no brownies for me

[darkoshi]

I was about to make a batch of brownies - had even measured out the first ingredient, when I remembered that the oven isn't working at all anymore. A few days ago, it started going beep-beep-beep every minute and showed an error code which indicated a short in the touchpad panel. So I've ordered a replacement panel which should get here by next week; hopefully that will fix it and I won't have to replace the whole oven.

Yesterday I tested grinding the concrete with the diamond cup wheel. It works, but takes longer than cutting grooves, and makes a whole lot more dust. Since the grooves I did last week seem to be working fairly well so far, I cut more grooves with the flat blade. Hopefully that will suffice to keep rainwater from seeping into the garage. If not, I may cut another shallow groove right along the door to connect the other grooves.

Qiao was watching the 1994 movie "(Leon) The Professional" this evening, and so I watched too. The actor playing the 12 year old girl looked familiar. It was a young Natalie Portman - her first movie!

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, concrete sawing/grinding is such an enormous project.
There are some of those to which you can attach a hose, to at least reduce the amount of dust, aren't there?

[darkoshi]

Yes, if I was going to do more grinding, I'd want to get a dust shroud which I could attach to a vacuum cleaner. Cutting the grooves wasn't so bad as most of the dust was blown outward away from the garage.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

When I had to do some asbestos removal with a sander -- the worst situation, pretty much -- I ended up putting a shopvac outside, with the hose running inside, to a big box that went over the sander. I cut a hole in the top and taped in plastic so I could see what I was doing. It was quite effective: there was almost no dust (and we were running a humidifier and mopping the floor.)

[darkoshi]

Wow. I hope I never have to deal with asbestos removal. My mom's old house had asbestos siding, which for a long time I thought was just painted wood.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this house had that (which we simply oversided) and asbestos-based adhesive on all the floor tile, which of course did not come up nicely when the cracked and broken floor tile came out.