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DrBouvenstein posted:Apologies for more bathroom tiling questions. Inside the shower, definitely cement board. You'd only need to redguard the non shower walls if you were doing a steam room or you have a habit of pissing on your walls AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Anywhere I can learn more about radon mitigation and options? The detector I moved to my new place is showing high levels in the basement (~9 pCi/l). Seems weird the previous owners didn't do anything, but I guess it's a more recent think to check or something. My previous place had the whole pipe with a fan setup that was venting it out from the ground to the air outside. I'm assuming that is what I'll have to get done in this place at some point. That seems out of my league since it involves drilling down, so I guess I'll have to get it done by professionals.
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Douche4Sale posted:Anywhere I can learn more about radon mitigation and options? The detector I moved to my new place is showing high levels in the basement (~9 pCi/l). Seems weird the previous owners didn't do anything, but I guess it's a more recent think to check or something. Yeah just start calling around now. It's twice the max. This is what you get for having a detector, they just lived in blissful ignorance until the lung cancer got them.
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Sep 9, 2022 19:47
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Had it done about 18 months ago due to similar levels. Cost estimates from three places all came back at $1200 +/- $100 iirc. Don't think there are any other options.
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Well that was way easier than I thought it would be. Biggest trick was getting the mortar consistency right for the grout bag. Glad I didn’t pay someone to do this!  …..anyone need the 55lbs of mortar left in the bag?
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Sep 9, 2022 21:29
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Motronic posted:It was popular for bathrooms around here even after more traditional sheetrock was being used in the rest of the houses. This is one of the handful of videos that I stop and watch every single time it's posted. Mesmerizing indeed.
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Sash! posted:Given that it was the height of atmospheric nuclear testing, decades before any real emissions regulation, regularly exposed to lead and asbestos particulates had very different social norms about alcohol and tobacco, and possibly seen combat, the nails were likely the least of his worries. Those are great points! Men were men /s.
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Thanks for the radon information. Glad it won't be too expensive. I'll get some quotes and try to get it done in the next month or so.
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Inner Light posted:Those are great points! Men were men /s. It also just wasn't known about so it wasn't that they were Tough Men but also it just wasn't widely available information. I have a few photos of my grandfather doing similar osha nightmare type of activities, he came over from Italy to Canada and built a gas station/repair garage.  Here's Motronic and H110hawk making sure some other building he made (house?) is up to code: 
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Sep 9, 2022 22:11
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VelociBacon posted:Here's Motronic and H110hawk making sure some other building he made (house?) is up to code: Everything a man like your grandfather makes is by definition up to code.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Apologies for more bathroom tiling questions. We've been slowly working on a bathroom demo & overhaul that kind of lost focus due to outdoor summer projects. At this point we're pretty much at the exact same point as you, so I'm appreciating the gut check with what we're planning and questions I wouldn't have thought to ask.
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Motronic posted:Everything a man like your grandfather makes is by definition up to code. Appreciate that - he'd be 113 but died 20 years ago. One last shitposted photo for now, Ontario in the 1940s  It's crazy to think that until recently I lived in a building that was made only 15 years after that photo was taken. e: okay I lied one more thing from then, his billing form and card or whatnot:  Primarily hilarious to me because his phone number was ... 15. VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Sep 9, 2022 22:50
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VelociBacon posted:Appreciate that - he'd be 113 but died 20 years ago. One last shitposted photo for now, Ontario in the 1940s Ya know, this is one of the things that irks me about people online/articles talking about "I started a business"/"I have three businesses"/"I'm building my business" and it's like.....an MLM or some kind of glom on SEO thing. There are people who literally moved continents and literally built buildings with their own hands to start/build their business.
