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Noodleface
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I should've hired someone to remove this tree from my yard. One week later and I'm still chipping shit in my tiny chipper. Fuck my life.. this is my life now, chipping branches. Even after that's done I need to rake my entire yard in the middle of the goddamn summer. Fuck..
Anyone considered trying to frame + hang old game boxes? Thought it might be different throw one or two up in the office.
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I decided I wanted granite counter tops. I went to Home Depot and got bent over by their prices. I had to look at their quartz offerings because their granite was so expensive. Then a buddy told me about this small granite place in town. Their granite price is half of Home Depot's quartz price. Plus, Home Depot wanted to charge $750 just to remove my old counter tops. That's fuck nut crazy. HD also wanted to charge $700 for the edging I wanted. This other place doesn't charge a dime for it.
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Yea, solid surfaces are bend-over margins for big box retailers. If you just pay full retail price plus install at HD/Lowe's you are like 150%+ over a good price. It does depend on the material though and this is only magnified by natural stone. Take a good hard look at the qualities of a particular type of granite and find the source (quarry) if you can. There are some types of stone that are very uniform, there are some types that have lower quality facsimiles you could get tricked into buying (yea it was kinda black and pink, that must be it!) and there are some that are so wildly different you need to look at the cut of stone before it's put in - especially if you are going off of 'perfect' sales slabs. A good store will have themostvariation in their samples to show you the 'worst case scenario' for color, patterns, etc. They will probably also offer different grades of specific stone that are prone to variation.
Noodleface
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Looks like both bottom wheels on my door were zeroed out so it's just sitting on the track. One side adjusted fine and the other was stuck. Then it fell in the door. Only way to repair it is to pop out the door. Fuck.
My parents owned a cultured countertop business that I worked in from like age 10-18 so I know a decent amount about it. We sub contracted through Home Depot and Sears for the San Diego area. We marked it up on our bid to them and they marked it up on their quote to you.
If you are not looking into real stone or just want to know more about cultured marble counters feel free to PM me. I don't jump into this thread often so I might not notice if you post.
My parents sold the business off so I won't be getting royalties or commission.
If you are not looking into real stone or just want to know more about cultured marble counters feel free to PM me. I don't jump into this thread often so I might not notice if you post.
My parents sold the business off so I won't be getting royalties or commission.
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If you don't want to do it, call a glass company. I did that in my last house because the doors were huge and me and my weak neighbors were not going to be able to lift them out. It was about $250 for them to drive out and put new wheels on two doors and clean and lube another. Well worth it.
Noodleface
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I'll look into it. I can lift the doors fairly easy so with my brother we could do it. What I'd be worried about is fucking it up and now I have busted doors and a hole.
Oddly I just sawan articleyesterday where they used granite floor/wall tiles to do their countertops. I found other examples but the grout was more visible and less appearing.
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But it doesn't work very well. Granite tile is 12x12. Two of them is 24" which is an at least an inch short of what it needs to be. Go measure your countertop and I'll bet it's at least 25". So now, you're going to have a 1" strip near the backsplash. The backsplash will lay on top of that so now you've got a 1/2" strip back there. It that's acceptable, go for it. But not for me. It looks very amateurish. It works for that guy because he doesn't care if water on his counter runs down into the drawers, I guess.
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Bees are in my eaves. Two treatments of toxic spray in, notably decreased activity today. I believe that tomorrow at dusk I'll be able to spray directly into the small hole with more poison, and then spray in a whole can of expanding foam insulation. I think I've got them beat.
Also, I may be dead tomorrow at dusk.
Also, I may be dead tomorrow at dusk.
Me personally having made cultured marble for a decade I wouldn't go with anything but a solid surface so I agree but 12" tiles are not the end of the world for some people on a budget especially since they can DIY it much easier and cut costs lower. It's better than Formica at least ...
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Man I saw some huge fucking hornet or something in the early evening flying around my driveway. Thing was easily the size of my thumb. I went to get my tennis racket and spray but I couldn't find it anymore. No idea what that thing was but it was massive.
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I mostly agree. I've installed a few tile countertops. If one cuts those 12x12s into a 3 piece pattern (12x12, 12x6 and 6x6) or uses a porcelain tile, you'll have a prettier and more functional counter and it's not much more work. You'll have more grout lines, but choose a dark grout and keep the lines thin and upkeep won't be too bad.