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Had an extra hood and grill laying around and I needed an awning over shop door.

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justjeepin86 said:
I brushed all of the verticle surfaces and used a stain pad on the deck. I hate staining. This one was worse because I used a cheap deck cleaner that fuzzed up the wood and turned it white. Had to sand the whole SOB.
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I hate it also.... Always trying to find an easier/faster way. Easiest I have found is to use a small weed sprayer, but it wastes more stain and ruins the sprayer. Also you have to block the wall/house from getting overspray on it.
 
justjeepin86 said:
I brushed all of the verticle surfaces and used a stain pad on the deck. I hate staining. This one was worse because I used a cheap deck cleaner that fuzzed up the wood and turned it white. Had to sand the whole SOB.
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Curious as to what cleaner you used.... So I don't use it
 
Went to put up the new cellular shades in the kitchen last night, 3 windows next to each other over the sink. Took the old shitty vinyl blinds off of their brackets, removed the bracket screws from the sides of the window opening. There were 4 drywall anchors behind each bracket, with only 2 screws used per bracket. No drywall anchors were necessary at all, because there's a stud behind the drywall.

I then removed all 24 blue plastic drywall anchors (3 windows, 2 brackets each, 4 anchors per bracket), cut out a small section of drywall that was destroyed while originally installing the anchors (and was then painted over), and patched that section with setting-type joint compound. I don't have matching paint, so it's going to get sanded and primed and stay that way until we eventually paint that room.

I'm getting soooo pissed off at the guy who owned the house before us.
 
Fabrik8 said:
I'm getting soooo pissed off at the guy who owned the house before us.
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Lol..... I know your pain. Except my issue is with the builder and contractors. Tearing out to do a kitchen remodel and you can see where corners were cut. A lot of things wouldn't have taken but a minute or two more to do it right....
 
RobMcBee said:
Lol..... I know your pain. Except my issue is with the builder and contractors. Tearing out to do a kitchen remodel and you can see where corners were cut. A lot of things wouldn't have taken but a minute or two more to do it right....
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Yes, that's the story of much of our house as well; we found out ours was the last house in the neighborhood and sold partially-finished because the developer ran out of money. The previous owner must have hired the lowest bidder to complete the rest of the work. The other bullshit that the previous owner did is just icing on the cake.

It's just lovely crap like securing each sheet of drywall to the studs with a few screws, then filling the rest of the sheet field with nails. So we have nail pops that wouldn't exist if they completed things the rest of the way with screws. And they stopped after the second coat of joint compound, so all the joints and edges are slightly raised and not faired completely. I've been going through and adding that 3rd coat around the windows and corners before priming and painting in each room.

There's a laundry list of stuff like that. Someday, after a slightly obscene amount of time and money, this house will be cool. I'm undoing all the bad shit and completing everything like it should have been done 26 years ago.
 
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RobMcBee said:
A lot of things wouldn't have taken but a minute or two more to do it right....
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Yeah but that minute or two cuts into beer time.
 
Fabrik8 said:
Went to put up the new cellular shades in the kitchen last night, 3 windows next to each other over the sink. Took the old shitty vinyl blinds off of their brackets, removed the bracket screws from the sides of the window opening. There were 4 drywall anchors behind each bracket, with only 2 screws used per bracket. No drywall anchors were necessary at all, because there's a stud behind the drywall.

I then removed all 24 blue plastic drywall anchors (3 windows, 2 brackets each, 4 anchors per bracket), cut out a small section of drywall that was destroyed while originally installing the anchors (and was then painted over), and patched that section with setting-type joint compound. I don't have matching paint, so it's going to get sanded and primed and stay that way until we eventually paint that room.

I'm getting soooo pissed off at the guy who owned the house before us.
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Fawk all that, I'd just have pounded the anchors a little more in and covered w/ spackle and repainted over them.
 
Fabrik8 said:
Yes, that's the story of much of our house as well; we found out ours was the last house in the neighborhood and sold partially-finished because the developer ran out of money. The previous owner must have hired the lowest bidder to complete the rest of the work. The other bullshit that the previous owner did is just icing on the cake.

It's just lovely crap like securing each sheet of drywall to the studs with a few screws, then filling the rest of the sheet field with nails. So we have nail pops that wouldn't exist if they completed things the rest of the way with screws. And they stopped after the second coat of joint compound, so all the joints and edges are slightly raised and not faired completely. I've been going through and adding that 3rd coat around the windows and corners before priming and painting in each room.

There's a laundry list of stuff like that. Someday, after a slightly obscene amount of time and money, this house will be cool. I'm undoing all the bad shit and completing everything like it should have been done 26 years ago.
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You do realize 26 years ago nailing sheetrock was a common practice. Your holding a 30 year old house to the same building practices as today.

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I got lucky. Bought our house from the original owner (well, his son), who's dad built it himself in the 60s. Turns out this guy and his brother were builders, they were involved w/ the developer who bought all the neighborhood land, and they built about 1/2 the houses, but just one at a time as people moved to the area. Then built his house last, having saved one of the more private lots for himself.
And built his house about 25% bigger than everyone else ;-)
They did some goofy things, like his wife already had a plan for her furniture, so instead of puting outlets in the center or evenly spaced on walls, she made him place them around her plans. So I have 8' wall spans w/o outlets, then 2 within 3 feet.
But the coolest thing he did was building in real stairs to the attic, unheard of in '60s ranches. Put them parallel to the stairs to the basement, where virtually all ranches have a giant dead space over your head walking down.
 
benXJ said:
Can you walk straight on to the door? Grill looks to be hanging below the door line.
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Bottom of grill is about 6'5"

I have no issues.
 
Loganwayne said:
You do realize 26 years ago nailing sheetrock was a common practice. Your holding a 30 year old house to the same building practices as today.

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I realize that, I'm just not happy they they used a few screws and then backfilled with nails. Should have just finished with screws, after starting with screws.. There aren't any fasteners at alll at the bottom 18 inches of the drywall, which I know is also common but is lazy as shit. My baseboard's job isn't to hold drywall in place.
 
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We're planning on adding a 600-800 sf addition within the next year or so. Gonna try saving some money by doing a lot of the work myself, but what I sub out will be scrutinized with a fine tooth comb... Im in the same boat as you, house was built in 89 and most if not all the drywall is nailed. Our house had some serious moisture issues due to A leak in the bathroom. I've noticed most of the drywall that I've pulled down the nails were badly rusted, which makes me wonder if it's going to be a problem in the future.....
 
RobMcBee said:
We're planning on adding a 600-800 sf addition within the next year or so. Gonna try saving some money by doing a lot of the work myself, but what I sub out will be scrutinized with a fine tooth comb... Im in the same boat as you, house was built in 89 and most if not all the drywall is nailed. Our house had some serious moisture issues due to A leak in the bathroom. I've noticed most of the drywall that I've pulled down the nails were badly rusted, which makes me wonder if it's going to be a problem in the future.....
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I don't think the rusty nails signal a problem. I've seen that in a lot of houses I've been in over the years, and I think it's just regular humidity and water vapor movement through the porous drywall and joint compound if the rust is actually progressing. You're also applying wet joint compound over unprotected/uncoated nails, which starts the surface rust very early in the life of the house. It's not going to progress very far though, or if it does it's going to be extremely slow unless you have a bigger moisture problem. Same thing with metal corner beads. The black oxide finish on drywall screws is enough to protect it under the same conditions, and if moisture was actually a problem then the screws would rust as well because black oxide barely offers any corrosion protection.
 
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