You could literally have the hardwood floor look in every room, using laminate, vinyl and tile.
The only place I like carpet is in the bedrooms.

@RevStench#3208 Wow thanks! I'll have to save up and get ahold of you! I love IE everyone's so helpful and kind

I'm 23 and a newer home owner so I'm excited to make the place look nice

This is tile in a bathroom.

@Whitelash bro we can help you

*Identity Evropa: You can do it. We can help.*

Finished this one, pretty basic but might be a good lesson to start with

Nice!

Nice bro, looks good. Here's a great little chart to help with how high thing's should be.

That's pretty wild where did you get that chart at? Is that something that you got at work

@Deleted User I honestly can't remember. It was on my phone from Dec 2015. Not from work, but it's a good one.

@Alexander B. - SC looks sharp

Painting today. Anyone interested in learning how to paint like a boss? No tape cut in?

Yup

I'm actually talented at cutting for some strange reason

Yeah go for it, should be interesting to see

First thing, you pull paint no smear. It's like using a file, one direction.
You dip your paint brush in the paint. Wipe one side off using the lip of the can.

You paint with one side of the brush, pulling the paint.

To hold, grip the brush really low on the brush, using your fingers to make the bristles stiff.

Take your time and pull the paint. Steady hands

It all comes down to how you hold it. I use the 3 fingers on the bristles to stiffen them for better control.

Here's my shop

I love shop pics haha

Anyone good with plumbing

What problem are you having? @Whitelash

I do plumbing too

I live In upstate New York so my water pump outside is always frozen in the winter

I'm going to try and get my water pump inside and re fun all the pipeing

How hard should it be?

If you are talking about reconnecting the pump once it's inside the house it should not be too bad. They make a product called pecs which is a plastic water line with compression fittings. The requires a $100 tool to crimp them but when you're done you can take it back to Home Depot and return it for your money. If you're talking about rerunning pipe outside I would need a little more information. But anytime you can keep a water line deeper than 18 inches in the ground it won't freeze

*PEX

I am reconnecting it inside, thanks I'll have to look into it!

The plastic pipe has changeovers where you can connect to the existing copper it's very easy to run then color coded blue and red

I have an issue with a the doorway into my basement. First problem is that the bottom of the doorway is a quarter of an inch offset from the top. The second is there is not enough room on one side for the trim and I don't want to trim it to make it fit. Soooo I'm ripping it all out and doing it right. My question is how do I rough out the doorway to the appropriate size and ensure I have room on both sides for the trim? The door I have is 31 5/8" and with sheet rock up I only have a 37 " span. Once the trim is around the frame it's 36 1/2" so my rough out has almost no margin for error.

When you're roughing in for a door the rough opening is always about an inchor so bigger than your prehung door. That way you could shim on either side to true it up. If your casing is 31 and 5/8 inches if you put your rough opening approximately an inch greater and Center it in the opening to the basement you should be able to se t the prehung door and shim it to get it centered and true

@Placidseven - MO

I guess I should just spend the money foe a prehung door instead of trying to use the salvaged one I have.

I did not catch that sorry. Yes trying to frame in and hang a door is rough to do. Plus you have to go back and trim it all out. If you get a Ford a prehung door it would go a lot quicker and easier on you. Just try to find one that matches the opening so you don't have a lot of drywall patching

*can afford

@Placidseven - MO greg is totally right. I'll try to get to a door today if I can to show you how I do it.
Is your old door hollow? Or is it a slab or an old 5 panel?

@RevStench are you going to Charlottsville

@RevStench it's a 6 panel hollow core.

@Deleted User no sir, we're working every Saturday until who knows when. We picked up a few houses in Lexington.
@Placidseven - MO the advice Greg gave you is best, with that door. And I have to give you props for doing right and not doing some half assed hack job. Way to act your color hahaha

So I broke my favorite chisel on Monday and only had a Lowe's close by to go to and I picked up this thing. It's my new favorite toy.

I know @Jhawk nc wanted to go over sharpening knives and chisels, well Friday I'm going to spend the first part of my day sharpening all my hand tools(knife, chisel, and crosscut saw). I'll put together a little tutorial for you fellas, common sense stuff.

@Placidseven - MO#5546 I've hung probably over 100 salvage doors making my own jambs and milling my own trim etc. just make sure you have plenty of shims on hand. The long cedar work the best. It can get complicated especially if you mortis your hinges. Need a good router or laminate trimmer.
With a pre-hung most of the jambs are adjustable and the door is already hinged. Don't forget your level!

There's a ton of step by step vids on YouTube if you wanna go with the salvage. It is super rewarding after you get it done. I milled and hung all the doors and trim in my house

I love that trim. If I could afford it i'd remove all the trim from my house and do Victorian style trim.

