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That job in the old church basement in St. Louis is why I never trust a floor plan again.
The blueprints showed a perfect rectangle, but the actual space had these weird, angled walls from a renovation in the 70s that nobody wrote down. I had cut all the carpet for the main area based on the plan, and about a third of it was useless. The foreman just shrugged and said 'figure it out.' Now I do a full walk with a laser measure and chalk line before I even think about cutting. Anyone else get burned by bad plans on an old building?
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seth_singh201mo ago
What did you end up doing with all that wasted carpet? Just eat the cost, or find some creative way to use the pieces?
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the_iris1mo ago
My last church job in Cleveland taught me to snap a full chalk grid on the subfloor before any material hits the site. It adds an hour but saves so much waste.
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ryan_shah385d ago
Wait, you did a whole church floor without a grid first? How did you even start laying anything down without losing your mind?
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That grid method @the_iris is solid. I learned the hard way on a small bathroom floor last year. I just started laying tile from the door and ended up with a skinny two inch sliver against the far wall. Had to pull up a whole row, cut everything again. Wasted three tiles and an afternoon of my life. Your extra hour up front sounds way better than my extra four hours fixing a mess.
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