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Isn't that Techmoan's kitchen?
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 18:33 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 05:49 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:I just had an offer accepted on a house, and it was built in the mid/late 60's, and I'm genuinely surprised there's hardwood floors. I thought most new construction from that era just went straight to carpet. This very thread taught me that to qualify for a FHA or VA mortgage in that time period, the house had to have hardwood floors. I imagine because of that the first thing they did when they closed on the house was call the carpet store to get wall-to-wall installed before their furniture was moved in, less the Joneses think they were *gasp* lower middle class. Our house has hardwoods throughout (built in 68) but they weren't nice hardwoods. Clearly designed to check a box and then get immediately hidden for 40 years by carpet.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 18:36 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Ugh, tell me about it...who puts a ceiling fan in a kitchen?! Having gown up and lived in various houses built in the late 50s and early 60s, curling fans definitely had a purpose in kitchens. Those houses don’t have the best cross ventilation. The ceiling fan keeps you from cooking yourself while preparing dinner when it isn’t winter time.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 18:49 |
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I like the floor tiles, but goddamn, the slabs of brick veneer don't even line up! There's a super clear failed line-up over the stove.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 20:10 |
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PurpleXVI posted:I like the floor tiles, but goddamn, the slabs of brick veneer don't even line up! There's a super clear failed line-up over the stove. Well, I don't think they're tiles, I believe it's just a slab/roll or whatever you call it of linoleum. I don't think you should like it, I'm 80% sure it was originally white...
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 20:15 |
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Orvin posted:Having gown up and lived in various houses built in the late 50s and early 60s, curling fans definitely had a purpose in kitchens. Those houses don’t have the best cross ventilation. The ceiling fan keeps you from cooking yourself while preparing dinner when it isn’t winter time. Also gently caress yeah, Z Brick! I haven’t seen that since about 1980.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 20:49 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Well, I don't think they're tiles, I believe it's just a slab/roll or whatever you call it of linoleum. I don't think you should like it, I'm 80% sure it was originally white... It looks exactly like the linoleum (same pattern even) in the kitchen of the house I grew up in (built in '87). It started out a very pale tan coffee color and got yellower as it aged. Ours started peeling up at the edges after 15 years but otherwise it was indestructible. Also I learned something today: apparently linoleum was originally a specific flooring material made out of lineseed oil, rosin, and various dusts. The flooring in my old kitchen was almost definitely made of vinyl, we always just called it linoleum. It's probably one of those things like 'tin' foil, or pencil 'lead'.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 20:59 |
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xpost I started off horrified at the lack of eye protection and then ended up pleasantly surprised and entertained.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 21:06 |
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canyoneer posted:xpost I don't understand arc welding at all. How did he not shock the hell out of himself holding that pipe with his face resting against it?
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 21:29 |
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The electrode is connected to the bottom of the vertical pole. Because it's dry, and there's concrete and he's wearing flip flops the current through him is going to be negligible. If that were a steel floor and he didn't have the flip flops he'd risk completing the circuit through himself if the horizontal bar weren't touching the vertical bar when it struck.
