Monday, April 03, 2006
Disaster
So that might be a bit of an overstatement, I mean no one lost a leg. Well the little woman walked our new puppy to school to meet and walk home with me, giving the dog and ourselves a little fresh air and exercise. On the way home she told me about a little boo-boo I made installing an outlet last night. In our walls we have wood sheeting with floating outlets installed. They are mounted sideways in the void between studs, they wiggle, oh and 2 of them spark when you pull plugs out. I have to cut each one out and re-mount to a stud and because they are attached to the wood sheeting this means the sawzall. Now I love the sawzall, everyone who is remodeling should go out and buy one the very first thing, just watch how deep you stick the blade. Apparently I didn't control the depth of my penetration (put your own one liner in here) and punched a hole right through the new wall. I said some inappropriate things and then got on with fixing it. I was still able to get to the back side of the cut so I pumped it full of paintable caulk. Who knew remodeling could be so raunchy? I used caulk to stick a 3 inch square wood patch over the bad spot on the inside. Around to the good side with more caulking to match the texture and presto, boo-boo is gone. I recommend paintable caulk for this work because it is so much stronger that taping mud would have been. If the bad spot had been larger then cutting out and re-attaching to the studs might have been needed. Once I had painted it even my wife and I had a hard time locating it. Trust me, buy a whole case of painters caulking at HomeDepot, its great.
TOOL OF THE DAY!
It is a little "Cat's Paw" nail puller my wife found. Called "SharkGrip" it is made in Japan of hardened tool steel. A tiny nail puller is just what the doctor ordered to dismantle w/o destroying. It can be driven into the wood under a nail head with very little damage. I very highly recommend this. I can find out from my wife cost and source location if any are intrigued.
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We got a sawzall not too long ago, ourselves. We have to cut old plumbing out of our walls, so that'll be the first thing we use it on. That teensy tool is pretty cool! Good job, D.!
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We got a sawzall not too long ago, ourselves. We have to cut old plumbing out of our walls, so that'll be the first thing we use it on. That teensy tool is pretty cool! Good job, D.!
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