Anybody I used to know still post around here??????

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 16, 2012 3:28 AM

OMG!

The floors!

I opened up the windows about an hour ago and checked them out again with the lights on. The only "dark spots are where definite lap marks were made between the bedrooms and the hallway. Hopefully when they're completely dry you can't see them either.

Otherwise...

THEY LOOK PERFECT!!!!!!!!

Only the first coat done now, but if things keep going this way I'll have nothing but 5 star comments for Minwax Water Based for Floors.

I can't wait to show you all pictures!

I did more research and I believe the floors just have to be Hickory, and not Ash. White Ash has a Jenka scale of 1320, which is only 90 above Northern Red Oak. After how difficult the sanding was, I believe it HAS to be Hickory, which clocks in on 1820 on the Jenka scale. (Nearly 150% tougher than the stand-by red oak hardwood floors today).

I just did a search at Lowes for hardwood prices, and if it really is Hickory, the difference is under 5 bucks a square foot for oak and nearly 15 bucks a square foot for Hickory!

Looks like my homeowners insurance is going to go up next year

And to think, I bought this house 7 months ago, smelling like 1,000 cats shit all over the place, mold covering every nook and cranny in the basement, and the 2nd floor completely carpeted.

To find I had hardwood on the stairs and the 2nd floor was a dream come true. To find out I potentially have hardwood throughout the house that costs 3 times as much as standard hardwood floors is soil my briefs without even touching down there true.

So... I can't bitch about sanding costs and everything else.

Sanding = 4 days work and over $440.00
Stain = 2 days work and $12.00
Poly = (hopefully only) 3 days work and $86.00

If it's really Hickory floors, as I'm totally believing them to be now, that's not too bad a cost for refinishing a floor that would cost nearly Six Thousand dollars to install fresh (By myself, no contractor price included). Even installed, I'd still have to buff it and stain it and put the poly down, which would put it easily above $6,500 if I were to install it new by myself not on sale.

As an aside, almost every MLB bat for decades was 100 percent hickory. Albert Bell and others (the only exception) modified the core with cork to get a few extra feet out of their swings though. What's worse? Modifying a bat, or injecting steroids and modifying your body?

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

JO753

Friday, March 16, 2012 7:00 AM

"Thats wut she sed" HA! Or:

..and we all know how painful that can be!

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I'm just sayin - it's already getting touchy to scroll on this netbook. If you add a bunch more piks, it mite be impossible to line anything up with the 400 vertical pixelz left for looking at stuff.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, March 17, 2012 1:01 AM

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Originally posted by JO753:
"Thats wut she sed" HA! Or:

..and we all know how painful that can be!

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I'm just sayin - it's already getting touchy to scroll on this netbook. If you add a bunch more piks, it mite be impossible to line anything up with the 400 vertical pixelz left for looking at stuff.

Haha, yep. I remember Sharon Stone doing that thing to Michael Douglas when I was probably too young to be watching that kind of movie and all of the sudden I was a man and I knew what the lyrics of "Hurt So Good" meant

I read you on the netbook thing too. I'll tell ya what, I'll start a second thread and refer to this one at the top of it once I finish the second floor. There's too many before pics linked to this one now for unfinished stuff, but aside from the load of pics I plan on adding tonight I probably won't be adding anymore to this thread. :)

Truth be told, I'm getting quite bored of waiting 30 seconds for this post to load for 30 seconds every time I want to post and after I post myself too......

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, March 17, 2012 1:24 AM

IT'S TIME FOR MORE PICS!!!!!

It's a little premature probably, since the 3rd and final coat has yet to be placed, but I'm just too stoked to wait another day to post pics.

Here's my first pic taken of the floor after the stain went down. Ain't She a beauty?

Here's a few pics that really show off the awesome character of this Hickory and/or Ash hardwood floor. There's so much more contrast between panels than your standard Red Oak hardwood, and it's at least 1.5 times more durable. I LOVE them!!!!

(Disregard my size 12 feet wanting attention in the pics. You know what they say about guys with big feet, right ladies? It's totally untrue. I'm hung like a Chinaman )

Here's a pic from the same angle as the first one in this post, only this time it has 2 coats of Water Based Poly on it now.

Shiny!!!!

Just a shot of the bulk of the floor in the Master Bedroom.

Here's a shot of the small bedroom. Of all the after-poly pics, this one is probably the most accurate in terms of color as it would be seen at 7:30PM Central time this time of year. Most of the other pics came out a lot lighter and more red than the actual color.

