What did you do today?

[highup]

Working on a pain in the ass hallway, with two sets of pain in the ass bifold doors, and with pain in the ass expensive carpet.
This is on a slab with copper radiant tube heat in the floor. I found where most of the tubes were at but I use the edger sander next to the original tack strip to give the second row of tack strip a good surface to stick to with a urethane adhesive.
The bifold doors were installed in unusual manner. The base pivots were on the slab not up on top of the carpet like you normally see them. The carpet I took up was a thick brick red carpet. I'm putting down a thin looped pile Masland carpet.
Customer wanted this done the same way so those lower guides do not show. The doors clearances we're okay when I took them off, so to make this work I did some very accurate measuring to the center of the holes in the guides.
The first photo shows two guides glued and screwed back to back. These two closets are side by side with a wall separating them. The wall separated to closet doesn't show when the doors are closed, so this was The logical way to make this work.
I got the carpet stretched in today so it's time to use my measurements and poke a nice neat round hole exactly centered in those guide holes.
I use this method before in a motorhome to actually burn a hole in the carpet for bolts to go through. You take a brass tube of the diameter you need, heated up with a propane torch till it's red hot, then use that to poke a nice neat hole where you want it. It melts the carpet and the backing and it's kind of like taking a core sample. In the process it also melts the carpet fibers in the backing together so it can't unravel.
The important thing is you have to absolutely 100% trust your measurements. Measure twice burn once.
The image with the torch in it has the brass rod that I use laying next to it. The pen is pointing at the hole.
The hallway had terracotta tile at the end of the hallway and going into a bathroom. Midway in the hall was an engineered wood floor that had to be tucked to. Both of the closets in the hall we're five and a half feet long and each one had to have a seam. Towards each end of the hallway will be doorway seams going into an office and a master bedroom. I'm going to start the office on Monday. Because I'm gluing the tack strip it's going to be a two-day job. I can't wait to get out of this one it's dragging on forever........ or I'm dragging it on forever.

 

[zannej]

Power went out after my last post. I spent 2 nights without heat but the kitties and dog kept me warm. Thursday I went in to town and got a bbq, charcoal, charcoal heater (like a giant mug thing-- after the charcoal wouldn't heat up inside the cheap bbq), some bbq gloves & some tongs and stuff. Took it to friend's house & we bbqed some pork chops (only meat left in the stores). Took hours bc bbq didn't want to warm up. Wrapped some of them in foil & put them in an insulated bag to take home to Mom. She ate half of one & complained she didn't like the char on it.
Today I was so stiff I could barely move with all the cats pinning me down. They were keeping me warm & vice versa, but I couldn't get them to budge. Waited til I heard my brother in the hallway and asked him to put out food so they would get off me. It worked & I was able to get to the bathroom in time.
I had an extremely strange dream about a giant wooden toilet that was normally priced $9,085 but was marked down to $8000 and some guy came over with a sledgehammer and hit it. There was a smaller wooden toilet for $600 that was marked down to $500. Guy was about to smash it but I told him to wait until I used it. I'd been trying to find a bathroom in the dream- woke up to realize it was one of those dreams of my brain telling me in dreams that I needed to go. LOL. Fortunately, I made it to the bathroom in time.
We got Mom over to friend's house where it's warmer & she could watch Youtube on the TV. Also got her tablet charging so she could play Mahjong on it.
Got some fuzzy warm socks from clearance section at the store. Her shrimp and fish in the freezer were still frozen so we took them over to friend's house. May bbq or cook up the fish tomorrow or just bring it home.
Checked back at the house as it was getting dark & found power is back on-- must have just come back on bc it was still cold AF. I had planned to stay the night to keep my pets warm & my brother and Mom were going to spend the night at friend's house.
We checked back with Mom and decided it was best if she stayed there (so we didn't worry about her slipping and falling trying to get back into the house in the dark). Brother decided to come home with me.
I've got a heating pad and the kitties are happy to see me. Dogs are curled up with me.
Mom's dog was fussing & shivering so I pulled him under the covers. He started growling so I sang him the STFU & settle down song while petting him. He started grunting instead of growling and then sighed and curled up on my lap. The other dog is curled up under a fuzzy blanket.
I'm going to move the heating pad around on my back & shoulder to see if it helps my joints. Shoulders were giving me a lot of trouble today.
I'm looking in to getting some warmer sheets & pillowcases.
Also, the cows say Hi

 

[Jon]

I feel for you zan
It seems Texas is in a bad way

 

[highup]

This winter has to end soon. It's not affecting me a bit other than the rain doesn't stop enough. I was getting used to global warming and no rain. This winter is like the winters I remembered as a kid. My best description of our weather is icky. Unlike other parts of the United States, our weather doesn't kill you. We also don't have $600 electric bills. Honestly, I can't imagine what people on the Midwest or East coast are paying every month to heat their homes. It must be scary.

