Got the bikes up and deck stairs on
Got the bikes up and deck stairs on
My Cousin and I installed a bio flame fireplace in the basement
“Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.”
Its sort of shocking how similar your theatre room looks to mine!
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“Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.”
Finally got around to staining and varnishing a bunch of trim and baseboard for the basement and master.
Dump run, had to pull wet stuff out of the house because of the June 28 storm that saw our yard get 10cm of rain in about 2.5 hours. The rain water was flowing into our yard from the alley as well and we ended up with the water being 4-5 inches deep against the side of the house and a couple of basement windows. 311 report into the city already to have them regrade the alley so as to have storm water drain down the alley instead of into our yard. Multiple homes on our block had seepage/flooding as well although worse than ours, neighbor directly south of us had to pull up their laminate floors in their basement, the water was coming in faster than they could suck it up with a couple of wet/dry vacs.
Will fuck off, again.
One of the piles for my deck/patio sunk over the winter with the frost heave (but the other 5 didn't????) and dropped one corner of my deck just under 2 inches. I took the car jack to the underside and replaced the post with one that was 1-7/8" longer and leveled that bitch out. It was wayyyyy easier than I thought it would be, but don't tell my wife that because I've been putting it off for a couple of months.
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Re-doing all my fencing. Some nasty stumps from those fucker tree's that grow under ground an sprout everywhere. one was right where a post needs to go, got that fucker out.. after about 1.5hrs of struggling. dug it up, hacked the roots with the axe, put lag bolts in and pulled it out with my motor hoist haha... one more to go.
Also doing a deck, do i have to do concrete piles if it's a floating deck? someone was telling me i could just use those deck support blocks? its about 16'x20' 2x8 joists and 2x8 beams composite decking.. Can i just put patio blocks down with those deck blocks on them? I hate concrete piles....
Depends on height of the deck, which will dictate permit requirements. If it's under 2 feet, and not attached to the house, i'd do deck support blocks. I only did piles because i was using the ledger on the house, as well as didnt trust the compaction for deck blocks with the bozo house buildersThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Redoing the bottom cabinets... replacing old doors with drawers. Kitchen was ikea originally, thought “hey! This should be pretty straightforward... just buy the bits for this width of cabinet!”
NOPE! IKEA changed EVERYTHING from this gen of kitchen till current. “30” tall” use to mean a hair over 30”, now its a hair under. “13” corner cabinet” doors are now over 13”, while they use to be 12”... that was fun. Love when an ikea build also includes a table saw, hole saw, and chisel
Also have to redo the P-trap and it’s about 1/2” too low for the shallow 17 3/4” drawer under the sink... plumbing also runs through the two bays beside the sink so thought “no problem! Just swap these 24” deep drawers for the 17 3/4” ones!” Nope! They don’t come narrower than 24”... so building a hybrid of a 24” x 17 3/4” and 15” x 24”... rails and track from the 24”, bottom and back from the 15” with a run though the table saw to make it 17 3/4” deep
And to top it all off... the cabinet hole patterns and not even remotely similar, so I will be drilling new mounting holes for all of the tracks. Current style is a double row out front, then two single rows at middle and back... old style is two single rows, and even the spacing between rows is different
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I would never build a deck on those deck blocks personally. They move around so much I wouldn't trust them to not heave and sink till the end of time.
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I used deck blocks for a very low deck, turned out fine. Stayed stable for years. I waited three years though before building it.
Hopefully you’re changing the top too?
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The top is a whole other bunch of issues... ikea has changed the depth of their boxes so the current corner cabinets use a 15” door (so 14” and change width) while this one is around 16 1/2”, so would have to cut down an 18” door... they also don’t make 24” tall doors anymore... I have 4 24” tall doors. I’m thinking I will put a built in microwave in the new full height cabinet, and delete one of the 24” tall bays by doing a full height range hood. Which of course means extending the backsplash to the ceiling too... then the bay above the fridge either cut down 30” tall doors, leaving the cut edge at the ceiling, or do floating shelves... the 30” doors they do sell are too tall and would hit the fridge.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But since that does nothing for the functionality of the kitchen, and since two tone kitchens are a “thing” right now so it doesn’t bother the GF... that’s not high on my priority list at the moment
I will be updating all the pulls though to help tie everything together
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Put on the new bug / stone deflector on the truck.
Boosted life tip #329
Girlfriends cost money
Turbos cost money
Both make whining noises
Make the smart choice.
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Always a fucking awful experience seeing spikers. Extra awful when he laps me.
Finally got around to putting up Cameras. Did one for the backyard this afternoon. ended up using an existing pathway into my house where I used a PoE injector and a Powerline network kit to get it to my server downstairs.
- Installed 1km of wire for an electric dog fence. 9 acres total. Training is going well. Assholes can't run away now. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- Dump run, felt good to get rid of crap.
- RoundUp weed sprayed everything.
- Treated the water softener with IronOut to clean the resin.
- Had the septic tank pumped. Added treatment to the septic tank, more bio.