I'd try getting a remediation company out there before you throw in the towel and replace sheathing/roofing.
🏡 Better Homes Brag / Complain About a DIY Project Thread
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Also crossed my mind.
This part my fault for not realizing the attic fan was seized up for years but majority their fault for what the didn’t do. I was trying to figure out why the bathroom and upstairs floor stays so humid all the time a couple year ago. That lead me to finding the seized fan and the pipe coiled UNDER the insulation.
This part my fault for not realizing the attic fan was seized up for years but majority their fault for what the didn’t do. I was trying to figure out why the bathroom and upstairs floor stays so humid all the time a couple year ago. That lead me to finding the seized fan and the pipe coiled UNDER the insulation.
Possibly. This house is SUPER dusty and I have never been able to figure out why. Another project for another year.
Main reason I ask is cause I had an area of insulation that was really dirty and thought it was mold. When I gently pulled it back there was no paneling underneath, so the air was passing through, like an air filter in your car.
Guessing this builder wanted to cut corners, but couldn’t figure out how to make a square corner in the first place.
All sorts of updating I need to do here.
Drywall guy came, did drywall on old end and we painted it.
Then moved all of the shit down there and studded and wired the other end.
Also added a door opening on an angle and put a door into the laundry/mechanical room. Before it'd always been just a bare opening with no division.
Here's before:
Wall:
No wall:
Here's after:
Egress window dude came and did his thing too.
Drywall hangers finished up Friday evening, we spent Friday night hanging/wiring more of the puck lights we used at the other end.
Drywall finish guy is coming back tomorrow night to mud/tape/texture everything then we will paint walls and ceilings hopefully next weekend.
Once we get that done I'll get a bid on flooring and reload the cash cannon.
Drywall guy came, did drywall on old end and we painted it.
Then moved all of the shit down there and studded and wired the other end.
Also added a door opening on an angle and put a door into the laundry/mechanical room. Before it'd always been just a bare opening with no division.
Here's before:
Wall:
No wall:
Here's after:
Egress window dude came and did his thing too.
Drywall hangers finished up Friday evening, we spent Friday night hanging/wiring more of the puck lights we used at the other end.
Drywall finish guy is coming back tomorrow night to mud/tape/texture everything then we will paint walls and ceilings hopefully next weekend.
Once we get that done I'll get a bid on flooring and reload the cash cannon.
Started some more work on my foundry today. I'm making a cope and drag (I think that's the terminology?) so that I can make my 3D printed lathe bits at some point. I'm kinda meh on wood typically, so I decided to try and approaching it in a more exact way using a jig instead.
I made my first cut at a 45 degree angle.
Flipped it around
Then finished the job. Every 3 cuts got me 2X 45 degree ended boards of equal length. You can see the piece of angle bracket I used for the jig.
Overall it worked well, I needed 8 boards for a box so that's what I cut up.
Everything looks really decent, I have a bit of warpage in one of the boards but I'll live. These were just some junk "value wood" from Menards.
I then went to the chop saw and cut myself 8 pieces of this angle off. I was going to mount servers with it then decided otherwise.
Mocking up the second box above the top one. I need some of the correct hardware and washers but I'm pretty well don with the first one. I'm going to put in the correct hardware, wood glue everything, put a square in it to see how close I am or am not (I think I'm real close) and tighten it all up.
If I would have done work like this in wood shop I probably would have gotten a grade better. Overall still not my medium, but I think if I approach it a bit like metal instead of like wood I'll end up doing a lot better with it. The end BOM is about $6 in wood, about $6 in angle, probably another $2-3 in hardware so overall it'll end up being about $15/box. I need to put stuff on it for alignment but otherwise she's good to go.
Other than that, was up on the roof trying to tar up a vent pipe that was weeping still. Gordan Ramsay would have probably been shouting at me about it being a vent not a birthday cake but whatever. Mental note, unfibered tar next time.
I made my first cut at a 45 degree angle.
