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**notorious** · 02-01-2017, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

We've gotten the hell away from laminate in rentals and have started using that PVC tile that looks like woodgrain. I don't know what its called but water / moisture doesn't affect it like laminate.

Yep.

LVT is the way to go. You can install it on the bottom of a pool ffs.

jspchief · 02-01-2017, 07:44 PM

I think if I had it to do all over again, I'd concentrate much more on hand tools. If I ever find the time to really get back into it, my focus will be hand tools and top notch sharpening. I've got a few old Stanley planes to restore if it ever happens.

**SAUTO** · 02-01-2017, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jspchief

I think if I had it to do all over again, I'd concentrate much more on hand tools. If I ever find the time to really get back into it, my focus will be hand tools and top notch sharpening. I've got a few old Stanley planes to restore if it ever happens.

I've got a bunch of old levels hanging in the wall in my living room.

Someone put them together as art and it is somewhat in the shape of a Chevy emblem and fits behind the loveseat perfectly. It's pretty ****ing cool

**Buzz** · 02-01-2017, 08:12 PM

I could also do the kitchen, bathroom and two landing entry ways.

**Bugeater** · 02-01-2017, 09:11 PM

I'm using the engineered vinyl in my kitchen as well, but it has a tile look vs the wood look.

**Buzz** · 02-01-2017, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

I'm using the engineered vinyl in my kitchen as well, but it has a tile look vs the wood look.

Show me the way, what are you going with? Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread. I'm sure it will get back on track.

**Bugeater** · 02-01-2017, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Buzz

Show me the way, what are you going with? Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread. I'm sure it will get back on track.

http://www.efloors.com/usfloors-core...alog_53430.htm

DJ's left nut · 02-02-2017, 12:37 PM

I really want to build this:

Looks incredibly practical and since dust collection on any sliding compound miter saw is a trainwreck (unless you find one of those $1,000 jobs like a festool kapex or something), you can build a really nice hood for that rig, put plumbing through the back and run it straight into your dust collection ducts.

Sadly, it just keeps sliding down the project list (and since those Kreg stop kits are expensive as hell, my wife will most assuredly yell at me when I get the pieces for it).

**Iowanian** · 02-02-2017, 07:21 PM

I like to build things out of wood, but I'm a shit finish carpenter. I've built some pine log beds with my brothers and build things out of old stuff more than the fine quality finished things I've seen from some of you over the years.

My power tools for woodwork are old and sad. I don't have half of what I need to do things the right way for finishing wood.

The coolest thing I've worked on was a project for a mentor...I helped him build a wooden canoe made of 1" strips of wood.

My next two planned projects are barn wood related. I plan to build a chandelier for our table and I'm debating between a design using old barn wood, making a shadow box with a flat, rough piece with wires hanging old jars over LED lights or one made with barn trolleys and a couple of old lanterns. Wiring them right is my biggest concern because I'm worse with electricity than fine cut corners.

I also am planning a "railroad cart" style table. I cut some large cat iron wheels off an old safe and want to built a barn wood coffee table out of that.

Additional projects I'd like to do include a free hanging mantle for a large bland wall made out of rough cut beams or old barn beams. I'm also planning to fire up the welder and do some shitty welding to make some 2-3' dinosaurs out of a big pile of old rust wrenches I've picked up along the way.

Maybe I'm just better at these projects because they're supposed to look like hell on the corners.

**MahiMike** · 02-03-2017, 09:59 PM

Cool thread. I used to have lotsa tools. Laid my wood floor and then made chairs out of the leftovers. My granddad made his own grandfather clocks. I took after him.

Was the teachers assistant in wood shop in high school. Sucks my kid didn't get this class. He enjoys helping me build stuff around the house. Just finished a barn door project to the bathroom.

Al Bundy · 02-03-2017, 10:04 PM

I made my own entertainment center.

**SAUTO** · 02-04-2017, 07:55 AM

I would lose my shit if someone built me a deck with nails.

**notorious** · 02-04-2017, 07:58 AM

Wow, they used nails on a deck?

Lazy. It takes a second longer to run a screw ffs.

**HemiEd** · 02-04-2017, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

I would lose my shit if someone built me a deck with nails.

I did, and I am the bad guy from Chicago that comes down here expecting things to be the same as they are up there. I spent a lot of money with that contractor and he has one of the best reps around. Not with me.

I have put actual bolts and lag bolts in the back deck where the runners attach to the uprights. He had about a dozen nails where they joined.

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Originally Posted by notorious

Wow, they used nails on a deck?

Lazy. It takes a second longer to run a screw ffs.

Exactly. I have been replacing them with screws as I have time. Flipping the decking boards over as the nails damage them. The upstairs deck railing that is now four years old and is not safe IMO and I am going to have to put bolts where the uprights attach to the sides.

I am coming to the conclusion that it is the way they do things around here. Half assed and close is good enough.

**Buehler445** · 02-04-2017, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by HemiEd

I did, and I am the bad guy from Chicago that comes down here expecting things to be the same as they are up there. I spent a lot of money with that contractor and he has one of the best reps around. Not with me.

I have put actual bolts and lag bolts in the back deck where the runners attach to the uprights. He had about a dozen nails where they joined.

Exactly. I have been replacing them with screws as I have time. Flipping the decking boards over as the nails damage them. The upstairs deck railing that is now four years old and is not safe IMO and I am going to have to put bolts where the uprights attach to the sides.

I am coming to the conclusion that it is the way they do things around here. Half assed and close is good enough.

I'd have wrecked his shit man. That is completely and totally unacceptable.

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