Home Improvement Today?

That is the trend right now with life balance and work and this is in the Lake Wylie area.....

 

And here I keep day dreaming about buying acreage or lake front property with more elbow room between the houses.

 

I have zero desire to ever live in a place like that after growing up in one. So I bought a place with no HOA, half acre lots, and no screaming kids nearby.

 

Finishing up my Wood Fired Pizza Oven 'hut'

 

Nicely done!

 

ahh ok makes sense but screw that lol

 

Almost done our soffits . All the flat work is done now , just have the shorts up the gable ends to install

material is 1x6 V4E tight knot red cedar tongue and groove

 

Beautiful!

 

Thanks - it's the wife's work, I just hold the pieces up for her per her design and wishes.
Going to finish up some doors on the bottom to hold 'stuff'... there is a second-half of this
project ( not shown ) to the right, where we'll have a sink and 3-burner gas-thing... and
drawers and doors etc...

Outdoor living... say YES to the outdoors 'eh ...

 

coming out awesome man

 

Found a guy on FB selling entire 250' rolls of 14-2 Romex for $80/roll. About $40 cheaper then Lowes around here. Guess Ill be spending a portion of the weekend in the attic again.

 

When I was working on my patio, I drew everything up in AutoCAD to show my wife. She couldn't have cared less and told me to do whatever I wanted.

 

thats a good deal

 

It should cover all of my upcoming projects too. Got tired of paying over a $1.00/ft by buying the small 25 ft packs.

 

If you see any more let me know. It would be a deal even after paying shipping for me too

 

Your patio scene looks to die for. There's a lot of good stuff in this thread I look forward to watching it.

My wife is an ex-jet-aircraft mechanic, she does electrical, plumbing, wood working, etc and can run circles around most people
in these fields. She holds 3 ( or is it 4..? ) Master's degrees in various disciplines and has a high-end position at a major
University. She talked me into the Tacoma because she wanted an easier way to haul lumber and the Kayaks... LOL... should
have listened to her last year I woulda got a better deal LOL...

It's kinda in reverse at my house - the wife designs all the 'builds' and I just say sure honey yea let's do it because I know in
the end it will turn out great. The place we left 5 years ago we had just finished up a 12x32 foot deck and installation of
bamboo hardwood floors...

 

My patio is incredibly simple - just 4x4s, 5/4 deck boards and 2x6s but it made the patio 15 degrees cooler because there was no shade.

That is awesome, man. Nothing wrong with having a handy wife.

I have an Associate's Degree and my wife has her Doctorate and earns about triple what I do. She says she keeps me around because she doesn't know how to run or fix anything in the house.

 

Propane fireplace. Actually by some miracle, it works and looks pretty good. Does not consume copious quantities but we have a nice NEW full house HVAC, so only use it for special occasions.

Here are my question details: Externally only a simple switch (generic light switch in a double gang box) - for ON/OFF via millivolt copper wire. I wish to add a millivolt T-stat. Done this before at two other houses (NG) - easy. But here is the hassle. The double box. Next to the ON/OFF switch is the switch for lighting over the fireplace.

Q: How to put a low cost millivolt T-stat in one half of a double box?

 

either a 3 gang box or add an addl single gang box

 

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Probably my question wasn't clear. Not sure why I would add another box.

The t-stats are usually surface mount with just a hole in the drywall for the low voltage wire.

Now I could - and maybe will - keep the "manual" switch and just mount the T stat above the switch plate and run the wire up there and back. That would give us a hard positive OFF.

I was mainly asking if I could mount the T-stat NEXT to the existing light switch - not sure I have seen such a thing. (???)