 

[highup]

I'm guessing almost 30 years ago I work for a fella 50 mi south of where I live. He was from California and was in the process of moving to Oregon. He had his radio on and the radio reception along our coast isn't all that good, especially farther south where he lives. His radio was on and I heard this fella talking and he was kind of interesting. The radio signal wasn't very good but I could still listen to what he was saying.
I asked my customer, "who's that?"
He said "you don't know who that is? That's Rush Limbaugh"
Anyway I thought he was pretty entertaining. About 3 months later Rush was on our local AM radio station. In the weeks prior to the start of his show, the advertising said that he was going to have a 3-hour-long show every day and that he would have no guests.
I'm trying to think how that could possibly work.
When his show finally arrived I was impressed. This guy could literally talk for 3 hours straight without any effort. His words and thoughts were fluent and no matter what he said, none of it seemed to be boring.
Anyway, I'm not nearly as conservative as Rush was, but in general I agreed with most of what he said. What he said was true. Conservatives want people to work for a living and earn money to pay their bills and when that's done it makes the person feel good inside for providing something for himself and his family.
Democrats on the other hand seem to preach that everyone is working against you and that you can't succeed on your own and that they need to help you survive. Democrats demonize wealthy and successful people and businesses and preach to their downtrodden constituents that those people who have succeeded in life owe you a piece of their action because they have too much and you don't. Democrats have succeeded in making people believe that rich people have too much money and that they owe some of their money to you. Do they? Democrats have successfully made you think that you don't have money because the wealthy people took it all...... no they were just smarter than you and me.
Anyway, Rush had a very good way of explaining these very simple things.
A lot of people think Rush had a big ego and thought he was better than everybody else. From everything I know about him and everything I've read and heard other people say about him, once off his soapbox, he became much more shy and quiet person. over the years he's donated millions of dollars to different causes and yet nobody knows about it because he didn't put his name on the donations. He wants to give 100 or 150,000 to St Jude's hospital and the only request was that they didn't tell who the donation came from.
Anyway there's a lot of videos out there of Rush and I thought this one was kind of funny.
He was at CPAC as a headliner making a speech to the conservatives. Some of this might be boring but start at the 4-minute mark. He's about to tell a joke. To me it's one of the funnest jokes he's ever told because most liberals think Rush is a pompous egotistical, self-loving individual. That wasn't who he was and that's what makes this joke so funny.

 

[DarisMulkin]

What did I do today?
well besides my morning chores I decided to go out and pull a lot of the wet snow off my house and garage roofs. Took me about 2 1/2 - 3 hours. I then used the snow blower to remove it all from my drive and also made the blower walk backwards up 3 steps to get on my deck which had about 3 ft of snow on it. I've been just shoveling a path for my dog to get off the deck and piling it at the side. Now I'm paying for it big time. The back and shoulder are killing me. So I popped an 800 Motrin that I have for the shoulder but very seldom take any as I'm not a drug person, hate the ones that I have to take daily. I probably still have 1/2 a bottle that was perscribed back in Aug of 2019. But anyway I don't have to worry about the roof caving in from the weight. That snow was heavy as it is almost 40* today.

 

[Jon]

When I first started talking to Nick through Skype he kept saying he had to get rid of his snow which didnt make sense to me as the snow would keep coming back
He said if he didnt get rid of the snow he wouldnt be able to open his doors which made sense when he told me
We dont understand snow at Auckland as we never see that white stuff
Rest in peace Nick
One of the better guys around

 

[Floorist]

We ended up with about 8 inches of snow. Temperature was at 20 or below for two weeks. Finally got back up to 32 yesterday. 41 today. Went out and charged the batteries on our other car and my van and got both running. Car has a flat, too much snow and too cold to do anything with it. Probably try to air it up tomorrow and take it to get it fixed. ....Our covid shots are 4 weeks apart. They are Moderna.

