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You're looking for this kit: O'BERRY ENTERPRISES 3233"SQUEEEEEK NO MORE" FLOOR REPAIR KIT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006IK8YE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CHd8Bb17FJMWG
I've used it on stairs and it's worked great but haven't had the courage to use it on the floors yet as I'm afraid to miss a joist and have an unnecessary hole in the floor. They have videos of people using it and it works well.
The powder method doesn't work and pediatricians nowadays don't want powder getting anywhere near an infant.
As long as they used these (https://www.amazon.com/OBerry-Enterprises-3233-Squeek-More/dp/B0006IK8YE ), you should be ok. The screws have a spot along the shaft that is, for lack of a better term, perforated. They are screwed into the carpet until that spot is just below the plywood subfloor and then the screws are snapped off at the “perforation”. That is how they did it in our new house about 9 years ago and I used them a few years later in another part if the house. It definitely helps to reduce the squeaking. If they used regular screws, which it looks like they did, that would be an issue as the head of the screw has likely damage the carpet. If they used regular screws I would start to raise a little hell. I imagine your significant other is unhappy and should be unleashed on the builder.
I used this and it worked great. You shoot the screws in from the top and the little tripod thing breaks them off under the floor level.
I've got .70 acres, and 6 massive Oak trees (plus a dozen other kinds behind the house). I collect them into a pile, use a leaf shredder on top of my yard waste bin. And then leaf bags to supplement. I attempted to mow them the first year here, and there was so much shredded leaf leftovers it killed large sections of my grass.
I bought the Sun Joe Shredder a year or so back. Used it a few times on a bunch of neighbors leaves they had bagged up and at the curb for pickup.
One major issue I've seen is the string that shreds the leaves. they lasted about one bag. had to replace each time. Got fed up with it and bought some thin metal cable from Home Depot to replace the nylon strings. Those worked MUCH better.
On average, it will reduce a full yard bag of leaves to about 25% of the volume. At least with Live Oak leaves anyhow.
If possible, do the shredding on a humid day, or shortly after a rain. shredding on a dry day creates a shitstorm of dust. good luck
I watched the product video and dude, I am so buying this kit. Already found it on Amazon and put it in my cart
O'BERRY ENTERPRISES 3233 "SQUEEEEEK NO MORE" FLOOR REPAIR KIT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006IK8YE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Q.H0Ab6ZFFDHY
I wondered about something like this. Since it works for you, I'll give it a try. What did you do for the steel. I see this which would work though I don't know that it needs to be galvanized.
You can also rent the HD truck for 20 bucks an hour and get the tow version.
The "portable" ones are only good for branches no thicker than 2". Anything more than that and they won't be able to do it, or you will be fighting with them the whole time and having a hard time.
I rent the tow behind one once a year in the spring to do brush cleanup. Makes the work super easy.
If everything you have is small, and sub 2", you can buy an electric chipper for ~100 bucks. No idea how good they are, but they get solid reviews.
Likewise your town probably does brush pickup. Ours will pick up stuff once a week as long as its no longer than 3 feet and no more than 4" thick and you follow their rules for bunldling or containers for it. They mulch it all up, and also offer the mulch for free to town residents, or will deliver it to you for like 20 bucks a load. (not the greatest of mulch when it comes to consistency, you wouldn't want it in your front flower garden, but if you are just doing mulchy stuff its fine)
Any old blender will be fine for vegetable scraps, more or less.
Bones can also go through the blender, but there's a preparation step: you need to make broth! :) If you boil bones to make stock/broth, the collagen will leach out as gelatin and the bones will end up crumbly. If you're not planning on eating the broth, a glug of white vinegar per gallon of water will speed the process and leach the calcium.
Alternatively, an electric leaf shredder like this one might do the job too.
Anything hand powered is going to be more work than it's worth IMO.
I got this from Amazon for my work. It’s the size of a Webber grill (maybe a little bigger) and you just take handful by handful and drop it through. It comes out the bottom totally shredded. It makes compost decompose so much faster when everything is chopped smaller. I take it out to the garden every couple months (during the cold season) and chop everything to bits and put it back into the compost areas. It helps speed up the process to have all the bits chopped up finer.
Some tips for you if you have a LOT of leaves:
1) Run over them with a lawn mower to break them up or run them through a shredder like this - WORX Leaf Mulcher
They work ok for a small to moderate amount of leaves. If you have enough leaves though, you end up being limited by the throughput of the chute/impeller. I often found myself just sitting there forever waiting to get through my pile of leaves.
I personally switched away from using them and now have a worx mulcher that can churn through much more in a given amount of time. Same approach though. You just blow the leaves into a pile, then use leaf grabbers or something like that to drop leaves into the top, then pass through into a bag.
I would not dump the mulched leaves on your yard. That is asking for disease and/or chemical imbalances.
This worked wonders for me. You drill into the hardwood and secure it into the subfloor and then break off the screw. Cover it up with some matching wood putty and you can never tell the difference.
If only someone told them there's a product for this.
Although I've yet to use one to finish painting the wall down my basement stairs cause I'm worried I could still fall
This is the real answer. Where I work, all the painters and electricians have these on their truck.
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Recycling isn't mainstream yet, there's only a handful of devices on the market, and they're all expensive AF.
There's also a handful of DIY'ers, myself included, trying to invent a cost-effective method that any hobbyist can build.
