What home improvement work did you do today?

Damn.. that's a shitty welcome home

 

Yeah it was!!
Especially since they run the water pipes in the attic in South Texas...because it never freezes here...until it does!!!
Thank God for insurance!!
On the plus side we got all new carpet and new tile in the kitchen.
All and all a win all the way around.
Was kinda glad the neighbors didn't shut it off.

 

So when Hurricane Milton payed me a visit, he left me with this...

This is my RV garage (14'wx15hx42'l).. What's left of it...



My Lawnmower shed... Which kinda was a blessing for it... It had a plywood floor/frame that was rotten... Didn't have a clue how I was gonna replace it with the shed sitting on it...





After about 5/6 months I finally got done putting it back together...

RV Garage got raised to 17'h... Taller door sure is nice ...



New mower shed got a concrete floor this time and moved forward up even with the front of the RV garage




This 20'x12' lean too I built with aluminum frame for pool cages... My neighbors pool cage got tore up but the main beams were still good... Gonna stack it full of Pecan wood under the lean to that I will use use in my smoker. Which you can see in this picture if you zoom in... 3 1/4 tons of white 57 lime rock.. Put out with a shovel...





Sorry about the long post...

 

Damn!!!
That Sucks!! Living on the Texas Gulf Coast I get it!!!
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose!!!
....Badly!!!

 

So I was staining some cedar this morning for our project and I had it basically all spaced out and up at waist heigh on some horses/ osb board across it. One larger piece was too big to fit and I had to have it on the ground. Well my knees have been getting more sensitive to spending hours on hard surfaces and so I have a nice set of gel knee pads I've been using the last few years.

When I yelled out to my wife, asking her to get my knee pads, from the kitchen....well I had to take a second and just think about that. Half of me died laughing, and the other half just died

All stained either way

 

Originally when we built here, we enjoyed the hanging pendants. After a couple hurricanes, they swing too much and issues came up like the chain breaking and hanging by the wires. Swapped out to some high mounted ones. Wasn't too bad at all....especially for a guy that hates dealing with electrical.

 

They look great! I'm with you on the electrical ha.

 

Removed the old 4 bulb florescent light fixture and installed 5 6" can lights that have a night light mode. I will install the dimmer switch tomorrow.

 

Oh no!!! Is your truck okay?!?!?!!????!! That's all that REALLY matters

 

I've never seen that night light mode before. That's really clever. Can you dim the night light as well as the main can?

 

I put one of these night mode ones in the kids bathroom and it’s pretty awesome. Perfect to just leave on all night.

 

We have the same wall mounted fixtures on either side of our front door!

 

I got the same ones in between our garage doors too.

 

I am installing the dimmer switch tomorrow. It will dim both white and amber lights.

 

The 12 pack of lights was around 60 from Amazon warehouse, box was unopened, 90 new. The 6 pack new was 50.

 

LOL.. Yea, the truck is fine... I park it on the street where there are no trees around for them to fall on it...

 

Basement project,much needed shelving since we do not have an attic.
Pervious owners paint EVERYTHING GREEN!
So here's the progress so far.
Unwashed (filthy).

Washed and scrubbed with hot water and bleach 2/3 with a 2.5 gal. Sprayer.

Painted with masonry paint

And the shelving starts,with much more to go,once it's done I have 3~ 4' leds that will go up.

 

Nice progress!

 

I don't have pics but I replaced 2 ceiling lights. One in the living room, one in the dining room. The living room light had a bad ballast so I figured if I'm replacing one, might as well replace both. Put up a new light in the hallway as well. Was just in a ceiling light changing mood I guess.

 

Put wire mesh underground to try and stop the rodents from making more tunnels to get into my under patio storage

 

Spent $250ish on this and fancy dirt so the wife can try to grow $20 of shit that will more than likely rot before eating.

 

Lol,but that looks pretty damn good and hey,if she does grow and harvest it's waaay better than any store.

