Putting good wood in rotten holes and other weekend projects.

RabidDeathMoose

I recently bought a house. It's not a new house and it has been neglected for a while. Structurally things are pretty alright but there are numerous little things that need fixing. This is the story of one of them.

I notice yesterday one basement window is showing its age. Read: it's fucked.

I busted the H scroll on a few...

Although really the damage doesn't look so bad from out here... until you get in close.



Oh shits... I wonder how bad it is? Bad enough I had to take the front fascia off...



Wanna see me make this screwdriver disappear?



The end of the thing is somewhere past where the board stops being painted white... sigh.

I wonder if I can salvage any?



Fuck




WTF it's all rotten, super rad. It's all coming out.

A few hours later...



Well that looks a damn sight better.



FUCK ME it's painted and looks pretty tits!



Take that rain! Not this fall/winter/spring, not on MY watch! (for this window anyway...)




My ghetto caulking job, it's a storm window and completely ghetto and broke assed, I just didn't want water pounding on the interior window. This should hold until I actually have some money to replace it completely. Not bad for a few hours work if I do say so myself.

Anyone else get up to any cool weekend projects?

Trillian

I studied for exams and fed my snake.

Macro9

I installed some windows on some old mans house before. He demanded that I did not use my finger to smooth my silicone. He went so far as to call me a hack and threaten to not pay me. His wife came home later and told him to shut up.

I got my money, but the cranky old bastard chipped away at my pride.

edit:

If it was me I would've replaced the basement windows with glass block.

Rhesus Positive

I moved into my college room - does that count? It involved shoehorning eight weeks' worth of stuff into a Ford KA, plus three passengers. I spent the trip enveloped in my suits with roleplaying books at my feet.

J3p

I destroyed my sleep schedule in one fell swoop!

I can't get Dr. Riptide out of my head. It was my favourite side-scrolling action-adventure submarine game for the MS-DOS.

Centipede Damascus

Trillian wrote: »

I studied for exams and fed my snake.

I'm gonna go ahead and :winky: this

not sure why, but it feels right

Dely Apple

I challenged myself to masturbate furiously only to the front cover of "What Color Is Your Parachute?"

Results are forthcoming

potatoe

pssh, you think that windows sill is in bad shape?
you obviously haven't lived in many old houses in your time

but really though i'm glad to see you at least had the sense to fix it

h5 old houses

Jedoc

J3p wrote: »

I destroyed my sleep schedule in one fell swoop!

I can't get Dr. Riptide out of my head. It was my favourite side-scrolling action-adventure submarine game for the MS-DOS.

Wow, I haven't thought of that game in years. It was really hip, though. Am I misremembering, or did the Dopefish from Commander Keen appear at one point?

Raneados

I supercleaned and rearranged my room

FROM

TO

Raneados

I live the life of a super spy I know

potatoe

i love rearranging furniture
it's a trickledown from my mum, who rearranged furniture just about every other week
the whole house's furniture

RabidDeathMoose

Macro9 wrote: »

I installed some windows on some old mans house before. He demanded that I did not use my finger to smooth my silicone. He went so far as to call me a hack and threaten to not pay me. His wife came home later and told him to shut up.

I got my money, but the cranky old bastard chipped away at my pride.

edit:

If it was me I would've replaced the basement windows with glass block.

Well I really didn't want to spend money on a new storm window since I'm almost 100% sure I'll be busting all those old windows out next year and replacing them with something that ISN'T grand central station for bugs and hobos.

Potatoe it's my first house ever, guess I just don't have as much experience living in cracktown! :winky:

Raneados

potatoe wrote: »

i love rearranging furniture
it's a trickledown from my mum, who rearranged furniture just about every other week
the whole house's furniture

there's only so many ways I can rearrange this shit, though

Jedoc

Halfway through my freshman year, my roommate and I decided that we wanted to rearrange the furniture because we were sick of looking at our cramped shabby dorm room. We sat down and thought about it, and realized that the setup we had was literally the only way we could place the furniture without blocking a closet or the door. That was a pretty depressing day.