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Motronic posted:Ya know, this is one of the things that irks me about people online/articles talking about "I started a business"/"I have three businesses"/"I'm building my business" and it's like.....an MLM or some kind of glom on SEO thing. There are people who literally moved continents and literally built buildings with their own hands to start/build their business. Yeah at the same time I wonder what he'd think of what I do for work sometimes now that I'm in a more esoteric informatics position, I doubt the word even existed in 1941 let alone the field of employment. I'm not saying he'd look down on it but we've all moved pretty far away from what it used to mean to 'work' in general in a lot of ways. And yeah I think a lot of these old school skills that you just learned from being exposed to it kinda dropped off as fewer people did this kind of thing.
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Motronic posted:Ya know, this is one of the things that irks me about people online/articles talking about "I started a business"/"I have three businesses"/"I'm building my business" and it's like.....an MLM or some kind of glom on SEO thing. There are people who literally moved continents and literally built buildings with their own hands to start/build their business. Agreed, I'm also always blown away by people who have old family photos like this. People now a days take photos for granted with how easily they have been to make and share for the majority of our lives. To have a camera back then, know how to use it properly, develop and preserve those photos all that time takes a lot of effort. Im so jealous.
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This the grandpas getting poo poo done thread? Mine built a lot of the local infrastructure after driving tanks in WW2. My grandma kicked rear end too. She's in this pic from their days working in a sawmill in the 40s. 
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Enos Cabell posted:This the grandpas getting poo poo done thread? If more people have pictures like this it sure as hell should be.
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Verman posted:Agreed, I'm also always blown away by people who have old family photos like this. People now a days take photos for granted with how easily they have been to make and share for the majority of our lives. To have a camera back then, know how to use it properly, develop and preserve those photos all that time takes a lot of effort. Im so jealous. The only reason I have these photos is that he was also a photographer of sorts and I think he actually took or set up all of these photos. I don't want to post them inline because it feels like I'm making this thread into my personal family photo album (would love to see more from other posters if they have them) but he also did a lot of hilariously cliché stuff like this double exposure of himself. I have the cameras he used but you can't get the film anymore to fit those film backs, and if you could, you'd be developing them yourself. It's not so bad to develop black and white film at home but it's not something I'm super keen on - been there done that.
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Speaking for myself please don't hold back posting interesting Home Zone related stuff (historical building is absolutely related) because you're afraid of changing the thread tone or monopolizing it. This is a very low judgement part of the forum IMHO unless you're making unsafe mistakes etc. e: oh you just meant linking instead of inline, nevermind that's cool too! Which camera of the 4 do you think made the double exposure? Inner Light fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:I think all of your problems are solved by not doing cement board out side of the shower areas. Unless it's a 1:1 cost ratio, it really wouldn't be necessary. Thanks. I guess I'll use greenboard all around, then. Layout questions: I've checked 3 of the 4 walls I'm tiling, and they are all ok in terms of "if I start tiling in the middle, will it look ok at the corners"? independently. I assume I don't worry about when the tiles meet in the corner? Like...if a 3/4 piece of tile ends one row on wall A, and then in the same row on the other wall it ends in a 7/8 l piece of tile, who cares? Or should I try to plan it so that only the largest wall I start tiling in the middle, then in the corners where it meets the other walls, I start from there so it's not two little stubby tiles up against in each other in the corner? The last wall has a closet that's getting removed, so harder to measure it, but I'm sure it's fine. BUT if it's not fine, what do I do? By which I mean, if I measure the length and divide by tiles and grout spacing, and it turns out the "leftover" amount for the ends where I have to cut the tile is really small, like under an inch, or even under half an inch...what's the protocol? To me, that seems slightly too narrow/thin to cut a tile...is there an agreed-upon minimum thinness where if I'm under that, I just do an extra thick line of caulk in that corner? Or try t ever so slightly increase the grout spacing to just end on a full/half tile?
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Verman posted:Agreed, I'm also always blown away by people who have old family photos like this. People now a days take photos for granted with how easily they have been to make and share for the majority of our lives. To have a camera back then, know how to use it properly, develop and preserve those photos all that time takes a lot of effort. Im so jealous. If your ancestors were in the US and had the equivalent of $30 today to drop, they very likely took home photos. The hard part is not losing them and passing down the info along with them.
