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PainterofCrap posted:So...she spent an entire weekend (though I'm skeptical that she laid underlayment over OSB along with everything else in that time period), probably $200 in materials, had to have destroyed at least one bucket, a couple squeegees, countless rags, paper towels, clothes and socks with the glue solution, and put down a vulnerable paper floor just so she could say "looks like wood, don't it? Well, it AIN'T!" The room really doesn't look that big in the photos, it'd have taken maybe a couple of hours to lay a click-laminate floor.
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Nov 26, 2015 20:45
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Yeah but then you can't brag about it online.
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Nov 26, 2015 21:44
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Lumber Liquidators can sell you some horrid laminate as low as $.29/foot, just catch that sale. That brown paper floor will have cracks in the varnish along the plywood edge lines in under a year. But we'll never hear about it
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Nov 26, 2015 22:18
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Nitrox posted:Lumber Liquidators can sell you some horrid laminate as low as $.29/foot, just catch that sale. It only might contain formaldehyde too.
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Nov 26, 2015 22:22
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Nitrox posted:That brown paper floor will have cracks in the varnish along the plywood edge lines in under a year. But we'll never hear about it
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Nov 26, 2015 22:36
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i like nice words
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Anne Whateley posted:Did you miss the "one year later" followup post? Totally, yeah. It's hard to navigate on my phone, can you summarize if not too much trouble?
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Nov 27, 2015 01:11
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Nitrox posted:Totally, yeah. It's hard to navigate on my phone, can you summarize if not too much trouble? 
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Nov 27, 2015 01:18
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Here's the link. Tl;dr in general it looks fine, there are a few scratches and spots of wear under the crib wheels, and a mystery patch where the poly is flaking off. She did her guest bedroom to match, and at the same time she resealed the bedroom with a different product. She hosed up, though (didn't let it dry between coats -- she acknowledges it was all on her), so the new finish is blistering.
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Nov 27, 2015 01:21
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If you were saving money and weight on like, a camper or tiny house, this would be a cute little solution if you're only doing a few square feet. But then again, how much sealer are you using vs the weight of say, fake wood lino or click-lock. Hmm. It's still interesting though, maybe if you were going for a certain effect or had a paper or print you really liked. I would not do the 'torn paper bag' thing. Ooh, unless I was going for like fake flagstones, that might actually look cool.
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Nov 27, 2015 01:58
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DrBouvenstein posted:
And your stove doesn't fit flush against the wall, that's a pet peeve of mine.
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Nov 27, 2015 04:28
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Suspect Bucket posted:If you were saving money and weight on like, a camper or tiny house, this would be a cute little solution if you're only doing a few square feet. At that point you might as well just finish the OSB. It doesn't look any worse, done right, and cuts out most of the steps.
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Nov 27, 2015 04:52
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StormDrain posted:And your stove doesn't fit flush against the wall, that's a pet peeve of mine. Our stove is something like 8 inches from the wall because apparently whoever ran the gas line 80 years ago was a complete moron and had it come up in the middle of the floor rather than at the wall.  I should really take some pictures of the place because boy howdy there are some goofy things. Nothing catastrophic, just tedious stuff that no one has ever fixed. The prior tenant did that gluing-rocks-to-the-wall thing, as well.
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Nov 27, 2015 17:59
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Ashcans posted:Our stove is something like 8 inches from the wall because apparently whoever ran the gas line 80 years ago was a complete moron and had it come up in the middle of the floor rather than at the wall. Well, a lot of stoves back then were on legs and had a good foot or so of open space underneath the stove, so there wasn't a need to put the gas at the wall...
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Nov 27, 2015 19:59
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Nov 29, 2015 05:01
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A leak being fed into the toilet reservoir?
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Nov 29, 2015 07:09
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Looks like it. At first glance I thought it was propping up the ceiling as a load-bearing toilet, which I wish it now was, so that the phrase load-bearing toilet could be used non-hypothetically.
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Nov 29, 2015 07:13
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Messadiah posted:A leak being fed into the toilet reservoir? That's actually kind of genius in a lovely redneck engineering way; I mean, if the reservoir water gets too high, it'll just go down the drain anyway, right?
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Nov 29, 2015 17:17
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Wasabi the J posted:That's actually kind of genius in a lovely redneck engineering way; I mean, if the reservoir water gets too high, it'll just go down the drain anyway, right? If the overflow tube isn't above the hole in the side of the tank for the handle and you don't mind the sound of a running toilet, sure. Oh, and you'll have to get creative with lifting and rotating the lid if you ever need to do any work inside the tank. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Nov 29, 2015 17:22
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Wasabi the J posted:That's actually kind of genius in a lovely redneck engineering way; I mean, if the reservoir water gets too high, it'll just go down the drain anyway, right?
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Nov 29, 2015 18:32
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Slugworth posted:Not any more genius than routing it to the sink a foot to the right. Yeah, but that wastes perfectly good water!
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Nov 29, 2015 20:31
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Could be grey water.
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Nov 29, 2015 20:48
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Slugworth posted:Not any more genius than routing it to the sink a foot to the right. My inbred drunk contractor argument is that if you wanna wash your hands with grey leak water, do it in your own basement shitter, not mine.
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Nov 29, 2015 20:58
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I water my plants with my leaky bathtub faucet + a pitcher, but that thing is a whole other level.
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Nov 30, 2015 00:09
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Javid posted:I water my plants with my leaky bathtub faucet + a pitcher, but that thing is a whole other level. One is the lazy fix to a difficult problem, the other is the lazy fix to an easy problem. 
