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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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No new pictures, but:

* finished subflooring in second bedroom
* almost finished wiring in second bedroom, aside from lights - ran out of materials, need a trip to home depot tomorrow.
* finished framing in second bedroom, including the wall separating the closet from the room and the RO for the closet door. One closet wall still not done because I need to do more demolition before I have clear space to work, but now I can hang extra poly sheet / vapor barrier to block off the closet from the bedroom and finish the rest of the room without a problem.
* did some firestopping - not done, need more wood. Also need to pick up some firestop expanding foam to fill all the various holes I've bored for wiring.
* installed furring strips on the slanted rafters in the lab/office, since they are old construction and nowhere near parallel the ceiling would have been quite lumpy there. So I put 10' lengths of unbent conduit across the top and bottom, screwed to the lowest-hanging rafters, and furred out the others to match them as closely as I could.
* pulled all remaining lath tacks and scraped all the old plaster residue off the old construction studs and rafters I'll be attaching drywall to.

A few more firestops, a little more electrical, some vapor barrier and blown in insulation, and I can start drywalling. One of my neighbors lent me his drywall hoist, and a friend of mine offered to help out, so we should be able to make pretty short work of the drywall.

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Finished the electrical (except the light fixture box + cable drop, as I haven't decided where the lighting is going yet) in the second bedroom, finished firestopping the lab/office, finished sealing the wiring holes with firestop foam, installed vapor barrier in the lab/office, vacuumed up all the existing dust/construction debris (construction debris is so much nicer smelling than demolition debris!) in the lab/office and blew in insulation in two walls and part of the ceiling of the lab/office.

I need to buy something like 20-24 sheets of drywall, then it's game on. In the meantime I'm going to firestop, clean, and vapor barrier the second bedroom.

The second I have the lab/office plastered and painted I'm moving up there and going into high gear. I'm tired of sleeping on a goddamn couch in my dining room.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Flat ceiling is now completely rocked, working on the last 2 panels on the sloped ceiling then I need to go get more for the walls.

It's already a good 10-20 degrees cooler in that room than the rest of the house just from the vapor barrier, insulation, and some of the drywall being installed. I could almost get used to this.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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:siren: THIS JUST IN :siren:

Fellow goon ACEofsnett dropped by today and we spent the entire day sheetrocking. The whole lab/gooney hacker den/third bedroom is now rocked. Gonna spend tomorrow going stir crazy with a razor sharp utility knife, a roll of fiberglass joint tape, and a 5 gallon pail of joint compound. Then I need to figure out what color I'm painting this room, paint it, and MOVE IN!

I can't wait to sleep in a real bed again, in a real bedroom, instead of on a free hand-me-down couch in my dining room, surrounded by demolition dust, dirt, mice, bugs, baskets of laundry, and power tools (it's been hell, but the nearly ten thousand dollars I've saved on rent by doing so has definitely helped pay for house repairs and some other hobbies.) It's hard to resist the temptation to start moving up there now, before I even finish and paint the walls.

Once I get one more bedroom finished, I'll spend a while vacuuming the dust and stuff off of everything I have packed into boxes in my living room, restack it all upstairs, then finish the master bedroom and upstairs hall, poly sheet off the stairwell, set up a simple positive pressure ventilation system to keep the dust out of the "nice" area of the house, and go full retard on the first floor demolition.

My cellphone went retarded a few days ago and stopped working at all, so no real pictures for quite a while, I'm going to find my actual camera and take some if I can find the data cable for it. Here's a bonus cellphone pic taken today while I was hanging drywall:


The box on the slanted ceiling is power to the track lights for the workbench/desk that will be under it. The rectangular box on the wall is for the thermostat, the one on the ceiling is for the right rear surround sound speaker wiring, and the square box on the ceiling with the two cables hanging from it is for the linked 120v powered fire/smoke/co detector.

For reference I am standing in front of the rough location of the old chimney.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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kastein posted:

The third picture from the last post shows what used to be in these pics before I tore it down.

A photo from a while ago... same "wall" (well, it was torn down in this picture.)

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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hahahaha, that's some of the framing that supports the second floor electrical subpanel :v:

The door you can see in that pic is for the other bedroom, it's on the other side of the wall to my right.

I need to draw up/digitize the floorplan for those two rooms so I can get a radiant layout and parts quote from blueridge, so I'll have to post it here as well.

