This Old Trap House: Wonk Saggin Edition

[fat ralphy]

Projects on top of motherfuckin projects bruh…..

[mr.yuck]

I thought this was cool. Can't confirm how well it actually works but it makes sense. I used to just go at them with pliers or just give them a swift hit with a hammer and hope it sheers off.

 

[morton]

Open your chuck up, all the way. 

[Fist 666]

And if that doesn't work multitool and a carbide blade, a Sawzall, or a framing hammer and beat the fuck out of it, similar to that hammer video in First

[mr.yuck]

Installed a little 2 piece crown today. Put a sexy little return on that hoe.

 

 

[metronome]

Hammer drill trick looks nice ... if its not completely embedded or flush.  I had a bastard of a time with a heat seized machine screw in my gas range a few months ago when I had to replace the heating element.  I ended up drilling it out, hammering in an easy out and sheared it off trying to back it out with a small pipe wrench.  Have never been so angry at something so small. 

[mr.yuck]

I'm painting my foyer and up the stair case this really deep purple. Like the purple color when you break open blue ballpoint pens.

[mr.yuck]

 @metronomeI'm not sure if I would have just bout a new oven. Or possibly would have had to buy a new oven after attempting to get the bolt out with all the wrong tools.

[metronome]

8 minutes ago, mr.yuck said:

 @metronomeI'm not sure if I would have just bout a new oven. Or possibly would have had to buy a new oven after attempting to get the bolt out with all the wrong tools.

 

Don't buy samsung appliances.  I completely lost my cool, had no chill, was sweating and swearing profusely but I refused to spend another $2k because of some bastard machine screw.

[mr.yuck]

13 minutes ago, metronome said:

 

Don't buy samsung appliances.  I completely lost my cool, had no chill, was sweating and swearing profusely but I refused to spend another $2k because of some bastard machine screw.

 

I have a Samsung washing machine. Say no more fam. If you don't distribute the weight of your clothes out perfectly before you start it, it wobbles off balance instantly and takes a special cheat code that I haven't figured out yet to unlock it to make it work again. I think @DETOhas the same washer. Would be cool to see if he knows the chest code.

[fat ralphy]

[SMdoubleXL]

If it’s not shut all the way it sways all the way open.  He says it’s the summer swell, which I can tell the difference now that we’ve been here a year.  Idgaf what’s causing it. 
he wouldn’t so I ask my dude here @mr.yuckit this trick works 

 

 

I get out the hammer and screwdriver and remove the top pin. (Btw. There are only two hinges on all the doors in this place.) 

all of a sudden he wants to help 

had to do both hinge pins 

 

but look

 

Edited September 11, 2022 by SMdoubleXL

[mr.yuck]

Damn right! @SMdoubleXL I know a lot of this shit looks like a MF trying to trick you into fucking your house up lol.

 

I spent my Sunday doing some fancy as fuck trim work in my stair case. I don't know what you heard bout me but I'm a bad mon doin bad mon tings.

 

 

 

[mr.yuck]

Also just installed the nose tread piece at the top of the stairs. This joint was like 5 inches wide so I had to rip it in half and then cut the grove back into the back side so it locks in with the tongue of the floor. Finishing touches, I added the micro bevel back into the edge so there's not a hard seam where the 2 pieces connect. 

 

Of course the table saw wobbled right at the end of my rip and left me with this shit. I'm gonna wait and see how long it takes the old lady to notice.

 

 

 

 

[mr.yuck]

This shit right here is the truth. 

 

I'm scraping through latex paint, I'm scraping through oil paint, I'm cutting through bonding primer, I'm down to lead paint and I'm scraping through that shit too. 

 

 

[fat ralphy]

Back in the day Stripper had one of the illest jumbo caps - we would take those off every can at the hardware store. 

[mr.yuck]

Update:

 

All the master bath tile is set. 2/3 of it is grouted and my man will be back Monday to finish grouting the rest. 

 

I went to go buy the last little bit of base board I needed and the mill was out of stock. So I asked them to run me another 30 feet and they said it would be 4 weeks. FUCK BRO!

 

Stairs are completely scraped and primed and are getting ready for paint.

 

I think I finally fixed all of the air vents from collecting condensation and leaking all over the floor. 

 

Cabinet company fixed my vanity. Waiting on baseboard to install it.

