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I've bent so many sawsall blades trying to get into tight places, the oscillating blade saves a lot frustration and does a cleaner job.
What kind of cordless planer? The only planer I have is a 20" grizzly - just ordered some carbide knives, tired of the quickly dulled HHS knives planing hardwoods..
What kind of cordless planer? The only planer I have is a 20" grizzly - just ordered some carbide knives, tired of the quickly dulled HHS knives planing hardwoods..
The bar top I mentioned:
https://www.goldismoney2.com/threads/workin-man.117461/page-61#post-1451241
https://www.goldismoney2.com/threads/workin-man.117461/page-61#post-1451241
Beautiful work! You're certainly a better bricklayer than I am.
Was that your first concrete countertop? How did it fare overall it looks excellent. I still need to do countertops in my kitchen and have been back and forth debating all sorts of various materials. They're either time-consuming expensive or crap!
Was that your first concrete countertop? How did it fare overall it looks excellent. I still need to do countertops in my kitchen and have been back and forth debating all sorts of various materials. They're either time-consuming expensive or crap!
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Yes, 1st concrete counter top. The forming was pretty straight forward, used melamine sheets for the forming material and braced the crap out of it - plus lot of steel in the forms. Used 5500 psi concrete and charcoal dye, wet sanded with diamond pads using an old random orbital plugged into GFCI outlet with a 5 gallon bucket of water and a sponge - made a hell of a mess. Sealed the concrete with oil based sealer. Carnauba wax final topcoat (not done in pic).
I've done a couple of other smaller counter tops outside and carried in to install, much cleaner. The bar is several thousand pounds so moving wasn't an option.
Concrete is a pretty inexpensive method, but labor intensive with the polishing.
Brick laying is not bad, with a string line and guideposts it can look like a pro did it (sorta), but a slow pro.
edit to add: If you do counter tops in the forms and place them, it is better all around, if it isn't too heavy. Using melamine in the bottom of the form (silicon all the seams in forms so there are no sharp edges) will make a very smooth top and it will be much easier to wet sand and polish. The top that you trowel will be on the bottom and you don't need to do anything with it, but if you cast in place, you have to grind down the troweled surface with very coarse grit diamond pads and it will beat you up on a big top.
I've done a couple of other smaller counter tops outside and carried in to install, much cleaner. The bar is several thousand pounds so moving wasn't an option.
Concrete is a pretty inexpensive method, but labor intensive with the polishing.
Brick laying is not bad, with a string line and guideposts it can look like a pro did it (sorta), but a slow pro.
edit to add: If you do counter tops in the forms and place them, it is better all around, if it isn't too heavy. Using melamine in the bottom of the form (silicon all the seams in forms so there are no sharp edges) will make a very smooth top and it will be much easier to wet sand and polish. The top that you trowel will be on the bottom and you don't need to do anything with it, but if you cast in place, you have to grind down the troweled surface with very coarse grit diamond pads and it will beat you up on a big top.
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Two layers of corbels, one layer of brick, all part of the plan. Lots of concrete ties embedded in the courses. The brick wall behind is tied to 12" concrete block, layer of foil foam board between. All the ties had to be secured with concrete screws into the block (pre-drill everyone - pita, 100's in the wall). All the hidden shit.
Old deck...all sorts of phuckery going on here. Deck boards are almost exclusively 2 by 6 but then on this one landing they suddenly change to five quarter...
Homeowner had rainwater catchment system put below deck but the wall is still getting covered with water. Drilled holes right at the curse of the new board I put down to settle that problem.
This Landing dive down into directions and I think the reason they did it was to keep the riser heights similar. Never seen anything like it before.
Homeowner had rainwater catchment system put below deck but the wall is still getting covered with water. Drilled holes right at the curse of the new board I put down to settle that problem.
This Landing dive down into directions and I think the reason they did it was to keep the riser heights similar. Never seen anything like it before.
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Just checking superheat and subcooling to get the correct charge. He has the newfangled gauges that do all the work for you. I use old gauges and a Pressure temperature chart.
I shoot for a little higher superheat than most 15-18 degrees on 410A, that way you have no chance of liquid hitting the compressor and washing out the oil. Don't have to get too fussy on a residential system. Looks like a nice unit. If its running high head pressure it would be because its boxed in, again most likely will not be an issue, but you will want to make sure that coil is always clean as can be and not full of cottonwood.
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Crazyness....
We used Behr Premium Ultra Paint & primer in one on the ceiling and walls. The sheen was flat but once painted there was an obvious sheen. The paint guy says that they've been having problems with this particular product doing that same thing. So they gave us some new paint and we used "dead flat" on the ceiling.
Meanwhile there were some pretty hefty interpersonal conflicts taking place today. Added to that was the plumber having messed up by not installing gas for the range. Meanwhile he did this:
Then as we were wrapping up today there was a water leak by the new toilet. It was a manic Monday for sure. There was something in the air today. I hope it blows by before tomorrow!
We used Behr Premium Ultra Paint & primer in one on the ceiling and walls. The sheen was flat but once painted there was an obvious sheen. The paint guy says that they've been having problems with this particular product doing that same thing. So they gave us some new paint and we used "dead flat" on the ceiling.
Meanwhile there were some pretty hefty interpersonal conflicts taking place today. Added to that was the plumber having messed up by not installing gas for the range. Meanwhile he did this:
Then as we were wrapping up today there was a water leak by the new toilet. It was a manic Monday for sure. There was something in the air today. I hope it blows by before tomorrow!
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Crazyness....
We used Behr Premium Ultra Paint & primer in one on the ceiling and walls. The sheen was flat but once painted there was an obvious sheen. The paint guy says that they've been having problems with this particular product doing that same thing. So they gave us some new paint and we used "dead flat" on the ceiling.
Meanwhile there were some pretty hefty interpersonal conflicts taking place today. Added to that was the plumber having messed up by not installing gas for the range. Meanwhile he did this:
Then as we were wrapping up today there was a water leak by the new toilet. It was a manic Monday for sure. There was something in the air today. I hope it blows by before tomorrow!
We used Behr Premium Ultra Paint & primer in one on the ceiling and walls. The sheen was flat but once painted there was an obvious sheen. The paint guy says that they've been having problems with this particular product doing that same thing. So they gave us some new paint and we used "dead flat" on the ceiling.
Meanwhile there were some pretty hefty interpersonal conflicts taking place today. Added to that was the plumber having messed up by not installing gas for the range. Meanwhile he did this:
Then as we were wrapping up today there was a water leak by the new toilet. It was a manic Monday for sure. There was something in the air today. I hope it blows by before tomorrow!
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That's fantastic! No matter how smooth you finish the wet concrete, it still takes a massive effort to polish it. I'll bet you had slurry everywhere, lol. I've done lots of things I'm not sure I would do again - both feet and no looking back!
Did you have Changs book back then? I think I bought it around that time, lent it out and never got it back.
Did you have Changs book back then? I think I bought it around that time, lent it out and never got it back.
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Couple weeks ago I performed a fatal flaw... Stretching my tape measure beyond its tipping point and ruined it. It was a 25-foot FatMax. The other day my carpenter and I were at Home Cheapo and we found one package of two fat Max's for twenty bucks, which is half price, so I bought them and gave him one and now we're both happy again. Last year I broke his FatMax and bought him a cheaper replacement so a good time to pay him back. They claim the stand out on these new ones is 14 ft.... We determined the only way that's possible is if you have at least a 6-foot wingspan and hold your arm out on the extended part of the tape as far out as you can. My favorite tape measure though for sure. I've had a bunch of FatMax products and I've been happy with all of them.
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