The Home Improvement Thread
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thekidcatcher
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Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Finally got around to setting up the solar panel setup on the little ones playset. Used a 10 watt solar panel, a small charge controller and an 18 AH sealed battery. This feeds a small weatherproof 2 channel remote controller, one channel for interior lighting and one for exterior. Interior are the Ebay special "rock" lights.. I have another strand of them to install in the bottom section. The exterior are 10 Watt LED flood lights. Turned out better than I expected to be honest. Kids where out there Saturday night playing until 10 or so.. maybe later. Much better than them running around inside the house. 
Pretty nice setup for her. Added hippie points for her playing off the grid.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
LOL. Probably going to add one more flood light out at the end of the swing boom facing back towards the main unit and then of course the lights below. Should be plenty. After that I'll redo the led's on the pergola and that are out there. Doing something similar with a solar panel, battery, etc and running everything from that. Want to make them dim-able or maybe just not as bright.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Oh, did one other thing to the house this weekend as well. Bought a new fridge for the kitchen. Wasn't planning on buying one, but it was on sale for about $1200 off! Its a GE Cafe like the rest of the appliances. Pretty damn cool though. It will dispense water in whatever increment you want. You want 2 oz's of water, no problem.. 3/4 cup.. no problem. Pretty slick. It also will dispense hot water at whatever temperature you want. Want 90 degree water... or 185 degree.... or 143. Done. Now to clean up the Bosche fridge and put it in the mud room and use that fridge out in the garage.
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Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Thanks guys.. hopefully this gets her outside a bit more when we are out in the pergola area just chilling. I hate that she feels like she has to hang around mom and dad. Go play!... here.. I'll light it up for you.
You just need to adopt a little Chinese kid for her to play with
Added bonuses:
1. Extra tax write off
2. You can learn Chinese for when they take over the US.
3. Maybe her little hands will fit in some of the tight spaces around the trail rig where your hands cannot.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Yep, I keep telling my wife we need to adopt this 17yr old Vietnamese girl here...Woody Allen joke
TacoXpo
HOAX DENIER
Yep, I keep telling my wife we need to adopt this 17yr old Vietnamese girl here...Woody Allen joke
I've talked with Zoom about some special 'in-home-care' if I ever 'need' it! 
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
As promised here are some before and after pictures. The before are when we first looked at the house and the previous owner had it set up as a wood shop. This is a detached building from the house and is 12x19.5.
The list is a little long to name everything I did so I will let the pictures speak for themselves.
After
The list is a little long to name everything I did so I will let the pictures speak for themselves.
After
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
That looks awesome A-Aron. So when is the party?
So when is the party?
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
That looks awesome A-Aron.
Maybe next weekend. You should come.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Next weekend... hmm. Let me check the schedule.
tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
Price of admission is beer, and not any of that bud light crap you call beer. Austin has some great brews so represent if you come up.