Pic/Gif thread - recent home improvement / maintenance projects

YellowSnow

Good thing I trust my wife! This was me on my lunch break today.

dnc

Grass was a little tall this morning so I did what I had to do.

1to392831weretaken

I've spent about 22 hours over the last couple of weeks in a full face respirator, diamond-grinding concrete because my alcoholic concrete sub couldn't pour a flat slab if his life depended on it. Everything from a single walk-behind to a double row 22-incher and back to 7" and 4 1/2" cup grinders for the low spots and edges. I'm on my second 6.5 hp Shop Vac, in spite of HEPA filter and a dust collector. I'll be rolling on the epoxy and polyurea this weekend, then it's on to hanging conduit and pulling wire.

If anybody needs a two sets of Dyma-Dots for an Edco grinder, I'll sell them to you cheap less ass-rapingly expensive.

PurpleBaze

YellowSnow said:

Good thing I trust my wife! This was me on my lunch break today.

Did Byron Hadley at least give you and your boys some of the finest Bohemian brew?

YellowSnow

PurpleBaze said:

YellowSnow said:

Good thing I trust my wife! This was me on my lunch break today.

Did Byron Hadley at least give you and your boys some of the finest Bohemian brew?

I've been told by @RaceBannon that flat roofs are the worst. Fortunately, I only have about 20 sq ft of flat roof. Only took 30 mins and didn't even burn 1 beer's worth of calories

PurpleThrobber

You realize you can hire people who can do this shit, right?

Two remodels in the next 9 months already contracted. The palatial mountain lodge about to be completely gutted.

#shiplap

RaceBannon

Got to wash the car

NoWarningJustDawg

RaceBannon said:

Got to wash the car

If Race "Lucille" Bannon had a rack like that, @Swaye wouldn't have gotten a vote.

Swaye

RaceBannon said:

Got to wash the car

Twelve year old me grew up pour and didn't have Skinemax so I would search the TV guide every week for airings of Cool Hand Luke just to see this moment to keep it locked tightly in the spank bank of my teenage years.

LebamDawg

Today replaced the hydrant out by the shop - these things last forever and in 12 years I have replaced 2, this time with just a normal faucet.

Last Sunday, put in 40 feet of fencing so the goats could use a new area - just had to box it in. In process of removing 150 foot of fencing and posts because I shrunk the chicken area by half.

Never ending project - approximately 30 foot dia pond that is 42-48 inches deep - about 25000 gallons. Will be taking the summer shade cloth off and putting winter bird netting up. Need to go wading to cut back some lily pads and other vegetation that is dying off.

In process of cutting and splitting 10 2-3 foot rounds of fir and painting the upstairs walls and floors.

Trying to get the heavier stuff done as I have arthroscopic clean out of my shoulder on the 24th.

Edit - will try to get some pix in the next couple days.

Fenderbender123

I need to get a few things repaired at my place. But I've been working so much lately that I just don't have the energy to send my landlord an email.

BleachedAnusDawg

The one condition my wife had for the house we bought is that all of the interior trim would be painted white. Kind of a shame because it's high quality mill work. Fucking HGTV.

Got a killer deal on a John Deere rider last weekend though, which cut (pun intended) my mowing time from 90 minutes down to 25 minutes.

Pitchfork51

I'm putting the home office together over the next couple months

Gonna be dope ass

YellowSnow

Pitchfork51 said:

I'm putting the home office together over the next couple months

Gonna be dope ass

Mini fridge full of claw?

1to392831weretaken

LebamDawg said:

Today replaced the hydrant out by the shop - these things last forever and in 12 years I have replaced 2, this time with just a normal faucet.

Last Sunday, put in 40 feet of fencing so the goats could use a new area - just had to box it in. In process of removing 150 foot of fencing and posts because I shrunk the chicken area by half.

Never ending project - approximately 30 foot dia pond that is 42-48 inches deep - about 25000 gallons. Will be taking the summer shade cloth off and putting winter bird netting up. Need to go wading to cut back some lily pads and other vegetation that is dying off.

In process of cutting and splitting 10 2-3 foot rounds of fir and painting the upstairs walls and floors.

Trying to get the heavier stuff done as I have arthroscopic clean out of my shoulder on the 24th.

Edit - will try to get some pix in the next couple days.

I'm sure you already know this, but just in case: The mistake people make with hydrants is not knowing that they're self-draining when they're closed. There's a two-way valve inside that's either source to faucet or drain to faucet. The mistake people make is throttling them like any other faucet, thus leaving the valve open to the ground and the supply at the same time. Hydrants should be either wide open or fully closed (to drain, for freeze protection). If they're anything in between, you're filling the ground around the base (which should be several cubic feet of drain rock) with water, leading to rust/corrosion and eventual failure--let alone an unnecessarily high water bill if you're metered (my county decided water is made out of gold...).

Back to home projects, today's going to be a slow day for me. A rare day when I'm off from work but projects aren't pressing, as I'm waiting for my shop floor to dry before rolling on epoxy. I'm going to caulk a few slab edge gaps, make sure everything's up off the floor, then maybe head down to the basement and dick around on the lathe for a bit. Helping my buddy adapt some wheels for a street tracker that he's building out of an old Yamaha XT500. He put the fork/triple off my brother's '15 FZ07 on it (I adapted a GSXR600 front end onto that bike a few years ago), now he's trying to get an old 19" Sportster wheel to adapt onto that fork. Needs a ~1 mm axle sleeve, brake rotor spacers, and wheel spacers, so I'll be busy.

Hopefully shop floor epoxy this evening, polyurea top coat in the morning, and begin conduit and wiring in earnest next weekend. I just may yet get heat into this bitch before it gets too cold...