Also gently caress bagster, those assholes have "tried" 3 times to pick up my latest load of debris and it's been sitting there for months. They were days late the first time, then left it there and cancelled the order without telling me why. The next time, they were only a day late and cancelled it again. The last time (after I called up and bitched them out) they told me somehow my cellphone number got corrupted in their system, so they re-entered it and put in a note to the driver to call 1 hour before arrival. Well, they didn't, and the next day I checked and the bags were still there with a note saying the truck wouldn't fit down the road to pick them up, which is loving bullshit because the driver for the first 2 or 3 loads I did told me he had the biggest truck in the fleet and that thing fit down the road no problem.

At this point I'm just waiting till I get a new job and then renting a dumpster, then I'll use the comanche's crane attachment to load the remaining filled bagsters into the dumpster, fill it with whatever other debris I have at the time, and off it goes. Since I've cleared up a good amount recently I actually have a spot to put a dumpster that a rolloff truck can get to, so this might actually work now.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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casting light yes, wall? nope.

That room is framed in, but all it has is wiring and a subfloor. I need to fireblock, vapor barrier, insulate, and sheetrock it still.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I won't be doing any texturing, just regular old semigloss or eggshell paint, haven't decided which.

I'm not looking forward to taping mudding and sanding. Not one bit. I was going to start today but I ended up driving all over the state hauling various jeep parts to people I'd struck deals and/or trades with and just got home.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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That's how I roll... you should see the roof decking and the subflooring! I don't think I've left more than 6" gap anywhere.

It's more me worrying about the spackle cracking at the seams - the more screws I put in, the less flex there is between the two sheets, and the less I have to worry about redoing some of the mudding. God I loving hate mudding.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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damnit! Where the hell is my wide putty knife?

And why did no one tell me that the self adhesive fiberglass mesh tape peels off from heat/humidity if you leave it for more than a day or two before mudding it?

:argh:

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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approximately half the room now has the first layer of mud applied. The other half will have to wait for some time that isn't 3AM, because it's time for me to pass out.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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EW, sweating = soldering copper water pipe. Basically you use a wire brush or piece of emery cloth on the pipe and fitting so they're perfectly clean, apply some acid flux with a brush to keep oxidation away while you're heating the joint (and aid in solder wetting) and then torch it till it's really hot, then touch the solder to the spot where the fitting and pipe meet. The solder melts and capillary action draws it into the space between the two, it kinda looks like the pipe is sweating solder.

dwoloz - I've seen paper tape used and I know it'd frustrate the hell out of me.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I won't be using paper tape or texture, just something I don't want to do. Texture is harder to clean and also harder to patch without it being obvious.

I'm not real happy with my mudding skills right now, but I'm sure by the time I'm done I'll have had enough practice to be good at it. Right now I'm basically planning 3 layers - the first is what I'm doing at the moment, where I basically just force as much mud into the gaps between the sheets as possible (through the mesh), and try to make sure the mesh is fully coated but not to the point that it stands proud of the surface of the drywall. I'm using tapered edge drywall, so most of the major joints aren't a problem here, except the ends of the sheets and the spots I had to cut to fit. The next coat (after sanding the first mostly flat and getting rid of lumps/ridges/sloppy stuff I left behind) will be done with a wider knife and should smooth almost everything out, then I'll sand that down and recover any low spots and bumps I can still see, then resand and paint.

I have an orbital sander I bought at a pawn shop almost brand new years ago (literally - in 2009) while I was still planning on buying a house instead of actually owning one and repairing it, so the sanding shouldn't be too bad. Will probably use those neat sanding sponges to get into the corners the sander won't fit in.

e: realized I forgot to install one outlet I wanted in this room, a 220 volt 15 or 20 amp dedicated outlet for either an air conditioner or a ham radio HF amplifier depending on what season it is. Fortunately, the wall that I was going to put it on only has drywall on one side right now, so I'll just cut a hole for the box and put it in from the back before I drywall the other side.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Hasn't been much of a pain in the rear end so far, in fact it goes quite nicely... haven't had the walls I did with it last fall crack yet, either, even with daily temperature swings in the 80 degree range due to me forgetting the space heater off in the bathroom once in a while.

I've used plastic corner bead so far but might switch to metal, I'm not sure what the difference is really.

First room is done as far as the first layer is concerned, I'm getting some shrinkage into the joints as expected so a second and probably third layer will be needed.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I dunno about that... I still have 3 rooms to gut, one room to shovel out, 3 rooms to put down new subflooring in, 4 rooms to run electrical in, 5 rooms to insulate and sheetrock, a heating system to install, a kitchen to finish, 14 windows to replace, two porches to tear down and rebuild, a chimney to build, a metric assload of asbestos siding to remove, a whole house worth of siding to install, and most of a foundation to repoint! Oh, a cement floor to pour in the basement, a few support columns to replace, a few sill plates to replace, and I need to get the electrical service upgraded at some point, too.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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The support columns and sill plates don't count? :haw:

Now that I think about it, I am gonna do half of one of the sill plates tomorrow for a change of pace. I've been doing silly picky stuff like spackling and sheetrock for way too long now. And if I don't do the sill plates soon, I know I'm going to forget entirely about them until I've already sheetrocked the room over them, which will suck.

