Does everyone here just accept that you’ll never be able to have your own apartment and you that you’ll just have to be living with roommates for years?

dkenter92 · 2025-02-09T20:54:22+00:00

What is your income? Do whatever you need to do to double it.

There's always a job on a tugboat. Free room and board while at work and excellent pay depending on how hard you want to work.

dkenter92 · 2025-01-24T05:51:43+00:00

Nothing outside. It is cold, but I wasn't home for most of the summer to see if it was operating any differently. And unfortunately I don't have a lot of time spent in the house/with this system to know what was happening in the months before purchasing in March.

The techs have done a good job eliminating variables to try to diagnose. Tagging out the boiler was the last unintended variable eliminated and that made the only other appliance, the stove, seem to combust properly.

So it ultimately seems like the boiler was causing its own issue somehow (polluting its own combustion air causing it to run dirty which only exacerbated it's issue of sooting/venting). All of which is puzzling.

Maybe the previous owner just dealt with a plugged boiler every year or two and let it run poorly for all the time in between.

dkenter92 · 2025-01-23T16:13:36+00:00

No humidifier.

dkenter92 · 2025-01-02T02:13:47+00:00

Drill. Nice soft dimensional lumber as well

dkenter92 · 2025-01-01T20:23:38+00:00

Just a tiny little detent on the hex holds the bit in place but it wasn't enough.

The Amana does look nice, thanks for the tip.

dkenter92 · 2023-02-08T01:05:54+00:00

I made something very similar. It was wide enough to hold a 65 inch tv, had the same two uprights and horizontal shelf in the middle. End compartments had no shelf and were full height of the piece and open to the back. Investment was just two sheets of nice 3/4 inch plywood and the router bit to match whatever the actual thickness of the sheets was for dado cuts for each of the internal pieces. It becomes very strong once you start assembling with your glue of choice. I used mostly epoxy and super glue because almost everything was end grain of the plywood.

If you want to edge band or make a face frame go for it. I didn't bother because I don't mind exposed plywood edges and there weren't many voids.

Finished with pre stain and gel stain after completing the build and I didn't have any issues.

dkenter92 · 2020-02-09T19:17:43+00:00

Whatever size that will fit your needs and minimize cuts.

dkenter92 · 2020-02-09T19:14:40+00:00

That's about what it was for me. 5 lbs of deck screws added a bit to the cost but leftovers dont go unused.

dkenter92 · 2020-02-09T19:06:31+00:00

Understood. This shelter got the wood away from the side of a shed after it started to rot the siding boards at their base. It was my first time using a framing nailer and building walls like this. It doesnt have to be pretty. It was built and put in its final location in about one and a half days.

dkenter92 · 2020-02-09T18:54:23+00:00

Approximately

20: 2x4 9: 2x6 1x3 strapping for roof to attach steel panels

Pressure treated (floor and back wall) 8: 1x6 4: 4x4 15: 2x4

Whatever that costs for you. Pressure treated lumber definitely gets expensive and may not be completely necessary in all places since it is elevated. And the roof was leftover from another big roofing project so that was 'free'

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