The Home Improvement Thread

[Anathollo]

The Laundry Fairy wanted these vintage mirrors on this wall , they are heavy, told her the hang/anchor points have to be on the studs behind the sheetrock, she plans on buying a few more from the antique or thirft stores.

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We use these exclusively at work for sheetrock anchors. They work great.

Hilti 1/4 in. x 2-1/2 in. HTB Toggle Bolt Drywall Anchor with Zinc Plated Phillips Head Screw (8-Pack) 3588748 - The Home Depot

Update your home with the help of this Hilti HTB Drywall Anchor with Phillips Head Screw.

www.homedepot.com

 

[Taco Loco]

We use these exclusively at work for sheetrock anchors. They work great.

Hilti 1/4 in. x 2-1/2 in. HTB Toggle Bolt Drywall Anchor with Zinc Plated Phillips Head Screw (8-Pack) 3588748 - The Home Depot

Update your home with the help of this Hilti HTB Drywall Anchor with Phillips Head Screw.

www.homedepot.com

Yeah I'm familiar with those, I just like the ideal of having a strong anchor with out worries or future sheetrock repair from breakout.

 

[balakay]

Mowed the backyard that was full of 8-10” weeds down to 1.5” and then dig a bunch of the remaining weeds and roots out by hand and bagged up a few hundred gallons of the cut weeds. Once the soil temp drops I’ll get on a pre-em routine to hopefully help out until I can do a complete overhaul back there in the spring. All the flowerbeds need to be ripped out and I have some minor grading issues. Not sure if I wanna do French drains or cut it all down and lay new sod.

 

[PSU Taco85]

Finished the light placement on the back porch, I'm happy with the lighting and nothing casting shadows and pretty even dispersion. Hard to capture lighting on camera but this is at full dim, it is definitely alot dimmer in person but the "night mode" on my camera makes it look brighter.

compared to full bright

full brightness from a backyard view looking into the house.

Used one of those Lutron Maestro light dimmer/fan control modules, pretty nifty little switch and not too bad on the wallet.

Now I know I have the lights where I want them this weekend I'll start the teardown, next week or the week after the materials are supposed to get delivered and hopefully the contractor will install shortly thereafter.

 

[tx_shooter]

Spent some time today transplanting a 100 sq ft of cactus from my side yard to a vacant lot behind me. Then clearing out some some dead cedars to open up a driving lane for my 4Runner. Hopefully I can figure out a good way to transplant a few 10' tall cedar elms in the next month. The goal is to get a few tall trees on the other side of my property to help spread out tree growth and bump up property value.

Update - the shovel, rake, and two 5 gallon buckets are taking a while but the free gym time will not hurt my waist line and shoulders.

 

[tx_shooter]

Looks like I am getting a new garage door spring this week.

 

[Silverback]

Our house had internal springs for the garage door and those pieces of shit lasted about 4 years. Had a door company come out and put the external springs, similar to what you have. Don't recall the price to fix but IIRC it wasn't too bad.

 

[Taco Loco]

Looks like I am getting a new garage door spring this week.

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Replaced them at the last house, Order mine and the tool "2 solid iron rods" from Amadong for like $50

 

[tx_shooter]

I am going to support a local business on this one.

Our house had internal springs for the garage door and those pieces of shit lasted about 4 years. Had a door company come out and put the external springs, similar to what you have. Don't recall the price to fix but IIRC it wasn't too bad.

I cannot complain since this setup has been in place for 15 years without any service work.

 

[Taco Loco]

It's an easy fix.

 

[tx_shooter]

I have seen the results of "if" it goes wrong. Risk vs reward the $200 to the local business is nothing compared to a possible ER trip. There are plenty of things I will do around the house; but I would like to think I am getting a little wisdom knowing when I should vs should not do something myself.

 

[Silverback]

Yeah, those springs have way too much energy in them for my comfort level.

 

[Taco Loco]

I have seen the results of "if" it goes wrong. Risk vs reward the $200 to the local business is nothing compared to a possible ER trip. There are plenty of things I will do around the house; but I would like to think I am getting a little wisdom knowing when I should vs should not do something myself.

Yeah, those springs have way too much energy in them for my comfort level.

Sitting in the room with the inlaws for 30min is probably more dangerous.

Maybe thats why the Sr leadership told us we were the smarter ones, while we took apart the Hellfire missiles that did not launch from the aircraft, only came across 2 that I could never fix, loaded them back on the rails unlocked and told pilots to dump them down range.

 

[PSU Taco85]

Started tearing out what was left of the old wooden screened in porch. Bottom sills were all rotted away so it came apart pretty easy

going to get the 12’ ladder out tomorrow after work and get the rest of it torn down.

 

[Silverback]

Just pull truck up alongside the house and put the ladder in the bed.

 

[PSU Taco85]

Just pull truck up alongside the house and put the ladder in the bed.

that’s another way to skin the cat, hadn’t crossed my mind to be honest!

 

[PSU Taco85]

Tear down is complete. Have a nice pile of wood for a fire as well

only thing left to do is power wash the porch then take the ceiling down right before the contractors come out since it’s open to the attic I will wait until they are ready to enclose it, don’t need any coons in my attic

 

[Silverback]

Fuckin Coons..

 

[PSU Taco85]

Fuckin Coons..

 

[Anathollo]

AC went out on one of my mom's rent houses on Saturday. My AC guy has to replace a valve and the coil. Thankfully both are still under warranty. I setup a window unit in the rent house to keep them cool for now.