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Huge difference between old growth pine and the faster growing they use now. Ever worked on an older 100+ building oz? The rough lumber in some old houses and the framing they did is amazing. Sometimes it's also really scary but hey not many codes then.

 

No pine , all the old buildings here were framed with old growth Douglas Fir

 

20+ hours of tiling and 600+ tiles. Wish I'd gone with a bigger tile on the tub surrond.

 

Slab poured for the 12x20 shed build starting this weekend. Lumber delivery this Thursday. I am pretty excited to get the project under way. This is my largest scale building project to date.

 

Did you do a vapour barrier ?

 

Yes I had concrete contractors do the vapour barrier. Additional cost was so minimal it would have been stupid not to.

 

Awesome

 

Blown in ?

 

Good deal with the blown in.

 

Same as my insulation contractor


Is it going to be fibreglass ?

 

My project yesterday ;

I milled baseboard material for my house out of a bunch of rag tag fugitive boards I had in various stash piles , most were wider boards ( 1x6 and 1x8 ) that had edges broken or were cracked or had pitch seams , about 1/4 were old flooring boards that had broken T&G edges

5 wheelbarrow loads of sawdust and 8 hours on the tablesaw and thickness planer

 

Sounds like cellulose

 

∆Looks good OZ!

 

Thanks

I was happy to use up all this material , some of these boards have literally been hanging around for 10 years

 

That is a lot of work. Are those the finished product or are you going to put a profile on the baseboards? Are you going to stain or paint the finished product?

 

No milled profile , my trims are all Craftsman style , there will be another 3/8"x1" "hat" on top of these boards which will produce the final profile

The trims throughout my house are all clear coated with Varathane , so they will look like the window trims in the picture of the stackec baseboard material

 

OZ I assume you don't have a bunch of pics of your house projects posted somewhere, but if you do I'd like to see them, your workmanship and design is really great to look at

 

There is a bunch of pics scattered through this thread and in my gallery , not all my house though , some are client jobs

 

Didn't think about the gallery, I'll start there.

 

Hey Oz, how does the Varathane hold up to moisture/physical abuse?

Wanting to treat my workbench top and shelf with something that will not let moisture absorb.

How would Varathane compare to Polyurethane?