Woodworking, DIY, and home repair thread

[UT_OB1 2,217]

Building a small 6x8 shed in our backyard to clear some of the shit out of our garage - mostly the bikes. 

 

Nit an expert at this, but have poured a pad, framed it, and got some of the sides and roof up. Have a small dip in the middle of the pad that I’ll need to fill in. 
 

Edited September 4, 2023 by UT_OB1

[Gil Bang 25,922]

1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

Building a small 6x8 shed in our backyard to clear some of the shit out of our garage - mostly the bikes. 

 

Nit an expert at this, but have poured a pad, framed it, and got some of the sides and roof up. Have a small dip in the middle of the pad that I’ll need to fill in. 
 

You should block where the rafters meet the top plate.

[uoftorange 1,386]

4 hours ago, Okie State said:

A few finishing details left, but pretty much there

Looks really good!  Nice work

[UT_OB1 2,217]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

You should block where the rafters meet the top plate.

Yep. Hopefully get to that this week.  Need to add blocking for the studs too. Have a wall and ridge to put in. I also keep looking at it and thinking I should put some trim here and there and caulk the shit out of this or that, then I remember that 99/100 times I’m going to be the only one that closes the door(not yet installed)

 

 

Edited September 5, 2023 by UT_OB1

[Okie State 3,816]

Starting to build these organizers for all our kitchen drawers. Pretty easy and kind of fun.

[Okie State 3,816]

Added this walnut trim under the sink today. I love the small details like this.

[Gil Bang 25,922]

well done!

[Jkwellborn 6,695]

You buy the piece already cut like that?

[Okie State 3,816]

You buy the piece already cut like that?

No. Bought it a while back and just got around to making it fit. It's a 1x2 with a 22.5x22.5x45 cut on the ends.

[heso 2,787]

On 9/22/2023 at 1:12 PM, Okie State said:

Starting to build these organizers for all our kitchen drawers. Pretty easy and kind of fun.

What material did you use for the liner?

[Okie State 3,816]

What material did you use for the liner?

https://drymate.com/shop/home-garden/drymate-premium-shelf-liner/

[Celery Man 20,933]

On 5/9/2023 at 9:59 AM, Celery Man said:

ok I think this is the right thread, looking for some smarter opinions on what dumb thing I'm missing or if I need an electrician or what

We have a screened in porch.

It has a ceiling fan with a light, some rope lighting around the edge (in the molding or whatever) - those are controlled by the three covered switches circled in green. They have worked in the past, as recently as early to mid april when I was out here mopping the pollen off at night.

It has an outlet (circled in yellowish orange). It has never worked as long as I've lived here. I've made a few feeble attempts at figuring it out and have had a contractor who has done some small repair projects look and we haven't figured it out. There's another outlet on the side of the house nearby, same deal.

It has a porch light (circled in fuchsia) which is controlled by a switch on the other side of that door and works.

It has speakers in the ceiling that are controlled by the volume knob (faintly circled in blue) above the light switches. Those work. There are also speakers in the kitchen and the master bath upstairs that all connect to the same sonos up on the third floor, they all have independent volume control in the wall like this guy does.

Anyways, obviously I've checked the fuse box multiple times and have toggled the breaker for this area to see if that would bring to life either the outdoor outlets or the light switches. The outlets are... I think GFCI protected but don't have a reset button or anything. I've meant to get an electrician out for the outlets but haven't gotten around to it/i think it's been hard to get anyone out for small jobs for a while but that may be getting better.

The switches are the thing that I'm trying to figure out right now - I would like to be able to turn on the light/fan/rope lights. My working theory is that the cleaning lady flipped a switch somewhere that somehow turns that whole circuit or whatever off or on. There are 20 switches in the downstairs main living area on the other side of those windows and I've walked around trying to toggle them all to see if it would bring the porch fan/lights to life. Haven't found it yet. Maybe there's something weird (switch somewhere more random that does this) - I know that a lot of the porch stuff was done after the house was built, it wouldn't surprise me if there was something weird.

