Pearl Sutton

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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.

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How to install metal roofing to reduce the noise factor?

Jay Angler wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:... The basic asphalt felt you put under a roof might be enough to dampen the bounce against the roof. Might be interesting to try. ...

I would say that old shingles are much thicker than a single layer of asphalt felt, and that even the felt comes in different thicknesses. I have heard that mass more than anything else, absorbs sound, so if shingles had to be removed, I would go for several layers of the thickest felt I could get, unless someone tells me they tried that and it didn't work.

Ah, I thought you were talking putting a whole new roof structure etc on.

D Nikolls wrote: I put a clicklock style standing seam metal roof on my new-to-me 1950s house, over a new 5/8" plywood roof deck. I like the clicklock as it is DIY friendly, unlike the crimped standing seam. Just needed basic tinsnips and a homemade bender to make the locking bend at the bottom.

I had to look them up. Yes the DIY type is the type I have used. hadn't heard it called clicklock. The basic cheap stuff from the big box stores, with ridges, that you put on. I know about the really old style and/or expensive type, never used it or dealt with it.

1 day ago

natural building

How to install metal roofing to reduce the noise factor?

" prevents the metal from vibrating like a drum, " that part makes me think a way to stop the noise might be to keep it from vibrating. The roofing on this rental has standing seams (and you put the screws through the STANDING SEAMS! NOT the flat parts! That's how you keep them from leaking!!) and normally you'd only put screws in every 4th one or so space 24 inches or so apart. Wonder what it would if you put screws at 12 inch spacing on every standing seam, and make it so it can't vibrate? The basic asphalt felt you put under a roof might be enough to dampen the bounce against the roof. Might be interesting to try. Screws are cheaper than anything else you can do to a roof.

Anyone got a shed with standing seams that could be tried on? Go up and add a bunch of screws, see what it does to the sound. Lots of us are interested in knowing.

1 day ago

natural building

Flea weirdness

Incidentally, in case it helps in identification, the outbreak started after I was laying on the grass tearing apart lawn mowers, and the affected areas are 98% where I go, my desk, the bathroom, my bedroom. I don't think the cat is to blame. She moved outside, only comes in to eat, right after I did the mowers. I think she is wise. The places she tends to hang out in the house (before she moved out) seem to be flea free.

1 day ago

bugs

Flea weirdness

I have fleas. A bad case. I am getting bitten badly. I have immune system issues, I'm reacting badly to the bites.
The question I have is these are TINY. Are they a different type? Is there a reason why I'm reacting so badly? Is there anything that can be done to help the response in my body?

A picture off the net of how big a flea is:

A picture I took of an average sized flea I killed in the house:

Note the difference of the size of what is used as a comparison. They used a ball point pen. I used a sewing pin.
These things are TINY!!! Definitely fleas, they look right under magnification, and act appropriately.

Any help on what they are, so I can find out what their egg hatch cycle is and possibly break it? I'm losing here. I have had fleas before, but they were normal ones, the size of the ballpoint pen tip. These are being far worse to get rid of, and I'm reacting far worse than I have before. Admittedly, I'm under severe stress, and not eating well, I'm working on both of those, and fleas is NOT helping me cope with the rest of it all.

1 day ago

bugs

Alpha-gal

What Is Alpha-Gal Syndrome? An Essay on Anaphylaxis to Bovine Proteins, the Tick Story That Followed, and the Proposal to Deploy It

VERY interesting read. It's possibly not what you have heard it is.

1 day ago

ulcer factory

Shovel Handles: Straight or D-Grip?

D handles. I'm small, a long handle just tangles me up and the leverage is wrong. I can't balance a load at the end of a long handled shovel. I have to have my hands closer to the scooping part, and the D puts my hands in the right place.

3 days ago

meaningless drivel