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• Photoday! An overwhelming project can be divided into smaller more manageable parts.
  • We just replaced our deck with ipe...
  • Sounds like a good plan. On the Ipe, I would strongly suggest aREALLY good respirator while cutting
    • SECOND THAT! Don't cut them there woods without one. I hurt myself doing a time or two, don't you.
      • You missed the "-" Westy. Traditional polysulfide(I think?) rubber caulking.
        • Ah, excellent. Good plan for a test drive, too. I hope your tools are carbide.
          • Can it be worse than cutting wet frozen pressure treated, 2 layers of shingles and plywood+nails,..
  • Lots of templates ...
    • Lie-Neilsen, I wish! That's a cheapo Stanley. I think a Fein multi tool will be handy on this projec
  • No exciting projects for me
    • Me too - water pump
    • Love that photo.
  • Thinking time vs working time.
    • I'm with you. And sometimes twice the thinking time cuts the work in half. Fewer re-do's, too.