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Its a 45k Beacon Morris from Menards. Got it for 350 when it was on sale, and after some rebates I had laying around. Install I paid $1500 which is about half of every other quote I got. That included running a gas line (probably like 70ft), install of the unit itself, and venting. He didn't do any electrical, but that's easy enough. I just ran an extension cord to an outlet for the time being, and a simple $25 two wire thermostat.
Andrew, my garage is about 1200 Sq feet with about 12ft ceilings. It's a new house so everything is extremely well insulated. All the calculators I ran said anywhere from 45k - 75k depending on insulation, and again mine is very well insulated. On some garage forums people with similar setups to mine were saying 45k was perfect and anything larger was overkill. So I went with 45k. Plus I have it in my tucked back area because that's really where I care about heat the most, im not actually worried about heating the entire garage. I don't plan on keeping the garage at 70 all the time. More like keep it around 40 just to take the holy shit freezing edge off. And I can turn it up and have it 60 in there in 10 minutes if I wanted to when working on the car. I also heard complaints fom people with 75k units saying you end up with short blasts of a ton of hot air and they were much happier with the smaller units that put out a little slower more steady heat. I did my homework and chose this for a reason. It's also very quiet. Really happy with my choice thus far. Momin, no regulator. But I will check out the instructions to see if he was supposed to. |
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Awesome!!!
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Finally after three years of planning, delays, and redesigns, Im finally building my new deck.
Some Specs and Features: 400 Sq Ft of deck space Cumaru Hardwood deck boards Deck Drainage overjoist under boards The Deck will come off of our 3 season Porch and wrap around the house and step up to a large platform on the back side of the house. where eventually we will replace the window in our living room to make a door. Some pics of the plans and current progress: 3d Rendering Made by Bighammer Software https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...29&oe=57841CDF Plan View: https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...d6&oe=578C73BC Cumaru Deck boards on the left, Framing lumber from JL Schweiters Building supply (Awesome price and awesome straight pressure treated lumber) https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...dd&oe=5788A02B Holes Dug https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...22&oe=5784EA41 Currently have all of the cement curing for the piers. Ledger board is attached. I have a kids bday party this weekend then next week i will start doing all of the framework and get rippin. |
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My dad helped me build a laundry room setup, it's been bothering Emily ever since we moved in 2 years ago. I don't have any 'before' pics, but just imagine two machines on the floor with nothing else around them haha. It cost more than I initially expected, around $350 in total, but that's still relatively cheap compared to buying something similar at Menards.
This is after the first weekend of work. We first built the frame from 2x4s, and secured it to the walls and floor, I had to buy a glass/tile bit so we could drill through the tile and run screws to the plywood under. Then we put some nice birch plywood over the 2x4 frame. The side is 1/8" and the bottom is 3/4" to hold the weight of the washer and dryer. We didn't need to add a center support, which I really like because it opens it up a lot. Then I stained and varnished the plywood pieces to match the rest of the trim in our house, a reddish brown. http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da.../laundry_1.jpg This is after the second weekend of work. Glued and nailed the front trim pieces on (plus putty to cover the little finish nail holes), and then put the doors on. The top two shelves are for random stuff, and the bottom one is for brooms and the vacuum. http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da.../laundry_2.jpg http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da.../laundry_3.jpg A week later I got around to finishing the board for the top shelf, cut the clothing bar to length and installed it, installed door handles, and put in some magnets to hold the doors shut. Pretty happy with how it turned out. http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da.../laundry_4.jpg |
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Very nice, will you add drawers underneath the machines?
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Looks great!
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No drawers, just going to leave it open under there. We made it about 1" higher than the height of a normal laundry basket. Which worked out really well for the height of the machines, much more comfortable to get things in and out of now. And the bar was placed low enough that Emily could reach comfortably with a hanger, but high enough that my shirts won't drag on the machines. We did a ton on planning on all the measurements before we started. If the next owners are short, they're going to have to lower that bar haha. |
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Love the laundry room setup, that is some Pintrest shit right there! VERY nice work.
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Not really a project, but rather the end of one, and beginning of another...
I close on my new house next Thursday and got my current one under contract with a scheduled closing by 5/30! old: http://apps2.shoot2sell.net/gallery/...the-colony-tx/ new: http://apps2.shoot2sell.net/gallery/...dr-prosper-tx/ |
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Garage ceilings high enough for a lift?
