What home improvement work did you do today?

Nicely done!

 

More like motor home improvement. Blackstone griddle assembled and ready for our desert trip next weekend.

 

Looks good dude.
Text me if you want me to look anything over, I won't charge ya too much.

 

Before

After

Still waiting for quartz...

 

An elderly couple could not wait to buy it

 

I can only hope my kitchen Reno looks that good once we start & finish BUT I do understand those weird obstructions going going , gone

 

@Fotnot would've destroyed that, although he probably would have made good use out of the lazy Susan while doing it.

 

I cleaned out the gazebo and moved a bench from there to the side porch. No before pics. Just imagine the gazebo being piled up with boxes, a ladder, bags of dirt, etc. I've added painting and repairing it to my list of shit I'll never get done.

 

I converted a bedroom into an office for the wife. Repainted the walls, removed the carpet and replaced with new flooring. Found out there is a much easier way to install folding doors.

 

Here’s the next project. I hand built this 10” telescope many years ago. Actually hand ground the mirror to the right focal point but recently I bought a new improved focuser which threw off my focal point. In order to get it corrected I have to move the mirror closer to the lens. Hoping, according to my measurement I didn’t cut too much off.

 

Now the fun begins, had fencing delivered this morning to finish the 300 feet of remaining yard to be fenced.

 

That’s a shitload of concrete.

 

My back Hurts for you

 

That it is but I'm putting a 8" wide curb for the fence to set on.

It's not a fun job but it needs to done.

 

What’s the purpose of the curb? Looked at a house for sale that had a prior fence done that way. Most of the fence was gone, the curb remained.

 

Oh, I here that.. You more than have a days work ahead of you..

Part 1 of inside Reno almost completed... Dam Finish trim was back ordered and I ventured to the outside...

Took all the decorative block curves ~~~~ out and made straight lines ( with my wife trying to tell me how to run my string line)

and then replacing & upgrading most of the previous plant material owners had.... fell 2 bags short on mulch but lighting should be here Friday.

Luckily for me... Butterfly's have already found it..

 

I just did it to keep the fence off the dirt.

Yep fun stuff items being backordered it's just a new normal it seems, went through that the past 2 years with total redo of 95% of the house ( only the basement bathroom is left but I have to cut some concrete to move plumbing and I just don't feel like right now, so back outside to finish up some projects ) ..This will probably be a 3-4 day project I set 16 posts and got 80 feet of curb done today

 

Well, I know this isn’t a home improvement project per say but here is the update, got this done and reattached the mirror back in the telescope. Took me about 2 hours just to get everything aligned and was about to take it out last night for a test run when the clouds moved in. Hoping my measurements were correct and I didn’t take too much off. If so it’s back to square one. Don’t mind the messy room.

 

Damn. I see the scale of that thing now!

 

10” mirror that is 2” thick glass. Tube is the basic 12” diameter construction tube and almost 6’ tall. It got a lot of curious looks from the neighbors but now they just come over and join in when they see me out with it. It draws a crowd if I take it along camping.

 

Not as much as I hoped to get done but between the couple of random rain storms , I got 86 feet of pickets put up

 

That is still a dam good days work...

 

Spent all day moving some electrical wires in conduit in the outside of the house that are in the way of a new set French doors going in tomorrow. Ran them up through the soffit. Hopefully pics tomorrow of the new French door setup!

 

Operation French door, success! No real speed bumps, went pretty smooth.

 

Brick ledge for French doors done today. Masonry achievement unlocked!