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Alright, back to story time. One of the things that wasn't part of the room initially but I ended up noticing after we tore the walls down was how poor the condition was of the door frame. It was the original front door to the house and it looked like someone had really butchered it a couple times. Additionally, it wasn't…

For your edification. https://wooditsreal.com/2017/05/02/what-does-ground-contact-mean/ While the posts reinforce the structure, they are not critical to the structure. Additionally, they are easy to replace. The structure does not have to be torn apart and rebuilt completely to fix them. The posts are not in a wet…

Yes, termites are a problem, not as bas as down south but they are a concern. But pressure treating doesn't necessarily mean that bugs won't eat them. Pressure treating is intended to prevent the typical rot and degradation that comes from weather and water. Termites, carpenter bees and carpenter ants will all still go…

Sorry, the last post a few of the pictures were out of order but I don't feel like fixing it and can't at this point anyway. After the painting was done, we started working on the rest of the utilities for the room. First things first, that trap under the floor had to go. You can see here that it's now just a black PVC…

I told the contractors that I would handle painting and not to worry about it. So they left on Friday by lunch time. One of them had a doctor's appointment anyway. Friday afternoon, one of the sheetrock guys shows up and comes in to look at what's going on, where everything is and to get an idea of what amounts of mix he…

I didn't get a ton of pictures of the insulation because...why? It's just insulation. What did end up doing, though, was we sealed from the inside all the gaps in the framing that you could see daylight through with expanding foam and caulking. That alone made a HUGE difference. Before that point, the room would still get…

The next day was a nice day outside so we worked on replacing the windows. We just got pre-hung Pella windows with a mullion pattern that matches the other windows on the house. Just standard white vinyl sashes, nothing fancy. We started taking down the siding and found that the same fake brick that was on the inside was…

OK, so, the floor was where we picked up again after the Thanksgiving break. What we did previous for the electrical was we fixed those outlets that were near the floor on the inside wall. We also fixed the outlet for the washer/dryer and took the wall sconce off the wall. We ran a second line to the ceiling for recessed…

So I'm going to stop there for now 'cause we're not even half way through and I gotta find some more pictures I'm missing before I can continue. At this point, though, we were a month in and we just kept find new fun every time we took something apart. Work progressed fairly rapidly after this despite the Christmas holiday…

So down the hatch we go! I was honestly being a little girl about this because given how other stuff had gone, I was expecting to crawl down there and find dead animal carcasses. You laugh but, I found dead squirrels and birds in the insulation that I pulled out of the big garage, there was a dead raccoon in the pool house…

So, remember that hole in the ceiling? Yeah, more Captain Halfassery. Why? 'Cause the original ceiling was sky blue. Except for that one **** square that Captain Halfass painted that sickly yellow. The only "water" damage was the flaking paint it was due to the fact that he didn't have the dryer vented to the outside…

So, the last set of pictures were taken on a Sunday. I had the dumpster delivered that Monday and the guys started work that Wednesday. The first thing we did was tear down the knee wall to see what was behind it. Nothing. There was nothing behind it. It made no sense why it was there. I had made plans for the room under…

So, with the lull in work, I was thinking about what I haven't posted about in this thread yet. So here's the laundry room saga. The Laundry Room is Captain Halfassery at it's finest..or worst..or however you want to look at it. When we got the house, it was presented as a workshop/laundry room. It had this godawful yellow…

Also, Sizemore really showed his acting chops in "Saving Private Ryan". That was my favorite role of his.

No worries dude, it confused me for a second and I had to go look it up 'cause Mike Madsen and Tom Sizemore look enough alike they could be brothers

Uhhh, Mr Blond was played by Mike Madsen, not Tom Sizemore. Also, I'm surprised he survived this long. Dude had several brushes with death over the years, mostly from drug problems

If you park under trees (sometimes it's unavoidable) regularly, the funk that rain will wash off the trees, including bird poo, will degrade blades faster too. Especially in the spring when pollen hits. If you don't clean it off, it turns into this goo that will hold moisture and eventually solidify giving mold and mildew…

What happened there? I haven't been following that news.

Dude, in all honesty, anything built after 2007 is required, by federal law, to have a "black box" capability. It's essentially a data collector with a back door into the vehicle's ECM that police can access remotely to shut down your car in the event that you are suspected of a crime. Additionally, if the black box…

I usually get the Motorcraft replacements when I can find them. Rock Auto usually has them in stock so I grab them when I get stuff I need for regular maintenance that I can't get locally, like cabin air filters and stuff. When I can't get the Motorcraft, I usually go for Trico. Even the cheap Tricos perform well for me.…

Man, that sucks. We had to put Eddie to rest around this time last year. He was in renal failure at 17.5 years which is WAY beyond the expiration date for a male cat. I'll pour one out for Jasper, maybe he'll hook up with Eddie 'cause Eddie liked the tunes on the He-Man rig and movies on the HT too.

SDA is already back, though. It's in their sound bar speakers and it's in the L800s.

I didn't either. I think they just have a list of jerks from the forum that are already black listed. I mean, I would too if I were them. Can you blame them, tho'?

Look, you can use the fuzzy math all you want but in every logical circuit design, the multiplication operator associated with the parenthesis gets operated on first because of it's association with the parenthesis. The division comes second because the parenthesis gives the multiplication a priority bump. It's known as…

It's 1. There's no other answer. Order of operations. Parenthesis, multiplication and then division. One plus two is three. Three times two is six. Any number divided by itself is one. Six divide by six is one.

I just wanna point out that when Lurie fired Reid for non-performance and blamed him for the dismal records two years in a row (like The Iggles inability to retain top talent and keep them healthy didn't matter), Iggles fans all said Reid was a hack that would never win a Super Bowl. Since then, Reid has been to 3 Super…

Wow. Really? Hit a nerve, huh?

No it's not.

At what point do "mods" to a speaker become so extensive and numerous that the speakers is so far from original design and intent that it can't be considered a modification of the original and is now something entirely different?