What did you do today?

[C.J.]

You would be bitten by this one before you got that close.

Taser? Golf club? Throw the toaster in the pool after the dog jumps in?

 

[zannej]

Sad thing is, usually dogs are like that because they have crappy owners. People in town don't bother to keep their dogs fenced in or tethered. There is a judge who lets his aggressive dogs run the neighborhood get in other people's yards and kill their pets. Animal control (what passes for it) won't do anything about it.

Jon, we don't usually get snow down here either but I love the heated seats because they reduce my back pain. I wish I could isolate the bottom of the seat from the back of the seat for heating purposes because I would love to just turn on the back part. If I could ever design my own vehicle, I would have heated seats in both front and back and I would have controls to allow both seat and back to be on at same time or have them turned on separately. I'd also have the heating go all the way up to the shoulders- maybe even have controls to specify which part of the seat was heated too (lower, middle, & upper). Sure it would add more wiring and things that needed control-- but maybe it could be controlled with a touch screen and or voice command. My truck lets me hit voice command switch on the steering wheel and tell it to set AC temperatures for passenger and driver separately.

Today I got woken up before 8am by the septic service. Phone woke mom too and she was mad that it wasn't even 8. I didn't even know what time it was. I just dragged my fat a$$ out of bed, put pants on, and went out to show him where the tank was. My dog was having fun running around in the wet grass. She stepped in cow manure with her wet front paws and then jumped up on me several times. Since Mom woke up she was able to write the check to pay the guy. He didn't put the lids back on the tank until he got paid but I don't know if that was intentional. He almost forgot one of them and I had to remind him.

I chatted with mom for a bit and then napped. Got up and cooked for her, fed the cats, refilled their water, brought in a heavy package from the porch, refilled water for the dogs, went out and got pictures inside my well shed-- had to be careful because a-holes with wings have built nests. I'm going back out tonight while they are sleeping with a can of wasp/hornet spray and 86ing them.

Napped again for awhile and then cooked for mom and ate something. I didn't eat earlier. My energy levels are low again so I'm about to take another nap.

 

[highup]

Welcome to my nightmare!
I need to pull my dash, steering column, heater core, harness.... well you get the idea... because rats got into my shed and devoured my old firewall blanket, now I have a donor car in the driveway that I have removed one from but I am dreading the weekend I have to pull all this apart again. It was a gd nightmare getting everything to work the first time, let alone again.

My ignition on is easy to reach, just a plastic shroud and I tie right into the ignition switch in the steering column, then routed a 14 gauge down to the volt meter.

I'd come over and help, but I don't live anywhere near you. Besides that, I'm not good with cars and mechanical thingys.
That sucks. I can't imagine dealing with heater cores on anything past 1970. I had a '66 Chevy stepside and I recall it almost being plug-n-play.
Better now than winter I suppose.

 

[highup]

Sad thing is, usually dogs are like that because they have crappy owners. People in town don't bother to keep their dogs fenced in or tethered. There is a judge who lets his aggressive dogs run the neighborhood get in other people's yards and kill their pets. Animal control (what passes for it) won't do anything about it.

Jon, we don't usually get snow down here either but I love the heated seats because they reduce my back pain. I wish I could isolate the bottom of the seat from the back of the seat for heating purposes because I would love to just turn on the back part. If I could ever design my own vehicle, I would have heated seats in both front and back and I would have controls to allow both seat and back to be on at same time or have them turned on separately. I'd also have the heating go all the way up to the shoulders- maybe even have controls to specify which part of the seat was heated too (lower, middle, & upper). Sure it would add more wiring and things that needed control-- but maybe it could be controlled with a touch screen and or voice command. My truck lets me hit voice command switch on the steering wheel and tell it to set AC temperatures for passenger and driver separately.

Today I got woken up before 8am by the septic service. Phone woke mom too and she was mad that it wasn't even 8. I didn't even know what time it was. I just dragged my fat a$$ out of bed, put pants on, and went out to show him where the tank was. My dog was having fun running around in the wet grass. She stepped in cow manure with her wet front paws and then jumped up on me several times. Since Mom woke up she was able to write the check to pay the guy. He didn't put the lids back on the tank until he got paid but I don't know if that was intentional. He almost forgot one of them and I had to remind him.

I chatted with mom for a bit and then napped. Got up and cooked for her, fed the cats, refilled their water, brought in a heavy package from the porch, refilled water for the dogs, went out and got pictures inside my well shed-- had to be careful because a-holes with wings have built nests. I'm going back out tonight while they are sleeping with a can of wasp/hornet spray and 86ing them.

Napped again for awhile and then cooked for mom and ate something. I didn't eat earlier. My energy levels are low again so I'm about to take another nap.

Call Judge Judy.

 

[Mark Brown]

I'd come over and help, but I don't live anywhere near you. Besides that, I'm not good with cars and mechanical thingys.
That sucks. I can't imagine dealing with heater cores on anything past 1970. I had a '66 Chevy stepside and I recall it almost being plug-n-play.
Better now than winter I suppose.

