Is it better to buy the trashiest used mobile home I can find, buy a shipping container and DIY, or buy a prefab "tiny home", cuckshed, etc.? I want to do the bare minimum, the only real requirement is having a roof over my head.
>>2954235the actual home usually isn't the valuable part of real estate. anyway a quonset hut probably fits your needs.
>>2954253Based quonsets
>>2954235yurt
>>2954235>Aboslute minimum for roofTents. Just hanged fabrics held up with rods and wires. Then you can have wood framed sheds covered by fabric. Then the shed can be covered by roof and wall panels that can't be torn by sharp objects or heavy weightAnything sturdier and bigger needs foundation first so not ready on day one. Anything nicer are more about utilities and appliances.
>>2954235where are you do you have access to cash?get your hands on land. banks dont lend against land itself, gotta have other assets
I am building a bathroom in my cuckshed and I want to insulate it. However, there's no room to insulate in between the block wall (goes 3 feet up) and the pipes running to and from the hot water heater. If I insulate on the inside of the pipes, I am concerned that they could freeze on an extremely cold night because they wouldn't be getting much warmth from the inside because the insulation would be in the way. If I don't insulate near the pipes at all I know for a fact they would never freeze, because they'd get so much warmth from the bathroom (it has a register in it) but I'd lose a lot of my heat. What's the best solution?
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>>2948949>remove stud wall>2" foam insulation>return stud wall 2" insetor>clip clip pex>redrill studs in a lower or higher location centered>insulate>replace pex through new holes
>>2948949Loam it up.
>>2948949move the pipe to the centerif you don't want to tear the wall out, then just hammer in new 2x4's right next to the old ones before redrilling the holes in the center of both
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Cool free shit on Craigslist/FB marketplace
>>2949720I just took it apart, cleaned it and oiled it xD
>>2950098Good job anon. 90% of fixing shit is just degunking and cleaning stuff up so it can work properly again.
>>2945951Wow what a neat lamp :))
>>2952429Looks like he wants to give more away than just the lamp.
>>2945951not free but cheap. wish i had somewhere to put it
Dad was going to hand me down his mixer for a good deal but now I don't want it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMFyG6ILV6g
>>2951102Did you finish that with a square nose shovel?
The mud mixer is a game changer for small 1-2 yard jobs. You get consistent mixing with less work. At $2999.00 it only makes sense for a small contractor handyman business. A guy could do quite well pouring small slabs with that tool. I think I would like to have the output higher though so you could put a wheelbarrow under it. At $150+/yard plus short load fees, plus standby time it is cheaper than a readymix truck delivery for a 1 yard job i guess. 42 80 lb sacks are around 225 bucks at home depot that'll get you 1 yardish
>>2952419With a piece of wood. And at the end we run out of material so it has even some pre mixed concrete in it.It looks better after painting.
>>2948593I did a 12’x20’x4” slab for a greenhouse with the “mud mixer” and while the concrete turned out perfectly fine, the pour took ages compared to a tumble and dump. IMO it would be ideal for making mud or mortar for block work, but for my application, it meant that most of the crew I assembled basically was shovel leaning when they weren’t doing the grilling. There’s a bigger one, that would probably be better, but my local hardware store only had the one in OP’s picture.
wtf your dad makes you pay for his hand me downs?
This path has formed in my yard over the last 6 months. Undesirable individuals and packs are using it and leaving rubbish. They also make a lot of noise late at night. How do I stop this invasive behavior? Can't do a fence per HOA.
>>2939026you are in czech republic
>>2950648But they will invade open land, be a monumental pain to remove and even having them on your land, somewhat understandably, it's typically a bylaw violation. Not good advice. There are many thorny hedge plants which aren't invasive, which you often see on acerage like firethorn, and more common urban plants like juniper, holy,
>>2937699Dump some manure (or your own poop?) out there for a few weeks. Might help the grass grow back too if you spread it in.
>>2938343To find a northwest passage
>>2954232>To find a northwest passagestatus:foundhttps://journal-neo.su/2025/10/26/when-the-sino-russian-arctic-road-disrupts-the-global-maritime-navigation-order/
does anyone have any experienced building wallmounted retractable desks like pic related? i'm moving to a smaller place and need to think in more compact terms but still have a space to set up a laptop with a set of small speakers, an audio interface and smaller pieces of gear. I found a few online but the structure itself seems relatively simple, so I'm thinking of building one myself.
