"100% of people who do not save money do not have any!"--Dave Ramsey

[Xist]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Happy for me?

Yay.

By the way, Google says heels will absolutely positively dent pine.

Surely your goosy search engine could have found something.

Is this important?

Absolutely not.

Am I obsessing over it?

Absolutely.

I just wondered what one could possibly do with all of those monitors.

Arguably my one 43" television is 80% of that, but I rarely want more, and if I just used an office chair instead of a recliner I would be closer and could fit more.

I also need new glasses!

People said the seller has books on trading, so he probably lost everything, including the house.

The description says that this was remodeled, so I figure it is a flip, but that is boring!

This is the only picture that I can find from before they got rid of the garage, from 2011:

This is where I found it, thanks to Archive.org, but it says it is 1,448 square feet, which doesn't make any sense.

In 2013 it was officially built in 1998 and measured 1,232 square feet, but in 2014 it was built in 2001 and measured 1,632 square feet.

Exactly 400 square feet.

Sounds like a garage conversion!

Here is a video from 2019. It looks terrible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Wm_dzBNUI

It has 5 views.

I believe that I did 3 of those.

This looks like the posting from 2021. It doesn't have any information, but it shows pictures from before the remodel, and it doesn't look great.

[Xist]

Does anyone remember when my brand-new laptop slipped out of my fingers and fell on the floor? This happened 9 years ago and it cracked the touchscreen from one corner to the opposite!
My laptop decided that I was constantly tapping every point along the crack, so I couldn't use my laptop until I replaced the screen.

I don't think that I have bought a touchscreen since, but I also haven't dropped my laptop!

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Xist

Does anyone remember when my brand-new laptop slipped out of my fingers and fell on the floor? This happened 9 years ago and it cracked the touchscreen from one corner to the opposite!
My laptop decided that I was constantly tapping every point along the crack, so I couldn't use my laptop until I replaced the screen.

I don't think that I have bought a touchscreen since, but I also haven't dropped my laptop!

If it's a Windohs laptop, I'd think one could disable the touchscreen input. Should be able to in device manager, but failing that one could disconnect the plug that communicates to the mainboard.

I mostly hate touch screens because why would I want to constantly touch my screen after decades of scolding people that they could point to something on a screen without touching it with their greasy fingers.

Sometimes I prefer scrolling through a PDF by touching my screen. That's a rare occasion.

[Joggernot]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I dislike laminate. Even more, I dislike home shows where people say "oh, I like the hardwood floors", pointing to the crappy laminate.

I'm with you. We installed laminate in our sunroom at the recommendation of our contractor. We live near the Gulf Coast and the laminate seemed to come up, pull away, and started to warp. Had it all torn out and installed good tile. No problems since.

[Piotrsko]

Cheap laminate does all that. Expensive laminate not so much particularly if they use proper glue. Having said that, I did dent my oak laminate flooring with a 12" crescent wrench I dropped.

Nice score on the flooring freebeard. Are you good using mush board underlayment instead of plywood? It's cheaper, water resistant.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Cheap laminate does all that. Expensive laminate not so much particularly if they use proper glue. Having said that, I did dent my oak laminate flooring with a 12" crescent wrench I dropped.

Nice score on the flooring freebeard. Are you good using mush board underlayment instead of plywood? It's cheaper, water resistant.

My daughter dropped a cast iron skillet from the counter onto the cherry floors, and it left a dent. They've held up to the several times water has overflowed the dishwasher due to the drain hose going straight up to the disposal, instead of having an extra loop above it to prevent drain-back from water flowing down the drain and backing up in the disposal. Laminate would have been destroyed the first time.

When the fridge in my rental house had a leak, it warped the laminate. Fortunately it's behind the fridge, so who cares. It just happens to be the exact click-lock laminate used in my parents house, so we've got extra pieces if we ever want to tear apart the floors and make repairs.

I'm not totally against laminate, I just wouldn't use it in a rental or where animals might pee, or with kids.

[Xist]

Has anyone used a clothes iron, with the steam setting, to remove dents from wood?

I remember playing solitaire on my touch screen while waiting for a class to start and then putting away my laptop and trying to listen, since I couldn't remember enough of what the professor said to take notes.

Somehow I remembered okay if I didn't try to write it down.

I tried to talk to a classmate after class and all that she would say was how nasty my screen was with all of the fingerprints.

[redpoint5]

I've thought about trying to raise the grain or something to even that dent out. Failing that I suppose a clear filler would suffice.

The floors look good in most spots except the very high wear areas. Not sure what the process is to restore them, but it's probably something along the lines of strip, sand, stain, seal. I'll wait for the kids to stop dropping cast iron skillets and throwing food on the floor to shine them back up.

[Xist]

Ironing wood to remove dents is #39, but there are many good tips here: https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/...u-knew-sooner/

The shortest video that I found about it was less than a minute, but the guy tried to act, and was cheesy.

[redpoint5]

I like some of those. Will have to try wax on the mirrors to keep them from fogging. Thought about spitting on them, like you do with your mask before scuba diving.

For some reason cordless drills don't come with magnets anymore. Supply chain issues? Figured I'd glue a hard drive magnet to 'em, which would work better than the weak magnets they normally use.

Back in the day, I'd just use my foot to lift the mower chute. I'd hook it with my heel so if I slipped it wasn't toes going into the blades. Mostly though, I'd just mow perimeters clockwise so the fence was on my left, and I'd circle other objects counter-clockwise for the same reason, to keep the chute on the other side. Having to lift the chute is simply poor planning.