Rain and lots of it.
Tuesday
- Thread starter stoney
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Yeah but Home Despot's owner funnels big $$$ to Trump, so fuck them.
I don't have bad experience with Lowes in Woburn, certainly not worse than the overrun-by-contractors Home Depot in North Reading. And unlike HD, they sell sheet glass.
I have license and insurance information and we're paying ad hoc, since I'm doing a lot of work in unison. Negotiated the rate and have an estimate of hours. We pay after the work is done, so we're not on the hook for any materials or expenses right now. I have documentation for everything that he's supposed to do, so if push came to shove, I have text and email confirmations from him on the work he's done and hasn't.
I thought you were smarter than that.
If I was doing a large, they do everything project, I would set up a contract. This is a GC who works as a handyman, but can do all projects. I'm sure @dan-o will have some comments, but I made a point of doing it this way.
he's gonna need a bigger house first
I need somebody who can do framing, drywall, and knockdown (#@RRT$#%#$%34). I can do everything else for the most part with enough time.
What are you on now?
nomad 3
these dudes all riding sights on janky shore shit...
if you want a 29er and you like your nomad now, just get a hightower or megatower-platform is moar betterer than what you're on. quite happy with my n4 (other than when i cracked my first one...shhhhh...) as are the three other people i know who have them.
that looked stupid fun!
Nomad3
You were so close
You know it's steep when it looks steep on video
So my sister in law gots some big fucking feet right? She stops at our house after a function and takes her shoes off. On a whim I stuck my foot in one and it fit perfect. Red leather, four inch heel. Then I quickly kicked it off because the last thing I need is another fetish.
Yeah, that’s not a trail I ride anymore...
I’d be happy to pick up another Santa Cruz, but I’m not as baller as I once was... stupid kids...
She's not here now. I'm gonna ask her to borrow them so I can post pictures online, she what she makes of that.
Are you riding the replacement frame? Thought you sold it.
What is going on here? Everybody has been killing me with the word play/puns all day today. Forums, real life and even in a zoom meeting.
If you come across an asshole in the course of your day, you just met an asshole.
If you come across assholes throughout the day, you are the asshole.
yeah. tried to sell it at the worst time possible (late march) and got no takers for what i needed to cover the GG, so just built it up. shop hooked me up and got me a cc (original was a c)
and yeah, that trail looks super fun.
How does the lower linkage do with collecting dirt and grinding itself/destroying bearings? I'm been looking at Hightowers but I'd read a few comments about the way the lower linkage collects dirt that put me off.
haven't had any problems w/lower linkage/bearings wearing on the nomad. and the most i "clean" my bikes is to hose them off every few months.
Dammit I knew I'd forgotten something today.
It’s the opposite around here, well not really the opposite exactly, they just have no line at the returns counter. Employees scamper, but that’s a big plus IMHO, I don’t need, and definitely do t want their help, at Home Depot they follow you around the entire goddamn store trying to tell you where shit is, except they have no clue where, or what, anything is. My store is an organizational war crime, they pile so much shit everywhere that you can’t push a lumber cart through without hitting something. I just gofull ramming speed and knock displays over, seems to work, butfor some reason they get pissy about it. The only redeeming feature is that they have really fucking dumb people working the register, they’ll miss items in your cart and argue with you about it, so you end up with a lot of free shit. Don’thave to deal with the mile long return line if you didn’t pay for the item in the first place. In closing, fuck Home Depot.
Very glad to not be in the middle of a project at the moment.
Super sick parking lot test.
Feels like a lot of bike compared to my Nomad. I’m keen to take the leap.
Availability will be the deciding factor.
Looked at process of building fireplace surround structure. A drunk monkey can build a structural box from 2x6 and 2x4's, tying it into the existing studs. If I can build a wooden half-pipe that is structurally sound, I can build that. Given the drywall is down and the studs are visible, I will be getting a whole bunch of wood tomorrow between meetings so that I can start building tomorrow evening. I'll still have the stone put on by the non-GC, because that's detail work (ie Wifey has to see it)
Since I assume you’ll be covering the surround in stone as soon as possible after framing, do your future self a favor and find a real lumberyard that sells kiln dried wood. It’ll cost a bit more than home center garbage, but you’re not buying much, and being already dry it won’t settle and shrink. When attaching non-flexy materials to something, it helps to build that thing out of materials that won’t move all around in 3 months and crack all your stone work. Just my $0.01 having seen and fixed a ton of really bad failures when builders use shit wood and build as fast as possible.
But, but, pallet wood is free.