smallest room in our house so this is our experiment. This was with dust and before the second pass. We are planning on staining it dark to match the rest of our old ass rickety house. What made it look like shit? I'm going in blind and using what I learned as a kid sanding down furniture.Detroit wrote:in4updates
I refinished a section of floor in our last house and it turned out horrible. Lessons learned I guess, curious to hear about your experience.
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I used a belt sander, and had no idea how difficult it is to get the floor sanded evenly with a belt sander. Especially on the first pass with 40, holding a few seconds longer in a spot results in a low spot. Worse, it's really easy to gouge the floor with 40 that you can't get out easily on subsequent lighter grit passes.rockchops wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:21 amsmallest room in our house so this is our experiment. This was with dust and before the second pass. We are planning on staining it dark to match the rest of our old ass rickety house. What made it look like shit? I'm going in blind and using what I learned as a kid sanding down furniture.Detroit wrote: in4updates
I refinished a section of floor in our last house and it turned out horrible. Lessons learned I guess, curious to hear about your experience.
When the wood is natural, it looks amazing. Then you put the first coat of stain on...holy hell.
The stain made all the low spots obvious and darkened the gouges. It looked so bad that I actually started over again using what I learned. The second time was maybe 50% better, but still dealing with the same issues overall.
I think the right solution would have been to rent a floor sander to get the floor even, then use the belt and palm sanders around the edges. Live and learn...but I really don't think I'm going to try floors again.
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:40 pm My guess would be that Chris took some time off because he has read the dialogue on this page 1,345 times and decided to spend some of his free time doing something besides beating a horse to death.
my moms house is likely worse.
She has an entire extra house/loft/apt thing about 1200 sqft of PURE SHIT stacked to ceiling. Many feels. Ive been noaping out of her dumb shit for years now.
Its time listens to his own advice.
She has an entire extra house/loft/apt thing about 1200 sqft of PURE SHIT stacked to ceiling. Many feels. Ive been noaping out of her dumb shit for years now.
Its time listens to his own advice.
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eh, they are way more reasonable than your mom.
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I didn't even know you had a brother. Sorry [user not found].[user not found] wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:56 pm My dad does the same shit.
Garage crammed full of stuff my dad claims he’ll use someday. Basement is packed. Attic is packed. Brothers old bedroom is packed full of stuff and my parents haven’t touched it since he died. My old room, their bedroom, the kitchen, and the family room are really the only rooms that aren’t full of things.
It’s not hoarder level stuff but it kinda is. I’ve tried helping my dad clean out the garage but he packed more stuff back in right after we cleaned it out the last time.
I never want to have to deal with that. Ever. I do mass purges from time to time.
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Got the first wave of "MEGABED" made. Had the truss system all designed and setup and all of the top level ideas beat up enough to where I could build the frame and then revisit it when I had the time.
Top Level: putting our two queen mattresses side by side on a frame with space to put 3-4 pull out drawers on the front, and 2X on the sides. Last 20" will have custom night stands that stack into a vertical cabinet that goes up and spans all the way from the left to the right side with storage, lighting and cat sleeping areas.
One of the mattresses is shorter than the other, and I've got plywood underneath them for now. But the plan is to convert it to slats so it can ventilate, and raise the shorter mattress up. Also I'm going to make the rear pockets accessible thru the top for winter storage and shit that gets pulled out once a year/never. Custom paneling will be made to make it all uniform along with nice trim.
All in due time, but one thing at a time.
Top Level: putting our two queen mattresses side by side on a frame with space to put 3-4 pull out drawers on the front, and 2X on the sides. Last 20" will have custom night stands that stack into a vertical cabinet that goes up and spans all the way from the left to the right side with storage, lighting and cat sleeping areas.
One of the mattresses is shorter than the other, and I've got plywood underneath them for now. But the plan is to convert it to slats so it can ventilate, and raise the shorter mattress up. Also I'm going to make the rear pockets accessible thru the top for winter storage and shit that gets pulled out once a year/never. Custom paneling will be made to make it all uniform along with nice trim.
All in due time, but one thing at a time.
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Many cats that tend to sleep between us, on our heads, on our legs, in us like Tauntauns. Plus the majority of 1 queen sized mattress was taken up by the wife's plethora of body pillows. She removed them for this pic. I'm usually stuck with sleeping like a pencil with zero leg room because that damn dog decides to sleep at my feet and I can't fully stretch out. And we don't need much actual extra space in our master bedroom since all we do in it is sleep. If I could I'd cut the actual bedroom size down and make our bathroom bigger.
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Acid666 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:37 amMany cats that tend to sleep between us, on our heads, on our legs, in us like Tauntauns. Plus the majority of 1 queen sized mattress was taken up by the wife's plethora of body pillows. And we don't need much actual extra space in our master bedroom since all we do in it is sleep. If I could I'd cut the actual bedroom size down and make our bathroom bigger.
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I got mine from Walmart. It's f'n huge and was only $20.
We got 3 because they were so cheap. One's in the kitchen. We might not even need the 3rd one. I'll ask Kendra if she has plans for it. If she doesn't then you can have this one.
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missed this post, very nice!Acid666 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:42 pm Got the first wave of "MEGABED" made. Had the truss system all designed and setup and all of the top level ideas beat up enough to where I could build the frame and then revisit it when I had the time.
Top Level: putting our two queen mattresses side by side on a frame with space to put 3-4 pull out drawers on the front, and 2X on the sides. Last 20" will have custom night stands that stack into a vertical cabinet that goes up and spans all the way from the left to the right side with storage, lighting and cat sleeping areas.
One of the mattresses is shorter than the other, and I've got plywood underneath them for now. But the plan is to convert it to slats so it can ventilate, and raise the shorter mattress up. Also I'm going to make the rear pockets accessible thru the top for winter storage and shit that gets pulled out once a year/never. Custom paneling will be made to make it all uniform along with nice trim.
All in due time, but one thing at a time.
brain go brrrrrr
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Put new toilets in the main bath and powder room over the weekend. The one in the powder room was original to the house in 1989, had a sticker on it bragging about how it only used 3.5 gallons of water per flush. New one uses 1.3 lol
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I still have a 5 GPF toilet that's almost 60 years old. It's glorious. It's tankless, like in a public john, so it's great for parties because you never have to wait for the tank to refill between flushes. I've rebuilt the flushometer (valve thing) and the wax ring was recently replaced to it's probably good for another few decades. No current plans to replace it.