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Thanks. What is your preferred airline for me to book the ticket?
jk. I’ll have to actually talk to the county it seems.
Just booked my insulation being redone so that’s next.
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jk. I’ll have to actually talk to the county it seems.
Just booked my insulation being redone so that’s next.
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Paint.
The face isn’t painted yet, it’s still just the primer they came in. We will go over them again with white paint. I finished the trim, didn’t realize I forgot to post the last update. Just needs painted then it’s done.
The bookshelves themselves were free. A friend of my demoed an office and they were going to toss five of them, so I took them all. They’re 3/4” plywood, solid as hell. Had them for 2-3 years in the unfinished basement unsure if I’d ever use them. Glad I kept them, they turned out nice. Entire section there cost me $135 in trim.
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And here is a full view of the overall basement progress. Forget if I posted the TV yet. I made the panels behind it with 1/4” plywood. Just cut it into strips and painted it. I made the long table with the scrap from one of the barn doors.
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Thanks. The main driver for doing the stuff myself is cost. We had the basement finishers quote things just to see if it was worth us doing or just have them do it.
Barn doors: Quote $2400, Doing myself $400 ( plus added bonus of scrap for that big end table)
Shelves: Quote $900 since we already had them, Doing myself $135 in trim
Kitchen countertop, cabinets, sink, fridge: Quote $9600, Doing myself, $1300. Not pictured yet because we’re currently working on that. Painted the cabinets yesterday, should have it done in the next week or so.
So we spent ~$1900 to do what would have cost ~$13,000. The work takes patience but isn’t difficult.
We’ve also always done this. All of our wooden furniture is goodwill shit we just sand down and repaint. So we have $30 dressers instead of $500, $5 end tables, etc. It also feels nice to say “We did this” instead of “We bought this”. Nice to have our own personal touches to shit instead of store bought that hundreds of other people have.
Barn doors: Quote $2400, Doing myself $400 ( plus added bonus of scrap for that big end table)
Shelves: Quote $900 since we already had them, Doing myself $135 in trim
Kitchen countertop, cabinets, sink, fridge: Quote $9600, Doing myself, $1300. Not pictured yet because we’re currently working on that. Painted the cabinets yesterday, should have it done in the next week or so.
So we spent ~$1900 to do what would have cost ~$13,000. The work takes patience but isn’t difficult.
We’ve also always done this. All of our wooden furniture is goodwill shit we just sand down and repaint. So we have $30 dressers instead of $500, $5 end tables, etc. It also feels nice to say “We did this” instead of “We bought this”. Nice to have our own personal touches to shit instead of store bought that hundreds of other people have.
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When I was mowing this past weekend, I was day dreaming about having a job mowing like the the Cajun dude in True Detective. You wanna give up that weekly meditation?!
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Hmm, idk.
I think the doors maybe took me 10-12 hours. Buy the lumber, cut the lumber, assemble, paint, hang it. Hanging took the longest due to a design flaw in the hardware and modifying the holes to line up with my studs and getting it perfectly level so the doors don’t roll at all while at rest.
Planks on the wall maybe 2-3 hours. Cut two sheets into 11” sections, Painted, nailed to the wall.
Bookshelves 6-8 hours. Painted them with a sprayer. Added boards to the back side for anchoring to the wall. Made some “boxes” to mount to the top for anchoring plus a place to nail the top trim pieces to. Cut and assembled trim. Final painting.
End table took 5 minutes. Just screwed the scrap wood to the metal rails. Scrap just happened to be the perfect size already.
So ~25 hours to cut the cost by $11k. Even if it was triple that I’d be happy with the time investment.
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Curious to see how much time each project took you next to those cost comparisons. My biggest trade off in making these decisions is time. I’d always always prefer to do anything myself but if it’s a huge time sink it doesn’t make sense.
Looks great tho! Only person who’s gonna do the best work is usually yourself!
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i woke up at 5 to put down seed and fertilzer cuz its supposed to rain today
i'm filling in a lot of patches nicely, the important thing is there are no more weeds on my lawn.
its such a contrast when my lawn is getting to be just lawn and the neighbor i share the lawn with is like 10 kinds of weeds
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finally got around to taking pics of my well. It’s probably from around 1960. Anyone able to tell me what I got here? I do know that it was used to water some 5 acres or so of the property (hence the piping heading through the wall to outdoors). Worth having someone look into fixing it? (You can see where I had the water heater etc put in last year for the house.)
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Also I found this under my back deck….. My septic tank is in the front of the house and I know the house plumbing goes to it. Wtf could this be? I have another bathroom in this shed where the well/pump/water heater is and was never able to figure out where it went to - definitely didn’t go to septic tank in front yard. Thought they may have drained it down to the river by in the 60s.
thoughts? Haven’t opened it.
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or anyone?Also I found this under my back deck….. My septic tank is in the front of the house and I know the house plumbing goes to it. Wtf could this be? I have another bathroom in this shed where the well/pump/water heater is and was never able to figure out where it went to - definitely didn’t go to septic tank in front yard. Thought they may have drained it down to the river by in the 60s.
thoughts? Haven’t opened it.
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Based on what you’re saying about irrigation on the 5 acres, it’s probably a water shutoff to the sprinklers or whatever.finally got around to taking pics of my well. It’s probably from around 1960. Anyone able to tell me what I got here? I do know that it was used to water some 5 acres or so of the property (hence the piping heading through the wall to outdoors). Worth having someone look into fixing it? (You can see where I had the water heater etc put in last year for the house.)
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Also I found this under my back deck….. My septic tank is in the front of the house and I know the house plumbing goes to it. Wtf could this be? I have another bathroom in this shed where the well/pump/water heater is and was never able to figure out where it went to - definitely didn’t go to septic tank in front yard. Thought they may have drained it down to the river by in the 60s.
thoughts? Haven’t opened it.
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Edit: and after zooming in, I see the lid has letters. W at the front and R at the back. I’m much more certain about it being shut off valves or some kind of maintenance access for the irrigation.
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finally got around to taking pics of my well. It’s probably from around 1960. Anyone able to tell me what I got here? I do know that it was used to water some 5 acres or so of the property (hence the piping heading through the wall to outdoors). Worth having someone look into fixing it? (You can see where I had the water heater etc put in last year for the house.)
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Also I found this under my back deck….. My septic tank is in the front of the house and I know the house plumbing goes to it. Wtf could this be? I have another bathroom in this shed where the well/pump/water heater is and was never able to figure out where it went to - definitely didn’t go to septic tank in front yard. Thought they may have drained it down to the river by in the 60s.
thoughts? Haven’t opened it.
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If the pump is that old, too, it might need replacing, though it could also possibly be rebuilt. New pumps aren't that much, the bigger cost will be getting a plumber to fit it to the existing plumbing. Additionally, you'll want to pressure test that pressure tank before filling it with water. Is it worth it? If you want to water a portion of your property, it sure is. The other thing to remember is that after this long being unused the sprinkler heads are probably buried and/or seized. Running new pipes to whatever area you want to water isn't a big deal, especially if you get a trencher.