What home improvement work did you do today?

That's pretty insane. Really bad for the side of your house (looks like wood siding?) because it never sees sun or dries out. Ide get something to "sterilize" that area so it can't grow back

 

Holy shit Brother you are doing your homework on this for sure,right down to the core man!

I'm not quite sure how that whole process works,meaning how they designed it(I understand it in a whole) the air passing through the door for distribution,I would guess that at the entrance of the air flow to the door there should be some sort of collection which will taper into two or several tubes.kinda like a distribution manifold.
Think about this whole dumb process cool air is very dense and these engineers want to blow it vertically up,heat rises cool drops...WTF!
Dunno maybe they incorporated in line fans...


Maybe a gasket where the door (primary source)
Meets the door collection has failed,or maybe blockage in one of the tubes...
Honestly I don't know.

I've never worked on residential fridges, mostly walkin's - freezer/fridges and reach in's.with that said the principal remains the same,with all of this bark eating tree hugging save the planet "when we can't even save ourselves " they attempt to make this new and improved shit that is designed to fail right out of the box and most of the warranties on ANY APPLIANCE is also shit.
You literally have to spend days on the phone repeating the same story/symptoms to several people,just to fall short of a stroke and getting heated,so eventually you pick up your tent stakes an move on.

I hate to say this but a Viking or Wolf with a separate circuit is the best way to go,yes you'll pay through the nose but when the compressor is located several feet away in another room,basement or closet it can be accessed 100% if installed with respect to "the next guy" down the road who'll service it.

IMOP the KISS principal for sure is the best approach to almost anything especially for mechanical shit,today has why to many moving parts waaaaaay to many.

 

Have you considered fire?

 

The kiddos and I got our garden started a couple weeks ago. Its about 15'x60'. Started seeing sprouts on all of it minus the bell pepper.
It's far from the house (about 150' away), so until I build the shop and run the water from it, I decided to use a 55 gallon drum I had with a tap on one of the covers and I just wheel it over to the hose once it's ready. It's on a dolly I rarely use, so this will put it to good use. Plus it elevates it so my kids can put the watering can under it to fill it from the ball valve and not have to carry it far.
Hoping they can maintain this for the most part

 

Previous owners left behind a tree swing. We have moved in but we visit every other day to slowly bring stuff over and do some things . Every time we go my daughter just lays on this tree swing. So i made it more special tonight.

 

Finished the water feature/fountain...again! We had built it, then lightning struck and cooked the cheap pump. A year later, we discovered the pot we'd chosen wasn't for outdoor use, so was deteriorating. New pot, replumbed, it was too tall, so fried the pump. New stronger pump, too large, so needed to move some of the stone and dig under the lining to make the pond deep enough to submerge the pump. That made the wall at that end too steep, so small river rock just tumbling in. So, pallet of larger stone, and placed what we needed. Another easy project finished!

 

Photo of my thyme and ground cover garden. We just planted a rhododendron today. We sold our old home that had 15 ft Rhodies and I miss them. Planter with some vegetables and fruit in them.

 

Mine seems easy but the software sucks… the wife and I did a walk through of the new home layout in Colorado in a 3D software. Pretty kewl now that we have it 98% designed. There were a few doors that opened weird so minor changes and we order!!!

 

Built two built-in shelves/bench seating in the mudroom. Mostly sanded plywood, the tops are butcherblock that I finished. Wife picked out all the whacky colors in this house, I am just the painter haha. I do like the retro floor, I painted over the original slate that needed some cleanup.

 

Finally got around to getting and installing a bidet toilet seat as the wife has been begging for one for a while.

A heated unit/ new toilet would have been nice but I didn't want the added expense or the trouble of fishing a new circuit to the toilet.

This one is a good value for what it is and quite the wake up in the morning if you know what I mean .
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Delta-N...Elongated-Toilet-in-White-833004-WH/322848159

 

i had one before but it did not come with the full "ass gasket" like this one. Just ordered it at HD, the wife is not a fan..

 

Thought they were stupid 5 years ago when wife wanted one. Now ide feel like a filthy animal w/o it!

 

Just spent $1,200 on these about 2 weeks ago. She already managed to pick up a roofing nail. This cut into my time to work on the truck and re-org closets in the basement. Meh.

 

Took advantage of the weather this weekend,finished beating down th concrete steps,cut the lawn & fed it,two trips to the dump then wrapped and taped the front & still waiting on the town to sign-off on the plans for the porch...

 

@Blufin, Your on a roll now...

 

Do you have instructions or materials list, I’d love to do this and don’t want to hire out for it

 

Got some real handy folks here. I’m just doing Clark Griswold updates

 

If your goal is to recreate. The goal is simple. Measuer what you want, create a material list, Always add 10-15% for waste. Every job is different.

 

Same. I got laughed @ for months when I bought one.

Then COVID hit, and suddenly people were scrambling to find bread, TP, etc. Meanwhile we were good to go, so fresh and so clean clean.

 

That’s what I need help with is materials. What is used where

 

@DrZoidberg can you do me a favor and snap some daytime pictures of your pool border/coping and deck? The wife and I are in the final stages of getting our pool installed and are looking for a similar look for our deck. Looks like flagstone and colored salted concrete right?

 

It’s overcast so I included some listing photos

 

Much appreciated! Looks like a great backyard setup!

 

We are on the home stretch, the yard is complete and most of the interior touch ups are finished. We are now trying to figure out timing for listing the house as we don't have another one were interested in yet. Kind of a scary thought.

 

Talk to your agent about a contingency clause on sale, maybe? One which affords you a grace period, where you can pay the new owner $X/month for Y# of months after closing? I'm sure this must be a thing. We had a house under contract with a contingency we could back out of we weren't able to sell, but would need to pay a fee to the seller. Then we paid a structural engineer to come out and inspect a crack down the side wall, which exposed the 60yr old house had a corner sinking, which would've cost ~$30-50k to shore up, and that allowed us to back out. The seller was pissed, but we didn't need a money pit, and we were fortunate, because our house didn't sell. Also fortunate, because our house was worth double 5 years later, and 13 years later, it's tripled. The house we were looking at is only up ~80%.

 

Added some solar lighting to our stairs from the front to back patios.

 

Lawn mower maintenance, if that counts

 

Hell yeah it does,it's the project before the project.