Out of Plumb

This is called kickback. It is when the table saw blade catches a piece of wood between the blade and the fence and flings it at a high rate of speed, in this case embedding it in 1/2 MDF. Normally kickback means your an idiot. I am not an idiot. I made it kickback for my own amusement. This means I’m a dumb ass.


It was all supposed to be so simple. Just install a few small pieces of sheet rock at the foot of the stairs and the whole hall is done. Yippee! Well then my wife thought how nice it would be this time if I finished the floor before building or sheeting the walls on top of it. So we have to ask ourselves, what do we want on the hall landing? Wood would be good to match the hall floor. What do we have on the landing right now? Green and orange foam back glued down carpet. Mmmm, yummy. Well lets just pull up the carpet and sand the boards down and rock on. Huh. Well lets scrape off the foam padding, sand the boards and rock on. Huh. Well lets just use some solvent, clean the glue off sand and rock. Huh. Well lets just sand off the glue, huh. Lets just rip out the entire landing, install new staircase bracing, turn the blank space under the landing into a storage area, give the inside of the storage area a shiny coat of white pant, cover the landing with new flooring that matches the hall and call it a night. That's just what we did. If we had decided to carpet the landing I’d be done by now.