SWMBO presented me with a gallon of paint, because she felt the family room needed to be a new color for Thanksgiving, to harmonize with the kitchen that I finally refinished. Ordinarily, not a big issue to paint a room, but the family room has 27' ceilings and a series of 3 ribbon windows, plus regular windows, and a pair of French doors.
In her defense, she is doing a 3 color fade paint job in, off all places, the laundry room.
What "projects" have been added to your plates for the holidays?
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Can we see a picture of these ceilings? Seriously...we have a small family room and I'd just like to live a little for once.
I "fixed" the toilet when I came home yesterday. The chain that connects the flap to the handle kinked up and the flap wasn't sealing properly, allowing the toilet to fill/run continuously until my dad closed the valve. My mom was happy that she didn't have another bill. I just repainted my grandmother's bathroom in a two-tone scheme. It looks great now. Everything was pink before! Other than that I don't have any projects lined up for Thanksgiving, except for putting up with the additional family that comes over...so I hope everyone has fun with theirs. HA!
I have tasked myself with going to San Carlos, Mexico for four days and taking my open water scuba certification test. If all goes well, I'll get seven dives, including a night dive and a nitrox dive. Life's a beach.
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Trouble, 1968 Fastback - Modified
Well, I have been tasked with building some shelves in the garage and the cupboard under the stairs. Also have to make some molding for a cabinet in the laundry room and the fireplace mantle.
Then when that is done, I can have some Mustang time!
Mel
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I helped my 15-year old disassemble and fix "the red ring of death" issue on his x-box 360 this week.
I'm a hero for a day.
This weekend I'm going to be installing an Asco valve on the gas line to my outdoor gas light to provide a "dim" feature for daylight hours. That'll be a hoot.
I'm going to be off wed-sun over Thanksgiving. I need to pull up and reattach about 10 tiles in my bathroom that are loose. Hopefully the subfloor is still OK or that project is going to turn into a complete tear out.
putting up the Christmas decorations this Thanksgiving weekend. We've got a social poker party also that weekend. Big project planned for Christmas to New years is to disassemble our 2003 F250 SD's turbocharger. It's got variable vanes and they are sticking - fix I found online and it's straight forward. Need to order the parts for that now.... Might get to put in the billet export brace I picked up from SteetorTrack.com.....
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How did you do that!?!? FYI, there is a 50-63% failure rate on XBOX360s. I thought they had to go back to MS for a free replacment.
Yeah. We've sent ours in 4 times. They will send back a replacement unit in a couple of weeks when you send it in. Finally though the warantee ran out.
Turns out the failure is normally caused when the heat sinks break loose from the GPU and CPU because of a faulty clip design. There are several sites and youtube videos that show you how to take your box apart, remove and clean the heat sinks, apply new artic silver 5 heat paste, and bolt the heat sinks in so they can't come loose again.
It took $2 worth of new hardware and a $9 tube of heat paste to fix it. The tube of heat paste would be enough to do at least 100 repairs. But, according to everything I was able to find out...once you fix it and bolt in the heat sinks...you won't be fixing it again. It voids your warantee completely, so you wouldn't want to do it if you were still able to send it in and get a replacement unit.
Replacing a fence that went down with Ida/Nor'easter, adding some can lighting to our den, finishing a 12x16 shed (roof and paint), and possibly doing some work in the attic with insulation.
Just replaced a range/hood microwave last night. Other one went out, and no way could I put that off with Thanksgiving right around the corner.
In-laws get here tomorrow. Father-in-law is a construction wiz and will make short work of all these projects.
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