What home improvement work did you do today?

Yes

Yes, the doors are insulated

 

My steel building guys got a lot done in one week. Next week I should have all the curtain walls up and start seeing the roof panels being installed.

The main barn slab has some more rebar details to do. We should have concrete poured by the end of next week. The lodge foundation to the far right was poured this week.

 

bend them guitar strangz!!!!

 

@1UPPER, is that all bolt up? Any welding going on, extra stuffiness per say to beef up main cross sections?

 

Dude! please tell me you have an urgent business meeting in San Diego this fall that coincidentally starts the same time we decide its time for some remodeling!!

 

I actually have some friends that want us to go to San Diego in November. Lol

What kind of remodel are you doing?

 

This is a pre engineered bolt up structure. There are cross cables in two of the roof sections. The structure is rated for 110mph winds. There will also be a curtain wall that drops down 6’ all the way around the perimeter footprint. This will help add even more stability to the structure.

I always have my piers and slabs engineered. So I have soil samples done first then engineers design the steel specs, depth of footings or piers. So I take lots of steps to make sure everything is going to last and hold up over the long haul.

Now the barn will be a hybrid building. It will have bolt up columns & rafters with purlins. Some sections of the barn will require welded components. I’ve got 3 1/2-4 months for the barn steel shell.

 

I had to go by one of my old clients house this week. So I got to see this laundry room addition project I did about 6 years ago. My favorite parts were the knotty alder barn door, cast iron farmer sink and the custom island cabinet on antique style wheel casters.

 

My better half has wanted me to build wooden boxes around these pole planters. Took some old redwood fenceboards that had laying around from my fence replacement a few years back.

Before:



Used pocket holes to do the edge joinery, my wife says I love pocket holes. Guilty as charged.



The finished product.



I thought about mitering the edges but decided against it because

1) I'm lazy
2) Wood is really dry and was concerned about splintering
3) see point 1 again.

Overall pretty happy with how it came out.

 

Cleaned the sidewalks.

 

I didn't do it today...I did it within the last month....

Cleaned the deck and sanded it....
Then stained it....


Cleaned my patio....

Cleaned my driveway...

 

I just read this.... stuffiness, I meant to say stiffiners.

 

You know it

 

First project at the new house started about 2 hours after I brought the first couple loads over. LOL.

The lawn is decent, but the previous owners had clearly let it grow long, cut it without bagging the clippings, repeat ad nauseum. There were clumps of matted grass embedded in the lawn. I mowed then raked the lawn and got most of it out. Lots of unhealthy patches, so I'll have to do some remediation next year.

We also discovered our master bedroom power outlets don't work. They were fine at the home inspection. Breaker is fine. I'm stumped.

 

Finally finished turning this


Into this


Need to find some knobs for the doors, it only came with one and I guarantee I can't find a match. Pretty happy overall.

 

You might be able to... Maybe eBay or something like that.

 

Maybe. I'm gonna take the one I had and at least match the color at Lowes or Home Depot. I was hoping to fill the holes and go without knobs but the holes are pretty big.

It's like a chameleon on my floor, wasn't planning to be that close. I'm happy with it though, total cost so far is under $20 not counting the $100 I spent on a nice sander and pads. Can't count cost of tools I'll use over and over.

 

Got the rest of Hackzilla's handiwork cleared out-


Thanks to the tremendous amount of frost heave on this property and the downspout that was draining between the concrete pad and foundation, the block wall is pretty beat up. I have an old-timer coming to make repairs to that.

 

Good to know Jim. Fortunately for us, my wife works at a screen store, and she's having it installed. It's the pet screen, guess it's a heavy dutier screen.

 

That was our first thought. We only have two "dead" switches in the house and they're in the living room. Neither affect anything as far as we can tell, not even the outlets in that room. Every other switch works and there are no switches other than for lights in the master bedroom. When I reset the bedroom breaker to see what would happen, the light lost power and came back so that is connected but the outlets remained dead. No breakers anywhere else are tripped either.

 

It's all good. I'm going to call our home inspector tomorrow and see what he says. He checked the outlets and they were fine then. I know a couple people who deal with electrical stuff so I'll give them a call this week as well.

 

Wonder if there's another breaker box somewhere. Was the house added on at some point?

 

Nope. Just the one breaker box.

 

Had similar issue, come to find out one of the switches was gfi that was not near the outlets and just reseted it..fixed. Maybe look for one?..

 

I was just going to mention that too !

 

This was my issue when the master bath did not have power, the gfi was in the guest bath.

 

Bad breaker or the GFI...taking bets?

 

Whoever bet GFI wins. I took a picture of my panel and sent it to my electrican friend. My GFI breaker was tripped. Flipped it back and we're up and running.

 

Perfect!!

 

Bugs me why they trip, had one in the laundry room that did it a couple of times then no more.