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Up at 7:00
Got strawberry yogurt from the fridge and filled the coffee maker.
Sat down to scan the news and do a little surfing.
8:00 grabbed my coffee cup and discovered....
I didn't flip the switch all the way on.... No coffee got brewed. 😱😣😢
Life is complicated. Off-On-Timer.... why so many choices? Why do the have to make these appliances so complicated?
I'll be fine... just fine. 😕
 
At 130 this morning, I started hearing a chirp from the family room. I thought it was my other half's cell phone, and someone sent her a text message, so I ignored it. Well, every 30 minutes I'd hear a dumb chirp, so I got up at 5 am to investigate. It appears the motion detector for my alarm system needed a new battery. Damn, there went my beauty sleep for the day!
 
I never heard of anyone putting yogurt in their coffee maker before.
I'm gonna go back and check to see what I typed.......
.....if there isn't coffee, the entire world just goes to hell In a hand basket.
.......now I'm googling hand basket.
I've never done seen one. Heard of them, just never seen one.
.....are those like a guy purse for women?
 
I never heard of anyone putting yogurt in their coffee maker before.
Ok........ It made sense to me as I typed, but rereading what I typed ....yeah, a little bit was left to the imagination. 😁
Great suggestion tho........
......whaddya think, 50/50 vanilla yogurt to water ratio?
I mean, my Mr Coffee isn't remotely new, so
what's to lose?
Intellectual property laws have me protected guys, so... don't... even ...think of making or marketing a yogurt coffee maker!
I will protect my new creation like a mad honey badger. 🦡
(Daris gets 10% after expenses) 😉
 
I measured the upstairs of a home today. Its about 16 by 37 and entirely the master bedroom.... Dressing room/closet and bathroom. The main bedroom part is about 16 by 18.
The guy is the ultimate diyer. Everything is well proportioned and well designed. His craftsmanship and attention to detail is top notch.
Here's the shower. You can access it from the bathroom at the far side of the image, or though the dressing closet as seen here.
The photos don't do this justice. The stone on the floor and wall in real life look the same color. In the photo, the floor is much lighter/washed out.
It's roughly 6 by 9..... absolutely beautiful.
 

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I measured the upstairs of a home today. Its about 16 by 37 and entirely the master bedroom.... Dressing room/closet and bathroom. The main bedroom part is about 16 by 18.
The guy is the ultimate diyer. Everything is well proportioned and well designed. His craftsmanship and attention to detail is top notch.
Here's the shower. You can access it from the bathroom at the far side of the image, or though the dressing closet as seen here.
The photos don't do this justice. The stone on the floor and wall in real life look the same color. In the photo, the floor is much lighter/washed out.
It's roughly 6 by 9..... absolutely beautiful.

How do you air out the shower after a fart? Somebody could die.
 
Welded flooring? Please explain this for me.
Havasu if you look about three feet in front of the vacuum you can see a seam it’s welded and skivved

If you close in you can see small stripes in the flooring , those are seams. This flooring is imported from England it has a rubber backing about 1/4 inch thick.
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Urethane adhesive has to be used. Like taffy. The rolls are 10 meters by 72 inches so a butt seam occurs every 30 feet or so. Factory edges are used for side seams unless you want to lose quite a bit of material by using selvage. We weld it with a heat gun and urethane 3mm string and cut the top off with a Mozart knife I use a Crain groover
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This looks kinda like a new style of linoleum.
The "sports floor" we installed was almost always rubber but we did a handful of Tarkett vinyl very similar to what's shown above. It's just sheet vinyl with a dense cushion backing. We had a lot of troubles getting it to lay flat in the glue as it came with a lot of seriously deformities straight off the roll-----probably how it was handles/delivered and stored at various times before install. We wound up using bricks to weight it down flat whilst the urethane glue sets overnight.
 

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The "sports floor" we installed was almost always rubber but we did a handful of Tarkett vinyl very similar to what's shown above. It's just sheet vinyl with a dense cushion backing. We had a lot of troubles getting it to lay flat in the glue as it came with a lot of seriously deformities straight off the roll-----probably how it was handles/delivered and stored at various times before install. We wound up using bricks to weight it down flat whilst the urethane glue sets overnight.
Your projects scare the crap out of me. 🫣
Do you have a brick and paver truck follow you to every job site?
 
The "sports floor" we installed was almost always rubber but we did a handful of Tarkett vinyl very similar to what's shown above. It's just sheet vinyl with a dense cushion backing. We had a lot of troubles getting it to lay flat in the glue as it came with a lot of seriously deformities straight off the roll-----probably how it was handles/delivered and stored at various times before install. We wound up using bricks to weight it down flat whilst the urethane glue sets overnight.
The urethane we used is so sticky and insane we have to cover the buckets immediately after we get some out. It skins over almost immediately. It’s solvent based and the trowels have to be cleaned immediately also with MEK. Acetone works but evaporates too quickly . They’re metal cans with screwdriver tabs. Once we open the can , EVEN with plastic and frequent reseals we have to cut the “top” of the glue off to get to the liquid . Over night once the seal is broken it dries about a 1/4 inch thick
 
The urethane we used is so sticky and insane we have to cover the buckets immediately after we get some out. It skins over almost immediately. It’s solvent based and the trowels have to be cleaned immediately also with MEK. Acetone works but evaporates too quickly . They’re metal cans with screwdriver tabs. Once we open the can , EVEN with plastic and frequent reseals we have to cut the “top” of the glue off to get to the liquid . Over night once the seal is broken it dries about a 1/4 inch thick
Believe it or not we put down Koster epoxy moisture barrier, 2-3 coats of Koster skim coat, then I recall some sort of Tarkett seperate cushion that was loose laid over all that prep. It's a moisture membrane and it was pretty lightweight, mostly fiberglass I assume. THEN we mixed a two-part urethane to glue the sports floor. This type does not tack up in any reasonable working time frame. So.........anything not laying perfectly flat as you walk away that night will never lay flat. They didn't call for sandbags/bricks but we used them on our Mondo rubber flooring all the time because it's requires. We had crews who were very quick with the bricks so it's all just figured into the labor costs. In this case the creases in the rolls required so many bricks it limited how much we could glue down each day.
 

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Your projects scare the crap out of me. 🫣
Do you have a brick and paver truck follow you to every job site?
Essentially yes. It's especially difficult to organize because it's all school gyms that have to get down in the downtime---Spring Break, Christmas and Summer. That means you cant easily schedule the jobs one after another. You have to do multiple jobs at the same time. So that amounts to one hell of a lot of bricks coming and going.

No matter how many they'd have accumulated every year they'd have to go buy a few more pallets. I think they'd often leave them back if someone wanted them so long as they hauled them off site promptly. The good thing for us was they HAD to load those jobs up with apprentices and material handlers at 30%-60% the cost of a journeyman. That meant you'd have extra guys hanging around when they weren't actually moving bricks. So most of them were eager to stay busy and be useful doing the stupid little tedious stuff no one REALLY enjoys. Generally shops skimp on help often to their own detriment just to cut costs. We were nearly always trying to squeeze labor costs------of course, but it's often a losing proposition if that's not well managed.
 

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