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Sure wish that would take hold in the shopping malls, although I haven't been to one in years; so, never mind.
Getting ready to plan out framing our basement.
1. New house, but basement is unfinished.
2. HVAC is in attic, and all vents are in the ceiling.
3. As such, basement is not actively heated or cooled, so basically it's a giant heat/cooling sink right now. Framing the walls, even if unfinished after that, will allow me to get started on 'finishing' the basement, and will also allow me to begin insulating the basement, which will make a gigantic difference.
Additionally, it has one of those perimeter drainage systems....which means I can't drill into the floor right there. This either means one of two things:
1. I'll have to move the walls in around 6" or so.
2. I can construct the walls on top of the perimeter, but I'll either have to use construction adhesive to secure the walls to the floor, OR build sort of "L" shaped brackets to secure the floor plates to the wall (with the vertical part secured to the wall, and the horizontal part resting on top of the floor plates and nailed to them as well).
If anyone else has any insight, please feel free to opine.
1. New house, but basement is unfinished.
2. HVAC is in attic, and all vents are in the ceiling.
3. As such, basement is not actively heated or cooled, so basically it's a giant heat/cooling sink right now. Framing the walls, even if unfinished after that, will allow me to get started on 'finishing' the basement, and will also allow me to begin insulating the basement, which will make a gigantic difference.
Additionally, it has one of those perimeter drainage systems....which means I can't drill into the floor right there. This either means one of two things:
1. I'll have to move the walls in around 6" or so.
2. I can construct the walls on top of the perimeter, but I'll either have to use construction adhesive to secure the walls to the floor, OR build sort of "L" shaped brackets to secure the floor plates to the wall (with the vertical part secured to the wall, and the horizontal part resting on top of the floor plates and nailed to them as well).
If anyone else has any insight, please feel free to opine.
How sturdy is the ceiling? Could you hang the walls entirely from the ceiling? AKA curtain walls?
Some at Google HATES people. If I want to zoom in to be able to read a street name, why in the hell do you keep making the font smaller as I zoom in to see it.
So I end up take a pic of the map and zooming it in where Google has no control.
And I have good vision.
Funny story about phone maps. A couple of months after the offspring got her license, she was going to a retreat. Normally we would have driven her, but it was only an hour away and she had proven to be a pretty safe driver, so we let her take her car.
We did make her follow us through the city and onto the correct interstate and then we turned around. So she makes it to the correct town and is following her map's directions until she loses service. So she turns around and goes back to where she last had good service and calls us. We find out she was about a mile from where she needed to go, so we sent back and soon got a text that she was there (they had Wifi).
So when she got home, a pocket Rand McNally was waiting on her bed.
But isn't your perimeter drain underneath the floor slab? You wouldn't be drilling all the way through the slab in order to anchor the framing. You're only bracing it against lateral movement.
youtube of some guy's DYI project doing what it seems like you're wanting to do
I remind myself - sipping a nocturnal mug of tea - that with the imminent approach of the winter solstice, over the next day or so, the (welcome) return of brighter days and longer days (not necessarily, less cloudy, but less dreary, less dismal, less dark, and less light deprived) draws ever closer.
You, my dear need a phototherapy lamp.
Worked wonder to fend off the doom and gloom of the winter in my case.
PS: Pardon the familiar language, t'was the only way to alleviate what could otherwise percieved as snarky nature of my comment.
Technically, when they install these, they cut a 6" or so 'groove' that goes out about 6" as well. The issue, I think, isn't that we'd be drilling all the way through the slab. The issue is that it *might* crack the newer concrete/mortar, which would completely counteract the point of the drainage system (in other words, it'd give it another path of least resistance), and would void the warranty.
With that said, from what I can see, best thing is to lay a strip of foam insulation (I forget what it's called) underneath the framed wall, and likely glue that to the floor; and use an L-brace every so often.
My mother is on my mind.
She passed away on this day (well, close to midnight), five years ago.
Will raise a glass or two to her memory, later this evening.
She passed away on this day (well, close to midnight), five years ago.
Will raise a glass or two to her memory, later this evening.
Perhaps with a bit of ABBA playing in the background?
Take care. The anniversaries can be tough.
Chatted with Decent Brother for around an hour, - very pleasant - and one of the main topics of conversation can easily be guessed at.
I suspected that might be on your agenda. Was it accompanied by grape or grain?
Neither, as yet, - just sparkling mineral water for me, while he had a cup of tea, although I am debating whether or which of Grape or Grain might be more welcome this evening as I haven't opened either - and we just chatted, a lovely, easy, unstressed, pleasant chat.
That’s good for you both. Hopefully other brother has been in touch too.
Here my electric blanket is on. I’m already in bed. Glad it’s Friday tomorrow. Then a 4 day weekend.
My daughter is coming home tonight on a 7 hour cross-country flight. Originally, she was scheduled to land at 1 AM although now it looks like she won’t get back till after 2 AM due to flight delays.
Well, hopefully at that time in the morning, the airport won’t be as crowded and I’ll be able to find parking
Well, hopefully at that time in the morning, the airport won’t be as crowded and I’ll be able to find parking
Electric blanket: Now, that is a thought. Must attend to it.
However, I may still open a beer, and succumb to the temptation of the Grain, (not the Grape tonight, that can be reserved for the week-end).
Actually, and anyway, I (still) miss my intellectual partner-in-crime, - her fierce intelligence, her kindness, her instinctive sympathy for the underdog, and her terrific sense of humour (she was well able to laugh at herself) and keen sense of the ridiculous, her cheerful greedy delight in good food, her thrill for theatre, travel and for listening to traveller's tales, - although, with her dementia, the poor thing wasn't anyone's intellectual partner-in-crime for the last decade of her life.
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I spoke to both my parents today. I’m not as close to my mother as you were, but I can’t imagine not having them there to talk to.
Enjoy your beer.
Good.
And I hope that they are both well.
I'd give anything to be able to do the same with mine.
At the time, you take such stuff for granted, but we, all of us, especially Decent Brother and I, had a great relationship with both parents, and I think we both miss them quite a bit.
I'd love to be able to sit down and chat with them at the kitchen table, the kind of chats you can have with people who know you so well that they are not blind to your faults, (yet tease you about them), but will always have your back and your interests and well being at heart.
It has just been opened, and poured, and I raise a glass to the memory of my mother:
Cheers to Mother.
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I talk to my Dad 2-3 times a week. My Mum about once a week. I rarely get to see them, and never for long. Families can be complicated.
Excellent.
That is also very good.
At least good chats - by phone - are a lot better than no chats, or little to no contact.
Again, I'd give anything to be able to sit at the kitchen table, over tea, or coffee, or a glass of wine, and have a good chat with my parents.
Once I had emerged from the self-absorbed fog of the awkward idiocy of adolescence, I had a terrific rapport with both parents; we were friends.
Amen to that.
Well, my pair of incandescent photography lights stopped working. Haven't taken them out in a couple years but needed them now for a video. One of them doesn't respond to the remote (and doesn't even pair with it), and the other one just flat out doesn't turn on.
I mean, they were kinda cheap lights, so what else was I supposed to expect?
I mean, they were kinda cheap lights, so what else was I supposed to expect?
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Apart from my mother, the other thing that is on my mind is the winter solstice.
I always rejoice in this day because it means not only that longer days are coming, but that spring is too.