What did you do today?

[zannej]

Bought for $15 off a Facebook site. That is an Estwing framing hammer and a real Crescent wrench, not a cheapie.

Nice!
I like the chairs as well. My late elderly friend and I worked together on fixing up a chair similar to those when some neighbors tossed it out. Just needed to be glued, sanded, and refinished on the seat.

You be surprised what a sanding will do for a floor ..

Post the photos . You can't just stop taking certain meds it can cause Death . Have her ask her Dr if he has any samples to give her .. They all get them from the drug pushers from the company they work for ..

Well, part of the reason I feel it's not worth it is because a large area of the parquet was so bad that it came apart and had to be removed. So, there's a big chunk of missing floor.
Here are the pictures:
This one is where some of the paint spilled. I managed to get quite a bit of it up, but it's still stubborn-- and there are mystery stains/crud that doesn't want to come up.

Here is where my brother left trash bags that leaked & the cats peed on them-- so the wood is discolored and nasty (also water/liquid damaged). Got some rot going on there, I believe.

Here is the edge of where the parquet tiles came up.

And this shows the chunk of missing parquet.

Edit: For the record, I cleaned more after these photos were taken. Picked up the pepto bismol cup from under the display cabinet and cleaned the cabinet-- something had spilled on it but I got it off with windex and cleaned the wood with pledge. Looks much nicer now.

I'll pass that info along to her and to my brother. He wanted to join the Air Force and they told him he'd have to stop taking his meds for 6 weeks if he went to boot camp. He was assuring them he could to that. I was in the room with him doing my best Grumpy Cat "Nope" facial expression.

Got more cleaning done yesterday. Friends took pity on me since I was doing it all alone and came over to help again. We got the front room cleared out and nice enough for my sister to sleep in. Got rid of a ton of trash, cat crap, and cat pee. My bro had been using the floor as a trash can when he stayed in there. It was a disaster. They moved some furniture so the room is much more open now. Kittens were locked up in a kennel with their mother for the duration of cleaning. They were actually reluctant to come out at first once it was done. Then they went nuts climbing on things and exploring. Gave us a time when we tried to make the bed. LOL. Planning to box them up again later, put flea powder down, and vacuum it up. I'll have to get pics of the current layout with the oriental rug all nice and pretty. Still have a little bit more to clean in there, but it's a usable space now. Living room still needs work as well, but my sister has a chair to sit in so it's all good.

 

[Nick]

Hate to say this , But that floor should be ripped up .. I would mop some 100% pure Lemon juice on the urine infected areas .. It'a like a $1.00 a bottle and works better then the expensive stuff you buy..

 

[zannej]

Hate to say this , But that floor should be ripped up .. I would mop some 100% pure Lemon juice on the urine infected areas .. It'a like a $1.00 a bottle and works better then the expensive stuff you buy..

Funny you should mention the lemon juice. Found two bottles of it on that area of the floor when I was cleaning up. I have them set on the counter now.

And yeah, ripping the floor up is what I expected would need to be done. Too much is missing.

 

[Floorist]

Went over to my daughter's house for a couple hours. Back is hurting too much to stay over there for long. Merry Christmas to all.

 

[havasu]

Had my daughter and her boyfriend over for dinner tonight. We went to a local Lebanese restaurant and had a really great meal. Came back to the house, we skyped my other out of state kids, then i gave my daughter my Lexus and I took her Toyota pick up. She has a comfortable ride, and I no longer need to haul concrete in my new car. Win-win.

 

[Nick]

What is that food like Hav ?

 

[havasu]

I had a Koobedeh kabob. It was fresh ground lamb, mixed with fresh ground sirloin steak, and broiled. Served with a huge pile of saffron rice with a roasted tomato. Also had pita bread and hummus appetizer. The girls had roasted vegetables with saffron rice.
A very quaint setting, with nice Yanni music playing in the back ground, nice chatting place. Finished with their Turkish expresso teacup type coffee.

Here is where we went:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/giuseppes-restaurant-upland

And this is what I had:

 

[Nick]

Looks nice Hav..

 

[zannej]

That looks delicious, Havasu!
I love saffron rice.

I wish we had more variety in restaurants here. There's a Mexican restaurant that opened up that has great quesadilla rellena (or was it relleno?). It's the one without the pepper that has refried beans and meat in it. They had quesa fresco, sour cream, and lettuce on the side. Next time I'll ask for extra cheese though.

I've spent my day thus far washing the bedding from the bed my sister has been sleeping on. The kittens keep using it as a litterbox despite having a clean litterbox in the room. I guess they need a 2nd box.

 

[Nick]

Or one behind the ear !

 

[Floorist]

Merry Christmas

 

[Floorist]

Stepson's Husky is having puppies today.

 

[Floorist]

Lost one puppy. 6 made it.

 

[zannej]

I love Huskies! Beautiful dogs!

 

[highup]

Had a sammich and tinkered with my router lift insert today............ I added a reinforcement to the lift lock clamp and drilled some holes in the router body to position the router for repeatable installation and allignment.
Once I got that done, I set up my dial indicator to see how out of alignment the router was to the lift's top plate. ........dang!
The router was out of square to the table plate by .038 from one side to the other.
In layman's terms, .038" is the thickness of 10 sheets of computer paper. Not much you say? Stack 10 sheets of paper on a table and run your finger across them.
In other words, that's about 1/32 of an inch in 10 inches.
I was expecting nearly perfect flatness....... or perpendicularism? Dang.
I shimmed the router in it's holder....... made a tiny bit of correction.

