Pipe Line said:

Something I don't see discussed much on here, anyone working on anything cool at home, project wise? DIY type stuff. My father in law just helped me with my first good sized legit dry wall patch/replacement project, and it was honestly a ton of fun. My house is about 30 years old now and I've been noticing some things that simply need to be finished or touched up or done the last few weeks since I've been working on the drywall, and the DIY stuff is pretty fun to figure out. Having to re-paint my basement ceiling and walls now due to moving some things around on the walls that I was an idiot about putting nails in the walls the last few years. Have a door down there that needs trim put on, and an unfinished window and utility box down there. Got more stuff on my list as well.

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pipe i think you found what to do until next Thursday sonny

It never freaking ends.

I started rebuilding our kids swing set, got too hot and too busy, about 1/2 done.

I still have to
1. Add a pull down ladder for the garage and add storage above - ladder has been in garage for more than a year now.
2. Replace north side of our fence due to age.
3. Finish painting my daughter's bedroom trim.
4. Paint our basement.
5. Haul a broken treadmill out of our basement.
6. Fix my wheel bearing on my Jeep again
7. New flooring and paint our basement bathroom.

And most recently my MIL dropped off a house load of toys, which we had from our in-home daycare. She has a spare house in Lincoln we had the toys there for 2 years now at for all the grandkids/holidays/when grand kids are staying over. With a 2 hour notice she dropped them all off on our porch, driveway, and in garage. Now we have shit everywhere. All because my nephew flunked out of Merchant Marine Academy and now is staying at the house to go to UNL.

THIS IS NOT A COOL PROJECT

The major project in my house now is to find where the water is coming from that is leaking into our circuit breaker panel. It only happens on downpours BUT...water and electricity in the home are not good friends.

I've had the roofer come out and look at the electrical mast and flashing...he said it's good to go. I went onto the roof and looked myself, the boot at the bottom of the mast has a gap in it. Is it enough to allow THAT much water into the panel, fuck if I know. But it could be a contributor. Shitty thing is, I can't test it unless I want to take a hose to the roof and try to simulate rain...

alt f4 said:

It never freaking ends.

I started rebuilding our kids swing set, got too hot and too busy, about 1/2 done.

I still have to
1. Add a pull down ladder for the garage and add storage above - ladder has been in garage for more than a year now.
2. Replace north side of our fence due to age.
3. Finish painting my daughter's bedroom trim.
4. Paint our basement.
5. Haul a broken treadmill out of our basement.
6. Fix my wheel bearing on my Jeep again
7. New flooring and paint our basement bathroom.

And most recently my MIL dropped off a house load of toys, which we had from our in-home daycare. She has a spare house in Lincoln we had the toys there for 2 years now at for all the grandkids/holidays/when grand kids are staying over. With a 2 hour notice she dropped them all off on our porch, driveway, and in garage. Now we have shit everywhere. All because my nephew flunked out of Merchant Marine Academy and now is staying at the house to go to UNL.

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Damn! We have another replacement piece of drywall in the living room ceiling that just kinda went untouched for a while. Got that done and now it's just been sitting there needing painted for about a year now. So that'll most likely turn into painting the living room, kitchen, and dining room to make everything match. Once I'm done with the basement, it'll need a deep clean. Had an electrician over yesterday to work on some wiring in the ceiling that I just couldn't quite done due to lack of knowledge/experience, and I talked to him about another small project that I wanted done in the utility room with the current wiring/light/refrigerator set up down there.

I'm about 3/4 of the way done fully organizing my shed. Tools seem to just keep getting added when I run into new things to do

I’ve got a million projects simultaneously going on it feels like. To preface, we moved into our house in Nov, 2023. It was built in roughly 1900 and has been added onto at least once.

