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   JohnT8 | Sep 19, 2006 09:15pm | #1

   Welcome to BT.  For your sake, I hope the smell is only in the carpet and not soaked into the floor below.  If you are able to get up under the floor, then radiant heating is an option.

   Just remind him, "If Momma ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy"

   ;)

    

   jt8

   "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."  --Albert Schweitzer

   
   

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   Edited 9/19/2006 2:18 pm by JohnT8

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   Oregon | Sep 19, 2006 09:30pm | #2

   Not only would Momma be happier, but her feet wouldn't freeze him on winter nights.

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   JDRHI | Sep 19, 2006 09:49pm | #3

   I hope you've plans for getting rid of the cat as well.

   No matter what you replace the carpet with, it too shall stink in time.

   J. D. Reynolds

   Home Improvements

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   Oregon | Sep 19, 2006 09:59pm | #4

   The cat, who was incontinent in her very old age, is now sleeping on the great window ledge in the sky.

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   Piffin | Sep 20, 2006 01:16am | #5

   to find out if the work is feasable, start describing the type of house and heat you have.

   Boiler?

   How old house?

   What condition subfloor?

   To motivate the old man I can tell by your verbal skills aand imaginative lines tht you should be able to figure that out yourself.

   But for convincing him that it smells - does he smoke? He might have fried hiss nasal nodules - you could bump up the volume by getting a viall of coyote urine or skunk essence at the sporting goods store.

   ;)

    

    

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   Jencar | Sep 20, 2006 03:37am | #6

   Cat pee...one of nature's most pungent and disagreeable odors...Neighbor's cat used to "mark" our front door. He disappearded.
   Never known a man with much sense of smell. Wondered why women would be endowed with a more refined sense of smell? A survival instinct to smell milk, etc to prevent food poisoning? Although a dog's evolved sense of smell never stopped them from eating some pretty disgusting substances....:)
   Good luck with your floor

   
   

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   Edited 9/19/2006 8:39 pm by Jencar

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   Piffin | Sep 20, 2006 04:06am | #7

   hey there - no sexist comments! this is the all new kind and gentle BT.;)Although I am getting deaf, my smeller has always worked better than most. 

    

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   stevent1 | Sep 20, 2006 05:13am | #8

   Piffin,Nothin' better than a cat full of lap. We recently had to relocate the cat box from DW's BR to kitchen annex (mud room/office) to accomodat our 14 x 24 master bath adition. I would put the cats out but they are afraid of the "Bondo Squirrels"live, work, build, ...better with wood

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   Oregon | Sep 20, 2006 07:57am | #9

   Well, I'll tell you one thing, women's senses of smell tend to become absolutely keen when they become pregnant. And the effect can be very long lasting.

   Why does that happen? Maybe it's just a side effect of other chemical changes. But one thing it clearly accomplishes is to make women in early pregnancy avoid, like the plague, eating or drinking or even breathing anything pungent. Pungent things are sometimes rank, sometimes rotten. Some pungent things are just loaded with plant oils, and many plants have evolved those chemicals as natural bug killers.

   So, maybe a keen sense of smell preserves some pregnancies, especially in the very early stage before a placenta has grown and begun to filter out some dangerous substances from the mother's blood.

   Sorry, that was probably more of a response than you were looking for.

     

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   McDesign | Sep 20, 2006 01:28pm | #10

   <maybe a keen sense of smell preserves some pregnancies>

   My wife definitely believes that - we love spicy food, but while carrying our three, she couldn't even look at coffee.

   Kids turned out great!

   Forrest