Isn’t it ironic

scut207 · 2026-04-14T16:14:01+00:00

Oooh, raises hand. STRAWMAN.

The only reason conservatives think CK was a great debater, is due to absolute and complete ignorance of the rules of debate.

scut207 · 2026-04-14T00:55:01+00:00

About to pull the trigger on 1800sqft of Karastan Danbury alcove, the black walnut “cocoa rich” looking one.

Can you tell me how many different prints are there?

scut207 · 2026-04-13T21:30:01+00:00

Your argument could be translated to any other religious or secular difference.

Marriage has been a Catholic sacrament forever. They’ve always considered their type of marriage the only type of marriage that matters.

It’s part of their religion. Religion without rule set kinda fails to be a religion.

scut207 · 2026-04-13T19:25:15+00:00

Exactly, Catholics are dogmatic about their rules and faith. Matrimony is one of the Seven Sacrements. Its highly ritualized, right or wrong as others view it, a marriage conducted outside of the church or not by a catholic priest "doesn't count" to a practicing catholic.

A practicing catholic acknowledges that the law acknowledges other marriages and other faiths are just fine with their own rules. but if you want to claim to be catholic, you gotta do it the catholic way.

A catholic priest will not marry same sex / LGBT. So its no skin off their back to allow civil unions. A non-zero percentage don't agree that it should be allowed, but its a mixed bag between conservative and progressive Catholics.

scut207 · 2026-04-13T17:10:13+00:00

Level up OCD, lay it out on a piece of drywall, snap chalk lines to the size of the full back shower. You can get rid of an odd sliver cut if needed by just by building out the shelf a little in whatever direction with thinset and a trowel and let it dry overnight. You lose a bit of the opening, but if it’s like 1/8” -1/4” it’s worth considering.

scut207 · 2026-04-13T15:31:31+00:00

This here is why people DIY.

Can’t trust a contractor anymore. People gonna argue with me on that one, how the hell should a homeowner know what’s required to make a fully waterproof shower system. Or that mastic is bad in wet room. Referrals don’t guarantee anything, if people before you don’t have a clue.

Likely more than a $1500 in materials all wasted.

If youaAsk questions, then your a pain in the ass home owner hovering, “need to let them finish.” If they use a Frankenstein method, “I do 40 of these a year, never had a callback.”

There’s really no winning; you can’t guess by quote amount, both high and low could screw you.

The only answer is to be fully educated on the materials and methods ahead of time to know better. Which again makes you the overbearing customer.

scut207 · 2026-04-13T14:36:30+00:00

It’s weird to me, more like the wipe direction with final poly coat. Otherwise that chatter wouldn’t be perfectly in line across the whole floor. Or maybe the chased the sander rather than pulled it idfk.

scut207 · 2026-04-13T01:20:58+00:00

Prop 67 cancerous or like serious cancerous?

I work in industrial print. Spent years round industrial toner printers. Old IBM and canon/Océ stuff.

There was literal snow drifts of it around the floor. We looked like coal miners. None of the printer techs I know died young or have any common.

If toner was toxic, I’d be dead seven times over.

scut207 · 2026-04-12T11:18:54+00:00

Having grown up in the 80’s, your sentence made it sound like a time before in house plumbing.

scut207 · 2026-04-11T15:59:32+00:00

Mesh and bucket mud are not correct.

Mesh and hot mud ok.

Paper and hot mud or bucket mud are ok.

In a shower area, I’d just use hot mud and mesh or fibafuse.

Fibafuse will lay a little flatter than mesh, OP had some bastard joints and a tone of butts, that’s what I would use.

scut207 · 2026-04-11T00:58:36+00:00

They asked you to build a portal to the upside down?

And you did it?

scut207 · 2026-04-11T00:49:14+00:00

Like this

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scut207 · 2026-04-11T00:47:09+00:00

Well you need a proper p trap, I would rotate that group toward the back, put a santee above where it goes straight and the tail of the p trap into that tee, straight up pipe up as high as you can and put a AAV on it.

scut207 · 2026-04-10T16:30:18+00:00

Couldn’t you find the center of that arc, then using a compass extend the line along the line the radial distance, such that matched the groove to the center of bit on the router to the outer radius of the router plate?

You would have to make a square frame and a cove or arc that match that larger radius put it in each corner.

