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Comments (26)Hello Everyone! Tomorrow is the big day! I am so looking forward to seeing everyone. Anyone who wants to bring a dish, feel free. I will be supplying "crossandwichs", chips, soda and water. We have one other trader bringing a fruit tray and I think someone else is bringing cookies. I am sorry but have forgotten for sure. For those who haven't been to my house before, please take my phone number with you as the roads out here in the forest can be a little funny! My house will be the one with the split rail fence with cow skulls on the posts out front. Also I will have neon green signs out with "Plant Swap" on them to help you find the way. Don't get lost and don't ask "Cletus" for directions! Ha-Ha! See you all tomorrow! Susan...See MoreWhos Here in 2010? Annual Role Call!
Comments (110)I am grateful to find you all. I live in Fort Collins Colorado and am an SFG devotee. Last year I started with 3--3x3 and 1--1x3 containers with water reservoirs; after all the summer hail storms, I rigged out the containers with Conestoga wagon style, PVC pipe braces that can be covered with plant fabric in a pinch for protection. The 3--3x3 containers are on the south side of the house between our property and our neighbors in front of the gate to the backyard. The 1x3 with a trellis is behind the gate adjacent to the back lawn fence that we share with that same neighbor. I am preparing to add another 3x3 container in the back lawn. As I am a SFG devotee, I do my best to plant with Mel's Mix. I started a compost bin on the north side of the house but between not turning it consistently and not being too cognizant about balancing my browns and greens the pile has fallen asleep and I need to wake it up (smile) I would also like to plant the window boxes on the west side of our home with short carrots and beets instead of flowers this year. I would also like to put containers on our west-facing front porch and try to plant Yukon Gold potatoes. They will not have reservoirs so I want to try the water jug with a wick to the planter technique. DH plants two earth boxes on the west side of the house with tomatoes and mows the lawns. I talked him into letting me convert half the front lawn (yin yang inspired). Now it is half grass. The other half is half rock mulch and half wood mulch the later my husband scored when he chatted up the tree surgeons that were working on another property on our street. The wind had me and the cats up last night but now that it has chased the clouds away I will be about taking an inventory of the sheds, setting up the new containers, and direct sowing the cool season vegetable seeds. I look forward to learning many things from all of you. I will try to read the previous threads and to avoid posting any redundant questions. Thank you in advance for your patience....See MoreSo Bill...Mongo...if I were going to go to tile school...
Comments (25)Sure, when I used to use CPE/Noble/Oatey/CPVC, I wrote about their membranes. Matter of fact I still write about them on occasion, but much less on this forum. We've had a slew of threads about PE behind cement board shower construction. If a DIY wanted to try floated mud walls, we'd write about those as well. But it's not generally a DIY-friendly method. When I used Wedi years ago, I wrote about Wedi. When I used Kerdi, I wrote about Kerdi. I prefer cement board over fiber-cement 95% of the time. I prefer fiber-cement over cement board 5% of the time. Each works better for me in certain circumstances. I do think that for moisture control, a topical membrane shower is superior to a membrane buried within the shower wall or buried in the shower base. I don't want cement board walls or presloped mud bases getting wet. I build fairly tight houses, and moisture control is important to me at each and every location in the house. A major point for me is I don't use foam presloped bases. Most every shower is a custom size so packed deck mud works best for me. Wedi told me "...our shower is all inclusive, you use all or none." Kerdi said "...sure, use our foam base or use the membrane over deck mud." I settled on Kerdi as being the membrane for me. Unlike RedGard, it works as a shower membrane and as a steam room membrane. I prefer easy 100% coverage of sheet membranes versus the "I hope I didn't get any pinholes" roll-on membranes. And that's my personal limitation, my personal concern. Kerdi is readily available at the retail level in my area. Kerdi is easily transportable. If Wedi would improve their distribution network they'd make inroads into DIY residential showers. They'd take market share away from Schluter from the builder side of it as well. And there is the big difference. A builder who is set on a product that works for that builder is going to use that product. A DIY person, which is what this forum is geared to, needs to have a retail distribution network in place so they can access these products at the retail level. All this relates to how I build and how the product works for me. So yes, more often than not I do Kerdi showers. If a Wedi guy, or a CPVC guy, or a Kerdi guy, or a floated mud wall guy wants to post, have at it! Heck, how often do I hear about hot-mopped pans on this and other forums? Do I ridicule them? Not at all. It's a regional thing, and I respect that. All are welcome....See MoreFiberglass exterior doors-if not at big box stores, then where??
Comments (5)Good advice from MWM. You will want to look for a quality window and door dealer that can supply and install a high end door as first choice. Option B is to source a good door from a supply house or lumber yard if this is DIY. The very last option would be to try and find the best product sold by box stores (an oxymoron for the most part in the case of windows and doors), which I'd agree is probably Thermatru. Keep in mind, if you are looking for a professional installation, box stores generally pay a fraction of the going rate, so there would be some major risk in that regard....See MoreJalisco Pine
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