What home improvement work did you do today?

If I had the attic space worth accessing for storage I would consider this: https://majicstairsinc.com/

 

You know it's expensive if you have to call for a quote.

 

I don’t have any flooring up there, so not really any usable storage space. Just an access point to the attic and ac ductwork. I just figured if I was going to replace the lid I might as well give it an upgrade with the attached ladder, but realistically it would hardly ever see much use.

 

Need more pairs of rubber boots

 

One of our favorite decisions when we purchased the new house...

Beyond in love/jealous.... Looking forward to putting our floor in and one day enclosing it... for now, I am getting a quote for a 40' container dropped in for storage.

 

when i was organizing those, i asked my wife if my girlfriend dropped off the other kids that i wasn't aware of too. i don't know why we have so many damn pairs out there. for now, they're staying there. haha

 

i think i'll redo the floors in the garage soon, but the floors in the shop will stay raw. i'm not too concerned about it since it's exactly that...a shop.
after paying for this, i'm kinda regretting not getting a couple containers dropped.

 

The concrete is why we havent done it yet. wrapping our barn is "cheap" enough, but 2200 sqft of concrete, plus the extra kick outs will be too much anytime soon.

 

I've been working out of containers for 5-6 years now, believe me, you do not regret that beautiful barn. As a matter of fact, if they will drop rates a little I might be following you into the debt land

 

It's wonderful over here in debt land. It stings a bit when you write the check though

 

We added the concrete from our existing driveway to the front of it and that was a helluva bill. They proud of that

 

House question, maybe someone from the New England area will recognize this.

About to start working on a house built in late 1899. This stuff is all over the dining room ceiling, I'm pretty sure it's glued up, and someone has painted over it. I've never seen anything like it, so I'm naturally very curious wtf it is, especially knowing I may be mounting an AP to the ceiling in here and don't want to mess around with asbestos. I can't see it in person until 9 days from now, so I'm not sure what the texture/consistency/material quality is. Almost looks like drop ceiling tile to me, but it's clearly glued in a classic bricklaying pattern. Anyone have any clues what it's specifically called (beyond "ceiling") so I can dig more?

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You able to see or find out what size tiles?
Also, if you can see if there are extras in the attic or basement or something and find a manufacturer name on the back.
Worse come to worse, get it sample/ tested before you start anything

 

Trying to see if there are spares anywhere around the property is high up on the list of things I'll look for while there. But I suspect I'm going to come up empty, I'm sure this was probably done decades ago. It's a really distinct looking tile, and appears fibrous based on texture, texture is unique so I was just hoping to put a name on the style, in the event we can't figure out what it is.

As for size. I actually have an extremely accurate (but not the best resolution) 3D walkthru of the house and this is what their measuring tool (which is highly accurate thus far) is showing me.

Samples to a lab is something we'll probably do eventually, especially if we renovate. I have zero intention of touching the ceilings, but the absence of any drilling or holes was .... suspicious, to me.

I have no idea what we'll find under the linoleum in the bathroom either, so there's a few things here we'll ultimately end up testing - I know not to screw around with pre-80s stuff. I'll be sending off a few plaster wall samples from original walls and added-on walls too.

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Ps - I realize not being 9x9 doesn't kill the risk. I've always heard it's 9x9 ceiling tiles you really need to be careful with.

 

Reminds me of the ceiling in my dad’s house but apparently that is Hawaii specific so not much chance it’s what you have.

https://www.google.com/search?q=can...1Jfg&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

Bring it seems fibrous and if installed pre-80s, most likely is. But I believe most asbestos high risk were typically 2'x4' or 2'x2'.

I believe that's floor tiles that are the 9x9 asbestos tiles.

Both are safe as long as you don't disturb them. But testing would be good regardless to plan for what to do in the future. Remediation that is typically high I believe so that's something to budget for when/if the time comes