6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....

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WISHIMAY

Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:34 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Wish me luck,

Good luck

Also, gave some thought to yer "What shall I put in the basement" thing....
I was thinking concrete backer board... Pretty mold resistant and it could either be painted or left blank and tiled over later... and they just screw in real easy.....

JO753

Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:32 PM

Wife & daughter? HA!

I wuz in hi skool wen I realized therez alredy too many humanz on this rock & I'm not going to be gilty uv contributing to the problem.

Good luck with the new job. I've been overloaded with work lately. almost to the point uv considering hiring sumwun.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Good luck

Also, gave some thought to yer "What shall I put in the basement" thing....
I was thinking concrete backer board... Pretty mold resistant and it could either be painted or left blank and tiled over later... and they just screw in real easy.....

Thanks Wish,

I thought tiling the bottom half of the walls with a concrete backer board would be a great idea, until my grandma said "well, what if you have water seeping from outside the foundation????". Good point... I'd have a hot mess of water behind the scenes and a virtually indestructible wall blocking me from getting to it. (Nothing a sledgehammer couldn't take care of, but I'd be crying at all that wasted money on expensive drywall and tile to find out that I have an aquarium behind the scenes.... :)

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Originally posted by JO753:
Wife & daughter? HA!

I wuz in hi skool wen I realized therez alredy too many humanz on this rock & I'm not going to be gilty uv contributing to the problem.

Good luck with the new job. I've been overloaded with work lately. almost to the point uv considering hiring sumwun.

Haha! The lone wolf mentality. I know that all too well. MOB!

I haven't heard anything back from the job app. Probably just another dead end that won't even call me back. Bummer...

Good for you for being so busy. Wish I could say the same here. I might not be making enough money to pay more than the bills, but the cooler weather is at least making me think about new projects instead of sitting in front of a fan 24/7 when I'm not at work.

Right now, my focus is putting my bedroom closets back together, and down the road, how I will put in doors that make sense.

I made myself a mock-up of what my master bedroom closet looks like and the dimensions.

Any ideas from either of you how to maximize space here?

I really need to start thinking about this. In the summer I'm just mainly wearing t-shirts so I can just have folded clothes down here. In the winter though, the clothes are a lot more bulky and I'd rather be hanging them and stop having wrinkly clothes. I have them all hung on a rack in the finished attic, but that's a chore to make an extra hike upstairs for a shirt, and since I smoke up there my clothes all smell like I was in a bar 2 weeks straight even though they're otherwise clean. (Not to mention that it gets down to like 40 degrees up here in the winter, and I don't want to even open that damn door in the winter and let the cold air into the rest of the house!!!!)

The closet in my 2nd bedroom and hallway should be much more straightforward, although I plan on going VERY decorative with the hallway one since it's only 9" deep. It's not really deep enough to even house large towels, but it's great for backup toothpaste and mouthwash and toilet paper and hand towels and the like. I was considering making a very decorative arch on the top and having two separate doors opening to the inside (a larger one on the top and a smaller one on the bottom that might open to drawers.) Maybe even have "bread-basket" type opening doors to it.

I'll show you schematics of the other two closets when I get them made.

Any ideas you've got, I'd appreciate it!

Thanks!!!!!

Hope you're both doing well!
~6

EDITED TO ADD:

2nd Bedroom Closet.....

EDITED TO ADD 2:

Hallway "Closet"....

The dark purple lines on the sides are the painted "holders" for the shelves. I plan on staining the shelves to match the floor and to buy beveled glass tops for them. :)

EDITED TO ADD 3:

total cheap mock-up of an idea for this pseudo-closet...

They'red be a lot less grey and a lot more white. Doors on top as well.... like I suggeste

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:19 PM

WOW!!!!!

Me likey.....

http://pinterest.com/pin/224546731391866063/

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:01 PM

Hey JO; Wish,

Either of you know anything about vapor barriers?

I decided that i was just going to throw greenboard drywall up in the one room in the basement you can see from the 1st floor just to give the house a more finished look. I wasn't going to put up any insulation behind it because it didn't seem to get too cold in the basement during the winter and even on the 110 degree days in the summer it's easily in the low to mid 70's in the basement.

I was worried about water diffusing through the concrete though, and over time causing another mold problem.

Currently, there is a layer of plastic sheeting between the concrete walls and the studs. Also, the walls of the foundation are solid concrete as opposed to mortared brick or cinderblock. I still think this isn't enough protection from vapor.

