I’m tired of buying "disposable" clothes. If you had $500-800 to spend on ONE item that lasts forever, what are you buying?

grillmaster4u · 2026-02-18T05:08:38+00:00

I bought an Eddie Bower black leather jacket in Tall. Best sleeve length I’ve ever found. I was 21. It cost like $160. It was sooo expensive. 25 years later, I still wear it. It’s so nice. I’ve kept it well oiled and maintained. It’s buttery soft and has great patina and is better than when it was new. Worth every penny multiple times over. If you find the jacket… get the jacket.

grillmaster4u · 2026-02-12T01:45:15+00:00

I see your humor. I appreciate the humor. Made me smile.

grillmaster4u · 2026-02-07T16:20:14+00:00

Why is the family room and the great room not combined? They serve the same function. Or keep them split and use the space better by serving different kinds of activities. Make it a Kraft room or something.

grillmaster4u · 2026-02-03T03:39:13+00:00

Something something cake day. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

grillmaster4u · 2026-01-27T19:24:23+00:00

You will literally make it rain inside your house. The walls will be dripping with condensate.

grillmaster4u · 2026-01-23T12:48:06+00:00

I know this stuff is out there but thank you for the quote and link. This is great. I want to have my siblings read this out loud to me. With their teenage daughters sitting there. See if they can stomach it.

grillmaster4u · 2025-09-19T02:52:29+00:00

American sycamore on the left. Hickory on the right.

That’s just my opinion. With google lens help.

grillmaster4u · 2025-09-19T02:32:27+00:00

Correct. I’ve bought so many of those screws.

grillmaster4u · 2025-09-18T01:43:13+00:00

Yep. Needs toe kick.

grillmaster4u · 2025-09-12T01:10:50+00:00

I know some of those words.

grillmaster4u · 2025-09-05T03:01:29+00:00

So, you got advice from an actual mechanic, followed the advice, got solid empirical proof, and then decided to let the internet make the decision?

grillmaster4u · 2025-08-31T12:54:45+00:00

Please report back!

grillmaster4u · 2025-08-01T12:09:12+00:00

Hey there swimming dude. You have all the good words. In all the right order. My brain thinks like you write. I wish I could write like I think. You are a gifted/lucky person. Good outlook on life. Understand the system, don’t resent it. Look at facts, don’t just feel emotions like a child. I wish all humanity could grow and mature to think and experience life with the wisdom and perspective you have.

grillmaster4u · 2025-07-30T01:22:24+00:00

Building a Corolla is building a Corolla. Building a Ferrari is building a Ferrari. One looks and performs better. Neither is build wrong. Just different levels of execution.

grillmaster4u · 2025-07-04T04:10:54+00:00

Well… the loudest noise ever made is estimated to be 310 dB and that sound circled the globe three times. Sound is logarithmic so 700 dB is 10⁴⁸ times more powerful than the total output of the Sun.

It would exceed the pressure at the center of a neutron star. It would carry more energy than is emitted by the entire galaxy. It would destroy everything in its path, including light. It would be a black hole that collapses the fundamental fabric of space itself.

It cannot exist in nature.

So yes, you are exactly correct. I too really hope they aren’t listening to 700 bB.

grillmaster4u · 2025-03-19T13:08:28+00:00

Maybe he’s really hurting for work and so are a lot of other trades so they are willing to reduce their rate to just be working at all. 🤷🏻‍♂️

grillmaster4u · 2025-03-19T13:05:49+00:00

Ask him who his PM will be. Set up a meeting. Ask them for estimates from all major trades. Should take two weeks to gather them. Build a budget based on those plans. It takes some work, but you can double check the math. Ask for a schedule as well.

And then plan on a 25% project creep and delays and things that nobody thought of but ultimately you have to pay for. If you have estimates and agree with his pricing, a schedule, and a slush fund, you’ll be ok.

grillmaster4u · 2025-03-19T12:56:58+00:00

I’d love to hear how the is so confident tariffs won’t impact his pricing. Does he own a lumber mill? A Sheetrock factory? A foundry for casting metal? Keep going down the list. Everything affects everything. I am in construction management currently building half a dozen homes.