 

I see you've already got a fair amount of built-in going. Still, I'll tell you since it's not already too late: My biggest regret with our basement is not installing some kind of liner on the floor or, at minimum, rolling a sealer on the floor. Any sealer to prevent moisture from coming up.

Mind you, our slab is only 22 years old, and I know 100% the builder properly lined the earth with thick-mil plastic liner before pouring the slab. But even with the concrete sitting on the liner, we still manage to get a fair amount of vapor transfer through the floor, and if I'd just put even a basic liner or coating down on the floor BEFORE we built out the basement, it would've made a fucking world of difference. And I know this because I warned our next door neighbors, and their basement usually hovers around 10%-15% less humidity than ours. Same builder, same floor plan. It wouldn't be a problem, but once you start teetering in the 55%-60% relative humidity, mold/mildew starts to spore and/or come to life. It fucked up every piece of wooden furniture we had down there, until I finally broke down and installed a portable dehumidifier to take the edge off.

May not apply to you/your climate, but tossing it out there anyway, because, hell I wish someone woulda mentioned it to me.

 

Yep, nothing like homegrown.

 

Dang vermin!!! I hope that does the trick. Pretty effective I've heard.

 

Thank you for the heads up it is much appreciated!
Yeah, here in N.E. & living on a 120 mile long peninsula, traditionally from mid June~August the humidity can be uncomfortable and upwards of 80+%.
Our basement is pretty cool in the summer months but it gets dank and stale,1/4 of the basement had thin commercial carpet so I pulled it up and the thin layer of foam backing was riddled with black and green mold

So I needless to say I removed it all and bleached the floor and removed all of the sheet rock.
That 1/4 portion of the basement is livable and is my better half's work out area,I ended up installing a TV and one of those interactive work out thingy things for boxing,poladies and made her a chin up bar out of 3/4" blk pipe.
For the floor I put down interlocking 1/2" gym flooring and as you can see the room is congested as of now but when the shelving gets done I can put a lot of the stuff that's on the floor in its new designation & then move on over to the other half of the basement.....

So anyway and back on track with the mold,dank and stale air, I put a de humidifier and set it for 55% it has auto start so if power is lost it will pick up where it left off,which is key.Its perched on top of the washer with an isolation pad and gravity drains to a condensate pump which discharges into the washer stand pipe.

So the basement has been getting a lot of love over the winter pulled out all of the 1/2" copper piping hot/cold lines and replaced with 3/4" and insulated, the hot water line runs all the way back the the hot water tank to meet a re circulation pump that is fed by an aqua stat,insulated the basement envelope and ceiling with R30.
As Spring is FINALLY sprung am just about ready to rotate the indoor tools for the fishing rods hit the surf and waters for some feeeeeeshing

Sorry for the long rant but I'm so done with winter.

 

Thats a huge amount of work. I bet you feel a lot better about being down there now tho! Nice job.

 

Lol,for the longest time it has always been referred to as the Dungeon.
Thanks for the compliment man,I think I will pick away on rainy weekends

 

Similar situation here. Downsized my basement shop to build a gym for the missus, wired it up w/pretty solid audio (Bose 201 IV up high, a 12" downfiring sub, Sony bluetooth head, Apple TV, 60" LG LCD), and added a bathroom. I ended up throwing the humidifier in my shop (last door on right) and direct-plumbing it to the cap of the cleanout for the bathroom (1st door on right) with a vinyl P-trap of sorts so it can run any time it needs, and not let sewer gasses back up. Doors on left are storage (with chest freezer) and HVAC+WH.

But what I'm finding is, if I'd just coated (or even laid moistureblock sheeting) the floor before adding the LVP like I helped our friends next door do, we wouldn't even need a humidifier, the majority of our moisture is coming up from the floor (walls are mostly coated). Hindsight is 20/20, wish I could go back now and do it all over, but I let my impatience get the better of me.

Speakers look off-center here; originally had a 52" TV and it was perfectly centered. Was too lazy to re-drill my mount, and she likes it better favoring the bike to she can watch Peloton in front of her while riding.

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