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How much would it cost and how tedious would it be to>pay someone to take out carpet and put a new one in>Attempt to take out old carpet and put a new one in myself In a living room with 4 couches, big TV stand, ottoman, small coffee table, drawer, big glass lamp + misc things on the floorI go to the mechanic for oil changes
>>2791779The carpet and pad are going to be like a couple grand or so. Install maybe a thousand.The guy I use did a bedroom with a closet for around $600.It's not that expensive.I think it's totally worth it to hire someone who has done it a thousand times before and knows what they're doing.I know this is /diy/ but that's my opinion, man.
>>2791793WTF
>>2790204fuck you doing with that guandao
>>2790232billhooks are way better than machetes
>Do you even melt, bro?I did my first casting today, I'm totally a foundryman now. My first two melts earlier in the week I made some ingots, just melting soda cans. >>2783890Yesterday I made my first flask from a spare fencepost, and some greensand from sifted playsand and a mix of sodium bentonite and calcium bentonite. Yard marking calcium carbonate as parting powder, worked great. Designed a little ashtray in Fusion360 and turned it into a pattern. I did a pretty bad job but I was impatient and really wanted everything ready to do this casting today. Rammed up fine, might've been a little dry, but just barely. Worked out okay though, very happy with the result after a brief cleanup.Do you scrap? Stack? Do you sell signs on Etsy? Do you sand cast? Investment casting? Do you like huffing zinc fumes and snorting silica powder? Show me your furnace, show me your castings.Sand and jpeg compression don't get along.
Hey anons, is there a good place to order tongs from? Everything I've seen is Chinesium. I'm looking specificially for tongs to safely lift a crucible and a pair with some sort of retainer for safer pouring.
>>2791654>Everything I've seen is Chinesium.That's why I made my own. They're shit, yet somehow still cheaper, more robust, and safer than the import crap.
>>2785972Are these air hockey paddles? I really don't know what I'm looking at.
>>2789996That's an arm?
>>2791795Ashtrays.>>2791796If you want it to be.
Trade Jobs Are DYING OUT...https://youtu.be/6DRm86qmXbs?si=BXi150ZR0VYKCqdQWhy is this so ???? >inb4 >yea low pay is going to be one of the main factors.https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-paying-trade-jobs-sit-empty-while-high-school-grads-line-up-for-university
>>2791783Maybe if they paid more and didn’t expect 22 year olds to have 8 years experience.
>>2791783It’s pretty simple. Tradesmen usually take advantage of unskilled people. Young people actually want to do trades but don’t want to be taken advantage off. You can’t expect me to know everything if I’m a beginner. If you do get a job with these tradesmen, they usually yell at you and they’re pretty condescending. You don’t give people chances you expect everyone to be up to your expectations on the first day.
I am moving up north soon where everything is 3x as expensive. My new house has a large garage though, and I'd like to have a workshop. I just don't know what I should buy before I go to save money.
I'm planning to make a new desk out of a rubberwood countertop from lowes. I was going to get the legs separately on Amazon. I think this is everything I'll need, right? I've never done anything like this before.
>>2788951>>2791308i paid like 60€ for mine and its a solid casting with handle and fitting thread pitch for a bench vise. but go ahead, save 20$ and curse the fucking thing everytime you have to use it
>>2790939You can use polyurethane or regular shellac as a seal coat before staining to prevent splotches. It prevents the stain from absorbing into the wood, and makes it work as a glaze instead of a stain. I would recommend this approach. Both are easy to apply to bare wood. It also makes it easier to remove if you want to change the finish down the road. The downside is that you get a little less of the stain color per coat, and scratches are more likely to show. Extra top coat can mitigate that.
>>2791772How much to dilute it, like 25% polyurethane to 75% denatured alchohol?Also, it’s amazing it seems nobody has come up a cheap alternative to shellac (or artificial shellac)
>>2791777You don't need to dilute it
So housing is too expensive as it is and I've been feeling ambitious as of late. So more and more I've been interested in taking a task like this. I have the know how and I have family that have built homes before that have taught me the ropes as well as would be willing to help, but I'm not sure about having the time at least right now, so it's more of a future project. People are saying 5000 sq ft would cost anywhere between 400k to 1 mil, so 10,000 sq ft they would estimate as more. 10467 sq ft total living space, fireplace, and basement are in the plans. Planning to build on the west coast, Anchorage Alaska, or in a few options in Russia. Foundations are the most expensive thing to build, so I could take care of that to cover labor costs. Does anybody have estimates for this being viable below 1 mil? Or would you say this is pointless dreaming?
>>2790674>or in a few options in Russiathis is how you do itjust get some local drunkards to help you dig a shallow hole and shovel some concrete in itthen start laying aerated concrete blocks around the foundationseasy as shit. unless you're gonna build in a seismically active area then you are completely fucked because building out of any masnory there increases effort tremendously, it is very much possible but you need to pour loads of reinforced concrete now>10000sqftforget it lmao
>>2790674These days, the house isn't what's expensive, it's the land.
