Home Improvement Today?

1. Bend your legs, getting your buttocks close tho the ground.
2. Imagine you are picking up a looney off the ground using only your anus.
3. Keep your back straight.
4. Set your heels.
5. Lift with your legs.
6. Vomit.

 

...wait, ...what is it you're building again, ...a bridge???

..you're going to need a team of oxen to drag it!

 

Yeah , I tried that , no chance . I figure they are 700-800 lbs each

The 2 sawhorses in that pic were bowing under the weight so I ended up putting 2 more sawhorses in there

 

I'm going to use a crane truck for the assembly at the build site , he'll run them out

 

I've been working with it like it had the shorter open time of the glues. Lol.

 

tossing an idea around,

plan to replace my old thermostat, haven't decided on if i want to go fancy (nest) or a little less, but either way i dont have a common wire to pass power to the new thermostat. thinking of future proofing, currently i don't have AC but would like to add it one day, don't want to have to run another wire then.

currently using 2 wires
know i need additional;
need 1 for common
1 for ac (?)

so maybe 18/5 ?

 

18/5 would do it

R - 24v
C- common
W - heating
Y - cooling
G - fan

 

If you're future proofing instead of running more wire, have you looked at something that is wireless (Bluetooth)? I don't know if anything like that exists.

 

Added drawers to finish my work bench. I am by no means a carpenter or cabinet maker but my drawers serve their inteded purpose

 

Looks great

 

Thank you! I know the reveals are off on the faces but that is something I can live with .

 

I would run 18/8 just in case you may want to add other stuff heat pump,geo thermal etc:

 

Replaced a garage door torsion spring today. First time doing it. Took 2.5 hours, not counting the time at the store buying springs. Thank you, Menards, for carrying them. Thank you, YouTube, for being a thing. I know everything about my garage door now, because I made every possible mistake during the process.

 

At least you didn't kill yourself doing it

 

At one point, as I was trying to deal with the cable that had jumped its pulley, I was like "I should move my head out from between the door and the wall, in case it decides it wants to spontaneously close and kill me".

 

Doesn't a heat pump replace the furnace I have, so wouldn't need a wire for it. And what's Geo thermal

 

Those things are a super sized rat trap

 

You're not going to do geothermal haha

 

Have some wiring for fire places, it's similar shielding, but 22/3. Think I could use it? Or is 18 really needed. Not like it's passing a lot of voltage

 

Did mine last year with my dad's help. Went pretty smoothly following the YouTube video I found. Wouldn't hesitate to do it again.