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Suspect Bucket posted:I want concrete counter tops because i'm desperate for a clever way to display my crappy beloved curio fossil and shell collection that's not a dusty drawer. How about a display box coffee table? You could also make a lot of kids happy with a "permanent loan" to an elementary school.
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spog posted:I like the girlie drafted in to help carrying a giant, heavy slab of concrete of unknown integrity is wearing tiny ballet pumps while the men get protective boots. Maybe they're steel-toed pumps?
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Oct 3, 2016 23:43
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Wouldn't a concrete (or marble) countertop need to be sealed somehow? It's vulnerable to acid, and over time is going to come into contact with a lot of mildly acid foods and drinks. Not enough for structural damage, but surely over the years there is a danger of etching and staining.
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Rockin Orthodontist posted:Wouldn't a concrete (or marble) countertop need to be sealed somehow? It's vulnerable to acid, and over time is going to come into contact with a lot of mildly acid foods and drinks. Not enough for structural damage, but surely over the years there is a danger of etching and staining. Yea, you really should seal them. On ours, we poured about a quarter inch of epoxy, which worked pretty well.
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Rockin Orthodontist posted:Wouldn't a concrete (or marble) countertop need to be sealed somehow? It's vulnerable to acid, and over time is going to come into contact with a lot of mildly acid foods and drinks. Not enough for structural damage, but surely over the years there is a danger of etching and staining. The 15ish year old one I saw was the counter top at a coffee place, everywhere was fine except right at the till. I don't kow if it's from coins sliding or what but it was more like a cobble stone road than a counter top.
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Oct 4, 2016 05:18
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Crappy Construction 2: Electric Boogaloo Hint: he replaced the slats with smaller ones and oiled the wood, in the hope of making it more flammable. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Oct 4, 2016 21:57
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I'm sad there's no pics of that dangerous looking outlet box this time
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moist turtleneck posted:I'm sad there's no pics of that dangerous looking outlet box this time It's the same structure, he just redid the slats. He's really against any kind of stain "with artificial coloring". He did say he actually sanded it this time because apparently he didn't even bother to sand anything when he put it up the first time 
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Oct 4, 2016 22:13
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I stained my deck with ghost juice, only the finest of supernatural stains.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:15
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Platystemon posted:Crappy Construction 2: Electric Boogaloo Hint: The whole frame of the house is made of wood.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:20
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Baronjutter posted:I stained my deck with ghost juice, only the finest of supernatural stains. You laugh but I did that quest in World of Warcraft once. Got a pretty good sword from it too.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:21
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Platystemon posted:Crappy Construction 2: Electric Boogaloo Linseed oil -- the best way to bring out the natural character of the cheapest pine available at Home Depot. Pine that you have now purchased twice...
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Oct 4, 2016 22:23
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I got soapstone for my counters. Did I gently caress up? You can scratch it with a key, but it will not take a stain and looks blueish.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:32
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I got soapstone for my counters. Did I gently caress up? You can scratch it with a key, but it will not take a stain and looks blueish. Not granite. Lame. You might as well burn the house down and claim insurance.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:34
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Anything else I should get done at the same time? Salt the lawn maybe?
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Oct 4, 2016 22:39
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Anything else I should get done at the same time? Salt the lawn maybe? 
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Oct 4, 2016 22:48
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I got soapstone for my counters. Did I gently caress up? You can scratch it with a key, but it will not take a stain and looks blueish. I love the gently caress out of my soapstone. Oil that poo poo up for a different look. gently caress granite.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:48
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If your kitchen isn't milled from a single cube of stainless steel it's unsanitary and peasantish.
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Baronjutter posted:If your kitchen isn't milled from a single cube of stainless steel it's unsanitary and peasantish. And that steel had better be 316L.
