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Posted by kevin on July 17, 2006, 10:24 pm
mm wrote:
> I'm sure Kevin's advice is good, and I'm not saying not to use wood
> filler, which sounds like it would be the right thing.
Thanks! This is just some kind of Kevin love fest thread today!
> But I have to tell my story about spackle.
>
> Bought a new vinyl roll floor for my apartment, then went home to take
> up the old floor, before they installed the new one the next day.
> Found some holes or uneven spots underneath it, and stores were closed
> and didn't have anything else so I filled them with spackle. I'm sure
> I stepped on these spots many times, but it seemed fine for the 8
> remaining years I lived there.
Previous owner in our house did the same.
> It may be of course that the spackle crumbled into powder and the
> powder filled up the hole as well as something solid would. Never
> looked under it again.
Ours seemed to last fine too. When I replaced ours (due to water
damage, not bumpiness), the spackling indeed had crumbled and cracked
quite a bit. Not enough that I could tell through the vinyl flooring
(so I guess it doesn't matter in that case), but certainly not
something I would have wanted visible. I used floor leveling compound
when I replaced, just to be anal.
-Kevin
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