What did you do today?

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I never heard of anyone putting yogurt in their coffee maker before.

Ok........ It made sense to me as I typed, but rereading what I typed ....yeah, a little bit was left to the imagination.
Great suggestion tho........
......whaddya think, 50/50 vanilla yogurt to water ratio?
I mean, my Mr Coffee isn't remotely new, so
what's to lose?
Intellectual property laws have me protected guys, so... don't... even ...think of making or marketing a yogurt coffee maker!
I will protect my new creation like a mad honey badger.
(Daris gets 10% after expenses)

 

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I measured the upstairs of a home today. Its about 16 by 37 and entirely the master bedroom.... Dressing room/closet and bathroom. The main bedroom part is about 16 by 18.
The guy is the ultimate diyer. Everything is well proportioned and well designed. His craftsmanship and attention to detail is top notch.
Here's the shower. You can access it from the bathroom at the far side of the image, or though the dressing closet as seen here.
The photos don't do this justice. The stone on the floor and wall in real life look the same color. In the photo, the floor is much lighter/washed out.
It's roughly 6 by 9..... absolutely beautiful.

 

[C.J.]

I measured the upstairs of a home today. Its about 16 by 37 and entirely the master bedroom.... Dressing room/closet and bathroom. The main bedroom part is about 16 by 18.
The guy is the ultimate diyer. Everything is well proportioned and well designed. His craftsmanship and attention to detail is top notch.
Here's the shower. You can access it from the bathroom at the far side of the image, or though the dressing closet as seen here.
The photos don't do this justice. The stone on the floor and wall in real life look the same color. In the photo, the floor is much lighter/washed out.
It's roughly 6 by 9..... absolutely beautiful.

How do you air out the shower after a fart? Somebody could die.

 

[Csason]

Finished this beast yesterday
The “activities room “ at the Marriot Grande Vista in Orlando on International Drive

Welded Sports floor “eco floor”

 

[havasu]

Welded flooring? Please explain this for me.

 

[Csason]

Welded flooring? Please explain this for me.

Havasu if you look about three feet in front of the vacuum you can see a seam it’s welded and skivved

If you close in you can see small stripes in the flooring , those are seams. This flooring is imported from England it has a rubber backing about 1/4 inch thick.

Urethane adhesive has to be used. Like taffy. The rolls are 10 meters by 72 inches so a butt seam occurs every 30 feet or so. Factory edges are used for side seams unless you want to lose quite a bit of material by using selvage. We weld it with a heat gun and urethane 3mm string and cut the top off with a Mozart knife I use a Crain groover

 

[Csason]

This is half way through completion of the entrance area as compared to the rendering
On the tripod

 

[havasu]

This looks kinda like a new style of linoleum.

 

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How do you air out the shower after a fart? Somebody could die.

Incense
.......or maybe a small fire?

 

[Incognito]

This looks kinda like a new style of linoleum.

The "sports floor" we installed was almost always rubber but we did a handful of Tarkett vinyl very similar to what's shown above. It's just sheet vinyl with a dense cushion backing. We had a lot of troubles getting it to lay flat in the glue as it came with a lot of seriously deformities straight off the roll-----probably how it was handles/delivered and stored at various times before install. We wound up using bricks to weight it down flat whilst the urethane glue sets overnight.

 

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This is half way through completion of the entrance area as compared to the rendering
On the tripod

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Wow, that's spot on.

 

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The "sports floor" we installed was almost always rubber but we did a handful of Tarkett vinyl very similar to what's shown above. It's just sheet vinyl with a dense cushion backing. We had a lot of troubles getting it to lay flat in the glue as it came with a lot of seriously deformities straight off the roll-----probably how it was handles/delivered and stored at various times before install. We wound up using bricks to weight it down flat whilst the urethane glue sets overnight.

Your projects scare the crap out of me.
Do you have a brick and paver truck follow you to every job site?

 

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This is half way through completion of the entrance area as compared to the rendering
On the tripod

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Don't feel left out, I scare easily.

 

[Csason]

The "sports floor" we installed was almost always rubber but we did a handful of Tarkett vinyl very similar to what's shown above. It's just sheet vinyl with a dense cushion backing. We had a lot of troubles getting it to lay flat in the glue as it came with a lot of seriously deformities straight off the roll-----probably how it was handles/delivered and stored at various times before install. We wound up using bricks to weight it down flat whilst the urethane glue sets overnight.

