Home Improvement Today?

we all have known this for some time

 

I'm almost there and I can taste it!! Added in the "triangles" to finish off the walls.



Built the wife and my workbenches.



Realized I didn't measure well and had wasted space, so added a couple drawers.



Ran the gas line a few weeks ago, and finished installing both heaters. One up front by the overhead door, and the other is in the shop. I wanted redundancy, and also zone heating. I'm putting up a canvas "wall" around the shop, so that one will heat it up quick.

 

Hey Pecker , you done all your workshop lighting ?

cause

http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?cat=1,43349&p=76395&WT.mc_id=2816_3&WT.tsrc=Email

 

Yeah I just saw that. I'm done. Those lamps are very similar in concept and spec to the ones I used over my bench, but cost twice as much. I got one pair of 4 footers and linked them flush (8 ft), and it cost $54.

 

I've been thinking about heat next. Maybe next year.

 

Meh, only took you two years to do the work bench, light and power strip.......

 

*2 weeks

The other array of six overhead lights was pretty much one weekend. In toddlerville, a weekend of project time means about 6 house of solid work time, maybe, if I can find late night quiet time to plan, take measurements, and sort out hardware so when noisy time comes, I can hammer through it.

Of the six overhead I installed, one failed after about a month. I pulled it down to ship it back for a replacement, and that took a while before I could even get the new one up. Right after that, another failed. Unreal. At least that one wasn't above and behind the trailer and a mountain of crap. They send another one. That arrived bent in fucking half because of their shit packaging. Finally got another one just last week. Fuck Sunco, fyi. This is how all my stuff has been going. And these are just the elective projects. Don't even get me started on the insulation, irrigation, and 4 ton HVAC replacement and battling the home warranty company from mid November to February. Fighting battles on all fronts. Fun daddy stuff always comes dead last.

 

At least you're not bitter.

 

Fuck you, asshole.

 

*Clamato

 

Pussy.

 

The first time I ever heard that expression was when I was a little kid and my best friend's dad, who was an electrician and CPO in the USCG, used that one on his son.

 

The six shop lights are a different brand. The bench lights are a different brand and spec, no problem with those, so far.

 

It is 3.5 bays. The double bay was uninsulated attic above, and I had R30 put in there last fall. The other long 1.5 bay is below bedrooms. The biggest theives now are the steel garage doors, 4, which are not insulated and lack perimeter gaskets. I'd correct those 2 relatively inexpensive faults first.

 

Well do something