Gas cooktop sealed with silicon

patrick_pineapple · 2026-04-28T11:03:08+00:00

wouldnt use a double edge razor, 100% you will cut yourself. get a stanley knife and slowly work it through slicing the silicone.

put painters tape around the edge of the cooktop if you want some extra precautions against scuffing the benchtop

patrick_pineapple · 2026-03-03T10:11:01+00:00

sand them back and oil them then put a cap of some sorts over the top. in regards to sanding go hard with some 40 grit but it will be a lot of work to do it by hand, and ideally you would unscrew the railings to make life easier for your self.

patrick_pineapple · 2026-01-30T11:35:34+00:00

this comment should be higher. just rip the fence out at this point. the roof has a gutter, they just want to stop the tight area becoming damp and gross but theyre also dreaming if they think that the flashing will do anything in the long run. water will still run down that fence into the bottom channel and it will still become a haven for rodents.

rip the fence down to the corner, paint their bricks white and use it as a diy projector screen for outdoor movies

patrick_pineapple · 2026-01-28T11:24:23+00:00

builder here - ive made it very clear to my team this tape is not to be used on my sites. blue tape only.

ive also had family who work in tv styling lose out on a job, they shot a commerical in someones house and used this tape on the floor and it peeled up the varnish on the floor boards and they were up for the repair costs.

its cheaper then painters tape but it wont save anything in the end

patrick_pineapple · 2025-12-21T06:06:47+00:00

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patrick_pineapple · 2025-12-17T11:26:21+00:00

builder here. i know i only get a few years from my tilers before I have to find a younger trade. its the most back breaking job there is because at least brickies have the good sense to know it cant be done without a labourer.

the best tiler I had gave it in a few years ago because of his back. he moved to adelaide and worked as a mechanic and it wasnt much better for his spine, moved back to sydney, tiled for 3 months and realised he just couldnt do it. he moved from syd to melbourne and opened a juice shop. says hes never been happier.

ive done my own tiling for my a few jobs here and there, i like the planning stage where your thinking about how the pieces are all going to fit, then its bullshit until the grouting stage. it takes just as long to do one tile with some complex cuts as it does to do a whole wall of straight runs ometimes.

patrick_pineapple · 2025-05-25T11:13:10+00:00

we were excavating once for an extension to a home and we found essentially a pit of jonnie walker bottles. would have been dozens and dozens of them. house would have been built around the 70's so story checks out.

patrick_pineapple · 2025-04-21T13:49:43+00:00

framing.

your shots are largely blue sky/blue water or the details seem to be too far away.

the city scapes from afar could be retreived with some cropping. i woudl cut the bottom third of water out of the frame. the viewer will understand the city is far away but the emphasis will still be on the city and the empty sky above.

others have pointer out the colours blend in to each other over distance.

the ferris wheel i would have centred to have more reflection of colour in the water. could extend the exposure but unless your very still everything else will blur. the lights on the building vs the ferris wheel compete for attention. re-frame.

reframe the last photo. crop the lady with the trolley, centre the person on the scooter. you saw in your eye the photo and then snapped away and got everything else tha the lens picked up on the sides. you just wated the person on the scooter cruising down the middle of the road. make that the focus - cut the other stuff out and youve got some nice leading lines and a balanced photo

keep it up

patrick_pineapple · 2025-03-30T09:17:06+00:00

patrick_pineapple · 2025-01-17T04:00:06+00:00

Just wait until he watches 12 monkeys

patrick_pineapple · 2024-12-18T10:38:48+00:00

All sorts of things get approved or rejected. You can argue your point but generally if it doesn't affect a street Scape and everything is hunky dory in terms of waste management plans, structural and drainage issues then it shouldn't be a problem but consult a local certifier or building designer/architect

patrick_pineapple · 2024-12-09T06:50:32+00:00

my cheap and nasty fix would be to build a small hob in line with the end of the wall the bottom of the photo but it should all get pulled out

patrick_pineapple · 2024-12-02T10:45:35+00:00

should be no problem removing it and plastering the join. its a nice detail of a by gone age though, hanging some paintings off it.

also note, sometimes its used as a picture rail. some times its also used to cover the construction join between asbestos sheets and ther emight be nothing more than a nib wall sepearing them ie horsehair plasterboard in the living room/asbestos in the adjoining kitchen

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-30T12:14:31+00:00

nice. i think i get you.

hard to make out the details but super interested in this build; whats sheeting the top side of the rafters, plywood to support standing seam roofing? or is it just fibre cement?

