What pisses me off...........

by **gills** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:46 pm

Hey Spider, this is probably not the place to be talking about your failed growing operation. :lol:

by **Wilbur Kookmeyer** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:06 pm

Being so very proud of my installation of the new vanity in the downstairs bath....then finding out the down pipe and p-trap do not line up.....

by **grizldoldfk** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:22 am

very same thing happened to me wilbur.
it's a crushing blow to the ego for sure...but fear not...a little time re-inventing the wheel and looking through the assortment of fittings in the plumbing isle will give you new hope, an eventual solution, and a refreshed ego.
(i coupled two elbows together in a sideways loop, and it works well...under five dollars...not including gas back to town.)

by **HessXXpress** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:47 pm

hackers

by **budster** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:01 am

finding my horse size dog sprawled diagonally across my bed with his jock liberally smeared into my pillow.

by **pickleweed** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:27 pm

Wilbur Kookmeyer wrote:Being so very proud of my installation of the new vanity in the downstairs bath....then finding out the down pipe and p-trap do not line up.....

They make an accordian looking down pipe (it isn't stiff) that you can move around quite a bit that might do the job

Although, I've never had to use one

by **Ceedog** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:07 pm

Don't use the flex pipe, it will eventually bust if set with any tension. Just map it out and pay the $10 for assorted pipe.

Rumors have been flying since winter about my work laying off. I'm starting to think it may be true.

by **holddown** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:50 pm

Incessant N wind. You can only keep the streak alive so long surfing crap. Streak ends after Wed at 18.

by **Neck Deep** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:22 pm

Cars vs Bikes
Dory boats vs Surfers
Us Vs Them

Its all getting f*cking old.

by **speelyei** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:59 pm

dont forget snowboarders vs skiers
trad climbers vs sporties
surfers vs boogie boarders
skaters vs rivieri
inline skaters vs the world....

by **Doc** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:10 pm

Just trying to help...

Doc

by **Doc** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:12 pm

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Doc

by **Neck Deep** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:40 pm

I feel bad for today's rollerbladers. Here's one getting escorted out of SFs new sktaeboard only park:

by **Wilbur Kookmeyer** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:38 pm

Thanks for the help Doc....

Currently this is what is pissing me off...

We are finalizing The Big Move.

Trust me, anything this magnitude deserves the status of being treated as a proper noun.

Hence the capitalization.

The house is about 95% ready to be moved in to. Maybe more depending upon your geographical location and/or your sense of modesty as there are three bathrooms and only one bathroom door.

Reminds me of an old Polish joke involving a car door and the desert, but I digress.

Speaking of Polish things and doors, one of the reason there is only one bathroom door is due to the simple fact that the remaining door could not be removed. Trust me, if it could be removed, J would have had me remove it.

I installed most of the light fixtures this week including 3 ceiling fans. They are a great fan/light combo. They have this very cool flash like sticker on the box touting them as the "Five Minute Fan!" (more proper noun usage).

The first Five Minute Fan took me two hours to install. During which time I regaled everyone with my uncanny understanding of swear words and creative vernacular.

By the time I got the third fan down I was able to drop my time to 17 minutes 48 seconds.

I have ruined one door in my drive to update the doors.

Speaking of doors and Polish things....our house was built in 1968. Good times. The Good Old Days (proper). A time where Americans liked to measure things, particularly woodworking and building projects, in fractions of inches.

Why make something 30 inches when we could make it 29 29/32's?

So the door jams in our house range from 27 7/8 inches to 29 7/8 inches.

Modern doors are made in whole-inch widths like 28 inches, and 30 inches.

So these doors had to be cut or planed to fit.

I first attempted to plane them. Feeling proud of myself I took this door up and placed it in the door jam and stepped back to witness my mastery of wood working.

The door fit like the teeth in that strange man in the Goonies.

Another thing I cannot figure out is why they cut the door knob hole and the hole for the throw (technical language) but not the recess for the hinges.

We live in a technological age.

We have put men on the moon.

Yet home Depot will only sell you a door and hand you a chisel to cut the recess for the hinges out of the side of the door.

A chisel.

We operate on people's eyes with a laser, but we cannot come up with a better hinge recess gouging system than a chisel?

Somewhere there is a man paying someone in a door company a large amount of money to not pre-cut the hinge recess' thus rendering us slaves to the need of the aforementioned archaic chisel.

So you wield your chisel and feel the suddenly close archeological history of mankind well up inside of you and you go to work on the doors.

After a while you stand back and look at your work.

Bears clawing at trees would be an improvement.

You jam your hinges into the shredded hinge recess' and force them level with metal screws left over from the Five Minute Fan and some gum you found under the bathroom sink, and go hang your work proudly for all to see.

So when and if you come over, there is only one bathroom with a door on it.

Take a number.

It could be a while.

by **speelyei** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:03 pm

they sell a router and a template or "jig" that they use to recess the hinges. The chisel is exceptionally old school, though. If you're just doing one, the chisel is the way to go. If you're doing a whole house worth, consider the router..

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