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bEatmstrJ posted:There isn't a lot of motivation to post pictures of something pretty much everyone universally agreed was a poo poo design. I'd only be asking for more ridicule and I'm pretty sure I've had enough of that. I'm happy with how it turned out. That's all that matters I think. Besides the pictures of the bathroom, there are those of us who want to see the joist repair. Also take your loving lumps man you said and did some dingus things. I'm not saying you should roll with the punches necessarily, but you'll do a lot better if you let poo poo slough off your shoulder and admit you were a dingus rather than dig your heels in and double down.
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Tile is the devil in a kitchen. If you cook on the regular, you will never get the grout clean. And for the love of god, just buy a cutting board. Several in fact. Don't cut veggies on the same cutting board you use for raw poultry. Also, bEatmstrJ, post the bathroom.
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drgitlin posted:Steel, or surplus laboratory bench top. I dream of a Trespa countertop kitchen.
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 New interior decoration tumblr. Pros- more rooms I like, Cons- not being run by the brightest crayon in the box
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The person running out could easily have been born after 9/11
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I thought there was a toilet at the bottom of those stairs for a second and was very confused.
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Hutzpah posted:Peanut, as someone that constantly lurks in this thread and the housing thread, I want to thank you for your constant japan-posting. It's not often that I look outside american-centric design trends and it's interesting to hear what's going on halfway across the world.  Thanks, friend! I moved around a lot in the US, and have moved around plenty here, too. I definitely have Opinions on style vs function  I wish I could brag about restoring a 300 yo Japanese farm house but I'm pretty content with my suburban life, lol. peanut fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Re: countertops, we installed soapstone in our kitchen 2 years ago and it’s the loving best. Doesn’t get stained by pomegranate juice or whatever, doesn’t need to be sealed, hot pans can go right on it, looks fuckin great. People say it chips easily compared to other stone but I dunno wtf they’re doing if that’s the case. I’ve dropped quite a few things of various weights on it (I cook a lot and have limited mobility/grip in my right hand) and the stone is pristine. I did put a couple decent scratches in it with my bigass rough-bottomed mortar and pestle (I later added felt to the bottom), but they buffed out with some fine sandpaper. The soapstone cost more than the rest of my kitchen reno combined, but it was totally worth it.
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peanut posted:I wish I could brag about restoring a 300 yo Japanese farm house but I'm pretty content with my suburban life, lol. Please do!! Especially if there are pictures, oh my god. edit: I missed the "I wish". Oh well.
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It's a 2-year-old regular house, but you're welcome to read all about it in the Home Spergin' thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770037&pagenumber=1
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drgitlin posted:surplus laboratory bench top. I’m in a bio lab and never thought of that. Bloody brilliant idea, to be honest. People would come in and be all like “is that dark concrete?” And then I would just pour some ethanol on it and set it on fire and grin. If that’s yours, I dig the paint job on the table. I have an old IKEA table I’ve been thinking of doing something similar to. I spray painted the end pieces of an IVAR shelving unit a soft green a few years ago and it’s held up quite well and adds a nice touch of color to an otherwise white kitchen.
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Antivehicular posted:I thought there was a toilet at the bottom of those stairs for a second and was very confused. What, you don't have a Pittsburgh Potty?
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Jun 21, 2018 17:35
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What material is used in labs?
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Jaded Burnout posted:What material is used in labs? Fur and stuff. 
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Electric Bugaloo posted:I have an old IKEA table I’ve been thinking of doing something similar to. I spray painted the end pieces of an IVAR shelving unit a soft green a few years ago and it’s held up quite well and adds a nice touch of color to an otherwise white kitchen.
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Jaded Burnout posted:What material is used in labs? Depends on the type of lab but you'll see either stainless steel or phenolic resin (a composite made of craft paper and resin bonded under ultra high pressure). The really fancy places use full epoxy resin tops because it's continiously heat resistant to almost 200c but it costs a fortune and not many labs require that kind of spec unless you're throwing azides around like some kind of madman.
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Older lab tops can contain asbestos (fibers if composite, mastics if soapstone). Something to consider if cutting is needed.
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You can also get even older lab tops made out of nice old wood like teak if you are lucky.
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Anne Whateley posted:Don't skip sanding first (to give it a rough surface for more durable adhesion) and it should come out well! Yeah, I’ve made the mistake of spraying on top of an existing finish before. The IVAR didn’t really need any sanding since the unfinished pine soaked the paint up like a sponge. Ebola Dog posted:You can also get even older lab tops made out of nice old wood like teak if you are lucky. I don’t know if I could do that. I feel like I’d worry about decades’ worth of PFA and ethidium and animal blood soaked into the wood “seasoning” my food. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Jun 21, 2018 19:35
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My school labs were solid wood and we spilled a lot of mercury on those, so, yeah.
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Melicious posted:Re: countertops, we installed soapstone in our kitchen 2 years ago and it’s the loving best. Doesn’t get stained by pomegranate juice or whatever, doesn’t need to be sealed, hot pans can go right on it, looks fuckin great. People say it chips easily compared to other stone but I dunno wtf they’re doing if that’s the case. I’ve dropped quite a few things of various weights on it (I cook a lot and have limited mobility/grip in my right hand) and the stone is pristine. I did put a couple decent scratches in it with my bigass rough-bottomed mortar and pestle (I later added felt to the bottom), but they buffed out with some fine sandpaper. The soapstone cost more than the rest of my kitchen reno combined, but it was totally worth it. I know a guy who installed soapstone TWENTY years ago and he says it gets to be quite annoying and needs a big, messy reseal every 4 years or so.
