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Thread: Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
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09-09-2022, 11:53 AM #7301
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09-09-2022, 12:02 PM #7302
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09-09-2022, 03:59 PM #7303
Remote in an STR is guaranteed to get lost.
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09-09-2022, 04:04 PM #7304
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09-09-2022, 04:23 PM #7305
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09-13-2022, 06:53 AM #7306
Renovating a rental apartment and am fully down the floating shelf rabbit hole. Not really wanting to spend 100's on brackets/routing templates/drill guides etc.
Who's got a cool looking affordable shelf solution?
The span will be 60", planning for 10" deep shelves. I have 2 x6" blocking in the center 32" of the space and in the side walls for cleats.
Am I asking for trouble doing a solid piece of hardwood as opposed to several pieces glued up? The guy at one of the local hardwood stores warned of warping if I do a solid piece.
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09-13-2022, 07:40 AM #7307
I did floating kitchen shelves for some clients during a home build. Used 3 1/2" steel rods inserted into the 2x4 wall studs. 3 1/2" deep hole to avoid pushing through the powder room rock and 7" deep bore into 2" thick live edge pine.
Doing some additional work there this summer and after 8 years the shelves are happy with their loads of plates/bowls/glasses ect.
If properly dried and sealed I wouldn't think a hardwood shelf would warp.www.apriliaforum.com
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09-13-2022, 07:54 AM #7308yelgatgab
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Someday, if it ever dries, I’m gonna treat this effing fence. Meantime, it occurs to me that my HVLP sprayer will get tedious to continually refill, and I’ve had enough past projects that would have benefited from a paint sprayer, that I’m considering biting the bullet.
Its first job will be spraying stain on a fence, but it will also be used to spray brick on a house, interior walls, furniture, and possibly metal items. What should I be looking for? Can a single sprayer handle all that? If not, what’s going to be the most versatile that can handle the impending projects?Last edited by bagtagley; 09-13-2022 at 01:14 PM.
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09-13-2022, 08:25 AM #7309one of those sickos
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Is it going between side walls? If so, it's not actually a floating shelf--it's just a shelf. A 60"x10"x 5/4 piece of hardwood will span that with only a minimal support in the middle in case they put 100# on it. For the ends, the easiest thing will be to put short sections of angle iron on the side walls, then groove (leave the front edge intact, obviously) the sides of the shelf so it can slide over them. If the top of the shelf is too high to see a ghetto way is to just pocket screw it to the studs. Set the jig so that the screws go through lots of meat, or just freehand the drilling from the bottom corner up to the top face.
For true floating shelves I use the now-cheap solid posts welded to flat brackets that screw to studs. They are available with 1/2" posts (plenty) or 3/4" posts (overkill). I used to weld my own but Bezos made that unnecessary. If the shelf is boxed, I just slide it over the posts. If it's solid, drill for them.
A thick piece of wood won't warp further after it's conditioned to the space, but that will take a while, depending on the local humidity etc.ride bikes, climb, ski, travel, cook, work to fund former, repeat.
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09-14-2022, 05:03 PM #7310Nothing happens now
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Asking for some painting advice.
Looks board and batten siding but I guess you would call it plywood and batten (?) Anyways, from the 70’s and looks kind of like this.
Wood is about in perfect shape, and it looks like the ¾” plywood has some kind of factory painted vapor barrier (?) Previous owner did not paint battens to plywood like this.
It would be easer to just paint but I’m guessing it will crack at all the seams and possibly be hard to remove if we change siding down the road if the boards are painted to the plywood.
Pull battens (easy) and then paint plywood and removed battens and then tack back up?So the world is filled with tubular entities. Food goes in one end and shit comes out the other. Sperm goes in and babies come out.
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09-14-2022, 06:20 PM #7311
Paint it as is.
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09-15-2022, 07:26 AM #7312Registered User
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This coming spring i will be installing an irrigation system for my backyard. 3 zones- veggie garden, perimeter landscaping, and lawn sprinklers. It will all run around the perimeter of the yard in the same trench. I have a pretty good idea of what i will use and how i will install.
I would also like to put in landscape lighting, or at least conduit for the power at this time while i have that trench open. Does anyone have any suggestions for dead-simple DIY modular landscape lighting kits?
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09-15-2022, 07:37 AM #7313
You need:
an exterior power outlet,
plug in transformer (60watt works well for LEDs)
Single low voltage wire
Sealed connectors (like a wire nut but filled with gel to keep it water proof)
And your light fixtures. (13watt LED?)
You don’t need conduit (though that does protect the wire better). Wire can just be buried shallowly.
A Kichler 60watt xfmr can handle a bunch of low power LEDs. Just add up the power reqts per fixture. As long as you’re within 100 wire feet of the xfmr, you are good
Talk to your local landscape hardware supply house. they are a good resource.
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09-15-2022, 07:45 AM #7314
Yes. Holy fuck what a waste of time to pull all the battens. Otoh if it is stained just stain it again with a solid color stain. Way easier.
On landscape light the safest way is to put wired on the lawn. Just stab a half moon edger and wiggle it to make a gash. It’s not going to get whacked by any gardening. Or, put it at the very back of the garden bed. I hate digging and finding low voltage wire that I cut.
Think about where you want a transformer. High voltage to there, which could go in the trench as long as you use conduit. Ironically plastic conduit needs to be deep. Metal conduit can be shallow. Off the top of my head it’s 18” for metal. 24” for no conduit UF bare wire.
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09-15-2022, 09:16 AM #7315
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09-15-2022, 09:48 AM #7316
Do it.
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09-15-2022, 10:38 AM #7317
Yeah, I mentioned that a couple pages ago regarding any kind of cup gun. Too much dikin around refilling your cup. Plus, they put material out too slow.
Airless is probably the most versatile sprayer. Spray a wider array of product w/out having to reduce it(not always the case even w/ airless).
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09-15-2022, 11:13 AM #7318one of those sickos
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09-16-2022, 10:52 AM #7320
Anyone have experience sealing their house? I’m looking to significantly reduce outside air intrusion primarily for when it is smokey but also for efficiency. I have a 3 year old who has mild asthma, I have mild asthma, and it bugs both of us. I currently have about 6 air purifiers running but on the worst days out indoor AQI sensor said it was 200+ (outside was 1500).
House has a ventilated crawl space and ventilated attic. Also has a louvered whole house fan (these three things kinda makes me think I might be pissing into the wind). I’m debating between the DIY of turning on the WHF and walking around feeling for air intrusion and fixing with weather striping, caulk, great stuff, etc. vs hiring a contractor.
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09-16-2022, 10:58 AM #7321
FLIR camera on a cold day will find those intrusion points in a snap.
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09-16-2022, 10:59 AM #7322
Your AQI sensor is off.
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09-16-2022, 11:07 AM #7323Registered User
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We had our attic floor sealed with expanding foam insulation and it made a big difference. I don't know why it would be an issue to seal the interface between your living space and the attic/crawlspace while still leaving those areas ventilated. The louvered whole house fan seems like a problem though. I'm just a dentist, but seems like you'd need to block that off during times of bad AQI. Is there a single large exhaust into the attic for the whole house fan?
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09-16-2022, 11:12 AM #7324
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09-16-2022, 11:41 AM #7325Registered User
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We had 150 outside for a few days earlier this week and it sucked. We were using N95s just to walk the dog for 15 minutes. So 200 inside sounded pretty crappy, AQI sensor being off makes more sense.
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