Pyrrhus meets Theseus: a ten year odyssey in turd polishing

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SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

I love GarageJournal. I learn so much from peoples' builds there. I also learn quite a bit from Kastein and you, Dreese. Thanks!

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 22:16

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 19:36

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

Are you like best buds with the building inspector at this point? How many times has he been out to your house?

# ¿ May 17, 2019 15:07

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

Your issues with Bagster are the primary reason I refused to use them for my own remodel. I rented a dumpster instead. One of the best $325 I ever spent.

Also wtf is going on with your deck joists. Did someone just... randomly cut 90% through some of them? :stonk:

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 01:04

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

ITT Kastein questioning someone else over-engineering their build...

# ¿ Sep 3, 2019 21:04

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

I mean, have you seen what he's already built? His house is gonna BE the local disaster recovery shelter.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 20:20

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

Interesting. Where does the insulation go (if any)?

# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 02:52

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

kastein posted:

It's an interior wall and both rooms are on the same heating zone so no need for insulation.

Load bearing drywall my rear end, this piece of poo poo house had load bearing AIR when I bought it

Sorry, I meant the floor. Are floors that are the outside envelope not insulated? I've never actually built an entire house piece by piece before. (Yet.)

# ¿ Dec 17, 2019 17:12

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

kastein posted:

Gat drat. And I thought moving my 30 sheets around was heavy. My back hurts just looking at that.

(How helpful is the drywall handle? I should have gotten one for myself...)

# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 21:05

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

daslog posted:

That looks like a challenging mudding job. Is there some miracle tool to make it easier?

Yeah, a phone.

Leperflesh posted:

I'd be seriously tempted to just hire someone. Like for a lot of this build Kastein has gone way above code and probably wouldn't have gotten that quality from a sub, but mudding is just mudding and a pro is gonna do it way faster and get the same or better result.

I actually enjoy hanging drywall, but gently caress all that mudding. Hire a guy/team with a bazooka and stand back.

eta: Kastein your drywall looks great. You do good work there.

SouthShoreSamurai fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jan 30, 2020

# ¿ Jan 30, 2020 21:45

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

Hell yeah stair treads.

I made one of these when I redid my stair treads/risers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_xOq3h6xY

It helped immensely. Like yourself, I completely hosed up my first few cuts, but as I got more experience with it the rest of the cuts went well.

(I also made my own mini-track saw jig, because I didn't have an extra $600 lying around for a track saw.)

# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 17:10

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

I was mostly referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKA7xf7Mqxo where he just blithely throws out the recommendation for the Festool track saw.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 15:36

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

What did you use for the cutouts? Roto-zip tool?

# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 00:36

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

You're all crazy. That house was clearly fine and needed nothing.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2020 20:14

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

Can't believe you didn't construct a massively over-engineered scaffolding, comprised of dimensional lumber bigger than the tree and at least some welding. 0/10

# ¿ Sep 23, 2020 23:21

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

Nice. What's the drill press for?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2021 13:33

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 19:36

SouthShoreSamurai: Apr 28, 2009; It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.; Fun Shoe

kastein posted:

It was good practice and it taught me a lot, and I'm very likely to profit at least 150k on it too. I'm alright with that.

It also taught me what I actually want to build, which honestly is not what I built this time, and where I want to build it, which is also not where I built it this time. Live and learn. I really wish I'd taken the opportunity to see the country before I bought this house because I'd probably be living in a newly built house in Washington ten years ago already by now if I had.

If it helps, it's also taught me a lot.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2022 14:22

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