chit chat thread
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These are some neat projects. We finally finished out basement as well. Bought the house 7 years ago. Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish. So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year. Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere. The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere. In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.
Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done. Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead. I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.
Ran a second zone of HVAC too.
Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.
Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap
It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT
The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.
I hired out the drywall too.
Movie room sucessfully blacked out
Decided to add some stone walls:
The wifes design pallet
It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.
Tin/copper ceiling was tricky
Then added more stone and more tin:
Then the big wait was for the counter tops. So we finished a bunch of the other stuff
Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets. Haha
Movie room got furnished
Appliances
Crown to finish off the ceiling
Finish work on the stairs
Then....the coolest part. We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.
Got it all organized. Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.
We are still working on some things. Decorations. I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers. It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.
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Gentlemen,
It has come to my attention that there are some among us who have fallen on hard times and need a bit of support while their circumstances improve.
Starting today, we will be collecting non-perishable food items for the @REKIII family. Donations can be made in person at the Black E46s of New Berlin satellite office
2860 S 108th St,
West Allis, WI 53227
*please no more than 3 dented cans per donation. Bulged cans must be within 10% of their original diameter.
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Did a ton of work ourselves which saved a lot. We had a major and 2 smaller vacations canceled so we had a little boost to the budget which was nice.
Wife uses her fancy wide angle lens to take the pics so it looks bigger than it is.
The stone on the wall looks really good. Almost like a nice restaurant feel. Im not sure I ever remember seeing that done before but I like it a lot
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The stone on the wall looks really good. Almost like a nice restaurant feel. Im not sure I ever remember seeing that done before but I like it a lot
Thanks. It was an inexpensive menards product. I cut it on a chop saw with a masonry blade. I used 'omnigrip' from home depot to put it on the wall. No grout. A pretty nice and easy install considering I had never done it before.
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WiBasements.com
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WiBasements.com
Suggested website name changeCalm down pal, WiBoomers takes precedent
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It is a dry stack stone. Used indoors, it doesn't need grout to be a façade. However I did add the mesh to the wall (you can see it in the one pic with the window) to ensure good adhesion. Supposedly I didn't need to do this, but it made me nervous just sticking it to the drywall.
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For the first time I bought upgraded D1S HID's and tried them in my wife's Volvo and I'm blown away how much better they are. I bought Osram 7000k Cool Blue and they're noticeably brighter than the OEM bul I took a picture of new vs old below both warmed up.
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Have any of you guys seen this site? It looks like it's an aggregate site that tracks car sales to develop market trends. It looks like it's all auction data mostly pulled from BaT.
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For the first time I bought upgraded D1S HID's and tried them in my wife's Volvo and I'm blown away how much better they are. I bought Osram 7000k Cool Blue and they're noticeably brighter than the OEM bul I took a picture of new vs old below both warmed up.
i thought everyone was over with the purple headlight colors?
4300 or 5000k have like 50% more lumens than 7k and dont suck in the rain. imagine the jump you just had, double it for good 4000k bulbs!
Dan
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Have any of you guys seen this site? It looks like it's an aggregate site that tracks car sales to develop market trends. It looks like it's all auction data mostly pulled from BaT.
I've started using it ~6 months ago when I was researching E34 values for the claim. Email notifications for new listings and results for specific models you want is great.
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i thought everyone was over with the purple headlight colors?
4300 or 5000k have like 50% more lumens than 7k and dont suck in the rain. imagine the jump you just had, double it for good 4000k bulbs!
You'd have to see these in person but they're not actually 7000k color, they're like a hyper white color once they're warmed up and even seeing it driving down the road at me there's no blue or purple color to it. My guys at The Retrofit Source highly recommended these and the tests they've done have these ranked at a higher lux than just about any other D1S out there. There isn't a better bulb on the market than the Osram CBB.
Skip ahead to the 3:40 mark to see the comparison. The color on the screen is accurate to what you see in real life.
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You'd have to see these in person but they're not actually 7000k color, they're like a hyper white color once they're warmed up and even seeing it driving down the road at me there's no blue or purple color to it. My guys at The Retrofit Source highly recommended these and the tests they've done have these ranked at a higher lux than just about any other D1S out there. There isn't a better bulb on the market than the Osram CBB.
Skip ahead to the 3:40 mark to see the comparison. The color on the screen is accurate to what you see in real life.
i stand corrected on the brightness! its odd that they've rated the color so high when they are clearly just as white as the 5000k stuff. the guy in the video is confused as well.
Dan
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