>>2790816Have fun losing all your money
>>2790687>I don't know anything about it but my uncle might know something about it but yeah you'd need to learn more about itGreat post, thanks.
>>2790674Steel barn houses are 1/3 the price. NEXT
How much will it cost to have this ceiling replaced? Hate mould
million dollars
That'll run you at least two Mexicans.More is Mr Mike has to get involved.But realistically, you could do for under 300 dollars. They got them fancy lifts that holds your gypsum board up and crank it right up to the ceiling studs / joists.
>>2791726If you have water damage in the ceiling it means your roof is fucking leaking. Hire a reputable roofer if you're not willing to get up there yourself or no you're not experienced to diagnose the issue. Get before and after pics, it's probably an easy fix, but the roofer will try to sell you on the whole roof. Replace and repaint the ceiling yourself.
I want to get an electrician or HVAC apprenticeship, but I can't take a pre trade course. What are some ways I can teach myself so that I can show I have some idea of what I'm doing?
>>2791746>but I can't take a pre trade courseyou sure? most prisons have programz you can do while your waiting to parole out
>>2791746Go join the IBEW. There is just an attitude test. You don't need prior knowledge
>>2791746You should be able to work it out from here
>>2791762Not American >>2791757I work full time and can't afford to give up this job yet
Do these work?
I put one in one of the bedrooms in my house that never got enough heating/cooling and it had virtually no effect. If you're having problems with circulation you're better off just setting the fan on the ac/furnace to run constantly. My fan has been running non stop for about 12 years and every room maintains the same temperature that way.
>>2791704You install it on a supply register and it supposedly pulls air from other rooms into the room it's installed in. Doesn't do shit in actuality though.
>>2791699Central air fag problems.
>>2791751>t. split system brownoid with the pump on the balcony
>>2791699>Do these work?They're like fishing lures, if you bought one it did what it was manufactured to do.
What needs to be done to mouse proof old places like this with lots of random little holes? Thinking of buying the place in rural Australia.There's mouse droppings around...
>>2791740get a cat
>>2791740> Thinking of buying the place in rural Australia.Mice will be the last thing you’ll be worrying about m8
a house made of brick and cement not sticks
What is this?Seen in a house I inspected today in rural NSW
Spider shit
I have unlimited sand where I live. I want to make it into Silicon for fun, and maybe if I’m retarded enough I will become a silicon mogul and oust Taiwan. What do I do if I want to purify silica from sand and turn silica in to silicon?I imagine I could use a panning method with water and a rotating pan maybe? Then add crushed charcoal and put it in a furnace to make CO2 and Si?
>>2791033>pure coke (not the drug)i think he needs pure coke (the actual drug) to get this to work.
>>2791383XD actually u might have a point
>>2790557Most of the world class silicon used in semiconductor manufacturer is derived from quartz mines in very few locations not sand
>>2791733And for the next generation of silicon you're going to need to be able to produce 99.999999% pure
>>2790557You can't beat Taiwan. There is a special quartz cave in North Carolina that you don't have access to
Is there anyway how to get Solidworks for free? Solid Edge has free license for hobbyists but I would like Solidworks since its more popular. I dont want to pirate it unless its only option.
>>2787299A guy I knew in college was using a pirated version of Solidworks and one day he got an email from them listing every single time he used the software. They know, and they will do something about it eventually.
Someone suggested running sw on a vm, I tried installing our legit sw copy on a vm at the office but it didn't let me.
>>2791193I use it in a vm (as linux is my main os) and it works fine. It doesn't take much to configure a vm to make it not look like a vm to things like sw
>>2790515Oh I absolutely have, oh well lads guess it's over.
A legit installation of SW can know if a file was made with a cracked copy. That's why we have to seats at my job now.
I live in a small apartment with my girlfriend, and lately I've noticed that one specific corner of my wall, in the living room, is starting to bubble out. I believe it's sheet rock walls with spackle slapped over it, and possibly painted over. I don't know if it's sudden water leakage, because of the stains, but the ceiling itself isn't bubbly or mushy. I don't hear water dripping, and the wall isn't wet when it rains outside. My landlord doesn't care at all.So anyway, I was thinking of scrapping the spackle away, it's about a 2x2ft section. Then just applying some. There doesn't seem to be any pattern that they used, if you look at the wall they kind of just went crazy with it. I was also thinking of using some sort of sealant where the wall meets the ceiling, it looks like they did that before. Is there anything I need to know before doing this? The spackle is currently so crumbly that I feel like I could scrape it off with my fingers. But I have a putty knife and am going to borrow a shopvac and just scrape it off and spackle it up. Seems pretty straight forward, I just feel like I'm missing something? Do I need to prime something first...or just do it?
>>2791622I don't think you should do anything to it, you've already asked the landlord to spend money on it and been told no. If you ruin something or find a larger problem, you could be held to blame under the rental contract you signed, and be on the hook for the entire repair bill. Also there's probably asbestos mixed in with some of the building materials. Hang a tapestry over the area if it bothers you that much, put your natural fix-it instincts to work on your own belongings or activities instead.