So far, my method is as follows; but I'm having trouble getting the filament to retain a constant diameter
1) A small electric wood chipper would chop up everything into bits
2) take the bits and run it through a custom screw-drive hotend extruder, but the extruder injects the molten plastic into a revolving pellet mold
3) The pellet mold plates are tilted slightly so they open and release the pellets as it rotates
4) Run the pellets through a pellet extruder on your machine, or convert back to filament by getting a 1.75mm drill bit and making a 1.0mm nozzle wider.
My wood chipper doesn’t chop as finely as saw dust, that would be a lot of energy. I do have a wood chipper that chops up to 1-1/4” branches and the chips are about the size of a dime. I’ve put the mulch into my compost a couple of times and it seems to break down well! I’ve put probably 15 hours into it and it has only jammed a couple of times. My neighbor also borrowed it and really liked it. Anyway, enough advertising, here is the link.
Earthwise GS70015 15-Amp Garden... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W874Y46?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
I hired someone initially since I had no clue how to handled it at the beginning. But that guy did a very bad job although he knew how to do it. He cut the carpet and removed the carpet padding (there's another layer of padding under the carpet). When he put back the padding, it's not flat. So after he finished the job, I did it myself again to fixed a few other spots and fixed the padding issue. I also purchased carpet seam tape to seal the carpet.
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If you hire someone, find someone experienced and reputable. If the issue is small and you have the tools (impact driver, stud finder, etc), you can definitely DIY. You can check this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC-sUmqgn6I
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I also found some kit without pulling the carpet. But the reviews are mixed. https://www.amazon.com/OBerry-Enterprises-3233-Squeek-More/dp/B0006IK8YE/ref=sr\_1\_5?crid=3L64N05MNFWWJ&keywords=squeaky%2Bfloor&qid=1650247985&sprefix=squeaky%2Bfloo%2Caps%2C89&sr=8-5&th=1
My cousin used to chop her own hay — she got a leaf/grass mulcher - something similar to this and would attach a bag underneath to catch the chopped hay — you can also soak/ wet it down it afterwards if you want to be extra safe
Worx leaf mulcher. Cheap way of cutting down your piles. I am not sponsored to say this. Just referring to a tool I like to use.
Reliance Controls THP108 EMW3561925, Multi https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KREORA/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_ZH6B2GCPHAZT789CFXBG
There's ready made products for this sort of thing. Here's one such product I discovered with the search term "utility power notification for generator transfer switch".
This one wraps an antenna wire around one of the hot legs and makes noises.
I think it might depend on the number of trees. We have 6 in our back yard and it gets covered super fast around this time of year. I can't wait till they are all gone. I don't have a rotary mower, but I wouldn't want to have to cover every square inch of the yard if I did. I also feel like mulched leaves make the yard dirty and contribute to tracking stuff inside.
I duel wield 40v greenworks leaf blowers and work from the back of the house and blow them all towards our back fence. At the back fence, i get them into one or a couple piles. I then mulch them into bags through a worx leaf mulcher. This is nice because you don't have to shove leaves into bags. You just roughly drop large bunches of leaves into it and pick the unit up to replace the bag every so often. It pretty much churns through them as fast as you can feed them in.
I've used this one with success: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WK561X6/
It can definitely chip up to 3" in diameter and the chips are very fine and result in a really nice matting on the forest floor if that is what you are going for. A few negatives I've notices is that the height control at the end of the shoot is poorly designed and will come loose, it is incredibly loud, and it can't really handle a lot of leaves. I also vibrated myself into an elbow injury but I also chipped hundreds of small trees.
My plan is to shread my scrap and eventually use it for infill where the color doesn't matter.
My question for the community is: Would an electric woodchipper like this be an appropriate tool for the job? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W874Y46/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_FXF9QZE1B1S38DNZAPN0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Snow Joe CJ601E Electric Wood Chipper/Shredder, 14-Amp, 16:1 Reduction, Green https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VX11O8/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_M0NQJSKBVBVH39T14CSB?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
This is what I have. It works for what I want it to do. I would appreciate a little more horsepower to get through knotty wood but I have leaned to avoid sizes and shapes that Tend to jam it.
The one I got is an Earthwise GS70015 15-Amp chipper. I just got it on Amazon. It has mostly good reviews, but knowing my luck I'll get one that has issues lol. Let's hope not though, I intend to mulch lots of branches in the future :)
Look into leaf mulcher like this one. It claims it can turn your 90 bags into 9!
Our local tool library just decided to buy one for this season, and I'm looking forward to trying it out! While I haven't used that model, I have shredded my leaves before.
Last year I ran my leaves backwards through my leaf blower (it has a shredder option), and I really liked using that as my carbon for the year. I kept it moist in a garbage bag through the winter and it started to compost (via fungus) on it's own. I've heard letting that process continue leads to leave mold (a good soil conditioner in it's own right).
I don't believe I got it to proper 'leaf mold' status, but I noticed a huge difference when it ran out and I started using my neighbors bag of leaves from last year (I also appreciate my neighbors taking the time and putting their collected leaves on the curb...). The leaves I shredded and kept damp were better.
SuperHandy Mini Wood Chipper Shredder Mulcher Heavy Duty 7HP Compact Design 3" Inch Max Capacity (GUO035-1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WK561X6/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_YZKQ5WXCYC8ESTCR1W5B?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Snow Joe CJ601E Electric Wood Chipper/Shredder, 14-Amp, 16:1 Reduction, Green https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VX11O8/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_K9J2ZMDNH4GVZMQJVRDB
Works well for my scale. I pick up sticks when I walk the dog. When the pile gets big I rip em up and store them in a garbage can to add periodically to my greens.