Right? I’m looking at this like, are we all looking at the same tape measure? It’s 1/2” rock.

Call off the detectives. It’s 1/2” rock.

Hook the tape on the back of the sheet and pull it towards you, and it will measure 1/2”.

You should remove the ceiling sheetrock, where the plate will be… However, strictly speaking, if you get the top plate secured to the rafters through the Sheetrock, with some good lag screws, it’s not really going to change much.

Usually the rentals will come with 2 bits with the size of your choosing, and as long as you don’t totally toast them, they are included in the price of the drill…

They are called core drills…and it’s what you need. A water hose hooks to them to lubricate and dissipate heat, and they usually need a generator to plug into, as they are 220. But, they will make short work of this.

It’s what is is used to put entrance holes in foundations and stem walls.

Should be like 80 bucks to rent one for 1/2 a day.

Mildly Interesting story: When my first son was about 3-4 years old, he was the same way. So I figured it was a genetic thing, I shrugged: “hmm that’s mildly interesting…”. And went about my life, and then when he was about 6 years old, mind you , we hadn’t discussed this eye blinking other than in passing, like a few years prior, he came running into my office: “dad, I did it!!!” And I naturally said, “awesome! I’m excited for you, but did what?” “I can wink my right eye, all by itself.”..so he, through practice, was able to train his eye to blink independently….

This is especially true for me. Because I can only wink with my left eye. I cannot close my right eye and leave my left eye open. Anyone else? I can blink both, obviously. But I cannot close my right eye without also closing my left eye.

This is almost definitely because with the toilet on the floor there isn’t enough drop in the waste line to get to the sewer main. I did something similar in a basement, where there wasn’t enough vertical drop from the toilet to the septic tank.

I only raised my toilet 4”, though, not 4’.

My dog will chase other dogs that run out of the frame. We have a TV on a wall in the basement, that the other side has stairs on it up to the main level, and this dog will watch TV, and when a dog looks like it runs off the screen to the right will go tearing off, to run up the stairs to search for these vile intruders.

Yuck. Don’t do this.

This will not scrape off! The high spots have to be knocked down with a floor scraper and the entire surface has to be skim coated and sanded several times, and it’s a shit-ton of work…Source: just did redid this exact ceiling in a 3000 sq ft house. It was weeks of waking up with drywall dust in every orifice of my house and body…also pretty sure some of this stuff is asbestos mixed in, so don your PPE as if your life depends on it, because it probably does.

The other option that was considered was laminating 1/4 drywall with spacing shims, and then tape and texture and paint everything, but when I added up the cost of material and time, I went with the skim coats option. It was 3 weeks of my life, I don’t care to think about; TBH.

1000$ fine and up to a year in prison, only if the senate pursues the contempt citation.

Never for any reason put FOG down your drain. (Fats Oil Grease.. ) for any reason… filtered through a coffee filter or otherwise. Right in the trash can. Your future plumbing bill will thank you.

This similar thing happened with a client who refused to pay. Told us she never got the invoice, and if it was sent to her, she didn’t see it, or she would have disputed it. Our attorney introduced to the arbitrator that she indeed did open the invoice three separate times, once right after it was received/sent, a second time where she had fwd’ed the invoice to three different individuals, and a third time about 3 hours before this arbitration session was scheduled to begin…

Part of the internet they used to print out as late as like 2010, for people to throw away.

Great Stuff makes an insect and pest resistant foam, I don’t think it’s specifically to keep ants out, but ants are opportunists…IME… if you make it easier to go somewhere else, they usually do.

Backflips off something high, are really very very easy…you just have to commit to it. Narrator: “she didn’t commit”

This was discovered by the custodian at the chip factory with his broom at quitting time.

Also thin and thick Ethernet cords.

This is sorcery to me.

Hot Take..way to hang it all out there with that bold prediction.

I also moved to a new climate a few years ago…first time living where there was deep freezes…for the first year of winterization, I paid a pro to come do it. 150 dollars and took lots notes how they did it. I think it is well worth it, to mitigate the risk of doing it wrong and toasting your sprinkler system, that will be A LOT more to replace it.

You have to attached railings to studs. Don’t bother with anchors or toggles, it just won’t hold up to the wear and tear that railings are subject too. And I’m not the guy who tells people they must hang a TV in 2 studs (one is plenty). But not true with railings, if not in a stud, it will come lose, no anchor or toggle is secure enough in plaster to suffice.