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brugroffil posted:lol that's how you do sound isolation/insulation for recording studios and stuff. someone had some noisy shits and didn't want anyone to hear. If I ever build, every bathroom will be wrapped in closed cell expanding foam on all six sides.
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Lobsterpillar posted:
Every room in my house. There is not a paint on Earth that covers in one coat. These assholes at Home Depot and Lowe's try to sell you the expensive paint then say it covers in one coat but it certainly does not. Maybe you won't get bleed through of a darker color, but you will get spots where the roller just doesn't get. Small flecks here and there. Or when you're cutting in you may get lines from the brush, especially with glossier paints. Buy the regular paint, do two coats.
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my dream house has a hose, drain, and tile in every room
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moist turtleneck posted:my dream house has a hose, drain, and tile in every room and a tape measure, and both kinds of screwdriver
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JoshGuitar posted:Fixed to reflect the reality of what happened to a semi-neighbor's grandma a few years ago. The house was nearly leveled. Shame they're a grandparent, indicating they've already reproduced, or that would be a proper Darwin award.
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Apr 15, 2019 18:58
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I really should have more flats and phils laying around Oh also I want a cord reel in every room  Which I guess Grizzly doesn't make/offer anymore?
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Has anyone ever seen like, a garden version of that? I’d really like to have one for my back deck to make leafblowing a bit easier, but the only power reels I’ve ever seen are intended for shop use, and are multicolored and stick perpendicularly out from the wall. Getting an extension cord out with the leaf blower is a pain.
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MrYenko posted:Has anyone ever seen like, a garden version of that? I’d really like to have one for my back deck to make leafblowing a bit easier, but the only power reels I’ve ever seen are intended for shop use, and are multicolored and stick perpendicularly out from the wall. Did you know that you can buy a miracle product called "paint?"
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Iron Crowned posted:Did you know that you can buy a miracle product called "paint?" It’s Florida. The heat and humidity makes paint pop right off of plastic. Also doesn’t fix the second part.
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Apr 15, 2019 19:17
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Potentially relevant to crappy construction once we find out the cause, but the cathedral at Notre Dame is burning to the ground at the moment https://twitter.com/patrickgaley/status/1117848909877895171
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Javid posted:Potentially relevant to crappy construction once we find out the cause, but the cathedral at Notre Dame is burning to the ground at the moment Historically speaking, european cathedrals are Sisyphean monstrosities that have always wanted to catch fire/collapse onto choirs.
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Apr 15, 2019 19:42
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Javid posted:Potentially relevant to crappy construction once we find out the cause, but the cathedral at Notre Dame is burning to the ground at the moment Worker smoking on the Job?
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Hopefully nothing more sinister, but if it is that, imagine being that worker, or that construction company's insurance agent.
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Apr 15, 2019 19:55
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Given the point of ignition is now possibly buried under thousands of tons of rubble, it's possible they'll never know who or what started the fire. There may be witnesses of course. And of course, safe practices should be such that a cigarette or whatever would be unable to cause this sort of fire, so it'd have to be a combination of bad mistakes by multiple people for that to happen.
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Apr 15, 2019 20:04
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This is lovely. At least there are thousands and thousands of photographs to help with reconstruction. Also this.
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H110Hawk posted:The one true solution. I wonder if that's what they did to the condo in my parents' association that housed a chain smoker on oxygen for several years. I used to cat sit for her, but even my constitution couldn't handle the sheer depth of the nicotine stench for more than the time it took to run in, dump some food and water into dishes, and run back out. She died last year and the place has since been re-sold. I always wondered if there was any way to kill off smoker stench. I've had to work on computers from smoking homes that were so horrific, I had to put fume extractors around them overnight before I could get close enough to do work. High proof rubbing alcohol and those blue shop paper towels could cut thru the physical gunk in a pinch, but good lord, I'd better have disposable gloves for that poo poo. Also, as an art history student, watching Notre Dame burn today has been loving heartbreaking
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I wonder if that's what they did to the condo in my parents' association that housed a chain smoker on oxygen for several years. I used to cat sit for her, but even my constitution couldn't handle the sheer depth of the nicotine stench for more than the time it took to run in, dump some food and water into dishes, and run back out. She died last year and the place has since been re-sold. I always wondered if there was any way to kill off smoker stench. I've had to work on computers from smoking homes that were so horrific, I had to put fume extractors around them overnight before I could get close enough to do work. High proof rubbing alcohol and those blue shop paper towels could cut thru the physical gunk in a pinch, but good lord, I'd better have disposable gloves for that poo poo. Yeah nicotine is also a contact poison, so gloves were probably not a bad idea.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Also, as an art history student, watching Notre Dame burn today has been loving heartbreaking turns out all the art is okay  the statues on the spire were even taken off a few days before hand
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moist turtleneck posted:I really should have more flats and phils laying around weird thing from work: OSHA came through and nixed a lot of power strips that were around the shop. OK. I kinda get it. But we have areas where there is no good spot to mount an outlet, and they need some power access. The OSHA-approved solution is apparently a a dangling flex cable with a loving metal box on the end of it, at just about 6' off the ground, ready to whack you in the loving temple. I wasn't directly involved in that whole mess and only did some cursory research but I was thinking there had to be some loving better way. I thought of those cable reels and figured there has to be SOME kind that is OSHA approved but our facilities people were lazy or cheap or something.