 

So cruising through the internet looking for finishing touches, I found this wholely unnecessary flex of light switches and plates

 

https://www.busterandpunch.com/us/product-category/electricity/

 

Edited September 24, 2022 by mr.yuck

[mr.yuck]

Shit I forgot to edit in a theme song for this update

 

 

[ndv]

2 hours ago, mr.yuck said:

Shit I forgot to edit in a theme song for this update

 

 

 

In December it will be 10yrs since this release.  

[ndv]

3 hours ago, mr.yuck said:

Update:

 

All the master bath tile is set. 2/3 of it is grouted and my man will be back Monday to finish grouting the rest. 

 

I went to go buy the last little bit of base board I needed and the mill was out of stock. So I asked them to run me another 30 feet and they said it would be 4 weeks. FUCK BRO!

 

Stairs are completely scraped and primed and are getting ready for paint.

 

I think I finally fixed all of the air vents from collecting condensation and leaking all over the floor. 

 

Cabinet company fixed my vanity. Waiting on baseboard to install it.

 

So cruising through the internet looking for finishing touches, I found this wholely unnecessary flex of light switches and plates

 

https://www.busterandpunch.com/us/product-category/electricity/

 

 

 

I am digging the electrical fixtures.  Looks like something to upgrade to in the future. 

[mr.yuck]

17 minutes ago, ndv said:

 

 

I am digging the electrical fixtures.  Looks like something to upgrade to in the future. 

 

I was looking at the 360 view on them so I could see how the hook ups on the dimmer work and it looks as easy as pushing the wire into its appropriate slot and tightening a screw down on it like on a breaker. None of this make a hook with the wire and try to fish it around a screw shit. Lol. I can never get that hook right. It's always a hair too long.

[ndv]

19 minutes ago, mr.yuck said:

 

I was looking at the 360 view on them so I could see how the hook ups on the dimmer work and it looks as easy as pushing the wire into its appropriate slot and tightening a screw down on it like on a breaker. None of this make a hook with the wire and try to fish it around a screw shit. Lol. I can never get that hook right. It's always a hair too long.

 

That's one thing I like about higher-end products.  It's well thought out and designs do not follow traditional rules.   Take highend audio for example, alot of the hookups are some kinda military/aerospace similar design. 

[fat ralphy]

On 9/24/2022 at 11:37 AM, mr.yuck said:

 

I was looking at the 360 view on them so I could see how the hook ups on the dimmer work and it looks as easy as pushing the wire into its appropriate slot and tightening a screw down on it like on a breaker. None of this make a hook with the wire and try to fish it around a screw shit. Lol. I can never get that hook right. It's always a hair too long.

hella convenient- the new switches I put in this month had that direct plug feature and its so much easier.

 

My old man made a couple of passes with the mud after all the corner bead was put on this week. Starting to look like we are getting towards finishing - that said I do want to run a new electrical floor outlet where the old wall sat, I am thinking a kitchen island would be nice with some electrical sourced right there.

 

Also need to call the flooring dude this week and get a box of the stuff we put in 7 years ago, hopefully its  available still.

[mr.yuck]

I'm gonna be honest here. I spent a ton of money on all these matching brizo™ fixtures for the bathroom. All of the pieces to the shower head and hand held shower head piece are made of some shitty plastic. I just know this crap is gonna scratch and chip off within a year. On top of that, the install on all of this shit is overly complicated. If they sold any of this shit to your average home owner, that would be a really dick move on their part.  

 

For example:

 

The wall mounted faucet rough ins come with a plastic sleeve on them that shows a margin of where the outside of your wall needs to be.

 

 

I did that, nah mean?

 

 

So I get out the handle and start screwing that bitch on. The handle stops spinning about a quarter inch from the wall. Furious, I spin that bitch off and open up the installation instructions where it tells me to grab a hack saw and cut the fat ring down to 1 inch from the wall. Then it says to cut that gear toothed robot dick lookin piece down to 1 7/8 of an inch from the wall.

 

 

Like if you are doing this level of remodeling, you know how thick your wall is going to be. Why not just give people a smaller margin of error and make a handle that will just screw the fuck on to the thing no matter how long your extra bits are that hang out.

 

 

 

Anyway...

 

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2022 by mr.yuck

[mr.yuck]

I fucked up y'all. I fucked up good.

 

 

Gonna have to move all of the plumbing and the light on the right 6 more inches to the right.