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Ok, I couldn’t wait. I stained it so it’s ready to be back filled tomorrow. Of course it started raining about 2 hours after I painted it. Hopefully it’s dry enough and survived the rain.
Above 1200 Sq/FT Cody's 33'x62' Garage
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Went fishing Sunday and enjoyed the view. Caught a bunch of small fishes but nothing to brag about.
Got the dirt slop built up against the house. Laid some plastic and put the rest of the rocks on the hill slope. Being there was a hole around the dryer vent, I suspect that was my water in the basement issue. Wonder why they just left a hole and then buried the hole?? Either way I filled it in with spray foam and a little cement around the dryer vent.
Went to an estate sale, why I bought the Tupperware pitchers I’m not sure. Nostalgic as I thought about my grandma? Either way I’ll put them to use. Some metric sockets, dentist picks, even some virgin teflon tape in metal containersz
And an ice chest for $5 to make it easier for Girl Scout events, and sports event drinks hauling.
I also picked up some cabinets for the garage.
I plan to paint the outside of the cabinets before I put them into service. Probably go gray or red, I’ll make the choice when I get the paint from tractor supply.
Got the dirt slop built up against the house. Laid some plastic and put the rest of the rocks on the hill slope. Being there was a hole around the dryer vent, I suspect that was my water in the basement issue. Wonder why they just left a hole and then buried the hole?? Either way I filled it in with spray foam and a little cement around the dryer vent.
Went to an estate sale, why I bought the Tupperware pitchers I’m not sure. Nostalgic as I thought about my grandma? Either way I’ll put them to use. Some metric sockets, dentist picks, even some virgin teflon tape in metal containersz
And an ice chest for $5 to make it easier for Girl Scout events, and sports event drinks hauling.
I also picked up some cabinets for the garage.
I plan to paint the outside of the cabinets before I put them into service. Probably go gray or red, I’ll make the choice when I get the paint from tractor supply.
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I've drank A LOT of orange juice out of a pitcher identical to that orange one!
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I recall the frozen concentrate orange juice being made in one. Then again I remember kool-aid being made the most in those pitchers! It was the glass gallon jugs that got tea made in them.
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I was able to get the cabinets on sawhorses and stands to work on them. The goal is to just paint the front, top, and sides. Not worried about the inside as they are mostly rust free and not worried about the back side as I plan to put them against the wall. The tan cabinet on the other hand has some fire damage it seems like.
The cabinets on the stands.
Started sanding the tan cabinet with 100 grit sandpaper, just something to give the paint something to bite into.
Also, will treat the rust spots to get them to stop. I am thinking of making a frame to put wheels under the tan cabinet so it's mobile. The two gray ones I'm not too worried about being able to move them.
Here is the burn spot, something got hot in this cabinet in it's past.
Maybe I can get them all prepped for paint tonight. Then paint them tomorrow or later in the week.
The cabinets on the stands.
Started sanding the tan cabinet with 100 grit sandpaper, just something to give the paint something to bite into.
Also, will treat the rust spots to get them to stop. I am thinking of making a frame to put wheels under the tan cabinet so it's mobile. The two gray ones I'm not too worried about being able to move them.
Here is the burn spot, something got hot in this cabinet in it's past.
Maybe I can get them all prepped for paint tonight. Then paint them tomorrow or later in the week.
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I got impatient tonight. Was able to get the cabinet sanded, taped off, and cleaned.
Then I shot them with Ford light gray enamel paint with hardner and paint thinner. Was able to get two coats on them with about a quart of material.
Will leave them alone for the night and maybe get the areas ready for the cabinets.
Then I shot them with Ford light gray enamel paint with hardner and paint thinner. Was able to get two coats on them with about a quart of material.
Will leave them alone for the night and maybe get the areas ready for the cabinets.
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At one time we had one of those pitchers. I recall it took a lot of koolaid points to be able to get that pitcher. Wonder what happened to that pitcher of ours?Cody, some of us still use the official Kool-Aid pitcher.
I preferred orange, strawberry kiwi, and fruit punch. But we had just about every flavor available in the cabinet at any given time.
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Started moving the cabinets to their place. In order to put one of the cabinet in place, I had to move the other cabinets over some. So I took the opportunity to clean and rip the last bit of carpet out of the garage.
Here is the carpet rip.
Cleaned alittle and push the cabinet back in place. I should have known better, now I want to paint the other cabinets.