The urethane we used is so sticky and insane we have to cover the buckets immediately after we get some out. It skins over almost immediately. It’s solvent based and the trowels have to be cleaned immediately also with MEK. Acetone works but evaporates too quickly . They’re metal cans with screwdriver tabs. Once we open the can , EVEN with plastic and frequent reseals we have to cut the “top” of the glue off to get to the liquid . Over night once the seal is broken it dries about a 1/4 inch thick

 

[Incognito]

The urethane we used is so sticky and insane we have to cover the buckets immediately after we get some out. It skins over almost immediately. It’s solvent based and the trowels have to be cleaned immediately also with MEK. Acetone works but evaporates too quickly . They’re metal cans with screwdriver tabs. Once we open the can , EVEN with plastic and frequent reseals we have to cut the “top” of the glue off to get to the liquid . Over night once the seal is broken it dries about a 1/4 inch thick

Believe it or not we put down Koster epoxy moisture barrier, 2-3 coats of Koster skim coat, then I recall some sort of Tarkett seperate cushion that was loose laid over all that prep. It's a moisture membrane and it was pretty lightweight, mostly fiberglass I assume. THEN we mixed a two-part urethane to glue the sports floor. This type does not tack up in any reasonable working time frame. So.........anything not laying perfectly flat as you walk away that night will never lay flat. They didn't call for sandbags/bricks but we used them on our Mondo rubber flooring all the time because it's requires. We had crews who were very quick with the bricks so it's all just figured into the labor costs. In this case the creases in the rolls required so many bricks it limited how much we could glue down each day.

 

[Incognito]

Your projects scare the crap out of me.
Do you have a brick and paver truck follow you to every job site?

Essentially yes. It's especially difficult to organize because it's all school gyms that have to get down in the downtime---Spring Break, Christmas and Summer. That means you cant easily schedule the jobs one after another. You have to do multiple jobs at the same time. So that amounts to one hell of a lot of bricks coming and going.

No matter how many they'd have accumulated every year they'd have to go buy a few more pallets. I think they'd often leave them back if someone wanted them so long as they hauled them off site promptly. The good thing for us was they HAD to load those jobs up with apprentices and material handlers at 30%-60% the cost of a journeyman. That meant you'd have extra guys hanging around when they weren't actually moving bricks. So most of them were eager to stay busy and be useful doing the stupid little tedious stuff no one REALLY enjoys. Generally shops skimp on help often to their own detriment just to cut costs. We were nearly always trying to squeeze labor costs------of course, but it's often a losing proposition if that's not well managed.

 

[Floorist]

Saw a guy try to install a rubber floor with a multipurpose. What a mess.

 

[Bogdonovich]

on my nights, after long days of polishing, I wrote a book:
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Neo...e4-626653be8faa&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m

 

[zannej]

Oh balls! I forgot to get the strawberry yogurt at the store. I also forgot to go to pickup my online order from McDonalds. Got home and remembered, made food for Mom and then had to head back into town to get the McDonalds order. Then I got home and Mom wanted more food. I put it in the microwave and forgot about it. had to re-heat it. Then she asked me for something and I went to the bathroom and forgot. Brain is not cooperating today. But I got more done on my lightsaber project and I installed a shelf in my bathroom.
got this cheap shelf on clearance from Walmart.

Here is what I have on my lightsaber thus far. It will be the lightsaber blaster combo (aka "staplegun lightsaber). Need to figure out how to bridge to the other half and how to do the blaster side.

I used an empty caulk tube, an acrylic knob from a shower, the lever thingy that makes the lavatory drain go up and down, two different types of conduit clamps, the metal lid to a baby food jar, some foam (inside) and have a D-Ring thingy. The clamps will attach to the bridges to the other half.
This is the concept art for the inspiration for it

I may end up using a small chunk of 1x2 wood for the bottom part so I can attach the D-ring. I'm going to see if I can use some cut up pieces of Bob Evans mashed potatoes containers for the other half as well as for the bottom. I will probably need some sort of filler to reinforce it and some bondo or something to hide writing.

 

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Customer brought in their own measurements.
The carpet is a cut and loop with a 1' by 1' pattern match. Only the areas with the green x's
I'm figuring 12x78, whaddya think.