frederic
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Studio construction can be entertaining, fun, and a moving experience. I've decided to share some tips, for those who are like me - extremely clumsy.
1. Do not use a circular saw to cut through other tool cords. My electric drill is on its second cord
2. Do not use a piano stool as a ladder. A leg can snap, sending you, and a piece of plywood that you were holding over your head, to the floor in a hurry.
3. When falling off piano stools, do not keep three multi color sharpies in your back pocket, unless you want to stain the floor, your jeans, your underwear, and your ass. Ass Mosaics are not fashionable.
4. Make sure when buying sheet rock at home depot, all the sheet rock in the stack are the same thickness. Notice this as you're purchasing the sheet rock, not after you've installed it on the ceiling, where its a bitch to take down by yourself.
5. When removing a radiator so you can insulate, plywood and sheet rock behind it, make sure you remember to turn off the heat. 30psi of hot water in the face isn't pleasant.
6. Shop Vac the sawdust on the floor regularly.
7. When using a shop vac, always attach the suction hose to the suction side.
8. Avoid having assistants that smoke (I quit a few months ago), as while they work, with lit cigs hanging out of their mouths, the ashes fall into the aforementioned sawdust you haven't shopvac'd yet.
9. Do not stand cold, frothy beverages on items you are constructing, even if you've overdone the consumption of cold frothy beverages. Those underneath what you are constructing will thank you.
10. When screwing sheetrock to the wall, make sure you remove the 5lb half eaten bag of mini reeses peanut butter cups first, so the sheet rock can lay flat on the wall and not split.
1. Do not use a circular saw to cut through other tool cords. My electric drill is on its second cord
2. Do not use a piano stool as a ladder. A leg can snap, sending you, and a piece of plywood that you were holding over your head, to the floor in a hurry.
3. When falling off piano stools, do not keep three multi color sharpies in your back pocket, unless you want to stain the floor, your jeans, your underwear, and your ass. Ass Mosaics are not fashionable.
4. Make sure when buying sheet rock at home depot, all the sheet rock in the stack are the same thickness. Notice this as you're purchasing the sheet rock, not after you've installed it on the ceiling, where its a bitch to take down by yourself.
5. When removing a radiator so you can insulate, plywood and sheet rock behind it, make sure you remember to turn off the heat. 30psi of hot water in the face isn't pleasant.
6. Shop Vac the sawdust on the floor regularly.
7. When using a shop vac, always attach the suction hose to the suction side.
8. Avoid having assistants that smoke (I quit a few months ago), as while they work, with lit cigs hanging out of their mouths, the ashes fall into the aforementioned sawdust you haven't shopvac'd yet.
9. Do not stand cold, frothy beverages on items you are constructing, even if you've overdone the consumption of cold frothy beverages. Those underneath what you are constructing will thank you.
10. When screwing sheetrock to the wall, make sure you remove the 5lb half eaten bag of mini reeses peanut butter cups first, so the sheet rock can lay flat on the wall and not split.
(you know, Formica....get it?)hahahaha! Nevermind. Hey, what are those? Some kinda special "grabber"? I just noticed the otherday, a lot of the hardware and fasterner places are starting to stock a "torques" head screw. But I'll stick with my ole square head recess. Just bought 50lbs various sizes. If you buy them in bulk they're cheap..otherwise you pay by the screw... oops...better not let my wife hear that!
OMG.