@auujay You should wear thick heavy duty nitrile gloves when working with tile. You'll go through about a box of gloves, but $10 is not much to pay for not bleeding.
Precisely. I got the tip from a tile board. The guys swear by the purple or black really thick ones. The ones I got at CVS didn't work as well, but I just had to change them frequently.
And I mean disposable nurse's style nitrile gloves, btw.
the spacing between my large tiles is 1/16" so I need to use unsanded, but the smaller square tile in the strip are larger than 1/8" (my 1/8" spacers wiggle around between them)
It actually doesn't matter as much as you think it does.
Your real concern should be, "How much is my wife going to kill me when she tries to clean the shower or countertop that has sanded grout on it and it chews up the sponge?"
Yes and no ... I had no problems the couple of times i used it, but wasn't doing large areas. The pro varient of it takes an hour or more to set up, so that isn't a big deal, but the homeowner mini units that they sell will set up within 20-30 if you're not careful. You can also put it in the fridge and it'll delay the setup tme.
Or slow it, rather, because it's a chemical reaction. It's just harder to work cold too, so I never bother.
I rent a house in the SF Bay Area. The house is not exactly new, but it's in good condition; hopefully the AC installation is the same. Most AC outlets are without grounding; but fortunately, there are two outlets in the backyard that do have ground connectors.
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True. And it was a biased comment, but one that working at a university I dealt with all the time. The people that couldn't find their own posterior with both hands invariably were in a liberal arts college or "general studies" -- most of the other focuses tended to at least google the question first.
It's sort of like you tend to notice that in general it's either a Lexus SUV, or a subaru of some sort, going 55 in the left lane.
@KarlKatzke if it wasn't for dumb people, who would run our fast food joints, scrub our toilets, collect our trash? Not saying you have to be dumb to do these jobs, but it helps.
Now, now, Tester, get with the program. Those are not dumb people, those are disadvantaged people, aka the 99%. And those of us in the plutocracy need to be careful to keep them in their places.
Sounds like my house. Previously owned by a licensed electrician, who, when he finished the basement, wired the 8 outlets and 3 banks of flourescents to the same circuit as the living room lights (8 hi-hats) and outlets.
Soon I'll have 2 20A circuits of general purpose receps, a 15A to a ceiling fan, 15A of lighting. And maybe a dedicated circuit, right next to the subpanel, for a space heater, which is a convenient backup to the woodstove.
Later on, we may add a kitchen in the yurt, so being able to pull a few circuits for that will be nice.
Or we may build a separate kitchen building, in which case it will get... another subpanel, yay!
The distance from main to the new sub is short, but there's underground conduit between them. Putting one /4 cable in the conduit is easier than one cable per circuit.
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