>>2791622>My landlord isn't going to do shit.Ah, so I was right. you're living in a slum. there's no point trying to fix it because without fixing the underlying water issue there's no point. >/diy/ - Useless slum apartment rehab
>>2791640>without fixing the underlying water issue there's no pointYeah, that's not going to happen. I just wanted to know if I could slap some fucking spackle or joint compound on it so it wouldn't look like shit for the next few months I'm living here.
>>2791642Paint over it with some Kilz primer and then paint it whatever color but do it corner to corner or it'll look like ass. You can get away with spot priming it
What does your girl do? Who is the income earner. It doesn't sound like you, if you're so bored you will fix up 'your own' place. I mean that's an admirable trait, but as anon said, it's misplaced: this is strictly an issue of your landlord needing to repair the area. And you need to leave if they aren't. That's the nature of renting. They will find some other schmuck, who doesn't mind absorbing mycotoxins into their bloodstream, compromising their health, and who will pay them money for that priviledge, for a room(s) in a building the landlord already owns - controls, and you don't.It's water getting in. Whether it's a leaky pipe or leaky roof, it's likely not a job for you. Could I handle it? Yes. Would I? No. Should you? No.I'm not some dumb cunt in an apartment. I'm a dumb cunt who moved to a farm, to help out for room and board. We are the same dumb cunt, but that's to say you can do better. I refer all you young boys (males) that are missing a huge amount of basic skills, to volunteer on helpx.net etc. My journey started there, then quickly bounced to helping a friend with his farm.Now whether you can also earn the same income at the same job, probably not. But these 'lucrative' wages or salaries from jobs near cities, are fake. You are chained to paying all the bills, rent being one of them. The employer has already factored that in, to keep you under their thumb. It's not bad or good, it's a sucker's gamble.If you want to have children, there's nothing sexier than a man, who can split wood. Fresh air, the smell of woods, ample space, not being asshole to bellybutton with every other medicated wagie..
Why spend tens of thousands of dollars on campers when you could just build something like this out of free coroplast?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hltuJPPiCA4Hell you could even live on it.
I see plenty of homeless living in them so they must be at least semi-useful. Mostly just a way to keep a warmish bed ready to pass out in when you got nothing else
>>2790389>"I'm not even six foot but this could probably fit a 6 foot 3 person"Yeah no, coming from somebody that tall, I'm not gonna fit in that piece of shit let alone sleep in it. That looks like the most miserable way to sleep.
>>2790976Painter Man was put on drugs by his dubious 'physician', after an attempt on his life that nearly killed him. Mussolini wrote that his friend would not sit down. They had him on a cocaine based drug, iirc, then barbiturates to put him to sleep. Late photos of him, just before he left, had multiple bags under his eyes. That wasn't just the cost of war stress. That was from being turned into a junkie.> trump 'phedrineGoing to need to see some evidence.> Putin must be on roidsIt's amazing how well you do when you work out, get health benefits from proper therapies, know and integrate certain things into your life, and e.g. aren't on fluoridated water, and don't drink (another source of fluoride, besides the damage of alcohol). This sack of fleshy protuberances I drag around is allegedly 50 this month, but everyone assumes I'm in my early to mid-30's. I know someone who is healthy and smart, like really smart not degree smart, and he's that kind of man. It's the kind of thing that you either have a bead on, or do not. When I'm 80, people will ask me 'what's the secret?'. There really is no one secret, they need to humbly open their hearts and eyes, internal and external, to what is all around them. Besides, by then, I used to think they will be 70-80 too, and it may be... rather late; e.g. I used to think they could have listened earlier, but no one thinks to ask or cares to. I used to think they are too caught up in other stuff, trying to achieve stuff of less significance, to me. God bless them: everyone has a course, I suppose. The more you bless your perceived enemy in his course, authentically, the more you defeat your real 'enemy'.>>2790954Most trailers will fit through a door frame.
>>2791595>no drugs>proceeds to write a paragraph about all the drugs he didkek
cuterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiejAhol4Ps
anyone ever pimp one of these mofos out?
okay op here, finally back guys>>2791212kys>>2791264thought about doing a paint job on it>>2791306got it off facebook marketplace for $30... itll do the trick for what i need
>>2791378mine works fine but all of the stiffest of doughs.
>>2791310Yup. If you're doing bread the lift bowl models all have 500+ watt motors which is enough to do even pizza dough.
>>2791201Actually OP my brother painted one of those orange for my mother. He did a nice job.
>>2791690>>2791706You don’t make bread or you don’t make it often. Pizza dough, even if you’re making ny style, is 60-70% hydration and not that stressful on the mixers. Extruded pasta dough you’re generally shooting for more like 35-40% hydration which a kitchenaid will still mix with the dough hook but as stated it will shred the gear box after a few hours of that. The motor holds up fine for even that though, I’ve rebuilt mine 3x and have 0 issues with the 500w motor for even 35% doughs with crazy high gluten content. Make more bread. Staple of life, every man should be able to make a loaf of goddamn bread
