Sounds dead sexy, but I'm an urbanite living in a small-ish box in Vancouver. Is there a suitable air set-up for a weekend warrior like me that will do the job and not take up a tonne of storage space? I know nothing about compressors and would be worried about noise issues with the strata if I'm keeping the compressor in a common area. On the plus side sure would be helpful when it comes time to install new baseboards!
OTOH a rotary hammer drill or angle grinder are smaller investments that I'll (probably) get other uses out of too, and are more storable.
Sucks not being able to afford four detached walls.
Make sure to poly the area off and wear a mask, it's dustier than a fotzes Mom joke.
You could also do a self leveling concrete
Never thought about the concrete idea. Right now it's a 1/4" step down from hardwood to tile, and if I level the tile area (and add in a membrane that the strata insists upon for noise control) then the step down might be from tile to hardwood. Could work!
Sucks not being able to afford four detached walls.
Haha. Even the collective CP demographic, where everyone is top 1%er, will have a tough time affording 4 walls in Vancouver!
When it comes to tile, anything that you can go over instead of rip out is good in my books, where possible.
Good luck with the project!
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Curious if anyone else has come up with a great solution for a dog in a new home with an unfinished yard? Right now we take her for walks but we have had a bad string of rain lately which makes it hard to keep her feet clean. Way to much hassle. Our deck is done with stairs down to the mud, I was thinking of putting some gravel or sod down for her to use with a snow fence around it. Make shift until the spring melt is over and we can do it up properly. I was leaning towards gravel because she has been trained not to pee on the grass, but sod seems so much cheaper and easier to clean up in the spring. Just pick it up and throw it out. I only need a 10 x 5 area or so at the most. Anyone else dealt with this?
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Mostly finished off my terrace after it partially collapsed in late August.
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Just have to put everything that was out there back and do some final clean up and it's finished. Nice to get another project scratched off the to-do list.
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Mostly finished off my terrace after it partially collapsed in late August.
Just have to put everything that was out there back and do some final clean up and it's finished. Nice to get another project scratched off the to-do list.
Maybe some spoiler tags there for the size.
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Does anyone have an idea to store/organize bikes in a garage? Planning to park both vehicles in the garage during the winter but our bikes, 2 adults and 2 kids bikes, are in the way. They are currently secured in the ceiling but dont want them falling off the cars. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas.
Anybody know if there is any possible way to use existing telephone or coax wiring throughout the house as a guide for fishing Ethernet cable around? It's kind of a long shot, but I was hoping to drill as few new holes around as possible. Maybe even just replacing the phone jack locations with Ethernet ports. I guess the pain point is the cables are probably stapled to studs along the wall. Just wondering if anybody has some tips for doing this as unobtrusively as possible. The only thing I can think of it trying to use the heating ducts and locating my router/switch in the furnace room. Any precautions doing that? I don't think the heat will be too bad, but chattering cables would drive me nuts.
Does anyone have an idea to store/organize bikes in a garage? Planning to park both vehicles in the garage during the winter but our bikes, 2 adults and 2 kids bikes, are in the way. They are currently secured in the ceiling but dont want them falling off the cars. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas.
I bought 2 bike hoists from Canadian Tire a few years ago that I never ended up using. If you are interested in them let me know.
Anybody know if there is any possible way to use existing telephone or coax wiring throughout the house as a guide for fishing Ethernet cable around? It's kind of a long shot, but I was hoping to drill as few new holes around as possible. Maybe even just replacing the phone jack locations with Ethernet ports. I guess the pain point is the cables are probably stapled to studs along the wall. Just wondering if anybody has some tips for doing this as unobtrusively as possible. The only thing I can think of it trying to use the heating ducts and locating my router/switch in the furnace room. Any precautions doing that? I don't think the heat will be too bad, but chattering cables would drive me nuts.
I was hoping to do the same thing but as you mentioned the phone cables were stapled and couldn't be used for fishing the Ethernet cable. Luckily for me, we have a large open wall/cavity that goes from the basement up to the attic. I can run cables from the basement router up to the attic and drop the lines into the walls from the attic.
I was hoping to do the same thing but as you mentioned the phone cables were stapled and couldn't be used for fishing the Ethernet cable. Luckily for me, we have a large open wall/cavity that goes from the basement up to the attic. I can run cables from the basement router up to the attic and drop the lines into the walls from the attic.
What did you do about insulated walls? Or did you have to deal with any?
I want to put this dryer vent hose on the left side of this floor joist.
Is there any issues with me cutting a 4" hole in there so I can pop the vent through? Any issues if I did it to two of them in a row?
What did you do about insulated walls? Or did you have to deal with any?
I put the cables down interior walls. The only other thing that I had to deal with was blocking about half way down the wall. Had to open up the wall and drill through the blocking.
Not much you can do to reuse old cabling unfortunately. If you're looking for something to make your life a bit easier, check out klein tools fish sticks. They're little carbon rods that have metal threading on the end. Also heres a drywallers trick he taught me (yes I learned something from a drywaller):
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