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[Nabubrush]

I expect pithiness once someone is a member of the 500 can club.

[pmcd9]

Sorry about the colt, Ash.  I know that must suck.

[AugustWest]

520 cans and you couldn't do any better than I did?

What else is there to say?

Sheesh, everybody's a critic...

[Nabubrush]

What else is there to say?

Sheesh, everybody's a critic...

Well, if you can't do, criticize.

[littlefallsmets]

Condolences on the colt, sir.

[theinevitable]

in response to a "scary story" in reddit about hearing the floor creaking while taking a bath:

You know what's really scary about this? If you have a tile floor, and it creaks, you're in trouble. That means your subfloor is not solid enough, so you're going to end up with cracked grout and eventually cracked tiles. And it will just keep happening until you stabilize that subfloor.
While I'm not a professional installer, I have redone several bathroom floors. I'd recommend ripping the whole thing up and checking out that subfloor. If you've got two layers of 3/4" plywood there, and they still look good (no water damage), I'd drive some screws down into the creaky spots - keep going until you eliminate all of the squeaks - then install some 1/4" hardiebacker over top of it. I like to put a bed of thinset between the hardiebacker and the plywood before screwing it down.
After that, install your tile like you normally would. Don't try to be lazy and use the premixed buckets of mortar. Mix it yourself, and use admix instead of water. It holds up better particularly in an area like a bathroom that can get wet.

I don't know why I love things like this so much.

[AugustWest]

Two layers of 3/4" plywood?  Dang.

[wombat]

Today I'm gonna finally have my home generator finished being installed.

Now instead of worrying about dying of the cold when the power goes out for days in a blizzard, I can worry that there's all this extra gas line to rupture if there is an earthquake or something.

[AugustWest]

I was thinking that too. I wonder if dude meant to double up on some 3/8? 'Cause I've never run into a load need to go with doubled up 3/4 plus your mason board. Maybe to repel zobmies from burrowing in but still, dang.

Maybe his floor joists are like 6 feet apart.  Or he's using depleted uranium tiles. Or something.

[wombat]

Ash I am probably going to have to partially disappoint you because my role in this has been basically to wave the checkbook and say "please do what you need to do and don't worry my pretty little head about it," but the bill says what I paid for is Briggs and Stratton, 7kw. It runs on gas company gas - I am a city kid, we don't do the kind of gas that comes in canisters that look like bombs.

[pmcd9]

I am a city kid, we don't do the kind of gas that comes in canisters that look like bombs.

I carry those around in the trunk of my car.  Here is a funny story about that.

PS- I'm a city kid too.

[wombat]

You showed us your house, Paul, that is not what a New Yorker means by a city.

[wombat]

Yeah, I saw those, but I am already afraid of the new gas lines, I couldn't also take having a bomb strapped to the side of the house. And I kind of think that if both power and gas went out, that would be the sort of apocalyptic event that no amount of planning is really going to help.

[AugustWest]

You showed us your house, Paul, that is not what a New Yorker means by a city.

Don't you have grills in the city?

[Nabubrush]

Yeah, I saw those, but I am already afraid of the new gas lines, I couldn't also take having a bomb strapped to the side of the house. And I kind of think that if both power and gas went out, that would be the sort of apocalyptic event that no amount of planning is really going to help.

But at the end of the movie, you shoot the tanks and blow the whole works up! How are you going to do that now?