Anybody I used to know still post around here??????
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Thursday, May 23, 2024 14:59
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Another eaten post Wish! The back button trick doesn't work for you, huh? Bummer... would have loved to hear what you originally had to say.
Thanks for the tips though. I'm going to be talking to my step dad about making the trim. I forgot that he has a machine in his shop that you can just run stock through and it will come out the way you want it! You can even do curved molding with it after the template is set up.
My taste is for Wide and decorative baseboards and door trim. To get that pre-made and ready to stain in Oak, it would cost a fortune!
Unfortunately, the trim is quite a ways down the road though. I'm going to finish primering the two bedrooms, the upstairs hall and the stairwell, the living room and the coat closet downstairs first. After that, it's off to Benjamin Moore for some premo paint once I figure out what colors I'm going with. Then I gotta clear out the upstairs completely and sand and treat the hardwood floors. Then I get to fill the upstairs back up and clear out the first floor. Then I treat the steps going to the 2nd floor and the livingroom floor, coat closet and pantry hardwood.
Only then will I be ready to put the new trim in..... Boy.... It's a lot of work, but this is going to look amazing when I'm done. I need to get my sister-in-law and my step-mom over here for some color ideas. They're good at that kind of stuff. 
Oh... I finally got a chance to put my snowblower to use. It's AWESOME!!!!! It's as loud as a jet engine and shoots the snow 10 feet. It still took me about an hour to do it, but it went quicker when I got the hang of it. The driveway is so huge it would have taken me 5 hours to do by hand and some massive back pain.
BTW... what did you think of the bedroom pics? Did you see them? I know I've been posting quite a lot here, you may have missed it. 
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Have I ever mentioned how freakin' awesome the internet is before?
I have a pipefitters union test coming up in about 10 days. Figuring it wouldn't be a problem at all, I didn't actually crack the study book until this morning....
Reading Comprehension..... check
Basic Math.... check.....
Lowest Common Denominator..... uuuuuhhhhhh????
Don't get me wrong... if you ask me the lowest common denominator of 1/2 and 3/4, i'll tell you it's 4.
But what is the lowest common denominator of 5/6 - 3/7 + 5/8??????
I honestly stared blankly at that question for at least 5 minutes before I looked at the answer in the back of the book.... 168.
After my house work today, I decided to put Google to good use. Searched for "Lowest Common Denominator" tricks.
The trick that came up was more than I could have hoped for. Even though the example used was only two fractions, it took me only about 15 seconds to figure it out with 3.
First, you throw away the Numerators (top numbers) as they don't matter when figuring it out.
Then you just make a graph of any multiples that make up the denominators and circle the Root numbers.
Ex:
___6______7________8
__2x3___prime 7___2x4
___________________2x2
Then you look at all three columns. Whatever column has the most of a specific number in the bottom row is what you go by.
there are 3 "2's" in column 3, so you write down
2 2 2....
Then, after throwing away the "2" in column 1, there is only one 3 in column 1, so you write a three next to them...
2 2 2 3....
7 (column 2) being a prime number, there is only one.
2 2 2 3 7
Multiply them all together.
2x2x2x3x7 = 168!
That sure beats the fiz-nuck out of the 3 suggestions the practice booklet suggested.
Not for nothing, but I don't think they'll even ask us to figure out the equation beyond that. If they do.....
6x28=168
7x24=168
8x21=168
So....
5/6 - 3/7 + 5/8
is
140/168 - 72/168 + 105/168 = 173/168 (unreduced fraction) or 1 5/168 (mixed fraction)
Between my two respected vouches, my story about fixing my own sabotaged furnace using the internet and being one of probabl
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I'd love him to be a girl- for a day... Then things wouldn't get lost in translation so darn much 
I fuzzed out somewhere after "lowest common de.......???"
I didn't see any point in paying attention past geometry, and that was only half way.
Hubbs is gonna have to take over that part of our kid's edumacatin'.
Yes I saw the pictures, it's a nice blank slate. I'll admit- I'm not soo patient.
I remembered the other reason I like white trim, if you get gaps and not so great fittings, a tube of caulk and some more paint makes everything kosher. You can do the same with clear caulk and wood stain, but I think the white looks soo much cleaner...
If'n you didn't already know this. Few people I've talked to haven't, is all.
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Believe it or not, the lowest common denominator is pretty basic math. I just haven't used it in about 15 or 20 years. 
I got lost in honors Geometry and got my first C and when I took College Algebra and Trig Junior year I just skated by with my only D ever in public school. The only reason I don't have a damn Associate's degree today is because after three times tryin' I couldn't pass Algebra 101.
I know the white is easier to work with, and I really like the way it looks. It's just that if I'm going to be replacing everything and shelling out all of that cash, I think I'd rather have the stained oak trim. I was thinking of keeping the hardwood floors a pretty light color and staining the trim dark. Down the road, when money allows, I'd also like to put some dark oak crown molding at the top as well.
