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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed March 16, 2016 7:35 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Installing toilets and painting. Those are my jam.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed March 16, 2016 9:56 pm
by bodysnatcher
Destroying toilets and panting. Those are my jam.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed March 16, 2016 11:13 pm
by Monkey_Driven
bodysnatcher wrote:Destroying toilets and panting. Those are my jam.
We can never be in the same room.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri March 18, 2016 3:25 am
by Leatherhead
The early years were best. But really, this show was pretty good all the way up to the end. JTT never should've left, did he do anything after he left? Growing up I almost thought of the Taylor's as a part of my family. Kinda funny that this was the start of Pamela Anderson's career and that they got a Playboy Playmate as a recurring character on a family friendly sitcom.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 5:21 pm
by Bammer
Leatherhead wrote:The early years were best. But really, this show was pretty good all the way up to the end. JTT never should've left, did he do anything after he left? Growing up I almost thought of the Taylor's as a part of my family. Kinda funny that this was the start of Pamela Anderson's career and that they got a Playboy Playmate as a recurring character on a family friendly sitcom.
No mention of Al?

GTFOH

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun April 10, 2016 2:20 pm
by Bammer
Building a new fence with my neighbor. Digging out the old concrete footers and leveling out the ground (competing with massive tree roots) is absolutely back breaking. This sucks.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri July 29, 2016 3:32 am
by LetMeSleep
In the last week I've painted the bathroom walls and ceiling, painted the porch, painted our dining room, washed the exterior of the house and done up the garden and edging.

Still lots to do.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri July 29, 2016 4:14 pm
by Monkey_Driven
LetMeSleep wrote:In the last week I've painted the bathroom walls and ceiling, painted the porch, painted our dining room, washed the exterior of the house and done up the garden and edging.

Still lots to do.
Painting is so easy and makes such a big difference.

We are currently getting bids to reside the house. Lots of money.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri July 29, 2016 9:49 pm
by LetMeSleep
Monkey_Driven wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote:In the last week I've painted the bathroom walls and ceiling, painted the porch, painted our dining room, washed the exterior of the house and done up the garden and edging.

Still lots to do.
Painting is so easy and makes such a big difference.

We are currently getting bids to reside the house. Lots of money.
And once you get started its almost enjoyable.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri July 29, 2016 10:17 pm
by swan
LetMeSleep wrote:In the last week I've painted the bathroom walls and ceiling, painted the porch, painted our dining room, washed the exterior of the house and done up the garden and edging.

Still lots to do.

Assuming you used a pressure washer, do you know what PSI you had it set at for washing the siding? I'm about to embark on that with the place we just closed on.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat July 30, 2016 12:49 am
by Monkey_Driven
LetMeSleep wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote:In the last week I've painted the bathroom walls and ceiling, painted the porch, painted our dining room, washed the exterior of the house and done up the garden and edging.

Still lots to do.
Painting is so easy and makes such a big difference.

We are currently getting bids to reside the house. Lots of money.
And once you get started its almost enjoyable.
Yeah, it can be therapeutic.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat July 30, 2016 11:10 am
by LetMeSleep
swan wrote:
LetMeSleep wrote:In the last week I've painted the bathroom walls and ceiling, painted the porch, painted our dining room, washed the exterior of the house and done up the garden and edging.

Still lots to do.

Assuming you used a pressure washer, do you know what PSI you had it set at for washing the siding? I'm about to embark on that with the place we just closed on.
No the painting on our place ( exterior and interior) was quite shoddy and thinly painted. I'm using a soft interior broom and a gentle washing up detergent.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat July 30, 2016 10:53 pm
by LetMeSleep
That awesome feeling when you find a small person drawing on the wall you painted 2 nights ago.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun July 31, 2016 9:37 pm
by Self
LetMeSleep wrote:That awesome feeling when you find a small person drawing on the wall you painted 2 nights ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Rust-Oleum-20654 ... oard+paint

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue August 02, 2016 8:08 am
by LetMeSleep
My neck may never recover from painting my deck's beams. Still more to go but FML. Looking great though.

My to do list seems to be expanding.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue August 02, 2016 8:11 am
by bodysnatcher
LetMeSleep wrote:That awesome feeling when you find a small person drawing on the wall you painted 2 nights ago.
that sucks, but thanks for using the politically correct term. small people get all kinds of disrespect on the internet.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue August 02, 2016 4:26 pm
by hlniv
Anyone have any experience with putting in hardwood floors. We want to take out the carpet in a couple rooms and the vinyl in our kitchen and hardwood the whole thing.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue August 02, 2016 4:34 pm
by doug rr
hlniv wrote:Anyone have any experience with putting in hardwood floors. We want to take out the carpet in a couple rooms and the vinyl in our kitchen and hardwood the whole thing.
yep, call someone who does it for a living..

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue August 02, 2016 4:39 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue August 02, 2016 5:58 pm
by hlniv
tragabigzanda wrote:
doug rr wrote:
hlniv wrote:Anyone have any experience with putting in hardwood floors. We want to take out the carpet in a couple rooms and the vinyl in our kitchen and hardwood the whole thing.
yep, call someone who does it for a living..
:thumbsup: Unless you're exceptionally handy, I agree with this. Though you could probably take our the carpet and vinyl yourself to save some dough. I consider myself a fairly handy person, and hardwood floors are not something I would tackle without having done it once or twice under someone else's supervision.
Yeah, definitely not doing it myself. Could probably do the tear out myself, though.

There are so many choices, engineered vs. solid, type of wood, grain variation, finish, etc.... I see this getting complicated for the wife to decide on the details. And no way she lets me pick those things...