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CJ, that is very cool!
I saw a chunk of plywood that was as tall as my ceiling but not very wide- a scrap from something else. I asked my brother to bring it in for me. Spent a long time cutting it short enough to work with bc I couldn't find my reciprocating blades and my jigsaw blade was old. Also used the oscillating attachment to help things along. Went to hang the larger piece up and realized my arm can't lift that high (still stuck somewhat) and asked my brother for help to get it high enough. Had problems with the driver bit and had to get a different one. Ran out of battery so I'm charging it and will go for round 2 once it is fully charged.
I was sweating so much while cutting the stuff that I literally left a small puddle of sweat behind.
I saw a chunk of plywood that was as tall as my ceiling but not very wide- a scrap from something else. I asked my brother to bring it in for me. Spent a long time cutting it short enough to work with bc I couldn't find my reciprocating blades and my jigsaw blade was old. Also used the oscillating attachment to help things along. Went to hang the larger piece up and realized my arm can't lift that high (still stuck somewhat) and asked my brother for help to get it high enough. Had problems with the driver bit and had to get a different one. Ran out of battery so I'm charging it and will go for round 2 once it is fully charged.
I was sweating so much while cutting the stuff that I literally left a small puddle of sweat behind.
I feel your pain, Z. Living in a construction zone can be interesting. We had to trek through this mess to get to our bathroom for a few days… or maybe weeks. Makes for an interesting trip to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
We had to re-plumb the entire house and that took a couple days. I made sure I had a toilet to use during the entire project. I ended up getting a couple adapters and hooked the garden hose up to the toilet. I demoed and worked around the toilet until I finally had to pull it because we were putting in new joists that day. I had it set on new joists and subfloor later the same day I pulled it.
We had to re-plumb the entire house and that took a couple days. I made sure I had a toilet to use during the entire project. I ended up getting a couple adapters and hooked the garden hose up to the toilet. I demoed and worked around the toilet until I finally had to pull it because we were putting in new joists that day. I had it set on new joists and subfloor later the same day I pulled it.
kwfloors
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Oregon so far doesn't have criminal cops and judges.... That are in cahoots with the city.
Get a dash cam I'll be done with it, those record speed.....
.... And voice
That’s why I don’t have one.
We have the technology. Pretty soon they’ll put one in every car and you’ll just get a ticket in the mail every time you speed…
Or better yet they’ll just deduct it from you bank account…
CJ, I'm glad you got the bathroom fixed up. Mine has been a construction zone for waaay too long.
I've been meaning to get a dashcam. Although, as I mentioned, they won't allow people to bring dashcam footage into the court-house to show bc of all the corruption here.
So, as I suspected, the compressor for my AC unit is toast. Unit was made in 2009 and I can't find replacement compressor for it online. Don't even know where to look. And I was just reading that the outside unit has to be paired pretty much exactly with the inside unit for both to work well together. AC guy wants to sell me a new condenser unit but I've been reading that if they don't match well enough it can start a house fire. Might have to replace the entire setup-- including the inside unit. I really do not want that to happen. Guy doesn't even get the same brand name AC.
Anyone know much about this or how to figure out what outside unit matches my inside unit?
This is the info on my inside unit:
and this is my outside unit (the XB 13) part got cut off bc I was getting tangled in blackberry vines.
Any ideas?
I've been meaning to get a dashcam. Although, as I mentioned, they won't allow people to bring dashcam footage into the court-house to show bc of all the corruption here.
So, as I suspected, the compressor for my AC unit is toast. Unit was made in 2009 and I can't find replacement compressor for it online. Don't even know where to look. And I was just reading that the outside unit has to be paired pretty much exactly with the inside unit for both to work well together. AC guy wants to sell me a new condenser unit but I've been reading that if they don't match well enough it can start a house fire. Might have to replace the entire setup-- including the inside unit. I really do not want that to happen. Guy doesn't even get the same brand name AC.
Anyone know much about this or how to figure out what outside unit matches my inside unit?
This is the info on my inside unit:
and this is my outside unit (the XB 13) part got cut off bc I was getting tangled in blackberry vines.
Any ideas?
We have the technology. Pretty soon they’ll put one in every car and you’ll just get a ticket in the mail every time you speed…
Or better yet they’ll just deduct it from you bank account…
Just the voice thing alone would be enough to scare me away. Nobody needs to hear what I’m mumbling to myself as I’m driving down the road.
I see where Walmart is closing their stores in Portland. Too much theft and not safe for employees.
You can sometimes mute the microphone on those dashcams or program it to not record sound.
Otherwise, it would record me complaining about people being out of blinker fluid, going under speed limit in the fast lane, pulling out into the fast lane from the middle lane without proper time so I have to hit my brakes, etc.
I don't know the reason for Portland closing, but they have been known to shut down stores when employees tried to unionize. They can't legally fire employees for it so they shut the stores down.
It is too hot in here. I can't stop sweating and it is sapping all of my energy. I sent pics of the labels with model number info to the AC repair guy. Hope he can find a condenser that works with my inside unit. I don't know how to even look. I've seen the inside units being sold refurbished or used but no sign of the condenser or the compressor for the condenser.
Otherwise, it would record me complaining about people being out of blinker fluid, going under speed limit in the fast lane, pulling out into the fast lane from the middle lane without proper time so I have to hit my brakes, etc.
I don't know the reason for Portland closing, but they have been known to shut down stores when employees tried to unionize. They can't legally fire employees for it so they shut the stores down.
It is too hot in here. I can't stop sweating and it is sapping all of my energy. I sent pics of the labels with model number info to the AC repair guy. Hope he can find a condenser that works with my inside unit. I don't know how to even look. I've seen the inside units being sold refurbished or used but no sign of the condenser or the compressor for the condenser.