Thanks about the bedroom 
. I really put a ton of time into that room. I thought the master bedroom would be easier, but there is a ton of bad spots... cracks mostly, and the plaster layer over the stone drywall in that room actually has separated where a lot of the cracks are, so instead of getting to any mudding today I was just doing some massive prep work.
Hopefully I'll have the first mud coat up by tomorrow night. It was nice not having any electric to do in that room. I was thinking about adding electric in both rooms to have an overhead light in the closets, but I really don't want to create all that extra work. The closets aren't huge anyways. I bought those LED motion sensor lights, but I'm not really happy with them for a closet scenario. They're not bright enough and they have a really non-warm feeling to them. They have their uses in other spots, but I'm going to have to spring for more expensive models for the closets.
As for designing the closet in the master bedroom, it's not a perfect rectangle. An overhead view of it would look something like this:
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(and imagine a stright wall on the right side, but fff.net won't let me put spaces in like that).
The "0's" above, I believe, is for some sort of duct work, likely going out through the "chimney" on the roof. I'm thinking it's the exhaust path for the hot water heater, and if I had a furnace in the basement for that too. The "////'s" are the double sliding door that I removed temporarily.
It is pretty deep on the right side though. Before I took everything down, there were two rows of poles to hang your clothes on. I hated that though, and most everything in there was a nasty metal that was starting to rust anyways.
I was thinking that maybe I'd build a shoe rack out of oak planks on the left side in front of the duct work, and on the right side I'd hang a pole in the back that wrapped around to the right side. This way you could walk in it a bit and see all of your clothes. I'd lose a little bit of "hanging" real-estate this way, but who wants to try to grab any clothes from the back pole when you've already crammed the front pole full of hangers? That only serves to make you put clothes you never wear anymore on the back row and since you never look at them you're hanging on to crap you should just give to goodwill.
The closet in the small bedroom will be easy to design. It's only about half as deep, but it's a perfect rectangle.
Looking forward to having some more before/after pics in about 5 days or so.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Big tip for DIY'ers here:
http://drywallschool.com/
Awesome site. It's always really cool when somebody who knows a lot about something shares their knowledge for free. Sure, he asks for donations, but I'm sure he doesn't get much and that's to cover the website costs. He does drywall repair and painting for a living, so he also gives suggestions to minimize downtime for things like waiting for stuff to dry.
DO I WISH I FOUND HIS SITE BEFORE I FINISHED THE 2ND BEDROOM!!!!!!
His suggested methods for permanently fixing cracks in walls/ceilings are superb! The way he spreads the mud works great and only requires 2 coats, instead of the 3 coats I did before. I haven't sanded anything yet, but from the looks of it, there should be a ton less dust when I get to that.
The biggest reason I wish I saw this site before though was the preventative maintenance. If there are cracks in your wall or ceiling, it's because of the shifting of the house (duh). After you cut your divots out to mud, you should fasten screws on both sides of the cracks to the studs/joists before mudding to ensure that any future shifts are minimized. It seems elementary to do so now that I know, but in all of my years of rehabbing I never did it before. I was never taught to do so.
Oh well.... At least my Master bedroom and my future projects won't ever crack again. If it happens to my 2nd bedroom down the road, I'll just know how to do it right next time around.
Oh... BTW.... If I haven't mentioned it before, you'd be doing yourself a great service to buy a few plastic wall brackets for your plates for coaxial cable and telephone jacks. They sell them for about $1.20 at Menards. You cut a hole in the wall just wide enough to fit them in and then screw the movable braces in the back until they pinch the drywall. Gives you a perfect outlet to screw the plates in every time. No more loose plate covers from screwing into drywall.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh well.... At least my Master bedroom and my future projects won't ever crack again. If it happens to my 2nd bedroom down the road, I'll just know how to do it right next time around.
That's the one biggie I'm gonna pay someone else to do here...We were surrounded by surface mines when we bought the place and they got close enough the last couple years that the couple cracks we had have multiplied, fortunately the closest one stopped blasting- but not before makin a mess. I can't hold my arms over my head for too long, or I'd do that too. And I can't really blame the companies, after all- that's what hubbs does for a living...
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Tell hubbs to get on it lol......
I don't blame you for paying somebody else. It's miserable work. If I was a master "mudder", than it wouldn't be so bad but I keep dropping mud on the ground and I build everything up so much that I'm spending 20 minutes sanding a 4 foot patch on the cracks.
It will eventually be awesome, but what a bunch of BS work.
If I owned my own business I'd gladly be paying somebody minimum wage to do this sanding.
Then again, they would probably just F it all up, right?
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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I talked to a guy at a home improvement place today WHO KNEW WHAT THE HELL HE WAS TALKING ABOUT! Mark this day down, I haven't had that happen in YEARS...
I'm sure he'll quit next week... 
I been busy re-organizing closets and pantry and cabinets this week.
