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Haus said:
Follow up to the Desk Project... Done.
Short Section installed first...
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Half way done (i.e. My side of the mighty F)
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The Whole Thing :
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Two addons... First, integrated charger in the hutch..
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And a Pop Up charger/outlets in the center peninsula
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I will not disclose the amount of annoyance and strained muscles and joints we got flinging around those slabs of wood, (especially with the added weight of the desk frames attached.)

But I'm happy with the outcome, the wife is happy with the outcome, so I'm taking my win where I can get it. ;)
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what happened to that lonely gundam?
 
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Lanx said:
what happened to that lonely gundam?
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He's over in the side hutch at the moment. He'll probably find his way back under the monitors soon enough. He was a free gundam kit I got at the Hobby Lobby booth at San Japan. It was "sit down and enjoy a beginner snap together kit for free", so I did... Rated for ages 6 and up, so only took me.... well.. it doesn't matter how long it took me.
 
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Kajiimagi

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He's over in the side hutch at the moment. He'll probably find his way back under the monitors soon enough. He was a free gundam kit I got at the Hobby Lobby booth at San Japan. It was "sit down and enjoy a beginner snap together kit for free", so I did... Rated for ages 6 and up, so only took me.... well.. it doesn't matter how long it took me.
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I had a game room with yellow walls because the house I bought had them painted that way and I was lazy, what's your excuse?

Also , looks good buddy.
 
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I had a game room with yellow walls because the house I bought had them painted that way and I was lazy, what's your excuse?

Also , looks good buddy.
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It was originally supposed to be a more muted, less saturated, yellow. This is a room on the north side of the house so gets very little direct sun. Trying to brighten it up a little. Somehow the little paint sample I had did not end up looking like the color as mixed for the painters and we ended up with the "Reverse Flash Tribute Room". This paint was done around 16 years ago, when the original Ikea desk was put in...

It's not horrible, but we are about to have to do some minor drywall touchups at some point (Thanks Texas soil and foundations..) And repainting the room is on deck for then. Haven't locked in the new color yet.

I will also give the cheap ass old Ikea desk it's due, those hollowcore laminated desktop slabs held up for over 15 years and only in the last couple started showing real signs of wear and age.
 
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It was originally supposed to be a more muted, less saturated, yellow. This is a room on the north side of the house so gets very little direct sun. Trying to brighten it up a little. Somehow the little paint sample I had did not end up looking like the color as mixed for the painters and we ended up with the "Reverse Flash Tribute Room". This paint was done around 16 years ago, when the original Ikea desk was put in...

It's not horrible, but we are about to have to do some minor drywall touchups at some point (Thanks Texas soil and foundations..) And repainting the room is on deck for then. Haven't locked in the new color yet.

I will also give the cheap ass old Ikea desk it's due, those hollowcore laminated desktop slabs held up for over 15 years and only in the last couple started showing real signs of wear and age.
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Last 2 PC desks I had were commercial office furniture, one was just the U-shape ends from a desk piece I rigged at right angles to each other, the one I have now was $1,300 before shit got crazy , not sure what it would be now if you even find it. I was sitting in my bosses office one day looking at his desk, and thinking hmmmm. Asked him if I could measure it and now I have one just like it.
 
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Last 2 PC desks I had were commercial office furniture, one was just the U-shape ends from a desk piece I rigged at right angles to each other, the one I have now was $1,300 before shit got crazy , not sure what it would be now if you even find it. I was sitting in my bosses office one day looking at his desk, and thinking hmmmm. Asked him if I could measure it and now I have one just like it.
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This project landed somewhere around $800 total. $99 a pop for the 4 slabs (Floor and Decor, Hevea), $100 for the sealant (arm-r-seal, I HIGHLY recommend), $120 for the pop up charger/power + charging cables and integrated charger, $80 for that side hutch, and some for sealing supplies, sandpaper, random shit. (Had to get a hole saw bit big enough for the pop up charger)

But it's something I really wanted, and pending the durability of the motors in the desk frame should hopefully last me well past my working days.
 