We replaced 13 windows (hired).
Tore all 3 rooms upstairs down to the studs, spray foamed, added mini splits, turned the 3rd room into a full bathroom. I hung all the Sheetrock for these rooms, changed/added some electrical. In the bathroom I ripped out all the tongue and groove subfloor and added some cross bracing snd sistered some floor joists. Added in some t&g sheeted subfloor. Bathroom is fully functional but we need flooring and paint.

Added a wall in a large “craft” room, this creating two bedrooms for the kiddos. Had to have some mold taken out so I got to hang more Sheetrock. Hired out all of the finishing. I just don’t have the time.

Added a fence on some of the property, need it finished to get rid of the temporary fence.

Working on adding home gym downstairs with foam flooring panels.

House still needs interior and exterior paint and flooring replaced.

Oh and we just are in the process (this week) of new roof and gutters. We’ve got more money into this house than it’ll ever be worth but it’ll be nice.

All this with 2 kids under 3. It’s a lot and I’m always tired and drink too much. Cheers!

Boondock_St_Sker said:

THIS IS NOT A COOL PROJECT

The major project in my house now is to find where the water is coming from that is leaking into our circuit breaker panel. It only happens on downpours BUT...water and electricity in the home are not good friends.

I've had the roofer come out and look at the electrical mast and flashing...he said it's good to go. I went onto the roof and looked myself, the boot at the bottom of the mast has a gap in it. Is it enough to allow THAT much water into the panel, fuck if I know. But it could be a contributor. Shitty thing is, I can't test it unless I want to take a hose to the roof and try to simulate rain...

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Not entirely sure if this is due to age or water honestly, I'm guessing water because of the other locations of water spots in our ceiling, but in my garage, there is one giant spot where paint has essentially cracked to pieces and fallen to the floor, right under the roof. And in my daughter's play room upstairs, in a similar location, but a story above, small water spots as well. But, small leaks over time on one side of the roof and not the other?


I should also add there are several fire/smoke detectors throughout the house that need batteries/spots that are simply unwired, that need attention as well.

kevost said:

I’ve got a million projects simultaneously going on it feels like. To preface, we moved into our house in Nov, 2023. It was built in roughly 1900 and has been added onto at least once.

We replaced 13 windows (hired).
Tore all 3 rooms upstairs down to the studs, spray foamed, added mini splits, turned the 3rd room into a full bathroom. I hung all the Sheetrock for these rooms, changed/added some electrical. In the bathroom I ripped out all the tongue and groove subfloor and added some cross bracing snd sistered some floor joists. Added in some t&g sheeted subfloor. Bathroom is fully functional but we need flooring and paint.

Added a wall in a large “craft” room, this creating two bedrooms for the kiddos. Had to have some mold taken out so I got to hang more Sheetrock. Hired out all of the finishing. I just don’t have the time.

Added a fence on some of the property, need it finished to get rid of the temporary fence.

Working on adding home gym downstairs with foam flooring panels.

House still needs interior and exterior paint and flooring replaced.

Oh and we just are in the process (this week) of new roof and gutters. We’ve got more money into this house than it’ll ever be worth but it’ll be nice.

All this with 2 kids under 3. It’s a lot and I’m always tired and drink too much. Cheers!

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This is going to sound super minor along with my question, but I installed a ceiling fan in my daughter's play room over the weekend, and I was going to do her room, but there was some junction box replacement issues that I just didn't have the knowledge to do 100%, but it ended up being an easy job for the electrician. But I have very limited electrical knowledge, but I did learn ceiling fan wiring in about 5 minutes with Youtube, and definitely taught myself a crash course while up in the ceiling trying to figure things out. Generally speaking, is electrical tough to get really comfortable with or is it generally speaking the same set ups just in different situations throughout a house?

Pipe Line said:

This is going to sound super minor along with my question, but I installed a ceiling fan in my daughter's play room over the weekend, and I was going to do her room, but there was some junction box replacement issues that I just didn't have the knowledge to do 100%, but it ended up being an easy job for the electrician. But I have very limited electrical knowledge, but I did learn ceiling fan wiring in about 5 minutes with Youtube, and definitely taught myself a crash course while up in the ceiling trying to figure things out. Generally speaking, is electrical tough to get really comfortable with or is it generally speaking the same set ups just in different situations throughout a house?

