Watcha doing?

[IMINXTC]

Winter in Mt starts to fade - treacherous roads clearing somewhat. Almost everything finished  in prep for return to Bay Area, Cal. Gave everything away, including trailers, and closed all storage units. Soon: no more back & forth.
Looking forward to staying put in a terrible region.
 Will be profitable in an eternal sense, Lord Willing!

[IMINXTC]

Still looking after my troubled gal-friend. I would run & hide cept I love her so much.

Her, a dog and 2 cats in a small Saturn suv.

I got 20 years on her but she's altogether lovely.

Need to replace her back windshield soon as possible.


Independent, but I watch out daily for her.

(Did I mention "crazy?")

[tango]

Decided it's about time I got back to my wall project, so started measuring everything to make sure things are properly perpendicular. And it seems they are. It would appear I've managed to start with three bare stone walls and one void, and create four wall bases (walls yet to be fully built on the bottom beams) that are within less than 5 degrees of being perpendicular in all four corners.

I'm feeling pretty pleased with that. Now I just need to bite the bullet and actually cut the floorboards away to make room for the new boards that are still sitting waiting for me to do something useful with them.

[Cloudwalker]

Sunday April 28 I will be singing The Lord's Prayer at our 8:15 service.

[RabbiKnife]

Sunday April 28 I will be singing The Lord's Prayer at our 8:15 service.

The Malotte arrangement?

[Cloudwalker]

Sunday April 28 I will be singing The Lord's Prayer at our 8:15 service.

The Malotte arrangement?

Absolutely.  Is there another?

[RabbiKnife]

Sister Jane Mead’s folk rock version fr 1974 is pretty good!

[tango]

Speed repeats in 20mph winds today wasn't fun. My legs hated me.

In unrelated news I cut the first floorboard to length and found the edges aren't quite straight in one particular spot. It's really close but when butted up against the adjacent boards they don't quite match. The gap is small, maybe small enough to just stain it and accept that something very narrow landing on just the right (wrong?) spot might slip through the gap. Alternatively I can fuss with putting tongue-and-groove edges on the boards, but I'd really rather not have to deal with the hassle.

I can only assume I twisted the board ever so slightly on the table saw, which is frustrating because now I'm not sure the best way to fix the issue. Maybe I can just hide it and figure it won't matter. In a house that's over 100 years old I'm sure few people will be surprised at a tiny gap between some floorboards.

The bigger issue is trying to level all the joists. This part is where the house was extended and the quality of workmanship is visibly lower than the rest of the house. I fear I may need buddy joists to present a suitably straight surface so the boards don't undulate when I secure them down. That in turn means I'm going to need a bunch of extra 2x4s to screw into the joists, which is a hassle all of its own.But at least there's some progress, and I really do like the look of red oak.

[RabbiKnife]

Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler

[IMINXTC]

Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler

Sister's meatloaf

[tango]

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.

[IMINXTC]

Okay. Bout time to start a thread or two, stir up some controversy or at least some jealous passions, if possible.
Working on it 

It's what I do best(?)

[ProDeo]

Okay. Bout time to start a thread or two, stir up some controversy or at least some jealous passions, if possible.
Working on it 

It's what I do best(?)

We will see... 

[IMINXTC]

Politics? Nope; let that one pass

[tango]

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.