My experience with tapcons at our house has not been positive... it will depend on the material it is going into, I know they work like crap here (1941 house). Marginal in the outer brick, craptastic in mortar and block.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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What's going on? Are they stripping out, breaking, coming loose with time?
Stripping out over time, sometimes no time at all. Masonry is not hard enough to retain them. That is also why they work best in our brick but still not up to my standards.
They worked great in my condo when into the pored concrete.
Anchors and screws/bolts work great in all cases now.
I have boxes of Tapcons in different lengths and sizes if anyone wants them, I just have to round them all up (which may take a little time).
I prefer the epoxy anchors
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I’m interested in the Tapcons for sure. I’m going to need hundreds here.
You spelled thousands wrong.
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I was in a condo where they had screwed up laminating the drywall. Instead of removing it and doing it properly, they installed 100 tapcons in each sheet of drywall. Hilarious. Drywall is well secured now. Must have taken forever.
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Stupid bleeping open cell spray foam. Hot tub sprung a leak in Feb. Losing about 1" of water a week. Put off diagnosis/repair until weather was friendlier. Of course not in the easy to access equipment cabinet. Leaking from the side inches from a retaining wall. Wonderful. Open it up and start pulling out wet foam to find the leak. A light housing had broken. $5 for the part. Probably cracked from new as it was in a location not subject to damage (almost flush and inside filter cavity, broke at threads/nut encased in foam). Left cabinet open with a fan on it to dry out foam. Nope. Days later water would squeeze out if you touched it. Hot tub manufacturer can go f themselves. Wet foam is worse than no foam so now I am digging out as much foam as I can through a narrow gap. You charge car prices for a hot tub, use closed cell foam for god sakes to avoid this mess. Fan on it again, may dig more out later if required. It's like cancer trying to find the margins and access areas you can't reach.
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On the plus side, leaking chlorinated water means that it isn't a moldy mess (yet). Just very wet.
Hot tub base doesn't appear to be very water permeable. Water is draining out of foam and pooling in base. Not sure if foam plugged holes or if it didn't have holes to begin with. That multiplies damage is water spreads horizontally from any leak.
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On the plus side, leaking chlorinated water means that it isn't a moldy mess (yet). Just very wet.
Hot tub base doesn't appear to be very water permeable. Water is draining out of foam and pooling in base. Not sure if foam plugged holes or if it didn't have holes to begin with. That multiplies damage is water spreads horizontally from any leak.
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This is too short:
Supposed to be between one and two point one inches deep, but we'll see. I swapped the 1 1/4" ones for 2 3/4".
This one has been pretty good. A few cracked lights but otherwise no major issues. Pulled some more foam out of the equipment area. To provide a nice finish, they put corrugated cardboard in and then sprayed a thin layer of black foam. wtf. cardboard in something that lives outside? boo.
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As for around the house, I hadn't cut down the stupid reeds from last year yet. I've always thought they were a fire issue so I cut them down each spring. Burning some cardboard and an ember went in. Weeee. Fire's out. It got far bigger than I would have liked. I got it out with a hose but it burned about 4' by 30' with flames 15' high. Tired now. It could be worse, Lindvest lost 20 houses today that sold for over 2M each. Can they get them rebuilt in time to avoid buyers having a chance to get out?
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Day 2 done…
4ft to the roof remaining. Which is what I need a zoom boom or additional section of scaffolding.
4ft to the roof remaining. Which is what I need a zoom boom or additional section of scaffolding.
I have a longer ladder if you want it. Flip and fold like yours but each section is over 6'. It is a prick to manoevre when fully extended. A conventional extension ladder with a rope is far better for max height.
I have one of those as well as a regular extension ladder here if you want. The big Flippy is a pita as greyghost said.
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Use the trampoline from the top pic. Take videos. Post them here.
Mad Mike
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When I reno'd my first house in '92. I got a surprise fail on the septic. Had to put in a complete new system. Best quote was 15k so I bought a Case skidsteer with a bucket and backhoe. $4K for the machine, $3k for materials and it was done. Kept the machine for 5 years, used it lots then sold it for mor than just paid for it.
Thanks but that work isn’t for ladder duty in my opinion. The big plates are light and the wind takes them easily.
Scaffold or zoom boom for the win. Pricey but I’d rather not get horribly injured.
Got my downspout strapped back on. It came off during the ice storm. Waiting for the rain now, which might be a while. I did get a ride on the bike in, to get longer screws.
Wife of course, believes it's a tripping hazard, which it is, but didn't like the idea of cutting into the walk and tunneling it down further.
Still some residual snow around, as you can see.
Wife of course, believes it's a tripping hazard, which it is, but didn't like the idea of cutting into the walk and tunneling it down further.
Still some residual snow around, as you can see.
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You can get one of those gutter roll out spout things that unravels when it rains. I looked at one but reviews didn’t look great. Maybe there’s different quality ones.Got my downspout strapped back on. It came off during the ice storm. Waiting for the rain now, which might be a while. I did get a ride on the bike in, to get longer screws.
Wife of course, believes it's a tripping hazard, which it is, but didn't like the idea of cutting into the walk and tunneling it down further.
Still some residual snow around, as you can see.
Here you go MP. Problem solved.
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