Post #374,322
4/28/13 4:33:30 PM
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Ok, 1st one done
About time you say?
Heat stripped paint, shitloads of varnish left over, then MC scraped, then MC scraped (lather rinse repeat), and then MC scraped with mineral spirits sprayed. Goopy evil mess goes EVERYWHERE.
Whenever using MC I have multiple glove layers on. Vinyl (MC protect skin), then nitrile (try to resist punctures, vinyl sucks for that), then ANOTHER vinyl layer (protect nitrile gloves, MC eat right through nitrile).
Paint/Pesticide mask. Usually long sleeves, but hey, I like these red stripy burns on my arms, they add character. Really.
Then MC with steel ribbon pot scrubbers. It take a dozen of them to run through one window, they dull out quickly. And when doing this splinters are everywhere and my hand is flying. My PWW performed some surgery to get rid of one the other day.
Then came the dental tools. Heat gun against all seams, slowly work my way around, again and again. Heat gun on nitrile gloves quickly melts them to my hand. Heat gun on rubbery grippy gloves shows up WAY too late, cooking the glove around my hand by the time I realize it.
Then heat gun and steel ribbon scrubbers again.
Then dental scraper on the corners.
Hey M, does it pass, is it OK?
M: Yup.
Ok, you can start staining while I finish the others.
Whew.
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Post #374,324
4/28/13 4:39:53 PM
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You're a good man. I'm sure she appreciates it.
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Post #374,325
4/28/13 4:40:58 PM
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"Or how about a nice high-gloss white?"
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Drew
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Post #374,326
4/28/13 4:44:31 PM
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>:-)
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Post #374,327
4/28/13 5:01:42 PM
4/28/13 5:03:58 PM
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Whuh?
Remember those oak tongue and groove floor boards I ripped up from the Craig's List house?
We will be staining the window frames and those boards the same color, somewhat dark. We will use the same color for the floor after it gets sanded.
After the windows are stained, but before we do the floor, the room will be patched and painted royal blue. Ceiling too. We only have to paint the top 1/2 of the room, and any mess I've been making under that level will be ignored.
Then we do the floor.
Then I run 3 boards horizontally around the room (on the floor, at 2 feet, and at 4 feet) to be used as anchor points for the oak "flooring" (now walling).
Those oak boards will be placed on all walls around the room, positioned vertically, 4 feet high. There will no longer be any floor base boards, the oak will go to the floor, and I will cut holes for outlets into them. We will run a pretty board along the top to cap it off.
We have 2 3x5 mirrors (craig's list, FREE) to be placed behind the bed, and I will do the smaller 1x1 squares for the rest of the wall and 2 feet around the corner. In order to place the large mirrors (horizontally), I will place a 2x4 (stained to match, possibly with a bit of wood scroll work) along the wall at the top of the oak. I will cut a lip into it to rest the mirror on. I will place another 2x4 (these 2x4s will be ANCHORED into the concrete wall) above the mirror, with lips both on bottom and top to lock in the mirror and rest another above. I'll put another above that to lock it in, and then ceiling is there.
Any real suggestions or variations?
Edited by crazy
April 28, 2013, 05:03:58 PM EDT
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Post #374,328
4/28/13 5:54:51 PM
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Obviously your way is better
I'm not yet in a house I want to keep long enough to be worth that effort.
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Drew
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Post #374,329
4/28/13 6:49:58 PM
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Are you still in the house I visited you at?
Sure was a pretty bathroom with the various scraps pasted to the wall.
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Post #374,330
4/28/13 7:28:37 PM
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That's the one
Great house, shitty schools.
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Drew
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Post #374,333
4/29/13 12:49:32 AM
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Yeah, I remember that decision
Hmm, pay 1/2 as much for a house and send them to private school, or spend double, and they go to a good local one.
Now I'm DONE.
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Post #374,347
4/29/13 10:06:33 AM
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We're looking for option B right now
And trying to get her parents on board with moving with us. We know we're going to end up taking care of them within 5 years anyway, makes more sense to sell both houses and get something we'll all be comfortable in.
And we've only got a year left before high school, when the price for the schools goes *WAY* up.
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Drew
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