Got the man cave/music room trimmed out this weekend, and the little PA operational. First band practice in there happens tomorrow. The only thing I'm waiting on to finish is the door. Go figure!
Last Edit: Jan 10, 2022 9:50:52 GMT -5 by majorminor
Got the man cave/music room trimmed out this weekend, and the little PA operational. First band practice in there happens tomorrow. The only thing I'm waiting on to finish is the door. Go figure!
Here you go, Steve.
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Quite chilly, cold north wind, predicted to go below zero tonight.
Dealing with a flat tire with no apparent cause -- I am hoping it is not the modern-day problem of alloy rims, road salt, and deteriorating seal between the rim and tire bead. Eventually the rim deteriorates completely and has to be replaced - replacement allow wheels on an old minivan would be ridiculous.
Workshop stuff this morning, celebrating DIL's birthday this evening.
Got the man cave/music room trimmed out this weekend, and the little PA operational. First band practice in there happens tomorrow. The only thing I'm waiting on to finish is the door. Go figure!
A friend that was a busy carpenter built new kitchen cabinets for his wife. He never did get around to putting doors on them until about five years later when they sold the house.
-18 this AM with a high in single digits. Warm front coming tomorrow.
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Post by billhammond on Jan 10, 2022 10:44:39 GMT -5
Sunny and cold here, gonna squeak above zero, then three days in a row of 30-plus, yay. No snow in the immediate forecast.
Lady friend Barb invited me over to her place last night to help deplete her seafood supply after she received the last of nine monthly shipments from Sitka Salmon Shares, and I was presented with a huge slab of sesame-seed/parsley-encrusted coho, pan fried in brown butter, and served with wild rice and sauteed asparagus. I swear the fish was an inch and a half thick, and man, was it good. Brought home about half of it. Also had so-called orange wine for the first time, from Slovenia, super-tasty and visually appealing.
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I have a lot of things to do.
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Been fighting that drain line all weekend. Though I had it cleared but, no. Now it is worse and I think I know why. The clean out plug was made of PVC but this is a old house(1947) and that plug should have been metal. I think someone striped thread on the metal plug, or turned it in too far, and it fell in the line. When I was trying to snake the line I shoved it deeper and now it is totally blocking the line. I'm done working in ultra-nasty backwash and killing my back, I've called a plumber and if he confirms what I think the only solution will be to tear up the basement floor to get to that plug. We can't use the kitchen sink, dishwasher or laundry and the house reeks. Washing dishes by hand in the bathtub sucks.
I have good days and bad days, and then there are the days that just suck.
Been fighting that drain line all weekend. Though I had it cleared but, no. Now it is worse and I think I know why. The clean out plug was made of PVC but this is a old house(1947) and that plug should have been metal. I think someone striped thread on the metal plug, or turned it in too far, and it fell in the line. When I was trying to snake the line I shoved it deeper and now it is totally blocking the line. I'm done working in ultra-nasty backwash and killing my back, I've called a plumber and if he confirms what I think the only solution will be to tear up the basement floor to get to that plug. We can't use the kitchen sink, dishwasher or laundry and the house reeks. Washing dishes by hand in the bathtub sucks.
I have good days and bad days, and then there are the days that just suck.
Can you bypass the plugged section? Can you re-route the sink/laundry lines to a drain line that is still open? I had a section of metal pipe corrode and plug solid. I cut out the bad section and replaced it with new pipe. Prior to that, short term I just ran the sink to a basement drain that was open.
I would check to see if the codes allow for separate disposal systems for "black" water (human waste) and "gray" water (sink and laundry). If so, you could just run the sink and laundry lines to a sump pump and dump it where ever the sump discharges, even if it just outside on the lawn. If you don't have a sump , a 30 gallon barrel with lid and submersible pump can function as one. Sumps are usually allowed to discharge separately from black water drains (in GF, basement sumps can discharge through floor drains or be pumped out onto the lawn, but then, Grand Forks is in North Dakota, bless its codes).
If you don't have to, leave the tearing up of the basement floor to the next owner.
Been fighting that drain line all weekend. Though I had it cleared but, no. Now it is worse and I think I know why. The clean out plug was made of PVC but this is a old house(1947) and that plug should have been metal. I think someone striped thread on the metal plug, or turned it in too far, and it fell in the line. When I was trying to snake the line I shoved it deeper and now it is totally blocking the line. I'm done working in ultra-nasty backwash and killing my back, I've called a plumber and if he confirms what I think the only solution will be to tear up the basement floor to get to that plug. We can't use the kitchen sink, dishwasher or laundry and the house reeks. Washing dishes by hand in the bathtub sucks.
I have good days and bad days, and then there are the days that just suck.
That sounds like a mess. Good luck.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