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 21:53 |
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Arc welding is also like 30 volts so it's not that big of a deal anyway
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# ? Aug 19, 2019 22:28 |
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Red brick is a pretty decent choice, I'd work with it.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 00:49 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:I just had an offer accepted on a house, and it was built in the mid/late 60's, and I'm genuinely surprised there's hardwood floors. I thought most new construction from that era just went straight to carpet. Paint it all super gloss white and pretend it's subway tile
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 02:08 |
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Nevets posted:Also I learned something today: apparently linoleum was originally a specific flooring material made out of lineseed oil, rosin, and various dusts. The flooring in my old kitchen was almost definitely made of vinyl, we always just called it linoleum. It's probably one of those things like 'tin' foil, or pencil 'lead'. "linoleum" by name was originally a sheet product that stemmed from an attempt to use cured linseed oil as a cheap/non-tropical-import-dependent substitute for proper natural latex rubber, yeah linseed-based flooring is a lot older than linoleum, though- "dirt floors" in old buildings were rarely just ~dirt~ but a deliberate finish + treatment applied to packed earth to make them nice to use, and linseed oil was a highly-desirable one. i have a 'recipe' for a traditional blacksmith's forge floor treatment that involved well-tamped earth, a base layer of clay/sand blended to achieve desired working properties, and then a facing layer of clay, forge ash and finely-crushed forge clinker (fused silica/dross that forms in the forge firebowl), which was finished with several cycles of linseed application and buffing. not only was it fireproof and durable, it was easy to repair using largely waste products from the forge's operation best of all, though, and what people never think a "dirt floor" could offer, is that it was sort of soft, just like linoleum. linseed-treated earth floors are often described as feeling like leather, a byproduct of the rubbery cured linseed oil that impregnated the upper facing of the floor. that slight give offered some comfort and impact softening to the working smiths in the way a rubber anti-fatigue mat does nowadays. drat smart way to build a forge
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 02:29 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:... I can dig it.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 02:53 |
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Ambrose Burnside posted:"linoleum" by name was originally a sheet product that stemmed from an attempt to use cured linseed oil as a cheap/non-tropical-import-dependent substitute for proper natural latex rubber, yeah That's cool as hell
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 02:57 |
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I thought linseed oil was inflammable. Dunno why
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 03:08 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:I thought linseed oil was inflammable. Dunno why Linseed oil is a drying oil. It will spontaneously oxidise and form polymers at room temperature. That’s how oil painting works. Once it’s dry, it’s not a particular fire hazard. But get enough of it oxidising in a small space, like a bunch of oily rags in a rubbish bin, and they’ll get hot enough to ignite.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 03:33 |
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Platystemon posted:Linseed oil is a drying oil. I guess that rules out my idea of compacted oily rags flooring
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 04:05 |
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ngl, I'm diggin' the brick.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 04:32 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Well, I don't think they're tiles, I believe it's just a slab/roll or whatever you call it of linoleum. I don't think you should like it, I'm 80% sure it was originally white... Oh. Oh no. Linoleum doesn't belong in homes, it belongs in institutions and public areas. Begone, cursed material. Platystemon posted:Linseed oil is a drying oil. Yeah, pretty much every carpenter has a story of how they/an apprentice hosed up with linseed oil the first time. Usually it's just smoke damage, thankfully.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 06:39 |
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Zipperelli. posted:ngl, I'm diggin' the brick. Real brick yes. Wallpaper brick no.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 07:06 |
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Ambrose Burnside posted:"linoleum" by name was originally a sheet product that stemmed from an attempt to use cured linseed oil as a cheap/non-tropical-import-dependent substitute for proper natural latex rubber, yeah I bet it sure was healthy to work in a forge where the loving floor is made with coal ash. Jesus. Although I guess they were already working with coal and coal ash in the forge and the ventilation is was most likely not up to snuff, so they all probably would have died of some horrible cancer anyway. Blacksmithing with coal can't be a really healthy occupation to begin with.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 07:20 |
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i've worked in a kitchen that had that exact faux brick as a backsplash. it's bad. it's a real pain in the rear end to clean. didn't seem to fade though, no matter how many times i hit it with bleach water and simple green.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 07:37 |
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I like it. It's like having a 90s discount pizza buffet in your very own kitchen.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 07:38 |
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Yeah all that's missing is a red-checkered plastic table cloth and a shaker full of
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 11:47 |
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therobit posted:I bet it sure was healthy to work in a forge where the loving floor is made with coal ash. Jesus. Although I guess they were already working with coal and coal ash in the forge and the ventilation is was most likely not up to snuff, so they all probably would have died of some horrible cancer anyway. Blacksmithing with coal can't be a really healthy occupation to begin with. ash bound up in linseed oil isn't a respiratory issue, the idea with those floors was to regularly sprinkle ash onto the floor along with water and a periodic linseed spritz, continually building them up or at least offsetting wear but in any case lol yeah the floor thing wouldn't even register. when working with coal you hock up tarry black loogies after a days' work and your clothing falls apart on your body because the sulfur dioxide in the smoke turns to dilute sulphuric acid when it contacts your sweat-soaked body
