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Bead curtain.
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Oct 21, 2014 02:22
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Bad Munki posted:Overhead door like in a garage. There is nothing above or below that doorway. The space under the stairs is empty, so I could use that area to rig up some gears and counterweights to make it a vertically opening door. I just need to figure out how to have a pre-delay with a whirring noise, then add some clicking sounds (like a roller coaster going up the first incline) as the door opens. Dry ice would work for the wooshing smoke on a short term basis, but I'd need something else for a long-term solution.
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Oct 21, 2014 02:24
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SkunkDuster posted:The space under the stairs is empty Oh, perfect, build yourself a bookshelf in front of the stairs where the doorway was and then have a series of complex, unrelated puzzles elsewhere in your house that will lead to clues that will allow you to open the bookshelf which will lower to become a set of stairs. 
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Oct 21, 2014 02:31
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Just make a portal
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Oct 21, 2014 03:04
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That staircase abomination reminds me of all the great stuff to be seen at this website.
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Oct 21, 2014 04:26
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6 years old. Terrible.
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Oct 21, 2014 05:17
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What's the best way to fill a hole in a steel entry door? I think it's steel, it has an insulated core. I got a new door knocker but it doesn't line up with the old holes. It sounds like I need auto body filler, but I've also seen canned insulating foam suggested online.
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Oct 21, 2014 15:55
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WeaselWeaz posted:What's the best way to fill a hole in a steel entry door? I think it's steel, it has an insulated core. I got a new door knocker but it doesn't line up with the old holes. It sounds like I need auto body filler, but I've also seen canned insulating foam suggested online. Use auto body filler. How do you plan on sanding and smoothing the hardened expanding foam? Also the right auto body filler is designed to be painted over, where plasticized foam will repel the paint.
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Oct 21, 2014 16:02
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WeaselWeaz posted:What's the best way to fill a hole in a steel entry door? I think it's steel, it has an insulated core. I got a new door knocker but it doesn't line up with the old holes. It sounds like I need auto body filler, but I've also seen canned insulating foam suggested online. The same people who suggest canned foam for this will suggest it for auto body work. Ignore them. Bondo's the right thing.
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Oct 21, 2014 16:41
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Thanks for the info!ColHannibal posted:Use auto body filler. The same articles claimed you could sand/prime the foam. Didn't sound right, but also sounded like less work so I figured someone could confirm it was wrong. I wish there were standards for door knockers.
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Oct 21, 2014 16:44
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WeaselWeaz posted:Thanks for the info! I just went through this exact issue a month ago and no one piped up in this thread  My answer was to use SteelStik or something (a 2-part epoxy basically I think) after sanding down to metal. That dried rock hard and I was able to sand and paint it. I'll snap a pic tonight of the stuff if you need, phone posting atm.
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Oct 21, 2014 18:39
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Leperflesh posted:The door really should just open into the room/hallway above instead. Having a door open into a stairwell is probably a little more dangerous for guests looking for the bathroom, and it's annoying as hell for someone coming up the stairs who has to back down the stairs a step or two when they open the door. It's also a great way to get small kids hurt or loving killed by accidentally opening the door into them as they get to the top of the stairs. I've been at the bottom of similar stairs and seen a couple of those (non-fatal).
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Oct 21, 2014 21:45
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WeaselWeaz posted:What's the best way to fill a hole in a steel entry door? I think it's steel, it has an insulated core. I got a new door knocker but it doesn't line up with the old holes. It sounds like I need auto body filler, but I've also seen canned insulating foam suggested online. Are you the same person who wanted to fill your fire door with expanding foam?
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Oct 22, 2014 01:47
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Vindolanda posted:Are you the same person who wanted to fill your fire door with expanding foam? gently caress you, no.
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Oct 22, 2014 03:21
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I wonder what there is for ER Idiot stories featuring expanding foam. 
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Oct 22, 2014 03:44
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Splizwarf posted:I wonder what there is for ER Idiot stories featuring expanding foam. I guarantee you someone has stuck it up their butt.
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Oct 22, 2014 03:56
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I guarantee you someone has stuck it up their butt.
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Oct 22, 2014 04:30
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lonelywurm posted:If someone's done it with cement, then there's simply no question someone's done it with expanding foam. If you didn't already post this in the buttstuff thread... http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3469571
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Oct 22, 2014 04:35
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lonelywurm posted:If someone's done it with cement, then there's simply no question someone's done it with expanding foam. quote:A thin layer of feces coated the surface and crevices. Grooves in the mass were consistent with rectal mucosal folds. A layer of concrete was chipped off the upper part of the specimen and revealed a white plastic ping-pong ball.