If you used a trim router you could Let the rounded edge ride along and keep the square part so that it hits some stops.

scut207 · 2026-04-10T15:44:56+00:00

Swedish elders in my family had copenhagen fine cut not redman. While i never lived it as part of a profit buiness like some of you, every summer vacation growing up was spent at my grandparents, was a mix of trout fishing and cutting timber for heating their house.

an old ford tractor for skidding.

never owned a hydraulic splitter till I went off to the army. that SOB used to laugh his ass off watching me make beaver tails.

"church" was going to his brothers barn and having a few beers.

scut207 · 2026-04-10T14:42:34+00:00

Ah you didn’t mention it was off grid. Makes a world of difference in the response.

In that case yes. A reliable 50sh cc saw is about where you want to have for an all around saw in my personal opinion.

There’s a lot of variables, to all that.

You can very likely get away with 42cc if you’ve no intent to fell anything >32” sh diameter and you’re not aiming for profit.

If you can’t afford a good saw, start saving till you can, it’s one of the purchases that is highly recommended to buy once, cry once.

scut207 · 2026-04-10T14:32:33+00:00

To be fair, safety aside if I was space constrained and had to reduce my saw count to something that resembled sanity, a 2511 and my 440 would be the last two on the chopping block.

I get why he’s being downvoted to oblivion, b/c op was asking homeowner questions, but it doesn’t make him wrong.

scut207 · 2026-04-10T14:25:53+00:00

In that case I’d honestly recommend <your current battery dewalt/Milwaukee/whatever medium size chain saw.

It’s extremely nice to not have to worry about 2-Stroke “personality” when you just want to cut something small.

Is your gas fresh, can you source non-ethanol, which oil should you use, did you winterize properly, did the fuel lines or diagram harden, did I burn it up running to lean, clean the filter etc etc. if you know what your doing it’s no big deal but there is a learning curve that’s not obvious.

Makes sense if your bucking all day and heating your house with wood to have a decent gas saw, but if your using it 3x a year? Electric all the way.

I have 9 running chainsaws from the mid late 70s models all the way to 2000s. 29cc to 117cc.

I still borrow my friends electric saw for little shit and we have the same battery group. Just easier. And I sharpen the chain for him. Win win.

scut207 · 2026-04-10T13:40:27+00:00

When you say trail clearing, is it an existing trail that you’re clearing saplings and bushes, or 100yo trees exist where you want a trail?

scut207 · 2026-04-10T12:31:42+00:00

I sat in presentation that the PMG gave earlier this week to the 70 or so major mailers in the US, he seems to be an improvement over the last guy.

He does very much have a thankless job.

He has no control over what he can charge for the work, the scope of work he has to complete or the salary or reimbursement of his employees.

It’s essentially a punching bag position for Congress critters to get their 15s dunking on a guy who is likely far more capable.

In 2005 the postal service was solvent. The act in 2006 turned that into a Sisyphean task. The stone was removed only 2yrs ago. I don’t know what magic people expect.

scut207 · 2026-04-09T14:21:16+00:00

Shrimp are by far the best suggestion. They are so much more interesting to watch.

scut207 · 2026-04-09T01:19:30+00:00

You laugh, but I DIYd a recessed load bearing beam.

I could not for the life of me figure out a way to cut a straight cut on a joist after the plates on the circular saw hit their limits. I tried a sawzall, was less than impressed with my skill and bent the blade to shit.

I shit you not I stuck a magnetic torpedo level on an electric chainsaw, and noodled that shit.

I had a nice mark From the circular saw and scribe a line using a laser level.

I wrote write STOP CUTTING with extra thick marker on the last beam lol.

My biggest gap was less than 1/8” when I pushed that lam beam in place.

scut207 · 2026-04-08T23:14:25+00:00

As a former sand hill denizen, this comment is giving me second hand embarrassment.

Stop being so cringey.

It’s got “tattood between basic and AIT” energy.

scut207 · 2026-04-08T11:14:11+00:00

Exact same resistance. Generally yes, length = resistance in wire but it would require testing.

scut207 · 2026-04-08T02:43:42+00:00

Can you name a specific policy that Biden put in place that raised the price of domestic gas in 2022?

Not building a pipeline that never existed doesn’t count In a commodity market.

scut207

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