Home Projects you’re working on.

Pack72 said:
You have my sympathy. I had to replace a bunch of the spring-loaded balances before we sold our house four years ago. The design had a nylon cord running through a hole in a plastic piece, which served as a pulley. Eventually the plastic piece would fail allowing the spring, which was under maximum tension when the window was closed, to rocket upward and rip the screw out of the frame. And of course the window would not stay open. I figured that wouldn't make a positive impression on potential buyers.
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Several of the windows wouldn’t stay up when I bought the house, and the owners agreed to fix them as part of the purchase. They used the stupid nylon cord type to fix those rather than matching all the others.
 
Snoopz said:
Yep...was like..your kidding right?
Got some painting to do also, another project another day, the "Honey..doo.." list is like a "scroll " right now. The more I unroll it
the more there is. Gonna have to tell the other half I ran out of toilet paper and had to use the list.

-Snoopz
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My list is on a BluRay disc. :( Edit: She says I could have been a Master Carpenter like TOH Norm, I'd make her so many nice things.
I told her heck no, I'd be making stuff for folks that will pay me for it. ;)
 
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Well....started replacing outlets and covers in the Carolina Room, this afternoon, did 2 and stopped till Friday morn, these 2, one the plastic box was cracked, the outlet was corroded. The other the "screw head" "just the head'" for the black wire was laying in the box, wire was "still" attached to what was left, the box one side was sticking out, the other pushed in. Reason for replacing outlet and covers, outlets are soo loose, plug something in it falls out, the covers, wow these people must of went to the dollar store, purchased the assorted pack of covers, then when they painted the house before putting it on the market painted over them...
I'll have to go back to these 2, meanwhile, replaced the outlets / covers, made sure they were safe..prefer metal boxes, Raco / Steelcity, my head hurts ...from just those 2

Anyway another honeydew thing for her Christmas decorations


-Snoopz
 
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BigWaylon said:
Happened to check today and the oil coating has finally dried on the wood rack. 😁

One step closer to actually loading it up. I’d been waiting for one of the HF “no exclusion” sales, and it happened this weekend. But it was only 15%…so thanks to a kind member that didn’t need a 25% version he got in email, I finally bought a log splitter. It’s the 5-ton electric unit, but the coupon knocked it down from $300 to $225. A couple minor mods and I gave it a test run today. Rated for 10” diameter logs. Yeah, whatever.

Wood was from a neighbor’s tree that went down a couple months ago. Once they cut it up and stacked it at the street, I snagged some of it. I did grab a couple cinderblocks to use to raise it up a bit.

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New rack is now full, and the old one is almost ashes.

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beamernc said:
People over my way must not be able to read.
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I mentioned it when I hung it up…but that sign hung at my grandparents pond decades ago. My mom had saved it and gave it to me a few years ago when I redid the back yard. So it’s there more for entertainment/sentimental reasons than to stop anybody from being in the back yard. 😁
 
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What we have here is originally Ivory outlet, previous owners painted the room ...you guessed it white, so they took the cover off painted everything to match the room..they bought a new "fake" brass colored cover...this particular one was a b*tch to remove. It didn't really need any screws to hold it in place, the paint did that. There's 6 more to go in this room. They even painted the "whole" landline wall cover, jack, everything..white..
So continuing on the previous post...this is what I'm working on, do a few, stop, don't think I could stand doing more than a few...cause that's when the ?##&#&##%&$&$ kicks in.

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This thing was "painted" to the wall, had to bust it loose...

-Snoopz
 
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Replaced a failed element in the tankless water heater. It is a 3 element electric WH and this is the second element I've replaced this year, not great but not terrible considering I installed it in 2017.

Takes less tan 30 minutes since theres no tank to drain.

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Bought a new house, moved in 2wk ago, so my project list is loooooong!

Adding ceiling mounted storage in my garage, identical to what I had in my prior house. There will be 4 of these, 2 on the front of the header, and 2 on the rear. They’re designed to fit the black and yellow plastic bins.

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3 weeks ago, I had to assemble these toy storage cubes and all of these ikea book cases since my kids have 3.4 million books.
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Borrowed a tractor from a friend of mine today to spread 43 tons of abc stone to widen out driveway. Put down geotextile fabric last week and used railroad ties as a border for some of it. Widened it the width of the fabric which is 12’ and made a couple extra parking spaces. The mahindra wasn’t a bad little tractor, but the loader remotes are cable operated and it makes the loader response slow.

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The exploder did surprisingly well pulling that tractor. Not bad for a v6
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Check out my exotic wood!!! 😛

I took a trip to Gibsonville yesterday to my favorite wood store. Had to get some things for a few projects I’m working on.

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I love this Leopardwood. I have NO idea what I’m going to do with it but love it anyway. Might to a cutting board paired with some Purple Heart and Walnut

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ECNC said:
I have done a few boxes for different things. I remember my first one. It was ugly. Went in the cut off box. For hinges I am hooked on barrel hinges (hidden). To me it gives a nice finished look. All my wood boxes have always been gifts. Never made one for myself.
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It was going to be for my wife. But... too many mistakes. I don't know that it'll go to the burn bin. I might find a use for it.

Eh.. was a learning experience and I enjoyed doing it. Learned a lot of what not to do next time
 
1075tech said:
It was going to be for my wife. But... too many mistakes. I don't know that it'll go to the burn bin. I might find a use for it.

Eh.. was a learning experience and I enjoyed doing it. Learned a lot of what not to do next time
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It takes practice. For corner joints using odd number will normally look better 3, 5 etc... Dove tails with contrasting colors look good also.
 
BigWaylon said:
New rack is now full, and the old one is almost ashes.

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Can’t say I expected to walk outside and find this…

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I don’t know if it was the high winds yesterday, or it went down before that and I just haven’t noticed.
 
You have ghosts in your yard!!!
 
The first thing I said I was going to do when we bought our house in October was cut down the trees that were covering the backyard. Finally got that straightened out.20231211_144632.jpg20231216_125326.jpg

I've had the material to make a bed for my wife and I for a while, over a year. I cut the plywood panels but I don't have a set up woodshop so finding time to do the woodworking has been next to impossible. I finally decided to stick with what I know and just build it out of metal and use the plywood panels I've already precut. Drew up a plan today and ordered the metal, should pick it up tomorrow. 20231219_170426.jpg
 
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Well not a home project in SC..but had a 100-150 year old White Oak, catch part of the garage, the front porch, the overhang, gutters, took fone, cable pole down last Tuesday had to get a 100 ton crane to lift it. MD owns the tree but "Act of God" so its our problem...gotta love it.
 
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Had to add this, if you look real close there is a Van just under the tree..its been parked for few years, it didn't put one scratch, one dent in the whole Van...now that sucks... also neighbor across street kicked the kitchen door open, to see if anybody was inside, the house was empty at the time, my next door neighbor on the other side of the tree was outside feeding his cats when they all went running and he heard what sounded like a plane crash, took the telephone pole that was inside with it, and one lane of the road..
To this date no one has come...Verizon , cable, no one to fix it...
But no one was hurt, no animals, its a house it can be repaired / fixed is how we look at it.


So guess this can be what projects are you working on.
-Snoopz
 
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I didn’t build this, but the guy who did really did an incredible job. Our well house/shed, built to match the house with galvalume roof and Hardie siding. The roof and walls are all removable for future servicing. Will be spray foamed and have a bunch of hooks to hang hoses, garden tools, extension cords, etc. t

I installed the wiring for an outlet, switch, and light, so I guess I did contribute somewhat.

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