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Waterfall said:
Looks great!....will you be boxing in that black plumbing pipe?
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Good question. That area is going to be curtained off for storage. I'll build shelves around it and plan to box it out with painted MDF instead of furring it out with studs and drywall, which would have taken up more room in the closet and would have been more work in general.

Those bulkheads were already a pain. Doing this work by yourself is crazy.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Watch your fingers. I come from a family of men who all lose the tips of their index fingers to saws...
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Where necessary I clamp the material on the miter saw, and I use a push stick on the table saw. I always wear safety glasses. I don't wear gloves at the saws. There are a few basic rules you just always follow with this stuff. I know people who were injured. I have no desire to join them.
 
In a basement, you don't have regular hardwood as an option. And it's a lot less money than the alternatives.
 
Yeah - I know the advantages, but I really hate the way it looks. We don't have hardwood floors in our house because of the cost. We've got cheap carpet in the basement (it came with the house) and needs replacing with more of the same. The main floor has some sort of sheet vinyl (or something similar). Easy to keep and looks reasonable to our old eyes.
 
chansen said:
Where necessary I clamp the material on the miter saw, and I use a push stick on the table saw. I always wear safety glasses. I don't wear gloves at the saws. There are a few basic rules you just always follow with this stuff. I know people who were injured. I have no desire to join them.
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The stuff normal people don't know that a carpenter does ... even if running with half the Golden thingy ... hind as following thoughts well! Some deny these portions of awareness, or take them for granted and loose parts!
 
not to derail - have you seen the sawstop systems in use at all? http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?cat=1,41080&p=72156

They came to my attention years ago when I worked in a programme treating people with industrial hand injuries. I so wish these systems would become an industry standard - a complaint is that they are more expensive - true. But if demand was higher for the product I suspect price might come down with volume increase. And injury rates would come down too. Interesting to see that Lee Valley has now picked them up as a product.
 
Injury would be curtailed if people were cognizant and aware of the danger of machines used only for power ... as the machines don't think about what they are capable doing regarding destruction ...
 
My hat's off to all who can do renovation work. It isn't my forte.
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Thus psyche goes ... denied appreciation by the institutionalized ... and opposition to the alternate conception aL group ... separated from the non-learners so as to cling to their opinions ...

Opinionated is an interesting word to research if you believe the word hides a lot of understanding as sacred ... god as word has power to do that!

@ Jae .... don't fret it so you will not agitate your abstract parts ...
 
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The other end of the basement. I am pathetically slow at drywall. Once I'm done, all my drywall tools go on Kijiji. I never want to see them again.
 
Never done drywall, never plan to. I know a good general contractor who lives near me (met him when he did some work for my employer) and if I ever need something like this, I'm on the phone to him. But (y) to guys like you who can.
 
It's gonna come out like glass, but the effort it takes a n00b like me to get there is insane.

I'm sweaty and dusty at the same time. That's not fair.
 
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