Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice

[dan_pdx]

my neighbor did his 100+ yr old log house with Perma-Chink which does not seem like a very culturaly appropriate name for a productbut buddy did some very wide joints
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I laughed. Seriously, when are they going to rebrand to Massive Gap Filler?

[jm2e]

I first heard about Permachink ~[emoji638][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] years ago from a couple different friends who hand built their own log homes. . Was just at one of their houses [emoji639] weeks ago and the shit was holding up great. I’d say name recognition is working well for them.


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[XXX-er]

Its a great product but would you try to sell that stuff going door to door in China town ?

[El Chupacabra]

Q for the homeowners: what do you use an oscillating multi-tool for? I don't have one, but just ordered one as part of a battery promo through Home Depot -- I need the extra batteries mainly (already have other Ridgid cordless tools), and can return the tool separately. The tool cost by itself is about $70.

This tool:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1...242B/327655219

And in case anyone is interested in the package deal, you buy the batteries for $129 at this link, and select the "free gift with purchase" - which lets you select that oscillating multitool:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1...40SB/328296486

The receipt will show the batteries as one line item, and the tool as another line item, so you can return the tool separately (for $70) or return the batteries (for $60).

[BCMtnHound]

Question is what don’t I use it for. Takes a bit to gather the blades you want for each task, but excellent for cutting trim, dadoing, drywall cutouts, clipping nails in hard to reach places, ad nauseum. Very handy tool for those odd little cutting and finishing jobs.

[Garbowski]

Yup, great tool and has gotten me out of lot of jams- most recently trimming branches off the Christmas tree after it was put in the stand.

[skialpy]

Question is what don’t I use it for. Takes a bit to gather the blades you want for each task, but excellent for cutting trim, dadoing, drywall cutouts, clipping nails in hard to reach places, ad nauseum. Very handy tool for those odd little cutting and finishing jobs.

Tried clipping my nails with it. Super messy

[dan_pdx]

I agree that the oscillating tool is a keeper. Like BCMtnhound said, once you have one, the applications keep presenting themselves. I'm addition to his list, I've also used mine to undercut door jambs, replacing a jamb saw.

[dan_pdx]

This may not be the right thread for this, but I have a hip flask with a small leak in the neck/flask joint. The first fix that comes to mind is a soldering iron and some plumbing solder and letting it wick in around the neck. Any thoughts? Is cured JB Weld food safe?

[El Chupacabra]

Thanks all - sounds like a keeper.

[BCMtnHound]

Tried clipping my nails with it. Super messy

It’s all in the blade. Although a dull wood blade does seem to work once the friction heats it up a bit. But that burning hair smell ….

[Touring_Sedan]

Q for the homeowners: what do you use an oscillating multi-tool for? I don't have one, but just ordered one as part of a battery promo through Home Depot -- I need the extra batteries mainly (already have other Ridgid cordless tools), and can return the tool separately. The tool cost by itself is about $70.

This tool:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1...242B/327655219

And in case anyone is interested in the package deal, you buy the batteries for $129 at this link, and select the "free gift with purchase" - which lets you select that oscillating multitool:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1...40SB/328296486

The receipt will show the batteries as one line item, and the tool as another line item, so you can return the tool separately (for $70) or return the batteries (for $60).

Harbor Freight stocks a bunch of blades. Just used the grout blade to redo the shower. Worked great.

[The AD]

Q for the homeowners: what do you use an oscillating multi-tool for?

They're great for fairly precise plunge cuts among other things.

[dunfree]

Thanks all - sounds like a keeper.

beware that there are a great variety in quality of them (never tried that one) but the cheap are miserable on elbows, the nice like Fein are almost pleasurable to use and with the right attachments (buy a decent priced multipack of many types) gets dumb shit done quick without much thinking. The sawing functionality ain’t great, but if you’ve got the tool, blade, stop it works pretty well. And better than buying some junk.

[fatnslow]

Q for the homeowners: what do you use an oscillating multi-tool for? I don't have one, but just ordered one as part of a battery promo through Home Depot -- I need the extra batteries mainly (already have other Ridgid cordless tools), and can return the tool separately. The tool cost by itself is about $70.

