DADO CUTS AND JOINT COMPOUND

 Last night I put together the first of the wall shelf sections for games and DVDs. What I found right  away was that the Dewalt work site table saw was designed for building a house, not renovating one. It will cut boards and sheets of plywood all day long, every day, what it doesn't do well is Dado cuts.

To create a 3/4" groove, 

The dado set up requires 
1 outside cutting blade, a chopper, a shim, a chopper, a shim, a chopper, and the inside cutting blade.

 The problem is, the DW440 does not have a long enough arbor.

 The most it will allow is the inner and outer saw blades and one chopper blade, this creates a groove just under a 1/2". So I had to make two passes shifting the board to receive a 3/4" cut. But it worked out alright. Just took extra time

While I was playing with wood, Nat was busy in the next room filling crevices. 

The section above will be removed and replaced, (sheetrock dropped off yesterday). The angle to the right does not meet any framework or support, so that will be addressed also.

The smallest of the group was proud that he had a muscle shirt on because I was wearing one. But we didn't get to see any muscles at work, he was glued to the television.

When asked if he would go dumpster diving to reclaim some window screens for his grandmother to recycle he flat out refused. So she went diving, wearing flip flops.