Things went a lot better with proper tools 😀 wall is pushed back in place and fairly straight. Next up patching all the cracks and holes with some concrete. #homeImprovement
Good morning friends, happy Friday Eve! The roofers showed up at 6 AM to park their dumpster. It coincided with my morning routine, so that threw me off. I was mid business when all three dogs started barking bloody murder, and it literally scared the shit out of me. 🤦🏼 It looks like they have over 2/3 of the tear off of the old shingles done! 🥳 I'll be happy when it's over.
Have a wonderful Thursday everyone! The weekend can't come soon enough...
Hello friends, I hope you're having a good weekend! We spent the last few hours hanging this wallpaper. I need to replace the drywall in the hall of our 60+ year old house but have too many other projects going on. So we decided on wacky wallpaper and a chair rail on the bottom half of the wall until I can hang new drywall in a year or two. I like it myself, but I'm into my pets, so it fits in.
We are finally in a position to start taking care of some very much needed and very much overdue #homerepairs and I would prefer recommendations from people who have personally had quality work done by a local contractor rather than picking one at random online.
My partner just walked home with this, he made us a garden shelf for the summer. Entirely from pallets he sources from companies around here. Isn't it great?
Cost is the screws, a few euros or so.
Lots of use value renewed for this wood that would otherwise get scrapped.
Update - We got stain grade wood panels at Lowes finally for the new cabinet's doors, and I got some backsplash panels in a tin design.
The tin style panels I painstakingly put dozens of holes into for air flow, rather like an old style pie safe, so the laundry basket in there won't get moldy.
We do have one problem - my son heard a loud CRACK in the night, and it turned out one of the wood panels split. Not sure how to fix that.
The previously mentioned seat in the hallway has been fixed in its final place. I had a quick sit and it isn’t moving anywhere any time soon. #HomeImprovement#diy
We just finished painting the living room. Adulting on a holiday weekend is great. 👍🤬 I told my wife this is blasphemy, my working on New Year's Eve's Eve.
Hey everyone. If your cats like to sit in cardboard boxes, maybe this holiday season level up their experience with a coil of air compressor hose. Just the thing for the pet with boundary issues. #CatsOfMastodon#HomeImprovement
Stated time to install this hot water heater jacket - 30 minutes. So far - 2 hours and counting. A handyman I'm not.
When I replumbed our house in Georgia (converted it to Pex, with home runs to manifolds, that was about 10 months of times I spent in the crawlspace. But I was putting down 15mil plastic as well. And replacing heating ducting.
In the process of installing my new dishwasher I have discovered the electrical outlet behind it needs moving. While investigating THIS I discovered the faceplate uses flathead screws; while the box is fastened to the wall with one Phillips and one Robertson screw. Whoever installed this was clearly deeply troubled. 🤨 #HomeImprovement
Honestly, kids cartoons and Barbie dolls really did nothing to prepare me for the amount of plumbing and home maintenance work that adult life entails 🙃😢
Our stove/oven is starting to have problems. It's been repaired a couple of times in its 20 year life but it's probably time to replace it. I can't believe how expensive appliances have gotten. What if I don't need Wi-Fi and several other unnecessary things? There's not much between rental grade and bullshit level of bells and whistles.
Gotta' say I did pretty good browsing you tube on how to remove my old kitchen faucet that began gushing a waterfall last night and re-installing a new one today. Had to buy a basin wrench that rotates and it was easy after that. Yeah #me 😂 Store wanted $220 to install per their sign but I gladly took on the challenge after watching some how to vids and some how not to vids. 🍸