The human body is just an amazing piece of work.  It can do so many, many different things.

One of them isn’t working on its knees.

I used to work at a hardware store, and you could always tell the carpet layers from the way they wobbled side to side as they walked down the aisle.  Even with knee pads, it’s tremendously hard on the area and your body will be pissed at you.  And that’s triply-true when it comes to banging carpet stretchers with your poor, soon-to-be semi-crippled knees.  So leave the carpet stuff to the pros.  At least they’ll be on a health plan when they can’t walk when they’re sixty.

Restaining a wooden floor is no big deal, of course, and you’d use as many power tools as you could.

Linoleum is finicky but workable.  As the saying goes, ‘Measure twice, cut once.  Measure once, cut twice.”  Except that if the cut is short, you don’t get a second chance.  So measure everything carefully, and leave the tail end a few inches long so you can get an idea if the room is square and everything’s lining up.  Then cut off the end.

If it’s a bathroom, don’t even think about not removing the vanity and toilet first.  They’ve got to come out or it’ll look horrible.  That true whenever you put down lino.  It always goes under something, never up against, with the one exception being the tub.

Caulking is an art unto itself.  I run a bead down the path and then take my finger and smooth it out, wiping off the excess on a paper towel.

Also, caulk doesn’t “dry”, it cures, and takes a good 24 hours to do so.  If at all possible, don’t get it wet during that time.