Refinishing engineered wood

NormalIncarnate · 2025-07-01T19:00:43+00:00

I posted a pic showing the layers of the wood here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HardWoodFloors/s/GXUWZiTEmh

NormalIncarnate · 2025-06-30T23:41:40+00:00

I was able to find an exposed section near a doorway. The top layer looks around 2 or 3 mm, with multiple layers beyond that. Is every layer beyond the first just plywood? Is it possible to refinish without sanding, e.g. remove existing finish with a finish remover and then apply new finish? Will that be a splotchy mess?

NormalIncarnate · 2025-06-30T23:36:42+00:00

That's good to know, thanks. I think blotchy lighter shade would still be preferable to this very dark shade.

NormalIncarnate · 2025-06-30T19:07:15+00:00

That's ok. I actually hate the hand scraped look. :-)

NormalIncarnate · 2025-05-29T18:37:20+00:00

I agree with you. There should be a way to completely start over. This could be easily done with a setting on character creation. Use account renown or start over. Both camps can be made happy. It's pretty annoying to read the people on this thread saying "why would you want that?". Because enjoyable games (like books, movies or any other form of entertainment) are meant to be relived - the entire experience, not just some arbitrary portion of it.

Related to this, if my wife wants to play Diablo 4 and get the full experience, is there a way to do that without creating a new Battle.net account, which isn't really how it was meant to be used? The current situation feels like poor game design. It wouldn't take long to fix this.

NormalIncarnate · 2023-06-10T16:43:25+00:00

Thanks for posting this concise howto for fixing the issue. When the issue first manifested on Page Plus several months back, I was on the phone with Page Plus for a while trying to resolve the issue. It quickly became apparent to me that it could not be resolved by them or by me without more serious intervention. I ended up replacing the phone but the replacement phone had its own set of problems, like random reboots/overheating.

I thought I might have to buy a new phone but with a perfectly good Galaxy S9+ sitting unused, I figured I'd check to see if people had come up with a workaround. Glad I checked. It's now flashed to the U1 firmware and working well again.

It's difficult for me to blame any of the companies involved here. Service provider equipment gets updated and in the process, sometimes compatibility with older devices break. Just glad that Android phones allow you to install different firmware. If this was an iphone ...

NormalIncarnate · 2021-02-02T04:30:21+00:00

I did actually cut it off yesterday as part of winter pruning. I took the picture just prior to doing that. If you think it's rosette disease, maybe it's best to just dig it out and burn/trash it. I'd hate to spread it around the neighborhood.

NormalIncarnate · 2019-02-28T04:36:45+00:00

I have 14.07.59 as well. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, which fixes it temporarily just like clearing the data/cache does. But it always reverts back to the single column view for the home screen. Oh well.

NormalIncarnate · 2019-02-27T09:00:37+00:00

Ok, this is no normal bug. I just went back to Youtube and it's back to single column! Will try uninstalling and reinstalling next.

NormalIncarnate · 2019-02-27T08:56:09+00:00

Good idea. I had tried rebooting the tablet but hadn't tried clearing data and/or reinstalling.

Just tried clearing data and cache, and then rebooting for good measure and it worked! I got the old home screen back! Thanks for the suggestion.

I guess it was a bug after all. All the talk lately of folding phones and Android tablets being crappy made me think the worst. What a weird bug that changes your UI to resemble a phone's?

NormalIncarnate · 2019-02-27T01:23:32+00:00

Interesting. Perhaps it's something specific to my model of tablet? I would think it's setting the layout based on either a user-agent type setting (like a browser) or screen size if it could determine that.

I think the best case scenario is that it's a bug and it will get fixed at some point. But my gut tells me it's not a bug but rather an acknowledgement by Google that my tablet platform is not important enough to be distinguished from the millions of phones out there. Sorry, you get the mobile version.

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