I didn’t have anything designated for one of the short cabinet but now I’m thinking of moving all of the stuff in the wood cabinet to the new metal cabinet. It’s all paint and body work material. This way I would get rid of the wood cabinet. Would be a cleaner look in this area. Then just put the other short cabinet here in the place of the wood cabinet.
Then I moved the tall one to this area, I’ll put all of my lawnmower parts and supply in the tall cabinet.
I plan to stop at harbor freight and pick up a furniture dolly for the tall cabinet. Or maybe I’ll just grab some wheels and use the bed frames I have to make the base for the cabinets? Either way I need to get wheels on them now before I fill the cabinets up.
Here is the carpet rip.
Cleaned alittle and push the cabinet back in place. I should have known better, now I want to paint the other cabinets.
I didn’t have anything designated for one of the short cabinet but now I’m thinking of moving all of the stuff in the wood cabinet to the new metal cabinet. It’s all paint and body work material. This way I would get rid of the wood cabinet. Would be a cleaner look in this area. Then just put the other short cabinet here in the place of the wood cabinet.
Then I moved the tall one to this area, I’ll put all of my lawnmower parts and supply in the tall cabinet.
I plan to stop at harbor freight and pick up a furniture dolly for the tall cabinet. Or maybe I’ll just grab some wheels and use the bed frames I have to make the base for the cabinets? Either way I need to get wheels on them now before I fill the cabinets up.
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During lunch I was able to cut the bed rail to length for the tall cabinet and got it spot welded together. Had to test fit it and it looks pretty tight.
Maybe tonight I’ll finished welding and also weld the wheels on that I picked up from harbor freight.
Maybe tonight I’ll finished welding and also weld the wheels on that I picked up from harbor freight.
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Over the weekend, I visited several places with the wife and we had a good time.
Here is a picture of the Fallingwater, a house that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. We were able to tour the inside and all around the ourside. If interested I could post more photos of the house.
Then we went to Youghiogheny Reservoir where the town that’s normally submerged underwater is now visible. You can see a bridge called “Great Crossing Bridge”, the sidewalk, the stump of the trees that used to line the sidewalk, and several building footprint.
I think I stubbles upon someone’s fishing spot.
Some engines that just needs a little oil to be put back in use.
As several folks on GJ, I’ve been cleaning and purging the garage out. Here is the current condition of the garage after throwing 5 contractor bags out, and a truck load of ****. A lot more purging to do and organizing but at least now it’s all on cabinets and on shelves mostly.
The canopy is still up cause I have one more car to spray fluid film with. I still need my wife to pick a bike she’s comfortable with and then I’m selling the other two bikes. Otherwise I just need to purge more stuff to decrease more of the clutter.
Here is a picture of the Fallingwater, a house that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. We were able to tour the inside and all around the ourside. If interested I could post more photos of the house.
Then we went to Youghiogheny Reservoir where the town that’s normally submerged underwater is now visible. You can see a bridge called “Great Crossing Bridge”, the sidewalk, the stump of the trees that used to line the sidewalk, and several building footprint.
I think I stubbles upon someone’s fishing spot.
Some engines that just needs a little oil to be put back in use.
As several folks on GJ, I’ve been cleaning and purging the garage out. Here is the current condition of the garage after throwing 5 contractor bags out, and a truck load of ****. A lot more purging to do and organizing but at least now it’s all on cabinets and on shelves mostly.
The canopy is still up cause I have one more car to spray fluid film with. I still need my wife to pick a bike she’s comfortable with and then I’m selling the other two bikes. Otherwise I just need to purge more stuff to decrease more of the clutter.
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Damn Cody that looks nice (the garage)!
BTW, I've been to Fallingwater numerous times. Such an interesting and cool place. Next time you hit that area, there is another FLW house very close by (about 1/2 hour), called Kentuckknob. This place is as cool as Fallingwater, but in a different way. It's history is just as interesting, too.
BTW, I've been to Fallingwater numerous times. Such an interesting and cool place. Next time you hit that area, there is another FLW house very close by (about 1/2 hour), called Kentuckknob. This place is as cool as Fallingwater, but in a different way. It's history is just as interesting, too.
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Very cool places to visit! I'll have to keep that in mind next time I'm out your way.
Garage is looking better for sure, good work!
Garage is looking better for sure, good work!