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Nov 30, 2015 01:11
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StormDrain posted:And your stove doesn't fit flush against the wall, that's a pet peeve of mine. On top of what Ashcans said, the plug for an electric stove is at least a couple of inches deep. Electric stoves often can't sit flush because of that. And if the house was originally set up for a gas range, the outlet box for the stove may be surface mount, which brings it out a couple of more inches (minimum).
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Nov 30, 2015 10:36
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some texas redneck posted:On top of what Ashcans said, the plug for an electric stove is at least a couple of inches deep. Electric stoves often can't sit flush because of that. And if the house was originally set up for a gas range, the outlet box for the stove may be surface mount, which brings it out a couple of more inches (minimum). I wish it was sett up for a gas stove. Just a crummy install job of the plug and outlet when it was originally built. At some point we'll upgrade the stove to gas, but as said, the fence falling apart and the bathroom needing remodeling take priority over the kitchen. The only benefit of that stove is that it was built before things like "efficiency" and "safety" so it actually heats up as shitload faster than any other electric I've ever used. What annoys me is that the house HAS gas lines! The furnace and water heater are on natural gas, have been since the place was built, near as I can tell. But I guess piping gas a few feet up into the kitchen was too much work. So now when we remodel the kitchen we'll have to pay to get a gas line into there. It's on an exterior wall, too, so that makes it even more fun to pay for a gas line up there. Luckily, the current gas line runs very near where the stove is now, so shouldn't be too hard/expensive? I hope? Hell, they had the foresight to put a gas line on the exterior of the house so I can install a natural gas grill if I want, but didn't bother with one for the kitchen. WTF? I also had a lot of fun this weekend just trying to install that drat USB outlet. The outlet I was replacing was NOT on the circuit listed as "Master Bedroom" in the breaker box. The rest of the outlets and light were, but not that one. Ok, it shares a wall with another bedroom, so must be on that circuit...great, that bedroom isn't listed on the panel, only half the rooms are. So went through all the breakers to find out what does what and labeled them myself. At first it looked like NONE of the breakers controlled that other bedroom. Found the one for the kitchen lights and outlets (stove was already labeled,) one of the living room, the office, the downstairs rooms (of course, one of the downstairs rooms has two different breakers for outlets and lights.) but it didn't look like any of them controlled that drat second bedroom + outlet. So I figured it had to shared with a breaker for a room I already flipped. Yup...the second bedroom and that one outlet are on the same cicruit as the living room outlets...despite being just about as far away from the living room as possible, and there being, from what I could tell, 2 15 AMP breakers in the box that are unused. But even then I couldn't install that outlet because after removing the old one, I found out it isn't grounded...no ground wire in the outlet box as far as I could tell. I was willing to live with that since, as said, the only thing I planned to plug into that didn't use ground, but the outlet box is so small the only-slightly-larger-than-normal USB outlet wouldn't fit in it.  It might have been able to fit if there wasn't so much excess wire in the box, but I couldn't push them out of the box because they were secured in place with a clamp of some kind that I couldn't access. So the only way to fix all the crap wrong with this outlet would involve making a large square hole in the drywall between the studs, replace it, and put a piece of drywall back, and attempt to tape, mud, sand, and paint it to look good...and I can't be bothered to do that. Since the outlet has no ground, I decided it's best to not use it at all, really. I put wire nuts over the existing wires and put one of those blank switch plates over it.
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Nov 30, 2015 17:34
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We are in a similar boat where we have gas run in the house, but only to the upstairs furnace and nowhere else. I've just learned to like our electric range and plan to upgrade to an induction top when money is good.
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Nov 30, 2015 19:07
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One of the best things I did when building my house was put both gas and electric in for the stove and dryer. Also put a line outside for my grill.
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Nov 30, 2015 22:13
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I didn't know they made charcoal lines. 
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Nov 30, 2015 23:28
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KillHour posted:I didn't know they made charcoal lines. Taste the meat, not the heat.
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Nov 30, 2015 23:51
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clean burning charcoal shouldn't taste like anything and powerful enough gas/electric/infrared/whatever grills cook just as good as charcoal
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Nov 30, 2015 23:53
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Enourmo posted:clean burning charcoal shouldn't taste like anything and powerful enough gas/electric/infrared/whatever grills cook just as good as charcoal Nothing cooks quite like LOX, though. 
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Nov 30, 2015 23:55
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Enourmo posted:clean burning charcoal shouldn't taste like anything and powerful enough gas/electric/infrared/whatever grills cook just as good as charcoal I don't use that briquette poo poo. Lump all the way, like a real man.
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Dec 1, 2015 00:01
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DrBouvenstein posted:What annoys me is that the house HAS gas lines! The furnace and water heater are on natural gas, have been since the place was built, near as I can tell. But I guess piping gas a few feet up into the kitchen was too much work.
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Dec 1, 2015 00:06
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KillHour posted:I didn't know they made charcoal lines. Wow. KillHour posted:I don't use that briquette poo poo. Lump all the way, like a real man. (I like how you roll)
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Dec 1, 2015 00:29
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KillHour posted:I didn't know they made charcoal lines. dusted
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KillHour posted:I don't use that briquette poo poo. Lump all the way, like a real man. Solid lump mesquite, like a cowballer...
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Dec 1, 2015 03:29
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Dried cow patties, like a peasant.
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KillHour posted:I didn't know they made charcoal lines. If the SR-71 can (nearly) run jets on coal slurry, we in the first world can have hot and cold running charcoal.
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