What home improvement work did you do today?

Drywall repair completed on front porch, two pony walls, back patio and around kitchen window.

 

Looks good.

 

just remember if you're going to be a plumber don't chew your fingernails and shit runs downhill. Lol

 

New front door installed today. It's too dark outside to get a good picture, but here's one from the inside. Hall bathroom gets painted tomorrow morning then finally we can start installing the new stuff. Hoping to have a completed bathroom by the weekend.

 

Nice day today so I planted a few Crepe Myrtles. One replaced a grapefruit tree that died this fall and I moved a peach tree that hadn't been doing good and replaced it with a Crepe.

 

Hall bathroom received paint today. Semi gloss white for the wall behind the vanity and wainscoting. Flat white on the ceilings and a grey on the surrounding walls. Hopefully new vanity and fixtures will start going in tomorrow. Glass guy is coming over in the morning to measure for doors.

 

My God man, that's looking really really good.

 

Put up my fireplace surround tile.

 

Got my gutters done, had company come out and install screens. Life time guaranteed. Anyway guy tells my wife you know why your gutters are messed up. Why a soft ball and 4 tennis balls. Anyway won't have to deal with those anymore hopefully.
Kids gotta love em

 

Finished cleaning up after pruning our pear tree
It might not sound like much but I probably have 8hrs in pruning the tree. It’s big and it’s old. OSU has taken cuttings to graft, so it is sort of a legacy tree. It had not been taken care of for a few years before we bought the place. The first year we were here it produced about 400lbs of pears. That winter I took about 10’ off the top. The next winter I took it down another 3’. It is finally starting to look civilized! I will try to remember to take some pictures tomorrow

 

Looking good.

 

Looks good that's alot of grout joints to wipe.

 

Aren't you supposed to prune trees in the spring? Or is it different for fruit trees?

 

Doesn't sound like it. I know my buddy worked for an orchard and they trimmed in November every year. They were apple trees. Vineyards around here trim in the spring though.

 

Depends on the plant and the climate. Here on the wet side of the PNW, all winter is basically like "spring" most anywhere else (except the south). The timing has to be before the buds are formed for new growth, but after the plant has produced whatever you are growing it for. Most fruit trees are pruned early/mid-winter here when they are dormant. Then, when they do start to wake in the spring they are putting the new energy into budding and fruit rather than wood growth. Lilacs need to be pruned pretty much right after the flowers drop, or they won't flower the next year (they form the buds for the next year shortly after they bloom). Some hydrangea need to be pruned in summer after they bloom, while others need pruned in spring before they bloom. Roses get cut back Jan/Feb.

 

Definitely prune fruit trees when dormant, no sap flowing. Late December, January, February, are ideal. If you have a warm March and they start to bud, you have missed your window of opportunity

 

You are telling me. My wife had to have the herringbone.

 

Some more tiling happening today. Had to level out a large section where there must have been a leak in the slab which was trenched out to repair. They patched it with a membrane, but it was not really even. There was about a 1/2 difference in the concrete over about a 3ft span. The membrane was pulled off and it was leveled out before the new tile goes down.

 

Some trees, like Crepe Myrtles do most of their rooting in the winter months so it's okay to trim them also.

 

Giving you a bump.

Wifi switches are a bitch for me. That required neutral wire always throws me off.

 

"Mapei Primer T" was used.

 

I'm not sure if what we have are wi-fi switches but when I replaced the fixture in our dining room, I found that the switches didn't like an LED bulb and I either had to go to an incandescent or a halogen.

 

Can you post up model number of your switch. I don't think you have it wired correctly by looking at what you have. Also are these working with another 3 way switch?

 

Here’s a picture of the big pear

thats a 12’ step ladder next to the tree