What home improvement work did you do today?

Seven more yards of fine dark bark. This is on top of previous 5 yards of dark bark and 3 yards of garden soil. My thyme hill is behind the bark pile.

 

A ton of crawling in the atic space and at least 10 times up the roof and I accomplished this yesterday.
Just finished tapping into a line for a box in the attic (and adding a light on a switch up there with outlet as well) for the StarLink transformer, so glad I did it, it made the hardware in the house nice and clean. I had to fab up a 20" extension out of 1" conduit for the receiver, because snow...
The standard wall mount had it only 4" off the surface of the roof. No bueno


Starting to forget what day it is since I retired (sort of joking) so I just got this for the shop/command center.


EDIT: I should say, the Barndo was built with 12' walls and then lidded out in 5/8 fire rated, the entire ceiling. Then they build the living space in that, so the "Attic" space the transformer is in isn't exposed to the elements like in a regular attic. So I have no worries about temp fluctuations etc...

 

I didsimilar to keep track of the day.

 

No real pics....but we upgraded a ceiling fan in the living room to a bigger one to match the room size. Moved that one to our office that used to be a formal dining room(transitioning that now with an office desk being built). Moved that light fixture to our dining area. Took the old fixture down to give away. All went well with no shock (except me being shocked it all worked right the first time for each). I'm most excited about the ceiling fan moving more air. I think having a bigger drop rod and larger fan diameter is pushing more air more efficiently

 

Ridge vent for the attic over the garage that has no vents for some reason. Already added one on the other side of this hip for over the bedroom.

removed ridge caps (saved them) and cut 1-3/4” opening into the roof ridge. It was already mostly there, just had to widen it a little.



Covered the nail heads and holes with roofing cement (not pictured). Then relatively centered the ridge vent strips and nailed them down.



then trimmed the saved ridge caps to size and nailed them down onto the ridge vent strips. Applied roofing cement to ends to help with wind resistance, and to the 4 exposed nail heads on the cap.

 

A little Burn-In today (pellet stove). This thing pumps out some heat! Useful for us Snow Monkeys up here in the frozen tundra.

 

Here are a few photos of the garden areas that were “barked”. I went thru 6+ yards the last two days. The hill out back took some time to get the material down there. My trusty old electric riding mower and 10 cu ft cart helped a lot.

 

I had similar loss of time after the layoff last March. Even after starting the business to blow time and make some cash, I still get lost sometimes.

 

Holy shit that's nice looking. Nice peppering of plantings too, gonna have to show this to my wife. Nice work.
Uh, I swear I remember build photos of that terraced/step area. Not a regular in this thread, and sometimes if I can just remember where my truck keys are... I'm doing good

 

House looks new as does the landscaping. I think in 5 years he's going to have quite the landscape as things mature.

 

Looks frigging beautiful man, the pictures are awesome & probably doesn't do all of it's justice I bet it looks better in person.
Nice job man!

 

Nice job and beautiful property!

 

Thanks for the comments, we have been here for 3.5 years. We did most of the plantings and selections. Actually moved or deleted what the builder put in wrt plants/trees. My wife does the plant selections, with a few from myself. We are pretty much done with new plantings/moving things around (for this year haha). Dogwoods are will be in bloom in a week or two, I’ll post a couple photos of them.

 

We have a room at the back of the house that stays hotter than we like. We were looking at one of the 8000 BTU U-shaped Midea window AC units. That room has a 10 inch central AC return. Will the window unit affect the central AC due to that return? I can move the return across the hall to a smaller room that does not have one.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Midea-8...0-sq-ft-Energy-Star-2024-MAW08U1QWT/327511952

 

Long complicated answer - maybe
Short real life answer - no.
the bigger question is the return going to affect the hot bedroom with the 8000 BTU window unit.

 

Had to fix this stupid homeowners piss poor attempt at carpentry at MY house today. Gosh people are dumb.
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Well I am proud that it didn't take more than 5 minutes to put 2 and 2 together when I found the breaker tripping this morning.



Also proud that I Pulled the box, wire, outlet, and cover plate and replaced all of it with stock from my shed in half the Time it took me to rehang the shelf in the broom closet.

 

Chuckled at this. I can't count the # of times it worked right the 1st time and I'm sitting there like "....it cannot be this easy. SOMETHING'S gonna go wrong." LOL

 

I've been watching and testing all those fixtures still waiting on a spark or them not to work