![]() Turns out that when they're helpful, it's even worse than when you can't find an employee.Įdit: oh, and the thing that cemented (pun intended) my decision: 3 reviews of the tack strips with concrete nails in them. Normally, I find the stuff myself but someone actually offered assistance. He was as useless as the guy who took me to the section for carpet transition pieces when I clearly explained that I wanted the t-transition piece that matched the oak to go from engineered hardwood to tile. I put that in quotes, because to speed things up a bit, I wanted some plastic anchors that you simply drive a nail into, rather than screw into. I had the bit that came with a box of tapcon screws the "knowledgeable" person in the aisle said that those bits work well with things like cinder blocks, but suck for concrete. I ended up just getting a new, better bit for the drill yes, hammer drill. You'd have to be a fool to rent instead of buy it, given the relative prices. glue?Īnd, what the heck, Home Depot? "Cool! Home Depot rents tools! I'll rent a carpet kicker!" Bull****, Home Depot. Hole 3: stopped dead in its tracks after 1/2", never made progress, burned up the cheap concrete bit that came with the anchors. I'm not sure what kind of aggregate was used, but hole 1 - in like it was going through butter for 3/4", then stopped dead in its tracks for 10 seconds, then slowly went to the required depth. I'm not afraid to drill - attempted that last night killed the bit in 2 holes. Nail down strips (I think) might chip off the concrete instead of holding the strips down. Since it's a floating floor that butts up to concrete block, the strips are 3/4" from the edge. ![]() I thought Home Depot was a building supply company.Anyone know what type of glue to use for bonding carpet tack strips to concrete? I'm doing it myself, so waiting 24 hours to install the carpet is no problem. "You should try a building supply company." "So do you have any 8" x 8" x 8" cinder blocks in stock?" I ask. "So I need a 1/2 block to finish of the end of the wall. When I get to the end of the row, I need a half block to finish off the end of the row." "I'm building a concrete wall out of 8 x 8 x 16 cinder blocks. I try to simplify my request, as if speaking to a small child. "Oh, I'll have to transfer you to Seasonal", he says. "I'm looking for 8 x 8 x 8 blocks" I remind him. "But I heard the other guy say 4 x 8 x 16 blocks" I say. ![]() "No, we don't have any of those" he says. "We don't have any 4 x 8 x 16 blocks" the other guy says. I hear him talking to someone in the background. "We don't know about those here." (This is the building materials department that I'm speaking to.) "Oh, I'll have to transfer you to Seasonal" he says. "No", I say, "I'm building a wall and I need to finish off the end of the wall with a 1/2 block. "You mean a block that a 4 x 4 will fit into?" he says. "No", I say, "An 8 x 8 x 8 concrete block. I tell the "associate", as HD calls them, that I'm looking for an 8 x 8 x 8 concrete block. Think of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" and you may get the idea. ![]() I need 1/2 blocks - which would be 8" x 8" x 8" - to finish off the end of the wall. An 8" x 8" x 8" block for a retaining wall, to be specific.
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