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 13:11 |
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Scarodactyl posted:I like it. It's like having a 90s discount pizza buffet in your very own kitchen. I've already got my to-go window! But yeah, it's even worse looking in person. Caked on grease behind the stove, parts of panels popping off the wall, etc... I'm torn on the cabinets. Obviously I can paint them, but the style is so plain. Maybe I can try to use a router to put a better pattern on the face? Not sure if that would work since it has that very slight pattern now. But they are 100% real wood, even the shelving inside are full planks of real wood, not pressboard or whatever is used in modern shelving. I should probably head over to the interior design thread for ideas.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 13:20 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:I just had an offer accepted on a house, and it was built in the mid/late 60's, and I'm genuinely surprised there's hardwood floors. I thought most new construction from that era just went straight to carpet. Ugh, my kitchen has that as the back splash behind my lovely 1970s white formica countertops, what an absolute pain in the rear end to keep clean. They're painted over god knows how many times so at least there's not much texture to the bricks anymore, but cleaning between the 'grout' is bad enough by itself. It's at the top of the list of things that will be replaced as soon as my budget allows.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 15:38 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm torn on the cabinets. Obviously I can paint them, but the style is so plain. Maybe I can try to use a router to put a better pattern on the face? Not sure if that would work since it has that very slight pattern now. they're fine. paint or strip & stain, update the hardware, don't ruin the face with something you can't undo that'll be out of date in 5 years. (imho)
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 16:23 |
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:they're fine. paint or strip & stain, update the hardware, don't ruin the face with something you can't undo that'll be out of date in 5 years. Agreed, plain just means they are more versatile, if you want interesting patterns and such then use tiles on the wall or something else.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 16:47 |
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Or you can paint a pattern on using stencils too. Easily reversed if you or the next owner decides they don't like it.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 17:04 |
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Nevets posted:Also I learned something today: apparently linoleum was originally a specific flooring material made out of lineseed oil, rosin, and various dusts. The flooring in my old kitchen was almost definitely made of vinyl, we always just called it linoleum. It's probably one of those things like 'tin' foil, or pencil 'lead'. It is still a specific flooring, and still available - it’s actually a pretty nice and high end product that I’d consider for my own kitchen when I get to it. Nicer than tile from my point of view for a kitchen as it’s actually pleasant to walk/stand on. See Forbo.com.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 21:17 |
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PurpleXVI posted:Oh. Oh no. I'd take linoleum over bare concrete any day, though. And I have seen new apartments being built with bare concrete floors. Also gently caress the trend of hip eateries that are basically just an echoey concrete box where you have to shout to have a conversation as soon as more than five people are in the space.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 21:38 |
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insta posted:Arc welding is also like 30 volts so it's not that big of a deal anyway I don't wanna just let this pass, in case anyone doesn't know about electricity. As my old teacher used to say, "it's the volts that jolt, but the current that kills." In other words you cannot evaluate whether exposure to a particular electrical charge is dangerous solely by looking at the voltage. Anything over 100 milliamps is dangerous and potentially fatal. Allowing an arc welder's charge to flow through your body can definitely kill you.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 22:56 |
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Leperflesh posted:I don't wanna just let this pass, in case anyone doesn't know about electricity. As my old teacher used to say, "it's the volts that jolt, but the current that kills." In other words you cannot evaluate whether exposure to a particular electrical charge is dangerous solely by looking at the voltage. 10 milliamps if conditions are juuuuuuuuuuuust right, mind you. It's rare that that low of a current will off you, but if everything is just right, it can. Still, treat electricity with respect, thanks.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 23:24 |
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e: ah gently caress it nvm
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 23:27 |
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Ambrose Burnside posted:ash bound up in linseed oil isn't a respiratory issue, the idea with those floors was to regularly sprinkle ash onto the floor along with water and a periodic linseed spritz, continually building them up or at least offsetting wear https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ Don't forget uranium and thorium!
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 23:43 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I'd take linoleum over bare concrete any day, though. And I have seen new apartments being built with bare concrete floors. The "trend" of apartments/houses with bare concrete floors is in the same category as the "trend" of open shelving/no upper cabinets, it's just a way for builders to save money.
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# ? Aug 21, 2019 01:28 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 05:49 |
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I would rather have bare concrete than carpet imo.
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# ? Aug 21, 2019 04:16 |