Any thoughts? Is there some crazy obvious thing that I'm not trying or haven't thought of? If I can't figure it out, is an electrician who I need to just figure out the whole thing?

I gave up on this forever ago, been busy enough with everything else. Some other electrical shit busted so back to investigating and….

 

 

duh, no shit whatever was broken was in the mystery hole in the wall, and of course it was a tv. Hey, free tv.

[Okie State 3,816]

Wait...you had that little door in the wall and a TV was behind it?

[Jkwellborn 6,695]

So that was the setup you’ve had for like 8 months wondering why you had a dead plug and didn’t think to look behind that? Or was it someone else?

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4,975]

How did you not look to see what was behind door number 1 while moving in? 

[heso 2,787]

I’ve developed a fascination with hand marbled paper and went down a bookbinding rabbit hole, making a couple handmade journals for gifts.

I just made this box with some hand marbled paper from Brazil.





crepaldi.marbled.paper is his instagram. He posts some videos of how he makes the paper.

[Celery Man 20,933]

Yeah, there was a tv behind that little door - I figured it would be set up for that but it’s also such a small door that it seems pointless. It was locked with a different key and the hinges were rusty, prior owner couldn’t come up with the key. We had a baby immediately after moving in and it just never even ranked as a priority past a few feeble attempts to get the pins out. In retrospect obviously that’s where the tripped gfci was, I just stopped even thinking about the door.

[Okie State 3,816]

Early stages of a Lego table for the kids.

[uoftorange 1,386]

Been working on a few projects myself:

First up is the fireplace redo.  I'm still rebuilding the mantle, but was tired of not having the new TV up so got the rest done.  So I left the current mantle in place for now.  85" Samsung Frame.  The wall had a lot of bad molding on it, when we moved in I had flattened it out.  Decided to add some molding and paint it Iron Ore (one of the new basic bitch colors that goes well with the other basic bitch Agreeable Gray).




After the mantle is tackled I'll be squaring off the top of that arch to the right, and replacing the doors with some shaker style doors.  The mantle is going to be less ornate and bulkier.  Replacing the granite with white marble styled tile

[UT_OB1 2,217]

@uoftorange I don’t think I’m ocd, but the lack of a matching arch on the left side is bothering the shit out of me. 

[uoftorange 1,386]

4 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

@uoftorange I don’t think I’m ocd, but the lack of a matching arch on the left side is bothering the shit out of me. 

It pisses me off, I agree.  That's why I'm going to square it off instead so it looks more cohesive.  Same reason for the shaker doors

[wd40 1,976]

wine cork dart board backer thing, and scoreboard.

[Anastasis 23,464]

Basic dumb question amnesty requested. "Need" to install a 100# punching bag in the boy's room. Have this wall mount that looks like below. Am I a dumbass for thinking that I can get by with mounting a couple 2x6 flush, lagging those into the studs and then lagging this mount into those 2x6s? I honestly don't like the idea of mounting this thing in his room at all and would rather it go into the garage, but reasons. 

 

[UT_OB1 2,217]

2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Basic dumb question amnesty requested. "Need" to install a 100# punching bag in the boy's room. Have this wall mount that looks like below. Am I a dumbass for thinking that I can get by with mounting a couple 2x6 flush, lagging those into the studs and then lagging this mount into those 2x6s? I honestly don't like the idea of mounting this thing in his room at all and would rather it go into the garage, but reasons. 

 

Are you asking because the bolts don’t line up with the studs?  If so, I think you’d be fine. I’ve done similar plenty of times. 

[Okie State 3,816]

Just use some drywall anchors. Should be good.

[Anastasis 23,464]

43 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

Are you asking because the bolts don’t line up with the studs?  If so, I think you’d be fine. I’ve done similar plenty of times. 

Correct. The mount will not span two studs. 