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Oct 22, 2014 04:47
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Pathologists get to have all the fun.
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Oct 22, 2014 05:31
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 I knew this thread would inevitably cross over into the health care stories thread.
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Oct 22, 2014 06:59
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Vindolanda posted:Are you the same person who wanted to fill your fire door with expanding foam?
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Oct 22, 2014 07:15
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i like nice words
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I feel like someone should get a hollow core door and fill it with foam. For science. Or art, because apparently you can pass off a lot of botched projects as "design decisions"
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Oct 22, 2014 17:20
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Antifreeze Head posted:I feel like someone should get a hollow core door and fill it with foam. For science. I have a damaged hollow-core door in my house that I was thinking of replacing when my tenants move out. I may have to do try this.
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Oct 22, 2014 18:12
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Dragyn posted:I have a damaged hollow-core door in my house that I was thinking of replacing when my tenants move out. I may have to do try this. 
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Oct 22, 2014 23:25
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Crosspost from PYF Schadenfreude thread. Woman Arrested After Becoming Trapped in Chimney at Thousand Oaks Home As a homeowner, I can't decide if I would be more disturbed that a stalker tried to break in or that the firefighters jackhammered my chimney.
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Oct 23, 2014 03:08
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canyoneer posted:As a homeowner, I can't decide if I would be more disturbed that a stalker tried to break in or that the firefighters jackhammered my chimney. I think I would be more disturbed about the former: the firefighters are only going to jackhammer your chimney once: not do it every saturday night until you promise to love them forever and fill them with babies.* *unless you have a really weird Fire Department in your city.
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Oct 23, 2014 15:33
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spog posted:I think I would be more disturbed about the former: the firefighters are only going to jackhammer your chimney once: not do it every saturday night until you promise to love them forever and fill them with babies.* Well, you could always combine posts and try filling with expanding foam before the FD gets there...
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Oct 23, 2014 18:02
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I've been helping a buddy move in to his new 54 year old house this past week. There's some dumb poo poo here and there (lovely home-done shelving has been most of it), but by and large it's been pretty decent so far. A few days ago we removed some AC vents in one of the bedrooms to paint and found that some of the ducting was styrofoam (with black mold growing on it) 
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Oct 23, 2014 20:38
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Oct 24, 2014 15:43
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asbestos is the best-os! (nice knob and tube, too.)
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Oct 24, 2014 15:46
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Anyone know a good source for decent looking, reasonably priced fireplace doors? Lowes, HD, and Amazon only appear to have Pleasant Hearth, which are easy to install but don't have a lot of options.
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Oct 24, 2014 17:31
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WeaselWeaz posted:Anyone know a good source for decent looking, reasonably priced fireplace doors? Lowes, HD, and Amazon only appear to have Pleasant Hearth, which are easy to install but don't have a lot of options. You might find a local store that sells fireplaces and supplies near you. I know we have two different fireplace stores here, and I live in loving Florida where you don't need a fireplace at all because it barely gets cold in the winter.
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Oct 24, 2014 18:17
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How far back do you have to go to start finding solder and tape instead of wire nuts?
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Oct 24, 2014 18:42
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Dick Trauma posted:How far back do you have to go to start finding solder and tape instead of wire nuts? My house is from 1953 and all the ceiling box connections are soldered and (cloth) taped.
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Oct 24, 2014 23:06
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Welcome to Part 3 of our 6-part series, "How Lowe's Tells People To Build a Non-Code Compliant Deck"
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Oct 25, 2014 14:00
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Laminator posted:Welcome to Part 3 of our 6-part series, "How Lowe's Tells People To Build a Non-Code Compliant Deck" Can you be more specific as to exactly what you think isn't up to <some code in a jurisdiction we don't know for sure> in those videos? Nothing was outrageous, and all of it was very typical of commercial deck building 10-20 years ago.
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Motronic posted:Can you be more specific as to exactly what you think isn't up to <some code in a jurisdiction we don't know for sure> in those videos? Nothing was outrageous, and all of it was very typical of commercial deck building 10-20 years ago. I don't think you are supposed to notch railing posts anymore.
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It's also the precise series of videos used when my wife built our deck this year. If there's something massively illegal going on, it's important to know now, rather than in a few months when we sell the place.
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