Submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
I ran Ethernet from the basement to the first floor office and living room over the holiday break. That was one of my main goals for my first house.
The next project will probably be figuring out how to properly insulate the garage. It’s attached to the house via an uninsulated shitty door and that’s a problem when the garage is 38°F and I want the house to stay around 68°F.
My family has been helping organize my basement for the last week and a half. The new racking I ordered for the tubs should be arrive in a couple days, and at this point I’m starting to think about paint colors for the walls.
I’ve also had three electricians out this week to give me quotes on replacing the breaker box and upgrading my electrical service to 200 amps; I got the first quote yesterday and it was $6,700 (including running a circuit 20 feet and adding a couple outlets in a half-finished storage room), which seems pretty steep. Hopefully the others aren’t as high.
I’m in year two of planning to replace the windows, this month it’s been a dying relative and an upcoming dental surgery that’s put it off.
I get older, and the to-do list only grows in length. Condolences about your relative.
I figure it’s not a factor of my age, it’s a factor of the house’s age.
You see some old houses they say something like “This house was built in 1840 by Mister Plutis Astercock for his family” and they mean he knocked some trees over, sawed it into boards and nailed it together with his own hands. Just…right there in town. Down the street from the post office. Try that now and they’ll broadcast your evisceration on PBS. I’m a trained carpenter god dammit there are five families living in houses I built. No, now the only place you’re allowed to build your own house with your own hands is out in the cousinfucks.
Found some mold on the carpet in the corner of my son’s room. I guess the faucet outside had a small leak, and there was a bookshelf on top of where it showed on the house. Really easy fix all things considered. Barely any mold.
Will try to diagnose why one of our radiators isn’t working.
Steam radiator?
Yes indeed. New England home built 1930. Will try to get it done before seeing Nosferatu in theaters tomorrow.
I have to tackle the last floor from insulation / electrical / heating to finish.
Then find how to get the whole documentation for the new electrical installation since the initial company that did most of the work went under do that I can have it surveyed. And 4 more windows openings to re-finish since the walls are now ~20cm wider.
And then 2025 should be the year we do our exteriors :)
Finishing up my laundry room overhaul this weekend, hopefully. It was nothing major - just adding a closet to store the vacuum and mop, etc.
did you include a power outlet?
There was one already. It was previously a cubby where the washer and dryer were, so theres 240v and 120v outlets.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shitty. I moved an old farmhouse to a new site last spring, dug in sewer tank, pump out, and cistern, and never got to doing anything on it until recently. I have a seacan full of materials but didn’t get the house insulated before winter hit, so I can only work when it isn’t bitterly cold out and I have some time.
We’re getting a couple weeks coming up hovering around freezing, so I might be able to get something useful done. Maybe get some windows in and enclose the crawlspace.