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  1. 4re Nut

    4re Nut F1 World Champ

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    Thoughts on adding a Q&A home improvement/DIY forum (or sub-forum to Other Off Topic)?

    I've seen threads along these lines and I bet folks have some things they'd like to share.

    I do pretty much zero around the house but strive to be more like this guy...
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  2. BT

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    It would be okay I guess. I have done pretty much everything on the home improvement list over the past twenty years or so.
    :)
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  3. Noelani

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    Definitely. Unless we already have a scrapbooking thread.
     
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  4. Steveny360

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    Pretty much all I do is improve my house all the time. Everytime I think it's done I see something I can do to make it better. Just finished putting slate down on the garage floor. Looks great.
     
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  5. 4re Nut

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    I'll put you down as a "maybe". :D

    You need a forum to post pics! Oops, there is always the garage thread. :D
     
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  6. 4re Nut

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    I think I cursed myself (and am now "cursing" a lot) by starting this thread. I just put a dime sized hole and other damage in a hallway wall with a clothes basket.

    I entered the hall from a perpendicular entrance with the basket at an angle and basically I didn't turn right soon enough...I'm an uncoordinated idiot...and now I have a wall to patch and paint. UGH!!!

    Pics for your viewing pleasure and laughter at my idiocy...
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  7. Steveny360

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    That is one rugged basket either that or thin sheetrock.
     
    Steveny360, Jul 24, 2010
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    Yeah, but did the whites and colors come out ok?

    ;)

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  10. BT

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    After you put your basic wall patch compound on that you can match the texture by mixing up some regular drywall mud extra soupy (thin) and then dab it with a brush, and then knock down the peaks a bit with a wet sponge before the compound sets up completely (keep smoothing it until the texture matches the orange peel on the wall adjacent to the ding).
    I'm also surprised the basket could make that ding!
    :)
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  11. 4re Nut

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    High rate of speed was a contributing factor...brought on by caffeine.

    Pink is (back) in!

    Rewrote it to my level. :D
     
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    Yeah - I learned the "don't wash red stuff with white stuff" rule when I was about
    19... and the rule about checking for crayons when my 2 kids were small.

    :)

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  13. 4re Nut

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    Technology continues to make life easy (i.e. less trauma inducing lessons to learn) for the next generation. My kids (on the rare occasion they wash clothes) know to use these: http://www.shoutitout.com/preserve-colors.aspx

    As for checking pockets, I don't mind doing that. I can make five to ten bucks a week! ;)
     
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  14. Steveny360

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    Funny laundry basket story. In my daughter's room there is a hanging clothes basket, wood frame with a cloth bag. I usually drop it over the handrail into the foyer, for now anyways as that floor is getting replaced this winter. Well I'm not home and my wife tries the same thing but drops the entire hamper with the wood frame. It's about a 25 foot drop so the wood frame just gets smashed into a gazillion pieces. She asks me how I dropped it all those times without breaking the framework. I told her it had to hit just right. :D
     
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  15. 4re Nut

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    Good one. Maybe we need a laundry related forum; we'll call it "wash & wear" with a photo thread for laundry rooms and a sticky for stain removal... :D
     
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    I moved 2 years ago after being in the same house for 23 years. The one thing I miss that was in my old house and not in my new house, the laundry shoot. That was really handy. Unfortunately I can't put a laundry shoot in the new house as the new house is just way too big. It would be cool to put in a pneumatic system like the banks use. That would be a fun project.

    I am almost done doing the rehab on this new place. It's gonna be killer when it's finished!
     
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  17. 4re Nut

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    You sir, will be a charter member of the HI/DIY forum...and that BT guy too. :)
     
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    Pretty much all I do with my spare time is work on my house. I love to do it and I love to do unique things. I will post some pictures when I get a second. And if I am not fixing up my place I am fixing up the rentals. One of the code officers really paid me a great compliment the other day he said my property was the nicest in the city. That really made me feel good.
     
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    I am a stone refinishing expert and very familiar with stone fabrication and installation. If anyone is ever thinking about tile or natural stone for any application I'd be happy to help.
     
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    Let me know when you want to visit Texas. We have a bathroom project . . .

    I'm still mastering the grunt language that Tim speaks. I'm almost there . . .:D :D
     
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  21. 4re Nut

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    The poll has been up a week and 69,020 FChatters want a HI/DIY forum. Rob, get to work. :D

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    [size=-3]footnote: As of this post, the vote count is 20 "yes" and 3 "no" which is 86.96% of the total for the former. At the moment there are 79,370 members, thus by extrapolation we can determine that 69,020 (79,370 x 86.96%) are in favor of this request.[/size]
     
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