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Nice upgrade! What happened to the grass in the front yard of the old place? Looks rough haha.
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Ahh nice on sprinkler system! That should really cover the bases. Fertilizer helps for sure, but once or twice a year is good enough in most cases. Water is crucial for sure, once it dies its needs to be replaced. Awesome you got full asking price and more!
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My living room and bedroom only have overhead fan assemblies as the switchable light source, and they use the small candelabra bases, and LEDs really suck in this size with any substantial light output. So I rewired our ceiling fan to the usual 'medium base' light bulb sockets instead of the mini candelabra ($3/socket at menards with pigtail), and plugged in these crazy bright LED A19 bulbs. They look decent in the fan, and have WAY more light output for the same wattage as my old LED candelabra lights. It's by far one of the best $15 investments (bulbs and sockets total) I've ever made in the house, plus I can reuse the candelabra lights elsewhere now. And the CRI is awesome compared to the cheapo LEDs I bought off amazon from china, our living room felt dreary with those daylight LED bulbs before, it's amazing how much difference the CRI makes. Any rate, I totally recommend the Phillips LED A19 bulbs on sale at Home Depot for $7 for 4pack. By far the cheapest LED bulbs I've seen and so far love the quality. (I have no stock in Home Depot, just trying to pass on a good deal to others). |
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I've almost completely converted my new house to either LED or CFL. Money savings, longer life, plus less heat generated! I've found some great deals on LED bulbs at Lowes too. Be careful when shopping Amazon; some deals are great, others are more expensive than the orange and blue big boxes.
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I finally got my third stall epoxy coated (2 base coats + 2 clear coats). Back when I bought all the materials I mixed all the gray buckets together so the color would match exactly. I also cleaned up the garage floor, finally fastened my workbench to the wall, hung a bunch of things up on the moveable hooks, etc. Garage feels a lot bigger now.
Sorry for the crappy exposure from my cell phone, but you get the idea. The only thing left to do is wait for a guy friend to come over to help lift the tool box onto the left side of the bench. http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/500/garage1.JPG http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/500/garage2.JPG Here it is with all the stuff put back in place at the front of the garage: http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/500/garage3.JPG All in preparation for this coming home yesterday: http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da...noblehome1.JPG |
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Looks good.
Re toolbox: Pull out all the drawers and you can lift it yourself. I just moved my large toolboxes this way a couple weeks ago. |
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Ooooh looks good! I'm hoping to do some garage work this winter.
Looks a lot cleaner than when I last saw it and that car is sooo sexy. |
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The past few weeks I've been busy with the garage and media room projects. They aren't quite done, but at least getting very close!
Garage floor coated with epoxy, walls painted, ceiling painted, and starting to get things hung/organized: http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...211_165652.jpg http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...211_165654.jpg http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...211_165656.jpg Sony 65" 4K HDR w/Sony soundbar + wireless sub (wireless rear speakers coming next): http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...210_161138.jpg http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...210_161046.jpg |
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Garage looks great!! I plan on doing a bit of a garage overhaul once the Lexus can move on it's own out of the garage.
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Thank you! I wish I would have gone a shade darker on the garage walls, but overall I am really happy with how it all turned out.
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Yeah I hear ya. What you could consider doing in the future, is adding a second color to the wall a few feet up. A little darker, and add some color, kind of a cool touch I think. It's what I would like to do to mine someday, but pretty low on my to-do list haha.
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That looks fantastic, not a bad idea at all.
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Looking good! Nice and clean!
I'm about done with the lower level bathroom so ill post that up shortly. Haven't done an update in a while. Still working on the wet bar too. Garage painting didn't get done this fall, so I plan to do that in the spring. I want to do a two tone color scheme similar to that pic above Brandon. I dont think ill epoxy the floors, would love it but not sure how long ill be in this house. |
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Nice work. I'm hoping to get the garage moved along this winter.
Want to access the storage area above it, purchased a pull down ladder a couple of months ago for it. Also purchased 10 - four foot LED lights from Costco. They were on sale for $20/set. |
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Nice Aaron! I'd love to somehow get access to the attic above our garage. I'm not really sure how that works since ours is so high, and it's not exactly built to walk around up there, and there's insulation blown everywhere.
