What did you do today?

[C.J.]

Took apart a door jamb and found a newspaper from 1963. Kinda interesting to look at the prices of food back then.

I thought I screwed the pooch when I was routing an undermount sink. The sink moved on me cus it wasn’t completely set yet. I saved the day by putting an undersized bearing on my bit and rerouting the sink. Now there is a 1/32” difference between the sink and the top but it’s a consistent difference so I came out smelling like a rose.

Then on the way home I stopped at Depot and got me a new 20 volt brushless Dewalt impact for $99. Came with 2 - 2 amp hr batteries and a charger. Not bad for $99.

 

[Floorist]

20 gallon tank?

35, but not even close to empty. Needed about 18 gallons. $4.08 a gallon

 

[C.J.]

35, but not even close to empty. Needed about 18 gallons. $4.08 a gallon

That makes sense. My van has a 36 gallon tank but it only takes bout 30 to fill it when it’s on E.

 

[Floorist]

TV went kaplooey. One month past warranty. Figures.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Got my garden all planted. Took 2 days due to rain but finally got done just as it started raining again. Now just waiting for those maters, cukes and squash to get ripe. Tomorrow iand Saturday it will be flowers and Karen's grape tomatoes on the deck and planters.

 

[Floorist]

Got my garden all planted. Took 2 days due to rain but finally got done just as it started raining again. Now just waiting for those maters, cukes and squash to get ripe. Tomorrow iand Saturday it will be flowers and Karen's grape tomatoes on the deck and planters.

Last time we put out a garden, someone stripped it one day while we were gone.
Two Amish produce stores within 15 miles.

 

[C.J.]

Last time we put out a garden, someone stripped it one day while we were gone.
Two Amish produce stores within 15 miles.

Amish smash n grab?

 

[highup]

Damn it! We were gonna make millions. Problem now is that wood will be on site just soaking up moisture. It’s crap like that that led me to look for other kinds of work. No front door, no garage door, no paint. What could go wrong.

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No, the front door is plywood, screwed in place. Garage to laundry room door is OSB on a hinge. All the windows are in.
It just needs the heat cranked up from now to eternity.

 

[highup]

Amish smash n grab?

......oh my, how times have changed.

 

[highup]

35, but not even close to empty. Needed about 18 gallons. $4.08 a gallon

We just hit $5.31 you lucky dog

 

[highup]

DP

 

[highup]

Took apart a door jamb and found a newspaper from 1963. Kinda interesting to look at the prices of food back then.
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I thought I screwed the pooch when I was routing an undermount sink. The sink moved on me cus it wasn’t completely set yet. I saved the day by putting an undersized bearing on my bit and rerouting the sink. Now there is a 1/32” difference between the sink and the top but it’s a consistent difference so I came out smelling like a rose. View attachment 14734View attachment 14736View attachment 14735View attachment 14737
Then on the way home I stopped at Depot and got me a new 20 volt brushless Dewalt impact for $99. Came with 2 - 2 amp hr batteries and a charger. Not bad for $99.

Haven't scored with old newspapers for decades. Cool when you find em.

 

[highup]

I measured a home today. 3 bedrooms were carpeted. Living room and hall were possibly a floated Khars product. A stepdown from the living room, entered the family room. It was 1/3 ceramic tile, 2/3 carpet
From there, it was a step up into the kitchen...... a lock together laminate with puffy seams.
A real mish mash. The new owners are concerned about the cost to replace everything.
For now, it would help them if the Khars floor could be retained/salvaged for now.
The problem is delamination in just one spot...... It had a potted plant that leaked. The obvious planks here are cupped. If the could be "de cupped", then readheredor reglued, that would save them a chunk of change.
How does one flatten these cupped pieces.
I'm thinking a jig to hold each piece wo they can be run on my router table with the smallest diameter bit I can find.......basically cut a groove on the underside of each piece to weaken it so it can be reglued.
Here's the area and cupping.

