I'm in the process of refinishing my basement. I plan on building a sauna kit (probably 5'x6'). I assume that this dimension is the finished inside dimension. Is this correct? Should I go ahead and complete the rough framing before buying the sauna kit? Also, will I be required to put greenboard on the interior walls between the T&G walls and the foil vapor barrier? Any other issues I should be considering? Thanks in advance. Stefan

My husband and I just purchased a repossessed house. We plan to fix it up and my dad (who just turned 70) wants to rent it from us. We knew it needed work; especially the living room and den which were covered with carpet that a very large dog apparently spent a great many years availing himself as a toilet. We pulled up the carpet in the LR and it had a rubberized pad. We thought the pad kept most of the urine off the underlaying floor, but when we pulled up the staples, we realized it had penetrated through the holes in the staples. We plan now to pull up the underlayment. Will that be sufficient or will we need to replace the floorboards beneath that as well? The Den carpet was placed over old hard vinyl tiles. Except for a few that were damaged (crushed) they seem to have held up well and do not have the odor problem that was in the living room. We plan to re-carpet over that. Any comments or advice?