Raneados

dorm rooms are set up that way for a reason

Green

Raneados wrote: »

potatoe wrote: »

i love rearranging furniture
it's a trickledown from my mum, who rearranged furniture just about every other week
the whole house's furniture

there's only so many ways I can rearrange this shit, though

Put the bed in front of the door

Raneados

Green wrote: »

Raneados wrote: »

potatoe wrote: »

i love rearranging furniture
it's a trickledown from my mum, who rearranged furniture just about every other week
the whole house's furniture

there's only so many ways I can rearrange this shit, though

Put the bed in front of the door

non idiotic ways

Auntie Shibby

I laid down some soil and put in new grass in my backyard.

ChicoBlue

I'm gonna make some love this weekend.

Raneados

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I'm gonna make some love this weekend.

building a woman to fuck does not count as making love

Javen

Auntie Shibby wrote: »

I laid down some soil and put in new grass in my backyard.

In October?

I hope it was sod grass, otherwise have fun doing the exact same thing in May.

Auntie Shibby

Javen wrote: »

Auntie Shibby wrote: »

I laid down some soil and put in new grass in my backyard.

In October?

I hope it was sod grass, otherwise have fun doing the exact same thing in May.

Yeah, it was.

ChicoBlue

Raneados wrote: »

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I'm gonna make some love this weekend.

building a woman to fuck does not count as making love

That's why I'm building a man to fuck.

Auntie Shibby

I also live in a climate where grass doesn't really die.

potatoe

Raneados wrote: »

potatoe wrote: »

i love rearranging furniture
it's a trickledown from my mum, who rearranged furniture just about every other week
the whole house's furniture

there's only so many ways I can rearrange this shit, though

Raneados

potoaoe is the mod of awesome ideas

bongi

I had quite a boring weekend

I hate boring weekends, but they seem to happen more often than not. I guess I need to find something to do with my time.

Raneados

ChicoBlue wrote: »

Raneados wrote: »

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I'm gonna make some love this weekend.

building a woman to fuck does not count as making love

That's why I'm building a man to fuck.

IT WAS A TRICK TO GET YOU TO ADMIT THAT

now I am angry because I have a penis that you're not using

Javen

I just bought a 37 inch HDTV to put at the food of my bed

I don't have to work next sunday

my project will be to watch football all day

Raneados

Javen how often do you feed your bed

and good lord man you feed it TVs?

ChicoBlue

Raneados wrote: »

ChicoBlue wrote: »

Raneados wrote: »

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I'm gonna make some love this weekend.

building a woman to fuck does not count as making love

That's why I'm building a man to fuck.

IT WAS A TRICK TO GET YOU TO ADMIT THAT

now I am angry because I have a penis that you're not using

IT WAS A TRICK TO GET YOU TO ADMIT THAT

Now I'm angry because you're all the way down in Florida or Texas or Brazil or wherever you are.

Javen

don't judge me, womanman

Voranth

next time me and my friend are bored, we're going to canadian tire, getting a bunch of PVC pipe, and making some epic Blue Man Group-esque drum kit

it is going to kick major amounts of ass

Raneados

CHICO YOU DON'T NEEDS TRICKS TO GET MY LOVE

come here you sexy man

Kuribo's Shoe

I'm gonna put some roast beef in some hoagie rolls, put some provolone on top, and stick them sons of bitches in the oven

then I'm gonna take some hash browns, throw some pico de gallo and cheddar in there, and fry that up

then I might just saute some onions to go on my toasted sammiches

if I can figure out how to cut an onion worth a damn

Raneados

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

I'm gonna put some roast beef in some hoagie rolls, put some provolone on top, and stick them sons of bitches in the oven

then I'm gonna take some hash browns, throw some pico de gallo and cheddar in there, and fry that up

then I might just saute some onions to go on my toasted sammiches

if I can figure out how to cut an onion worth a damn

hit it repeatedly with the sharp edge of a knife

Kuribo's Shoe

Raneados wrote: »

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

I'm gonna put some roast beef in some hoagie rolls, put some provolone on top, and stick them sons of bitches in the oven

then I'm gonna take some hash browns, throw some pico de gallo and cheddar in there, and fry that up

then I might just saute some onions to go on my toasted sammiches

if I can figure out how to cut an onion worth a damn

hit it repeatedly with the sharp edge of a knife

how about I hit you repeatedly with the blunt edge of my fist

Raneados

I think I could take you

let's dance

Kuribo's Shoe

fuck that, you're probably like a spider monkey

Javen

skinny guys fight like they have something to prove