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Probly more the second part. I have replaced light switches and electrical outlets on my own for a while. Did my own ceiling fans here. I’ve got friends that are sparkies and have asked them some questions. So it really just depends on your own comfort level. I’m pretty handy and tend to over research things so I just dig in and figure it out most of the time. I’ve surprised myself, I added a light fixture by borrowing the hot leg from an outlet. Google is your friend.

With labor rates being what they are I just refuse to pay for some stuff. And I’ve been lit up plenty of times because I’m too lazy or the old wiring is labeled incorrectly so I’m never sure what circuit goes where. The joys of an old house.

kevost said:

Probly more the second part. I have replaced light switches and electrical outlets on my own for a while. Did my own ceiling fans here. I’ve got friends that are sparkies and have asked them some questions. So it really just depends on your own comfort level. I’m pretty handy and tend to over research things so I just dig in and figure it out most of the time. I’ve surprised myself, I added a light fixture by borrowing the hot leg from an outlet. Google is your friend.

With labor rates being what they are I just refuse to pay for some stuff. And I’ve been lit up plenty of times because I’m too lazy or the old wiring is labeled incorrectly so I’m never sure what circuit goes where. The joys of an old house.

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Unfortunately the only real way I learn things is by just digging in and figuring it out myself with the help of google/youtube or someone I trust there with me, basically instructing their knowledge on me. My pattern is usually mess up once or twice and then end up figuring it out shortly after that, and hopefully not making too big of a mess in first or second attempt. Luckily, that didn't happen with the recent electrical. I suppose that's a positive of circuit breakers and different currents. The electrician I had come over was super cool and knowledgeable and very affordable, which was good. I talked to him about my basement situation and he seemed very comfortable with it so I'll probably just use him going forward if I really need it. Luckily, don't need too much electrical around here, a lot of is just cosmetic at this point.

kevost said:

I’ve got a million projects simultaneously going on it feels like. To preface, we moved into our house in Nov, 2023. It was built in roughly 1900 and has been added onto at least once.

We replaced 13 windows (hired).
Tore all 3 rooms upstairs down to the studs, spray foamed, added mini splits, turned the 3rd room into a full bathroom. I hung all the Sheetrock for these rooms, changed/added some electrical. In the bathroom I ripped out all the tongue and groove subfloor and added some cross bracing snd sistered some floor joists. Added in some t&g sheeted subfloor. Bathroom is fully functional but we need flooring and paint.

Added a wall in a large “craft” room, this creating two bedrooms for the kiddos. Had to have some mold taken out so I got to hang more Sheetrock. Hired out all of the finishing. I just don’t have the time.

Added a fence on some of the property, need it finished to get rid of the temporary fence.

Working on adding home gym downstairs with foam flooring panels.

House still needs interior and exterior paint and flooring replaced.

Oh and we just are in the process (this week) of new roof and gutters. We’ve got more money into this house than it’ll ever be worth but it’ll be nice.

All this with 2 kids under 3. It’s a lot and I’m always tired and drink too much. Cheers!

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Our first house was near 54th and lake/grant area. Beautiful old him in benson, built on the early 20s. I absolutely loved the aesthetic. I hated having every single weekend tied up with fixing something, I’m fairly handy but it got old one thing after the other

Dr.DrakeRamoray said:

Our first house was near 54th and lake/grant area. Beautiful old him in benson, built on the early 20s. I absolutely loved the aesthetic. I hated having every single weekend tied up with fixing something, I’m fairly handy but it got old one thing after the other

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Agreed. It gets very old. We essentially have to touch every piece of this house and when we get done we’d prefer to build in the country. So there’s that.