haha it was Sunday, he was getting ready for church.

@whitelash1488#3099 if you're looking to change the look of a room relatively inexpensively, you can add chair rails, picture rails, crown molding, or wainscoting to the walls. Adding 5 1/4in baseboard, if you don't already have it, can make a big difference to a room. And I can teach you scarf joints and mitered coping joints!
Here's a house I added crown, a chair rail and we added I think the baseboard was something like 8inches.

Oh this is vinyl, it looks great too. There are a ton of options for flooring.

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