Flipped it around
Then finished the job. Every 3 cuts got me 2X 45 degree ended boards of equal length. You can see the piece of angle bracket I used for the jig.
Overall it worked well, I needed 8 boards for a box so that's what I cut up.
Everything looks really decent, I have a bit of warpage in one of the boards but I'll live. These were just some junk "value wood" from Menards.
I then went to the chop saw and cut myself 8 pieces of this angle off. I was going to mount servers with it then decided otherwise.
Mocking up the second box above the top one. I need some of the correct hardware and washers but I'm pretty well don with the first one. I'm going to put in the correct hardware, wood glue everything, put a square in it to see how close I am or am not (I think I'm real close) and tighten it all up.
If I would have done work like this in wood shop I probably would have gotten a grade better. Overall still not my medium, but I think if I approach it a bit like metal instead of like wood I'll end up doing a lot better with it. The end BOM is about $6 in wood, about $6 in angle, probably another $2-3 in hardware so overall it'll end up being about $15/box. I need to put stuff on it for alignment but otherwise she's good to go.
Other than that, was up on the roof trying to tar up a vent pipe that was weeping still. Gordan Ramsay would have probably been shouting at me about it being a vent not a birthday cake but whatever. Mental note, unfibered tar next time.
Wife wanted a garden for mother’s day
If you do one and elevate it, you won’t need a pump. I have seen a few people do them out here and they have them mounted on some kind of stand for gravity watering.
Apparently light is what causes algae so I have black barrels. You'll fill it fast so make sure you have some sort of overflow system in place.
Getting going with a feature wall in our loft area. Still need to fill, sand, and caulk and then wife wants to paint everything on that wall an accent color (including the wood, just not the baseboard) and then I’ll add cove crown molding. Then some art gets hung on the vertical strips in the stairway and I’ll setup my turntable against the feature wall.
I have a area behind the barn that I've neglected for year. I cut a dozen 3 inch thick trees out of here an ran my power rake through here. I want to dump some rock and use it for parking and storage.
I have a area behind the barn that I've neglected for year. I cut a dozen 3 inch thick trees out of here an ran my power rake through here. I want to dump some rock and use it for parking and storage.
I did this at old house, I used recycled asphalt. Way cheaper, really liked how it layed out and packed after a few rains
Two ceiling fans with wall mount remote switches (Hunter fans and remotes), two new lights in the kitchen and a “boob light” in the hallway. Rented a 10’ ladder (I really need to buy one), replaced some mini-blinds, did the 2 kitchen lights and the LED boob light in about 2 hours because I had to extend the rods and replace a wire I tore up.
The next 6 hours was dedicated to taking apart the old fans and fighting every fiber of my being from hunting down the previous owner and beating them within an inch of his life. The fans were being held on with a very small portion of the machine screws (literally held on by a thread) and one of them fell off when I just tapped it with the screwdriver and I almost got knocked off the ladder. How someone manages to strip the head of a screw and only use maybe three threads of that screw is beyond me. No continuity in one of the outlets and when I went to inspect it it was rubbing on the gang box and the wire snapped, which explains why only the light worked and not the fan. So I say “Fuck it!! I’m running new wire!” Tie on a pull string and start pulling wire out....SNAP.....wire broke, pull it back to figure out which wire it was, tie on the string and pull it all the way to the switches...SNAP........FUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKK!!!!! I was lucky that my mini rodder was in my garage and I had a recovery/rescue head to put on. Pulled the rope all the way through and pulled new wire.
Fans installed, now for the switches. First thing out of my mouth when I see the wiring “THAT MOTHERFUCKER!!!” Literally every time I work on this house and I’m covering the tracks of the previous owner I wish death and famine on him. Wiring is bent all to shit and knotted, the extra inch of bare wire beyond the terminals is really safe and somehow this cocksucker put nuts on the back of the plate screws for the switches making it damn near impossible to get the screws out. How this place hasn’t burned down yet is a miracle.