>>2952973>temporary workYeah - that's the intention.Reality doesn't always work as designed.
>>2952549Get a fucking card table or a table with retractable legs. If you're OCD on the look of it, get a table cloth.
Also, people give away or throw away all kinds of old tables on online classified ad sites every day. You can get decent wood or table material on there and cut it to whatever size or shape you want. You just need tools. So you could easily make a small folding table if you could get the legs off an old card table that you could most likely buy for cheap on the same site. Where I live I have a Kijiji.ca which is online classified ads. Probably Facebook Marketplace is similar, I dunno, I don't Facebook but everyone talks about it. There is a free section on it with a shitload of free tables or desks. Disassemble, cut and assemble to your sizing requirements. Or go look in IKEA because those swedes make all kinds of cheap shit.
>>2953849This is $25 from IKEA.
>>2953740chemically anchored?I can't trust any plug anchors after I had one small plant shelf fall.I've been mounting everything on 10cm 8mm thick steel screw anchors since then.I can now easily hang myself if I ever wanted without worrying about malfunctions.
I haven't made a thread since the purge a few months ago. About me. >natural stone expert>specializing in restoration/repair>many years as a slab installer>many years as a business owner >brief but intense fabrication experience Topics?>stone selection, ie. Differences between granites, marbles etc.>artificial stone, including modern porcelain slabs, quartz etc. >application of stone indoor, outdoor etc. >products related to stone, such as sealers, epoxies, silicone and waterproofing>experience working in higher end sector, working in finished homes vs. new developments etc.>business advice for small scale self operated company
Soapstone is the GOAT countertop>>2952688There's just a lot of bad granite out there.
>>2952503I can only speak to my experience in the field- some very high gloss porcelain does etch, it's gotten better but I've seen it happen a few times now. Simple household products or even my marble polishing compounds can bite. I suppose the question is whether the glossy glaze is actually porcelain too? Either way it happens without much effort on some material. >>2952688They aren't all outdated, but some previously ubiquitous varieties are now rarely used. Application of granite in very high end development is usually leathered or a pricey veined varieties. Most rich people/designers have shifted toward natural quartzite if they can afford it or solid, non speckled granites with deep leathered finishes etc.There are many artificial stone/quartz producers now, they are now the replacement for subdivision or condo granite.
I lived in an area where there's lots of bath salt including columns. I was doing a backyard wood fired oven that's going to have Basalt pavers surrounding it for a patio.I had to move so I never finished it but I saved all my hard to find products including a gigantic slab that's 81 in long and 32 wide it's going to become a food serving and prep area.The photo are the firebrick, cinder blocks for the slab supports, Chimney bits
>>2951394what a strange composition of things in a forest
>>2954168urbanite detected
I just bought a house that has an awful, horribly maintained lawn. Would it be a good idea to just cover the entire thing in cardboard and mulch and start over from scratch?
>how do you know if someones a notill fag?>dont worry theyll tell you
>>2954098Rent a rototiller from the hardware store and chew it to pieces. Draw a map of how you want your yard to look, what you want to plant and where you will need landscape fabric. Make a sifter out of an old pallet and some chicken wire, save rocks, spread them around a Japanese maple or something
>>2954098I did a section of our yard which was all weeds by covering about 900sqft with black poly plastic sheeting.Left it for a few months, which killed all the weeds, then I tilled it, then seeded it with grass and clover.Worked pretty well.