Next warm day I get, I get to finish making doors, 6 of 'em. Matchin' doors with matchin' doorknobs- HERE I COME, WHOO!
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I talked to a guy at a home improvement place today WHO KNEW WHAT THE HELL HE WAS TALKING ABOUT! Mark this day down, I haven't had that happen in YEARS...
I'm sure he'll quit next week...
I been busy re-organizing closets and pantry and cabinets this week.
Next warm day I get, I get to finish making doors, 6 of 'em. Matchin' doors with matchin' doorknobs- HERE I COME, WHOO!
Haha! I've always thought the same thing about those home improvement places myself. I actually hadn't even been approached by an employee of one of the stores for years. Imagine my surprise when I started shopping at the Menards in Gary (of all places) and if I spend a half hour there I get at least two people asking if they can lend a hand! I've never actually had to ask anybody about a project, so I can't speak to there level of knowledge, but whenever I've asked somebody there where something is they always point me in the right direction.
Uh Oh...You know the cold weather has hit when you're reorganizing closets and cabinets. You're not right in the middle of the huge Indiana snowstorm they're talking about quite a bit south of me, are ya?
I don't have much room for anything in my kitchen, let alone any space to really organize anything. I don't have a drawer large enough to store knives, forks or spoons, I've got two Lazy Susans up high that really just seem to waste more space than they're worth, and the majority of the other cabinets are either narrow or short. It doesn't help that there's a huge black hole called a dishwasher that I'll never use wasting a full cabinet. Oh yeah.... I do have a very large pantry that I'll be able to use someday, but for now it's my tool shed. It's the perfect spot for tools right now since there is so much room in there and it's really in the most central location in the house.
"Making" doors, huh? Not sure what you mean there exactly, but I assume you mean that you didn't spring for the pre-hung doors and you've got a lot of measuring and drilling and chiseling in your future. Ouch. I don't envy you. I HATE hanging doors. I had to do it for the finished crawl since I had to cut a door that was 72" tall on one side and 53" tall on the other side (and I built my own door jambs for it too). When I finally get around to putting matching doors everywhere else though, I'll wait for a good sale on the pre-hung variety. As cheap as I am, I feel it's well worth the extra money not to have to make the 6 doors I'll be needing as well.
Good luck with that!
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Took my union test today....
Messa think I did good
I know I didn't get 100% of over 200 questions, but I'd be really surprised if it was less than 97%.
As a bonus, I felt invigorated enough when I got back to plow and shovel the nearly 8" of snow we got when I got home.
After figuring my own taxes yesterday to only be about 130 bucks over what I pre-paid, and realizing that there's no reason to call in a third party to pay to verify my findings, it's been the beginning of a beautiful weekend, regardless of the heavy snowfall.
But I just got the email saying my 6 month car insurance premium is due today.....
DAMN!
Why do I pay so much as a single, +25, unmarried male. No offense intended, Wish, but most of the infractors of my pet peeve (severe tailgating) are women. As much as I believe that women should make the same wages as men do for the same positions, I believe that women should also pay equal prices for car insurance, now that we're all driving to work a relatively equal distance.
There's nothing in the female psyche that says that they're inherently better drivers than males. That was an arcane conclusion back from the days when men typically drove more because they were the only ones who worked outside of the home.
I love driving. When gas was 99 cents a gallon, I REALLY loved driving. I would just drive anywhere and nowhere to blow off steam. Listening to music in my ride was the best therapy in my early 20's. I never suffered from any form of road rage..... that is.... unless somebody was riding my ass.
I LOVE this clip.
Don't invade my space
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Why do I pay so much as a single, +25, unmarried male. No offense intended, Wish, but most of the infractors of my pet peeve (severe tailgating) are women. As much as I believe that women should make the same wages as men do for the same positions, I believe that women should also pay equal prices for car insurance, now that we're all driving to work a relatively equal distance.
I'm sure you did a good job on your test, but if it were perfect you'd get $5. Heh. That's what mah kiddo gets when she gets her spelling test for the week right...
We didn't get ice, but I drove through where it was today, EESH. Ditches were auto graveyards... And yes, too cold for mama to do anything where it's not hot.
It's funny you should mention the women vs men driver thing because I had an argument with someone about that recently and looked up the stats. Men STILL drive more miles annually than women do(think truckers), and on average when they have wrecks the wrecks do more damage. As for women tailgaters, that just must be a your region thing, because the guys here with the big trucks will not hesitate to hump the bumper of ANY vehicle smaller than they are. I know I ain't in any hurry, po-dunk will still be there when I get there
I remember workin a gas station in 1999 and we had a price war with the peeps across the river... I personally lowered the gas to 88 cents a gallon that day
Oh, and that cut and paste thing when my comment won't post only works half the time, sorry...
Well, Happy chinese new year, Monday. May it truly be a dragon year for us all, even bad drivers
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