Heater core isn't bad at all. It is just a matter of getting to it. Just a wee little radiator on the inside. Just so happens to be buried by all the other things I magically have to take off first.
If only I had taken my bloody time in the first place and put the damn blanket back on.

 

[highup]

So the rats don't bother the cars outdoors?

 

[Mark Brown]

Nope, just my shed because I did a poor job of protecting the eves, eaves.... Those things under the roof but not at the wall. You know

Rats chewed the wife's wiring harness one day, got the thermostat wire, no biggie and have never touched any of my vehicles. They know better.

 

[highup]

Get a few of these. Guaranteed kill.
I wished I'd taken a photo of three flawlessly symmetrical juveniles in one trap. It was astistry at its finest. One in the center and the other two at three and nine o'clock.

 

[highup]

Explain why the planks cup. I have my own opinion.
The end joints curl, and they cup too.
This is a thin click lock called Invincible........ Well it isn't.
Installed on 2012 in a tiny beach cabin. It was probably built in the 50's or 60's. Ground clearance unknown.
I could see a tiny gap (1/64th ") In a couple planks indicating it had at least some expansion gap
Ive seen a few of these thinner click locks cup, but never the thick ones. Some of these thin core products have a more dense core thats supposed to reduce indentation.
In your opinion, what gives?

 

[highup]

Still no word about Chris?

 

[Jon]

Call Judge Judy.

I like Judge Judy

 

[C.J.]

Explain why the planks cup. I have my own opinion.
The end joints curl, and they cup too.
This is a thin click lock called Invincible........ Well it isn't.
Installed on 2012 in a tiny beach cabin. It was probably built in the 50's or 60's. Ground clearance unknown.
I could see a tiny gap (1/64th ") In a couple planks indicating it had at least some expansion gap
Ive seen a few of these thinner click locks cup, but never the thick ones. Some of these thin core products have a more dense core thats supposed to reduce indentation.
In your opinion, what gives?

I wonder what the recycled material content is in that product. I’ve seen that happen with products that have recycled material in them. I googled that product and it says it has a fiberglass core (smart base) for dimensional stability but I didn’t see it say it has 100% virgin PVC. Every time you process plastic, PVC, it gets weaker and suffers from thermal fatigue. So the more recycled material the product has in it will cause it to be a weaker, less dimensionally stable product. I’ve seen Traffic Master (HD product) look exactly like that at a beach house. High recycled material product. The sun light shining in the windows caused the product to expand and contract and turned the product to complete crap. I wonder if that particular product has a higher recycled plastic content but they use a fiberglass mesh in it to try and overcome the weakness from using recycled material to give it dimensional stability. You mentioned 2012? That’s about when this crap was starting to come on strong yet manufacturers didn’t know about all the problems from using recycled materials yet. So my guess is that is the problem.

 

[highup]

This little floor gets very little direct sunlight even though it has windows facing west. The room has lower than normal ceilings in between the little chair and table in front of the window and the height of the window, if it's tiny amount of sunlight in late afternoon can destroy a floor then this material shouldn't even be manufactured.
This is one I showed a little while back that is a cortec product. It's also one of the thin materials that has gotten so popular. This one has been installed for about a year or thereabouts. It's supposed to be a very dense product that resists heavy loads and indentation. The lady is in a wheelchair that has really large tires on it and she's not a tiny woman herself. Even though I believe there were installation issues and it wasn't leveled properly. That in itself doesn't explain the cupping, or at least any cupping caused by sunlight. This one gets zero sunlight.
I just think making these thin materials is a stupid idea. The least they should do is install and identical layer on the bottom similar to what they do or did with laminates.

 

[Mark Brown]

But thata not possible, they are engineered to withstand blah blah blah

Who would have thought they hype couldn't live up to reality.

 

[highup]

I haven't seen this issue with the thick laminates only these skinny ones. I've told the shop that these floors require more prep work which doesn't make them cheaper and if prep work isn't done those wimpy joints are not going to hold up. I guess that's what happened when you put a harder surface on top of a softer back side. Who would have thunk that?
I want to go take a walk on the beach but I have to go to work. There's about a 2 mph breeze right now and there's probably at least 65°. Damn.

 

[highup]

Not the way I'd preferr it, but the room is 12' 2" to the doorway seam. I'm stretching towards this seam. I have a mini deadman that might help when stretching towards this wall.

 

[Floorist]

My son never fails to surprise me. He is autistic. About a year ago, I asked what he was doing. He taught himself to read Japanese. This morning he is learning computer coding. His IQ is supposed to be above 150.

 

[Mark Brown]

That is so rude!

 

[highup]

My son never fails to surprise me. He is autistic. About a year ago, I asked what he was doing. He taught himself to read Japanese. This morning he is learning computer coding. His IQ is supposed to be above 150.

Mines 50 too.
.....oops, I misread that.

 

[highup]

How do I stopped at birth most people are giving the same number of marbles. It's just a display differently in different people. I couldn't even learn to speak Spanish if I had a teacher. That's pretty incredible.