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To: janet who wrote (6171)	1/14/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We use a lot of those heavy Crate&Barrel pint tumblers. A drop on linoleum is usually just a spill. A drop onto tile or cement is a foot grenade. The worst is when you drop a glass onto a hard surface - you watch it going down with your heart in your throat. You try to get your foot in the way. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. Anyway, the glass kisses mineral, but to your amazement you don't kear KSMRCHSSHH. More of a TINNGGG. the sucker bounced!! the glass rebounds maybe two feet in the air, twists, comes down - a quieter Tinnggg. It flips up less'n a foot, catches a lip, and KSMRCHSSHH breaks into abut ten pieces and some dust. It's like it stored all that energy and saved it for the very end. Harrmmph. Guess it needed breaking anyway; it was demonstrably trapping a small demon.

To: janet who wrote (6171)	1/14/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Just curious, janet; >>>The 2 rooms I put linoleum in have worked out to be the most expensive flooring areas in the house.<<< We've used a lot of this loose-lay, replaceable (Armstrong?) vinyl; it's cheap, easy, comes up without a blowtorch, and seems to last pretty well (some is 10 years old and fine) ~ was it prep and installation that cost so much for the lino? My experience with the "nastier" varathanes is that they generally last "longer" in the same situation, but if the water-based isn't cutting it (especially over a relatively soft substrate) the hard stuff isn't going to either. But you "could" get longer life, "depending". [You're sort-of almost screwed already, now that it's down ~ and eventually, Oregon too will outlaw non-water based finishes... uh oh.) I would just cover the traffic lanes with washable rugs and forget it ~ take a vacation instead. - No wait! ~ Behind the Safeway are cardboard boxes you can unfold and lay down, and just take them back and get more when they're soggy. Personally, I'd like to see how long Martha Stewart would last housekeeping in Western Oregon. PS ~ Better start listening to the webfoot locals in your neighborhood instead of Her, no? It is amazing the tiles and stone-slices you can get at Home Depot cheap. Some cool stuff; but probly tacky in my hands.