This is my apartment, 1892

I do this type of work as well as windows a lot. Double hung weighted or taped and leaded glass.

This one had pictures of the inside so it had to go back original, early 1900s. Reclaimed wood from an old oak barn, and they painted it white...

@Deleted User I dig that look, but can I ask why everything is so square?

@RevStench what are those serrations on the side of that chisel what are those for

@Deleted User it's for cutting, like a knife. I cut a few cut nails with it today. Worked great. Holds an edge pretty well.

Damn. Mean chisel! Lowe's Kobalt tools are pretty good I've got a few of them

Yeah the few I have hold up pretty well. I can't recommend their lineman pliers, stick with Kline, which I'm sure you know better than I do.

Yeah blown up quite a few pairs

@RevStench#3208 nice trim! Square - basically what my wife wanted when she found all those doors.

That square hardware is Emtek, pretty good stuff we spent a mint on

@CJames - TN#6244 oh right on. Now you need one of these.

Haha

Hahaha that's awesome

This guy tells me he does stained glass, shows me this...

Little bullshit window decoration. He did sell it to this lady for $375.

So I showed him my leaded glass,

The bottom sash on the double hung was broken out, and I matched the rest damn near perfectly.

I could do a video tutorial one day to show you guys some old school techniques.

It was incredibly hard to find glass.

Working on making 270 feet of dentil block today.

@RevStench#3208 that is beautiful work brother

@Deleted User thanks bro, I've only been doing stained glass for about 2 and a half years. It took me the better part of a year to get good at it. But one day it clicked, after probably a thousand hours haha, and I fight for every window job I can get now.
The real hard part is finding glass or finding someone talented enough to make the colored glass. Cutting glass is the easiest part. I wish I had the time and space to teach myself how blow glass.

Very nice

need some advice. I have a poured concrete porch and steps. I want to add wooden railing. Would I be better served to set my 4x4 in quickcrete or side mount them with concrete anchors and burying the bottom of the posts.

You don't want to bury wood in the ground, it sucks up water and rots. Bury them in concrete.

Yep or you can use galvanized base plates with wedge anchors if the posts can sit on the concrete

I'll be honest I'm struggling to design the porch. It's an awkward split level. If I just put up railing it's going to look hokey. I also need to incorporate a flower bed or retaining wall on both sides. They left us with a slope of large gravel.

Do you have roughly a 6'x6' porch, with about 4 or 5 steps?
And that slope is just off one edge of your home and you need to tie all together? Is the other side just grass all the way to the house?
I'm trying to visualize what the front of your home looks like. The land lay out.

I don't have a newer pic but there are not more shrubs. From the drive way there are 3 steps to the first 3x3 landing then turns to house 3 more steps to a 6x6 slab. On the left going up there is a 2 tier flower bed. To the right is the gravel slope.

You can't tell from the pic but the slope on the right erodes onto the steps. I've planted monkey grass which helps

Oh ok, you should look into iron hand rails, there's a lot of styles and you can even get custom made ones if you're feeling fancy. But iron will blend in more because they are skinny.
It's weird there's a gravel slope on the right.
If you made the hand rails out of wood I get what you mean it would look hokey. I'll have to think about that. I don't build a lot of things like this regularly so I need to brainstorm.

I agree with the fabricated iron. And my earlier comment about base plates only really works if the posts are used in framing something up. Doesn't work so well just for handrails

@Placidseven - MO bro I haven't forgotten about you, I've been talking with some others guys who build decks for a living, trying to get you some sort of classy game plan.

The flower beds on the left, are they like wooden retaining wall. Railroad ties?

Sorry I use the word like a lot, I'm a valley girl!! Haha

Please excuse my nigger teir landscaping

Lol

So I was thinking of doing something similar on the other side but redoing the existing flower beds with 2×8 and 4x4 cedar

Like so

You forgot the pyramids, bruh. To be nigger tier you have to have pyramids. They wuz kangz

Epic fail at cultural appropriation

Lol. Couldn't resist the temptation on that one.

@Placidseven - MO very nice

and I know it would increase my cost but I was thinking about using concrete form tube and these post bases to make it easier to replace the posts when needed. Instead of having to dig out the concrete.

@Placidseven - MO I like that flower bed. So you're thinking of doing that flower bed on both sides? That would look really nice.
Do you have to bust some concrete on the driveway to set that post against the house?

I know you're not pulling a permit but you need to check code for railing in your state so if you sell your home you won't have to replace it. In KY rail height is 36in and handrails are 34in, measuring from the nose of the tread.
Sorry I'm scatter brained today, had to work in rain on scaffolding 60ft up, I'm not very happy today haha.
And sorry I ask so many questions, I love this stuff.
@Deleted User suggested something like that anchor for concrete, I totally agree if you plan on living in that house that long. Haha
They say that pressure treated lumber can last for 40 years buried.