Guess I should find my 12 ton bottle jack, some cribbing lumber to support it, some large-ish lag bolts, and some bracing lumber to attach temporarily to the studs I'll be jacking up. I bought the new sill plate for this section last year and never got around to installing it.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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well, it's been balls hot for the last few days, so my motivation to jack up the house and work on the sill plates has mostly gotten me as far as walking out the door, realizing I'm standing in full sun and already sweating, then saying "man, gently caress this" and going back inside to work on the second floor instead.

I've done a bunch more mudding and sanding, I think I should be ready for paint in the first room (the lab/den) within a few days. The first layer of mud that actually filled the cracks between the sheets of drywall took several days to dry as it is presently very hot and humid here.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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That's an awesome idea, think I will. So far I have been using a bright led headlamp to look for imperfections.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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allnighter with the orbital sander and my PowerStriders! Sleep schedule's been getting more and more hosed recently and it's about time I finished something and fixed my schedule at the same time.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Well I've cleaned up a bunch of the yard and shoveled up more demolition debris. Also insulated some more of the copper I installed last fall and had the water company come and install the new remote radio readable water meter so they don't have to plug in anymore. And bought another 20 sheets of drywall, and the materials to vapor block and firestop the next bedroom... I intend to get that room sealed up properly, then begin the move upstairs and begin gutting the first floor.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I'm actually moving at a snails pace, I just don't take enough pictures so it seems faster :haw:

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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A few examples of terrible mickey-moused disaster things

Plumbing!

This was the drain pipe for the basement sink. I use the term "pipe" rather loosely here.


Apparently it plugged up, so they cut it open, cleared it out, then used silicone, electrical tape, aluminum flashing, and hose clamps to fix it.

Apparently they didn't do a very good job of unplugging it, either:



Electrical!

Count the kinds of wire. Count the electrical boxes. Count the kinds of wire rated for in-wall 120V service. Count the splices.


knob and tube to romex (no junction box) to unrated speaker wire (no junction box)


These are just a few examples... a lot of things are like this. At least till I chop them out and redo it properly.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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All the spare bundles of new shingles (for if I need to repair the roof or decide to build a treehouse or garage) are moved into the basement and I've organized/restacked a significant amount of the scrap wood in preparation for the next Free Dump Day. Can't wait to have that mess out of my life.

Also debating using the comanche bumper crane to haul several filled, but never picked up, bagsters to Free Dump Day. Bagster went from awesome to quite useless all at once, they suddenly decided their truck would not fit down the road behind my house and stopped calling ahead, then started sneaking in and putting tags on the bags saying they were unable to pick them up after 3 successful pickups. Screw them, I found a place that will give me dumpsters for cheaper per unit anyways and Free Dump Day is 3/4 of a mile from my house every 3 months.

e: my table saw has decided that rather than cutting wood, it prefers to burn a slot through it, slowly and with much complaining. Looks like I'm off to buy a new blade for it.

kastein fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Sep 13, 2012

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I could but it would still cost me $150ish each to have them picked up, while waiting a few weeks and bringing them to free dump day costs maybe 1 dollar in gas. They have already been waiting for pickup for months so another few weeks won't kill anyone.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Saturday is the day I haul all this crap to the dump! :woop:

Probably 3-4 tons of plaster and rockwool, a massive stack of old wood I tore out (the stack of bundled lath is about 5 deet by 5 feet by 4 feet, the stack of floorboards, studs, and other large dimensional wood is about 10 feet by 7 feet by 6 feet and only getting bigger), and a few truckloads of random demolition debris and refuse.

Also, just finished fireblocking the second bedroom. It is already wired, I am currently installing furring strips along the slanted section of the ceiling to straighten it out. Once that is done I will staple up vapor barrier, rent the insulation blowing machine again (tomorrow) and hopefully sheetrock it and tape it the day after that.
Once that's done, I de-dust all my belongings, move them upstairs, and it's game on for the first floor demolition!

Sidenote, guess where in this sequence I replaced the blade on the tablesaw:


Edit: also shoveled up more debris in the kitchen and I am preparing to plumb the bathroom sink. Measure 3x, drill holes in subfloor once.

kastein fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Sep 26, 2012

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Well, I am a single bachelor with no kids, so no fucks have been given, I don't mind living in a construction zone to save 800/mon on rent. That's 800/mon I can put into drywall, lumber, and electrical supplies!

