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Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP!
#7532766 - 10/18/07 07:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I few months back I took around 8 klonopins and drank a good bit of ale.
For those that don't know, klonopins just by themselves will make a person appear drunk wihtout alchol. But hey, I guess I'm strong.
Anyway, I don't normally stumble on the those meds, but mix 8 with a food bit alcohol (2 boxes of wine) you start to not be able to act right. Motor skills became defunct and I was falling all over the place, nothing liken normal, hell I feel into the shower tub while I was puking i had such limited motor skills.
Anyway, I am not the smallest guy around, 6 foot, 210 lbs and pretty solid and I guess that I fell into the brick reinforced wall in my apartment. I crushed a nice 4 foot by 3 foot hole into it.
Anyone know anywhere to start in being able to fix this? I do not want to have the maitenance people do it and charge out the ass, in addition to kicking me out. But also I think they are the only ones that could fix it.
So, for all of you maitenence guys out there, any help?
Thanks!
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nakors_junk_bag
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Army of None]
#7532778 - 10/18/07 07:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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get a fucking book.
and some brick, or block, and some mud and a trowel and just fix it.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Army of None]
#7532804 - 10/18/07 07:43 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Que?
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Army of None
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
#7532854 - 10/18/07 07:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
nakors_junk_bag said: get a fucking book.
and some brick, or block, and some mud and a trowel and just fix it.
Why thanks asshole, now what I am supposed to with these fucking things? Thanks!
Fucker.
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TripityDooDaDay
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: RipVanWinkle]
#7532855 - 10/18/07 07:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Duct tape is your friend.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: TripityDooDaDay]
#7532882 - 10/18/07 08:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cover it up with Posters..
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
#7533215 - 10/18/07 09:32 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
nakors_junk_bag said: get a fucking book.
and some brick, or block, and some mud and a trowel and just fix it.
That's pretty much all there is to it. Go to home depot, get masonry mortar, (it'll probably be a 70 pound bag) Mix the mortar 2:1 with fine sand. Add water until the mixture is a mud consistency. Not soupy... It's better to have it too thick than soupy. You'll have to clean up the wall where the bricks broke make sure it's smooth and level. Smear down a layer of mortar, put a brick down, slap some mortar on both ends of the brick, and then put down another, build the wall back up, scrape off the excess mortar and use a jointer to pack the mortar into the bricks and make it smooth. Dry brush the joints. Let it dry and then clean any mortar spots with muriatic acid
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Army of None]
#7533244 - 10/18/07 09:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Did you break the brick or the drywall or the beams or what?
Oh and don't take that much next time?
I also subscribe to the "poster over it until it must be fixed" idea though.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Jadian]
#7533335 - 10/18/07 09:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Man, I got a pack of those colatapins or however they're spelt, when I was in mexico. 15 dollars for a packet of 15, anyway we brought em back and I had some retarded ass nights. One of them including me punching a hole in the wall. Or something, I just remember thinking I could kinda just tear the wall down, which the drywall being shitty as it is I kinda can.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: ganjaguru]
#7533404 - 10/18/07 10:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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in today's america you need to speak spanish for this one
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ganjaguru
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: DAVID_ALLAN_CEO]
#7533443 - 10/18/07 10:19 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I speak spanish, I cant fix the hole in my wall tho
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: ganjaguru]
#7534014 - 10/19/07 03:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's a $40 fix with some drywall...
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Oppressor]
#7534100 - 10/19/07 04:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I hate it when people break into my apartment and tear shit up...
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Seuss]
#7534128 - 10/19/07 04:55 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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just say the cups did it and nobody will second guess you
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Army of None]
#7534234 - 10/19/07 06:02 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sounds like you broke the plasterboard.
Each case is different - but it will probably need to be plasterboarded and plastered again.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Seuss]
#7534398 - 10/19/07 07:37 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said: I hate it when people break into my apartment and tear shit up...
Sheisty... ::shakes head in disapproval::
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Army of None
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Army of None]
#7534457 - 10/19/07 08:14 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks for all of the tips guys. I meant to say that it is a reinforced brick wall on the outside of the place. The inside I just broke through the chalk board stuff. Drywall? That is what I need to fix.
Thanks.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Army of None]
#7534517 - 10/19/07 08:47 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Go buy some drywall and spackle. Cut a rectangle piece of drywall a little larger than the size of the hole. Put cut piece up to wall and trace around it w/ a pencil.
Cutout traced area with small keyhole saw on the inside of the line you drew. If the hole is really large you should screw in a backing board.
Put spackle on edge of the rectangle piece (or on the back also if you are using a backing board) of drywall you cut and fit in the area you cut out. Hold in place until the spackle sets. Let it dry overnight. Put spackle around the joint and let dry again. Now you can sand, paint, etc.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: Stizzle]
#7534794 - 10/19/07 10:29 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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if all you broke was the drywall then i can give you a simple method to fix it. cut out the area you broke, but go larger, and make the hole a nice neat square, rectangle or whatever, just make it neat. take some furring strips or other thin wood that will fit behind the drywall. screw the wood to the drywall longways, leaving half of the wood hanging out, in other words if you have a 4"x2" piece of wood, leave one inch hanging out where the hole is. do this on all four sides of the hole. then cut the new piece of drywall to fit as perfectly as you can into the hole. screw the new drywall to the exposed wood. drywall mud the seam and let dry for a few hours, then go back and apply a thin, but not too thin layer of mud on the whole area, let dry for about an hour, take damp cloth and smooth out any rough spots so that it blends in with the surrounding area. allow to dry completely before painting. i dont know if the wall has orange peel texture or not, but if it does, youre pretty much screwed, youll never match the texture, but you can try with one of those cans of orange peel texture spray at home depot. good luck.
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Re: Calling all laborers or construction type folks, please HELP! [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#7534798 - 10/19/07 10:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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hmmm guess i should have read all the posts before posting. stizzle pretty much got it. only i prefer wet sanding over dry sanding, no mess.
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