Home Improvement Today?

So… what did they say about it? Are they going to make it right?

 

Yep. They are shipping out a conversion kit and refunding the extra "factory installed" charge.

 

This deck just keeps fighting me.


It wasn't like this when I finished up last night. I found it when I went outside to start cutting some treads after work.
I'm done cutting stringers and I honestly think that I will need to re-address these in the future, so I just opted to make a "doubler" of sorts and liquid nails into the seam of the crack and some 2 1/2" sdws to hold it together.



As a bonus, I hit multiple soft spots in the cracked stringer when trying to screw it back together.

 

You'll probably be ok strengthwise.

what is the width? 4 across, should be plenty strong.

The broke off piece was not bearing too much of the load.

 

I would say it looks like Menards lumber but you're in Maryland. Besides, Menards lumber is usually just curled, bent and twisted. Once you dig through half the stack you might find a few that are straight.

 

Pulling ballasts on a few older fixtures and rewiring for led, in the garage.
Converted all the basement fixtures to led a few years back.

I've installed Kasa wi-fi switches throughout the majority of the house.
There's 2 single pole switches leftover that I want to run in the garage for those newly swapped led's.
I love those switches but they enable laziness.

 

Lowes and home depot too

 

Yeah if was making stairs based on their lumber I would go steel or concrete.

 

Picking through a pile of lumber to get the "best" boards, and best is very relative here, is as old of a practice as framing itself is. lol

 

The broked piece is just along for the ride, kinda like your sexy gf bf.

Thinking on this I may have gone 3/4" PT plywood as the strength patch going up the riser a bit in the middle, then your cut piece. Making a 3 way sammich

 

I tried LEDs in my garage but the heat just ate them up. Hardly any lifespan. I switched back to t8 florescent. Hope you have better luck than I did.

 

I haven't noticed any issues with the basement leds. I have 5 - 4 lamp fixtures all strung together down there.
I only have 2 lamps in ea. instead of 4.
These are too yellow for my liking.

 

Yeah everywhere else for me the LEDs of various kinds have worked out great, but the garage is unconditioned so it gets HOT up by the ceiling. That heat just eats them alive. It was a few years ago since I tried them, maybe they're better now but I had to switch back.

 

it really depends on the quality of the lights. even if you're doing direct-wire bulbs. there's cheap and there's good. main problem with the direct-wire bulbs is many use a glass tube with the strip epoxied to one side, but the glass doesn't allow the led strips to dissipate heat as much as they normally would.

i run lithonia strip lights, wired to a relay off my garage door light, so they come on anytime the opener light kicks on. never had any problems with any of them in the past 5 years in my un-vented hotbox of a garage, even when the opener does the 'object across sensor' flashing sequence. for a while, i was getting them on sale for $70/ea...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lithoni...-4000K-MNSL-L96-2LL-MVOLT-40K-80CRI/300263606

 

Thankfully in WI, it really only gets warm up there a couple months of the year. Something to keep an eye on, though. Thanks for the heads up.
The garage is fully insulated and finished walls as of recently. Next step is a more permanent heating/cooling solution, like a split wall unit hotel rooms have.

 

my lumber supplier only buys primo lumber . I got my fir deck framing material delivered and the entire lift of 16' Fir 2x10 was Select Structural and the full lift of my 14's was 2 & Better J-Grade

 

36" overall width. I'm using the 5/4 deck boards, so I needed the 4th stringer to give proper support. I did my deck with the 5/4 boards, joists on 16" centers and I don't like the spring that I feel when I walk across the deck. I would have did 12" centers on the joists had I known the 5/4 boards would have felt the way that they do.

The stringer 2x12 x12's came from 84 Lumber and it took some digging through the pile to get the ones that I used, the box stores had such garbage that I wouldn't have used their junk for concrete forms. There are a few commercial supplier lumber yards, they only operate M-F 7 to 4pm. I simply can't get there to buy better quality lumber. The box stores actually tell people that they can't dig through the piles, its nuts.

Can you mail me a few of those 2x10's? Maybe we can arrange a Tacoma express delivery!

Making some lemon aid today...

 

Hah, most of the lumber I used in converting my carport into a garage came from Lowe's. It was definitely a struggle putting stuff together some times. The 2x10's I need to sister some floor joist in the basement are definitely coming from a local place. I don't feel like fighting crooked lumber gluing and screwing floor joist