Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

[oioioi]

@mimico_polak
Here is an idea.
Take the few extra minutes and remove one of the panels off of your fence and have the Concrete truck park at the side of your house/yard.
This was you can pour either directly onto the pad or maybe wheel barrel only 10-20 feet instead of from the front of the driveway.

Once you are done pouring and the pad has set, just reinstall the said panel.

 

[mimico_polak]

I hate to type it but over 90% of “claims” on Hardie siding is installation not product failure problems . Yours is looking good .


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Thanks! Ask your installer friend if he has recommendations on fixing the Swiss Cheese my dad made of one of the 4.5” trim pieces.

It’s my only complaint about the work. The nail holes are visible even with the touch up paint.

DAP and touch up? Some type of filler and touch up? Hoping not to have to paint them already.

 

[GreyGhost]

Thanks! Ask your installer friend if he has recommendations on fixing the Swiss Cheese my dad made of one of the 4.5” trim pieces.

It’s my only complaint about the work. The nail holes are visible even with the touch up paint.

DAP and touch up? Some type of filler and touch up? Hoping not to have to paint them already.

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I'd be more inclined to use mortar than dap as it is probably closer wrt expansion/contraction but I wonder if there is a tried and tested solution.

 

[nobbie48]

So…I’m not sure what you’re saying?

Yes to rebar…or no to rebar?

No to rebar, mesh is OK. Some government specs are over the top for the average guy building a detached shed.

 

[mimico_polak]

So…how about above ground wire with cable wrapped around it? Instead of going and digging ANOTHER trench? @GreyGhost your electrical book had that option in it IIRC.

 

[GreyGhost]

So…how about above ground wire with cable wrapped around it? Instead of going and digging ANOTHER trench? @GreyGhost your electrical book had that option in it IIRC.

You are considering a mast and elevated service entrance? Blech. It will look like crap (and something dumb will happen with kids (skipping rope wrapped around it, hit it with pool pole, who knows). I would have a powerless shed before I went that way. You need 11.5 ft clear for a service entrance. I didn't dig through enough to know if I can go lower for a run to an outbuilding.

 

[nobbie48]

Buddy popped by today and was shocked as to the progress. When I told him there’s a bunch of stuff I’m not too happy with he told me his parents just spent 50k on a roof and windows on a side split (very similar to mine).

Said for the 50k, the work looked like amateur hour. And his parents were ******, but paid up.

‘If you think the work you’re doing here is bad…you’re an idiot. This is better than majority of stuff I’ve seen the last 5 years’.

That def made me feel better.

The guy that did my roof was actually a general contractor but for smaller jobs he can't keep trained staff for every trade so he now only does roofs.

There is so much subbing out for the lowest price that it's inevitable that a dud shows up, trained on your job. Fixing is more expensive than getting it right the first time and no one wants to re-do a job. Legal costs are a gamble and at least with paying a second time the end user knows the outcome, but it sucks.

 

[mimico_polak]

You are considering a mast and elevated service entrance? Blech. It will look like crap (and something dumb will happen with kids (skipping rope wrapped around it, hit it with pool pole, who knows). I would have a powerless shed before I went that way. You need 11.5 ft clear for a service entrance. I didn't dig through enough to know if I can go lower for a run to an outbuilding.

You’re so good at talking me out of these ideas lol

At this stage I’m willing to put in a metal armoured cable atop the concrete near the fence, and when I do the fence next year bury it at that time.

Frankly…I don’t actually need power there. It’s a nice to have.

 

[timtune]

Thanks! Ask your installer friend if he has recommendations on fixing the Swiss Cheese my dad made of one of the 4.5” trim pieces.

It’s my only complaint about the work. The nail holes are visible even with the touch up paint.

DAP and touch up? Some type of filler and touch up? Hoping not to have to paint them already.

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Eff that's a lot of nails. What did you do to piss him off? Have two beers stand back ten feet and see if it's still such a big deal.

 

[Hardwrkr13]

3yr old deck still in good shape. I should have stained it last year as it looked new last year still but changed quite a bit over this last winter.
I just stained it for the first time on Monday.

 

[mimico_polak]

Eff that's a lot of nails. What did you do to piss him off? Have two beers stand back ten feet and see if it's still such a big deal.

