Home Improvement

fred sanford said:

If it were just those two, yes I would go grab what little spackle I have and fill them up. But we’re talking about 40+ holes, so I’d have to buy a bunch more spackle and crawl around the floor patching all of the holes. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten, I’m not too worried about it. All of my baseboards are sealed top and bottom so I don’t think there will be any issue with airflow.

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You're probably OK leaving it, but if it was me, I'd probably get a bag of easy sand 90 and patch up the holes. If you follow this guy's instructions, and buy like 20 bucks worth of materials/tools he recommends, you'd have it done in under an hour and you'd never have to worry about it in the future. It goes on way easier than that pre-made shit.

Lanx said:

if youre still doing this for yourself i recommend getting an

ozone generator

this thing will pummel any bad smells, do NOT go in the room, preferably leave the house for 12hours when you do it, it will literally kill you. you can even test it out on your car, my first time doing it, i did it to my car, closed doors then i opened the door and the whiff, whoa, i started dry heaving, like this must be what mustard gas is like, and my car had that smell for 2 days (i didn't even touch it) but after? neutral. it was a never smoked in civic, but 20years old. i've used it a good bit, used it on my old house, used it again on the house when i had a huge leak in the basement i didn't know about, 2 days straight and no damp smell.

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Janx said:

This is also a good pest killer solution if you dont have people/pets/plants in the area your blasting. Obviously there's a time component to let it run + ventilate after.

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If you do your car, you really only need to run it like 15min or so.

Also- it can dry out rubber seals- so do not over- do it on the car.

It drives out oxygen so it can kill you- but as mentioned it can kill bugs as well, but it takes some time as bugs can go awhile without air.

It does work well on odors that are organic in nature as it starves the bacteria etc.

Yup screwed them right to the pickets and used the wrong wood as well…

Ok, this is brilliant

Kajiimagi said:

Constant fucking hassle in the electrical trade. Anytime the drywall guy wanted to give me grief (and it only happened ONCE) I would go get an EMT bender and 'find my own boxes'.

Also, that's a cute video but unless that is you in the video it's not happening. They are under too much pressure to mark that shit out.

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Hah no not me. But, as a home owner who does handyman stuff occasionally, I think it’s clever. I just had work done in my garage and whoever built the house decided that the ceiling joists didn’t need to all run the same direction. That really pissed me off.

Guess its time... ikea it is.

Other options do not offer nearly as many drawers ... they are all shelves - It is a small kitchen and trying to optimize the space and storage the most we can.

This involves removing a 1ft drop down tray ceiling, redoing all that and texture, removing old faux beams and adding new more "modern" ones - removing and replacing the kitchen tile , building a half wall for the space the kitchen extends now into the new dining room (currently living/sitting room) - moving the oven 220 plug from where it is now (where the microwave and the tall pantry duo is) to where the sink is now (where the range is) and then moving the plumbing for the new location of the sink. Can some kind of can lights where the new kitchen ceiling is.

It originally - was a in wall oven and microwave - but it was hard to get a grip on if I could use the ikea shelving w/o the ikea appliances - and we needed to get new appliances before the complete kitchen reno - so I just got a normal range (induction... love induction) - and was going to be a induction cooktop where the range is now.

So there will be a microwave over that - ikea just does not have a good placeholder.

It is a small kitchen- I did have a kitchen designer come in and look - they had some ideas based off the current design, it was not that different just kind of new stuff. I then showed her this / my idea and she was like "oh, that is actually a really good idea for re configuring the space... probably the best you can get without wall removal." - the wall shown with the sink is where all the pipes and electrical route- so it is not getting removed or "open concept" it already is open to the new dining room (currently the dining room is smaller and beyond that door by the fridge)