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i like nice words
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VelociBacon posted:Appreciate that - he'd be 113 but died 20 years ago. One last shitposted photo for now, Ontario in the 1940s These are great, and I've probably driven by the spot where his garage is or was several times as I lived in that area for several years.
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Anne Whateley posted:If your ancestors were in the US and had the equivalent of $30 today to drop, they very likely took home photos. The only real, but major, difference is that you had to be far more selective with your picture. Even if you could afford it, you still didn't waste half the roll taking slightly different versions of the same picture, unless you were an actual photographer.
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poo poo posting pictures of your (grand)parents being hardworking badasses is always approved. Just be cognizant of accidentally doxxing yourself please. 
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H110Hawk posted:poo poo posting pictures of your (grand)parents being hardworking badasses is always approved. Just be cognizant of accidentally doxxing yourself please. Coniston is/was a city in Ontario Canada, not my name or anything so all good!
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Motronic posted:It was popular for bathrooms around here even after more traditional sheetrock was being used in the rest of the houses. How sharp was this hatchet, or was the drywall just really easy to cut?
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The hatchet's as sharp as the devil himself
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Vim Fuego posted:The hatchet's as sharp as the devil himself The same devil that lost a fiddle contest? Pfft.
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My guess is that guy sharpened the hatchet to razor sharpness the right way. I'm honestly shocked at how quick he moves and how accurate he is with the blade scoring the back of that board. A modern drywaller is fast but would probably have used several power tools in the process.
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Reminds me of a guy I know who is a timberman (sorta like a framer / house builder, but for log houses), he's used an axe for so much and so long that it often comes up when doing work on modern construction. Like "gonna have to adjust the fit of that part there, where's me axe?" While the supervisor is looking on like he's not sure what he's seeing and not believing the end result. He mostly does boat restorations and museum work now though, currently working right across the road from my work place rebuilding a 19th century log house for the church museum that they let the roof leak for 20 years on...
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Motronic posted:If more people have pictures like this it sure as hell should be. Now I want to see about getting some copies of my great grandfather's home video footage. He was into bleeding edge tech and had a 12mm video camera as of the early to mid 1920's. Like, there is video footage of my grandma in a baby carriage. Also some awesome footage of active construction sites from literally a hundred years ago with steam shovels and cranes and poo poo (great grandfather built construction equipment). My dad's been slowly chipping away at digitization of the video footage and also piles and piles of photos from the last 120 or so years.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Thanks. I guess I'll use greenboard all around, then. Unfortunately with the running bond you’re kind of stuck with whatever your wall dimensions are. If your pattern was stacked you would just shift your pattern over half a tile if you had a cut less than half a tile. It just makes the cut larger without impacting the look. With running bond you’re just stuck. Whatever you shift you’ll end up dealing with on the next course. I would go for the Dutchman for anything more than 2x the grout joint. So you’re not going to drop a 1/8” cut in there but a half inch cut will look way better than a 1/2” grout joint. You can also make up about 3/8” or so by switching what wall gets the tile into the corner. Hopefully that makes sense, if it doesn’t let me know and I’ll sketch something out.
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VelociBacon posted:Coniston is/was a city in Ontario Canada, not my name or anything so all good! Coniston still exists, it's just been amalgamated into Sudbury.
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  Anyone have a guess what 14 and 18 mean? I can't tell if it's Rect or Rec+ and neither is bringing anything to mind.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
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cct is circuit, could be R circuit for receptacle circuit.
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Do you have any large, lit, powered rectangles?
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considering they shortened unfinished to "unfinsh" my guess would be Rect is just supposed to be short for receptacle and Rcct is supposed to also be Rect but they messed up the e
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Receptacle. Outlet.
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My contractor friend has been replacing my flooring and noticed a pretty serious slope in one of the rooms of my new house. I had told him about the BeastMasterJ saga and we joked that maybe joists were cut for my sunken bath too.  Nope, they were cut to run this pipe I guess!
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