Finally get the switches organized and wired up, turn the power on, run back up the stairs for the 3,000th time, hit the switch and.............wanna guess?.........NOTHING. OK, the lights work. Up and down the ladder a dozen more times chasing a gremlin, read the instructions a dozen times, Google search, waste and hour trying to figure out what I did wrong and find that my stupid ass put the fucking AAA batteries in the back of the remote switch backwards.
8.5 hours of my life into a job that should take me maybe 4 hours tops. But at least now I know my fans aren’t going to fall off the ceiling and my house won’t start on fire.
The next 6 hours was dedicated to taking apart the old fans and fighting every fiber of my being from hunting down the previous owner and beating them within an inch of his life. The fans were being held on with a very small portion of the machine screws (literally held on by a thread) and one of them fell off when I just tapped it with the screwdriver and I almost got knocked off the ladder. How someone manages to strip the head of a screw and only use maybe three threads of that screw is beyond me. No continuity in one of the outlets and when I went to inspect it it was rubbing on the gang box and the wire snapped, which explains why only the light worked and not the fan. So I say “Fuck it!! I’m running new wire!” Tie on a pull string and start pulling wire out....SNAP.....wire broke, pull it back to figure out which wire it was, tie on the string and pull it all the way to the switches...SNAP........FUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKK!!!!! I was lucky that my mini rodder was in my garage and I had a recovery/rescue head to put on. Pulled the rope all the way through and pulled new wire.
Fans installed, now for the switches. First thing out of my mouth when I see the wiring “THAT MOTHERFUCKER!!!” Literally every time I work on this house and I’m covering the tracks of the previous owner I wish death and famine on him. Wiring is bent all to shit and knotted, the extra inch of bare wire beyond the terminals is really safe and somehow this cocksucker put nuts on the back of the plate screws for the switches making it damn near impossible to get the screws out. How this place hasn’t burned down yet is a miracle.
Finally get the switches organized and wired up, turn the power on, run back up the stairs for the 3,000th time, hit the switch and.............wanna guess?.........NOTHING. OK, the lights work. Up and down the ladder a dozen more times chasing a gremlin, read the instructions a dozen times, Google search, waste and hour trying to figure out what I did wrong and find that my stupid ass put the fucking AAA batteries in the back of the remote switch backwards.
8.5 hours of my life into a job that should take me maybe 4 hours tops. But at least now I know my fans aren’t going to fall off the ceiling and my house won’t start on fire.
My neighbor offered me some free river rock which I found to be almost the perfect amount to spread around my cacti. No matter how careful I am around this stuff, I always end up with sharp and random pains in my fingers for a few days following. The tiny spikes are awful. My back is also sun burned from doing all this shirtless, but I guess I need to get that base burn eventually.
I'm ready to get roasted by the lawn lords and garden gentlemen now. I'll be heading over there for some tips in a minute.
I'm ready to get roasted by the lawn lords and garden gentlemen now. I'll be heading over there for some tips in a minute.
Did some landscaping/mulch. $40 well worth it.
Welp, garage door quote came as $1500 to replace. I'm kinda like "fuck that, we'll give it a go first to see if we can get it to last long enough for the house to sell." I took a right angle bracket, mounted it where the broken corner was after I flap disked the galvo off. I then cleaned the paint off the roller wheel's bracket and bolted it up there. I then did some really shitty MIG welding which I promptly then re-melted with the O/A torch to get it to penetrate. One day I'll have to not suck at the MIG, however the O/A did the trick it seems. Now all I have to do is put it in the track, bolt it all together and I'm done. Hooray!
This is the mock up so the wife could choose which deck boards she liked. I'm going to Georgia this weekend, so who knows when it will actually get started.
Making an 8' x 8' deck out of pallet wood off the back of the house. It's replacing a deck already made out of pallets just laid on the ground, so this won't be too fancy, but it is free.
Making an 8' x 8' deck out of pallet wood off the back of the house. It's replacing a deck already made out of pallets just laid on the ground, so this won't be too fancy, but it is free.
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