One long due tasks of replacing garage door’s spring finally happened or to be exact, forced – and chew up my early part of long weekend ๐ Luckily and safely no major damages happened when this spring failed.. so used Amazon to order and get educated ๐
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The only appliance we didn’t replace when we bought this house was gas range because it was a kind of luxury brand.. However, after the years, we saw it getting degraded especially the screen was hard to see (have to turn all the lights off to barely guess what it is saying… caused trouble especially with oven features ๐ ) so this was ordered as a Thanksgiving deal ๐
After years of neglecting the weed and moss management, I finally grabbed the various gardening tools to start the fight. This should be a season long and multi week project but I am ready to fight…
Gone thru a long journey with long existing problem ๐ The bath tub handle at this house was a bit shaky since we bought this house like 8 years ago – required occasional forced pushing with hex.
However, this year finally we reached the moment further pushing in the handle didn’t work any more (as the housing plastic part became bended and even broken) – because we have more forceful (& also less careful ๐ ) users in the house breaking the handle every day – so finding the parts and finding the right place to order was a journey
Luckily Moen who was the manufacturer of this old handle still have a good system like upload a picture and they will tell what it is – Amazing ๐ but since this is too old and not a regular item to fix finding the part was hard ๐
As this is old version, finding the part requires going thru less generic sites and the price had wide variations like 15-75 dollars ๐ but this time found a deal at totally unknown zoro.com so tested the luck. (and failed hard as the order to delivery took 1.5 months and multiple emails)
Finally no more dings on the tubs is expected – so now I need to find a way to patch the dings on the tub
Finally – and unfortunately – had a chance to apply California Wall Patching – which I have seen in many Youtube home repair videos – at my home.
Until now, all the drywall repairs I have made in various instances have been mostly with simple spackling fill. While this time our big guest made a two-fists wide damage and the broken pieces were not reusable at all so I decided to use new drywall board pieces with California patch which connect paper part and board gaps with joint compound.
As usual, things have been always more difficult than video but finished the first portion of repair – now I need to sand and apply the texture then paint it again – so I wondered whether I should smile or cry… ๐
After having ghosting cabinet one or two doors for years and now the count reached total four, so I decided to dig thru to solve the problem.
Definitely not easy thing to start as identifying the broken piece in this small but delicate fine mechanical system was not easy.
Finally after adding my laboring on top of some Youtubing and Amazoning finally all doors’ ghost disappeared. And felt so funny to realize the fact that peace of mind has come from the cabinet door stay closed and firm ๐
This has been in the check list for the long time but finally changed to new & black door knob as the closest door also changed from gold to black. ๐
Now question is what is the next one to change & when… ๐
One thing encountered after moving in current place in last summer was this place is hot in Summer ๐ – Part of it driven by Townhouse structure and also next door neighbor’s air conditioner vent was installed right next to the siding door of our place; hence opening the window/siding door never helped or even made worse in hot summer days.
After long thoughts and landing a plan to stay at this place for one more year, purchased expensive LG portable Air Conditioner. Now, the problem is how and where to install the vent, and making it worse, this home doesn’t have a horizontal or up-and-down windows, leaving the only option as installing the vent at siding door. (plus as a rental house had the solution shouldn’t impact the main structure of the house and should be easy to remove when season is over)
As all the portable air conditioner assumes up and down windows, had to find the solution to have vent at tall siding door, but luckily found there is something at Amazon for this.
However, this was not sturdy enough (PVC) or very loosely standing – likely because this is optimized for siding window – not turning out to be a long lasting option (had to do adjustments almost every time we turn the conditioner on) and also the default vent didn’t fit with LG’s outlet.
So had to take several actions
– Hand cut the vent to fit the LG outlet with knife and hand saw
– Buy and cut the 2×2 lumber and cut + make a rabbit cut at the bottom to fit into the door’s rail
Then forced to snug the vent kit between the door and inserted wood – but kit was still unstable as the door’s lock installed at the end of door wasn’t providing angled & straight support to the kit.
So bought one more 2×2 had it as a place holder at the door’s end and inserted the vent kit between 2x2s; worked well but vent kit was still dancing around and had tons of gaps to let air flow in various locations, and – as expected- 2×2 not being straight/square also generated sizable gaps between door and 2×2 when closed.
To solve these next set of troubles, drilled between the kit and 2×2 and screwed it to make it sturdy; adding one more layer of wood at outside to close the gap between door and 2×2, + applying weather stripping to seal the gap around the vent kit and 2×2 and also applied the weather stripes on inner frame gap (between the moving door and fixed door), and also cutting the 2×2 for security lumber as the lock will not work during the times we have this vent. ๐
Although not having ever been an engineer, reminded me engineering is all about problem solving ๐
Now the question is – shall I paint the woods to white to match or not ๐
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