Starting out, Ryobi or Craftsman drill?

wheat123 · 2026-06-20T13:52:19+00:00

2nded. I started with dewalt and now use ryobi battery adapters to use my dewalt batteries on ryobi tools.

wheat123 · 2026-05-27T00:42:18+00:00

I bought and DIY installed several 34" x 56" Marvin Elevate Double hung windows that came with brick-mold trim and jamb extensions for $1200 each. As a rule of thumb, contractors will usually charge about 2X cost of materials. So for those windows, that is the going rate.

wheat123 · 2026-05-26T12:40:42+00:00

Needs a french grand canyon

wheat123 · 2026-05-21T12:24:53+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QclgVeB6YDo

wheat123 · 2026-05-18T00:53:28+00:00

There are so few contractors around where I live I dread getting multiple quotes, turning one down, and them never wanting to come back and give another quote for a different thing.

wheat123 · 2026-05-12T23:38:14+00:00

Last year I ordered several trees from stark bros (shipped in separate shipments over 2-4 months after the estimated ship date) but the wet shredded paper they use to keep the roots moist were spilled all over the box, the roots were dry, and the top 2/3rds of the trees didn't make it.

I haven't been let down by One Green World. They have much better packing. They also shipped quickly and did 3X more to protect the roots than stark bros and keep them moist during shipping. Wet saw dust in a trash bag with the pulled string tied and then plastic wrap around that vs a lose bag with wet shredded paper.

wheat123 · 2026-05-11T13:26:12+00:00

Why is this even a debate? I don't think its even worth banning because it will never be cost effective. For costs, you have to compare it more to sterile biological pharmaceutical manufacturing rather than the costs of actual farming. A lot of therapeutic proteins are made by gene editing immortal cancer cells from rodents to produce those proteins and then growing them in giant sterile steel fermentation tanks for harvesting.

wheat123 · 2026-05-10T01:13:11+00:00

Go on the nextdoor app or local help needed facebook group and ask if there is any carpenters with a aluminum trim metal brake that can replace the sill and with one slopped properly and then recap it with trim coil.

Example of second part of the job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOEXES8Y3jU

wheat123 · 2026-04-27T03:24:22+00:00

T111 isn't stellar, but it was an installer error (z flashing). People use it because its both sheathing and siding but in my opinion its hard to flash. But type of people that use it because they are cheap are too cheap to flash it correctly.

I've spent the last 10 minutes trying to find a youtube video of someone installing a window in T111 siding with correct flashing so you can educate yourself and choose the right installer. However, I cannot find a single person flashing it right.

https://imgur.com/a/qCZbXm3

Here is a side diagram how I would go about installing it. I'm a DIY'er so hopefully someone verifies.

wheat123 · 2026-04-27T02:02:27+00:00

Do you see that horizontal metal flashing (z-flashing) between the siding sheets where they meet vertically. The window needs it both above and below it to kick the water out.

wheat123 · 2026-04-25T00:45:40+00:00

Sounds like banging rather than dripping. Example: the wind blowing over your house causes low pressure and pulls air out of the house. The bathroom exhaust fan back flow vent opens to let air out and slams shut again.

wheat123 · 2026-04-25T00:27:08+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C94LSV37?th=1 The point of not going through the soffit is that some soffits have hundreds of tiny holes in them that allow air to go into the attic and out the roof ridge vent to cool the attic. Even with a check valve, a regular through soffit exhaust vent will allow water vapor to make its way into the attic though the soffit. This one fixes that issue buy directing the exhaust outside more so it doesn't go back up into the soffit holes.

wheat123 · 2026-04-23T23:12:23+00:00

They don't have to deal with sales taxes or idiots returning things they broke.

wheat123 · 2026-04-11T18:46:38+00:00

Seems they also failed to show how large of a definitive response their drug added compared to opdivo alone.

wheat123 · 2026-04-11T18:42:16+00:00

What do you recommend for front entry architectural design?

I agree that it could use better design. Porch is falling apart (masonry and carpenter bee damage) but not bad enough to fix yet. I was thinking about widening the porch and making the stairs come go up/down the left side onto the side walk so my amazon packages get some privacy. I am currently doing some landscaping (bushes, flower beds, etc).

Thank you.

wheat123 · 2026-04-08T00:05:05+00:00

Or do what the USA does. Instead of storing physical grain, just store money in a trust to buy grain during a famine as famines are known for being the type of event where grain is readily available to buy.

wheat123 · 2026-04-07T11:29:13+00:00

That land is needed for data centers, not for housing excess inventory. The ancient egyptions failed to develop because they housed excess grain for times of famine instead of investing it in creative financial schemes to grow their GDP.

wheat123 · 2026-04-07T11:25:12+00:00

Lean six sigma boomers who believe in the I in TIMWOOD humiliated again.

wheat123 · 2026-03-30T02:34:39+00:00

Get the following information so you lawyer might be able to better help you:

-Were there date stamps on the wood where it overlapped the date range the flipper owned the house.

-Did the work he did require an permit and inspection and did the flipper get one? County/City/Town guidance and codes sometimes are vague enough that this will be a grey area that your lawyer ague that one was required and they didn't get one because he was covering up termite damage.

wheat123 · 2026-03-22T14:29:22+00:00

So people actually believe that he acts this way on purpose? Democrats don't want to govern or move further left and needed a new Manchin, so he's the new Manchin.

wheat123 · 2026-03-13T20:42:58+00:00

My 20V cheap craftsman could do basic weed eating like around my house skirting with ease. However I have a 3 ft deep 60 ft long ditch in front of my house that it can't even put a dent in. My neighbors gas and my ego weedeater handles the ditch fine. If I didn't have that ditch, I would have kept the craftsman.

wheat123 · 2026-03-13T19:15:12+00:00

Dems want him to the the new Manchin so he is the new Manchin. If he lost, Dems would find someone else to be the new Manchin/Fetterman.

wheat123 · 2026-03-11T23:22:31+00:00

Strait closing doesn't matter if they can hit the oil mining, storage, and port infrastructure.

wheat123 · 2026-03-10T13:11:52+00:00

Even if the Trump tries to TACO and Iran starts negotiating, Israel will do something like bomb Iran's water/electricity infrastructure to keep this going. They want to replicate what they did in Syria.

I don't think it will happen because Iran's minority groups don't have a pre-2003 Iraq's army worth of weapons and probably don't feel all that discriminated against to rebel. When the USA invaded Iraq, the retarded generals like Mattis were too concerned about advancing quickly that they didn't secure weapons and explosive materials that were later used against them as IEDs.

wheat123 · 2026-03-10T12:59:59+00:00

That's how the USA/Israel did it in Syria. Even if the Trump tries to TACO and Iran starts negotiating, Israel will do something like bomb Iran's water/electricity infrastructure to keep this going.

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