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I have an access that I throw xmas and other stuff up there using a ladder. A pull down ladder would be nice though. I have to insulate it in the spring too. Brandon if you have insulation already up there, you could throw some plywood on top of it and make a storage area. I know your ceiling is super high though, might be tough.
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In prompt to project at our house. Wife left a clogged sink running for 20 minutes yesterday after noon. Was in our master bathroom on the main level. Made a huge mess, our bedrooms carpet was pretty wet. Then went downstairs to the room below and turned on the lights. Bulbs popped immediately. Light fixture was completely full of water, carpet was drenched below the fixture.
Had a water damage guy come this morning. Looks like our bathroom vanity is damaged. We need to either repair or replace it as it will be a haven for mold. The upstairs in general though he said is OK as long as we pull some of the carpet back and keep fans on it. Downstairs, he said same thing so we pulled back half the carpet and fans going (thanks again for the fans aye-aye-ron). Ceiling he said is probably fine as we drilled a bunch of holes to try and vent it, and have a fan blowing. So all in all not too bad I guess, but not exactly what we needed right now. I didn't take any pictures upstairs, but here's the room underneath. Here's the stack of soaking wet towels I used to initially soak up water on the floor. http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...1&d=1481652644 Here's what I vacuumed up after with the shop vac. And note the carpet was still very wet even after this. http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...1&d=1481652644 Here's what I dumped out of the light fixture. http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...1&d=1481652644 Aftermarket ventilation mod. I drilled a bunch of holes to see if water was pooled up anywhere else, as well as help ventilate up there. No water came out, so looks like it all pretty much pooled up in the fixture. http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...1&d=1481652644 here's kinda how the room looked last night. I setup 3 big fans in there later (2 pointed at carpet, one pointed straight up at ceiling / speed holes). http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...1&d=1481652644 |
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Well just got an update. The tech came out and setup industrial dehumidifiers. While doing so, he did more testing and found more water in other spots of the ceiling. He also discovered that bedroom ceiling is insulated (never realized that). So that means it probably wont get enough airflow, and we need to cut the ceiling apart and get that insulation out.
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Super shitty. Insurance claim might be worth it if you dont want to do the work yourself, high home deductible sucks though.
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$1000 deductible, not too bad. We weren't sure if we were gunna use insurance or not. But in light of this new info, it's going to easily hit it and more since the ceiling has to come down too.
I could do a lot of it myself, but with our two little dude, I can't keep on top of my to-do list I have already. I guess that's why we have insurance. |
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Yea, tough to get anything done with little ones. You'll probably hit that $1,000 mark quick if you did it yourself, plus if you have professionals do it you'll know it was done right. If my wife did that she'd be getting an earful! haha
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Yeah, my wife feels pretty dumb about it. It's funny how she kinda played it off as no big deal, yet she is constantly nagging about water droplets on the windows causing mold, haha!
Well new news yet again. The ceiling does NOT have insulation, he was mistaken. So ceiling shouldn't have to come down. They came in with an infra-red scope and spotted a couple other spots on the ceiling and drilled holes. We have fans galore running up and down. And they brought in two massive commercial dehumidifiers. They will come back tomorrow and look again, but they are predicting the only thing is going to be the vanity. ceilings, walls, carpet, pad, should all be fine they think. So it may end up as an out of pocket deal now. |
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We had a massive leak at our old house that trashed the kitchen ceiling similar to this. We had a company come out and take care of all of it and it ended up being almost $12k. Ours ruined the floor and cabinets though too. If you just have to re-rock the ceiling and put up knockdown, that's not too hard to do yourself with a rented lifted and sprayer.
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Yeah I'll be doing the basement myself, extremely simple. They came out again this morning and everything is drying up really well. They are going to replace the bottom of the vanity, and a couple drawers, and thats it they think. And they will do a carpet steam clean at the end. Probably end up a little over a grand after repairs and renting the drying equipment. Coulda been a lot worse.
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Good to hear it's not so bad!
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Good deal for not being worse.
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Thought I'd share the one remodel I took on with just my Dad and frankly isn't 100% done with paint, but it was my first time doing tile and happy how it went!
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I'm considering taking on a tile shower project at home. It's currently a fiberglass setup. So would need to be gutted, then built out correctly.
My question is, what is "correctly", and do you believe it's achievable by someone who has never done it before? |
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