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Decided it was time for these boys to stretch out the distance. I haven't got the range finder out yet, but it looks like 100 yards to me up to the deck. We'll be sending some down range after lunch.
Just a dirt back stop for now. Gonna need to get some AR plates an an old swingset or something. It'll catch bullets.
I'll go get some clover seeds at some point this weekend.
Just a dirt back stop for now. Gonna need to get some AR plates an an old swingset or something. It'll catch bullets.
I'll go get some clover seeds at some point this weekend.
Buckmaster
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Buckmaster
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Today’s land clearing efforts....still trying to clean up the aftermath of last weekend’s 7 tree take down. My buddy will be here shortly to create another mess. I expect 9-12 trees to fall this weekend.
Got the bulk of Mom's deck done. My brother and I. Two days. Dug holes. Cemented. Framed and level. Ran joists 12" on center. Built out a landing/step. Put down the deck boards. Just need some trim pieces, railing, and decide on what to do along the bottom edge of exposed lumber.
Approximately 12x20. Or maybe 11'6" on one end and 12'3" on the other and 19'4 to 20'8'" in length. Like I said, me and my brother built it.
Approximately 12x20. Or maybe 11'6" on one end and 12'3" on the other and 19'4 to 20'8'" in length. Like I said, me and my brother built it.
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Painted the bedroom tonight. Painting isn't so bad. It is taking the base boards off that the contractor hacked up when they installed them that sucks. If there was a gap, they just put caulk over it. Walls are painted. Now tomorrow I'll start cleaning up the trim work and properly reinstall after painting.
Even the trim isn't the bad part. The bad part of doing something like this with your wife are all the ideas she has while you are painting. "What do you think of this carpet?" Umm. . .Carpet downstairs is a lot worse. Let's just clean it. "Yeah. We should do the carpet downstairs and put laminate up here." Noooooo! That isn't what I said. "Well, if we do the flooring in the bedroom, we should do the hallway too." Oh great. Now I can fix all those effed up baseboards too. While I'm at it, I guess I'll fix the uneven sub floor the contractor said "You won't notice that once the carpet is down."
So the painting ends up being: Paint, repair baseboards, flooring (which will include repairing sub floor), flooring in the hallway, flooring in the living room, and suddenly we need a new bedroom suit? Think I will push her off for another 6 months. I delayed the painting for about 3 years. I got this. lol
Even the trim isn't the bad part. The bad part of doing something like this with your wife are all the ideas she has while you are painting. "What do you think of this carpet?" Umm. . .Carpet downstairs is a lot worse. Let's just clean it. "Yeah. We should do the carpet downstairs and put laminate up here." Noooooo! That isn't what I said. "Well, if we do the flooring in the bedroom, we should do the hallway too." Oh great. Now I can fix all those effed up baseboards too. While I'm at it, I guess I'll fix the uneven sub floor the contractor said "You won't notice that once the carpet is down."
So the painting ends up being: Paint, repair baseboards, flooring (which will include repairing sub floor), flooring in the hallway, flooring in the living room, and suddenly we need a new bedroom suit? Think I will push her off for another 6 months. I delayed the painting for about 3 years. I got this. lol
Just sell the house and buy a new one..... Wait, she’ll want too change that too... Disregard
Just sell the house and buy a new one..... Wait, she’ll want too change that too... Disregard
I like it better when the wife and i have 5min to talk. Several hours spent together painting afforded her the opportunity to share all her ideas. . . Ideas I can't afford.
So to update. . . Trim is painted. She doesn't like the color. No biggie. She sanded it. She painted it. I suggested the color I used in the bathroom. (I picked colors for our bathroom and she trusted my choices. She even liked them.) Ironically, we may end up painting them back white again. She didn't like her color choice. She was semi warm on my suggestion. And now she is back to original color. 
I definitely won this round. (As he puffs out his chest.) So tomorrow we are picking up flooring. (As chest completely deflates, head down, shoulders slumped.) BUT: we aren't moving anytime soon. Why not spend the $800-1000 and enjoy your domain? Why wait until you sell? Why not put it on the Lowe's card with no interest? After all, she said she'd pay for it.
Truth be told, my wife is low maintenance. We rarely disagree on home improvement decisions. She isn't real demanding in this department and I cannot complain. We've had the same carpet in this room 15yrs. She would have been okay with having it professionally cleaned.
