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rockchops wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:07 pm peeled up our carpets and I'm attempting to do all the refinishing on my own. This is after a cursory 40 grit pass. Floors look brand new once the 70 years of dirt, stain, paint and grime are sanded off!
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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.
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. :notsure:
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rockchops wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:21 am
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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.
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. :notsure:
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.

When the wood is natural, it looks :mindblown: 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.
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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 :fax: listens to his own advice.

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dubshow wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:07 pm 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 :fax: listens to his own advice.

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eh, they are way more reasonable than your mom.
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[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.

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Why such a ginormous bed?
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Apex wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:06 am Why such a ginormous bed?
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 am
Apex wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:06 am Why such a ginormous bed?
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. 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 need a dry erase board for my garage.
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Melon wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:43 am I need a dry erase board for my garage.
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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Acid666 wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:48 am
Melon wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:43 am I need a dry erase board for my garage.
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.
Nice man, thanks.
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Melon wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:43 am I need a dry erase board for my garage.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw that post.
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Melon wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:43 am I need a dry erase board for my garage.
I used to have this. Need to get another.
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Found a quartz that we think will go with white shaker cabinets. Looks :notbad: and $700 under budget.ImageImageImage
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Tarspin wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:38 pm Found a quartz that we think will go with white shaker cabinets. Looks :notbad: and $700 under budget.ImageImageImage
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:wap: Where are these mangos?
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Tarspin wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:38 pm Found a quartz that we think will go with white shaker cabinets. Looks :notbad: and $700 under budget.ImageImageImage
Where exactly is this going?
We did our backsplash similar to this and we love it.
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Tarspin wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:38 pm Found a quartz that we think will go with white shaker cabinets. Looks :notbad: and $700 under budget.ImageImageImage
Where exactly is this going?
We did our backsplash similar to this and we love it.
Kitchen countertops. Backsplash tile will be this with a medium gray groutImage
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:wap: Where are these mangos?
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wap wrote::megusta:
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I'm very pleased with today's finds. This reno should turn out 5/7
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Tarspin wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 5:24 pm
wap wrote::megusta:
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I'm very pleased with today's finds. This reno should turn out 5/7
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:wap: Where are these mangos?
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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.

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missed this post, very nice!
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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. :troywax: 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.
:wap: Where are these mangos?
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