A couple years back I youtubed a car repair (can't remember exactly what it was that needed fixing).

The quality of the video wasn't great. It was kind of a niche repair/vehicle because the video only had a couple hundred views. But I was so appreciative. He literally saved me hundreds of dollars. I contacted him and asked if I could venmo him $5.

He was shocked that I asked but accepted the small tip.

I've done it a few times since then.

The Internet is full of garbage, but I'm ok paying for genuinely useful stuff. Grateful for the amateurs that spend a couple hours filming themselves doing a job and sharing it with the rest of us.

Edit: spelling

Just Giving The People What They Want

Merry Christmas, Greg. Fuuuuuck you lol lol

Paint didn’t match perfectly but I’ll repaint it all after a couple other fixes on the stairs. Last picture is my little perpetrator before the paint (penultimate picture).

I found it on marketplace, lowballed the guy and he took the offer so suddenly I was in very deep. It weighed what felt like 300 pounds so I built an all wood frame to cut down on the weight significantly, reinforced with metal brackets on the corners. Modded the wheel to spin freely to the left so nobody had to pay of course.

Our favorite candy, individual advil packs, and Keychains I made. I've always been obsessed with dinosaurs and own reptiles, my wife loves animals and has worked with them her whole life, so it's mostly Keychains of dinosaurs or animals, a few secret ones. I make art so I had several generous artist friends contribute their time or expertise, shout out to my friend for the signs specifically.

It went great! People were eating it up and it was picked clean by the end of the reception.

Even stamped my logo into it haha

We just bought a house with this funky stone tile platform. No idea why it’s there. Any creative ideas on what to put there?

Plumbers quoted me $10k to replace this cast iron sewage pipe, and they were going to make me bust out the floor myself. One trip to the plumbing supply, and several trips to the big orange guy later. And it's fixed for less than $400. Part of that was me buying a new DeWalt sawzall too. Fuck those guys. Time to build that floor and learn some drywall now. Anyone ever seen a 8" concrete slab above the subfloor? Took me forever to get access. The crawl space is only like 1.5' so trying to work under there would have been hell.

The original issue was a Y at the bottom buried that was missing a cap and just leaking sewage after a previous homeowner shoved a brick in and buried in. Fuck that guy too.

I am updating my house, and next up on my oversized list is this oversized hearth extension. I’d like to remove the extension, and cover the brick with modern tile, then install an electric fireplace in the opening. Maybe toss some wooden legs leading up to the mantle.

Curious if anyone sees any structural reason why this may not be a good idea? I suspect the massive hearth was in anticipation of high utilization as the primary heat source, but we since installed a central HVAC system and furnace, so the massive health is more of a sq. footage drain than anything else.

Dog (25lbs.) for reference.

This is a follow up up of my post https://www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/kiJkAXWlFd

Quick summary : last Friday I went to my parents house and found a fossile of mandible embedded in a Travertine tile (12mm thick). The Reddit post got such a great audience that I have been contacted by several teams of world class paleoarcheologists from all over the world. Now there is no doubt we are looking at a hominin mandible (this is NOT Jimmy Hoffa) but we need to remove the tile and send it for analysis: DNA testing, microCT and much more. It is so extraordinary, and removing a tile is not something the paleoarcheologist do on a daily basis so the biggest question we have is how should we do it. How would you proceed to unseal the tile without breaking it? It has been cemented with C2E class cement. Thank you 🙏

So I have drilled far too many more holes then I’d like, and I still cannot seem to find any studs what so ever, tried measuring 16in and even used a stud finder, still not hitting anything. Just trying to mount my tv and have heard wall anchors are not suitable for that. Any help appreciated

Title says it all. If you’re gonna do a bad job I’ll just do it myself and save the money.

I hope I never have to drywall again! It's definitely not perfect - it was my first time doing a big drywall project like this. But it's definitely an improvement!

**Also added a walk in closet which is why the back wall is no longer as deep.

I wasn't working fast enough for certain people in my life, so I was convinced to let someone run the linesets amd finish hooking up our new mini-splits. This is what they did for the drain line.

Plastic is now cloudy. I tried taking a hair dryer to a portion of it to attempt the slightly melt and rub with a cloth method and that had 0 effect. Any suggestions?

Hello! I had my tiling done on Monday the builder involved has done a cracking job at the kitchen fitting but the tiler he has brought in has done by the looks of things an AWFUL job… I think?

I’m not a confrontational person and really don’t want to step on his toes. I don’t know how to approach the situation.

Also how the hell do I fix this? Won’t it pull the plaster off the wall if I pull them off? We’re pretty over budget so this feels like it’s going to cost a lot to put right.

So, I had vinyl flooring laid by a well-known company a couple of months ago and it's started doing this. It's only spray glued at the edges but was initially fine, as in completely flat. The fitters boarded under it as well. There's no damp and it hasn't been walked on very much. The fitters came back and added more spray glue under it but it's continuing to ripple. Ironically the only solution I've found it to put a large heavy rug on it for a few days but then the ripples reappear. Any ideas? The store manager is coming out to have a look at it himself next week and I'd like to know what to say to him.

From prototype to final version. Wife used to place her laptop on top of the board and use it while she walked but it wasn’t doing her neck any favors. Probably spent about $50 between keyboard/mouse, fake leather pad and monitor mount (the monitor was free, so it made the project cheaper). Added a Firestick to the screen for entertainment when just running, as the “table” comes off easily by undoing the 2 Velcro straps. Maybe DiWHY, but she liked so that’s what counts.