Sounds like a nice compromise, well done Phil. Look forward to seeing the new floor.
Told you we need to repair sub flooring. More like floor joists. Sub floor was sub par..we have one really low floor joist. One a bit high. I'll get those two fixed. Sister joist the low one and plane down the high one. Then reassess. It's our off 1/2" in a 4' run. Looks like a washboard from the side. We only have 2 sheets to pull up tomorrow and I can get to leveling.
One cool find: Aug 1948 newspaper under some of the insulation. Knowing the people who built this house and how they paid for it one pay check at a time makes this "super great!" Had to add in the "super great" as this was Mrs Klopp's reply every time you asked how she was doing. Such a delight to see her. She'd be happy to see us keeping the place up and repairing things as needed. She got a tour after we added on. Was in her late 80's at the time.
Looks like a washboard from the side. We only have 2 sheets to pull up tomorrow and I can get to leveling.One cool find: Aug 1948 newspaper under some of the insulation. Knowing the people who built this house and how they paid for it one pay check at a time makes this "super great!" Had to add in the "super great" as this was Mrs Klopp's reply every time you asked how she was doing. Such a delight to see her. She'd be happy to see us keeping the place up and repairing things as needed. She got a tour after we added on. Was in her late 80's at the time.
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Looks like some varmit trails through the insulation. I was working (phone company) at a house that was built in the 1700’s and I was asking the owner how he got electric, plumbing etc. run inside and he told me he tore down the inside walls and ran everything new. He also said they had used straw for the original insulation and there were all kinds of tunnels in there from rats.Told you we need to repair sub flooring. More like floor joists. Sub floor was sub par..we have one really low floor joist. One a bit high. I'll get those two fixed. Sister joist the low one and plane down the high one. Then reassess. It's our off 1/2" in a 4' run.
One cool find: Aug 1948 newspaper under some of the insulation. Knowing the people who built this house and how they paid for it one pay check at a time makes this "super great!" Had to add in the "super great" as this was Mrs Klopp's reply every time you asked how she was doing. Such a delight to see her. She'd be happy to see us keeping the place up and repairing things as needed. She got a tour after we added on. Was in her late 80's at the time.
Good eye. I hadn't noticed while working on it. I'll look again tomorrow. We did have cords drug across it several times and the flooring we are pulling up isn't the original. Contractors that put it down 14-15yrs ago had it all pulled up before they hacked this back in place. Hadn't noticed hearing anything or finding any droppings. Could be from decades ago.
Installed a new Chamberlain belt drive garage door opener with remote keypad and the myQ app that let's you open it from anywhere. Pretty smooth swap overall and very pleased with how quite the opener is. I need some lube on the door parts to stop the squealing, but it's a big improvement over our 30+ year old Genie chain drive.
With all the rain the last 4-6wks, I moved the dual/backup pump with alarm to the top of the list of open items to tackle. Standard Watchdog system from Lowes, straight forward install in about 45mins-1hr. The builder pump was a 1/4hp, the new one is 1/3hp and I added a 3.75" spacer below to raise the static water line and to get the pump out of the bottom of the crock, which has some sand in it.
Overall the cycle time has gone from 1:45 to 5:25 with this setup. No more lowering the country mile water table and a much faster evacuation of water from the sump.
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Just need to get the extra battery box out of storage and find a small shelving unit for the battery and the emergency tools should they be needed.
Blind light +10lb fishing line make a great emergency sump light too in case lights go out:
Overall the cycle time has gone from 1:45 to 5:25 with this setup. No more lowering the country mile water table and a much faster evacuation of water from the sump.
Before:
After:
Just need to get the extra battery box out of storage and find a small shelving unit for the battery and the emergency tools should they be needed.
Blind light +10lb fishing line make a great emergency sump light too in case lights go out:
Looking good! I have found that I cannot tweak them as good as a quality door service guy, especially with torsion spring(s).
I just installed a Liftmaster 8500w opener today, will provide some info tonight once I get some 30,000lumen high bays up in the garage to scare away the shadows.
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You guys rock! I love being able to do stuff myself, it drove my dad nuts to pay someone to do something that he or we could do. I have worked hard to pass that on to my boys.
Building the house makes me miss him more than usual.
Building the house makes me miss him more than usual.
Sad, but also a good thing Clay. He lives on forever in that drive.