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Thread: Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
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07-31-2021, 11:08 AM #4401Registered User
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07-31-2021, 11:19 AM #4402Banned
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Quartz?
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07-31-2021, 11:26 AM #4403Registered User
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07-31-2021, 11:59 AM #4404
45 degrees at the corners will not have an expansion problem. Both pieces move the same way. OTOH butt joints move differently--the wood doesn't move lengthwise, only crosswise. Regardless of how the joint is done you should allow for expansion by attaching with screws through slotted holes. Cut the pieces a little wide so you can scribe to the wall if the walls aren't perfect 90 degrees--you could wind up with gaps too big to be covered by your backsplash. I would leave the corner edges as endgrain. If you do edge band I'd do a beveled undercut of the butcher block and bevel the top of the banding so the top edge of the band doesn't show. It will be hard to do right.
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08-01-2021, 06:11 PM #4405
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08-01-2021, 06:26 PM #4406
Critters and sun love to eat that shit. 3 years is a pretty good life span.
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08-01-2021, 09:17 PM #4407
^^ nice river rock
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08-02-2021, 06:48 AM #4408
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 the water for watering the flowers or compost.
Super easy, efficient “recycling”. Everyone should do this.Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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08-02-2021, 07:40 AM #4409
I am doing a light use 20'x3' walkway with brick pavers. Dug out 6-7" down...and assuming I need a rock base followed by paver base followed by 1" sand. What did you use for rock base? "Crushed rock"? Gravel? I can get 2yds crushed rock (1/4"-1/2*) dumped from the local yard for $110/
Also where did you get the paver base (not level sand base -step 2)? Being a city dweller all I know of is Home Depot/Lowes and complains of the quality (too many rocks) for their "step 1" base.
I ask because DIY utube stuff is all over the place and vague.
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08-02-2021, 08:07 AM #4410
Landscape supply yard.
Landscape fabric/road base/paver sand/pavers
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08-02-2021, 08:20 AM #4411
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08-02-2021, 08:26 AM #4412
Road base is crushed rock(locks together when compacted)
Place near me calls it construction gravel. Probably 3/4 minus or 1/2
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08-02-2021, 08:30 AM #4413
Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
“Three quarter minus” = 3/4” crushed rock and smaller, including fines [gravel +dust essentially]
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08-02-2021, 08:33 AM #4414
^^^Yep
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08-02-2021, 08:38 AM #4415
Prism grout is the bomb. My friend who is a high end tile guy recommended it and he won’t use anything else. I don’t know about the other shit though.
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08-02-2021, 08:51 AM #4417Registered User
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08-02-2021, 09:05 AM #4418
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08-02-2021, 09:11 AM #4419
Too bad you’re not near me (I assume). Last week I got 5 yards of gray crushed granite fines delivered for some flagstone work. Then it rained. Turns out the gray was just rock dust. They actually delivered mixed crushed granite - gray/red/assorted.
Calling this morning to see if they will come get it and give us the right stuff. Not hopeful. You coulda taken a yard of it and helped me out.
Also, this sucks. 5 yards of this stuff is like 6 tons.
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08-02-2021, 09:17 AM #4420
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08-02-2021, 09:24 AM #4421
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08-02-2021, 09:57 AM #4422
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08-02-2021, 10:06 AM #4423
Lots to consider here. What is your native soil like? Were you going to put a fabric under your base material? What about between the base and the sand? How much rain do you get? Does it need to be permeable?
And for the record: 3/4" crush is a spec material with most everything being 1/2"-3/4" in size and only a minimal amount of dust and fines the were stuck on it. Drains very well and is a suitable base in the right application. 1/2" Class 2 road base is a product that contains rock, sand, and fines and binds tightly. Does not drain well and is a great base in the right application. 3/8" pea gravel drains well and is not the best base material but it has its places where it shines.Wait, how can we trust this guy^^^ He's clearly not DJSapp
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08-02-2021, 10:25 AM #4424
By me everyone uses the following, and I've built paver walks with 1/2-1 crushed bluestone, stone dust, then sand. Make sure you rent a compactor, and pack it down between each layer. I would never use anything like pea gravel as a base. Its round and acts like ball bearings.
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08-02-2021, 10:36 AM #4425Registered User
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Curious to hear people's thoughts about this - when we did our paver patio, we were ordering 3/4 minus and sand and the landscape supply company where we were buying the material said "don't bother with the sand, in a few years it filters down through the gravel, we see it happen all the time." They told us to just get the 3/4 minus as smooth as possible with a compactor. I didn't think they'd steer us wrong in order to sell us less material, so we took their advice. It worked OK - we were using large 2' x 2' pavers with gaps in between for groundcover, so less sensitive to small height differences than small pavers laid without gaps, but it was a huge pain in the ass to get things reasonably level. What's up with this one yard giving different advice than the whole Internet?
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