With today being Saturday and no fixed agenda planned beforehand, I decided to inventory things to do. I decided, with Lou’s persuasion of course, to hang up the plaques and other things I have long intended to put up on the walls of the office room. Wow that was pretty much an all day thing. But, prior to … Continue Reading
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Attic Fan Install
We had Arthur Galang come over today to finally install the attic fan on the lanai roof. This, to keep the new storage crawl space in the lanai ceiling cooler so storage items will weather the heat better. Beyond storage items, I put the Vivint system WiFi range extender in that space so the Vivint camera in the … Continue Reading
Ring Chime Pro install
This is mainly for documentation in case I gotta backtrack on how the chime was installed. I bought a Ring Chime Pro on Amazon for Mom’s house more than a few years ago as a better front door doorbell. Seems her and my Alexa app recently stopped announcing doorbell rings, and I couldn’t figure out … Continue Reading
More Storage Space
We need more storage space (who doesn’t!) and the main garage rafters area is full. Also, pushed mostly because of the recent rat problem and my inability to reach the crawlspace in the rafters inside the small garage and lanai ceilings, we decided to have Arthur Galang (he did all our past home renovations)… Continue Reading
More Garage Door issues
was opening the small garage door this morning, and some wire snapped. Here we go again with the goddamned garage doors! It looks like a thin wire embedded in the rubber ‘chain’ band that retracts and extends the door between the door itself and the motor’s gear. I assume it’s an embedded… Continue Reading
I left my heart… in … Guam
I saw someone post this somewhere… snagged it because it just reached out to my heart and fuckin’ squeezed it until it hurt.
Gutters need cleaning badly!
I called a rain gutter cleaning company yesterday who was willing to come out and do an estimate. He came today, and Lou was home to take care of him. We got an estimate to clean out the gutters and downspout. We’ll schedule cleaning under the PV/solar panels and cleaning the panel faces for a later time. … Continue Reading
Vivint Offline Doorbell Fix
Copied from Vivint Support…
Built Out the Lanai and Garage Extension
We’d been talking about extending the back porch into a small lanai for some time now, because it just wasn’t enough room from the rain when we smoke. As the contemplating went on, I also decided I need a 3rd car garage to get my truck off the street. Initial thoughts were just a concrete carport slab… Continue Reading
Added the Upstairs Loft
I suppose a vaulted ceiling enhances the look and ‘elegance’ of the house, but it sure is wasted space really. So since we were renovating the downstairs half bath into a full handicap ready bathroom, Lou and I decided to add a loft. I guess with the steel framing construction of the house it’s… Continue Reading