1) Go to search engine. I used duckduckgo2) Type in: how do you remove sod from backyard and press the hourglass icon to search3) Click on links to watch related videos/read websites that will describe the sod removal process.3a) You will need to rent a sod cutter to make life much easier. But it's possible to do it all by hand too to save money but it will mean lots of sweaty work.4) Remove & dispose of sod.5) Replace dirt and new sod as needed.6) Water regularly until it takes but follow the directions. 7) Be sure to fertilize sod AFTER it takes and sprouts it's new roots.Bonus: I did the search work for you, thank me later:https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=how+do+you+remove+sod+from+backyard&ia=web
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Average joe with forest property and ancient farm equipment here. Need a winch to pull logs uphill and through ditches. Eventually i would also like to be able to pull down dead trees and add a log arch to my trailer. picrel is the only reasonable winch you can get in my part of the free world. any more fancy than that and you're in unobtainium-territory as a hobbyist. only found two guys on the tubes reviewing this winch and they seem to shill it hard, but at that price point it's cheap enough to risk it. dimension-wise the biggest logs will have a max. length of 3 meters / 10 feet and max diameter of 70 cm / 27.5 inch. so well within the pulling capacity. not sure yet if it makes sense to build a log arch for my trailer as it has a higher center of gravity with 82 cm / 32 inch height. main goal really is not to be forced to split the wood by hand on site and walk uphill a million times. what do you guys think? you got pics of your setup?
>>2953293theres a reason winches for real useres are generally worm geared. you will smoke the brake if you pull against it. and that synthetic line wont last being drug through the brush>pull down dead treesthis is suicidal. even pushing dead trees over with a d6r with full rops and sweeps is dangerous as fuck. dead trees break up and go down unpredictably and rain mankiller chunks of wood down on any poor sap in the quarter section
>>2953359What do you mean suicidal? Thats pretty much the safest way possible to do it when you are not anyway near when the tree goes down. Cut enough so it still stands, put some wedges in and then pull it down from far away. You think that some arborist basket faggot will haul his lift in the middle of a forest and limb it down? Or climb up like that is any safer.
>>2953813>Cut enough so it still standsthats a no from me dawg. i'd want to deal with them as much hands-off as possible>>2953359>that synthetic line wont last being drug through the brushnot so concerned about that. i'd use an elevated pulley so the line is not dragging through the dirt and the winch has an easier pull since the logs are not digging themselves into the ground> dead trees break up and go down unpredictablyi was hoping to avoid this with a super long rope (extending the line of the winch) plus hiding in safety with the winch remote. but the more i think about it the more i realize it may be more economical to have a professional deal with the risksbottom line: i guess pulling dead trees is out of the game. pulling logs uphill and having a log arch to load them is still high on my list. you guys think a log arch would work with the height of my trailer? i'll post pics as soon as i get around to it
Also depends on how massive these dead trees are that you are wanting to pull over. And now high up you can get a line. Most people severely underestimate how well anchored into the ground most trees are, and how heavy a still wet tree is. Of course if they are long time dead all the sap should be out of them, so that helps.
When I try to remove severed bolts using a regular drill bit and bolt extractor, it almost never works. It only works like 1 out of 10 times if I’m lucky.Do left drill hand drill bits work? How many times out of 10 would you estimate does it work?
>>2951670>egay354838955505>chinkshit drills in a hout box>emphasis on usathats pretty trashy merchant behavior
>>2951917Yeah they are obviously chinese cobalt bits in an American box, but a hell l of a lot cheaper than any others I've seen. I have had excellent luck with import cobalt bits...>>2951898Nice.
>>2951377It really only needs to work once or twice to be worth it.
rack robo are making cheap wire edm power suppliesyou can rig up a hole poker for a thousand dollarsit's not alien tech any more, just regular machine shop expensive
>>2951377Either get a bolt extractor or if that doesn't work just drill it the entire bolt and re-tap the threading
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobotTo begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time.
>>2954361>no that was not me.Dawg, it's obvious.
Ok so I decided to use 30 gauge wire wrapping wire and wire wrap that onto my nickel strips that I connected onto my LED setup then trim off any excess nickel strip. What I like about this is this wire is very fine so it takes up hardly any space and by being able to wrap it on I did not have to apply heat which could have desoldered my smd components by accident. I also like that it is already insulated and color coded so I don't have to worry about insulating my nickel strips the whole run to wherever this connects. To insulate the whole LED contraption here I used packing tape so I can see all my components well but still have them electrically isolated. I just folded the packing tape over the whole assembly like closing a book over a bookmark.note: after wire wrapping the wire wrapping wire I noticed it was not that tight on there. I did not use a wire wrapping tool because I lost mine so I just used needle nose tweezers to manually wrap it around and around. Anyways to tighten it well I just crimped it with the tip of my wire strippers that has some kind of toothed pliers that crimps things well. After doing that the connection appears very solid.
