What home improvement work did you do today?

I think galvanized would be better but painting it is a absolute.
If you feel the stones are to loose buy two pieces of rod, there cheap enough, and make two longer ones close to the discharge and a smaller one up stream.

 

You could do a little digging, cut the riser, install a "T" fitting and have the loose drain pipe buried.

 

That's grey water from your DW/washer drains? That can't be Code in a freezing climate..

 

Yeah, I get what you're doing but I can't belive they piped it outside.

Typically you only see the Hot water pressure relief drain and Air handler condensate drains piped outside

 

That tire would have shredded regardless, looks like you just sped up the process

 

Finally Back to a normal- ish state. I have to add a little more salt and clean the t-cell. I’m glad it’s not a pond anymore- the amount of species we attracted was insane.

 

Finished replumbing downstairs half bath. Need to splice into the GFCI for new outlet for the 'smart toilet/bidet' going in, then re-sheetrock and start new decorating/fixtures, etc. PEX is awesome!

 

Added some lights and outlets to the greenhouse.

Finishing up the carport.


I think I've recycled nearly 100 wood and plastic pallets for all the out building/ garden projects of late.

Recycling/ repurposing materials paid for my SPD exhaust and then some.

 

Sigh. Not yet. I’ve got too much unpacking to add that in. I’m also waiting for one more foundation drainage and landscape company to come inspect next week on source and remedy

 

Shed progress. Leveled and squared ready to pour the ground ties.

 

I've been hand cleaning the Azek fascia board we have running around our porch. Up on the 8 foot ladder with a bottle of Super Clean, using a rag and elbow grease, and then painting it so it looks fresh ( I know, you aren't supposed to paint), have about 50 linear feet to do. Changing out the deck screws that some meat head put, with the correct fasteners and the little plugs to fill in the screw holes. It's about 90 today, and this job is a super PITA.

 

Not sure what region of the states your in but here in N.E. we get the green algae on ours.

Just a heads up, yes your supposed/suggested to paint it,unfortunately just like everything eles in this world of ours, there is a specific paint for azak,also azak is a positive charged material that attracts all kinds of stuff in the air.

 

Glad I have a weird design need to change outlets. How this missed inspection and hasn’t burned down, I don’t know

 

Looks like the cheapo outlet cracked and shorted, good catch!

 

More kitchen electrical rough today. Cabinets and new appliances arrive this week, so hopefully I can get all the old shit out and have some visible progress here shortly

 

Finally, we found a house to buy and closed on it last Wednesday. 2 week escrow made things interesting, but we did it.

 

So, we moved in to the new house last weekend. We brought all of our stuff from where it was being stored at my dads house except for all my garage stuff. I wanted to get the garage floor coated before moving any of my tools etc. To make that all happen I needed to remove a wall in the garage. It was a very weird wall that made a long narrow closet of sorts in the garage. I got that taken down and have the floor guys coming tomorrow.


And a picture of the view off my back deck because it is amazing.

 

kinda odd on the wall. guessing someone had a reason for it (whether good or not is subjective).
when i saw the floor plan i saw that back deck and figured it had to be an oasis in the back yard or something. understandable now that i see it. nice view!
hope the rest of the work to finish it goes well

 

The garage floor has glue residue all over it, most likely from carpet. The best I can figure is the garage was being used as some sort of room at one point and whoever owned it at the time put in that wall to make a storage closet.

 

Goodman has 10+ year warranty on their compressors(probably a Copeland like everyone else uses) but I’d never put a Goodman on my house