......."If it looks easy......it ain't!" Happy Turkey day!! Rook
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Yep, Rook, you got that right. It all looked easy to pull the carpet squares I put in a few years ago and add a strip of oak threshold for the slide to move up and in on. Then because of that I break one of the black plastic skids that is on the bottom of the slide which it moves over the floor on. I find a piece of the same material, heat it, bend it and install it. Still, the skids scratch/gouge the laminate. Decided to go to carpet under the slide and laminate on the rest of the floor. Come up with great idea to hold carpet in place by installing metal carpet transition strips on edge of carpet under the skids. Slide worked great coming in, but on the way out the ATTACK skids grab the metal strips and bend the heck out of them. A few hours later after I manage to get the bent strips and nails from under the slide I think why not just see if the carpet and pad will stay in place while the slide moves in and out. Well, it did. I couldn't believe it, so I ran the slide in and out at least a dozen times. I was really happy. Now I go to install the oak transition strips between the carpet and laminate, figuring I really got this made now. HAHAHA, the metal strips had 1" wood screws with them, so off to the store to get shorter screws so I don't puncture a fuel tank or water tank or worse yet a holding tank. Well that's what started this thread. So I Gorilla glued them in place Weds and am trying to build up the nerve to go out today to see if the glue worked. I even left the furnaces on to keep the MH heated to help the glue.
The wife wants me to install a 47" LED Smart TV in the space where we took out the recliner. I'm thinking we could do it with one of those up/down automatic cabinets. Then it dawned on me, "JOE, DON"T TRY IT, IT LOOKS TOO EASY.