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Well here I am in desperate need of a dust shroud for my Milwaukee grinder to flatten parts of a concrete slab floor in preparation for LVP, yet the 4-12” -5” Surface Grinding Dust Shroud apparently hasn’t released yet. I’m shocked this is only a new thing being released later this year. Are there any viable alternatives? Maybe I can just do it with a mask and clean it up after but I heard that stuff can be nasty. Otherwise I have to contract this work out because the “professional grade” equipment for doing it is way out of my scope or comfort area.

Long story short, I need to remove roughly 1,000 square feet of glue-down vinyl roll flooring from a concrete slab. The slab has high spots that need grinding before installing quality LVP. Busted my ass for two hours removing just the bathroom with a small 4-6” razor blade scraper. I could go and buy a larger 14” scraper, not to mention I’m quite sure the bathroom vinyl was thinner and had more glue than what the kitchen and living area will have, but I think renting this makes way more sense.

Anyone have experience using these floor strippers? Would this particular one do the job or would I need the larger one for so much surface area?

Decided to bust open the wall under the U-shaped stairwell since I knew there was some decent unused space under there (even more than I thought there’d be). Wanted to finish it, add at least one receptacle box and even a light, then drywall and paint. Upon doing so I discovered this unusual, janky-looking half-floor stairway support beam.

Is this normal? If so, what should I do so I can properly drywall it? If not, how can I fix or remediate it? Home is less than 5 years old by the way.

Photos of this structural-type support under the stairwell.

Just bought a two-story home built around 5 years ago. I knew there had to be a bunch of free space under the stairwell (and indeed there is), but upon busting out the wall I came across what appears to be a structural support for the half-floor (whatever it’s called) oddly sticking out like this.

Is this normal? If so, how do I work around it? If not, what should I do before continuing any work with this area? On a second glance I’m also noticing minimal stringer support but again I don’t know what’s normal. Looks kinda janky to me and makes me nervous.

Apologies for the crappy drawing, it came from the appraisal and I added onto it. This is the downstairs of a newer concrete slab home, and I want to rip out the crappy builder-grade glue-down vinyl and lay transitionless LVP throughout all of it. Roughly 1k square feet in total.

Boxes mark rooms/closets, arrows mark entryways, grey boxes mark cabinets/island, and the orange is the stairwell. There are only windows on the top and bottom by the way.

My thought process is to run left-to-right (or right-to-left, please let me know which would be best) to have the boards run perpendicular to the main hallway entrance and accentuate the light that comes in from the living room/bedroom windows, and be parallel to the stairwell planks.

Then again, the longest wall is at the top, so going top-to-bottom might make more sense. I know being square is extremely important so I’ll be double-checking measurements after 2-3 rows regardless.

I’m leaning on left-to-right for ease of laying it down and the appearance of the hallway/lighting, but please let me know what you think would be best.