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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 4:02 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 4:30 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 4:51 PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 5:01 PM
BRENDA
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: BRENDA: I will keep my fingers crossed that all the repairs go smoothly and I don't have to think about this again. That would be best of all. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Quote: BRENDA: I will keep my fingers crossed that all the repairs go smoothly and I don't have to think about this again.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 5:02 PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 6:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Check the handrail built for the same attic stairs:
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 7:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: At least if I decide to do handrails it's just a straight shot on both staircases, so nothing I'd have to worry about.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 8:54 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: At least if I decide to do handrails it's just a straight shot on both staircases, so nothing I'd have to worry about.He has woodworking tools you don't have which is probably why he chose such a weird design that looks strange to you. I have seen similar overly complex handrails but done with welded stainless steel because, once again, they had the tools to make a weird/complex design showcasing their skills in attaching standard shapes into a unique twisty-turning whole.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:12 PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:59 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:16 PM
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:44 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I know I'm coming in late in the conversation, and I haven't seen the "handrail" video yet, but a few comments on the stairstep
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:50 AM
Quote:It kind of reminded me of a room I renovated in what was a then -100 year old house. What I did was mostly cosmetic - repaired a water- damaged ceiling and mostly stripped the horrible paint jobs that had been done thru the years. The window casings were lumpy- looking, and I dreaded finding rotten, termite eaten junk underneath. Turns out that the lumps were those light nail-in curtain rod holders, but instead of pulling them out someone just bent them over and painted over them. Once I stripped down to the original wood I found pristine, exquisitely detailed casings with still-sharp edges. Also, somebody had painted over ... painted over!!! ... lead crystal and brass doorknobs. What were they thinking?!?! I sanded the floor too, but not a whole lot bc I was going to cover most of it with a rug. It was a bright, hot south-facing room so I painted it sky blue, the ceiling, doors and trim were white, and I laid down an inexpensive blue and gold oriental rug and put up lace curtains. *****
Quote:Anyway, about the video. I noticed he was wearing what looked like an N95. Good for him! Because some time in the past 160 years, it was surely painted with lead paint. And he mostly scraped the paint off instead of sanding, which took it off in larger pieces. BUT. If he intends to live in that house and not get lead poisoning, or have his family not get lead poisoning, unless he already tested and didn't find lead, he should have been MUCH more careful about cleanup, and not just dump the paint chips and let paint dust fly all over. We used to live in a student garden- apartment complex and there was a kid there, every time I saw him I kept thinking "There's some terribly wrong with that kid". Turns out, he had lead poisoning bc the apartments were painted with lead paint, which was chipping away everywhere. Poor kid. I've also read about people renovating old homes who were poisoned with lead. (Also, people poisoned with arsenic working with treated lumber. But that's another story.)
Quote:I really wonder what wood those treads were made of. Definitely not any kind of oak or ash. Not quite like pine sirher. Beech, maybe?
Quote:He has a lot of faith in cyanoacrylate glue! I'm a big fan of JB Weld (epoxy). Speaking of epoxy... that's what he used as filler (auto body) He stained really dark. It hides a multitude of sins! I wonder what stain he used bc it went on really evenly. I've done some staining projects here and there, mostly to try to match repair pieces to original furniture, and some woods are an absolute bear to stain. I'll see if I can catch the name of the product he's using.
Quote:Hubby, who is an advanced non-profesional woodworker himself, thought it was interesting. Our intrepid staircase remodeler certainly has a lot of specialized tools! ****
Quote:SIX, looking at your treads they're either oak or ash, great wood for stair treads. They look great!
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:58 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I know I'm coming in late in the conversation, and I haven't seen the "handrail" video yet, but a few comments on the stairstep The staircase design is a hazard to the health of residents for the next 160 years. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 1:16 PM
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 2:53 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Yep, the design... definitely not to code. We were looking at that. IIRC there is a quick view of another set of stairs going down just as bad. We're so used to the tread/ riser ratio that anything beyond that trips up our automatic tread. But with a house that old it's been designated an historic home, and depending on the building codes there may only be a limited number of things can be done.
Quote:SIX, we lived there a little over a year, just long enough to qualify our capital gains as long term. But it wasn't the building that scared us off, and not our immediate neighbors who were nice as could be. It was the neighborhood past our block that was scary. I enountered a robber in our dining room one early morning, and there was always something going on ... arrest made in front of our house, armed standoff just around the corner, police helicopters overhead 3 nights of the week, snatched purse found under our shrubs. I lived in a some scary neighborhoods before, but this one gave me a short term case of PTSD. We made $$ but it was a hard way of doing it.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 3:42 PM
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 11:30 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Our house was built 1955-ish. I forget the exact date but close enough. Since we moved in 30 years ago (hard to believe!) we had the roof replaced (complete tear-off, stringers replaced with plywood), repiped to copper, replaced most of the windows with top-drawer Andersen's (will be finishing the replacement this year), replaced the HVAC, replaced the drain lines with ABS most recently, and the main drain re-lined up to the curb (not to the saddle, that requires the city getting involved), had all of the floors except kitchen, bathrooms and laundry area) replaced with hardwood, etc. This year we hope to gut the hopeless bathrooms, all exce1pt one have been eyesores since we moved in. Also installed solar which has paid for itself and then some, and an on- demand water heater ("endless hot water"). Some of those fixes were done so long ago, it'll be about time for them to come around again!