Then a wild idea came in a vision ...............and with a 1/4 turn to one of the 4 table of a support nuts, it corrected the perpendicular alignment to about .002" in 360 degrees. That's less out of square than the thickness of a sheet of paper in 10 inches.
Dang I'm good! (lucky) I'm a very happy camper tonight.

I also discovered with my dial indicator, that the large machine screw that raises and lowers the router is 18 tpi. (threads per inch) I thought it was a 16 tpi..... meaning 16 turns equals one inch in height.
18 tpi means more accuracy. 1/4 turn in adjustment of the screw (.014") equals about 1/2 the thickness of a a dollar bill. (way more accuracy than I'll ever need with a router)
Long story short............. I really don't care if anyone understands any of my ramblings tonight... I'm just sort of giddy with todays happnins'
Did I say, Damn, I'm good? .....oh yes, ...........I guess I did.
One of these days I'll get some images of the contraption for ya.

Jerry................ if you ever check in here.............. Unlike days of old, you aren't gonna get any credit for the LifterDown 1800.

 

[zannej]

Had a sammich and tinkered with my router lift insert today............ I added a reinforcement to the lift lock clamp and drilled some holes in the router body to position the router for repeatable installation and allignment.
Once I got that done, I set up my dial indicator to see how out of alignment the router was to the lift's top plate. ........dang!
The router was out of square to the table plate by .038 from one side to the other.
In layman's terms, .038" is the thickness of 10 sheets of computer paper. Not much you say? Stack 10 sheets of paper on a table and run your finger across them.
In other words, that's about 1/32 of an inch in 10 inches.
I was expecting nearly perfect flatness....... or perpendicularism? Dang.
I shimmed the router in it's holder....... made a tiny bit of correction.

Then a wild idea came in a vision ...............and with a 1/4 turn to one of the 4 table of a support nuts, it corrected the perpendicular alignment to about .002" in 360 degrees. That's less out of square than the thickness of a sheet of paper in 10 inches.
Dang I'm good! (lucky) I'm a very happy camper tonight.

I also discovered with my dial indicator, that the large machine screw that raises and lowers the router is 18 tpi. (threads per inch) I thought it was a 16 tpi..... meaning 16 turns equals one inch in height.
18 tpi means more accuracy. 1/4 turn in adjustment of the screw (.014") equals about 1/2 the thickness of a a dollar bill. (way more accuracy than I'll ever need with a router)
Long story short............. I really don't care if anyone understands any of my ramblings tonight... I'm just sort of giddy with todays happnins'
Did I say, Damn, I'm good? .....oh yes, ...........I guess I did.
One of these days I'll get some images of the contraption for ya.

Jerry................ if you ever check in here.............. Unlike days of old, you aren't gonna get any credit for the LifterDown 1800.

You explained it in a way that made sense so I understand. That was actually educational. I wasn't aware of tpi and so forth. Using paper thickness really helped to visualize the increments.
Excellent! I'm glad you got it fixed up the way you wanted.

What kind of sammich did you have?

I had a black forest ham with swiss cheese the other day.

Today I had to check the breaker box. Something my sister plugged in tripped one of the breakers. She's not going to plug that particular thing in again. I need to get my electrician friend to come look at the wiring situation when he has the chance. Just crammed a bunch of Mom's laundry in to the washing machine. I think it has 7 cuft capacity. She expected me to magically fix the dryer vent that got torn by a possum, but the dryer is sort of in an alcove and I can't access the vent. When I redo the laundry room I will make it so the dryer vent is accessible and I will have enough space to open the dryer and washing machine drawers while standing in front of them and not have to step to the side.

My friend tore the wall panels off of the useless bathroom in the hallway, but right now it is crammed with my brother's laundry and junk. Got a look at the plumbing for the shower-- looks like some sort of metal but I can't tell if it is copper. I'll post a pic later. No shutoffs on it above the floor. I'll have to send someone under to check to see if there are shutoffs underneath.

I went for a walk with my sister-- quarter of a mile each way. I tapped out after the first lap but she walked two more. I'm really out of shape. If we walked slower I could probably have continued walking, but she has too quick of a pace and I don't have ideal shoes for fast-walking. Probably won't be any walks today because it's raining.

 

[Nick]

Better to have them behind the toilet .. Should have a main shut off somewhere to .

I had a House burn to the ground from a so called Electrician . They burn behind the walls before they pop out ..

 

[highup]

You explained it in a way that made sense so I understand. That was actually educational. I wasn't aware of tpi and so forth. Using paper thickness really helped to visualize the increments.
Excellent! I'm glad you got it fixed up the way you wanted.

What kind of sammich did you have?

Tuna. I thought that the adjusting screw was 16 tpi. I set up my dial indicator and rotated the screw one turn. The gauge read .055 I divided 1 by 16 = .0625. hmm, that ain't right. So I tried 20 ...nope, that's .05
Anyhow, a finer thread per inch means finer adjustability. I'm happy.
Paper is thicker than you think.

 

[Floorist]

17 degrees 0 wind chill, and only colder from there.

 

[Nick]

Same here 0 by Thursday ..