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I don't like dark or veiny stone so, not the stone for me
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Jaded Burnout posted:I don't like dark or veiny stone so, not the stone for me .....dark and veiny.... 
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Electric Bugaloo posted:.....dark and veiny.... I prefer thick wood.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:I know a guy who installed soapstone TWENTY years ago and he says it gets to be quite annoying and needs a big, messy reseal every 4 years or so. I mean, he’s doing something stupid or it’s got high talc content or something because soapstone doesn’t need sealing, it’s totally non-porous. Ours have literally nothing on them, though some folks like to oil theirs to make ‘em shiny and dark. It’s just cosmetic, though. Anyone selling soapstone sealant might as well label it snake oil. Regarding lab tables, every one I’ve ever seen was made of soapstone. My next door neighbor is a chemistry prof and she also confirms it’s what’s in her lab. That’s one of the reasons I chose it for my kitchen- if that poo poo can withstand teenagers dicking around with chemicals, it’s good enough for my food prep. Ours doesn’t have veins, but it’s definitely dark, which isn’t everyone’s taste. I get it. Melicious fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jaded Burnout posted:How do we feel about kitchen counters? Wood? Stone? Steel? Mix? Proper butcher block or stainless are the best, although not always the best looking. Stone's fine as long as it's non-porous low maintenance stuff. Anyone who installs tile on a kitchen counter should be defenestrated. Jaded Burnout posted:Presumably stone (and stonelike crystals) and steel both have the downside that you can't chop directly on it without effing up your blade? Nah, you don't want to chop directly on a wood counter either. It'll eventually scar up and mean you have to sand/refinish that part. Cutting boards are cheap, disposable, and mean you can change out your cutting surface to avoid cross contamination. Use 'em. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Nah, you don't want to chop directly on a wood counter either. It'll eventually scar up and mean you have to sand/refinish that part. Cutting boards are cheap, disposable, and mean you can change out your cutting surface to avoid cross contamination. Use 'em. We don't debone chickens or anything on our butcher block countertops but it's really nice not having to pull out a cutting board to cut a sandwich in half. We wipe them down every time we do the dishes and oil them every couple of weeks and they look great.
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Tiled kitchen counter seems like the worst loving thing. Unless..... Anyone ever seen a carpeted kitchen counter? Goes from the carpeted kitchen floor, wraps up the wall and onto the counter? Someone has to have made this egregious monstrosity.
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Rotten Cookies posted:Anyone ever seen a carpeted kitchen counter? Goes from the carpeted kitchen floor, wraps up the wall and onto the counter? Someone has to have made this egregious monstrosity. Well, you wouldn't need to worry about dulling your knives if you don't use a cutting board.
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Rotten Cookies posted:Tiled kitchen counter seems like the worst loving thing. Unless..... I have seen a shag carpet bar before. It had a pane of glass laid on top for drinks to actually go on.
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On the topic of kitchens, I’ve been trying to find an extractor to suit my height and my ceiling height. I then discovered in-ceiling ones which can’t go in my ceiling because it’s already full, but could hang down and take up less space. THEN I discovered that commercial kitchen extractors are just as good a fit, quieter, more powerful, and cheaper. Sweet. I’m wondering if the same might be true of cookers since my current plan is an expensive range master, but at first glance it appears to not be the case.
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Jaded Burnout posted:On the topic of kitchens, I’ve been trying to find an extractor to suit my height and my ceiling height. I then discovered in-ceiling ones which can’t go in my ceiling because it’s already full, but could hang down and take up less space. I need a link to your commercial extractors because mine is a noisy suggestion rather than an effective mover of air.
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I think we can all agree that an extractor built into a microwave oven just makes both key aspects of its existence worse.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I need a link to your commercial extractors because mine is a noisy suggestion rather than an effective mover of air. This is the one I'm looking at. I'm basing the noise and performance purely on the specs, though. https://www.cs-catering-equipment.co.uk/lincat-sv1216ch-smartvent-extraction-ventilation-canopy
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Jaded Burnout posted:This is the one I'm looking at. I'm basing the noise and performance purely on the specs, though. What’s a gas interlock?
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Subjunctive posted:What’s a gas interlock? It's a requirement for commercial kitchens in the UK whereby if the ventilation fails it cuts off the gas supply to your cooking equipment.
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Ah, cool. Thanks!
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Jaded Burnout posted:This is the one I'm looking at. I'm basing the noise and performance purely on the specs, though. Okay no that's more than I'll budget to replace all the appliances I currently have. I'll settle for wedging a massive fan in the current housing.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Okay no that's more than I'll budget to replace all the appliances I currently have. I'll settle for wedging a massive fan in the current housing. Yeah the equivalent ceiling mount non-commercial ones are like 1900 because they're marketed to REALLY fancy fit outs. https://ao.com/product/lf959re55b-siemens-iq700-integrated-cooker-hood-stainless-steel-41363-6.aspx
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At that point you may as well buy the internal fan units and baffles from the commercial site and have a local fabricators stainless you up ducting to fit/look how you want.
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