I have been a residential / commercial painter for 10 years and I now manage the entire exterior / interior painting division of a larger painting company
However, I am terrible with carpentry and it’s something I feel embarassed about not having experience with.
If someone asked me to trim out a window frame or lay baseboard / crown molding I could sus it out but my miters would be shit and I hardly know how to work the saw and get solid joints
What are some things I can practice to improve on this? Or like should I take a class or some shit? I’m 28
Can someone explain Hairy Potter to me?
Poor boy become wizard, make many magic, defeat bad guy, nerdy best friend lands the hot girl with a glow up, cucks him and breeds his sister, the end
harry had a sister?
7 books.
Book 1: Harry is an abused kid living with his step-parents finds out there is a secret world of magical people hiding in plain sight. He is taken off to school because he himself is magical, and learns that a powerful evil wizard named Voldemort tried to kill him when he was a baby and failed, and it backfired and almost killed Voldy instead. He ends up squaring off against Voldemort who had been posessing a teacher at the magic school and defeats him for the time being
Book 2: Harry returns to school and kids are being mysteriously paralyzed. He eventually squares off against Voldemort again, who was posessing his best friends sister through an old diary. Voldemort also is in control of a giant snake which Harry kills and uses to destroy the diary, thus defeating Voldemort again
Book 3: Harry returns to school again and there are these scary creatures called Dementors (which the wizard world uses as prison guards and executioners) patrolling everywhere looking for an escaped criminal called Sirius Black. Harry eventually learns that Sirius was framed and was a good friend of his dad's, and is also his godfather. Harry saves Sirius from death by dementors via a magic time travel device, and Sirius escapes on a creature called a hippogriff who was also supposed to have been executed that day. Sirius is now a fugitive.
Book 4: Harry returns to school and ends up entered as a contestant in a dangerous competition between 3 magic schools. He has to steal an egg from a dragon, rescue his friend from mermaids at the bottom of a lake, and navigate a magical maze which has the trophy at the end. He ties at the end with a fellow competitor and they both are transported via the trophy to a graveyard full of Voldemort's followers. Voldemort is returned to a body and battles Harry who is able to escape.
Book 5: Harry returns to school. There is a nasty b***h called Dolores Umbridge who is a government agent and a new "professor" at the school. She basically siezes control of the school and he eventually runs her off. I kinda forgot what else happens in this book.
Book 6: Harry returns to school. He's having visions and stuff and eventually he and the headmaster go to hunt down Voldemort. The school is attacked while they are away by Voldemorts followers and they return just in time for the headmaster to be killed by a teacher who escapes with the other followers.
Book 7: Harry does not return to school. He has to track down and destroy magical items making Voldemort effectively invincible. Eventually he does end up at the school for a final showdown and is killed by Voldemort, but ex machina he's not actually dead and awakens and kills Voldemort instead. He marries his best friends sister and they have a kid. His best friend (male) marries their nerdy third friend (female) who was largely irrelevant throughout the series except to occasionally drive the plot with her smarts and talent with magic.
The end. Saved you a week or two of reading.
I read first 4 between ages of 9-11. Every single one had some mcguffin that gets handed down to kids to solve the whatever problem and is promptly forgotten about for any future problems that might come up.
It's kinda based that they send kids to school strapped with deadly weapons, even encourage them to use them on each other a little as practice.
it was meant to be a book about a comically abused boy becoming an amazing wizard with special powers and solving problems. It was written by a woman, though, so it ended up appealing to teenage girls because of the female equivalent of autism.
Crown molding is hard and slow. You'll learn it about last of any trim install.
The only way to get better is to practice. You need to learn to scribe. If you put a piece of baseboard down and the floor moves up an down 1/2 inch randomly, then you'll have to notch that out so your outside miter comes together. You probably need to scribe styles on the edge touching a wall. You need to cope inside corners rather than cheesy inside miters. Use the right adhesives to hold your joints together and your molding flush to a wall. Understand basic framing so you know where to shoot. Use a brad nailer and a pin nailer. Trimmers have to work around the non uniformity of everything then just caulk the rest.
Daniel Ratcliffe is magic Jesus.
The purpose of trim is to hide shoddy construction and places where cracks will form.
In my own house, I avoided it trim by well-constructing the windows.
You generally need a corded dewalt compound miter saw and a hitachi air nailer. Standard.
You have to tune your saw to true the 45 usually.
Everybody has there own way of doing things. I often put caulk on the inside along the outermost edge if there is a gap (it squeezes out) rather than filling it later.
Remember: it only has to look square, not be square (the walls are never square, and the floor is never level)
> miters
Luckily picrel is popular nowadays. Sell them on “craftsman” and all you need is 90’s.
> coping
Not if I can help it.
Luckily plain rectangular baseboards and craftsman style are in vogue.
Sometimes you gets some chick that watched downton abbey and wants frickkin wainscoting tho.
>I often put caulk on the inside along the outermost edge if there is a gap (it squeezes out) rather than filling it later.
Messing with caulk while trimming does not sound like a good idea.
Dewalt is hufflepuff cause yellow
Milwaukee is gryffindor because red
Makita is ravenclaw because blue
Ryobi is slytherin because theyre gay
fricking millennials and their childrens pop culture references to everything. grow up already.
everybody reads harry potter
Nope. You kids are just fegs
is that a pat&mat reference
the notion of considering a brand an identity or identity indicator is a product of
>celebration of braindead Black person culture
plus
>vile israeli marketing schemes
plus
>legendary naivete of the goyim
Under-rated post.
Milwaukee was known for the sawzall and hole-hawg heavily used in trades, and now it’s some taiwanese company that just bought the name that makes 10 other brands of tools in different colours of plastic.
milwaukee > dewalt > makita > ryobi
>milwaukee:
electricians and mechanics (chads of the trades)
>dewalt:
carpenters, roofers, other drug addict and alcoholic trades (cant afford the milwaukee because of the child support and alimony payments)
>makita:
weaboos, HVAC guys, generally weirdos
>ryobi:
homeowners, yuppies who got into general contracting as a "side gig" and make life hell for real contractors, bottom of the barrel drug addicts and morons
feel free to cope and seethe
I hate milwaukee having now used them for a year as a mechanic.
im trans btw
nope. nice try goon.
why no bosch, festool, or hitachi
Festool is priced outside of reasonable for anyone but a serious commercial crew.
Bosch only offers a very limited selection in most of the US.
Hitachi's offerings in the US are also fairly limited unless you go to specific Hitachi dealers, other than their roofing and framing nailers. They're also labelled as Metabo HPT in the US since '18. Their nailers are top notch, but don't seem to have a huge amount of market penetration.