what did you do around the house today?

[ipeefreely]

Originally posted by blairtruck
racked so many damn leaves

x2

It was my second time on Saturday and since then a lot more have fallen and there is still a bunch on the tree!

Why can't they all fall at once!

[speedog]

Originally posted by blairtruck
racked so many damn leaves

Why wouldn't you be raking them as opposed to racking them?

[Sugarphreak]

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[speedog]

Whut u say?

[Sugarphreak]

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[roopi]

Originally posted by supe
My project this passed weekend:

What material is the countertop? Did you cut it yourself?

[blairtruck]

Originally posted by speedog

Why wouldn't you be raking them as opposed to racking them?

siri says sorry. she will try harder next time just for you.

[AndyL]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Finally got around to picking up a rack to get the tires off the floor and out of the way:

This one is from PA for 69$, sure looks and feels more sturdy than either of the (much more expensive) ones from CT.

Pssst for those hunting... I just got the KMS flyer...
http://www.kmstools.com/magnum-wall-...age-rack-19408

No clue on how sturdy - look closer to the crappy tire ones, but at a better price...

[msommers]

Originally posted by supe
My project this passed weekend:

Which sink and faucet is that? Did you cut the counter yourself?

[supe]

Originally posted by msommers


Which sink and faucet is that? Did you cut the counter yourself?

The sink and faucet are from Rona, the faucet is made by uberhaus. And yes I cut the counter top with a jig saw.

[BigDL]

Nice work, that sink looks great in that spot.

[msommers]

Originally posted by supe


The sink and faucet are from Rona, the faucet is made by uberhaus. And yes I cut the counter top with a jig saw.

Can you do me a huge favour, and measure from the center of the faucet to the center of the drain? Rona has a vessel version that might work but I'm out of town at the moment to go check at the store.

[Ntense_SpecV]

For the past 2 weekends I've been working on my basement mechanical room. I've been having a ton of wireless network issues from my router not working upstairs (range issues) so I decided it was time to buy a new router and install it. The problem was that I also wanted to move around a bunch of componets and also clean up the wiring from all the past installs (House alarm, shaw cable phone and modem, shaw coax active booster, home theater equipment..etc.)

I apologize for the pictures from my phone but that's what you guys get. LOL.


So last weekend I ended up removing the existing "whole home" network box and remounted just the telephone port, along with the phone and battery module. I also had to remove and remount the alarm box as it was literally hanging off the side of the existing backboard as well as the clean up the massive amount of cable from the alarm contacts and keypad points. I never took a proper before photo but this is the first one I took which should give a decent context to what I was working with. It was much neater before I started moving things around as this was a "during" photo, but still it could have been done properly from the beginning.


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Fastforward to this weekend as I ran out of time last weekend (I only spent around 5 hours in the 2 days and that also included 2 trips to Homedepot). I had a full day to work on it this past Saturday...I started around 11am and finished putting the tools away just after 4pm. Not bad for the time spent. It's sooo much cleaner now and you can troubleshoot wiring and components as you can now see everything.


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I did a speed test and before with the old router I was only getting about 5mb/sec download and I was having problems with it randomly disconnecting and dropping out from both my laptop and the tablets, to now and got 34mb/sec wireless and a full 50mb/sec being hardwired from my laptop 3 floors up! I was really suprised how much bigger the router is from the old Linksys to the Netgear AC1900, but I hope that this satisfies my needs for everyone now and for the foreseeable future.

[AndyL]

Stressful work environment today - at not my house obviously... Had to not leave drool marks...

And not drop a tool for the love of god

[mr2mike]

Dude you're crazy. You gotta throw a blanket over the car. So risky not to.

[AndyL]

Originally posted by mr2mike
Dude you're crazy. You gotta throw a blanket over the car. So risky not to.

Um... Yeah I don't like paying for buffing scratches out either - this is where tool leashes and not rushing comes into play

[Sugarphreak]

I think that guy is doing it backwards... first you insulate the garage, then you buy the Ferrari!

[AndyL]

LOL... When I own more than a pair of Italian ladies, I'll feel better about giving him advice on priorities

[Cooked Rice]

Installed this

[mr2mike]

Just finishing up swapping out my 'razor only' plug in the bathroom to a GFI and installing a bathroom fan. Then scrape, skim coat the ceiling and lay down some $50/can special Killz stuff to stop mold.

House is 1950's so it only had a window, no fan. So far so good no real large headaches. Except I could do without the blown insulation. Stuff gets everywhere.