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I'm helping a friend who just finished scraping his popcorn ceiling. Only it vaults at a near 45 degree angle to a 15 foot high peak. He had to buy a scaffold for that job. He spritzed it with a spray bottle of water to soften it and then hand scraped the whole thing. Nightmare work. They're just now to mud patching and sanding. This is fun living vicariously through your house Rhyno, takes me back to the excitement of my own place. I've been craving that lately. Oh, and I had a nightmare last night that the reason the drywall is bulging is due to 450 lb of insect carcasses in there. Cut a small hole first!
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Oh god. Bugs would be easier than replacing the lower board.
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Nov 25, 2018 17:04
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What about asbestos?
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Charles posted:What about asbestos? Asbestos was the big concern on builds up until about 1960 and pretty much completely banned in the 70s.
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Nov 25, 2018 17:26
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There was no asbestos used in the construction of this house. If you ask they have to disclose it but as it was built in 1981 or was not in the materials.
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slidebite posted:Asbestos was the big concern on builds up until about 1960 and pretty much completely banned in the 70s. Except in Canada, they allowed homebuilders to continue using up their back stock of it until depleted. There are houses up to the late 80s here with asbestos in them, and mid-80s with Montana asbestos-vermiculite insulation.
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Really? I did not know that. Gotta protect the  industry.I thought the only asbestos poo poo we even had the potential of up here in a house of that vintage was flooring like linoleum. Learn something every day.
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Rhyno posted:Oh god. Bugs would be easier than replacing the lower board. You do realise that you have load-bearing drywall? On the plus side, at least your stairs are insulated.
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THIS IS NOT GROVERHAUS
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Rhyno posted:THIS IS NOT GROVERHAUS THIS RYHYNOHAUS.
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Rhyno posted:Oh I know this. We painted my mother's entire second floor and it was hell. Thankfully we only need to finish 3 rooms to live in the house. The rest will be an ongoing project. A power roller will save a ton of time and effort. I got one of these plus the roller attachment and it made painting 5 rooms a breeze. Getting it setup and then cleaning it when you're done takes a bit so ideally you would paint multiple rooms at once but I did one room at a time and it was still worth it.
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Nov 25, 2018 18:07
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gently caress painting. I am finishing up the whole house remodel that's been ongoing since uh....May? On my wife's old house. If anyone recalls, I had to fire my painter for being crazy slow and doing lovely work. It took me two weeks to find a painter that was available. Originally he was trying to finish in two weeks-ish but is running into 4 weeks I think. Still not mad. Glad it's getting done. Here's a little kitchen before and currently.   This is gonna legit kill me.
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Welp, two days short of eleven months and Ein Scheissmonster's first coordinated steps have occurred. Release the Krappen.
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Galler posted:A power roller will save a ton of time and effort. I got one of these plus the roller attachment and it made painting 5 rooms a breeze. Getting it setup and then cleaning it when you're done takes a bit so ideally you would paint multiple rooms at once but I did one room at a time and it was still worth it. Power rollers really do work well., I totally forgot about those. I bought a fairly inexpensive Wagner unit and it was fine. A real time saver. Good call with the white/light baseboards. I might have missed it, but where you just going to paint your old ones or replace it? If you want to replace the baseboards to even just a plain 3"-4" baseboard, don't even have to have a profile/molded shape, it will make a big difference. They don't cost much either. Here is our living room as our house was just getting finished off. Sorry for the crappy cell pic, and the walls look darker than they really are but it's more of a warmer, light taupe. I like how the light baseboards/trim contrast. 
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Nov 25, 2018 18:38
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I have a Tague Lumber millwork catalogue, and it's like homebuilder porn.
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Nov 25, 2018 18:51
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The baseboards are in pretty great shape so we're going to experiment with painting them. Hmmm. Power roller is a killer idea.
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Nov 25, 2018 19:07
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Welp, two days short of eleven months and Ein Scheissmonster's first coordinated steps have occurred. Release the Krappen. Operation Get Into Everything has commenced! My tiny terror is almost 16 months and she just put on that extra inch of height she needed to grab stuff off the counter. Casual mode with the chef's knife has been disabled.
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The wife mobilized her friends, they are over scraping popcorn off the ceiling right now. I might not have to do any of it.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Except in Canada, they allowed homebuilders to continue using up their back stock of it until depleted. There are houses up to the late 80s here with asbestos in them, and mid-80s with Montana asbestos-vermiculite insulation. Same in the United States. And it's still not actually illegal.
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Wrar posted:Operation Get Into Everything has commenced! My wife at times lacks Knife Hygiene, so these will be exciting times.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:My wife at times lacks Knife Hygiene, so these will be exciting times. This would make me nuts. It takes 60 seconds to clean and dry a knife vs hours of spraying at both ends for contaminating.
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Nov 25, 2018 19:43
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I think he's talking about leaving stabby things laying around.
