At 01:02 PM 7/24/02 -0500, you wrote: >We have already ceramic tiled the kitchen and the utility room is next for >the ceramic. The front >foyer, the new pantry, and both bathrooms are fitted with self-stick vinyl >tile. The three bedrooms >and the hallway were done last month in a short carpet that looks like a >tin roof in color. The >family room and dining room will be in laminate flooring and we're going >to leave the old carpet in >the formal dining room, which has been an art studio for 12 years now. I >think there's vinyl tile >under that carpet too so we may take up the carpet and leave the tile for >a while longer. The carpet >that was in the bedrooms was some commercial junk that had been there 28 >years, surprisingly the >carpet was in good shape but the foam backing was like cardboard, when you >walked on it it crunched. > >George Are you keeping Sleepy's nails short? If my dog can't get "purchase" with his toes to turn over onto his back, he's an unhappy puppy. Margaret L