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Started by Richter, March 19, 2009, 12:13:02 PM

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Cainad (dec.)

#15
March 23, 2009, 08:12:22 PM
Richter, I think you and my dad would get along.

He built a full porch on our old house in the Catskills that partially wrapped around, and more recently we tore up the floor in our attic, set down insulation, and re-built the floor about 6 inches higher than it previously was to accommodate the extra insulation. He has DIY nailed down to a fine art.

Jenne

#16
March 23, 2009, 08:58:51 PM
I think those of us with carpenters, painters, plumbers and electricians in our backgrounds are lucky fuckers.  Because not everyone can replumb a toilet, put a fanbox in the attic or nail down and replace floorboards.

Let alone pour a concrete foundation or draft plans for a granny suite off the back 40.

(those skills in the first paragraph are mighty helpful to most, the last 2 are just cherry on the sundae, I guess)

The Good Reverend Roger

#17
March 24, 2009, 01:00:18 AM
Important note:  It's easier to fuck shit up if you know how it works.  For example, I can "fix" a toilet in such a way that it will never, ever function quite properly again.  I can also play merry hell with anything electrical, and can do things with simple hand tools that would make you go SQUEEE.

TGRR,
Knows that paint sticks and cordless drills with socket adaptors are your very, very best friends. 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jenne

#18
March 24, 2009, 02:16:32 AM
Heh.  Did you ever play with bottle rockets as a lad, there, TGRR?  :D

The Good Reverend Roger

#19
March 24, 2009, 02:34:53 AM
Quote from: Jenne on March 24, 2009, 02:16:32 AM
Heh.  Did you ever play with bottle rockets as a lad, there, TGRR?  :D

Constantly.   :lulz:

But then I grew up and learned the whole WORLD is my bottle rocket.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jenne

#20
March 24, 2009, 02:36:16 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 24, 2009, 02:34:53 AM
Quote from: Jenne on March 24, 2009, 02:16:32 AM
Heh.  Did you ever play with bottle rockets as a lad, there, TGRR?  :D

Constantly.   :lulz:

But then I grew up and learned the whole WORLD is my bottle rocket.

:lulz:  Yup.  :D
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