>>2954812Someday you will stand before God and He will prove to you it was not me and you will have to apologize for your false accusations against me on this.
>>2954868Shakin' in me boots.
>>2954867Tonight on /diy/, OP twiddles two wires together.
Previous home owners built a small ball court. I dont know what to do with this. I already have an elevated wood deck and small 2 car garage. Options:20x20 pole barn ontopMassive patio areaKeep as sports courtSomething else??? I am just not sure what would neat to have.
>>2947143put a raised curb on the edge, fill middle with dirt, put a shed/roof over it, backyard forge
>>2947143Play basketball That's the perfect size for a small pickup game
>>2950939This but fill it with water for some ice scating.
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>>2947339>Gas grillCharcoal/wood grill and a small gas range. Smoking capability is really nice, too. Maybe even a powerful wok burner if you're into doing stir fry.Grilling with gas is meh tier.
Is there any reason besides cost and size in a bag to get a Dremel style, low wattage rotary tool over a Foredom style flex shaft grinder? And then is there any reason to get one of those over a die grinder type tool with a flex shaft added? It seems you can the light, dexterous precision tool with more power and flexibility going this way, but what am I missing?
>>2951632You get a Dremel if you want a shitty underpowered tool that you are going to use 5 minutes at most out of the year.
I have a die grinder with flex shaft in my garage but I also have a small battery powered Dremel clone that I use for small plastic or wood shit that I can just have in drawer somewhere when I need it.
>>2952558>I have a die grinder with flex shaft in my garageHow well does it work? Have you encountered any issues?
>>2952010>Vario-Constamatic (VC)-Full wave electronics for working at customized speeds to suit the application materials, and speeds that remain almost constant even under loadYeah, I was wrong, this and the OP one are variable speed.
>>2951794>any recomendations on what to buy to use the router as the main power?no one knows which shaft can be bought for a router?
These plastic floor mats from Staples are so terrible. They cost like $75 and crack and degrade over the course of like 2 years. Any alternatives? Thinking of just getting some plywood. The carpet is very thin, actually to bare wood at some points (but it still needs to be protected)
>>2953856Home Depot for the vinyl flooring. I believe you can get it by the foot but call first and ask. There may be a habitat for humanity store in your area too. Research that. That's where I'd go personally...you'll be "floored" pun intended what they carry and how cheap it is. Home Depot also sells end of run laminate flooring by the box that does cover a lot of area. You'd be surprised. Go look online and see what a box square footage is and it makes sense.I get supplies from online classified ads. People basically throw this stuff out and replace it. I have done my entire kitchen with someone's throw away laminate flooring. It looks great and works great. Just they didn't like the color matching the rest of their upgrade. So I got it for free. If you're in Canada, search Kijiji. There is a free stuff section that changes every day. Maybe Facebook Marketplace? I don't Facebook but it might be worth setting up a throwaway account just to get stuff. Warn ya, thrifting like this becomes addictive. I have 4 Dyson vac's that I have refurbed. 3 stick vacs and one upright all for under $50. Mostly free but some upgrade parts have cost me the money. Stuff works perfectly fine...it's insane what you can put together if you don't NEED it instantly. Not kidding, you can fund your holidays this way if you're patient, like tinkering and can sell what you fix back on the same site.
>>2954026Rug works too for a while until it falls apart. The backside will crumble and turn to dust from the wheels mashing it. I know this because that's what happened to me.
>>2953788there are also hard plastic versions of these
>>2953784Sounds expensive.I think I'm going to go with the thin plywood and vinyl tiles method.
>>2953856go to the restore. they always have partial or busted boxes of rando flooring
For years I have refined the bong process to the point I want to share it. We will have a menu with different options. To make it easy for even the novice to order. Ready to consume, in the nicest glass, or hand rolled in the back to your specifics.It will be wonderful
>>2945905>muh weedfucking stoners. go be a drain on society somewhere else.
>>2947536we don't drink either jamal.
>>2945905enjoy your cancer. no weed does NOT cure cancer. it has no medicinal value. people just made that shit up to get it legalized.you are an addict and that's all.
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>>2954055and we aren't recovering alcoholics as well.
