What about metal studs? Same price increase or not. I've always like wood because one can always find a spot to hang a self. My brother liked steel because they were fast and didn't warp.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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I know steel has been going up quickly for a long time, not sure on relative pricing anymore. Steel is nice for renovation projects. You can throw bundles in almost any car as they take up a lot less space than wood. Cutting is easy to learn and mess free. No need to drill penetrations. In basements, less issues if you get wet feet.
If you want to hang something on the wall, put in plywood within the studs and hang it anywhere.
Light gauge steel wall sounds like crap if you tap on it or close a door. I prefer 20 ga for an interior partition. Light gauge for perimeter basement walls is ok.
Finally installed the tv mount spot. No studs just strapping behind the plaster/drywall. Looking at it I can see why we have cold walls, but at least no dead space.
Moved a bunch of furniture and odds and ends in preparation for carpet company coming this week for a small area in the house. Moved a stack of boxes of books in a corner that hadn't been moved for years. Uh oh...mould. Cut back old carpet...goes a bit further than I hoped. Cut out some subfloor, cut out some drywall. Back to dry edges. Spray everything down with Moldex. Surgery completed. Beer o clock.
Drying it completely overnight. Tomorrow will be drywalling and subfloor repair. So much for a relaxing weekend of minor furniture moving.
There's no such thing as minor renovations.
Drying it completely overnight. Tomorrow will be drywalling and subfloor repair. So much for a relaxing weekend of minor furniture moving.
There's no such thing as minor renovations.
Finally got around to installing KEF ceiling speakers as surrounds in the Living area and another 4 in the kitchen/dining area. Installing them is a breeze, however dealing with the blown-in insulation above them is annoying. Pretty much goes like this:
- I had already ran speaker wiring to the attic so I just had to crawl around up there and extend the wires.
- drilling a smaller locating hole and sticking something up it so I can find it in 2ft of insulation
- moving the insulation away from the opening before cutting the bigger speaker hole
- cut the hole and have a breeze enter the attic hatch from garage and blow the insulation into the house from the new speaker hole.
Forgot I also have Zone 3 outputs on the receiver to use for power so I'll do this again in either the garage or back deck.
Also wasn't able to locate any black hinges that fit our exterior doors (idiot builder installed black hardware on all interior doors and for some reason silver on the exterior doors and refused to change them without charging) so I had to take them off and paint them. Turned out perfect actually.
- I had already ran speaker wiring to the attic so I just had to crawl around up there and extend the wires.
- drilling a smaller locating hole and sticking something up it so I can find it in 2ft of insulation
- moving the insulation away from the opening before cutting the bigger speaker hole
- cut the hole and have a breeze enter the attic hatch from garage and blow the insulation into the house from the new speaker hole.
Forgot I also have Zone 3 outputs on the receiver to use for power so I'll do this again in either the garage or back deck.
Also wasn't able to locate any black hinges that fit our exterior doors (idiot builder installed black hardware on all interior doors and for some reason silver on the exterior doors and refused to change them without charging) so I had to take them off and paint them. Turned out perfect actually.
Took the shrink wrap off the gazebo yesterday. So happy we did it. Inside all the stored chairs, toys, and stuff looked exactly like we put it in there. Great storage solution for the winter. It’s a big sail but having it really helped out for winter with storage.
Most likely. But kids were going ape **** for their toys hidden in there.
I’m not ready to put the snow blower away just yet though.
I put out all the patio furniture this weekend. Spring is here!
You are the guy that I’d say knows best about this stuff....so I hope you’re right!
Just don't plant annuals or your pot plants outside until around May long weekend.
I have started making new brackets for the new stair railing. The ones I made earlier had some issues.
Dropped a 7 pound grinder on my big toe. Said bad words.
I cut one of the replacement ones wrong and had to cut another slice of steel. More bad words.
The milling machine wasn't set up for the job and I tried to take a shortcut. Even more bad words.
Baked some Eccles cakes to sooth my nerves. They worked out OK, so not a totally lost day.
Memo to self: Stop making things that can be purchased at Home Depot for $10.00.
Dropped a 7 pound grinder on my big toe. Said bad words.
I cut one of the replacement ones wrong and had to cut another slice of steel. More bad words.
The milling machine wasn't set up for the job and I tried to take a shortcut. Even more bad words.
Baked some Eccles cakes to sooth my nerves. They worked out OK, so not a totally lost day.
Memo to self: Stop making things that can be purchased at Home Depot for $10.00.
Eccles cakes, now you’re talking!
Bakewell tarts is where it’s at for me though. Need to find my fix.
We made the house 1500 lbs lighter a couple weeks ago... Removed a basement bathroom (new elec panel is going in that room) and some other minor demo.
It went from difficult to impossible to find a decent Eccles cake anymore so I make my own. There used to be a bakery in Coboconk that made good ones but the place couldn't survive the winters, They needed the cottagers and boaters.
Some British bake shops claim to have good ones but most aren't.
I used to buy the puff pastry but now I make that too. Instead of ?? oils and whatever mine are butter and flour, roughly half of each with a splash of water. Also home made candied orange peel. None of the wimpy store bought stuff.
I've heard of Bakewell tarts but never tried one. Raspberries if I understand. Mrs. Nobbie likes raspberries. Happy wife happy life.
I looked up Bakewell tarts and they look good. Unfortunately there are many variations and if I'm doing something I like to know what the original was like so I don't end up calling something a Bakewell tart when it've been led astray by some one who has trashed the original recipe. More research needed.
Bought new bbq for new house. Gas fitter ran a propane hardline to our backyard for it but left pipe with fitting too large for me to find an adaptor so he's bringing one out so hopefully be bbq'n this weekend. Says he's also finally bringing out the fan motor for our heat pump as well that hasn't worked in months.
My honey-do list is getting smaller. Hang a new wall ornament thingy today and I'm sure other things will be added to list. Figure out some type of cover/shelf that covers washer/dryer to make it look more polished and fancy.
My honey-do list is getting smaller. Hang a new wall ornament thingy today and I'm sure other things will be added to list. Figure out some type of cover/shelf that covers washer/dryer to make it look more polished and fancy.
When I built the house I had them put a tee on the propane line for future deck appliances. Finally built the deck last year, and am already planning on making it larger (don't tell the building dep't.) and adding a covered area for the BBQs and smokers.
I really miss my BBQ roof at the old house. With the roof, bbq'd a few times a week in the winter. At this house, with the stupid cover/buried in snow, it is less than once a month. Try to keep the roof height down. I made it 8' under the beams, close to 9' to the T+G ceiling and that was unnecessary and had some downsides. If I build another one, I will do 6.5 or 7' under the beam. Still lots of height for heat to dissipate but lower roof provides better protection from snow and rain.
Good point. I have some steel panels left from a refit at the soccer field that I will use for the roof. Trying to decide if I want to put something half-way up the sides for protection as well. I get out about once a week, even in the winter, but it's a real pain cleaning the snow and ice off, especially trying to get the cover off the Traeger.
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