Cheese (or Ham) Skipper, Piophila casei (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Diptera: Piophilidae)
"The cheese skipper, Piophila casei (Linnaeus), sometimes called the ham skipper, is a member of the "skipper fly" family (Piophilidae). These flies receive their name due to the unusual ability of the larvae to propel themselves through the air. The flies are detritivores, feeding on decaying matter, and even have been found on the exhumed remains of Egyptian mummies"
Coat#3 on the bathtub refinishing did the trick! A ton of work, most certainly very labor intensive, and the epoxy fumes are 10/10 bad, but it was acceptable in an empty house. #diy#remodeling
Woohoo! Extra excitement Saturday night, sealed the grout and tile in the bathrooms/kitchen with some free grout/tile sealant from our city's material reuse store (diverts things returned to hazmat). #grout#tile#diy#remodeling
Re-caulked the tub (exciting, I know!) - next, to remove the old corroded drain plug (wanted to wait until I had completed resurfacing...). Need to remember to do that sooner, rather than later. #diy#remodeling
@bud_t It's passable. I am likely going to give it another coat when it's fully dry... I probably should have given it a thinner second coat, not as even as I'd like. It's better than it was, that said!! (The only thing better would be to remove the tub... which is another huge enterprise entirely...)
Okay, what bozo caulked this sink wrong 20 years ago?!? Oh wait, that would be me. They should have taped it before caulking for a cleaner line, like this... #diy#remodeling
Prep instructions: clean tub. Sand/steel wool. Clean tub. Steel wool. Clean the tub again, why don't you. Do it again for good measure. Hey, why aren't you scrubbing your tub. Do it again. #remodeling#tub#tubrefinishing#diy#bathroom
@ai6yr I've heard people have wildly varying success with that kind of product. If you don't put on the second coat at the exact right time it can bubble something terrible.
@mjausson We shall see. It's easier this or replace a tub... a few problematic rust spots which didn't do so great with repair kits in the past. So doing a lot of prep work so that it sticks well, hope it comes out okay!
Replaced a single pane, 1978-79 window with a very, very expensive modern equivalent. Why? Heatwaves. Lots of them in the future. Don't know how much it will help... but better than what was there before. #remodeling#windows
@ai6yr Can Confirm that modern windows are DRAMATICALLY better than the old stuff. All the insulation in the world can't keep up with a few dozen square feet of single pane glass.
Exercised the "never say no to contractors moving up an install" rule. (window contractors had a cancellation, so they're showing up at 8am tomorrow!!). #remodeling
Interesting, there is paint with additives to prevent growth of mold and mildew. Going with that for my bathroom repainting (plus adding a fan, hopefully). The original design of the 1979 bathrooms in my tract were abysmal, and even after we changed things out, not great. Originally they had a window, and then a glass bath/shower door (to the window), and then another bath/shower door to the rest of the bathroom, thus trapping moisture up against a window with NO ESCAPE. (note: all the recently sold homes in my neighborhood appear to have full remodels of their bathrooms... probably ran into those issues). #random#remodeling
@mybarkingdogs LOL for good measure I am painting Kilz as a primer (two coats for good measure) and then will put another bathroom-rated/mildew killing glossy or semi-gloss over the top.
Men in hazmat suits have left... and they should have followed all the proper procedures... but going to run the Corsi Rosenthal box anyway, LOL. #hazmat#remodeling
@BakerRL75 Yep. They did spray a helluva lot of what apparently is "asbestos encapsulant" which is used to capture asbestos fibers. I guess it traps any fibers and keeps them from going airborne. Didn't know that stuff existed before today, but seems kinda handy in old houses or old equipment, perhaps.
"The ship on which Theseus sailed with the youths and returned in safety, the thirty-oared galley, was preserved by the Athenians down to the time of Demetrius Phalereus. They took away the old timbers from time to time, and put new and sound ones in their places, so that the vessel became a standing illustration for the philosophers in the mooted question of growth, some declaring that it remained the same, others that it was not the same vessel. " #philosophy#plato#ShipOfTheseus#theseushttps://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=plut.+thes.+23.1
@ai6yr When I was 15 I inherited my dad's Dodge Dart. He had wrecked it in an ice storm years earlier and swapped the engine/transmission into a new body/chassis. It came off the line 2 cars down, so the VIN was just 2 digits different! When I got it it wasn't running to I swapped in the engine and tranny from a Dodge Aspen in auto shop. I used to joke that it was the car of Theseus, which I guess makes me Theseus!
I've said it before, but I'll repeat it again: WHAT HAVE WE HUMANS BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 100 years?! "Hey, look at this cool new material we dug out of the ground/created/invented! It's probably toxic! Maybe it will kill a lot of people or make them sick! Let's use it everywhere!"
Remodeling tip: good idea to have extra lighting in the rooms you have contractors working on. One room we had in our disaster remodel had no lights (due to the disaster) and they hadn't done a great job. I installed track lighting in there last week and I think they noticed all the stuff they missed because they couldn't see with their piddly work lights... they're working on stuff in there now. 🤔 #remodeling#random