The 2nd coat covered MUCH better than the 1st. If the 3rd coat is the charm and you really can't see any imperfections after it dries, I have nothing but great things to say about this product. It's like coating the wood floor in clear vinyl that conforms to the grain of the wood. I've never seen a hardwood floor finished like this in my life. Actually, I doubt almost anybody has. The product is so "new" that there aren't even any reviews for it on the Minwax or Sherwin Williams site. I'll be the first review for it on both sites in a couple of days after the 3rd coat has had some time to cure.

BTW...

Can anybody tell me what type of spider this is and if it's dangerous to humans????

When I first bleached the basement (before I owned it, which i guess is "illegal" to do), I saw one of these monsters in my basement. I've never seen a spider close to that size inside the house afterward though. Yesterday while working in the garage and cleaning it, I found another one. When I saw this guy hanging out about a half hour ago I took a picture of it to post here. Imagine what it's sitting on is a side of a cinder block, to get an idea of the size of this beast. The "tiles" in my back yard porch are basically just the sides of cinder blocks.

I didn't kill it. I'm the guy who will capture big bugs in a cup and let them outside. I'm just wondering when they get that big am I possibly endangering myself by allowing these things to potentially make their way inside?

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

JO753

Saturday, March 17, 2012 4:52 AM

The floorz look great!

Remindz me uv the floorz in the Chicago apartments I lived in az a kid.

Can you imajin all the wood that went into thoze placez?

Thanks in advance for starting a new thred. I'm on cable here, so I can't see anybody with DSL or less waiting for this to show up.

Hopefully the new forum will have that incredibly advanced page feature you see in sum syfy moviez!

Thats a scary lookin spider! & I had a black widow living in my bedroon for 4 yirz - she didnt bug me, I didnt bug her. But after seeing sum uv the horrible damage a bite can do to you, I dont hav the same attitude.

I also dont kill anything thats not attacking me. I kill mosquitoz and fleaz, but everything else gets put outside, and I almost never use insecticide.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, March 18, 2012 12:44 AM

Thanks man!

I just finally finished the floors today. Overall the 3rd coat made it look awesome and really evened it out. I just made one tiny mistake. I washed the floors with a damp rag with Mineral Spirits and apparently didn't wait long enough for them to dry before putting the final coat on. In several spots there seems to be a texture to the finish because it was not adhering right. Overall, it's barely noticible and anywhere it shows up is 99% going to be covered with an area rug at some point anyhow. At least it evened out for the most part. When I was putting the stuff down I was freaking out about how bad it looked, but I knew I had to finish the coat because it was too late to go back. You would REALLY have to be paying attention to the floor to spot this problem though. Even without area rugs, I'm sure this would even itself out over the curing process and with regular foot traffic in no time anyhow.

I've only been in one of those oldskool Chicago apartments before. They're REALLY cool looking. Did you have a tub with 4 legs on it too???

This will be my last post here unless anyone else posts me here. :)

And yeah, that's one scary looking spider. It's body is nearly 2 inches long, not including the legs. He doesn't seem very agressive, and I've only ever seen one of them actually inside the house before I did mold removal, so I'm not really worried about it. I can't think about it when I'm laying in bed though, or anytime I get an itch I shake my blanket out thinking it's the monster spider crawling on me in the dark.

You got balls to live with a Black Widow. I wouldn't have killed it, but I sure as shit would have let that bad boy out the window or front door.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, January 27, 2019 3:19 AM

remember when everyone of FFF kinda got along?

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 27, 2019 11:33 PM

Yeah. It was kind of nice. :)

Memories...

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, January 28, 2019 5:31 AM

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....actually had a look back at some discussions in RWED back when it was people debating back and forth (in a tough but reasonable way) rather than just endless posts of nonsense and insults.

Wait, there was a time when RWED was civil?
When was that?

Civil might be overstating it but it wasn't two groups of people either ignoring or insulting each other. Threads lasted for dozens of posts rather than just a handful of insults before the next soundbite topic came up.

Quite a fun way of doing nostalgia is to use the "On this day" page. For example, January 1st 2005 is:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/linearthread.asp?d=1/1/2005

Just change the date to see a different day. I went through a chunk of late 2005 and came over all warm and fuzzy.

Well, that function looks like fun.

Regarding 6ix, I see that he mentioned he had 16K in his IRA, rode it down to 6K in 6 months, and fully intended to ride it down as low as it could go. That explains a lot.

MOOSE

Monday, January 28, 2019 7:02 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
remember when everyone of FFF kinda got along?

Yeah. Yeah, I do. But I always avoided RWED so I see this site through rose colored glasses.
That’s how I’ve managed to hang around for so long. I mostly just saw our collective love for Firefly bringing us together.

But, I don’t think this is really a Firefly fansite anymore.
There’s new comics and new books coming out, but we’ve barely even discussed them.
The tribute thread in RWED is largely ignored.
I’m wondering why Haken is still bothering to keep this place functioning.

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