Does anyone have experience using the compressed fiber quarter round, sometimes shown as MDF? It’s what came up when I googled quarter round for laminate flooring. Is there a reason I need to use this instead of wood for laminate flooring?
I started installing it in the walk-in closet. It’s very flimsy. It’s not painted, rather there’s effectively a sticker attached to it to make it white. I’m concerned about if it’s going to hold up well to general wear and tear. I’m also concerned about if it swells up if it gets wet - I have the windows open a lot in the summer, and I don’t always wake up when a rainstorm passes through. Supposedly the main advantage is the lower cost, but it doesn’t seem that much lower.
I’d like to switch to wood unless there’s some reason related to expansion why this isn’t a good idea. Is there a compelling reason to stay with MDF that I’m missing?
Most of the time there isn’t any fee involved in listing something on Ebay, so I say, list them and see what happens. You’ve got nothing to lose.
(Have not personally sold Beanie Babies on Ebay but have sold a fair amount of stuff and had things get bid up to a price that I certainly would not have paid for the item…)
ETA: be sure to figure in any packaging costs in your initial price. I failed to do that when we sold off a bunch of Boyfriend’s old DVDs last year, not thinking that DUH, a DVD doesn’t fit in the very small padded mailers I use to ship the jewelry I sell on Etsy.
Well, I see worse with them on and I can’t really read with them on, which was the point, so I don’t know. I was thinking maybe regular bifocals would be better. I’m really just tired of taking my glasses on and off and on and off between reading and not reading. I thought this would be the solution but maybe there is no solution. I’d like to go back in time and have a younger body, please. That would do.
Right now I can’t read small text without taking my glasses off and holding the item super close to read, and normal text (like 8pt font) I have to hold at arms length with the glasses. I am that age.
How long have you had them? It did take me a couple of days the first time.
My eyes are really bad, though - I’m terribly nearsighted, and then I got farsighted too, and I’ve got a lot of astigmatism. I’m pretty used to not being able to see well.
I think I’m going to get a pair of dedicated reading glasses made. The field for that is just not big enough when I’m reading in bed, and the angle is wrong. Drugstore glasses don’t work for me.
I do need very bright light to read now. So annoying.
It’s been a couple of days. I’ve been trying to wear them off and on in that time but I always get frustrated and take them off, so I haven’t been wearing them the whole time.
My regular vision is still pretty good, although no longer perfect. I pretty much only need glasses for reading and have been making do with dollar store readers for about nine years now. But the strength needed has been increasing over those years.
I chose the progressives (and paid a lot extra for them!) over bifocals mostly out of vanity. I wasn’t sure about that line, making me look old. But now I’m thinking i don’t care. I’m old, whatever.
I guess my new question is, are bifocals easier to wear than progressives?
I’ve heard that progressives can take up to 2 weeks to get used to for some people, so I wouldn’t give up!
ETA: Oh, and you should wear them full time during that period (ie don’t go back to using your old ones). Maybe it matters less for you if you don’t have correction for distance, I don’t know. I would also, after say 2 weeks, if it’s still a problem, go back to the dr to see if they can make any adjustments. My impression is that the technology has come a long way in even the last few years, and most people an adapt to using them effortlessly.
Once I got them to work for me, I loved them. But it took a while. My straight up advice:
Forget about peripheral vision. You’ve got to look straight at what you want to focus on.
Consider asking them to verify the prescription is correct, and assuming its within 30 days, have the optometrist who did your exam verify the exam results, especially if you have a strong prescription. The pupillary measurements & prescription have to be right on.
They have to be adjust just right. This can take some trial and error too. Notice any adjustment you are making with your head to see, and get the glasses adjusted to correct for it.
I go with the top of the line lenses at Walmart, I can’t find a reference, but the one that offers the least distortion. It’s been about two years, but I think my current pair with transitions, high refractive lenses, anti-glare coating and minimum distortion lenses progressives were close to $650 just for the lenses (no frame).
Take full advantage of any guarantees. I’ve gotten a full refund from one place when I first started down this road, and had another set of lenses re-made using the satisfaction guarantee.
Start off with them in the morning, I never could switch well between pairs. But by 2 or 3 days of this, you know if they are going to work or not. If the answer is No, I say pursue other options including getting your money back and trying something else.
This last time around I became very knowledgeable about the various options / technology and made quite a few calls to figure out who had the best chances of providing me with a better product. Turned out no one could really beat the offering at my local Walmart Vision Center, go figure. But it may have changed since then too.
I have more or less taken this approach with my contact lenses. I got single-vision contact lenses which I use for sports, and a cheap pair of reading glasses for up-close stuff. This is what people with otherwise 20/20 vision do, right?
Drives me nuts. The reading glasses are good for reading, but not for computer work or kitchen work. I end up taking out my contacts and just using my progressive glasses.
Next time through, I’m thinking of getting one pair of single vision glasses with transitions, no glare coating, for outdoor daytime activities like driving, where I can see well enough without the reading glasses feature. I’ll get a second pair of progressives without transitions for indoor work. It seems to be the combination of progressives and transition lenses that really pushes up the cost.
I think it might be the fit/adjustment. I was warned about peripheral vision and having to look directly at what you want to see, turning your head instead of moving your eyeballs. But in order to read, I have to put my chin up much higher than normal to be able to look down far enough to make the words not be blurry. It’s uncomfortable, and the sweet spot is so tiny that it’s really hard.
I paid for the premium progressives and I got the anti-glare. I got the most comfortable frames (even though they were more than I wanted to spend). I paid all the premiums in hope that my first pair of real glasses ever were going to be comfortable and useful and I’m really kind of bummed that they are instead misery-inducing. Sounds like I need to go back and try to get adjustments.
Definitely try adjusting. The lenses are graded between where you look through for distance and where you look for reading. It’s that gradient that makes it work for computers and the in-between distances. If they are too high or low, that will throw things off.
I had them 10? years ago. Hated them. Got them removed and normal lenses put back in. Still just do the on/off game with my glasses. Mine are for distance, so I just take them off for close things.