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Tunicate posted:the statues on the spire were even taken off a few days before hand  I'm sure the insurance investigators will find that an interesting coincidence. I'm not being serious, but poo poo like that is what trips up people who commit insurance fraud via arson if my true crime shows are to be believed
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Proteus Jones posted:
If the caretaker boards his cat, you know something is up.
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Proteus Jones posted:
They'd apparently been removed as a safety precaution during the renovation, to keep them from either being damaged by it or from them dropping on someone.
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:The OSHA-approved solution is apparently a a dangling flex cable with a loving metal box on the end of it, at just about 6' off the ground, ready to whack you in the loving temple. You can get ones which are on a reel and hang well above head height and just pull down when you need them.  But, whenever you have something plugged in you still have to deal with walking into the drat thing.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I wonder if that's what they did to the condo in my parents' association that housed a chain smoker on oxygen for several years. I used to cat sit for her, but even my constitution couldn't handle the sheer depth of the nicotine stench for more than the time it took to run in, dump some food and water into dishes, and run back out. She died last year and the place has since been re-sold. I always wondered if there was any way to kill off smoker stench. I've had to work on computers from smoking homes that were so horrific, I had to put fume extractors around them overnight before I could get close enough to do work. High proof rubbing alcohol and those blue shop paper towels could cut thru the physical gunk in a pinch, but good lord, I'd better have disposable gloves for that poo poo. If it was that bad, they may have just opted to re-drywall it like you would a black mould case.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:cat sit Story checks out. Too soon? 
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Ceiling fan posted:Gay satanic spider page needs more crappy construction. Hmm... xanthines (including caffeine) are toxic to most insects and arthropods. That spider was probably dying instead of getting the shakes 
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wesleywillis posted:Story checks out.  No, no, that was on point.
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Bad Munki posted:and a tape measure, and both kinds of screwdriver I keep a 6-way screwdriver in most rooms in my house, or at least within a short walk. You can find them for like $4 at local hardware stores a lot of the time.
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shortspecialbus posted:I keep a 6-way screwdriver in most rooms in my house, or at least within a short walk. You can find them for like $4 at local hardware stores a lot of the time. No Robertson on that.  Why the actual gently caress does Canada have to have its own special screw?
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Why the actual gently caress does Canada have to have its own special screw? Why the actual gently caress are all the screws in America either lovely or lovely? Square, hex, and star-drive screws are vastly superior to the stuff that's actually available.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:No Robertson on that. Because it's the best and the rest of the world is simply wrong to have not adopted it. The jerk who invented it shooting him self in the foot with overzelous patent enforcement has nothing to do with the lack of widespread adoption of course. Fun fact: My friend got a bunch of art into a big showing in Paris and it was shipped over in some wooden crates. The french authorities refused to even attempt to open it because of the strange canadian screws. She said it was just a couple screws to keep the hinged lid in place, just pry it up it's fine, but they refused to take any liability. To get her art into the showing in time she had to emergency ship a canadian screw driver to the gallery so they could open it in time.
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shortspecialbus posted:I keep a 6-way screwdriver in most rooms in my house, or at least within a short walk. You can find them for like $4 at local hardware stores a lot of the time. My late father-in-law introduced me to those, and they are very handy. Particularly if you're working with electrical stuff, which could randomly be phillips or flathead at any time. There's also a $FREE Harbor Freight coupon for a similar one fairly often. The HF one is decent - I have a couple. TooMuchAbstraction posted:Why the actual gently caress are all the screws in America either lovely or lovely? Square, hex, and star-drive screws are vastly superior to the stuff that's actually available. Probably partially because it's annoying to have 5 or 6 different size drivers for various screw sizes? For the most-used screw/bolt sizes, there are 2 or 3 different Phillips sizes, and ditto for common (flat) head. And they're easy to tell apart, mostly. Baronjutter posted:Because it's the best and the rest of the world is simply wrong to have not adopted it. The jerk who invented it shooting him self in the foot with overzelous patent enforcement has nothing to do with the lack of widespread adoption of course. JIS cross-head supremacy. (I actually bought my first JIS #2 and #3 bits a couple of months ago.)
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Why the actual gently caress are all the screws in America either lovely or lovely? Square, hex, and star-drive screws are vastly superior to the stuff that's actually available. Hey, we have Spax! Anyone? Spax?
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Trabant posted:Hey, we have Spax! Spax! Yay, yet another random drill bit rolling lose in my drill case.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Why the actual gently caress are all the screws in America either lovely or lovely? Square, hex, and star-drive screws are vastly superior to the stuff that's actually available. All three of these kinds of screws are widely available in America.
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Squares feel like they strip the bits fast.
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Leperflesh posted:All three of these kinds of screws are widely available in America. Yeah, but they're not the default. I resent every time I get a very-specifically-sized machine screw with a Phillips head made from awful soft steel, and the application requires significant torque to get it into place.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Yeah, but they're not the default. I resent every time I get a very-specifically-sized machine screw with a Phillips head made from awful soft steel, and the application requires significant torque to get it into place. Sub-IKEA DIY furniture with soft hex bolts 
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Darchangel posted:There's also a $FREE Harbor Freight coupon for a similar one fairly often. The HF one is decent - I have a couple. drat right. I have a bunch of different screwdrivers ranging from basic to pretty decent models; guess which one I end up using most of the time? Good ol' HF multi driver, because it's just too drat convenient. I always save my HF flyer coupons in the car and if I buy something else, I'm sure to use one for the free screwdriver, flashlight, or tape measure. These things are handy to have in multiple locations scattered in the house/garage/shed.
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