What home improvement work did you do today?

Made a little mister run through sprinkler for the kids. Works pretty well

 

Sounds majestic!

 

That would be ideal. Unfortunately, the outside wall only allows access to about 2 1/2' of the showers 4' 10" width.

I may have to wait until the wife is gone, crawl up into the attic and see what I can see from there. She fell through an attic ceiling at our last house and I'm no spring chicken, and she would freak out with me crawling around up there digging through the insulation.

 

Nice rainbow.

 

I would love to just pay someone to do this but that usually ends in paying them and then fixing their work and doing it myself anyway.

 

Studs will be 16" apart unless your house is older than dirt. It's why tape measure have every 16" highlighted. To help the weekend home improver with locating studs. They can be 18" or even 24" if it was built before dirt was made. Drywall thickness, or in this case concrete wall, is no more than an inch thick, usually 5/8ths. The concrete sheets are anywhere from 1/4" to 5/8ths. So you have to figure in the thickness of the tile. (1/4" ?) Floor to ceiling tile kinda screws you over here. Personally, I am not a fan of using toggles for something load bearing like a grab bar. But if that's what you gotta use, that's what you gotta use. How big of a base/footprint does the grab bar have? How much of a mistake will it cover is what I'm asking.

 

Usually anywhere there is water like bathrooms, dishwashing areas, etc. greenboard is used. It's denser than regular drywall. Now I'm not a drywaller so I don't know exactly what calls for certain types of drywall, but I've had to cut through my share of the stuff in 20 years of being a sheet metal worker.



And now for something completely different. I had my garage pretty much squared away then this happened. Buddy of my texts me and said “I got a present for you. Barely used. Free.”



And it’s wired for 208v which my garage has.

 

Very little margin for error. The flange is 3" but the screw holes are at the edge of the flange. Studs are 16" in my home, so guessing they are the same in the shower. I'll probably take my best guess at where they are, measuring from the corner, and if I miss I'll still have 3 screws holding each flange. Unless we are hanging from it I'm pretty confident it'll hold.

 

Got an initial picture of the lights I put on the tree only to find out I accidentally bought the ‘cool white’ and not ‘warm white’
#facepalm

and I can’t return them since I’m already out of the 30 day window!

 

Ouch!!! I’m a light snob, and that would bother me up one side and down the other.
I double check the Kelvin rating every bulb purchase

Sell if locally for a slight loss and don’t be irritated for multiple years to come.

 

Oh yeah it chaps my ass too. I hate when things don’t match. I’ll take them down in the morning and already ordered replacements. I may be able to use these ones in the back yard but I dunno

 

Took some new aerial pictures today of my equestrian project.

 

Very nice!

 

why not get some slight yellow tint and put it over the lenses

edit: ohh i didn't see the ones in the tree. i thought you meant the ones on the house.....

 

Is that the new Yellowstone Ranch?

Looks great.

 

Haha. That’s a great show by the way!

 

A Private business.

 

That’s nuts! I’m guessing that’s not his house to the right, that’s some type of event center? Lol

I picked up a measley olé 3200 lbs of boulders just now (2 loads).
Tundra did 1700 lbs no problem
Fun begins tomorrow!

 

It's like a lawnmower for your driveway in winter. The Woman is on my case to buy one this winter if we can scrape together the coin. She's tired of using shovels to clear snow. I tell her it builds character. Apparently she has enough character...