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Thanks! Garage is still annoying me with the clutter look but it’s slowly becoming an organized place.
saw the Kentuckknob place sign on my way to the lake. It’s on my list of places to check out on another weekend. We went to Fallingwater due to an international language organization was hosted at the Fallingwater and I was able to join as my wife’s plus one.
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It had a lot of interesting features, the stone that was used on the house was cut out of the hillside on location and the architecture used reference from nature to design the house. The goal was to keep the people connected to nature at all time since the family preferred to be outside.
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The lake is experiencing a drought, which is why the normally submerged city is now exposed. My understanding it’s a 7-10years cycle so if you plan the visit right to might can see it!
If you come this way, I can show you the city and some surrounding area. Seems everyone wants to see the Amish when they come up here.
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So like I mentioned in another thread, it seems my wife isn’t happy unless I’m working on a big project of some sort. I thought I was resting from another project but I was wrong.
Our living room has this old burnt orange carpet in it. I’ve put it off on replacing it for several reasons, but eventually the wife said she wasn’t happy with the carpet, (she said this often but I kept saying no.). Now it’s at the point I can’t say no anymore it seems and so the work began.
Before,
After the carpet was ripped up,
That was some of the nastiest carpet I’ve seen in a long time. It was also very old and I wouldn’t doubt that it was installed in the 80’s when this addition was put in.
Here is the front doorway, it had tiles here and we will be replacing it with newer tiles since the old one was in bad shape. Shingle shovel worked great since the underpayment was nailed down. Still hard work, but I got both the front and rear doorway cleared of the old tile.
Here is the brick wall on the inside wall of the living room.
Here is the cleared front door area.
Now the work of doing some wall repairs, paint touch up as we don’t want to change the wall color, change outlets, light switches, and two light fixtures. Then I’ll lay down some new tiles at the front and back door way and get things ready for the carpet guy to show up and install new carpet.
I have the stairs and hallway to get ready also since it’s the same burnt orange color carpet. But, first let’s focus on the living room and get it ready.
Our living room has this old burnt orange carpet in it. I’ve put it off on replacing it for several reasons, but eventually the wife said she wasn’t happy with the carpet, (she said this often but I kept saying no.). Now it’s at the point I can’t say no anymore it seems and so the work began.
Before,
After the carpet was ripped up,
That was some of the nastiest carpet I’ve seen in a long time. It was also very old and I wouldn’t doubt that it was installed in the 80’s when this addition was put in.
Here is the front doorway, it had tiles here and we will be replacing it with newer tiles since the old one was in bad shape. Shingle shovel worked great since the underpayment was nailed down. Still hard work, but I got both the front and rear doorway cleared of the old tile.
Here is the brick wall on the inside wall of the living room.
Here is the cleared front door area.
Now the work of doing some wall repairs, paint touch up as we don’t want to change the wall color, change outlets, light switches, and two light fixtures. Then I’ll lay down some new tiles at the front and back door way and get things ready for the carpet guy to show up and install new carpet.
I have the stairs and hallway to get ready also since it’s the same burnt orange color carpet. But, first let’s focus on the living room and get it ready.
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We decided to go with a light gray flooring since we have the same color combo in the dining room and kitchen. Gray, white, and brown seems to be the theme of the remodels.
Here is a rough layout of the tiles as we decide what pattern we like for the tiles at the front and rear door.
I liked the dark gray at the border since we will also have light gray carpet against the tile. A way to break it up so to speak.
Pattern one
Pattern two
I will have to do a better job of laying the colors out so it’s not a bunch of white in one spot and gray in another, but you get the idea.
Seems the horizontal pattern is winning the voting poll of the family.
Course the horizontal would be less work for me to lay out.
I got a few days to decided before I put the first tile down.
Here is a rough layout of the tiles as we decide what pattern we like for the tiles at the front and rear door.
I liked the dark gray at the border since we will also have light gray carpet against the tile. A way to break it up so to speak.
Pattern one
Pattern two
I will have to do a better job of laying the colors out so it’s not a bunch of white in one spot and gray in another, but you get the idea.
Seems the horizontal pattern is winning the voting poll of the family.
Course the horizontal would be less work for me to lay out.
I got a few days to decided before I put the first tile down.