I started looking into products like double-bubble and Prodex Total insulation, but they are VERY expensive and from what I hear they do just about zero for keeping heat in or out unless you build them "to spec" which ends up costing a lot more even. The only benefits to this I see are that they're both mold proof materials and they both offer a vapor barrier.

I was considering just buying large packages of aluminum foil (24" wide, to cover the space between my studs... weird, I know) and then staple the lips onto the studs. I would then cover the seams and staples with aluminum tape.

I was wondering if either of you knew, or knew anybody who would know if between this and the existing plastic barrier would be enough to keep moisture from poisoning the back of the drywall with new mold???

Thanks :)

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

JO753

Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:08 PM

Been bizzy lately. Partly money work, partly projects.

Last few weeks wuz weelz & tirez for the New Yorker.

The thing about big 70z luxery carz wuz that they had tall tirez to help smooth the ride. That wuz a selling point back then. The problem iz that this makes them wallow like boats. I have alwayz swiched them to 60 seriez or lower tirez, usually 255/60/15 BF Goodrich TA radialz on 8 inch wide weelz. This makes them corner pretty good. I had a set uv 265/55 Dunlops on a 69 Imperial and it wuz like it wuz on railz!

A little drawback iz that the speedometer iz overstating the speed, tho. It wuz so far off in the Imperial that I changed the speedometer output gear in the tranzmission to get it closer.

So, wut I wanted to do this time wuz get bigger weelz to make up the difference. Also, 15 inch tirez are getting a little rare.

Found a set uv 17 in wire spoke weelz at a uzed tire shop. 200$ seemed like a good price, but then I found that the spokes were all loose in wun and another had 2 broken spokes. The nuts are totally frozen, so they are both probably junk. So, I really only got 2 weelz.

Then, shopping for tirez wuz a little bit uv a hassle. Nobody had the size I wanted in stock, so I finally ordered 2 at Samz Club.

Herez where it gets interesting.

I'm sitting there waiting for them to put the tirez on. Already been like an owr. 2 managerz walk past quickly and I know its trouble with my car. I say to the guy waiting for hiz battery install "Thats my car! Alwayz cauzing trouble! Didnt hear an explosion, so it cant be that bad!"

The managerz and 3 'mechanics' come out, all wide eyed, and the short indian manager sez "Sorry sir, the weel fell off your car! We are going to put your old wunz back on!"

It wuz pretty funny, really, but it wuz 4 owrz till I got home with the car on a flatbed. The brake diusk had hit the ground and there wuz a rumbling which made me think it wuz a broken bearing ( see the beginning uv this topic ).

So, condensing the next week uv hasslez: Turnz out it wuz mostly my fault. The nuts I gave them to mount the adapter hub were too long, so the bevel splinez werent meshed together. I actaully had to destroy the PS nut and adapter hub to get the weel off. The rumbling wuz the weelz riding on the nuts!

And, after all that, I'm swiching to aluminum weelz anyway. Wire weelz are heavy - 40 poundz each! And I'm going to put 20 inch weelz on the back and thoze woud probably be 60 poundz!

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.nooalf.com

JO753

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 10:18 AM

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Theze tirez got fantastic traction!

[url] http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/tire-selector/category/sports-performan
ce-tires/g-force-super-sport-a-s/tire-details]

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.nooalf.com

JO753

Friday, November 16, 2012 9:43 AM

HEY! 6string! Wer you at man? Hav you giiven up on your own thred?

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

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JO753

Wednesday, November 21, 2012 3:53 PM

I wuz just starting to feel a little safe, then yesterday the weel slipped on the hub again wen i applied the brakes. Found that the goram nut wuz alredy loose by about a haf turn! I'm not going to bother trying to sell them wen I get new weelz; I'm just going to give them back to the 2nd hand shop I got them from.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.nooalf.com

JO753

Thursday, November 22, 2012 4:12 PM

Ran outa gas yesterday not far frum here. Got a ride to the gas station & back. Then I backed into Wisteria Lane to turn around and found that applying the brakes in reverse hard enuf will unscrew the nuts!

I wuz barely able to get the PS side screwed back tite enuf, kuz the crappy rench broke again. I'm going to hav to make wun out uv steel just to tide me over till I can afford to get rid uv theze stupid thingz.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.nooalf.com

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