This tool:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1...242B/327655219

And in case anyone is interested in the package deal, you buy the batteries for $129 at this link, and select the "free gift with purchase" - which lets you select that oscillating multitool:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1...40SB/328296486

The receipt will show the batteries as one line item, and the tool as another line item, so you can return the tool separately (for $70) or return the batteries (for $60).

Good to know HD is still too stupid to invoice the 2/1 tool sale correctly I bought a high torque 1/2" impact for a song on that deal after returning the second "free" item.

[singlesline]

Good to know HD is still too stupid to invoice the 2/1 tool sale correctly I bought a high torque 1/2" impact for a song on that deal after returning the second "free" item.

I think it is done intentionally as a form of price discrimination.

Us cheapasses that scroll forms slickdeals to find these deals never would have bought the fancy red (or your favorite color) tools without the deal. We jump through the hoop of waiting for the “free battery” trick and making the return to get it cheap.

But the pros don’t have time to wait around for the deal…they buy the tool when they need it. Occasionally that overlaps with the deal, other times they pay full price. Doesn’t matter because the tool will earn them more.

And the average consumer buys the deal but keeps the battery because they don’t know any better.

Easy way to sell the same item for three different prices to three different types of customers. Like the difference between regular coupons and “extreme couponing”

[Core Shot]

The ryobi ain’t bad.

Multi tool is an essential tool.
Wood blades
Bi metal blades
Metal blades
Diamond blades

Does damn near anything.

And if you grind a dull blade to a toothless nub it makes the perfect pumpkin carving tool. Way safer for kids than a knife
Toothless blade is also great for cutting silicone window gaskets and tapes.

Drywall outlet cutouts might be my favorite feature.

[dan_pdx]

House/dog sitting for my sister now and her house has big glulam beams running the full length from front to back, maybe 6" x 24" tall or so. They project out in front and back as architectural accents. Night time temps are in the teens here and holy fucked up thermal bridge issues. About every 45 minutes there's a pop or creak, sometimes loud enough to wake you up.

Fortunately this house is just a rental. I can't believe that every house built like this has this issues, WTF?

[toast2266]

House/dog sitting for my sister now and her house has big glulam beams running the full length from front to back, maybe 6" x 24" tall or so. They project out in front and back as architectural accents. Night time temps are in the teens here and holy fucked up thermal bridge issues. About every 45 minutes there's a pop or creak, sometimes loud enough to wake you up.

Fortunately this house is just a rental. I can't believe that every house built like this has this issues, WTF?

My office has a bunch of glue lam beams that extend from interior to exterior. Never heard any noteworthy creaks or pops, although l don't spend nights in there. This is in a building that's probably ~60 years old, and I'm guessing had little if any engineering done at the time of construction. So maybe everything that was gonna pop has popped by now.

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[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

We lived in a flat roof 1950's-60's house for awhile and that's how you could tell when it was -20 f, the roof would pop and snap loud enough to wake you up.

[old goat]

Our house has 3 big beams that go front to back that extend outside the walls on both ends. Not glu lams--solid wood salvaged from an Oakland pier apparently. I hear a lot of movement in the structure be the structure , also critters running around inside the walls, Ponderosa cones dropping on the roof, my wife's outside wall art banging in the wind, and random noises I can't figure out. I often wake to the sound of trains on the hillside across the lake from me but I go right back to sleep. I don't think I could sleep if the house was quiet.

[XXX-er]

I have aluminium siding which is great stuff and it snap/ crackle/ pops when the sun hits it

[Name Redacted]

Log home here, it snaps and crackles with big temp swings. No big deal though.

[dan_pdx]

Dang, my house is 100+ years old and has its share of creaks (and occasionally something in the floor/walls), but these loud pops are something else.

[Rideski]

I replaced the cartridges in my lav sink with a generic I found at home depot. Would have bought name brand if I could. Paid $11 each or so. They worked ok for a few weeks and then started dripping. Running a small stream now. Just a lousy cartridge? Or symptoms of some other problem?