Wow.

Advice comes with free hooker.

Yeah, this.

Ladders.

Hey Fred whatever. There just aren’t plumbers or electricians here. Period.

Dang! I get these museums all mixed up.

Agree. I am just hoping shit doesn’t go south, (or I get a tiny, can’t find it leak), in the next year or 2 at my house.
Also, that Caillebotte floor scrapers painting is a favorite of mine, as I...

When we did the remodel and put in the Rinnai, the house was going to be a part-time place, so it made sense. Also, we have a solar system, and the idea was the Rinnai would be the fill-in. We’re...

Our Rinnai gas tankless has worked great for the ~13 years we’ve had it. Why are they bad?


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For the last 10 years or so, we’ve put buckets in the showers.
Direct the shower into the bucket while it warms, and use this water around the house. It takes us about 3 showers to fill, and we use...

A while back I asked about removing and reducing a mantel, and you guys were really helpful, thanks.
How it looked, (we wanted to lower the tv):
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Mantel mostly demolished:
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How...

I have 20 of these:
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On 2 of the fixtures the bulb doesn't make constant contact so the fixture flickers. I've stuck a screwdriver in there and tried to bend the contacts to a better shape,...

Spray foam the shit out of any tiny gap and call it good.

3 patterns on one small wall is 2 too many for me SFB. Nice stonework though.

Ain’t possible for me, and I’m regular.
Nicely done Bandini.

I found an extra fireplace grate when I tore out a mantel.
I was thinking of a new thread where we post crap we've found during remodels.

Yup, that’s right below the coffee table between 2 couches. Perfectly placed, really.

It’s because of this thread (I think), that I decided to have somebody else to do the refinishing of the floor. It really is completely different how beautiful it looks, and we don’t want to put...

We left while this was being done and I was 5 miles down the road and I said “Shit, I forgot to take a before shot.” Anyway, here’s a pic from near the wood stove. It was much a more uniform darker...

Home remodel: Do: floor refinishing
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Hey Art, those are your drink-right-aways? Drink the Quilceda Creek tonight.

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^^^ This is a good idea, otherwise I would just find some matching wood in half by half or something and glue it in, just so the bottles don’t roll out.

JFC, that's ugly and obnoxious. It's like what you'd see in a college town rental house. Needs a beat up couch.

So...related to this, our last 2 homes were both sold recently, (my daughter is feeling nostalgic and Zillow surfing), and in both cases the people we sold to did abso-fucking-lutely nothing to...

One of our local bakeries has a countertop made of concrete by a local guy. In the front of that countertop, facing customers, is their logo molded into the concrete.

It's a Lennox 3328 direct vent gas insert fireplace. Basically the closer the mantel gets to the FP, the smaller it needs to be, (if it's combustable, which this one is, of course). Thanks for the...

Lots of support behind the drywall, so that won't be the problem. I need to research the fireplace per ::: :::'s suggestion, and maybe a combo of mantel-dismantle and lowering device.

Dang, I didn't know that existed. When I bought the swivel mount that's there now, I don't think it did. I'm not sure it would go around the mantel top that sticks out about 11". Great idea, will...

It generates heat, and does a surprisingly good job of it, (for Seattle area climate). Otherwise I completely agree, and it'd be gone. Unfortunately this is a smallish place/space and above the...

Ah, thanks, will do. Maybe the 2 boxes are there for that reason.



The upper, bigger box is 10" square, and those 45's are aesthetic. Bolting that board to the beams behind will be easy, as I...

Hello experts.
OK, we're tired of looking up at the TV which is 4'4" off the floor. I found out the mantel is purely cosmetic. I don't want to go crazy, pus I'd like it to match other things in...

My daughter got a splinter from our never maintained perfect 2X4 deck, and so there was a call from the ladies section of the household to seal the deck. I said: "Pick up your feet when you walk." ...

I was going to add that if the threads on the screws are just spinning, you can use a needle nose pliers and grab the screw and pull and turn, and it’ll sometimes engage the thread and then you can...

It may be finished, but it's still a basement. Maybe put all the holds on a plywood wall that is bolted in such a way to the existing wall so that it could be removed in the future, (with minimal...

We basically have AdironRider’s system but with the addition of a couple solar panels and a heat exchanger, with propane to the instant on heater. We will probably never get rid of a woodstove...

Could be structural. We had a post like that and moved it during remodel. We added extra support members above and below, and now it doesn’t line up with the roofline.
It’d be nice to chat with...