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Heating & Cooling Contractors

Flame Heating Cooling and Electrical

From the largest commercial installation to a single residential service call, FLAME handles each job with the utmost care and attention to detail. Our goal is to serve you and provide peace of mind! For over 60 years FLAME Heating, Cooling and Electrical meeting and exceeding customers expectations.

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Carpeting

Fairway Tile & Carpet

Best known for Enviro-Cushion, the waterproof, insulated carpet padding for basements, concrete slabs and over crawl spaces and garages. Fairway Tile & Carpet has one of Michigan's largest flooring collections including exotic hardwood, tile, fine carpeting, vinyl tile & sheetgoods. Expert installation.

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Insulation

Ace and Sons Insulation

More than 30,000 satisfied customers since 1981. Our product is 100% green, and save you up to 50% on your energy costs. We honor a lifetime, transferable guarantee. Insulation is all we do, and we do it better than anyone else.

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Deck Care Fast & Easy book

Glenn Haege's Deck Care Fast & Easy explains what to do and what to buy for that four letter word that lives in your backyard; your deck!  This book walks you though selecting between woods and man made decking, deck maintenance, brightening, stripping, sealing and staining. It’s free!

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Publication date: 09/29/2009

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Level your concrete floor with a filler to eliminate cracks

Dear Glenn: My husband and I bought cork flooring for our son's former bedroom. He moved out last week. We live in Albuquerque, N.M., so our house is built on a concrete slab. When I removed the carpet and pad from the room, I found two cracks in the concrete. They are not big cracks, but I knew they might indicate that the slab is not as level. We put a straightedge and level to the floor and discovered that there are two humps in the floor and the gap is 1/4 inch. To be clear, I laid a piece of baseboard down across the room and leveled it. The largest gap between the base board and the floor is  inch. This is in a space of about 5 feet. The manufacturer of the flooring says the maximum tolerance of the flooring is 1/8 inch in 10 feet. I have a problem. I have two questions for you. Do you think these two cracks represent a structural problem with the house? How do I level the floor?

Kimberley, Albuquerque, N.M.

Dear Kimberley: To level your floor, I would use Bondo Brand Body Filler with Hardener by 3M on a clean, raw, concrete floor. The product will take a car driving over it. If your floor is cracked because of structural problems, I would be seeing very uneven cracks with one side of the crack higher than the other. Cracked concrete is a normal occurrence.


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