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So 'flood the downstairs neighbors', then, given that the bottom of those stacks is almost always just a cement patio to someone's side door.
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How about some horrible furniture made out of the worst material? Cleanliness is a virtue - and utterly impossible.  Does this remind anyone else of that nightclub fire that killed a bunch of people? Wasn't the only set of stairs there made of pallets?  Hope you like splinters!  Hope you hate your ankles!  For when you want to demonstrate to your children how you don't like them - make their bed out of trash.
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Jun 20, 2017 16:06
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Bonster posted:
I wanted to build a bed like that, minus the splintery wood (planned on having a properly framed platform with leftover Pergo on top), plus hanging about 7 feet off the floor. Then I realized I'm an Infrastructure Engineer in title only and bought a loft kit that sits on the ground. Sorry for the non-OSHA. It would have been a spectacular failure, I'm sure.
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Jun 20, 2017 17:25
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Bonster posted:
I am an idiot and would like to make an ugly bed for my ugly children out of industrial trash. I will use a pallet, which may have been used to haul leaky 55 gallon drums of rat poison and made of wood that may also have been soaked in an industrial pesticide to stop the spread of wood boring beetles. Also, I don't vaccinate or believe in modern medicine
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Jun 20, 2017 17:30
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canyoneer posted:I am an idiot and would like to make an ugly bed for my ugly children out of industrial trash. I will use a pallet, which may have been used to haul leaky 55 gallon drums of rat poison and made of wood that may also have been soaked in an industrial pesticide to stop the spread of wood boring beetles. If you can think of a simpler way to keep rats and beetles out of my kids' beds, I'd like to hear it. 
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Jun 20, 2017 17:43
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But see it's rustic and creative and upcycling. Worrying about things like 'poison' and 'structural integrity' is for the poors.
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Jun 20, 2017 18:07
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Bonster posted:How about some horrible furniture made out of the worst material? Apparently "made out of boards that have never seen a nail in their life" = "made from pallets" for some of those. That sandbox and outdoor planter bench were all new lumber. That being said, they weren't all completely ugly or impractical. I liked the shed tool holder.
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Jun 20, 2017 18:41
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Where do I get these freely available pallets? Do I steal them from a warehouse, or purchase them from an artisan pallet woodwright?
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Jun 20, 2017 18:41
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FogHelmut posted:Where do I get these freely available pallets? Do I steal them from a warehouse, or purchase them from an artisan pallet woodwright? If you're serious, Craiglist or ask at a warehouse. The problem is that pallets come in a shitload of sizes.
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Jun 20, 2017 18:47
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Bonster posted:How about some horrible furniture made out of the worst material? oh, haha, you've caught me having a dinner of 2 wine, bread, tomatoes, and broccoli don't worry about the floor it isn't haunted
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Jun 20, 2017 18:55
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FogHelmut posted:Where do I get these freely available pallets? Do I steal them from a warehouse, or purchase them from an artisan pallet woodwright? I get mine from work, but look on craigslist, and a lot of times you can look at businesses with loading docks, and check for stacks of them out back. If they've got a decent number, there's a good chance they'll let you have some for free. I mean, I got some that were red oak slats recently, and turned into halfway decent lumber for a couple small projects after processing it a bit.
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Jun 20, 2017 18:57
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kid sinister posted:If you're serious, Craiglist or ask at a warehouse. The problem is that pallets come in a shitload of sizes. Seems odd to me as I work for a logistics company with many trucks and warehouses, and pallets are returned to the customer or reused until they become sawdust.
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FogHelmut posted:Where do I get these freely available pallets? Do I steal them from a warehouse, or purchase them from an artisan pallet woodwright? I get 5 or 6 every year with my wood pellets. I burn them.
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Bozart posted:oh, haha, you've caught me having a dinner of 2 wine, bread, tomatoes, and broccoli The floor is made out of pallets!
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Tinfoil Papercut posted:I get 5 or 6 every year with my wood pellets. I misread that and thought "ordering a pallet of pallets to get the free pallet underneath?"  It's because the only pellets I've ever really encountered were going into or coming out of a rodent.
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Jun 20, 2017 19:38
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FogHelmut posted:Seems odd to me as I work for a logistics company with many trucks and warehouses, and pallets are returned to the customer or reused until they become sawdust. I used to work in warehouse for a smaller hardware and fastener company, maybe 15 employees max. Some orders were big enough to ship out on pallets, but a lot of our orders were small enough to ship out in boxes. We had pallets out the wahzoo. If you're small enough, suppliers don't bother trying to get them back.
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Jun 20, 2017 20:13
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Uh, pull down a corner of the tarp and let it waterfall out? Not that difficult to do... Especially during a heavy rainstorm. "Hey guys, was that an amazing cloudburst this morning or what!"
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Jun 20, 2017 20:22
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Bonster posted:The floor is made out of pallets! Oh god is the window trim turning into a pallet too
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The Bloop posted:I misread that and thought "ordering a pallet of pallets to get the free pallet underneath?" I misread it the same way at first.
