Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

So…..

Are there really no Hockey fans in here??

Nobody mentioned the Canada vs USA game?

We better have a strong third against Sweden right now!!!

Anyways, back to the flooring

So the boss lady likes the hardwood more here too

But for the kitchen and bathroom areas, I’ll take the tile any day!!!

 

[Lee192233]

I replaced a damaged rear frame rail section on a 69 Camaro. Body work is not my wheelhouse but this is a good customer and he really wanted me to do it. Turned out ok for me not being a body man. A grinder is my friend!
Had to cut out the 4 link/coilover subframe. Got it tacked back in place. Need to test fit the rear axle next. Had to cut the brackets off the rear axle, they were installed wrong and the suspension was binding and crushed the RH frame rail.Hopefully will have good progress tomorrow.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Are there really no Hockey fans in here??

What’s a Hockey?

 

[SimonHS]

We had a nasty wind storm come through yesterday evening after a soaking rain. Lots of trees down and I managed to scrounge some birch out of pure curiosity to see how it burns. The lady told me how “rare” and “expensive” it was. I cut what I needed, loaded up, and went on my way……View attachment 1243206View attachment 1243207

It burns well but quickly. Great for getting a fire started before putting slower burning wood on.

 

[farmer steve]

You know, she is a woman…

If you unlock the secret to making them think logically, PLEASE share it with me!!!!

 

[Squareground3691]

Love it! I'm showing this to my wife.

Eventually, I wanted to do radiant floor heat in the whole house. So this could be a good upscale too.

that she is, and a super picky one at that.
I dont think it's possible to figure them out.

Showing these to the wife too.

You guys are life savers.

Yea , no real transition issues here , hardwood flooring threw out upstairs to , and just entry ways with brick, something different, and tile in bathrooms, with no raised areas,

 

[sean donato]

It is way past time to give the **** up and do it exactly how she wants it...

Nope, not giving up yet. I can't help she doesn't understand normal thinking.

 

[JimR]

So, having a minor conundrum with my wife. She hit me with the amount of money I sank into building the shop over the last 2-3 years. I agreed. we decided since the shop is mostly done and functional I should get back to redoing the rest of the house. As part of that, the carpet is shot, and we both have hated it since we bought the place. As of our discussion this weekend, she decided she wants the same flooring in the entire house. Which I'm opposed to, since we just finished my sons room and sank over $1200.00 into the floor of his room. She basically said, she wants no transition steps in the house at all, and wants hardwood floors. I tried to point out, hardwood is great, but not in the bathrooms or kitchen. So there will be a few transition strips/ slight changes in floor height. For whatever reason this made her kick into super stubborn mode, and she said "fine, we won't do anything. If I can't have what I want, in my house then it can stay the way it is."
Im at a bit of a loss at this point as what to suggest. I don't see a way around Having a few transitions in the floors. Heck I'd even be ok leveling up where linoleum should go, vs the hard woods
Any ideas how to get this through to my wife?

Get rid of the transitions in the floor. A good life is a happy wife. Once the floor is done you got it made.

 

[JimR]

Nope, not giving up yet. I can't help she doesn't understand normal thinking.

Again, a happy life is a happy wife. If you do decide to put down underlayment and tiles. Make sure you screw down your underlayment every 4". This keeps the underlayment from warping which will pop your tiles. We hired an old Italian to do our tile flooring in two bathrooms and the laundry room on the 2nd floor. He gave me this information. He also said that he would not do the job if I didn't screw them down like he requested. We had this work done in 1993 when we added on a 2nd floor to our original ranch house. We have not had any issues with his tile work.

 

[JimR]

What’s a Hockey?

Puck

 

[EchovsStihl63]

My wife is a sucker for the original features of our 1880 something house so I got lucky on the floors and I just have to sand and refinish. Most of them are quarter sawn heart pine.

Where I don't get lucky is when I have to strip 15 layers of paint off of something.....

 

[svk]

Since my health has gone to crap and I moved into town I haven't been cutting or burning wood for almost two years now.
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Well that doesn't mean you can't come around here and talk about the old days! Have you talked to @olyman at all? I sent him an email a while back and never heard back.

You know, she is a woman…

If you unlock the secret to making them think logically, PLEASE share it with me!!!!

I had to laugh, this feed erupted for like 3 pages of suggestions in 24 hours when it comes to how to deal with women and most of us are divorced LOLOL.

Seriously though the female thought process is so different. My gf (of now 13 months) is very level headed and had been married for 20 years to a guy who was more or less a little B. She never acts like a typical stubborn woman but occasionally will get grumpy if I forget to thank her for something or don't provide a complement when she dresses up. Easy enough for me to fix.

Some pics from inside

I’ll text him now

He had the inside finished and paintedView attachment 1243243View attachment 1243244

That's an awesome shop. I briefly had enough coin outside retirement accounts to do a shop but the ex solved that issue for me. My retirement house will either be a barndominium or a tiny house (with a nice shop) but that is several years out yet.

 

[sean donato]

Again, a happy life is a happy wife. If you do decide to put down underlayment and tiles. Make sure you screw down your underlayment every 4". This keeps the underlayment from warping which will pop your tiles. We hired an old Italian to do our tile flooring in two bathrooms and the laundry room on the 2nd floor. He gave me this information. He also said that he would not do the job if I didn't screw them down like he requested. We had this work done in 1993 when we added on a 2nd floor to our original ranch house. We have not had any issues with his tile work.

sounds like sage advice. Wonder how he felt about poured self leveling courses.

 

[sean donato]

Well I made some progress with her last evening, she still isn't budging off the same floor in entire house concept. She did agree to get the new flooring, but hold off on installing it till the ceiling is de popcorned, the bay windows and 2 dining room windows are replaced and all the drywall is finished/ painted. We agreed to rip out the breakfast nook too, which will free up a lot of unused space. She started in on the kitchen too, but I'm not seeing how thays feasible right now. Really it's would just be counters and counter tops, all the appliances save the fridge have been replaced in the past 5 ish years. Just more work and money i guess. I'll probably try to farm out the cabinets. She wants live edge counter tops, i can handle making them and coating them with resin.

 

[farmer steve]

A little off (current) topics . For @London Neil @Cowboy254.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

When I saw what Hobby Lobby wanted for basswood cookies/slabs in their stores I thought of all the basswood I had hauled off as OWB/bonfire wood in the past, or just left for "someday" since I had plenty of other wood to scavenge.

 

[Haywire]

A little off (current) topics .
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That scrounging crap has no business cluttering up the home remodeling thread. No pics of hardwood are allowed unless it's in the form of "flooring". Get it out of here.

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

3 years is good here

Will have to say I did go over 4 years on a battery on my 2nd truck, usually here in WI about 3-4 years is the life expectancy on a battery. Bought a 93 Dakota in 2006 that had Wal-Mart's brand battery Optima "power cell" battery in it (it said on the label "Made by Optima for Wal-Mart"). It was 2 years old when I got the truck, it was still in it when I sold truck in early 2011 to a friend who then went another year before he replaced it.