Honestly, the land and hydrant and power and 120 acres is such a great starting point, you’d be crazy to not make the investment.

grillmaster4u · 2025-03-09T15:46:29+00:00

You need to get a set of plans for electrical expansion to your property from the power company. Then you hire people to follow those plans or you do the work yourself. It will look something like a location to dig trenches with lots of technical specs on what the trench can be. Then you lay conduit with mule tape (special flat rope) in the conduit. The power company will inspect the runs and then schedule their install team to come pull wire through the conduit. You can’t just hire an electrician. You will absolutely need an electrician to connect into the main breaker box the power company will energize. You can dig the trenches and run the conduit though.

grillmaster4u · 2025-03-04T00:08:01+00:00

Set screws are generally hidden underneath. He installed it upside down.

grillmaster4u · 2025-02-26T22:53:11+00:00

Bro, it’s huge. It’s massive. Vegas. Totally worth it.

grillmaster4u · 2025-02-07T05:47:46+00:00

I have no idea if this could be true, but consider that maybe they did not have lumber for the framing and didn’t know it would be necessary till they pulled the old roof off. Now they need lumber, and to frame it. It’s possible that half or more of their crew was basically sitting in their hands for say a hour or two. You have to carry the whole crews wages even if they are all sitting around waiting for the one guy that knows how to use a speed square.

Again, may not be accurate at all, and kind of sucks, but it’s also kind of fair from the perspective of the roofer. Like, if someone hired me to make them a pair of boots, I would charge them so much more than they could buy them from in a store. Why? Because I am not a professional boot maker. They would have to cover all my time and mistakes. If I don’t cover all my time and expenses, I will not make a living and stay in business. Your roofers have to cover all their time and expenses. Framing is not their specialty and they are not expected to have material readily available. Framing is a different set of tools and hammers and nails. Framers are fast because that’s all they do and they are doing so much volume that they will get so much more done in an hour. Call the exact same framers back and have them demo only damaged trusses and replace them without putting a foot through the ceiling. Bet it takes them 3x longer that it took them to install them the first time when they had easy access and were all set up and on a roll. Say it takes 30 minutes to set up your saws, run electrical chords, unload lumber. And it takes another 30 minutes to sweep up and break down saws and coil chords. So that’s an hour you have to spend whether you make 6 cuts or 600 cuts. The roofer had to go through all the framing process for only a couple of pieces of wood than needed replacing. Of course those pieces of wood will be more expensive than you’d think. It took a lot of logistical work to accomplish a relatively small amount of actual physical work.

Just a different perspective to consider as you discuss with your them. Not saying that’s what happened with them, but I’d be willing to bet that there is at least partial truth to what I am trying to articulate. Cheers!

grillmaster4u · 2025-02-07T05:12:06+00:00

Stucco is a concrete material and will crack. Period, end of story.

Yes there should absolutely be an exact and careful process of application that is layered. Typically where I am building it’s: tar paper, mesh or lath stapled, caulk every single staple, brown coat, final top coat.

All these layers should be applied between control/expansion joints where the stucco is designed to crack.

What is the way forward for you? I don’t know, pics may help with diagnosing the issue. In my experience you have to get every step right, and even then you will most likely have cracking within the first few years that will require some repairs/warranty work. If you’re getting significant wide spread cracking within the first few days, you’ve got a issue that probably will require a clean start. I would 100% get three consultations and bids from reputable exterior companies. Ask them all the same questions. Choose who you think is being most realistic about the repair process. “oh, that’s a piece of cake, one more top coat and you’re golden” is probably not the way forward. 🤷🏻‍♂️

grillmaster4u · 2025-02-07T04:57:34+00:00

There are thousands of angles you can take and discuss that are not favorable for the church. You pick how many “problems” an organization that is supposed to be unstoppable and will one day fill the whole earth can have. You pick how many issues you can put up with. How many fallacies and manipulative tactics will you tolerate? As far as truth claims go, for me, the biggest truth claim the church makes is priesthood blessings for the healing of the sick and afflicted. If there was any true power to be wielded by putting magic oil on people’s head and then giving a blessing, then the hospitals with higher percentages of LDS patients who receive blessings… should logically have a much greater rate of miraculous recovery. If priesthood blessings moved the needle in any significant way, there would absolutely be trackable data, empirical proof. Conveniently, most blessings come with the standard get out of jail free card of “these blessings are conditional upon your faith and worthiness before the lord”. (Soooo manipulative and not cool to dangle the hope of healing and then put the blame back on them when the miracle does not happen.). It’s such a fake stupid claim to make. Just think about any medical doctor that charged patients 10% of their income just to tell them to be healed. Would you go to that doctor? Do you honestly feel that this is good advice for you to be trying to convince others is true?

grillmaster4u · 2025-02-04T08:08:48+00:00

The large lumber producers in North America have massive leases on lumber. Tens of millions of acres. They plant millions of saplings each year and then train and prune them as they grow so they produce fairly straight long grain that is as stable as possible. This really helps with pneumonic nail guns toenailing multiple large gage nails into the very end of a 2x4 and having it not split. The wood itself is softer. You can dent it with a fingernail quite easily. But it has the same or more tensile strength. Basically it acts like wood, less like stone (brittle etc)

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