What home improvement work did you do today?

It's tile from Marazzi

 

I have the same unit. It replaced a 15 year old Liftmaster unit. Very happy with the new one. The range was greatly improved and the lighting is night and day.

Belt driven so much quieter than the old chain unit. Luckily everything was just about plug and play. I didn’t have to replace sensors or move the mount.

I used this video as a reference: https://youtu.be/ekPy7w9UIdY

Good luck.

 

Hopefully I’ll be improving my nightly sleeping

 

After work I decided I would hang a new light in the dinning room but that turned into a cluster .

Last owner decided to move the switch it would appear.They cut the conduit and ran the strand wire up in the attic and then just did a open air splice in the wall with 12/2 but it's a 15 amp circuit. Thankfully I had all the parts to correct it and get the light hung

 

gotta love previous owners and their stupidity/lack of common sense/no electrical knowledge

 

It's scary to say the least bit.

 

So true, I've been living this for the last year. The old owners were idiots when it came to anything home "improvement"

 

That’s scary when people do that.... building codes are in place for a reason yeeesh! Def a good thing you moved lighting and fixed that potential hazard. Cool light fixture

 

Dang. Some people shouldn't be allowed to "fix" anything.

 

Our hallway, adjacent to the kitchen, was a coat closet when we purchased the home.

Quickly removed the doors and tossed in some wire shelves for a more usable pantry. Also a coat closet on the second floor is pretty useless (split level).




Fast forward some time..ya know, life stops every project..

Finally decided on the layout and look we wanted to achieve. All done and wired up..





The upper light is hardwired to a switch.

The countertop lights are hardwired, but on a motion sensor placed in the ceiling of the cabinet. This enables them to activate with the simple swipe of someone’s hand across the countertop (which is perfect for grabbing a snack and not illuminating the entire house).

 

What. in. the. fuck...

Looks great. Much better than the wire shelves!

 

I feel your pain Squatting Pigeon. Some people just need to leave everything alone .

The best one I found so far was this guy it's a light 8 feet away from the pool in a post light ..just wires twisted together and sitting in the post to run a outlet on the side of the post .. something that could have been all put in the box and protected.

 

You didn't buy one of those "fixer uppers" they show on the Home and Garden channel, did you?

 

Question for the group...I just recently replaced our front door locks with a keypad lock. You wouldn’t believe the amount of times my wife has locked herself out while I’m at the firehouse, but I digress. In doing so, the keypad now protrudes out enough to make contact with the handle of the storm door, making it so I have to leave the storm door unlatched to shut the entry door. Anyone got an easy fix for this, like a lower profile handle or something like that? Here are some pics.

 

Something like this style?

 

Sandusky curse

 

Genius! Not sure why I didn’t think of that. Just need to find it in a nickel finish. Thanks for the help!

 

...mine looks like this from the previous owner, in fact the whole garage is that way. It needs to be rewired completely.