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Not bad for paint, pulls, and crown molding. Oh and granite.

 

Woke up at 3 am one night, my ceiling fan was 6" above the bed. It had a slight wobble that over 4 years broke the tabs that it was mounted to on the box. It was pretty crazy. Come to find out it was a cheap box. Bought a heavy duty box and there is no more wobble in the fan.

 

Thanks. It was a cheap but effective update with a ton of bang for your buck.... If you don't incur any labor cost and do it yourself. I've got some appliance and granite connections so the whole thing - including 53 sqft of granite and 4 new higher end Samsung appliances - was about $3800.

 

My flapper kept sticking up with the water running so instead of just replacing the flapper I converted both toilets to dual flush. It is way less complicated than the picture shows. I did both toilets in about 10 minutes each. Best part is it replaces the chain/flapper with a cable system. Up for onesies, down for twosies.

And I'm not a plumber.

 

Nice. Our kitchen was nicely updated, but we've got a lot of 1980s oak cabinetry and, yes, brass, elsewhere the will need to be addressed eventually, either with refinishing or outright replacement.

 

That was one of the things that prompted the change of the fan in the first place.

The ugly 80s brass and glass fan up before was a wobble fest, and monted to a janky ass split chunk of 1x6 to bring the apex of the vaulting to a flat surface. I replaced the chunk with a proper box on a plate if 7-ply 3/4 plywood and attached the included safety cable to the 2x6 framing with a .25x2.75 lag bolt. The mounting cup/bracket for the fan mounts with 1/8" class 5 screws that go through the box, tube sleeves, plate, and into the framing via nutserts.... I can do pull-ups on the bracket. Yes I am paranoid.

The fan is a very smooth DC unit that is absolutely silent with zero wobble; not at startup not while running, nothing, though time will tell.

I am happy, but more important, wife is happy. On low I can feel the air move pretty well. This is good because the room is a 309sqft octagon with vaulted ceiling on the upper floor of the house. The old normal sized fan would need to be spinning on high to get you to feel the air movement

Here's a pic from the listing.



Blah blah (sick kiddo sleeping on me so I am rambling)

 

That ceiling is awesome! Is that the only room w/ wood ceilings? We looked at buying a Log home last year & had similar ceilings.

 

Not all of those are approved. You need an air gap above tank fill line. Some of those are totally submerged & are not approved here.

 

The front room does as well.

 

Wow! Can’t let wife see those. Will give her “ideas".

 

Wood ceilings unite!

 

I am thinking of re-doing my tile tub surround in a bathroom with Marble. I have not gotten good results on my googling on if this is a good choice or not. It is a bath shared by 2 teenage girls. Am I going in the wrong direction?

If Marble is not good for the shower surround could I use it on the floor?

Thanks!

 

Marble is a harder diy, and I find it to slick personally for floors that will see bare wet feet.

 

Why not a ceramic/porcelain tile? Could go for something light that looks like marble if that's what you're after. Marble is expensive and harder to cut neatly.

 

I picked them up at Lowes so I would think they would be OK. They are not fully submerged but the directions say they can be.

 

I was not so concerned about the cost, but I did look at marble last night and I think its fragility is going to make me look for something else. It does look really nice though.

 

After using marble and granite I now prefer to go with the man made stuff, because of no maintenance, and no staining issues... they are all really slick though, so could be an issue in the bathroom. I did that once and will not do it again. I am just a home improvement weekend guy.

 

Yea, maybe use the marble as an accent? I personally only use marble in an older house where it'd be time period appropriate. The imperfections work great in a 1920s house with a clawfoot tub and penny tiles on the floor. Although there are some more 'modern' patterns in general I think marble is a bit dated, but in a classy timeless sorta way...if that makes any sense at all.

 

Question for everyone here. I am planning to do a DIY shiplap wall in my basement project. The wall is decent in size, 8' tall, 20' wide. The DIY aspect of it is that I plan to just rip down 4x8 sheets of plywood down to 8"x8' planks. My tablesaw is an old skilsaw table saw, it probably cost me $80 back in the day and is in sore need of an upgrade. I don't use a table saw overly often in my projects so I don't want to spend a ton of money. I'm looking at this Kobalt work site saw from Lowes as it is the right price point. It will do a 30" right rip so I could rip the sheets in half length wise prior to ripping the planks. I know that this table saw is not designed nor intended for ripping full 8' sheets. But with assistance and some roller stands. Would you be comfortable with this saw to do this size of a project?

Thanks in advance.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-15-Amp-10-in-Carbide-Tipped-Table-Saw/50056619

 

just have them rip them at the store...