Home Improvement

Wife had me do so much random ish during Christmas....

Seal and Kilz paint all A/C ducts... some had some "mold" she saw somewhere on youtube this dude like "Its caused because the register boxes are merely "set" on the hole on the ceiling drywall, any gap etc. has hot attic air meet cold AC air and causes condensation" - sure sounds probable - so I caulked all the openings, then painted and sealed the thing and the inside of the register with kilz - and put on all new register vents throughout the house.

Replaced the front door...that was not quite the correct size for any new door, nor a proper size for a prehung...so off we go with removal of like...these 2x6's that were butterfly bolted into my cinderblock? wtf charlie.

Replaced mailbox and post with new mailbox, new slat style post thing and LED address lights.

Other random stuff... new roof is being installed on the 19th....all the supplies got dropped off today.

Here's a weird one - I came across this stone today at a worksite. I don't know exactly what it is. It could be green marble? It could be Jasper? Can anyone identify this? It's 2' long and 8" square. Has to weigh 120 pounds. Someone help me out!

lurkingdirk said:

Here's a weird one - I came across this stone today at a worksite. I don't know exactly what it is. It could be green marble? It could be Jasper? Can anyone identify this? It's 2' long and 8" square. Has to weigh 120 pounds. Someone help me out!

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looks like green soapstone to me with some other stuff mixed in

Goatface said:

looks like green soapstone to me with some other stuff mixed in
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Yeah I wondered if it was soapstone, but I don't think it would be 150 pounds (I weighed it) if it were soapstone. It's too dense and hard. Can't score it with a knife.

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Thanks man. I was leaning in that direction.

Mrs. Gravy said:

For what would something like that, in those dimensions be used?

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Haus said:

2 foot long and 8 inches wide? That's real close to the measurements for the flat top I put on a half height wall in our entryway....
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As you can see, mine's done in wood, but a long piece of 8" wide stone like that (with appropriate bullnose around the edge) could also work pretty perfectly there.

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It's not quite like that. It's 8 inches square and two feet long. I think it might have been used as a pedestal for some display or something.