My wife's little dog jumped off the steps into the snow and it was over her head. She ran right back in.

 

[zannej]

Most of the snow has melted now-- except in constantly shady areas. Apparently the store owners/managers don't understand liability issues bc they didn't bother to clear ice & snow off their sidewalks & pedestrian crossing areas in their parking lots. People also don't seem to know you are supposed to clear the snow/ice off of your vehicles before driving so it won't fly off and kill people (which has happened before & is why many states have laws about it). But, they don't sell snow shovels in this state & it's never lasted this long before.

Technically yesterday: I slept in & was fairly warm a few hours in since heater started working. Still had to keep water off. I could hear water spraying outside near the back door but it was too dark to check. When it was daylight I went out and looked for signs of leaking. Tried to push the back door open to flip the breaker. It bounced back with so much force I had to dig in with my feet and one of the cinder blocks serving as steps rolled. So I twisted my ankle and fell. I was not a happy camper. I called out to my brother for help, but he is a heavy sleeper so he didn't hear me (or at least wouldn't acknowledge it if he did). I ended up having to go all the way around to the front and through the front room, kitchen, hallway, etc to flip the breaker and then go back out. Door won't open bc my brother has his crap piled up against it on the floor. I tried picking some of it up but my back and shoulders were not cooperating.

Went and got my friend so he could look at the plumbing to find the leak. While he was checking the pipe for the hose bib broke off. He took pics with his phone, figured out what parts we would need, and off to Lowes we went. Found the parts and headed back to install them. Well, he installed them. I couldn't reach.

Toilet filled, tub's cold water worked. No water from sinks though. I think there is another leak somewhere. Water heater was still filling hours later.

My video card is on the fritz. Keeps going black screen and having a line across the center- horizontally, and then coming back on. It's very annoying.

 

[Csason]

I'm guessing almost 30 years ago I work for a fella 50 mi south of where I live. He was from California and was in the process of moving to Oregon. He had his radio on and the radio reception along our coast isn't all that good, especially farther south where he lives. His radio was on and I heard this fella talking and he was kind of interesting. The radio signal wasn't very good but I could still listen to what he was saying.
I asked my customer, "who's that?"
He said "you don't know who that is? That's Rush Limbaugh"
Anyway I thought he was pretty entertaining. About 3 months later Rush was on our local AM radio station. In the weeks prior to the start of his show, the advertising said that he was going to have a 3-hour-long show every day and that he would have no guests.
I'm trying to think how that could possibly work.
When his show finally arrived I was impressed. This guy could literally talk for 3 hours straight without any effort. His words and thoughts were fluent and no matter what he said, none of it seemed to be boring.
Anyway, I'm not nearly as conservative as Rush was, but in general I agreed with most of what he said. What he said was true. Conservatives want people to work for a living and earn money to pay their bills and when that's done it makes the person feel good inside for providing something for himself and his family.
Democrats on the other hand seem to preach that everyone is working against you and that you can't succeed on your own and that they need to help you survive. Democrats demonize wealthy and successful people and businesses and preach to their downtrodden constituents that those people who have succeeded in life owe you a piece of their action because they have too much and you don't. Democrats have succeeded in making people believe that rich people have too much money and that they owe some of their money to you. Do they? Democrats have successfully made you think that you don't have money because the wealthy people took it all...... no they were just smarter than you and me.
Anyway, Rush had a very good way of explaining these very simple things.
A lot of people think Rush had a big ego and thought he was better than everybody else. From everything I know about him and everything I've read and heard other people say about him, once off his soapbox, he became much more shy and quiet person. over the years he's donated millions of dollars to different causes and yet nobody knows about it because he didn't put his name on the donations. He wants to give 100 or 150,000 to St Jude's hospital and the only request was that they didn't tell who the donation came from.
Anyway there's a lot of videos out there of Rush and I thought this one was kind of funny.
He was at CPAC as a headliner making a speech to the conservatives. Some of this might be boring but start at the 4-minute mark. He's about to tell a joke. To me it's one of the funnest jokes he's ever told because most liberals think Rush is a pompous egotistical, self-loving individual. That wasn't who he was and that's what makes this joke so funny.

There are a million successful businesses that owe themselves to following the kind of thinking Rush espoused - I’m owner of one

 

[highup]

I'm going to guess you're going to be a wee bit stiff for 2 or 3 days. I don't think I'd be able to keep up with you with the snow clearing.
I take a couple of ibuprofen every morning but that's about it. My home medical kit consists of Ibuprofen, Neosporin paper towels and duct tape.

