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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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Tried my hand at crown molding. Looks great.................after a tube of white caulking.
Mad Mike
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The small town I'm in (5000 people) burnt to the ground in 1911. There was a gold rush going on at the time so the town got rebuilt very quickly. If the locals are correct with their history, small mills were setup and lumber for whole homes was milled on site. 8x8x24' main floor beams 2x4 for vertical framing and rafters, 2x10 main floor joists, 2x6 second floor joists, and 3/4" x4 T&G for exterior, interior walls, roof and floor decking. Planer shavings were used for insulation. There are no headers anywhere, windows were 2' wide and fit between studs.
Houses were either 1 story with a attic in roof rooms, or 1-1/2 story with balloon frames. Second story joists were attached to the frame with a single 30D nail, and supported below by a 2x4 x 12" scabbed to the balloon stud. Roofs are almost all 10-12 to shed heavy snow - typically built using 2x4 on 24" spacing rafters with single collar ties and no ridge boards. Spans are usually 20' these roofs hold up remarkably well. No headers anywhere, and rooms are usually small
Left in tact they are pretty robust. The problem come from 100 years of DIY remodels. When they were built, small windows were used to reduce heat loss, outhouses were the norm, the only plumbing was a hand pump in the kitchen -- adding plumbing, big windows, shed dormers, opening spaces and leaving homes vacant and unheated caused a lot of structural failures. The two places I have here have 'good bones', they just needed the remodeling shortcuts corrected (of which there are lots).
Fixing up these old places isn't for the feint of heart, but it's fun work for me. Since most are 12,000 sq' or less, they aren't all that expensive to rehab. 2 years ago you could pick up a habitable fixer upper for under $60K. It's hard to get a mortgage below $100K so the fact you needed cash kept the prices low -- today a similar fixer upper would be in the $150K range so mortgages are easy to get and that's supporting prices.
Can't get rich doing this, but I love doing it.
Mad Mike
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Try a coping the corners with the help of coping guage... makes crown corners a lot easier than miters and you might not need filler.
Was just a 6x6 walk-in pantry that I was doing but next time I'll look into this. I tried the coping method (without a coping saw or good alternative) so when the first piece didn't line up well it mucked up the rest of it. Would have been much better if I just went the miter route from the start in this instance.
Learn coping and you will be better than 95% of the people you could hire. Easiest to cope on one end and let the other end run long. You can do double cope but it is hard to get the length perfect.
Mad Mike
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Coping is remarkably easy -- way easier than mitering as you only cope one side of the corner and you don't need to be precise on the length as the back side trim runs behind the cope. Your corners will look perfect, and it you're not using MDF the corner will never crack open due to shrinking.
Get a good coping saw - $20, and a coping gauge $15 and you will trim inside corners like a pro.
I've never done crown but for base, you dont even need a gauge. For a normal 90ish degree inside corner just just 45 and then use coping saw to clean out the waste.
I need to rabbit proof the floor in one of my spare rooms. It's engineered hardwood and my new rabbit enjoys urinating while he eats. I have a drop cloth to protect the floor and the idiot is litter trained but when it comes to eating, he just lets it fly.
I'll have to rig up something so the food basket is attached to a board above the litter, this way he can eat and poop and pee at the same time and live the life we all dream of.
I'll have to rig up something so the food basket is attached to a board above the litter, this way he can eat and poop and pee at the same time and live the life we all dream of.
Rabbit stew seems like the most reasonable option here! LoL /s
That's a tough one...I thought rabbits are usually kept in cages as training them is rather difficult.
Tough part is finding a house with a solid 90deg corner....I know most of mine aren't. And I don't think I can blame Kevin for that.
My mom is Polish and she also thought the same thing, about the cages... not the stew. It wasn't until my sister got a rabbit that my mom learned rabbits are like cats, just less *******-ish and dumber.
Can’t see the before but after looks great! Well done Baka
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You can get fake DOT stickers at a bike show so how much does a rubber stamp cost?
DAP comes in a case of 12 for a reason .
And number one tool is a digital square for the corners because if you have 4 corners in a room , non will actually be 90deg .
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Scored a nice free metal whiteboard for the home office. Unfortunately it's a heavy mofo. Let's say 20-30lbs.
Recommendations on how to mount this thing on the drywall so it doesn't slam on my head and cause a 'workplace injury' in my basement?
The ones at work appear to have something like this...
On their glass ones. Not sure how comfortable I am with just screws in drywall hangers to hold this thing up.
Recommendations on how to mount this thing on the drywall so it doesn't slam on my head and cause a 'workplace injury' in my basement?
The ones at work appear to have something like this...
On their glass ones. Not sure how comfortable I am with just screws in drywall hangers to hold this thing up.
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