What did you do today?

[Tile Tom]

Or maybe one of your neighbors is leeching off your internet?

 

[C.J.]

Prolly couple teenagers hangin out in your shed watchin porch repair videos.

 

[Floorist]

I've always liked that movie even though it pulls out a couple of tears every time .....I'm a wimp.
I let my brother control the remote and it's not one of his favorites so don't usually watch it. I'd like to.

You can watch it free on Tubi, on your phone.

 

[highup]

You can watch it free on Tubi, on your phone.

Better on a 70 inch.

 

[highup]

Did a restretch today. Is this excessive for a high end nylon carpet? 2 inches in less than 13 feet.
I pre-stretched and installed stay nails because there was a seam a foot from the wall. That kept tension while I cut open and removed material from the door seam.
Once the door seam was done, I snugged up the stretch to the wall.
Even though the job is probably approaching 10 years old I think the installer kicked it in. I wouldn't get this much stretch on a new installation.
I restretched two other rooms about 5 years ago. I think the carpet was either Masland or Stanton. It's over 7/16" 8# rebond.

 

[Mark Brown]

Come on Highup, you can do the math
13*12*0.015=2.34
Being old and what have you, it would be all kinds of worn out so that is more than normal

 

[Floorist]

 

[highup]

Come on Highup, you can do the math
13*12*0.015=2.34
Being old and what have you, it would be all kinds of worn out so that is more than normal

I don't use no stinkin math. I just reef until the seams start making noises.
It's a very nice home owned by an older couple. This is a guest room.
The lady says the only thing she uses the room for is ironing clothes. The carpet is in fantastic shape and it has a very good-n-tight backing and it's nylon. This carpet easily has another 10 or 15 years in it.
If I had done this job originally, it would have been double stripped and stretched with a pole stretcher.
I know that the large master bedroom and the long, wide hallway we're done with a stinger.
The widest points of this bedroom would be 13 ft by 15 ft clear into the closet. I had to work with twin beds in the room...... From the family pictures adorning the hall and stairway, I wish the twins were there too.
I didn't notice kicker marks on the side I was working on but if I was able to completely empty this little room I would have certainly checked for it. It just wasn't stretched tight the first time around. It is now.

 

[Floorist]

I don't use no stinkin math. I just reef until the seams start making noises.
It's a very nice home owned by an older couple. This is a guest room.
The lady says the only thing she uses the room for is ironing clothes. The carpet is in fantastic shape and it has a very good-n-tight backing and it's nylon. This carpet easily has another 10 or 15 years in it.
If I had done this job originally, it would have been double stripped and stretched with a pole stretcher.
I know that the large master bedroom and the long, wide hallway we're done with a stinger.
The widest points of this bedroom would be 13 ft by 15 ft clear into the closet. I had to work with twin beds in the room...... From the family pictures adorning the hall and stairway, I wish the twins were there too.
I didn't notice kicker marks on the side I was working on but if I was able to completely empty this little room I would have certainly checked for it. It just wasn't stretched tight the first time around. It is now.

Did you just run the poles under the beds or move them? I have done it both ways.

 

[highup]

Did you just run the poles under the beds or move them? I have done it both ways.

There was a 5 ft tall entertainment center/cabinet, a heavy loveseat and a couple of end tables that I had to move plus a closet full of comforters and some strange bifold doors that had to be removed and replaced. I wasn't about to move the two small beds because they weren't all that heavy and nothing was underneath them. I slid a section of 2x4 behind the beds and stretched away from those with my tubes. I was able to lift up the front of the beds a few times during the process and the dents from the beds moved almost an inch. The stretching part was actually pretty quick once I got the stuff out of the room and the seam recut and put back together.

 

[Floorist]

There was a 5 ft tall entertainment center/cabinet, a heavy loveseat and a couple of end tables that I had to move plus a closet full of comforters and some strange bifold doors that had to be removed and replaced. I wasn't about to move the two small beds because they weren't all that heavy and nothing was underneath them. I slid a section of 2x4 behind the beds and stretched away from those with my tubes. I was able to lift up the front of the beds a few times during the process and the dents from the beds moved almost an inch. The stretching part was actually pretty quick once I got the stuff out of the room and the seam recut and put back together.

Moving stuff seems to be 90% of the job. The last ten years I did mostly empty rooms.

