Q. Last fall we had the walls removed between our living room, dining room and kitchen. We had a new kitchen installed with an island plus a wall of cabinets. Now the new flooring is rising at the seams, everywhere.
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By Monte Leeper
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3/5/21
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Q. I am selling my house and found out that my second floor is not legal because the previous owner never got a permit and also never got anything for the breakfast room or deck. We got a shed and pool permit 10 years ago . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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1/10/20
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The Merrick Board of Education passed an emergency resolution to remove and replace the flooring in Norman J. Levy Lakeside School’s Cubs Cave, after elevated levels of mercury vapor were detected and state senators called for action.
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By Andrew Garcia
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6/20/19
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Q. We’re redoing our kitchen and need to decide about flooring. The kitchen will be open to a large family room, and the living room blends into the kitchen also. We need a long-lasting floor that will hold up to our kids and . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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5/25/17
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Q. I’m a faithful reader of your column, and I don’t have a question, just an observation. I started to redo my living room and dining room wood floors last week, thinking I knew everything I needed to about the job. I rented a sander . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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2/11/16
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Q. We’ve lived in our split-level house for 40 years, and never had this kind of trouble. My insurance company says I have a basement and my house has four floors. They want to call our first floor a basement . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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7/29/15
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Q. Before my grandfather left us, he gave my wife and I the house we now live in, so we never had an engineer’s report to find things like structural problems. Our floors are sagging on both the first and second floors . . .
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8/27/14
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When this winter’s temperatures plummeted, so did business at Bellmore-Merrick establishments, according to an informal survey of shop owners. Now area merchants say sales appear to be rebounding with the rapidly warming weather, and new businesses are moving in to fill vacant shops.
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By Scott Brinton
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4/9/14
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Q. My floors are buckling. I was in the middle of putting on an addition when Sandy hit.
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9/5/13
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Q. My floors are buckling. I was in the middle of putting on an addition when Sandy hit.
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8/28/13
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