My avatar - result of a goonmeet for local AI users I hosted this spring. We started out by melting holes in engine blocks and stuff with thermite, but then ran out of engine blocks, and everyone had had a bit to drink at that point, so my suggestion that we fill my old toilet with thermite, road flares, gasoline, and fireworks (one or two at a time) was taken a bit more seriously than I intended it to be. At least it was easier to carry to the dumpster shovel up when all was said and done.

As for "don't piss on my bricks" - the bricks smelled so strongly of rotten rodent urine when I carried them outside that I can never forget it. I mentioned this at said goonmeet.

I don't even know who bought the avatar :iiam:

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Vapor barrier and furring strips done in the second bedroom.

I was planning on doing the blown in fiberglass tomorrow morning and starting the sheetrock in the afternoon, but have changed plans... will be building a custom wiring harness to convert an automatic 4.2L 87 YJ with an electronic carb to a manual 4.0L with EFI out of a 94 XJ in the morning and welding rock sliders onto a 91 hilux in the afternoon/evening instead.

Fiberglass and sheetrock friday. Then demo debris disposal Saturday. This place is gonna look so much better... speaking of which, no pics as usual because it is 22:22 and thus dark. One of these days I will remember to take pics before nightfall, or install the ceiling lamp, not sure which.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Did about half the blown in insulation today, decided to switch gears and put the attic floorboards down, since I couldn't effectively blow the ceiling insulation without something to restrict it from above. Realized I had now put vapor barrier and/or sheetrock across all the rafters I usually climb through to get to the attic in both bedrooms, and had stacked a dozen sheets of 3/4 ply across the rafters in the hallway, so I ended up climbing up the chimneychase/utility corridor, I guess it's a good thing I'm fairly thin and not claustrophobic :haw:

Had four sheets of attic floor down when I got a call from a friend who needed me to bring a new differential pinion yoke, ujoint, and driveshaft plus some tools to him on the side of the interstate near me, so that put a halt to house work for the day. Going to wake up early tomorrow (hahahahahahahaha BULLSHIT, that never works for me) and blow in some more insulation under the attic floor, return the insulation blowing machine, then haul demo debris to the dump.

I think my arms might fall off tomorrow.

No pictures because it's dark, also because I managed to give my cellphone a bath. Why is it that my friends cars always manage to break down when it's pouring rain, after weeks of beautiful dry sunny days?

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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:siren: HOLY poo poo A PICTURE IN THIS POST :siren:

I hauled probably 8 or 10 thousand pounds of demolition debris to the dump Saturday (I know I did 4 trips, think I may have done 5, and they were each well over a ton) but still didn't even touch the pile of scrap wood yet, I guess I'll bring that down in December.

Sunday I was at a goonmeet, today I spent some more time putting down floorboards in the attic and handling random stuff I'd been putting off. Tomorrow I'll likely rent the insulation blowing machine again, finish the few sections I didn't do yet (might throw up the vapor barrier for a closet or two as well, just to get my money's worth out of the rental) and then start on sheetrock in the second bedroom.

Attic floor going in (it's actually almost complete now)


I will try and remember to take more pics tomorrow... think I've said that before.

I only nailed the ply down in the attic, figured it will barely see any traffic so there is no reason to spend a lot of time and money putting it down with liquid nails and decking screws.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Depends. I pay around 24-25 a sheet for 3/4 CDX right now.

I think I've spent over two thousand dollars on plywood, between the subflooring upstairs, attic flooring, and the roof decking two years ago... and probably need another thousand bucks to finish the place.

Houses are expensive :aaa:

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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:siren: I took more than one picture tonight! :siren:

Sheetrocking more of the second bedroom.

Lift sheet into place with drywall hoist...


Get it solidly pressed against the rafters...


Line the laser level up so it follows the center of the rafter all the way down...


Throw some screws in it!


No chalk lines or pencil markings. I love lasers.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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wow, those pics look even more horrible than usual on my desktop. I blame Facebook's abysmal mobile site, will upload better quality ones when I get my micro-USB cable back.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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It's a dewalt DW087, I love it. Christmas present from my mom last year and possibly one of the best tools I own.

It does chew up batteries at a horrifying rate but that's probably because I forget it on overnight pretty often, and it only uses 3 AAs so it isn't a big deal either way.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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It's more I do stuff, go downstairs to grab some food, end up surfing the net for an hour and then going to sleep. I wake up in the morning and the battery is half gone...

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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It really isn't too bad, I'm probably even overstating the problem a bit. I certainly wouldn't buy a laser level this expensive myself but I love it!