[deadshank 24,652]

14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Correct. The mount will not span two studs. 

Cross mount a metal (or wood) ledger to the studs.   Mount the punching bag base mount to the ledger.  
 

Murderize ‘em, Rock!

[Anastasis 23,464]

1 hour ago, deadshank said:

Cross mount a metal (or wood) ledger to the studs.   Mount the punching bag base mount to the ledger.  
 

Murderize ‘em, Rock!

The mount plate is like 13.5" wide and 9" tall.  I think I am going to do this with just a 2x12 cut to 20" length or so.  

[Gil Bang 25,922]

1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

The mount plate is like 13.5" wide and 9" tall.  I think I am going to do this with just a 2x12 cut to 20" length or so.  

That will work fine. 

[uoftorange 1,386]

I'd go 35 inches and make sure it spans 3 studs.  Should help with the sheer force and never be a problem.  2 studs is probably fine, but 3 would be better

[Jkwellborn 6,695]

I’d buy a freestanding setup.

[thunderlounge 7,815]

^^^ that

[utee94 15,808]

1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:

I’d buy a freestanding setup.

 

1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:

^^^ that

+2.  We bought something like this for my 14yo son.  It takes up a lot of room but I like it a lot better as a solution rather than lagging support pieces through a bunch of studs.

 

 

[uoftorange 1,386]

The wall stud system should be fine.  I think the footprint in a bedroom for that would just be way too much

 

[thunderlounge 7,815]

17 minutes ago, uoftorange said:

The wall stud system should be fine.  I think the footprint in a bedroom for that would just be way too much

 

 

Guess it depends if the repairs to the wall in 6 months (after 5 months of collecting dust) is worth it or not. Me personally, it's not. Kids are fickle, and their focus/interest changes way too frequently, IMO.

[utee94 15,808]

4 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

 

Guess it depends if the repairs to the wall in 6 months (after 5 months of collecting dust) is worth it or not. Me personally, it's not. Kids are fickle, and their focus/interest changes way too frequently, IMO.

Agree 100%.  

Like I said, it takes up a lot of room, but he still has room for a twin bed, dresser, and a crappy Ikea Expedit bookshelf thing.

[davidg 4,036]

 

 

[deadshank 24,652]

9 hours ago, davidg said:

 

 

That is so interesting and captivating. Thanks for posting.  

[uoftorange 1,386]

Not quite done yet, still needs another coat of paint and grouting of the tile, but the mantle is built and tile is up!

Reminder I'm squaring off the right and replacing the doors with shaker ones later on, so the look will be complete then.  

Also going to paint my frame for the frame tv a better gold.  The sand gold just doesn't work

Build done:

First coat of paint:

Second coat of paint:

[heso 2,787]

Speaking of hand planes, here is a before and after of a Stanley no 3 hand plane I restored about a year ago. I bought it and a few others at a farm auction for $5 each.

As best I can date it, it appears to be a type 11, which would put its manufacture date between 1910-1918.

It takes a hell of a lot of elbow grease along with some rust remover and sandpaper to get it cleaned up and functioning properly. But once it’s sharp and set up, even at over 100 years old it works far better than any entry level plane made in the last 50 years, and not all that far off from the Lie-Nielsen version that costs 60x what I paid for this one.

Plus mine is so old that it has Brazilian rosewood handles.

[dieucla98 2,942]

Love it - I have a vintage (60s?) Stanley jointer plane and a vintage Japanese plane (equivalent to a 4.5). Recently had them tuned up and they are amazing to work with now. Those steels last incredibly well.

[heso 2,787]

Question for the woodworkers that have a jointer: Do you have a 6” or 8” jointer, and if you have a 6 do you often find yourself wishing you had those extra 2 inches? I’m trying to decide if I’d constantly be wishing I would have spent the extra $1k to go with 8” instead of 6”. 

