You know, a long time ago you could purchase lumber which had actually been
properly dried and this cupping, twisting and so on was unheard of.
What they call number 1 lumber today was scrap way back then.
Cy, the Ancient Okie...
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL
Dale taunted:
Just right now there is a sale at houseoftools.com including an air
nailer designed for driving nails into joist hangers. The nose is shaped
to fit into the holes and it is designed to get into those tight places.
Dan might be interested in one for his deck project.
Ok, help me out here,
Am I better off installing my joist hangers with nails or
screws?
What is best for fastening the joists into the hangers?
What is the best way to secure the plywood flooring?
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
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Larry,
I'm no carpenter or contractor, but I was under the impression that pretty
much everyone uses nails to attach joists and joist hangars. All the
force on the joist is supposed to be down and not out. If there is a load
pulling the joist out of the ledger, then there is something wrong
Notice my clever changing of the subject line so that you wouldn't recognize
the message.
Anyway, might as well try again tonight at say nineish eastern in the blind
handyman room at for the people.
Phil Parr.
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Sounds reasonable, maybe you could call it a house warming present. If she has
a problem with you acquiring this new gadget, better watch which tight places
she aims at, ouch!
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From: Dan Rossi
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007
Usually straps and hangers and the joists and so on are attached with heavy
nails about inch and a half nails, I used three and a half inch ardox nails,
the same I used for nailing up the house framing because that is what I had. 8
gauge screws would do fine too although if driven without pilot
hi when the contractor built my front and back porches he used lag
bolts to fasten the ledger board to the house.
also he used torks screws for everything else.
torks screws are the star pattern screws. he used a drill driver to
put them in and zip they were gawn.
jim
At 10:16 AM 8/3/2007, you
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I might as well post this under this subject line. For those new to the
list I bought a shell building to be used as a shop. It gets up to about
110 degrees in there in the day time so I need to insulate and air condition
it. There aren't any joist to hang a ceiling on. The stringers go up
The subject line of fasteners is quite apropos to a thought that came,
unbidden, into my head the other day.
When one is carrying a sheet of airtight material such as corrugated iron or
plastic, a length of timber or even a slab of hay, one is conscious of the
pressure imposed upon it by
the last time I bought treated lumber they called it c b a rather than the c c
a and it required a different screw or galvanized fasteners. The different
screws had the Torex head.
Ron
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From: cheetah
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August
What is the best freezer alarm?
Over the years this is about the 5th time that someone left the freezer door
open.
This time we did not lose too much however there are a few things that we must
cook in the next few days.
Q. When is a door not a door?
A. When it is ajar.
Lenny
I would like to modify a tv remote so that only certain buttons could be
depressed. My mother is 86 with macular degeneration and her new tv remote has
a lot small buttons.
She is always getting into menus etc. I thought about getting a replacement
remote and making it so only the on/off,
Well thinking about my mother. My sister just purchased a new phone/answering
machine for my mother. Again the buttons are too small for her to see. Is there
a good large button wireless phone/answering machine that she can use?
Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/
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Lenny, I do not have the answer to your question about the large button
wireless. However we can relate in items we have bought for our Mom and
the changes she has gone through with sight and now lack of. It is
kind of hard to explain to one who has had their sight some 84 plus
years
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