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« on: May 13, 2024, 10:48:32 PM »
Fun With Floors.
I got a bunch of the stuff I've been pulling down cleaned up, and another sack of trash out ready to be taken away. I've got the next sack of trash slowly filling up, and it's surprisingly heavy given the size of what's in there. Sucking up plaster dust and the general detritus that results from pulling down walls does end up being very heavy. My separator has saved me another couple of HEPA bags in this section of work alone.
Next up was cutting some wood to screw to the joists where I'm replacing flooring. Because I'm putting a section in perpendicular to the floorboards so the join is less obvious, I need to add some support in the space below so I don't have cut ends unsupported by anything. So far I've added some support in the place I could access it easy from above, and tomorrow I get to haul stuff downstairs to screw things into place from below. Then I can press on with laying the new floor, finishing framing the walls and then I can fit the last couple of electrical back boxes and run cables, and then get busy ripping through my remaining insulation panels to finish the thermal insulation in the room. Then comes the sound insulation, which I hope won't be too much trouble.
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« on: May 13, 2024, 10:43:20 PM »
Joe Biden turning out to be a real piece of work.
He's offering Israel information on the location on Hamas leadership in Gaza, on the condition that Israeli troops leave Rafah.
This means that he has information on terrorist leadership that he's withholding from Israel, a US ally.
Imagine if in early 2002, the Mossad had information on the location of Osama Bin Laden. And they withheld that information from the US government, pending political considerations. The public would be aghast, and rightly so. But because it's Joe Biden, nobody cares.
I suspect the situation is that Republicans have no time for Biden anyway, moderate Democrats are unhappy with him but reluctant to vote against him because they consider him better than Trump, and the pro-Palestine fringe on the harder left don't see anything wrong with making life difficult for the pesky Joos. It seems more commentators, political and economic, are describing Biden as a weak leader seldom missing a chance to demonstrate that the US is a weak nation under his "leadership".
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« on: May 11, 2024, 03:00:16 PM »
An hour of speed repeats today, so now my legs don't like me very much.
Then I took a look at the wall I want to remove in my work space. One stud came out easily enough, it was fastened to the floor with some nails that were tricky to access but a bit of thinking and a bit of brute force combined to get that stud out. The next one goes high up into the cavity above, and checking from above indicates it rises several inches above the top of the joist in the attic. I'm not sure why. I suspect this one is going to experience a visit from Mr Saw to cut it off at a manageable height so I can do the work I need on the floor below, then I can figure out the best way to remove the stub later. As long as the bottom is well above head height I'll be OK.
I'm also most likely going to have to take out a light fitting. Easy enough to do electrically speaking, just a pain having to crawl around upstairs and downstairs making sure everything is disconnected, then working on a ladder in a tight space, crawling back into the attic to pull the cables through, and only then pulling down the ceiling. Lots of fun ahead....
So far I've got everything removed that I need, except for this one stud. Once this stud is out I can lift the last part of the floor, then lay the new floor, then finish framing the bedroom. Hopefully I can get the work finished before I run out of motivation again....
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« on: May 11, 2024, 08:46:27 AM »
Got a load more wall pulled down yesterday. In the morning I stuck to pulling down some drywall and smashing it up for bagging, because I met a friend for lunch. Nothing fancy, just a local coffee shop, so I didn't have to be immaculate but didn't want to be covered in plaster dust. Then in the afternoon I pulled down the plaster walls and a bunch of the laths. I don't need the whole lot down, but figured I'd pull down the rest of the plaster while the space is at least mostly contained.
So now I have three bags of drywall scraps, another bag mostly full, and a total of eight bags of plaster that a neighbor is going to take away. I'm still not entirely sure what he does with the plaster but he obviously has some use for it, which saves me having to get rid of it myself.
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« on: May 07, 2024, 04:25:22 PM »
An hour of speed repeats today. My legs weren't liking me much towards the tops of a few of the hills I sprinted. But with speed repeats I figure if my legs don't stop working near the top of at least some hills I'm not running hard enough.
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« on: May 05, 2024, 05:33:58 PM »
A few slow days thanks to a nasty tummy bug. But I got some more floor removed, so now I've got as much lifted as I can without removing another section of wall.
Now it's a question of whether to remove the wall first, or lay the new flooring. I think I might use the old flooring rested in place to catch anything that falls when I take out the wall, rather than risk heavy pointy things falling on the nice new floor.
I guess I'll need some more wall studs to replace the wall that comes out.
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« on: May 03, 2024, 09:00:24 AM »
Yeah, what for years, since just before Roe, was a consistent, faith-based condemnation of abortion in most cases, has become incohesive at best as states adopt seemingly draconian measures, forbidding even remedial abortions for ectopic pregnancies, which endanger the life of the mother, etc.
