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

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JO753

Monday, March 19, 2012 2:46 AM

Undr the KoMIK therez a link to the American Idol episode in wich Carrie duz her song, just for people who dont get the joke, Jack.

Kind uv a bummer about the finishez, but I'd rather hav a clean envirment than a shiny floor.

I'v alwayz assumed that car paint stopped lasting very long bekuz uv dangerous chemicalz being fazed out rather than Detroit forgetting how to paint.

Ate thru the spindle! That must hav required sum serious radio crankage to drown out!

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JO753

Monday, March 19, 2012 2:47 AM

Undr the KoMIK therez a link to the American Idol episode in wich Carrie duz her song, just for people who dont get the joke, Jack.

Kind uv a bummer about the finishez, but I'd rather hav a clean envirment than a shiny floor.

I'v alwayz assumed that car paint stopped lasting very long bekuz uv dangerous chemicalz being fazed out rather than Detroit forgetting how to paint.

Ate thru the spindle! That must hav required sum serious radio crankage to drown out!

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, March 19, 2012 3:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
I'v alwayz assumed that car paint stopped lasting very long bekuz uv dangerous chemicalz being fazed out rather than Detroit forgetting how to paint.

How very intuitive of you JO753...

That's EXACTLY what's happening.

In the end, I must admit that I belive that water based finishes as they're constructed today, are tougher than the oil based finished of yesterday.

You better be a pro if you put them down though..... and if you're not, you better be ready for fixing let-downs.

I think you've got a feel for how OCD I am about this. I can't imagine how many clueless DIY'ers have hat teh same problem but nowhere to post about it.

If a tree falls........... right?

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I don't blame the product at all for this problem.

I blame the instructions for the problem.....

They recommended cleaning all coats beore spreading with mineral spirits, even the poly before the first coat, which would lighten the wood color significantly.

My review for this product, otherwiese, would be great. I will make it my mission to make them chan ge the steps to use "either mineral spirts or water and rags" to only use "water and rags".

Personally, I think I shouldn't have to drive 15 miles round trip to buy another gallon tomorrow.

When these awsome floors are done right, Minwax should pay me to be an example.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, March 19, 2012 3:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
I'v alwayz assumed that car paint stopped lasting very long bekuz uv dangerous chemicalz being fazed out rather than Detroit forgetting how to paint.

How very intuitive of you JO753...

That's EXACTLY what's happening.

In the end, I must admit that I belive that water based finishes as they're constructed today, are tougher than the oil based finished of yesterday.

You better be a pro if you put them down though..... and if you're not, you better be ready for fixing let-downs.

I think you've got a feel for how OCD I am about this. I can't imagine how many clueless DIY'ers have hat teh same problem but nowhere to post about it.

If a tree falls........... right?

f

I don't blame the product at all for this problem.

I blame the instructions for the problem.....

They recommended cleaning all coats beore spreading with mineral spirits, even the poly before the first coat, which would lighten the wood color significantly.

My review for this product, otherwiese, would be great. I will make it my mission to make them chan ge the steps to use "either mineral spirts or water and rags" to only use "water and rags".

Personally, I think I shouldn't have to drive 15 miles round trip to buy another gallon tomorrow.

When these awsome floors are done right, Minwax should pay me to be an example.

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

WISHIMAY

Monday, March 19, 2012 8:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:

Ate thru the spindle! That must hav required sum serious radio crankage to drown out!

Well, I weren't the one driving it

... And it was only a light noise for a week, and then a little grind-y for a couple days...

I like to stay on top of things... OTHER people, no names here, like to wait until things break and THEN fix 'em...

Got lotsa siding today...going to be busier than a puppy with two tails this summer, yay!....and ....arghhh.

No vacay 'till next year for us...

RIONAEIRE

Monday, March 19, 2012 9:10 PM

I personally am glad you started a new thread since that old one has been around for a long time. But I don't think I'd only want recent posts on a thread to show up, maybe if you could choose for yourself with settings, but not by default.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

JO753

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:30 AM

All the modern forum software limits the number uv posts per page & starts another page for the topic. The Skeptic's Society, for example goes to 40. I put the 'Active Topics' page in my favez. This makes it eazy to get to the latest posts.

My fave forum in termz uv the software, or platform I think its called, iz The Infinity Program. They recently swicht to xenforo, and its like an expensive luxery car vs a Chevette compared to this.

A few yirz ago sumwun started a Firefly topic there: http://theinfinityprogram.com/index.php?threads/best-tv-show-ever.4000/

Sumwun frum here, I suspect?

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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JO753

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:47 AM

Ye, thats you, Wishy!

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:06 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RionaEire:
I personally am glad you started a new thread since that old one has been around for a long time. But I don't think I'd only want recent posts on a thread to show up, maybe if you could choose for yourself with settings, but not by default.

