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Part tiled. Still the shower to go in, and the bath panel on before it's painted, sealed and the floors intalled
We have this ridiculous old concrete slab in our side yard -- it's where the old landing for a stairway used to be (this has been moved since the house was renovated).
Anyway, it's a huge tripping hazard in the dark and when I try to move trash cans in and out. I figure it's time to remove it. I rented a demolition hammer from Home Depot and went to work. That thing is FUN.
Large piece of plastic used to shield porch from rain. Top edge of plastic is attached with velcro strips. This photo is a closeup showing the velcro. Sorry it is so hard to see. There is velcro affixed to the metal with glue, and then the other piece of velcro is attached to the plastic (on "the other side" of the plastic from the POV of the viewer). In some cases (such as this one), the velcro-to-plastic bond is also stapled for greater strength (see right and left edges - look for metal bits).
This is the clamp I used attach the ground wire to the antenna's tripod mount. Everything I found said to use number 8 wire or larger yet the wire sold in the stores labeled "grounding wire" was number 10 or smaller. Something didn't add up with that. I still opted for a number 8 copper wire ground.
The light/fan replacement is done. It took me until about 11pm (by which time it had gone from 150°F to 90°F in the attic) because I felt the need to rewire the outlet my computer is on -- which was in parallel off this light fixture -- to draw power off a less-used circuit.
The lighting is less than I'm used to (shadowy 180W facing the computer when I had bright 200W as general lighting) but I'll either adapt or find a way to improve upon it.
We have worked so hard on this bedroom. We took down the "cottage cheese" primered the ceiling,textured it and painted it. We thin painted the walls and as you see here Patricia installed the crown moulding. Should we refinish the hardwood floors????
The big hole to the right of the door is where a built in ironing board went. It prevented the new cabinets from being flush with the wall and had to be removed. New holes in the plaster from where wires were run for the new lights and switches.
I started moving the rocks from our front yard to the backyard. After all these years I'm tired of mowing around them.
stephon and george - loading in the appliances. Funny that I missed the cheerful hug that occured between this couple just a moment before. What a riot.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with the steps when it all gets rebuilt. There's a big chuck of the concrete top step missing, reinforcing what I suspected about the original homeowner; he was a contractor who built this home using lots of scraps and cast-offs from client sites. Broken piece of concrete? Hey, I can use that on my back porch.
At the end of day 1 the only items left are touch-up paint and hanging the awning and window flower box.
As bad as the top layer was, the bottom layer is worse. At least the upper layer had the decency to come off easily. It was the bottom layer that took all the time. Since it was directly on the wallboard, it must have been there as long as the house, which makes it almost 50 years. Yikes!
I rehabilitated an old table with paint, vinyl, and plexiglas. Now it's my spacious new sewing table! It's 9 feet long!
I assembled this bookcase last night. Note the surprising lack of spare pieces. It will hold the stack of books piled neatly behind where I'm standing.
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On my work-from-home days, I sit or stand here, with a view out the window. The IVAR "desk" lets me switch easily from a sitting or standing configuration. The exercise ball is the most ergonomic "chair" I've found.
Old cabinet interior. All sorts of junk (some of which has already been removed, some of which has been there since we moved into the house)
The end of two days digging at our septic system. Ray knows his stuff and the Bobcat digging lined up exactly with the junction box buried 4' down. Honestly it was amazing how accurately the ditch uncovered the box. Anyway, the junction box didn't have any roots in it so the system failure ended up being the pipe running between the last tank and the junction box. The next step will be to replace that pipe and our problem will be solved.
I snapped this photo from the garage because I was so pissed off. Yep, it's a drought, and it's over a hundred degrees outside, and it's late afternoon, the worst time of day to water--but the assholes down the street still have their built-in sprinkler system running. Mustn't let the lawn suffer! It's thanks to jerkoffs like these that I expect the entire Great Plains to collapse into a sinkhole before I retire.
Then there's the lack of sidewalks, the layouts that force you to drive everywhere, the lack of recycling...let's move on.