From one extreme to another - liberal abortion on demand, including late-term, as mentioned, to the banning of even abortions for urgent medical expediencies and special circumstances too harsh to casually list here.
Each extreme faction frightens the other.
Common sense? Aborted.
I think a major part of the anti-abortion absolutist position that's troublesome is that it so often comes from a place of faith and then seeks to impose that faith by force of law on others regardless of whether they share that belief. I forget where I read the notion that if we apply the principles used at the end of life to figure when life ends but in reverse to figure out when life begins we can come up with something scientific and coherent, and work from there without any requirement to impose our faith on another. For good measure the principles used to determine the end of life were from a secular scientific organisation so there was no question of trying to sneak in religious convictions by the back door. Of course if the secular national law allows limited access to abortion based on secular assessments of when life begins the individual is free to choose not to seek an abortion based on their own convictions of whatever nature, but others are free to make a different choice. But, as you say, common sense got aborted somewhere along the line too.
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« on: May 02, 2024, 09:09:41 AM »
In a twist of unfunny irony, the abortion issue will likely serve to sink the GOP (as D. Trump soberly predicted) in November, while advanced leftist policies become even more entrenched.
"Woman's Reproductive Rights" tops the list of emotionally charged misnomers, while very, very few seem able to grasp or present the issue in any meaningfull context.
A majority, right or left, wants abortion protected.
I wonder if it's at least a bit more complex than just "wants abortion protected". I suspect a reasonable number (maybe even a majority) would be quite happy to ban very late term abortions unless there were compelling medical reasons for it. The trouble with outright bans on abortions is that they make for such unfriendly headlines, like the one in (I think) Ohio where a 10-year-old rape victim wasn't allowed to abort the resulting pregnancy. It may not be a trendy argument to say that if you consent to sex (i.e. a baby-making activity) you consent to the potential to actually make a baby, but there is merit to it. There's less merit in the argument that the person who never consented to the sex should be stuck with the results of it.
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« on: May 01, 2024, 02:50:37 PM »
I always wondered why America despite 4 years of lies almost reelected Donald Trump, you guys are nuts 
But then the Netherlands once was a very nice country, but last year the Dutch election was won convincingly by an extreme right party whom leader is convicted by the court for racism. He is now leading the negotiations to form a government with 3 other parties and probably the unthinkable will happen that he succeeds.
So we are close to be as nuts as you (and maybe we already passed you) and from now on I can not longer blame you , the speck has become the log.
Did you see the alternative to Trump? It feels like the scene at the end of the original Ghostbusters movie when the ghostbusters are invited to "choose the form of the destroyer". What is pretty sad is that a country of over 300,000,000 people apparently can't find any better candidates than the two we're offered.
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« on: April 29, 2024, 11:11:00 PM »
Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler
That's a good point, I'm going to need to do that in a couple of other places so hopefully I'll be able to pull it off here too. I just hope what curvature there is won't kick all the adjacent boards out of position. I suppose if I need to I can trim the surplus off one side and fill the other side with goop.
I can find a couple of small offcuts of red oak so I can make sawdust that should match pretty nicely. As long as stain and lacquer won't make it look awful we should be good to go.
I laid the board out against the two boards that will be adjacent and I think it's all close enough that I won't need to do much of anything with it. The lines aren't dead straight but they are pretty close, close enough that they don't really show unless you're staring at the floor. And in a house that's over 100 years old I think that's OK - if I live to be 100 I'll probably be a bit wavy in places too.
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« on: April 27, 2024, 09:36:24 AM »
I suspect the "last edited by Athanasius" tag at the bottom the OP didn't actually come right out and confess to being a spammer, even if their post made it very apparent.
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« on: April 25, 2024, 08:47:30 PM »
... and the spam sketch comes to mind again ...
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« on: April 25, 2024, 08:52:37 AM »
While browsing the old forum I recognized old names long forgotten and of some I am pretty sure I had email contact in that time.
If you've got email addresses that makes things a lot easier!
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« on: April 24, 2024, 10:09:05 PM »
Maybe using the wayback machine we can contact old members.
How would we do that?
Unless you can get at a way to contact the former members I'm not sure you can. You can find a link to send a PM via the old site but it won't work because the old site is gone. Unless I'm missing something I'm not sure it's possible.
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« on: April 21, 2024, 09:57:09 PM »
Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler
That's a good point, I'm going to need to do that in a couple of other places so hopefully I'll be able to pull it off here too. I just hope what curvature there is won't kick all the adjacent boards out of position. I suppose if I need to I can trim the surplus off one side and fill the other side with goop. I can find a couple of small offcuts of red oak so I can make sawdust that should match pretty nicely. As long as stain and lacquer won't make it look awful we should be good to go.
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