Like the herringbone(sp*) pattern for sure. I've done tile a few times in our current home. I actually don't hate it, I did a diagonal pattern in our guest bath a few years ago. This house was riddled with this khaki travertine tile (it's still in 2 more rooms) and like you i prefer gray tones..... one look at my garage and you'd never guess that 
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Living room is a really cool space btw
.Living room is a really cool space btw
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I believe I will enjoy the new carpet. The old one was nasty, all of the dust and stains on it that wasn't visible on top was nasty. Basically, set my asthma off since I forgot my mask. Wasn't expecting that but then again, I should have known.
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I like the herringbone pattern too, but seems I'm being out voted by the family. When I did the kitchen and dining room, I laid down the 6" x 24" wood looking tiles over 400sqft basically. I learned a lot during that tile installation. This time around it's 100sqft of tiles and the tiles are 6"x 12" so it should be a little easier. We will see. I like gray too and with such a large room (24'x32') I don't think it will affect the visual cue of being a large room. Seems Tan/Beige is the preferred color to make the rooms look bigger.Like the herringbone(sp*) pattern for sure. I've done tile a few times in our current home. I actually don't hate it, I did a diagonal pattern in our guest bath a few years ago. This house was riddled with this khaki travertine tile (it's still in 2 more rooms) and like you i prefer gray tones..... one look at my garage and you'd never guess that
Living room is a really cool space btw
I do dig the room overall, especially when I was able to install the 72" TV over the fireplace. I wanted to update the wall light fixtures but again I got nixed on that idea.
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Today’s progress was changing the lights in the ceiling and working on the cement boards.
The old light fixture was a huge thing in the attic. Looked like aluminum pots were sitting over the light fixtures but was actually the cans for the bulbs. But, I guess the right bulbs were too expensive as they did this to extend the bulbs down in the fixtures.
That’s right, two plug adaptors were in line with the bulb and socket of the fixture.
These are the new led lights, they were left overs from the porch and they just happened to fit in the old holes.
Bright for sure, almost the same as the old bulbs.
Then I got the back door cement boards laid down and screwed in place.
And the closet by the front door.
I called it a night since it’s late and I was making a lot of noise.
The old light fixture was a huge thing in the attic. Looked like aluminum pots were sitting over the light fixtures but was actually the cans for the bulbs. But, I guess the right bulbs were too expensive as they did this to extend the bulbs down in the fixtures.
That’s right, two plug adaptors were in line with the bulb and socket of the fixture.
These are the new led lights, they were left overs from the porch and they just happened to fit in the old holes.
Bright for sure, almost the same as the old bulbs.
Then I got the back door cement boards laid down and screwed in place.
And the closet by the front door.
I called it a night since it’s late and I was making a lot of noise.
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Like I said, aluminum pots basically….
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I was thinking the same thing. These lights were only used by me cause they didn’t reflect in the Tv like the other light does, yet everyone else isn’t a fan of them.
I will put a dimmer switch on them so I can dim it while I watch tv by myself.I spent the late Tuesday afternoon driving to 2 Lowes to pick up all of the carpet, padding, and tack strips I was going to need for the project. We are also replacing the hallway upstairs and the stairs carpet, so not all of the carpet goes in the living room. The rolls length is 50’, 33’, and 27’. These were the length I was told to get by the carpet installer, so I got them. 3 hours of driving through Pittsburgh traffic to get them was no fun at night. But here I am unloading it from the trailer. Those furniture dollies were back savers for sure!
All of the carpet and padding in the house,
Yesterday I got the cement board finished up and were able to start laying tiles.
I stopped here since I ran out of those wedges for another bucket of thinset.
I’m not wild about the layout of the tiles, but trying to break them up and keep the tiles in order were proving difficult while laying the tiles by myself.
The inspector is unsure of the whole mess.
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Knocked the wedges out during lunch and also picked up the wedges I had at another house. Maybe i can finish the tiling tonight. Then tomorrow I’ll do the back door landing area.
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Tonight’s progress, roughly 64 tiles in 4.5hrs.
I got some cleanup to do and then get started on the back door landing area. There’s roughly 70 tiles for that area, but not as much cutting as I had at the front door going into the closet.
My knees are barking up a storm, knee pads help but roughly 11 hours total on my knees the past two days are brutal.
I got some cleanup to do and then get started on the back door landing area. There’s roughly 70 tiles for that area, but not as much cutting as I had at the front door going into the closet.
My knees are barking up a storm, knee pads help but roughly 11 hours total on my knees the past two days are brutal.
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Thanks! It’s coming along and it does look good. I’ll be glad to be done though.
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Going to let it cure a little more before I grout it, but here’s the front door entrance area pad done.