Hey Riona,

I agree completely with the ability to choose.

I don't want to name the site, because I don't want the heavy involvement I had in a 4 year project to overlap with what's going on here, but the site I had allowed the user the choice.

The thread could theoretically go on forever, and we tested that with thousands of posts and over 1/2 a million views, but there you had the ability to view 10, 25, 50 or 100 posts. If you clicked on the thread itself, you'd see the first 100 and could move forward, and if you clicked on the last post you'd see the last 100 and move backward. (There wasn't an option to view ALL posts, but then again, rarely did a thread there ever have more than 100 posts so it was mostly a non-issue for everybody else).

I'd be in the minority there to complain about it, but because I had so much on my plate and some nights I would remember an idea somebody mentioned 6 months back that I finally had time to try to implement I either had to post a question to repeat the full idea, or I'd have to use the search feature over and over again on each page of 100 posts while I went back and forth around the time I believed the post was made.

Anyway, I'm glad there's a new thread now too. The old one was taking ages to load with all of those pictures that were posted.

(Note to anyone interested, they can look at the first post of this thread and see the link for the original thread :))

In home improvement news, things have been going GREAT the last two days!

I scuff sanded the contaminated 3rd coat, much more vigorously than I would have a good coat, and washed the floor twice with water and a Quickie dry mop. After giving it 15 minutes to truly dry, I wasn't happy with the overall results (I sanded so much poly off this time, that even two rounds with the mop left marks that needed to be remedied).

I took two old socks and wore them inside-out on my hands and, on my hands and knees for every inch of the floor I did the "Mr. Miagi wax-on, wax-off" technique to make everything sparkle. (That's a special note to money saving apprentices there. I could have used the $5.00 set of 2 microfiber rags to do the same thing, but used socks inside out are the exact same idea, and you get the benefit of being able to "wear" them on your hands so they don't slide around).

So.... I put on my 4th coat of Minwax Water Based Polyurethane for Floors today and saw NO separation as I was laying it down.

5 hours later I was able to walk on it with socks and there are only two small spots where it was originally the worst that you can still see some minor divots. Otherwise the floor is PERFECT! Thankfully, these spots are in the very middle of both bedrooms where you'd most likely have an area rug anyhow.

I had my bro and his wife, and my Dad and Stepmom over last night and they didn't even know why I wanted to re-do the floor one final coat. I guess to the casual person they were already perfect.... Me, with my OCD about this stuff, and my Stepdad with his woodworking trade thought it was absolutely necessary to fix it.

When I told my Dad it cost me about double to fix it on my own, not to mention all the days of work (at a $650 price tag), he said that the Pergo (fake, unfixable wood flooring) he had installed (just)in his kitchen alone cost $3,000 (about 10 years ago). And I got my cheapness (ahem.... frugality), from him.

Meesa smiles!

It was so cool having them over last night for pizza. I finished the enclosed porch by finally cutting the carpet that used to be in the Master Bedroom to size and securing it around the door thresholds, and I fixed the ceiling fan and spent about 1 1/2 hours cleaning all the dirt, grime and nicotine off of it

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:45 PM

Ugggghhhh.....

Weird thing happened today on the job front. My supposed 28 hr/wk, 5 week temp job may actually be an 87.5 hr/wk, 5 week temp job. Instead of working 5:30AM to 12:30PM, Mon-Thurs, it may be 5:30AM to 6:30PM, 7 days a week.

I found it funny that when the client was asking us if we had any questions that I was the only one to ask about the drastic change of hours, given that our temp manager was there. LOL... I don't think this drastic change even dawned on him until I spoke up about it. (He was making quite a few cell phone calls for the next 15 minutes on the DL after this new information presented itself).

At first I thought this was a deal breaker if they didn't honor my original scheduled hours, but I didn't say anything. After going home and doing the math, I've decided that I will agree to work 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, minus lunches, as long as overtime is 150%. Hell... that's nearly $5,400 after 5 weeks, even making this meager hourly wage with no benefits. I could put 3 months extra work into the house with an 800 dollar budget on home improvement a month without even tapping the reserves when that is done

Geeze....

Give me a job like this 4 times a year, and I could have 32 weeks a year doing home improvement and still watching my bank account grow.....

Two more things I plan on getting done tomorrow. I will be putting a 5th and FINAL coat of poly on the hardwood upstairs to make it perfect (No reason not to now, since I won't be moving furniture back upstairs for the next 5 weeks, and I still have 3/4 a gallon that would otherwise go to waste). I will also be primering the kitchen walls which should be completely prepped for primer by the time I'm done putting the poly down.

(Hehe wish..... Guess you can drink again, I said "primer")

Then, on Saturday and Sunday, before 455 hours of work and 24 hours of round trip driving time in 5 weeks, Jack finally rested.....

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

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