 

[highup]

There are a million successful businesses that owe themselves to following the kind of thinking Rush espoused - I’m owner of one

He was a great motivational speaker. I loved it when he had the kids calling in.
Do you remember Dan's bake sale?

 

[highup]

I temporarily fixed a leak in my bathroom. The faucet has had a slow drip for a long time but the drip has gotten worse over the past two months and turn into a drizzle. The faucet is 50 years old and not knowing what's inside it, I don't want to take it apart, find out it's not fixable, and then make the problem worse when putting it back together. Want to replace the sink, the faucet and the small countertop, so I'm not going to do anything about the faucet until I'm ready to do the whole thing. There are copper lines that go to the sink but there never were shut off valves.
I have my monthly electric bill split up into 12 equal payments so the winter months didn't hurt so bad. My new billing just came, and it's $20 per month higher than it was before. That would mean $20 per month every month.
I went and did some investigating and discovered the hot side was the one that was leaking. I bought two valves with compression fittings, and once installed I turned the hot water side off. I put a 5-ft pail under even drip before installing the valve and calculated that it was consuming at least a few gallons per hour per hour. Wow a lot more than I thought it was. I went out and checked my meter yesterday after turning the water off. It's going to be interesting checking the meter after 24 hours and finding out my new electric power consumption.

 

[zannej]

I hope you get that drip fixed, Highup.

I have drips/leaks all over the place. I can see it's leaking between the check valve and the pvc elbow on the inlet side of my jet pump. It's also leaking from the lower elbow going into the jet pump.. Pump guy got rid of my shut off so I can't do maintenance myself easily. I'm a bit miffed about that. He put so many PVC fittings that I would have to go inside the tank to mess with things & I can't get in there- can't get the lid off to get in. I'm not sure how he was able to get in there that one time to replace a fitting. May have to call him again and have all the parts ready and tell him what I want. He charged something like $200 for a $20 check valve last time. He normally doesn't overcharge, but I think he was ticked off that no one came out when he rolled around back. He's the only pump service guy in the area.

I need to eliminate more of the PVC fittings in general. I want to get the shutoff valve put back on so I can do pump maintenance in emergencies (when power is shut off). I also want to see if I can replace the line between the outlet side of the pump and the pressure tank with PEX (if that is allowed or would work-- I haven't found a definitive answer).

I should probably replace the galvanized fittings on my tank with brass or stainless steel. Pex would make things a lot easier though-- no more labyrinth of pvc elbows.

Kitchen sink waterlines are leaking BADLY. Literally pouring water out even after we shut the pump off. Hope it didn't do any water damage to the wood. Gonna have to see when my friend can come out and look at it.

 

[Csason]

He was a great motivational speaker. I loved it when he had the kids calling in.
Do you remember Dan's bake sale?

I think so

 

[highup]

I think so

http://www.roncrider.com/Dan-s-Bake-Sale.html

 

[highup]

I forgot how big it was.

 

[Csason]

I forgot how big it was.

I remember now early days of rush he wasn’t quite national recognized then . I was in the middle of a long term family crisis at the time

 

[zannej]

Good news is my cold water line was not leaking under the sink. Bad news is my entire run of hot water line is busted. ALL the way across the house. Got enough parts to fix two sinks. Friend patched it-- still leaked beyond the patch. Patched again.. He reported that leaks were pouring out from laundry room all the way to the bathrooms on the other side of the house. CPVC split down the middle all the way across.

I need to spend Wednesday cleaning bc Thursday my friend will be back to replace all of the lines with PEX. He's going to replace the cold lines too. He'll leave enough wiggle room to add tees for additional or moved lines.

Ideally, I'd like to get some PEX manifolds. One for hot located near the water heater and one for cold located in the laundry room wall closer to where water enters the house from the well. I'm trying to figure out the best sizes to get for manifolds. I wanted 1" inlet and end outlet with 3/4 side outlets but can't seem to find that. Not sure on the pipe size of the water heater outlet.

 

[Jon]

Nothing seems to go well with you zannej does it
Found a place for you when this Covid is over
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rura...-less-than-the-price-of-an-auckland-home.html
And thats NZ Dollars which is about half of yours
Good deal for you