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Oct 4, 2016 23:05
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Baronjutter posted:kitchen milled from a single cube of stainless steel
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Collateral Damage posted:I really want to see someone attempt this. I really want to see the demo contractors' eyeballs when they try to disassemble it seventy years later and find out that instead of stainless cladding over wood, some maniac built his kitchen counter out of inch and a half thick stainless plate. Also, a quick price check reveals a 4'x4'x1" 304 stainless plate is ~$2300. 
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 https://imgur.com/gallery/q54Xv Take it to the LAN party so you can protect your motorbike from pilfering while you frag some n00bs. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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Oct 4, 2016 23:23
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Collateral Damage posted:I really want to see someone attempt this. http://www.schiessbrighton.com/us/ganmill.htm
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Oct 4, 2016 23:25
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My dad did this once. The bushes next to the hole just got greener...
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MrYenko posted:I really want to see the demo contractors' eyeballs when they try to disassemble it seventy years later and find out that instead of stainless cladding over wood, some maniac built his kitchen counter out of inch and a half thick stainless plate. Actually cheaper than granite.
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Oct 5, 2016 00:15
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FogHelmut posted:Actually cheaper than granite. Clearly we should make countertops out of iron ore.
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Oct 5, 2016 00:23
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there wolf posted:My dad did this once. The bushes next to the hole just got greener... is it supposed to kill off the lawn around it or something? I'm not a car person, so I'm not sure if used oil is toxic to life in general or something.
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Oct 5, 2016 01:17
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Oil comes out of the ground, oil goes back in the ground. The circle of life.
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Sagebrush posted:Oil comes out of the ground, oil goes back in the ground. The circle of life. I dig a deep hole. It works and saves time.
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Oct 5, 2016 02:20
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FogHelmut posted:Actually cheaper than granite. I've bought finished granite at $35/foot, $50/foot is common as gently caress?
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Oct 5, 2016 02:35
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Cover all the roof vents if you're doing concrete repair on the roof:
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kid sinister posted:Cover all the roof vents if you're doing concrete repair on the roof: Nice excuse you disgusting monster.
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Oct 5, 2016 04:36
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An occasional courtesy flush would also have been appropriate.
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Oct 5, 2016 04:50
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That doesn't look like anywhere close to 400 pounds worth.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I got soapstone for my counters. Did I gently caress up? You can scratch it with a key, but it will not take a stain and looks blueish. Soapstone is awesome and has tons of character. Just use an iota of care about dropping and cutting (DON'T CUT ON BARE COUNTERS) poo poo on it. You can also amuse yourself by carving rude graffiti in it.
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Arivia posted:is it supposed to kill off the lawn around it or something? I'm not a car person, so I'm not sure if used oil is toxic to life in general or something. I was curious so I googled and the concern is that it gets into the ground water and contaminates it. I can't imagine it's good for plants even if it's not immediately harmful in an obvious way. Not that those bushes are a good test case. I poured stump killer on them and they just kind of half wilted. Finally dug the root balls out and covered the area in gravel and I still get little runners popping up every once in a while.
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Suspect Bucket posted:DON'T CUT ON BARE COUNTERS This is also true if you get the quartz countertops, but that's because they're generally harder than most knives and will gently caress up your blade.
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there wolf posted:I was curious so I googled and the concern is that it gets into the ground water and contaminates it. It also poisons the plants that grow out of it for decades. Anything that eats those plants will be contaminated, and much like DDT, continues up the line to concentrate in top predators. It also can run off into local waterways and poison fish, leading to the same poison concentration chain. Waste oil properly 'disposed' of can be re-refined and recycled, taking some of the pressure off of existing oil stocks, or burned as fuel. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Oct 5, 2016 |
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Platystemon posted:Not granite. Lame. Downside: the worktop will probably be the only surviving item.
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It helps to know that oil, in and of itself, is not particularly toxic (it's not good for you but you won't die if you drink a glass of it). Motor oil has a bunch of additives to improve its lubricating properties and lifespan that are toxic. Used motor oil is also loaded with metals and toxic breakdown products that make it even worse.
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