He measured once and cut twice….

I asked ‘this doesn’t look right’ without saying any more and he got it and tore it out. Was in a rage so I didn’t bother poking the bear.

I can always remove it and reinstall a fresh one. Other wall won’t be done for a while….

Kevin, Kevin, KEVIN….you mother effer. I’m not a violent person but I will knock your teeth out. How stupid must one be to put insulation on top of every effing soffit….every single one….

Was running CAT6 and noticed all of them plugged….now I need to go up there soon and start opening it all up….son of a….

Kevin…

EDIT: I guess the alternative is to just take the soffits out and pull the insulation at this point in time…wonder how long that would take…

Or just buy new soffits. Then the cavities will be empty.

 

[GreyGhost]

He measured once and cut twice….

I asked ‘this doesn’t look right’ without saying any more and he got it and tore it out. Was in a rage so I didn’t bother poking the bear.

I can always remove it and reinstall a fresh one. Other wall won’t be done for a while….

Kevin, Kevin, KEVIN….you mother effer. I’m not a violent person but I will knock your teeth out. How stupid must one be to put insulation on top of every effing soffit….every single one….

Was running CAT6 and noticed all of them plugged….now I need to go up there soon and start opening it all up….son of a….

Kevin…

Not surprised. Blown in? Needs baffles against the deck and a perimeter wall to hold back the bulk. We were playing with the IR gun at a friends old house and his "professional" insulators had installed the perimeter wall 3' from the exterior wall as that was an easier height to work at. Who cares if 3' of your ceiling are uninsulated? Useless bastards and so hard for a homeowner to catch.

 

[oioioi]

DO NOT DO overhead to the shed

Will look like ***
Armoured liquid tight around the perimeter.

 

[Mad Mike]

So…how about above ground wire with cable wrapped around it? Instead of going and digging ANOTHER trench? @GreyGhost your electrical book had that option in it IIRC.

You only need to trench down a bit more than a foot if you drop a PT plank over the buried cable. A $25 trenching shovel will make short work of that.

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[GreyGhost]

You only need to trench down a bit more than a foot if you drop a PT plank over the buried cable. A $25 trenching shovel will make short work of that.

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A lot more than a foot. Top of conduit is at 18 in. Need 3" of sand below. So you need the better part of 2' with a plank. No plank is 6" deeper.

 

[backmarkerducati]

Yes but it all comes back to for MP a large very solid existing cement patio that is in the way that he cannot easily get under and does not want to cut.... Short of a horizontal bore....

 

[GreyGhost]

Yes but it all comes back to for MP a large very solid existing cement patio that is in the way that he cannot easily get under and does not want to cut.... Short of a horizontal bore....

That's why I think his best option could be an undercut. 6" deep, 6" undercut, lay cable/conduit in as far as your can get it and that gets most of the way there. The last 10' under the slab beside the house are the hardest (I'd probably cut a 2x2 access panel by the house to drill foundation and use a water lance to connect undercut to access hole. Replace access panel when done.

 

[jc100]

I buried an outdoor heavy duty extension cord in a shallow trench to power a fountain in a central bed in my garden. I vaguely remember where the trench is so don’t dig there. It works until it doesn’t but it’s been fine for 3 years. I could have over-engineered things but in the end…it’s just a fountain and the cord is plugged into a GCFI socket so I don’t sweat things too much.

 

[Mad Mike]

He measured once and cut twice….

I asked ‘this doesn’t look right’ without saying any more and he got it and tore it out. Was in a rage so I didn’t bother poking the bear.

I can always remove it and reinstall a fresh one. Other wall won’t be done for a while….

Kevin, Kevin, KEVIN….you mother effer. I’m not a violent person but I will knock your teeth out. How stupid must one be to

A lot more than a foot. Top of conduit is at 18 in. Need 3" of sand below. So you need the better part of 2' with a plank. No plank is 6" deeper.

Cable is 300mm below grade if there is a plank and no vehicular traffic. Add another 50mm for a sand base. I think thats about 14".

 

[mimico_polak]

ALMOST…ALMOST…finished one wall. Dad just had no juice left to keep going.