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 5:17 PM
Thursday, March 21, 2024 5:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Sounds like progress, SIX! I hope not too much tedium ahead! *****
Quote:I had a big front yard cleanup done, but the guys put so much dirt in the bins they were too heavy for the greenwaste truck. Besides, I don't want to lose that good soul. So I had to call the boss back and helped him rake the weeds out and leave the dirt from two of our three bins plus a 35-gal bin, and letting the weeds dry out today before binning up tomorrow. We'll have to finish next week once two of the bins are emptied next trash day, and we'll have more room to bin up.
Thursday, March 21, 2024 11:30 PM
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Friday, March 22, 2024 1:25 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I think I'm going to just do some paperwork and chores today. I don't really feel like working on those stairs, and it's dark and rainy outside anyhow. They look great in this light... Almost like I don't have to do anything else really. But I would like to get one more coat on there regardless. My old man is dropping by tomorrow on the way back from my brother's place, but I don't think it will be a super long visit. He's usually looking forward to getting back home after that trip. So I don't think that should interfere with my work plans. Ended up hanging out with my friend last night. He dropped by after work. I knew I had a lot to show him since I'm usually going over to his place but he never even saw the finished porch, so I couldn't believe how long it's been. I've really got to set my house up for some entertainment though. I'll never be able to fit a pool table anywhere in my house like his, but I should at least put a media server together with my music or something. Ended up just having a movie playing in the background for noise while we bullshitted. It's too bad it got so freakin' cold again. Once it warms up I'm going to be able to open up those porch windows and have a TV out there with a new cheap soundbar I picked up online. I told him we had to go outside to smoke and it was frigid out there. I'm never going to smoke in that room by myself again, but I'll allow it on occasion when friends are over in good weather when we can have the windows open and I have those two ceiling fans pulling it up and out of the room. I told him if you saw all the yellow shit I had to clean up off the windows and jambs before I painted the new window trim and finished off the room he'd understand. And that was just from one winter of smoking out there before I installed the vents and finished the room off. He was super impressed with all the work though. I really just have to get some of that flood remediation stuff finished and off my mind and then maybe I can focus on getting some worthwhile entertainment for when I have guests over. I'm really easy to please and doing 99% of my entertainment from my all in one computer on my coffee table is just fine with me on any given day. lol... It just occurred to me that my new soundbar is bluetooth and we could have linked up his spotify to it while he was here. I'm so out of touch with "new" technology these days. It's not that I'm not aware it exists, but I don't use it at all so I don't think about it. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Friday, March 22, 2024 2:41 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: It's easy to forget how far you've gotten until someone comes over and you show them everything they missed. I hope being able to show the improvement since "then" gave you a lift bc you should be proud of everything you've done.
Quote:I'm kind of the same way about entertainment. If it wasn't for family I probably wouldn't watch TV, I'd much rather bunny- trail my way thru the internet about topics that interest me, or things I ned to know about, or just read a good book. As it is, the only hardcopy reading I get done is the "women's magazine" I subscribe to, because everything in there is one or two pages long and a quick read. I always play a few solitaire and sudoku games after I wake up and before I go to bed. And, believe it or not, I come here for entertainment. It's always fun to skim the latest DNC/ deep state talking points and it gets my adrenaline going a little bit so I start the day with a bang.
Friday, March 22, 2024 4:12 PM
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Saturday, March 23, 2024 7:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back and done for today. No rain so far. Query letter looked at and now I just have to figure out how to put the middle and end of my book into 4 sentences, then rearrange the letter. After that email it to the poet and let her take a look at it then it will be ready for emailing to the publisher a long with the first 20 pages of my work. I'll do that tomorrow after my walk.
Saturday, March 23, 2024 8:17 AM
Quote:SIGNY: I had a big front yard cleanup done, but the guys put so much dirt in the bins they were too heavy for the greenwaste truck. Besides, I don't want to lose that good soul. So I had to call the boss back and helped him rake the weeds out and leave the dirt from two of our three bins plus a 35-gal bin, and letting the weeds dry out today before binning up tomorrow. We'll have to finish next week once two of the bins are emptied next trash day, and we'll have more room to bin up. SIX: LOL. Give me back my land!
Saturday, March 23, 2024 1:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back and done for today. No rain so far. Query letter looked at and now I just have to figure out how to put the middle and end of my book into 4 sentences, then rearrange the letter. After that email it to the poet and let her take a look at it then it will be ready for emailing to the publisher a long with the first 20 pages of my work. I'll do that tomorrow after my walk. Does each publisher require something a little different? Seems that way! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 4:27 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: At least I know I can safely use a 20 amp to 30 amp adapter and I'll be able to install a 30 amp inlet box now that would allow me to do a less expensive generator upgrade in the future. 30 amps wouldn't power the whole house, but really I don't ever need to do that anyhow. But I know that 30 amps would easily power everything I want and need to power during an outage if my current 20 amp genny isn't up to the task.
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