🏡 Better Homes Brag / Complain About a DIY Project Thread

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Appreciate it! I did all this myself, I'm not a "professional" nor do I play one on TV... but I've been around the block a lot and can do damn near anything in home construction. Three way switches still throw me for a loop without drawing them out first!

The copper is 14ga for everything but the ground, which is 12ga - as its what I had available.

These crimp on copper connections (Nibco) are amazing and make plumbing work a BREEZE. Every prior copper project, I soldered. My buddy told me he had a Milwaukee crimp tool, so I grabbed that sucker with a quickness and WOW does it make copper simple.

I was actually wondering about that because I didnt see any solder. That's awesome.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Appreciate it! I did all this myself, I'm not a "professional" nor do I play one on TV... but I've been around the block a lot and can do damn near anything in home construction. Three way switches still throw me for a loop without drawing them out first!

The copper is 14ga for everything but the ground, which is 12ga - as its what I had available.

These crimp on copper connections (Nibco) are amazing and make plumbing work a BREEZE. Every prior copper project, I soldered. My buddy told me he had a Milwaukee crimp tool, so I grabbed that sucker with a quickness and WOW does it make copper simple.

btw thats one expensive tool

 

[Intel]

Yeah i was going to say, I saw the no sweat fittings and was jealous as I had to sweat in about 20 connections to do our Kitchen move and it was a huge pain in the ass. Wish they would let us use Pex. I got way better at it as I went but there is an art to it.. (like drywall) that sometimes eludes me.

 

[Stink Star]

Had 3 days off in a row so I got a lot of stuff done around the house lately.
I built a screen door for the baby’s room so we can leave her real door open at night and not have to worry about our cats jumping into her crib and smothering her or something. I’m only about 50% done with it right now as it needs paint but that’s the wife’s job so we will see how long that takes.
no pics yet but I’m proud of how nice it turned out for a 2 hour in the workshop project.

next was my goddamn gazebo. I actually started it last Sunday but that was just the easy parts, this weekend i built the roof and such. Pain in the ass is an understatement but it came out great and the fit and finish is very good for a kit. No problems whatsoever with the assembly. Looks great and I’m excited about being in the shade and not needing to take down the canopy before winter

 

[Stink Star]

Oh I also finally moved my thermostat to a non-stupid place in my house. When I moved in like 4 1/2 years ago the thermostat was in this stupid little hallway going to our guest bathroom away from everything. It also was just a basic builder grade 4 wire setup and I run a nest (was an original preorder customer like 8 years ago) so I should have a common wire. I bought some thermostat wire (which is wayyyy more expensive than you’d think) and relocated my thermostat to a good spot in the main living area. It’s still out of the sun and and weird airflow, but now since it isn’t in a stupid hallway it actually picks up the motion properly and has a common wire circuit so I won’t fry the board in my furnace.

 

[FESTER665]

pex is easier, cheaper and faster.

Copper is still superior IMO

Thought pex was more money but you made that up in time savings running the lines, using less fittings, etc.

Id run pex in a heartbeat if it was allowed here.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Wife wanted a colored mood light for the kids room that we could change from our phones. Before she spent any money I had a crack at making it with the spare parts on have.

Proof of concept done. Pi zero controlling an RGB light accessible from a webpage interface to change colors and turn on/off.

Now just to decide what kind of case and if I want to go with nice controllable LED strips or keep it simple with LED lights. Also gotta spice up that webpage a bit lol

 

[Aircal]

Wife been complaining, so I made a little something last week. Neighbor gave me a 12 pack of Goose Island sampler for doing it.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Finally got around to customizing my garage door opener webpage. Added the garage camera live view directly into the open/close page. It's so nice being able to see the garage before opening/closing without another app

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

man that picture makes it look all off centered

 

[Shawn1112]

Finally got around to customizing my garage door opener webpage. Added the garage camera live view directly into the open/close page. It's so nice being able to see the garage before opening/closing without another app

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Wish I had your skills to do shit like that. You buy a bigger car its not going to fit in that garage lol.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Wish I had your skills to do shit like that. You buy a bigger car its not going to fit in that garage lol.

the kids need to get rid of some shit takes up at least a half of the garage

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

but yeah, it is a mess right now

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

nah, I need a shed. its a shed/garage/tool/lumber/kids toy room. just out of room. 95% of the stuff in there is used regularly depending on the season/project.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

If I got the tractor, mower and all the misc gardening/yard work crap in a shed, I would have way more room

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[Yaj Yak]

that pic is giving me anxiety.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

that pic is giving me anxiety.

me too it looks way worse from that angle.

I have to many skills, projects and hobbies Been knocking them out lately which is good.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

every time I clean the garage, it gets destroyed in a week from the kids and their crap

 

[Yaj Yak]

im of course just giving you shit.

menards component shelving is KEY for my garage/shed being in somewhat order currently.

https://www.menards.com/main/storage-organization/shelves-shelving-units/steel-component-shelving/xtreme-garage-reg-heavy-duty-steel-end-frame/891772/p-1451391644214-c-9540.htm

being able to buy individual pieces is awesome. and it's durable as fuck.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

im of course just giving you shit.

menards component shelving is KEY for my garage/shed being in somewhat order currently.

https://www.menards.com/main/storage-organization/shelves-shelving-units/steel-component-shelving/xtreme-garage-reg-heavy-duty-steel-end-frame/891772/p-1451391644214-c-9540.htm

being able to buy individual pieces is awesome. and it's durable as fuck.

I have awesome shelving. you just cant see it because the camera is more focused on the door

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

also that picture is low-res as fuck because its just for the webpage

 

[Yaj Yak]

i need to stop looking at the pic

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

i need to stop looking at the pic

When I look at it on my camera system it aint so bad. looks way worse in that picture because of the shitty resolution