so waht ya doin today?

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
House is ICF, pretty plumb by design, except if the installer suffered a "blowout". Upper rear porch/deck is PVC as are the stairs and railings. I'm not big on homeowner maintenance..............thus the choices/options.
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Seems Waco wants to be screwed down, pressure washed once a year and walked all over. Very odd thing to wish for me thinks. :confused:
I was thinking along the lines of my body not being able to rot, warp, fade, or split.:cool:
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The yaller wood is fine if it gets air on all sides and especially fine if you stain/seal it with something intended for the purpose...on all sides.

I don't know about metal studs, but for outdoors, it's pipe, purlin, and I-beam for me. If it needs decked and can't be made out of rock or concrete, it's plastic.


You're in a much drier climate than I am too I think. Makes a huge difference. A heavy dew here is more than equal to what I saw called a " moderate amount of rain " in Arizona.

Biggest thing keeping me away from composite/plastic decking is the same thing that keeps me from having a bigger lathe, nicer tractor or new tires all the way around the F350...$$$$$$.
 

Rick

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No comparison in weather between here and Arizona, not even close. In Tucson if the weather forecast is for one inch of rain they start sand bagging. We got an inch today, an inch yesterday and this is a dry year.
 

Rick

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Composite is more up front but on down the road with no sanding, staining, sealing every 2-3 years it's actually less.
 
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Intheshop

Banned
Hey,you know what they say....." Vinyl is final".

I ain't touching that discussion with a 10' threshold.

I worked right to the edge today.Kinda like knee dragging sportbikes in the mountains here.No gaurdrails,no speed limits,just nice 1-2000 foot cliffs. So we calls'm "hard edges". That's what having a <10% EF on your heart is like. It's very hard/sharp edge to overdoing it.One minute you're working it pretty good then BAM, ooops,didn't see that coming,haha.
 

smokeywolf

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Had roofers here all day, removing old non-functioning passive solar water heaters from the roof. Might have been a bit more of a challenge had I not had the foresight to buy a couple of extra bundles of shingles 20 years ago when I had the place re-roofed.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Just an FYI,and no.... you didn't hear it from me but,you can spray bomb asphalt shingles to get them to match existing,faded ones.No you can't make a green shingle white.... but when you get into the slate grays N such,it works very nicely actually.You do it after install.
 

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Loaded up a bunch of 312299 in '06 brass with 9.5gr Universal and 17.5gr SR4759
These are PB bullets sized to .310" and lubed with 2500+ with an overcoat of BLL.
To be shot from a Ruger Hawkeye. These are loaded to 2.850" and they just engrave the nose and scuff the ball seat area.
Now to find time to go shoot......
 

uncle jimbo

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Made the cornbread from the recipe Pistolero posted. It turned out good and it was tasty. Thanks Bill.
I did have to mod the recipe through, I didn't have a cast iron square pan. Had to use a round 10" cast iron fry pan.
 

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Ian

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Bill's recipe is close to mine except i don't put any sugar in mine, i use a little less wheat flour and add in some masa. Ive also been known to throw a can of well-drained canned corn in there too, and half a cup of "pickles", aka sliced, pickled jalepenos. At that point some may argue tha it has become casserole.
 

Rick

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Hot peppers in corn bread. :eek: Now I know when a friend of mine in TX tried to talk me into moving there I kept right on going further east. Eegads.
 

Ian

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Friends in Texas are like that. You should try the ghost pepper craft beer sometime if anyone offers you a mug. Ohhhhhwwww, it ain't hot, don't worry (snicker).
 

fiver

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wait.. someone said Ghost Pepper Beer?
good lord sign me up.
i don't think my ghost peppers are gonna bother giving any peppers this year, it looks like I might pull out a few Serrano's though.
I was looking forward to a few peppers since I'm just about out of the hot sauce Littlegirl brought back from St. John's.

went down and talked to the local lumber guy today.
told him what I needed without even mentioning the colors for the roof and trim, then we got talking about gardens, and bullet casting.
now I gotta take him down some stuff for his 32 Winchester... [and cast him some plinker 140's from my NOE mold this winter]...LOL.
I'm gonna trade them off for some straight lead bricks and a 10% discount on the roofing materials.

stopped in to check on the Bronco over at the mechanic shop to see if they had any surprises when they pulled the engine.
damn.. both motor mounts were broke and the vibration dampner was cracked,, it all but fell off the front of the engine when they hooked up the puller.
it also needs some exhaust work, unfortunately the catalytic converter and some of the smog stuff appears to have fallen off sometime earlier this week.
 

blackthorn

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When putting wood into contact with cement, lay a piece of closed-cell Styrofoam between the cement and wood. A surplus asphalt shingle works too.
 
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Ian

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Masonry of any kind is a water sponge, you want a waterproof membrane to keep the moisture away from the wood. Sill gaskets, asphalt shingles, several layers of tar paper, anything like that to stop the water.
 

fiver

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now I read this.
I just walked in from setting the first set of stairs on the cement pad we poured last night.
I was considering sliding in a leftover piece of the flat plastic from the garden, then decided against it since I coated the boards with the polymer paint.