Maybe that will help people vote smarter in the future.
Got back on my circular stairs last week and got four of them done and the railing put back in that first section.
This week, I had my brother with me and we started on the curve section with the pie stairs.
Removing this second of railing makes me wonder what I've gotten myself into.
Every phase has been a learning experience.
No way am I going to be able to charge the time that I have involved in this not even half.
No price was ever set. I could theoretically charge 6 grand for the work on this set of stairs but, if I was asked for a bid or an actual price, I would have said $2500, so no way would I go over that in good concience.
The railing part of my time is 4 or 5 times more that I could have ever guessed. Allignment is the problem because the carpenter that constructed these fit them like a machinist, not a carpenter. The wood parts shrunk after he installed the railing, so the wood is now press fit over each of the metal baulister supports.
My brother and I have 4 hours or more removing the curved section of the railing. I even went home to get my large compressor and my CP Air chisel to slide off a very tight wood to wood support section. It's like separating a wheel bearing race if that helps my description.
In the front right corner of the pie stairs, there is a 12" section of 3/8" threaded rod that holds the lower tread to the one above it.
You can sit in this image, on the right the stairs removed and the yellow shows the threaded rod position. On the left you can see the baluster holder made of steel tubing. The threaded rod goes down through that steel tubing, through the step, through the next steel tubing, then through the step below it what has a nut and washer clamping them all together.
When you remove an upper step, the step below it is now flopping around with no support. This is where the fun begins,.
Before moving or removing these steel brackets, my laser is back in use, projecting the angles and positions of these brackets onto the walls where I mark them with blue tape.
On the bright side, each step has theaded rod in the front and rear making positioning virtually guaranteed.
Each of the baulisters need to drop squarely inside those square steel brackets when we set the railing into place.
Imagine carrying a 7 foot wide curved railing with 11 baulisters dangling from it, then lowering them all down inside the square brackets. I know it's going to take me, my brother and the homeowner to pull this off.
Two holding the railing, and one person squaring the tubular steel so the baulisters will drop inside them, one, by one, by one.
Customers are fantastically patient. This is one of those learning experiences I will never see or need ever again. I guess it's a learning challenge.
In the image, I drew in yellow where the threaded rods go. There's a nut and washer on each end. One on the underside of the lower step, the other is down inside the square steel tubing. That's the green arrow on the left.
Its gonna work, but what a pain.
This week, I had my brother with me and we started on the curve section with the pie stairs.
Removing this second of railing makes me wonder what I've gotten myself into.
Every phase has been a learning experience.
No way am I going to be able to charge the time that I have involved in this not even half.
No price was ever set. I could theoretically charge 6 grand for the work on this set of stairs but, if I was asked for a bid or an actual price, I would have said $2500, so no way would I go over that in good concience.
The railing part of my time is 4 or 5 times more that I could have ever guessed. Allignment is the problem because the carpenter that constructed these fit them like a machinist, not a carpenter. The wood parts shrunk after he installed the railing, so the wood is now press fit over each of the metal baulister supports.
My brother and I have 4 hours or more removing the curved section of the railing. I even went home to get my large compressor and my CP Air chisel to slide off a very tight wood to wood support section. It's like separating a wheel bearing race if that helps my description.
In the front right corner of the pie stairs, there is a 12" section of 3/8" threaded rod that holds the lower tread to the one above it.
You can sit in this image, on the right the stairs removed and the yellow shows the threaded rod position. On the left you can see the baluster holder made of steel tubing. The threaded rod goes down through that steel tubing, through the step, through the next steel tubing, then through the step below it what has a nut and washer clamping them all together.
When you remove an upper step, the step below it is now flopping around with no support. This is where the fun begins,.
Before moving or removing these steel brackets, my laser is back in use, projecting the angles and positions of these brackets onto the walls where I mark them with blue tape.
On the bright side, each step has theaded rod in the front and rear making positioning virtually guaranteed.
Each of the baulisters need to drop squarely inside those square steel brackets when we set the railing into place.
Imagine carrying a 7 foot wide curved railing with 11 baulisters dangling from it, then lowering them all down inside the square brackets. I know it's going to take me, my brother and the homeowner to pull this off.
Two holding the railing, and one person squaring the tubular steel so the baulisters will drop inside them, one, by one, by one.
Customers are fantastically patient. This is one of those learning experiences I will never see or need ever again. I guess it's a learning challenge.
In the image, I drew in yellow where the threaded rods go. There's a nut and washer on each end. One on the underside of the lower step, the other is down inside the square steel tubing. That's the green arrow on the left.
Its gonna work, but what a pain.
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kwfloors
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I'm glad I'm not the only one getting tough stair jobs.
That’s what voting with your feelings looks like.
I was told the same thing about my commercial roof top units. New units are not compatible with the old handlers. Only way around it is to find someone with an old unit still in stock…. Good luck. I was told about this six year ago and bought an extra outdoor unit…My H-VAC guy told me that thing is gold…You’re not gonna find them anymore… All bout the new “environmentally safe” refrigerants they’re using. Not sure about smaller residential compressors but from what you’re saying it sounds like the same thing….
New freezers are the same deal. They use propane as a refrigerant… you can still find commercial freezers that run on the old 404a refrigerant but those are big bucks…. So is the refrigerant if you need a repair.
I would check with a few different AC guys before you give up.
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We are supposed to get any where from 8-15 " of snow tonight. I just went out and got my snow blower cleaned of and started to get ready. But that snow that we have gotten so far is almost pure water. I doubt if the machine will push it out the chute without plugging it up.
