Project Update Thursday - 2013/04/25 – Conversation in Home Improvement

BMitch

Apr 25, 2013 18:58

Welcome to Project Update Thursday

maple_shaft

Hi folks

Karl Katzke

Hi!

I put a floor in my living room this week. Or really, my fiancee and dad did.

lsiunsuex

HI!

Karl Katzke

I'm still on the disabled list. :(

BMitch

Greetings human!

maple_shaft

Apr 25, 2013 18:59

All of my home improvment right now is focused around getting my landscaping done, which is technically off topic... so lets talk about flooring instead ;-)

Karl Katzke

We used click-lock laminate flooring that I bought from Lowe's. It's actually really nice and went down so easily.

The materials usage was great... we maybe had 20 square feet of garbage for over 500 square feet covered.

Here's a photo gallery:

dropbox.com/sc/tocu6gl8errihnt/1pVEl2K0CH

Next steps are obviously to prime and paint trim.

maple_shaft

@KarlKatzke Nice

Karl Katzke

Trimming it out by far takes longer than laying the actual floor.

maple_shaft

No offense but your fiancee is pretty

lsiunsuex

new poll: how many DIY guys married redheads?

2

maple_shaft

Apr 25, 2013 19:03

redhead <3

Karl Katzke

No offense taken. :D

Gingers ftw.

lsiunsuex

mine is

wax eagle

@lsiunsuex guilty as charged

Karl Katzke

Also, she can actually swing a hammer.

maple_shaft

mine isn't but I wish she was

Karl Katzke

Apr 25, 2013 19:05

The older guy is my dad who flew in to help for the weekend. I look just like him, minus thirty years and add a beard.

maple_shaft

my fantasy wife

The deal is that I give her a marriage pass on Gerard Butler for her giving me a marriage pass on Amy Adams

lsiunsuex

if i knew she'd marry me, i'd devorce theredcarpetreport.wordpress.com/tag/scarlett-johansson

maple_shaft

@lsiunsuex LOL the edit!

Karl Katzke

I have too many of those to count, and they're almost all redheads. My fiancee and I have a standing agreement that I get to leave her for Neko Case or Norah Jones.

maple_shaft

lsiunsuex
7:07 PM
said: if i knew she'd marry me, i'd kill the wife for her http://theredcarpetreport.wordpress.com/tag/scarlett-johansson/

mod powers FTW

Karl Katzke

Apr 25, 2013 19:09

hahahahaha

lsiunsuex

after all the boston shit last week, never know who takes the wrong thing to seriously

maple_shaft

But in all seriousness, ScarJo is pretty freakin amazing

lsiunsuex

love her

the wife knows it too - she'd leave me for johnny depp - its a mutual once in a life time way out card

maple_shaft

@lsiunsuex Johnny Depp? Thats pretty lame. I would be upset if my wife left me for that clown

lsiunsuex

never said she had good taste haha

maple_shaft

Apr 25, 2013 19:12

She married you man...

lol

Karl Katzke

Johnny Depp is an interesting guy. I know a guy IRL who is a lot like Johnny Depp is in real life. He's the best husband and father I know.

maple_shaft

Productive PUT session guys... start talking about laminate flooring and then we start talking about celebrity spouse swapping in less than 10 minutes

lsiunsuex

shall we segway into programming and startups?

maple_shaft

As long as it involves red heads...

►

Karl Katzke

Works for me. I think I've found my people: DIYers who work in IT who married redheads.

lsiunsuex

Apr 25, 2013 19:15

i think everyone in here who hangs here often is in IT / Programming

kinda a weird mix actually

maple_shaft

New Challenge... try to find a celebrity that most looks like your wife or husband

lsiunsuex

thats easy

people have walked right up to her and told her she looks like kate hudson

(not my kid)

maple_shaft

yeah I totally see it

Imagine Charlize Theron but 20lbs heavier

mah wife

i can live with that

lsiunsuex

nice

not sure i could marry an actress - how would you ever know if they were being themselves or not

maple_shaft

Live with them for a few months first and they will show their true colors eventually

lsiunsuex

Apr 25, 2013 19:21

action shot from last weekend

Karl Katzke

Easy. Actors and actresses are either crazy or they know how to shelve their fake personalities ... they put them on and take them off like a cloak.

maple_shaft

squaring a deck or pouring concrete?

