{"id":1483,"date":"2010-10-31T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:39:49","slug":"how-to-do-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"How to Do Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My very first idea for a blog (way back in the day) was to make a sort of How-To site, with all sorts of useful projects.\u00c2\u00a0 The name of this site will be File to Fit.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a whole set of photos documenting the right way to fix a leaky faucet, but since that particular project ended with me, at 2 am, under the bathroom cabinet, in furious tears, and holding a hammer&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 anyway&#8230;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return 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this chemical would actually dissolve the tub.\u00c2\u00a0 But it did not!\u00c2\u00a0 It removed all the old glue, and also the tiles.\u00c2\u00a0 But it did not dissolve the tub.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered that behind the tiles was&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 A dark, empty, cold hole full of nothingness.\u00c2\u00a0 The cats, of course, disappeared into it immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 Got a plumber in, to fix the leaky faucet.\u00c2\u00a0 And then&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 re-tiling.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, it&#8217;s not the tiles that were so bad.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re just so persistently <em>yellow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1484\" title=\"016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/016-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/016-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See?\u00c2\u00a0 But once they&#8217;ve fallen off anyway, why not add nicer tiles?\u00c2\u00a0 Tiling is easy and fun.<\/p>\n<p>First, destroy everything.\u00c2\u00a0 (Day 1)\u00c2\u00a0 Then, spend all your money at Home Depot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mess1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"It's a pretty big  mess.\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mess1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/no-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1545\" title=\"Don't make this mistake.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/no-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/no-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1546\" title=\"Don't make this mistake either.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/no-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Days 2-14)\u00c2\u00a0 Chip away at old glue for many, many hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretending you are a dwarf in the mines of Moria does not help.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Much.\u00c2\u00a0 Cover any giant holes in the wall with decorative paper and try not to think about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/holes3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1542\" title=\"Inside the wall....  eeeeek!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/holes3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1538\" title=\"Arg!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old-glue-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/paper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1539\" title=\"Can I just leave it like this?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/paper-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Day 15)\u00c2\u00a0 Fix the holes.\u00c2\u00a0 Drywall is neat.\u00c2\u00a0 Screw it in with drywall screws.\u00c2\u00a0 Dads are helpful here.\u00c2\u00a0 Cover everything else up with drywall compound so it&#8217;s like a wall again.\u00c2\u00a0 Make sure the cats are not inside the wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cat1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1536\" title=\"Cats are very helpful.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cat1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1540\" title=\"Wine is also helpful.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wine-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1537\" title=\"Already an improvement!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/drywall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Day 15 &#8211; 20) Spread disgusting tile adhesive on the walls and stick tiles on.\u00c2\u00a0 Stick them mostly straight.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless you don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/squares.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mosaic tile = no cutting.\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/squares-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/new-tiles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"And ROUND ones!\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/new-tiles-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/candy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"They look like candy.\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/candy2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/circles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1533\" title=\"So far so good...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/circles-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/oops-better.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1534\" title=\"Although this is a bit off...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/oops-better-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/oops-2-better.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1535\" title=\"why not?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/oops-2-better-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Day 21)\u00c2\u00a0 Mix the grout &#8220;like pancake batter&#8221; and spread it on the tiles.\u00c2\u00a0 Clean it up quick though, because once it&#8217;s dry it&#8217;s a pain to clean up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tiles-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1550\" title=\"Yup.  Good.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tiles-up-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Days 22-25)\u00c2\u00a0 Try to get the dried up grout off the damn tiles.<\/p>\n<p>(Day 25)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sealer on the grout!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Caulk along the edges!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Oooh, and rip up the floor too.\u00c2\u00a0 heh heh heh.<\/p>\n<p>(Day 26 &#8211; 30) Well, at the least the shower works.\u00c2\u00a0 The floor will get done eventually&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And for the record, because it&#8217;s awesome, here are some photos of the mural Mom and I did when I first moved in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wall2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Very excellent mural\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/wall2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1551\" title=\"A delightful pond.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fish-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/statue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1553\" title=\"A Greek Temple\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/statue-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My very first idea for a blog (way back in the day) was to make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}