Now to start on the back door….. not feeling it today but going to do what I can.
Now to start on the back door….. not feeling it today but going to do what I can.
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Looking good Cody!
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Thanks!
So got the back entrance laid out and all the pieces cut. Then I stacked each row in order for tomorrow when I will put thin set down and lock the tiles in place.
Stacked tiles,
I stopped cause I didn’t feel like messing with thin set tonight. But I took the time to clear the upstairs area where the old burnt orange carpet is going to be replaced. Tomorrow my father in law offered to pull the carpet and work on removing the carpet tack strips.
Now to just relax and see if Netflix can keep the live feed going for the boxing matches.
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Netflix dropped the ball on this one...rubbish!
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They did, I had to watch it on my phone because my tv wasn’t able to keep up with the live feed.
Strange fight but with Mike being 58, I’m sure his leg was bothering him. Plus his punches that he did throw was mostly weak.
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Took yesterday off and went to pew pew therapy.
Youngest one did good, she was able to hit the little pumpkin twice to win $5 from me. She’s pretty accurate with a rifle considering she doesn’t shoot often. Here she is shooting my Boy Scout edition Ruger 10/22.
Today I started early and got the tiling done at the back door.
Now I’m just removing the rest of the carpet tacks, got the stairs and hallway carpet ripped up and all of the carpet tack up. Currently taking a break but I got roughly 19ft of double row of carpet tack left to pull up in the living room.
Getting close to being done.
Youngest one did good, she was able to hit the little pumpkin twice to win $5 from me. She’s pretty accurate with a rifle considering she doesn’t shoot often. Here she is shooting my Boy Scout edition Ruger 10/22.
Today I started early and got the tiling done at the back door.
Now I’m just removing the rest of the carpet tacks, got the stairs and hallway carpet ripped up and all of the carpet tack up. Currently taking a break but I got roughly 19ft of double row of carpet tack left to pull up in the living room.
Getting close to being done.
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Glad you got some time with the kiddos and pews!
Tile is looking great man!
Tile is looking great man!
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So the upstairs hallway, closet, and stairs is an interesting mix of material. Overall it’s solid except the hallway. So I was going to replace the nails with screws to help keep the floor from flexing and popping nails up.
I thought about laying 1/4” plywood down with construction adhesive, but not sure if that would make it more solid in the hallway. I’m not removing that linoleum as I’m sure it’s some asbestos. Best just to cover it back up with carpet as planned.
I thought about laying 1/4” plywood down with construction adhesive, but not sure if that would make it more solid in the hallway. I’m not removing that linoleum as I’m sure it’s some asbestos. Best just to cover it back up with carpet as planned.
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I think I figured out why the second floor was a hodge podge of mixed wood. I'm thinking this is the original attic floor. The second floor was added onto the original single-story home, and I suspect the white section in the hallway used to be the load bearing wall area for the original roof. It lines up with the basement and first floor wall that runs in the middle in this section of the home. The board that's white is also in line with the stairs, which now makes sense on why the last stairs is in the opening pass the current wall. I always wondered why they didn't just move the stairs back, so the last step isn't in the opening, now I think they just built around the original stairs to the attic.
You can see the white board lining up with the stairs opening in this photo to the bottom right.
When I remodeled the kitchen, I found the left-over fireplace that was in the wall, and you could see the round opening was closed off that possibly was the stove flue in the kitchen. The gray rectangle wood in the hallway to the right in the photo is where the chimney came up from the kitchen. My understanding this was a single floor home in the early 1900's when this was all farm around the house. The home was one of the original homes in the area before the farm was sold and the neighbor's houses was built.
The roof is now an engineered truss setup, so the interior wall isn't loading bearing on the second floor. But the one thing that makes me question it all, the fancy flooring, why would they put that in the attic?
You can see the white board lining up with the stairs opening in this photo to the bottom right.
When I remodeled the kitchen, I found the left-over fireplace that was in the wall, and you could see the round opening was closed off that possibly was the stove flue in the kitchen. The gray rectangle wood in the hallway to the right in the photo is where the chimney came up from the kitchen. My understanding this was a single floor home in the early 1900's when this was all farm around the house. The home was one of the original homes in the area before the farm was sold and the neighbor's houses was built.
The roof is now an engineered truss setup, so the interior wall isn't loading bearing on the second floor. But the one thing that makes me question it all, the fancy flooring, why would they put that in the attic?