[Shoxthemonkey 1,977]

16 minutes ago, heso said:

Question for the woodworkers that have a jointer: Do you have a 6” or 8” jointer, and if you have a 6 do you often find yourself wishing you had those extra 2 inches? I’m trying to decide if I’d constantly be wishing I would have spent the extra $1k to go with 8” instead of 6”. 

I'm not a polished woodworker with lots of equipment but I am involved with a machine shop and equipment for metal working. Always get the next size bigger if you have the floor space and $$$ to do so.

[Jkwellborn 6,695]

Im in the same boat. I want a jointer and can’t decide. I’d like a stand up 8” floor jointer with a spiral head. I’m not sure I’d ever need it but, I’d rather have something more than what I’d normally use, just in case.

For the time being, I considered getting an 8” grizzly benchtop from Home Depot, but the reviews are fairly hit or miss.

[heso 2,787]

14 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

I'm not a polished woodworker with lots of equipment but I am involved with a machine shop and equipment for metal working. Always get the next size bigger if you have the floor space and $$$ to do so.

I absolutely do not have the floor space, but I’m weighing the quality of life improvement of being able to quickly run a board across a jointer and have a flat face instead of having to take the time to shim and hot glue a board to a long piece of melamine and then feed that through the planer to get a flat face vs making my shop even tighter than it already is. It would probably end up going between my bench/asssembly table/outfeed table and the wall. I’d end up putting retractable casters on the table so that I could pull it out to get to the jointer. Fuck I need a bigger space. 

[uoftorange 1,386]

One of the reasons I don't have a jointer is because I want an 8" and not the 6" and haven't found a good enough deal yet.  And from what I've seen it's definitely the way to go if you can.

[heso 2,787]

15 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

Im in the same boat. I want a jointer and can’t decide. I’d like a stand up 8” floor jointer with a spiral head. I’m not sure I’d ever need it but, I’d rather have something more than what I’d normally use, just in case.

For the time being, I considered getting an 8” grizzly benchtop from Home Depot, but the reviews are fairly hit or miss.

My space and wallet are telling me to get an 8” bench top helical cutter. But I’m just trying to envision how much I’ll hate trying to deal with the short bed, short fence, and how accurate I can get it to be. 

My brain and my heart are telling me that the setup I have right now is working well enough that I should just wait until I can justify getting the 8” floor model. 

[utee94 15,808]

10 minutes ago, heso said:

My space and wallet are telling me to get an 8” bench top helical cutter. But I’m just trying to envision how much I’ll hate trying to deal with the short bed, short fence, and how accurate I can get it to be. 

My brain and my heart are telling me that the setup I have right now is working well enough that I should just wait until I can justify getting the 8” floor model. 

Tell your brain, space, and wallet to take a hike.

Tell your heart to catch up to your dream of that 8" floor model, and then follow your heart.

 

[uoftorange 1,386]

I need want things in my workshop.  An 8 inch jointer, which frankly I can work without and have forever.  But I have a 20 year old Delta contractor saw that is true, but is dust hell even with the mods I've made to close it in.  And it's just not as powerful as I'd like.  But damn, 3500 for a table saw that I want is rough

[Jkwellborn 6,695]

My space and wallet are telling me to get an 8” bench top helical cutter. But I’m just trying to envision how much I’ll hate trying to deal with the short bed, short fence, and how accurate I can get it to be. 
My brain and my heart are telling me that the setup I have right now is working well enough that I should just wait until I can justify getting the 8” floor model. 

The grizzly expands to like 52” I think. I watched the video on Home Depot’s site. I’ve got enough gift cards to get it for next to nothing. It’s only $450 I think.

I need want things in my workshop.  An 8 inch jointer, which frankly I can work without and have forever.  But I have a 20 year old Delta contractor saw that is true, but is dust hell even with the mods I've made to close it in.  And it's just not as powerful as I'd like.  But damn, 3500 for a table saw that I want is rough

Sawstop? I want one but can’t justify it.