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FogHelmut posted:Where do I get these freely available pallets? Do I steal them from a warehouse, or purchase them from an artisan pallet woodwright? I've got three or four in various sizes leaning on the side of my shed from ordering various large things over the last few years. Mostly I wind up ripping a board or two off them every now and then when I need them for something.
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Jun 20, 2017 21:12
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breweries, if you have one nearby. new kegs and bottle boxes and grain arrive on pallets but don't leave on them.
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FogHelmut posted:Where do I get these freely available pallets? Do I steal them from a warehouse, or purchase them from an artisan pallet woodwright? Around 100% of "free" pallets that aren't complete poo poo were literally stolen from some company even if the person who stole them doesn't see it that way. You can just buy them too.
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Jun 21, 2017 00:37
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I went to Google to see if some loon had gone full hipster and built an entire house out of pallets. I should have known, there are zillions of people making hideous lean-tos out of chemical-soaked splinter boards.
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Jun 21, 2017 00:44
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hehehe land of the free!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Around 100% of "free" pallets that aren't complete poo poo were literally stolen from some company even if the person who stole them doesn't see it that way. You can just buy them too. The hardwood ones are the best, but most durable (like CHEP) and have a deposit or are reused. The cheap poo poo ones are garbage pine and break if you so much as stand on a slat. They're designed to distribute weight. I cannot fathom how finishing poo poo wood while assembled is in any way easier than just nailing wood in a slat pattern. Like anything if it fits with your decor then by all means, just, understand the materials is all I (and probably most of us in this thread) ask
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Jun 21, 2017 00:55
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Who doesn't love the smell of creosote and diesel fumes in their home?
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:Who doesn't love the smell of creosote and diesel fumes in their home? Never seen a treated pallet but maybe they do that in third-world countries 
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Jun 21, 2017 01:02
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kid sinister posted:I used to work in warehouse for a smaller hardware and fastener company, maybe 15 employees max. Some orders were big enough to ship out on pallets, but a lot of our orders were small enough to ship out in boxes. We had pallets out the wahzoo. If you're small enough, suppliers don't bother trying to get them back. Try that with CHEP sometime. They'll just send you a bill for pallet rental (or replacement) if they even think think you might have any of their pallets.
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Jun 21, 2017 02:39
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If you get sent pallets, you also get charged for pallets (one way or the other). If your shop has pallets up the "wahzoo" it just means the person running the shop is too god drat stupid to sell them off to someone who'll come pick them up.
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There's a show called Fixer Upper on Netflix, which has been real hot with the Pinterest crowd for the last couple years. It's this designer/contractor couple who do extensive remodels on homes in Waco, TX and they're both well thought out and well executed. Part of the talent and taste of the designer is that she builds things that are appropriate for the style of the house and neighborhood, and does good modernization of existing features on old homes. Whoever has been building homes in Waco through a 50 year span looooooooved shiplap on the walls. Shiplap is where you use cheaper boards nailed in horizontally in rows, overlapping the rows below them. It became very out of fashion in recent years and most homes have it covered up or painted, but they'll often find a room or two where they have enough material to salvage it and restore the wall. It's neat because it's a feature that is very typical of Waco homes and has a great deal of local character to it. So now it's a thing for the Pinterest crowd to cargo cult on Fixer Upper and decide that: They want shiplap in their house, even though no homes in a 800 mile radius have ever been built with it Nailing boards to the wall counts as shiplap (even when they don't overlap) Bonus points for using "reclaimed wood", whether actually expensive reclaimed wood or trash pallet wood It is so weird. It would be like someone deciding they want an adobe ranch house in the middle of Boston. 
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It's just a trend, I don't think it's specifically linked to Waco or one show. Before shiplap it was beadboard.
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Jun 21, 2017 03:23
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Jerry Cotton posted:If you get sent pallets, you also get charged for pallets (one way or the other). If your shop has pallets up the "wahzoo" it just means the person running the shop is too god drat stupid to sell them off to someone who'll come pick them up. Find companies who import from Europe. Place I worked for had super heavy solid wood pallets, used once, that we had a hard time getting rid of. They were all metricified and therefore not standard sizes, and no one wanted the damned things. Retrospectively I should have bought them and flipped them to Etsy types.
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canyoneer posted:There's a show called Fixer Upper on Netflix, which has been real hot with the Pinterest crowd for the last couple years. She's ok but I can't think of one reno they did without one of: subway tile an enormous clock open shelving in the kitchen She's got her specific style and that's what you get, not something tailored to the house.
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Raised by Hamsters posted:They were all metricified and therefore not standard sizes 
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Jun 21, 2017 04:42
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 Love it or Leave it
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Jun 21, 2017 04:58
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blugu64 posted:
I think you're forgetting the most popular option.
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canyoneer posted:Part of the talent and taste of the designer is that she Also the houses don't have shiplap; they just add it in to every house they do because Joanna loves it and everyone she designs for goes to her for it.
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A coworker just had a kid and renovated the nursery with dark blue "shiplap". In a 1970s ranch. Anyway, he didn't have the tools to make shiplap himself, so he had the big box store rip a sheet or two of plywood into 6 inch strips and just nailed that to the wall, spaced slightly apart. I'm 95% sure that entire house is a Pinterest post. e: phone grammar sucks Drape Culture fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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