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Haus said:
It was originally supposed to be a more muted, less saturated, yellow. This is a room on the north side of the house so gets very little direct sun. Trying to brighten it up a little. Somehow the little paint sample I had did not end up looking like the color as mixed for the painters and we ended up with the "Reverse Flash Tribute Room". This paint was done around 16 years ago, when the original Ikea desk was put in...

It's not horrible, but we are about to have to do some minor drywall touchups at some point (Thanks Texas soil and foundations..) And repainting the room is on deck for then. Haven't locked in the new color yet.

I will also give the cheap ass old Ikea desk it's due, those hollowcore laminated desktop slabs held up for over 15 years and only in the last couple started showing real signs of wear and age.
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I find that the actual paint on the wall almost always looks much more intense than it does on the sample card. These days I find a color I like then go 2 shades lighter than I think I want and buy a small amount of paint (Sherwin Williams has pints for $9 for this purpose) and actually put it on the wall and look at it under the actual lighting before I commit to painting the whole room. Sometimes I'll buy 2 or 3 colors and put them all on the wall next to each other to compare.
 
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BrutulTM said:
I find that the actual paint on the wall almost always looks much more intense than it does on the sample card. These days I find a color I like then go 2 shades lighter than I think I want and buy a small amount of paint (Sherwin Williams has pints for $9 for this purpose) and actually put it on the wall and look at it under the actual lighting before I commit to painting the whole room. Sometimes I'll buy 2 or 3 colors and put them all on the wall next to each other to compare.
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That reminds of the house I had in Conway SC, we bought I think 6 gallons to pain the kitchen breakfast nook part 'Salmon' , and when we put the first of it on and it started drying it was Pink. I can handle Salmon, I cannot handle Pink. Thankfully Lowes took it back.
 
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Figured this is probably the right thread for this. I am not someone who normally fixes their own home plumbing. Condo association is jetting the drainage for every unit, and whatever they did bonked my toilet so it never stopped filling. Had the guy take a look and he said the fill valve was busted. I figure OK, called plumber. $80 trip charge $210 per hour + parts. I shrugged and set an appointment for tomorrow.

I looked at youtube to see how to repair and change the fill level. Simple push and turn clockwise to lock it. Well, that was easy. Saved me $300-400 to boot.
 
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Plumber fees are brutal. If I come out in the middle of the night to fix something I have a $100 show up fee. If I'm doing critical plumbing in the middle of the night I charge $250 an hour.
 
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Plumber fees are brutal. If I come out in the middle of the night to fix something I have a $100 show up fee. If I'm doing critical plumbing in the middle of the night I charge $250 an hour.
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I can understand it. I had to get a plumber here for a clog a couple year ago. It was a crazy cost. Next time it happened I learned about green gobbler and expressing my anger with a plunger.
 
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Only times I ever called a plumber is when my main is backing up in the basement. I dont have the equipment to handle shit like that. But other than that problem like every few years I do all the plumbing shit myself. And now my kids do it as I thought them how to do basic shit. In fact we just replaced all of our toilets in the house, 3 of them. Not all at once, but over the course of a few weeks. The old ones had water stains and were just old going on 20+ yrs.
 
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moonarchia said:
I can understand it. I had to get a plumber here for a clog a couple year ago. It was a crazy cost. Next time it happened I learned about green gobbler and expressing my anger with a plunger.
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When I go out in the middle of the night I always try to stem the problem, make everyone comfortable, and then go home to bed and come back the next day during normal hours. I get enough sleep, they don't pay as much, everyone is happy.
 
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Bought enough fixer upper houses that I can completely rebuild a toilet up to and including the wax seal on the bottom. Ones we have now have the 1/2 buttons and I was worried they would suck but they don't.
Hired a plumber when we had the pump house here redid to incorporate a whole house water softener. Only because I'd never seen a pump / tank setup like they use here and I don't want to drink bad water due to my incompetence. As I recall he was realistic in cost but this was before they started handing out $1400 checks to stay home.
 
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