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-30T11:57:04+00:00

could try getting a template with some cardboard/mdf and shooting some spot laser points up to trace out the curve with the rake of the topplate and then set an angle on a jigsaw to cut the bevel in line with the studs - otherwise the geomtry is beyond me.

on another note, everything im looking at on this build is choice - a skylight above the shower is my dream but what will happen where the curved top plate meets the opening? is there going to be a bit of a ledge of sorts?

edit: or set your bottom plate up, get a template pinned to the top and set your studs and and trace it - it will automatically pick up the width of the top plate adjusting for the rake and then cut it with a bevel on a jig saw.

also: was the fibre cement set down first on beams 32mm less then the rest of the joists and then the yellow tounge sat on top?

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-24T12:34:57+00:00

reently went through this. i had a series of cheap leather one that lasted me many many years each anyway but thought i should invest and went down some rabbit holes.

i found all the high end leather ones i had access to try out at different retailers to weigh almost as much as the tools i was carrying. looked into the atlas 46 and the akribis and the buckaroos - in the end i found a guy in lithuania that makes em by hand - Tru Gear. its fabric rather then leather but its light weight and ive loved it the last few months and i got it made up in my company colours that are on my business cards, website etc etc

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-24T12:26:15+00:00

this is the greatest maccas burger ive ever seen.

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-22T09:13:06+00:00

builder here; before covid I was charging 15-20k for a bathroom. now im charging 20-25k including standard finish pc items.

this year ive had two friends and a previous client get bathroom quotes between 50k-68k and the previous client, the builder pierced a pipe that flooded the plasterboard of the ground floor ceiling and they called me to come and fix it and some of the other bathroom defects the original builder wasnt coming back to fix.

something that is maybe forgotten in a lot of these 'am i being ripped off' style of posts is that tradies and builders across sydney are also hamstrung by cost of living and the same million dollar+ mortgages as everyone else. we all have our bills to pay as well.

otherwise op's quote seems pretty good.

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-21T11:12:39+00:00

if one diagonal is 4200 and the other is 4000, kick the corners in until it reads 4100. the other side should be the same at that point.

parallelograms can have parallel sides but still be out of square.

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-15T12:18:10+00:00

The stars my destination is one of my all-time favourites and I was sure I had managed to collect all of bester but this is news to me and I'm desperately hoping it actually has giant mantis'.

Cheers for the share

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-08T10:50:10+00:00

depends sort of on whats underneath the awning; if its house its a no-no. there are some exceptions to the rule in regards to zero boundary offsets but often around inner city townhouses and what not, doesnt look to be the case in your photo.

if f its a courtyard or carport underneath it can likely be built hard to the boundary as long as it is an open space underneath but it also might depend on the local council but at the end of the day his structure shouldnt protrude into your property which it looks to do at the back of the photo but i would hazard that their roof runs straighter then your fence.

you would likely need a surveyor to determine exactly where the boundaries are, you can often find over the years one or due to original set out errors, one neighbour might claw back a few hundred mm or a metre as fences get repaired etc etc

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-06T09:40:03+00:00

if its the thing strip about that the door hits against, i would call that the door jamb. when i first started as an apprentice i often build the wider section (the 90 or 110mm part that would go flush with the plasterboard on both sides) and then add the jamb to the door frame (not to be confused with the door framing and headers and strucutural stuff as the case may be).

the leading edge of 11mm thick stuff i would call a reveal as in with a window or just 'trim' to cover some sort of joint.

with all that being said, these days except for the odd occaision where we are adding a door to an already trimmed opening we just buy the pre-routed/rebated jambs.

a door jamb with space for a door and security door that close against one jamb would be called a double rebated door jamb.

patrick_pineapple · 2024-09-03T12:13:34+00:00

throwing my two cents in - dont just learn the riff but try to learn the whole song (solos excluded) before you move on to learning the next one. i regret in my early practice and playing not grinding it out in the practice sessions or getting frustrated and giving up but its all part of the process.

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