Just finished putting the ceiling lamp in the second bedroom. I have functioning, properly wired lights in two bedrooms, the bathroom, and half the basement now!

Left to do:
* drywall on one wall of second bedroom (doing that right now)
* finish mudding and sanding both bedrooms
* finish clearing demo debris out of master bedroom, rip up floor/subfloor, rip down wall between it and the hall, redo everything, wire, conduit, etc
* replace ceiling rafters with 1/2" steel tie rods (I'm doing a cathedral ceiling in the master bedroom but don't want my walls ballooning out)
* replace sill plates along at least 3 walls (it kept raining every time I intended to do them) - I have to do this before doing any reconstruction in the living room or master bedroom
* move all my belongings upstairs (after cleaning dust off them) and into second bedroom, seal it off to prevent them getting dusted up again
* gut living room, dining room, finish gutting kitchen
* replace subfloor in dining room and kitchen
* replace all windows (except bathroom window, already did that)
* redo siding
* heating system - radiant in dining room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, upstairs hall, baseboard heaters in living room, new furnace
* have asbestos and old steam boiler pipes removed from basement
* remodel kitchen, install and plumb bathroom sink
* tile bathroom floor (after finishing welding up the support beam for the bathroom floor joists)
* install floating wood flooring in all 3 bedrooms, upstairs hall, and dining room. Refinish living room floor, tile kitchen floor
* upgrade service panel, install ATS, build generator, install generator
* repoint entire foundation
* pour cement floor in basement
* install wood stove
* make and install kitchen cabinets
* redo whole yard, clean up remaining demo debris and the junk the previous owners left piled in the woods around the property when they moved out pre-foreclosure
* tear off porches, rebuild properly

Holy hell. I've barely made a dent in this project!

kastein fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Oct 10, 2012

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I have a bunch of rechargeables and a charger for them, I just can't find the goddamn things because they're about ten feet deep in the pile of moving boxes in my living room :( I'll probably find them when I move my stuff upstairs soon.

Also, the battery life really isn't that bad - as stevobob said, even if it's half dead after being on all night (it's probably more like 1/3 dead... not sure) that's 8 hours, so it lasts at least 16 hours or so on $2 (3 AAs) in batteries, which really is not too bad.

Haven't done anything on the house in a while, but I feel the need to destroy things and toss debris out windows.

Also, think I'll design my hydronic radiant heating system tomorrow if I get a chance. Need to measure another two rooms before I get started.

A few days (2 or 3, iirc) I was busy last week welding rock sliders into a friend's 4-wheeling truck and welding up a custom transmission mount adapter for another friend's drivetrain-swapped wrangler, and the other days I was mostly job hunting and catching up on errands, so I made little house progress.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.


Crummy photography as usual, and this pic is at least a week old, but I thought it was kinda neat. Found it going through my cellphone pic album.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
I've started moving all my boxed up belongings out of the living room into the attic :woop: once that's done, I can start gutting the first floor a bit.

A few other things - finally got tired of looking at the terrible CATV/POTS cabling on the outside of the house. So I installed the 2" conduit and weatherhead I've been meaning to put up. Didn't want to take the internet connection down... then the power went out due to Hurricane Sandy approaching, so I figured I might as well move everything over while it was already offline.


(thumb = cellphone camera exposure control. Don't tell the Dorkroom guys :ssh:)



The coax drip loop is only that long because the cable was already that length. If I get fancy when I redo the siding and fascia boards I'll shorten it to the proper length, else it will stay like that, it's not hurting anything.

Also finally got around to sweating the hot/cold pipes for the bathroom sink:

(wish I'd realized the cold water pipe was at that funky angle. Now that's going to bother me forever *twitch*)


There is a reason for the cold water valve being turned slightly - that way the flex hose from it to the underside of the faucet will clear the hot water valve easily.

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
Well, apparently I didn't prep some of the fittings for the cold water line quite well enough yesterday, one of the elbows had a very slow leak. It passed my check when I turned the water on, no visible leaks, but this morning when I checked it there was a drop of water hanging on it. So I ended up replacing that elbow (mangled it getting it off), re-cleaning the ends of the pipes, and re-sweating it. I'll have to be more careful in the future, that was a pain in the rear end - and wouldn't have happened if I could find the steel brush I normally use on fittings, all I could find was my roll of emery cloth.

Finished the DWV line for the bathroom sink today and moved more stuff upstairs again. Tomorrow I need to hit the junkyard with a friend to pick up parts for a motor swap, then I'll move more stuff into the attic again... I've got the living room (where I've had all my moving boxes stacked for a year and a half now) about half emptied, not much further to go.

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