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So this is happening right now! Wish I was at home watching haha...
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HOT! Literally, and figuratively.
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Nice
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mmm fresh driveway
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As I said in chat, 2 freshly broken dsms would fit perfectly on that right side. Max utilization of new driveway.
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Very cool man!
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Since its finally summer, decided to get going on some misc projects I've had in mind for a while, mostly focused around the garage.
Step one, kickplate. Old one was rotted to nothing. New one all sealed up nice. Still need to paint and/or replace the door trim that has rotted away but this is a start. http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7776.sized.jpg Did some shopping, found a good deal on the Nest Protect (they're back on sale again), works dandy, and since my house is so small, one is probably fine. http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7804.sized.jpg Next, I saved some metal from the alley...neighbors were putting out a 5000W electric heater into the alley and I offered to give it a good home. Checked out garage panel and voila, room for more in the family: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7762.sized.jpg $100 worth of breaker, box, and 10/3 cable later, voila: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7835.sized.jpg All wired up and testing: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7825.sized.jpg This is my first foray into wiring 240V personally, but I've seen about 100 circuits wired at work now so I knew it would be easy. Not sure how effective it will be at either one-time use or just keeping the temp stable at 50° or whatever I set it to....but I did the math and in the dead of winter, if I need to run this thing for 24 hours straight it will cost me about $15. Not cheap but I'm hoping it is powerful enough to run on/off and keep things warm in there and maybe powerful enough to use just it during wintertime projects. I will keep my trusty gas-powered torpedo heater just in case (for augmented heating). http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7834.sized.jpg While I was crawling around up in the garage attic I found this: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7821.sized.jpg It's an insulated panel to cover the huge hole up into the attic. The hole that's been there for the 9 years I've lived here. How I've never seen it or looked for it...idk, it was way in the back. Maybe it got shoved there during the inspection or maybe the previous owner never used it...idk but I'm a bit pissed. The rest of the garage is fully insulated....all those long winter car project sessions...bleh. Having this in place would have helped. http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7822.sized.jpg http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7824.sized.jpg All that crawling around in the attic and some relaxing time at home derpot got me thinking, sure would be nice to have easier access up there. So, the today spazzy swung by and I put him to work--along with jax the friendly neighborhood greyhound: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7829.sized.jpg We put up a nice aluminum attic ladder! I have proceeded to start to organize my garage sale parts and am hoping to get things nice and cleaned up out there as time goes on. Turbo approves: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7832.sized.jpg Still need to seal around the edges (maybe some trim? idk) and clean up the shims, but all done for now...oh, and need one of those insulator-tents for it, they didn't have those in stock. http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7833.sized.jpg Next project will be to begin sealing up around the wooden garage door...leveling, new bottom seal, sides, and top. Gotta keep that new heater running as little as possible :) http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...7773.sized.jpg Thanks spazzy for the help today! |
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spaz ftw!!
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No problem! That latter is pretty spiffy, Turbo liked it too.
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That heater should be just fine to take the chill out, my rents had one in their big 3 car garage and in an hour or so it raised the temp in winter to sweatshirt territory. Their garage was attached to the house though.
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Oops, forgot to post the pic of the actual ladder:
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Looking good! That should make working on the cars this winter a little more enjoyable!
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Yea you can tell in the one pic I was basically soaked in sweat, didn't realize it though. The heater was worse than the ladder since I had to be up in the attic drilling holes and pulling cable. I showed the pic to my mom and told her I was a little off my rocker to be installing a heater during the height of summer, but then again it probably beats doing it in the dead of winter! I like to think of it as banking heat energy into the garage so it stays extra warm once it gets cold :) |
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Garage heaters are sweet. I need to install one. Think I'm going Natural Gas though, seemed a bit cheaper to operate than electric.
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I will say though, I ran my air compressor, the heater, the air conditioner, stereo, and the garage door, and all lights all at the same time w/o blowing a breaker. Pretty sweet, must be right on the ragged edge. |
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Just put the same ladder in my garage. used to have to climb a ladder then hop on a couple cabinets to get to the attic ha ha its much easier now
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Deck stuff!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ps4anty1df.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...pslkplrofw.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ps9neuygy5.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...psexcicmfp.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ps1h3p0lwr.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...pszzuvbd85.jpg Took quick pictures, too tired from digging footings and carry wood and concrete bags since like 7am. Made good progress today, need to wait for the city to inspect footings then we can pour those and start stairs and decking. We didn't want too much weight on the temp posts which is why we are holding off on the decking and waiting until we get posts up. Can't wait to grill out on this, its way bigger than i expected, the plans were misleading haha. |
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More progress on deck:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...psz5zeurrl.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...psezlzeqwo.jpg Also, finally got gutters all around! The house didn't come with them and I have been putting it off. Got the bigger downspouts and also the leaf guard stuff. Feels good to be getting house stuff accomplished lately. If I only could do the same on the car. Didn't bother with more gutter pics because well, they are gutters haha. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ps7gsficry.jpg |
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