I agree with twig. I got whiplash once, and it happened that night, not right away.
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We were on the porch most of the afternoon giving out candy to the handful of kids coming down our street.
Around 6 pm we decided to go grab some dinner. Left a big bowl outside and a sign: please only take 2 or 3, leave some for the others.
When we got home we found that only did someone STEAL ALL THE CANDY but also THE FREAKIN’ BOWL, TOO!!!
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I avoided this horror by not handing out candy at all. Learn from me.
Got call from what appeared to be my car finance company, telling me I am past due on my payment.
I am on auto withdrawal every 1st of the month. Payment due on 26th, but they allowed it.
I explain to guy on phone that it is autopay every 1st and when he follows with “do I want to make the payment”, I told him I believed it was a scam and hung up
So I called the company and it seems it is recorded as passed due. So I ripped her a new one, as why can’t they see it is on autopay and why are they calling after only 5 days anyway and why did the guy on the phone insist on a payment when I didn’t know if the autopay was going through
all calls are recorded, I hope someone listens
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This year I handed candy to kids at the door, like in the old days. Last year I left a bowl on the front steps with 10 pieces of cany in it. Every time a group came, I replenished it. No one took all the candy. I admit to being surprised.
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My furniture is coming Thursday. I’m working from home, but I have meetings 1-4. My window is 1:36-3:36. (Which seems weirdly specific.)
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Probably some sort of calculation that involves the average travel time from the previous delivery to yours.
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Spent an hour picking out the materials for subfloors in the bathroom. Pro tip: you almost always want Advantech, not plywood.
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Remember to glue and screw.
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and don’t forget to double up on the adhesion methods for the subfloors,
OK it looks like Advantech is just a premium brand of OSB?
Yeah, just a branded OSB, it’s reportedly more rigid than plywood. With marble tile I will take all the rigidity I can get. And yes, glue and screw. TWSS?
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Huh, it looks to me like the primary advantage is that it’s cheaper. But it’s heavy as shit and it’s more sensitive to water damage.
And if you are looking for rigidity, do you want concrete board?
Advantech is more water resistant, not less. Maybe cheap OSB is the other way round?
This is what goes on first, then there will be a layer of cement board.
You put cement board on the floor? Won’t that disintegrate under traffic? I’ve tiled floors, but always with vinyl tile and it’s just sheets of 1/4" plywood that goes underneath it.
I guess plywood isn’t rigid enough for ceramic tile, maybe everything would crack if you do that.
So on top of the joists will go the 3/4" Advantech OSB stuff. Then a skim coat of thinset and, while it’s wet, cement board or similar gets screwed down. I’m not sure if my installer will use cement board or some of the newer products that are made from fiberglass. And then more thinset is used to bond the marble tiles to the floor. But yes, the goal is to get a very, very rigid floor, and cement is quite rigid. It doesn’t disintegrate, I think, because the load gets distributed a bit by the tiles. Some old-school tile pros skip the cement board, screw down a sort of wire mesh, and then just pour in an inch of cement.
There are calculations regarding how much deflection is acceptable and I’m fine but just over the line. So I’m taking the opportunity to add the most rigid subfloor possible just to be safer.
Oh, funny story. The first time I tiled was in college (this was before YouTube), I did my mom’s kitchen. I had no clue what to do, we went to Lowe’s and I grabbed the guy working the flooring area and asked him what I needed to do, and he just told me to tear out the old stuff and use thinset to hold the tiles in place. Didn’t say anything about cement board.
It turned out… reasonably well. Some tiles weren’t perfectly flat, 2" tiles are hard to work with. But it somehow managed to last for 25 years until we sold the place a few years back. I think it managed to not break because the tiles were a) ceramic, much stronger than natural stone, and b) 2" tiles means a lot of grout lines, and grout is a little bit forgiving.
The next time I tiled I did the same thing and ruined 100 sq ft of marble. Live and learn.
Dammit. Don’t feel like watching another 3 hours of video learning series. Decide to recover my second/dual monitor setup by swapping out the monitor that my son is using, that matches mine (my current monitor+my son’s gives me two matching monitors). Monitor was working on my son’s computer. Pull my desk apart, run cables, turn on my dual monitor setup and boom - monitor has a green vertical line. Google reports the monitor is humped. All that work for nothing plus now a dead monitor.
So no work done, and actually a step backwards. Ah well, time for new monitors. New monitor for you, new monitor for you, new monitors for everybody.
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OTOH, yay! my furniture is coming tomorrow!
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ouch! Yeah, marble is soft and brittle.
I have a very prickly chin hair that isn’t long enough to pluck. Very distracting.