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Nice. Thanks for justifying my tendency to hoard oddball cutoffs.

Now it looks like your cousin Japanese Stig spent days with a razor blade perfecting the timber joinery.

 

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Anybody have a good tutorial on the basics of wiring?

 

i have this, few years old but very good

$21 Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, Updated 7th Edition: Current with 2017-2020 Electrical Codes (Volume 7) (Black & Decker Complete Guide, 7)

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker...sprefix=black+and+decker+basuc,aps,170&sr=8-3

 

What do you plan on using for caulking? If you want bullet-proof never worry about it again for 20 years look at Sika Pro. It's worth the extra $2 bucks a tube. lol

 

Check your local library too! IMO reference books are great for electric stuff because anyone can have an opinion online but an editor and publisher of an actual book want to get it right so they don't get sued when somebody electrocutes themselves

 

I'm still plugging away at it, averaging 1 post per night after work. I c-clamped a block to locate the post at the correct height and one more to clamp the post to the rim joist, then one handed drilled the holes for the carriage bolts. Nothing like using one hand to pull yourself into the ladder and the other to drill the holes.

 

I went through this a couple of months ago. I bought multiple color samples (Wythe blue, Palladian blue, Stratton blue, ect) and tried each one on the front door. The small sample cans from Benjamin Moore are enough for an entire front door, but it's flat paint. They were all too teal or too green imo. I was looking for something in between Wythe blue and Stratton blue, but with less mint, teal or green and slightly more blue.
I ended up sanding the whole front door down and going back to the original tan body color of the house.

If you keep the white or a neutral color a door wreath will pop and stand out more. If you decide to pick a contrasting color I would pick something with a similar hue as the body of the house, but slightly darker.

Although, black is my favorite color and it would hide fingerprints and footprints very well.

 

I used Dynaflex 230. I've had good luck with it. Anything is better than the bathtub silicone they used

 

My summer project, just finished. Heated ceramic tile floors!

 

My other summer project.

 

Looks beautiful, nice job

 

thanks.

 

More to come next week.

 

Before and After

 

Before and After

 

I see where both in the death to soffits in a kitchen camp. lol

 

First let me say I WILL CALL BEFORE I DIG.

TL;DR I want to take out the lilac and replace it with a small evergreen.

Also I really wanted to wait until Friday to make this post so it can be the dumbest thing you'd read all day, but here we are.

Ok with that out of the way, we have this sickly lilac bush that has to go. It's very near to a pad mounted transformer. I know the lines exit the transformer right under the bush, it's been marked recently for a fiber install.

I'd like to replace the bush with a small evergreen, like 3-5 gallon size. Something that can grow over time. I'm not talking about putting in a swimming pool.

There has to be a way to dig and replant safely. Will the power co tell me how deep the lines are? Can I have it daylighted? Can I daylight it myself with a pressure washer and a shop vac? (There it is the dumbest thing you'll read) I mean a person has to be able to dig there, otherwise how'd the lilac get there in the first place?

I need a creative solution. Or to be called an idiot. Either is fine.

 

Id loosen it by shovel around base/edge of grass then tie off a good sized section with slipknot and try to pull it out. If that doesnt work, loosen soil in middle in X pattern and try again. Doesnt look like a big plant