 

[Tile Tom]

Stingers are still around and being used? I haven't seen one in years.

 

[Floorist]

Stingers are still around and being used? I haven't seen one in years.

I know guys who still use them, I did. When I was doing apts. that were changed every 3-6 months. Why not? I had to change a few that the carpet was destroyed in a month,

 

[highup]

Stingers are still around and being used? I haven't seen one in years.

99% of the local installers use em.
If you mentioned thread or poles, they'd have a glazed look in their eyes.

 

[highup]

Moving stuff seems to be 90% of the job. The last ten years I did mostly empty rooms.

This was an older couple and no way would I tell them everything had to be moved. Besides, Carpet One guarantees the installation for life. If it wrinkles again in 5 years.....
...well I'm hoping I won't be the one doing it.
They never ask me to be cheap or get it done fast to save a buck.
Stopped in today to bill out the two rooms. She had a Christmas cart there for me and the other installers. It had a thank you and a $200 Visa gift card. Thought that was pretty

 

[Floorist]

Baked some peanut butter cookies for the grand kids.

 

[zannej]

I'm glad our stuff hadn't been delivered when we got our carpets put in. Only had a couple of things that needed to be moved but they were heavy. That's probably the only reason why they were still in the house and not stolen by the tenants. When the installer was using a kicker to put carpet up to a built-in shelf, the shelf on the floor popped up. I said "Oh, it's not nailed down" and he said "I'm surprised it's still here".

That's just gross.
I speed tested myself the other day and was mad at my 180mbps down and 90mbps up with my 7ms ping.
How can people even call that the internet? You might as well go get a 56k modem and dial away.

Our landlines are so bad we can't even get dialup. Right now the line is making some horrible buzzing sound. The lines are spliced with the neighbor's lines so badly that we can't even dial in to dialup. Last time we were able to dial in we had 2.9kbs connection and couldn't do jack squat. There aren't even any places in our area that offer dialup anymore.

I have an unlimited plan just so I can watch as many.....porch repair videos as I want!!

And Zan, you can get a piece of glass pretty cheap. That'll be better than the tape man. Do you own or rent?

Own, but all the glass places in town shut down and the price of hiring someone from out of town to come put glass in is more than the price of the glass. Plus, they charge super high prices for glass in this area. It's an old metal window- I think steel or something- that is not easy to remove and replace glass in. Especially since it has some sort of joiner for the frame to join two windows together without having wood in between. I'll have to post pics at some point.

Nobody out here stealing the wifi. As I said: password protected, signal too weak to reach far enough, and all of the devices that ever log in to it are displayed-- nothing unknown. It's my computer, mom's computer, brother's computer, bro's chromebook, 2 laptops, the printer, and the cellphones. I don't let the TVs access the wifi.

Today I cooked for Mom and partially cleaned the toile. Got interrupted because mom had to use the bathroom and then when I was trying again my back gave out on me. I wish they sold longer handled toilet scrubbers. Bending does not work well for me. I need to get more cheap whitening toothpaste because it helps on the rim of the bowl.

 

[C.J.]

My dad’s computer was slow like yours is Z. Turned out he needed a new hard drive cus his computer is old. He had the geek squad come out and rework his computer and now his internet speeds are right where they should be.

 

[Mark Brown]

Zan, I would be willing to run some Cat6A down to you but apparently it is around 4300 Km and with a range of only 100m... we would need a lot of signal boost

I know I am kicking a dead horse here, but I cannot believe that there are people in the 1st world still suffering with such bologna internet. I am not kidding when I say I am upset that I cannot get gigabit internet. No lie. It is because I live out in the sticks and that is that but at least I do not suffer like you do.

I just finished building my 8 year old her first PC. I pulled an old 500GB western digital caviar blue spindle out of cold storage (my shed) to use as her main (only) drive. Well, after chrome took 3.7 seconds to load I told my 8 year old on her birthday that daddy needed to work on her computer and she would not be able to use it for a bit. I sacrificed my 60GB sata III patriot pyro out of my main rig (I didn't need it, I am running raid 0 NVMe M.2 500GB 970 evo's) and proceeded to format and put that bloody spindle drive back where it belongs. As storage

 

[highup]

Baked some peanut butter cookies for the grand kids.

I bought some ice cream for myself. I think you out did me.