Nice. I’ve got some old ass wood subfloor that go wavy gravy in the high traffic areas. Replacing it is such a chore, was thinking about some poured thinset type of leveling, caulk the corners and edgeban. But that’s for later, it’s workable for now.
The stuff I make is level and square, gets installed level and square but the place it goes into is almost never square 
shims and trims for the win usually
Trim, caulk and paint are essential.
Kitchen remodel is about to begin, happy dance.
Whipped up some carcasses for cabinets, new slide in range delivered today, found a sweet reduced price kohler large sink… damn thing was 700 bucks new, got it for 200, very proud of that. Shiplap, pipe hardware, cabinet paint, pot lights, farmy chandelier light all gathered. Once I get paint and doors/drawers on these carcasses; demolition begins.
Sink is getting moved to island, window above sink will be sealed and stove will go where sink is. Go a nice hood coming too.
I’m so giddy
Might be able to get doors and primer on them today.
Got some breakthrough! From PPG, sposed to be a good cabinet paint that hardens up nicely and has like 30 minute dry time, that means 3 coats can be done in 1 damn day! We’ll see how it flows through the cheap new homeright hvlp gun I bought
I’ll be into these for about 650, could’ve just bought some off the shelf stuff at home depot or Lowes but the reviews were terrible. These are solid 3/4" birch plywood with some common pine supports, doors will be poplar rails/styles with a birch ply panel, and I went with soft closing hardware
Open shelves got constructed and stained, need a few coats of poly.
Doors made, filled, sanded. They’re good 6 footers, cost about 13 bucks per door, if they’re redone, they’ll be red oak or maple, hardwood is the regime.
1 drawer complete, 2 more need bottoms and they’re set.
Thank God for sobriety, I have time and want to build stuff and enrich my surroundings instead of just exist and daydream
It’d be incredibly helpful to have a miter sled with stop block or a chop saw station with stop block.
I failed at trying to math them for a previous project. I found a video by Ana White, no math, simple stuff, worked like a charm. I have 22" slides, cut 2 1x4s to 22" length, pulled the hardware apart, attached the slide to the boards at the center point. Set board inside the carcass where I wanted, leaving space for the bottom plate which I simply titebond II and Brad nailed on, locked a slide ruler in place at the middle line, moved the board and drag a pencil against the slide ruler, mount other side of hardware using the middle line. Now reattach the slides, measure the gap and cut your fronts. It worked like a charm thankfully.
Here’s the clip in case anyone is interested. This is for a frameless mount. Comes on at about 2:40 seconds.
All credit to youtube, and the 3 sacrificial cabinets I made a month ago
I like her plans too, simple stuff that has the look I enjoy. And she uses pretty cheap materials! Nothing like making something durable and visually appealing on the cheaps.
I’ll give it a looksie. I have like 4 regulars I check out, cause they are informative, show how it’s done and done lecture too much
My dad was a hell of a carpenter, we have a couple of night stands he made in the early 80s that are still cooking even after one was beat with a baseball bat in a drunken rage. And there’s a massive hutch with my aunt in Ohio he made that’s still loved. Wish he coulda learned me on this, that would have been wonderful. If any of my kids get interested I’ll be right there, ready to build and help and teach if I know something
It’s just a hobby. I’m too old to get into major work now, and the time it would take to accumulate the tools, plus the cost, for better joinery and stuff like mortise and loose tenon would be prohibitive.
My work is good enough for me I’d have to gain a lot of skill to make anything worth selling, I have done some handyman work on the side when my aunt needs muscle and ideas though.
I did get some done today, it’s been so windy that I can’t spray anything without going and buying a tent or spray shelter of some sort.
Mrs. Az must be thrilled! Good job!
When I recently was sick for a week I planned a mirror angled horizontally and vertically so that by its reflection my plants on the other side of the room should get more light to eat. 
Finished building it this week.
I made a time capsule day, though I filled it with cringey shit from the past I don’t want to see, just to get them outta sight. Though if I get my hands on another box, I’m definetly going to make another a time capsule, but with the cooler shit and good ass memories. Just imagine, in 10 years later, I open the box and the good memories start flooding all over the place!
“Let’s just tear out the uppers, get a little jump start, see what we’re working against”
“Let’s just mount the sink in the island temporarily, see how the plumbing will have to work”
It started as a simple rip out the uppers, check it out. Took like 15 minutes to rip them out cause they’re the original builts made of 1x1 and 1/8" paneling. Next thing you know, the stove top is out, I’m drilling holes through the island and floor, crawling under the place with the kids and some pipe and glue
Sink is in a temporary mount, didn’t plan on it, so I’ll have to make a new counter for the island here soon but it can wait. Wired up the stove outlet and WE GOT A REAL FUCKING STOVE AGAIN! WITH A LEGIT OVEN! 6 CUBIC FEET BABY! will start putting in the cabinets tomorrow.
Cabinet doors have been painted, love the PPG Breakthrough! Paint. Levels like a dream, thin enough to fly through the cheap HVLP gun I bought.
Was a treat having the kids down there with me, handing me things, holding pipe that needed to be cut, keeping the light steady. Brought a tear to me eye when they wanted to get down in the dirt
Teaching them young and to see them use the skills later themself is a great thing to be proud of. I tried that with a 3yr old while changing a tire. Was cool at first handing me stuff until i had missing lugnuts by the end 🤦😂
Whoops! It was absolutely a proud moment, just them wanting to go down there with me, I was like cool, they aren’t scared, they were business like down there. No dicking around, Johnny on the spot with rags, abs cement, holding pipes, keeping the work lit up. Stayed down there after I crawled out to, throw some valves on the other ends of the pex, and flip on the water to check for visible leaks. A+, hella proud.
Coming along. Will be tackling the overhead lights once I get it more buttoned up. Tubes going out, spring loaded can lights going up. And an 8 Mason jar chandelier type light over the table
It’s a fingerjointed pine material, it’s got a simple joint that leaves like a nickel sized gap.
There’s a lot of options, was gonna go with tongue and groove pine but it’s natural and it does what wood does, which is twist and shout lol. All the pieces I inspected were pretty cuppy. Hardie board was an option too, cheap, tough but kind of ugly.
I’m thinking corrugated tin
It’s up for discussion with the wife. They have a plethora of peel and stick aluminum options too
