The Home Improvement Thread

Oswego

n00b
Hindsight being 20/20 I should of been wearing my respirator not a kn95....

70 years worth of old paint

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AlienXtx

Nignog
I hear lead paint chips are amazing lol
 

Oswego

n00b
It's all good.... but not smart. I had both windows open and my sander hooked to my shop vac. along with a good fitting kn95.

What I really need is a respirator with a face sheild. Can filter me lungz all day long but me glassez only stop so much from me eyez.
 

AlienXtx

Nignog
It's all good.... but not smart. I had both windows open and my sander hooked to my shop vac. along with a good fitting kn95.

What I really need is a respirator with a face sheild. Can filter me lungz all day long but me glassez only stop so much from me eyez.
Maybe the paint funk is like covid and runs away when it sees a mask lol
 

Oswego

n00b
Whatever it is it bleeds through modified compound like a sonnofabitch!
 

Oswego

n00b
So does this old ass drywall paper. Stains it all poo brown.

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Anathollo

Armorall is my choice of lube
Staff member
Worked all day Saturday but was still dragging ass due to this chest cold I'm fighting. I got three rows of sheetrock blocking (it's so boring and tedious to do). So the new sheetrock ceiling shouldn't sag like the old ceiling did when there was no additional blocking. Used up all of my 2"x6" scrap I had on hand thankfully. I also spent an hour cleaning and vacuuming up debris. I filled up a 5-gallon bucket with sheetrock dust, debris and sawdust from the miter saw. That cyclone dust collector is worth every penny. Dustopper High Efficiency Cyclonic Dust Separator, 12 in. Dia with 2.5 in. hose, 36 in. long, with 2 Sweep Elbows-HD12A - The Home Depot
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I cut the gas line to get it out of the way (it's all getting replaced but this used to be an active gas line in the house) and found these weeds inside.
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Sunday, my alarm went off at 5AM and I turned it off, rolled over and went back to sleep. Spent the day hydrating and resting as this chest cold doesn't want to go away it seems like.
 

Anathollo

Armorall is my choice of lube
Staff member
that makes more sense. Certainly looks like the gray electrical pvc pipe from that pic
Yeah I can def see the same thing you're thinking of.
 

Anathollo

Armorall is my choice of lube
Staff member
That’s a clean cut on the pipe, what did ya use? Also, how does weeds get inside of them, I’m assuming the line was disconnected and left open at some part of the system?
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I used this little guy to cut it. And I have no idea how weeds got into the gas line but with all the shoddy work done on this house, its not surprising.
 

Oswego

n00b
30# of popcorn gone from the second to last ceiling in the house. One more to go but that's my only clean room I sleep and store stuff in.

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Also added some screws to the ceiling to suck the sagging rock up like I did to the walls.

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Carpet padding left me some treats.
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Pretty sure this dust isnt good for you lol

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Kinda amazed how well my white wash oil based sealer held up on the original wood flooring. I had to seal everything prior to moving in to "scent block" the previous owners
 
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