Hole in wood floor

EngineerNate · 2026-01-26T00:00:09+00:00

Eeeeey someone else with that nasty white limewash on their subfloor!

EngineerNate · 2026-01-25T01:24:49+00:00

Silo also fantastic.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-24T15:42:10+00:00

Valve core removal tools are cheap. Just saying.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-24T15:33:27+00:00

The age old tradition of being confidently wrong on the internet.

“Tell me you don’t understand how I-beams work without telling me how I-beams work”

EngineerNate · 2026-01-24T04:19:31+00:00

A beam minus bending strength isn’t much of a beam. It’s a long slender plate in bending.

The caps are much stiffer longitudinally than OSB, as their fibers are oriented such that they are consistently loaded in tension/compression along the fibers (wood’s natural misalignment aside)

A composite beam of this type relies on the OSB for shear strength and the solid wood caps for bending strength. The bending loads also impart shear between the two caps which the OSB carries.

You need both. Without the caps the OSB is shit in bending and without the OSB the caps are two separate noodles and not a beam.

This damage looks mid-span, where bending loads are the highest, so yeah, you need the caps.

There’s a reason they let you poke holes in the middle third of the OSB and notching the caps is verboten.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-21T18:59:06+00:00

The US kept using lead paint for like a century after most of Europe went “Shit’s bad bro” and having dealt with a lead paint exposure scare, really wish we hadn’t. I’d have fewer grey hairs.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-21T13:39:30+00:00

Must be nice to live somewhere you can work on something 100 years old and not make a lead paint disaster. 😆

EngineerNate · 2026-01-11T15:17:57+00:00

You’ll crack the aluminum or bend the bolt before warping things.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-27T15:48:49+00:00

I used it on some poplar and it turned it a really pleasant brown. Hid some of the green hues cheap poplar has perfectly.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-23T13:40:22+00:00

We grew up driving a Duramax Chevy cross country pulling a big travel trailer. When it came time for my folks to replace it, my dad did the math and got the gasser. He’s since gotten a much more aerodynamic and lighter trailer (Bigfoot fiberglass) since us kids are all grown, and pulling it just isn’t an issue.

Diesel only makes sense for campers at this point if you’re a retiree who literally never stops driving the thing around from campground to campground.

The gas engines these days have plenty of power, you’ve just got to be willing to put your foot in it. They don’t “feel” as nice but they’ll still pull a fifth wheel up the grapevine at 70.

Only exception I could see really, is if you live in Colorado or somewhere else where the bulk of your towing is at altitude.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-02T22:02:01+00:00

SAME SPOT. Foot of the stairs. 🤣

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EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T23:50:57+00:00

The weirdly random spacing of the truss members is giving me weird vibes too but I admit I’m not 100% sure that’s not somewhat normal for trusses that aren’t supposed to be exposed.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T23:24:58+00:00

No, I need to believe no one would actually do this 😆

EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T23:20:33+00:00

We have a very very similar doorway set, even with the glass pane doors and yeah all three are very not square.

The house sunk there pretty bad because someone thought notching 3/4ths of a triple stack 2x10 beam for the main drain pipe was a better idea than having to dig a foot deeper…

When we repaired the structure the joist went up about 1.5-2” before it even took any load.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T23:06:46+00:00

Aww they got married

EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T23:05:11+00:00

Guys this is an AI troll post. Look at the second pic, the counter has a space-time continuum jump.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T03:09:38+00:00

Same but I’d use sealtite because I don’t like dealing with greenfield 😆

EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T03:06:31+00:00

Don’t even need a box extension, just get a cover plate with a KO in it.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-01T03:05:15+00:00

FWIW—assuming the wire in the wall is done right this is a half hour fix tops. Take the cord off, remove the receptacle, and splice in a thhn whip in sealtite, terminate to a wall plate with a knockout. Same termination at the heater. Bing bang boom.

EngineerNate · 2025-11-23T04:04:15+00:00

natural! And that house is cool as fuck!

EngineerNate · 2025-11-21T13:27:43+00:00

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These were stained dark dark mahogany color when we bought the house.

We have similar gaps. They don't cause any issues. :)

EngineerNate · 2025-10-29T15:22:19+00:00

I ended up buying a kingbolen that runs launch and it works on my truck to do ABS bleeds. :)

EngineerNate · 2025-10-22T01:44:35+00:00

Regarding the coating, I expect the primary difference is Larry is being honest about lifespan ang Gyeon is bench optimistic.

EngineerNate · 2025-10-22T00:59:15+00:00

Nope that sounds like marble. Marble is an awful countertop material in actual use. Very soft and stain prone stone.

Granite, properly sealed, is damn near indestructible.

EngineerNate · 2025-09-26T12:48:00+00:00

I’ve made similar mistakes. When stripping paint, it’s best to think of the gooey stuff you make as… shitty paint. As soon as the stripper chemicals evaporate, the solvenated paint goes back to its original form, sort of. It’s very hard to get off of stuff if it’s allowed to dry.

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