What home improvement work did you do today?

Walls are done, roof is sheathed. Next days off will be fascia, corner trim. shingles and door.

 

FIFY

He's an absolute baller at everything he does.

 

Thanks for the info, our chest freezer is a 7cu.ft. or so. It is a pit that is difficult to find anything without pulling a lot out. Yes, we are looking at the 11cu.ft. drawer unit from Costco. I will look at the dimensions of the next unit up to see if it will fit in the pantry.

 

What was the reason for not having steel doors for external doors? Just curious because that is what we are looking at is steel doors

 

Well beyond my abilities as a DIY, but I think it’s safe to say my wallet just replaced the shingled sections of our roof with metal (was a mix of metal, asphalt shingle and roll that were at the end of their useful life). Stupid expensive but now I don’t have to worry about my roof ever again!

 

We have the original wood shingles from 1895 or whatever, below a few layers of asphalt shingles, below the metal. The last time I had our quoted for replacement, it was $50k. I've been playing the Powerball religiously since then.

 

Metal roofing has probably the best performance to maintenance (or lack there of) ratio there is

 

I hated to spend the money on something so 'boring' but I am glad I can check this off my list for as long as we're here. We had a metal section prior to this and it has been hands off easy (just periodic cleaning) for the 14+ years we've been here.

 

I wish but no.

I’ll have to look at the fiberglass doors. I just assumed exterior front doors were either steel or wood.

 

I don’t understand the longevity part. I figured the steel would be around just long as I am. Just like anything, maintenance is key but just curious what their thought process or experience with the longevity of a steel door in Colorado

 

just received 'permission to operate' by the power company. added a cpl of home backup batteries to the new'ish to me place. have them in another property and will never have a place again without battery backup.

went with full house backup again. have a fairly large solar panel installation with two systems so im ending up feeding quite a bit back to the grid. in one pic you can see my panels and battery are fully powering the house. it's currently 97 degrees outside and i have the a/c pumping at 74 degrees on 3,600+ sq ft, both floors.....and it's all powered by panels and battery atm (peak usage time too). no grid costs for now. very happy. if you're in cali, semper solaris is great to work with imo. they did both home backups.





this makes it all worth while. it's a pic (ive shared before yrs ago) from the other place when the power went out. pretty powerful pic on the return on investment/quality of life when the grid isn't providing.

 

No problem, was just wondering what you learned. I read through that, thanks

 

Concrete gets poured tomorrow morning.

 

have you seen this? Pretty cool.
https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/powerwall/virtual-power-plant

 

This exact reason is why I recently opted out of the new smart meter program they just rolled out for my county.
They claimed it was for spotting outages quicker, but I know the real reason

I'm not letting go of my .027/kwh power

 

Meanwhile, in Texas we've got this: https://www.basepowercompany.com

It sounds promising to me and is supposed to be in my area next year so we shall see.

 

So your electricity rates don't fluctuate every month?

 

Looks a little muddled to me, what's the Electric Cost Adjustment (ECA) charge mean?

Ours is a flat .027/kWh 24/7/365
For now