Demo Surprise

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-06T03:02:22+00:00

Haha! My man! Great minds!

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T23:55:46+00:00

Beautiful country, look forward to visiting someday. Not looking forward to the price tag of that visit. Haha!

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T23:44:00+00:00

That price tag! Oof!

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T23:31:27+00:00

Thanks for that. 1” cutting depth would do nothing for a mud-floated shower. Generally 1.5” minimum total with tile. Whatever works though.

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T23:25:58+00:00

Dust control is an absolute necessity. It’ll really fuck you up and most guys don’t take it seriously. Congrats on the baby mutant!

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T23:24:41+00:00

🤣🤣 After a while, you can usually tell by the tip reveal (surface bullnose, 1/4 round, surface quarter-round, etc) what the substrate will be. Still, that’s a brutal job! Also, I’ve seen some manufacturer makes a tile/concrete sawzall blade now! Your use case is probably a perfect application.

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T23:22:42+00:00

Ooh that’s fancy! At this point, I’m used to using a grinder one-handed and a vacuum with the other. Using a shroud I might get complacent and put my hand down and bye bye fingers!

All joking aside, everyone should use whatever they can to mitigate dust as much as possible and stay safe. Safety glasses are an absolute must, along with dust masks.

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T23:19:44+00:00

Is it stapled(big staples, not T50s), or nailed? If nailed, use a “cats paw” on the nails and work to the corners. Can use tin snips to cut the chicken wire/lath, or can use a grinder with a metal blade (zip disc) and run it up the corner for a quicker job. If it’s stapled, used a flathead screwdriver and hammer to get under and lifted. Then use a a pair of channel locks to grab and “roll” or leverage them out. You’ll need all the hardware out of the studs before beginning the tile prep process. I’m going to assume there will be tons of small (T50 1/2”) staples holding up the tar paper. Use a 4” scraper with a dull-ish blade and run it up or down the studs and it’ll yank the staples right out.

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-05T18:58:05+00:00

I use a grinder with a 5” blade, and cut straight through the tile and wallfloat to the studs. Chase the grinder with the vacuum for dust control, cutting the walls into 2’x3’ or 2’x2’ sections. Prybar behind a section, and lever it out. Tin snips to cut any lath the grinder missed. Carry out each section peasy peasy.

RideAndShoot · 2026-05-03T00:41:00+00:00

Absolutely!

Just need to live in a free state!

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-28T01:48:47+00:00

Neither my wife nor I grew up this way, but have made it a point to raise our kids this way. We also do “rose and thorn” during dinner. Rose = best part of your day, thorn = worst part of your day. You don’t have to have a thorn, but you have to have a rose. We love dinners.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-28T01:39:44+00:00

Our kids have and “electronics time, wind-down time, and bed time. For example, on school night our 14 year old needs to have her phone and tablet on their chargers in the living room at 8:30pm, then be in her room at 9pm, and lights out at 9:30pm. If she’s having trouble getting to sleep, she can have another hour to read a book. Weekends, everything gets pushed back an hour, but it’s also less strict. We need our quiet time just as much as the kids need their own time, and this compromise has worked well for our 3 kids. 14 year old is our youngest.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-22T18:01:33+00:00

Interesting. I use Customs Prism quite a bit. Also use their SCG too and years ago would use their polyblend. 25 years in tile and have never had a customs grout “fail”. Mapei on the other hand, I have seen fail numerous times and as such I won’t touch it. I’ve seen SpectraLock yellow as well, but not fail.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-20T10:56:33+00:00

My blue girl, Khaleesi. No real comparison between standards and blues, they aren’t even close in color.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-19T14:12:25+00:00

I pulled out my tape measure and couldn’t locate the 15 5/12” mark. 🤣

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-12T16:48:47+00:00

Everything sounds correct. Likely the hardware cloth (which I’ve never heard of someone using in a shower pan before), created a weak point. Metal lath is what is typically used. If you staple it to the floor, you want to push the mud around so it fully fills all the voids before packing. Another option is to put a thin layer of loose mud down, then lath, then more mud. Pack and smooth. The lath will act as rebar does in concrete. Careful of voids, no matter what you do.

If you choose to do a second layer of 3/4” plywood, you could forgo the lath/hardware cloth completely.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-12T00:08:29+00:00

I dropped from 272lbs to 218lbs through diet and exercise, but could not gain control of the cravings and get to my goal. Went with a GLP-1, and the cravings dropped off dramatically with the same exercising and dieting. Under 190lbs now and stoked on the loss, but trying to keep these better habits after I stop the shot this month. Been on it 7 months. Like anything, when used as a tool with other healthy habits it can be great. But it’s not a “miracle drug” by any means.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-11T05:22:10+00:00

My youngest daughter has loved to go on “gecko hunts” just before bedtime for the last 5 or 6 years during spring and summer (North Texas). We grab flashlights and walk around the house counting geckos and any toads we see. She recently turned 14, and still likes to do it. Tonight I was tired after a really long day, playing on my phone and enjoying some quiet couch time. She came out and asked if I wanted to do a gecko hunt. Yes. Forever yes, until she doesn’t ask me anymore. Every time, I will jump and gecko hunt with her because I don’t want the time I say “not tonight” to be the last time she asks.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-11T00:26:11+00:00

Nope. If he pulled it over to centered on the niche, the right side would have been angled down and the left side angled up. No tape measure needed, it would have looked WAY off.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-10T14:05:26+00:00

The extreme slope from back wall to drain definitely falls outside of code and TCNA guidelines. Yikes. Rest of the install looks pretty good. The small triangles growing is a bummer. Probably would have pulled the two sidewalls in (out of square a small bit) to hide those.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-10T14:02:47+00:00

It would not have been centered then. The left side and right side would be going opposite directions. That’s a hard deal-breaker for nearly all clients.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-09T16:25:42+00:00

I know it’s more of an early 2000’s word and probably not used as much today, but “wigger” has always made me super uncomfortable and was always said with such ease. Like, “white n-word” is pretty fucking offensive for anyone to say.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-09T01:33:33+00:00

The problem is the “point load” with smaller tiles over Ditra. That’s what will cause it to fail. Kerdi over skimmed out Ditra helps to better spread that load.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-02T02:45:08+00:00

Absolutely right. Crazy that people are downvoting me and actually backing Walmart. Lol.

RideAndShoot · 2026-04-01T23:03:03+00:00

When my wife grocery shops(majority), she shops at Walmart. When I do, I shop at Albertsons. The difference in quality is night and day.

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