 

[zannej]

CJ, funny that you had to tell the crew how to set up the tools but nice of you to give a pair of knee pads. I wish my area was like yours-- they do actively hate brown people here. :-(
When my friend got a weird "new" used truck, the cops kept pulling him over for no apparent reason. He wasn't speeding, had his plates, nothing wrong-- finally he asked them why and one of the cops admitted that the truck looked like one a black person would drive and here they pull people over for DWB (driving while black). Hell, they told one of our black friends he wasn't allowed to walk around public areas playing Pokemon Go because he's black-- but he was with a group of white friends and they didn't say crap to them about not being able to walk around in public. It's one of my pet peeves.

The old newspapers are neat. We found a card from a casino that shut down over 30 years ago behind some baseboard in my friend's house. Anything like that in my house would already be destroyed by the mice that get into the walls.

When I first saw the routed wood on the sink I was thinking some sort of bullnose or chamfer was in order to take the edge off and it looks like you did it. I think it looks nice with a bit of an offset from the sink.

Flooring job looks beautiful.

Mom just paged me. Trying to figure out what she wants for dinner. Maybe chicken and veggies.

I may have an ear infection. Got some clear fluid coming out, itches like hell, sore, and when I shake my head I can hear liquid and my hearing is impaired in that ear. I'd been hiccupping earlier which is one of the signs of ear infection. It started itching like crazy when the AC was out.

I let the pups out after the spent most of the day inside (bc they won't stay out when it is hot). But apparently they just hate being inside bc they are on my bed right now. Jelly, the male, is a total wuss. My brother can walk into the hallway and Jelly starts yelping like he's being hurt. One time my brother flipped him off and he squealed like he was being killed. He's a very whiny dog. Peanutbutter doesn't whine as much but she gets into stuff and runs away when I'm trying to put her back up so I have to catch her and carry her.

 

[C.J.]

No, the front door is plywood, screwed in place. Garage to laundry room door is OSB on a hinge. All the windows are in.
It just needs the heat cranked up from now to eternity.

One problem I ran into a lot was after the heat is finally turned on and cranked up was it would dry out the surface of the OSB subfloor but the core was still wet. Somebody would hit the floor with a moisture meter with pins that are maybe 1/16” deep and get a dry reading. I roll in and install underlayment and vinyl cus the floor is now ‘dry’. Sure enough a couple months later and all my underlayment seams blew up cus the subfloor was still wet to the core.

My workaround to this was to pop the crawl space hatch and stick the underside of the subfloor for a reading cus that moisture was just going to migrate up to the drier part and into my floor as soon as I capped it.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I measured a home today. 3 bedrooms were carpeted. Living room and hall were possibly a floated Khars product. A stepdown from the living room, entered the family room. It was 1/3 ceramic tile, 2/3 carpet
From there, it was a step up into the kitchen...... a lock together laminate with puffy seams.
A real mish mash. The new owners are concerned about the cost to replace everything.
For now, it would help them if the Khars floor could be retained/salvaged for now.
The problem is delamination in just one spot...... It had a potted plant that leaked. The obvious planks here are cupped. If the could be "de cupped", then readheredor reglued, that would save them a chunk of change.
How does one flatten these cupped pieces.
I'm thinking a jig to hold each piece wo they can be run on my router table with the smallest diameter bit I can find.......basically cut a groove on the underside of each piece to weaken it so it can be reglued.
Here's the area and cupping.

Put kerfs from a table saw on the underside so it flexes.

 

[Tom Picciani]

Put Hunter in kennel today. Going camping Monday. Pa state parks don’t allow pets. Hoping to get some deep sky imaging done.

 

[highup]

Put kerfs from a table saw on the underside so it flexes.

I've been thinking of a guide/pusher block for my
table and buying a bit like this.

https://www.amazon.com/Solid-Carbid...ocphy=1014221&hvtargid=pla-524409610499&psc=1

 

[DarisMulkin]

I would think that narrow of a bit would burn out in a heart beat. Then you are out $13. Saw blade makes an 1/8th kerf.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Put Hunter in kennel today. Going camping Monday. Pa state parks don’t allow pets. Hoping to get some deep sky imaging done.

Is that Hunter Biden?