So I was putzing around the house today thinking “I’ll clear out my old tech crap and make a few bucks” … While cussing my now ancient Directv HD Tivo to make sure it still worked, it was complaining about no signal on a tuner. Fair enough, I’ll just go move the wires around on [...]
This is turning out to be the slowest basement build in history, hope I didn’t wake any of you up!! It’ll be TWO years this June that I started sealing the walls. Thanks goes to a massive fish habit that may have run it’s course AND the drain of having to get one of our [...]
So 99% of the drywall is up as of today. First coat of joint compound is done waiting to be sanded down and smoothed out. I got out my trusty inaccurate tape measure and marked off the screen area and location on the wall and grabbed a chair and sat there and thunk. I had [...]
The running theme here seems to be I cant measure I walked the walls the service line would follow between the main and sub panels no less than twice. Took into account a foot of slack on each end, was generous around corners… Twice I came up with 50 feet. When I bought the [...]
My employer closes down between christmas and newyears, so I hustled up and got the inspection on wiring done, passed that with flying colors (all 30 seconds the inspector spent looking around…!) So it was off to my second home, Lowe’s, for more supplies (disclaimer, I *do* own stock in Lowe’s as a result of [...]
Been a while since I’ve updated, but I’ve been busy while silent. Shortly after getting the insulation mostly in, I obtained an estimate to have the subpanel and all circuits done. What started out as a plan do do ONLY the theater room has now been transformed into finishing the theater and the two [...]
So obviously I’ve spent the last year (and theater room budget) on a saltwater aquarium. Now that all the heavy lifting (and spending) is done on that hobby, it’s time to jump back down into the basement! First things first, battling the hot summer in the south is a hard thing to do. So to [...]
Welcome to this new little hole in the net that I will chronicle my trials and tribulations with various projects around our home. This wont be “how I fixed a squeaky door” projects, this will be “how I built our theater room and finished our basement” projects! So grab a drink, sit back, and get [...]