Karl Katzke

Johnny Depp = crazy. Most others? Like a cloak.

lsiunsuex

squaring the space for the planting beds / fireplace - first the beds, then the patio - then i can fill the beds with the earth i take out from the patio

and a google search for "redheads in IT" failed :(

maple_shaft

@lsiunsuex Failed as in got no results or failed as in oh shiiiiiii Alt+F4 Alt+F4 Alt+F4 Alt+F4 Alt+F4 !!!!!!!!!

lsiunsuex

Apr 25, 2013 19:25

no results

maple_shaft

Well my lanscaping is a big wtf

I recently had a house built and there was nothing but rocky dirt

There were going to be trees really close to the back of my house so before they built I paid this guy $700 to clear out about 40ft of woods in the back

lsiunsuex

we've been in this house for 3 years now and are finally getting around to working on landscaping - its tough work

maple_shaft

turns out that the foliage covered a big steep drop off

I work out a deal for $8,500 with this guy to put in 200ft of french drains to handle the incredible amounts of water from the top of the hill since I am on the side of a hill

and also do all the lawn and plants and everthting

I then do a seperate deal with another guy for 140 tons of fill to put in the back where that big drop off is so I will actually have a back yard

he gives me that for 1,600 dollars

I am going to do a website for him and deduct my hours from his hours, pay the difference

lsiunsuex

that works

maple_shaft

yeah but the landscaper screwed up big time

he even admitted it to me

He put off flattenning out that fill during the dry spell, now we are in rainy season and that shale fill soaked up all the water and wont let go

its too heavy to move in his bobcat so he will have to do it slowly with an excavator

what turned into a 4 day job has been over a month now

I don't think he is screwing me over because the price is the price and I am not paying him the rest until hes done. And I am doing his website

but I think he ran into a situation that he doesn't know how to handle

Karl Katzke

Apr 25, 2013 19:44

Did you have an engineer look at the filling that you're doing and the drainage? I'm worried with that amount of fill that it's going to end up creating a problem downhill

maple_shaft

@KarlKatzke Well he put big rocks at the base so the water has somewhere to go

the french drain takes the rest of it

Karl Katzke

Yeah... where does the water go from there?

Beyond being ravishingly beautiful, my fiancee is a civil engineer that deals with drainage and flooding.

So I'm asking questions with an actual point to them.

maple_shaft

further down the hill into ? property... hundreds of ft of woods

its almost rural where I live

Karl Katzke

OK, that's a little better... but you're redirecting water onto property you don't own?

maple_shaft

nobody will be affected by the water runoff if that is what you are wondering

yeah

but its woods

its not even good hunting grounds

Karl Katzke

Apr 25, 2013 19:48

What state, so I can get just a quick idea if it's an actual concern or not?

maple_shaft

PA

Karl Katzke

Ah, OK. So probably not a big deal. (If you'd said CA, I'd say "STOP!")

maple_shaft

Everything is a big deal in CA

Karl Katzke

Yeah, CA is Serious Business.

BMitch

I don't think they let bears sh*t in the woods in CA.

Karl Katzke

Apr 25, 2013 19:49

Bears? Hell, Pope can't even.

maple_shaft

@BMitch If you look closely at the CA state flag you will see a state official handing a fine to the bear

I bought a roll of 14 gauge galvanized steel wire... apparently I will die of cancer if I had bought it in CA

I was making chainmail armour in college as a side business, and I couldn't sell online to anybody in CA because it contained galvanized steel, I needed some kind of permit

BMitch

One of these days CA will win a darwin award. They almost outlawed dihydrogen monoxide

maple_shaft

The armour rarely sold but I sold a lot of chainmail hacky sacks

You do the following pattern as if you were doing the top of a coif, make two of these, then a small 4 link strip for the middle

fill it with yarn beads, close the last hole and then boom, $25

$5 material retail

< 1hr labor

Can't live on it but it was good college money

Karl Katzke

Yeah, that is good college money.

maple_shaft

To make the links you would take 16 or 14 gauge wire clamp it to a round steel bar and then wrap it around the cylinder with your thumb... it makes the coil

snip the links off the coil like so

The weaver then uses two needle nose pliers to link the patterns

you get one linker and one weaver and you can get a lot done

there... now you guys are all going to make chainmail this weekend

well g2g later

Karl Katzke

Apr 25, 2013 20:03

No, I'm going to be moving my fiancee to Austin this weekend.

And I'm much more of a sniper rifle type than a chainmail and swords type.

BMitch

Apr 25, 2013 20:50

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