I am working on a project made of African mahogany. It’s a wall mount for our guitars that will stay indoors. I have a water based polyurethane stain. I’m going for a darker stain. I’ve put a layer on my test piece and it’s a nice color and spreads on well but it has no shine. From what I understand, more layers with...
My façade was old & cracking. Chunks looked like they were close to falling. I removed all the loose bits and re-rendered with new concrete. I did the proper bonding steps with polyvinylacetate (#PVA). That previously cracked part of the #façade seems relatively strong and water resistent now (i.e. the color remains light...
Never try to keep water out of a building using impermeable coatings, rubberised paint, ciment render, etc etc. A building MUST breath, even at the cost of some inward moisture during wetter periods, any water that will inevitably creap in,and even the moisture you create by living in the building,needs to escape, or I guarantee you will have mould and rot problems down the line. Water which can not escape from behind an impermeable coating is worse that no coating at all. I recommend a lime render for all building needs.
Apologies if I'm off base here, but I have two issues I'm trying to solve and unsure where I should start - whether these are two separate issues to solve or if I should get something that can do both....
Sounds similar to my needs. My solution was a self hosted instance of own cloud on a raspberry pi 4 (nextcloud was good but too too many bells and whistles, and was unstable on my system). The owncloud android app automatically transfers my photos and videos, which are then automatically downloaded to my main PC. Important: This is not a backup solution, if I delete a photo from one instance, it will be be deleted on all instances. This system had physical redundancy, as all photos are on at least 2 separate devices at a time.
You need to investigate owncloud, it is a self hosted cloud drive, think Dropbox, the pi is the machine in my house which is already internet facing, and has a wordpress blog running, with a domain name attached, so it made sense to use that. The owncloud android app sends all my photos and videos to the pi, and then when I am at my pc, the owncloud windows app pulls the files from the pi,so all files are synced. Once set up correctly, all of this happens without any manual intervention, and files are stored in 3 physical discs, my phone, my pi ext hard drive,and my PC. I also have an off site backup on oracle S3 Archive.
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What should I use over a water based polyurethane stain to make my project shiny and smooth? ( kbin.social )
I am working on a project made of African mahogany. It’s a wall mount for our guitars that will stay indoors. I have a water based polyurethane stain. I’m going for a darker stain. I’ve put a layer on my test piece and it’s a nice color and spreads on well but it has no shine. From what I understand, more layers with...
Façade absorbs water in some areas. Is paint a decent solution? (update: no it is not)
My façade was old & cracking. Chunks looked like they were close to falling. I removed all the loose bits and re-rendered with new concrete. I did the proper bonding steps with polyvinylacetate (#PVA). That previously cracked part of the #façade seems relatively strong and water resistent now (i.e. the color remains light...
Selfhosted camera system / photo storage? ( kbin.social )
Apologies if I'm off base here, but I have two issues I'm trying to solve and unsure where I should start - whether these are two separate issues to solve or if I should get something that can do both....