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Ohhh I call that "Knife Discipline" Knife Hygiene is about avoiding cross contaminating
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Excuse me, that's a corner. Hand me your totin' chip.
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I swear to god i will find and murder the tech at the Isuzu dealership who denied my inspection for "seized kingpins", loosened my alternator v belt and now after barely any use, my oil filter has come loose and i was around 3.5l low on oil.
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My body is WRECKED but I have HEAT and didn't have to pay $700 for it and that's all that matters
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I took that to mean you finally got the hot flashes.
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Nov 25, 2018 21:04
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Nice work. Now the important question... Why do you need heat in FL? Is it 50 or something? That's shorts weather! ^^I was going to make aj oke along the lines of hot flashes but decided the FL locale was the way to go.
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Heat? Idgaf. Defrost, in this humid rear end climate? THAT I need. It's getting cold enough that my windshield fogs up bad at night.
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Queen Combat posted:I think he's talking about leaving stabby things laying around. Will never forget when my friend’s two-year old grabbed my 12” razor sharp Japanese chef’s knife with both hands and waved it around wildly. It actually fit perfectly, proportion-wise, as a two-hand sword for him. I disarmed him quickly but very, VERY gently.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Welp, two days short of eleven months and Ein Scheissmonster's first coordinated steps have occurred. Release the Krappen. You can't be much ahead of us - ours turns 11 months in a week. And he's working on pulling himself up, so I'm going to be busy baby proofing everything. Upside is, the adventurous cat has us in reasonable shape so far! We drove from Philly to Charleston SC for Thanksgiving, he was a champ both times, even with 650 miles of rain and slow traffic coming home. Fender Anarchist posted:My body is WRECKED but I have HEAT and didn't have to pay $700 for it and that's all that matters When the heat exchanger on my E90 failed, my mechanic was pretty blunt that it'd be a minimum of $1500 to do it, and he really, REALLY suggested I do the heater core at the same time proactively. I think he was relieved I sold the car instead. No one wants to that that car apart, let alone twice.
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Alarbus posted:You can't be much ahead of us - ours turns 11 months in a week. And he's working on pulling himself up, so I'm going to be busy baby proofing everything. Upside is, the adventurous cat has us in reasonable shape so far! My boy has just gone 9 months, been pulling himself up for a week or two now. We've fenced off half the lounge and put the TV on a much higher cabinet. so far he keeps out of most things, but boy is he persistent when he decides he wants something. Lord help you if he spies you eating when he isn't!
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bolind posted:Will never forget when my friend’s two-year old grabbed my 12” razor sharp Japanese chef’s knife with both hands and waved it around wildly. It actually fit perfectly, proportion-wise, as a two-hand sword for him. Baby/childproofing for visitors is really hard if you aren't used to it. To me, it makes sense to store my bubblegum-scented screenwash on the floor, my squirty-bottle of bleach next to the bath and my collection of used needles and razorblades on the lower shelf.
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spog posted:Baby/childproofing for visitors is really hard if you aren't used to it. It's definitely a learning experience. I've been spending time with a woman with a toddler, and she's started bringing her around my house. I swear they have a sixth sense for finding all the random, dangerous stuff. Like, I don't remember putting those scissors down there, how did you find them? Why are you running around with that pencil in your mouth? How did that tape get on the cat? When I'm not doing that, I'm also waiting on an asbestos test to see if I can scrape my popcorn ceilings... except it's not popcorn on drywall, it's popcorn on a layer of plaster (or something?) because this place also has radiant ceiling heat. I can't wait to sell my other house so I can replace all that nonsense with a couple mini-splits.
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Ankles are stupid designs full of lovely compromise.
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Wrar posted:Ankles are stupid designs full of lovely compromise. Humans. Humans are stupid designs.
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Fo3 posted:It was good though. First time a n64 everdrive V3 cart was under au$200 delivered so I bought one. Nice, I keep looking at those. Let me know how it is.
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We have more Binky machining nonsense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPYNCt5yV-U spog posted:Baby/childproofing for visitors is really hard if you aren't used to it. "Are you sure it's going to be safe for a four/five year old?" "Oh, yeah, it's like sixty thou wall thickness steel, he isn't going to damage it"
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Wrar posted:Shoulders are stupid designs full of lovely compromise.
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Rhyno posted:From what I've read the "paint + primer" covers well enough that many people are good with one coat. I expected to do two coats so we'll see. And I did note to get ceiling specific paint. Thankfully only a few rooms have odd colors, it's mostly light paint. I will make a point of getting good tools for the job. What about edgers? Do any of these paint-the-upper-walls-without-masking-the-ceiling tools actually work? If you don’t spend at least an equal time taping as painting then you doing it wrong. I swear by Sherwin Williams and I have never primed and I can almost promise you I have painted more houses than you. Good tape, good paint, cheap brushes is how I roll. Some of those edgers have their place you gotta keep em light coat and clean. Anyways I took the Landcruiser out tonight (spotlights were for pic I don’t drove around with em on)
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