At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

It's either for quick access to another roll of TP when the one on the roller has 2 sheets left after your wife didn't change it out or so it wouldn't hit the bathroom door! Looking good Obed.

Dishpointer,
You win the quiz. The door is hinged to give easy access to the extra TP rolls in the cabinet.

The door shown in the picture was not the bathroom door. We had several doors off the hinges sitting in the bathroom while the door trim was being painted. The cabinet doors should not interfere with the bathroom door.

Obed

 

[Obed]

The front porch step and posts got installed. We had the stone guy install the step. He suggested that we cap the top of the step with stone. We liked the idea and went with it.

 

[Obed]

We have two fixtures outside the garage, one at each corner by the driveway. One of them has a motion detector. We put cheap floodlights around the house figuring we will eventually replace them with home automation floodlights. It didn't occur to me that both of the garage floodlight fixtures are on the same switch. Only having a motion detector on one of the switches wouldn't work. If we turned on the light switch, the fixture with the motion detector would stay turned off unless activated by motion. However, the other fixture would stay on all the time.

In consequence, I re-wired the fixture with the motion detector so that it would control both fixtures. The gutter downspout blocks the motion detector a little but it still seems to work well enough. Now we can walk outside our camper and the garage floodlights will light up. Yay!

 

[dstig1]

Thanks all for the great comments regarding the hot water heater and the filters. We bought a sediment filter today.

We will put a pan under the hot water heater. We have a floor drain near the hot water heater. Unfortunately, the original construction manager did not tell the concrete guys to slope the floor toward the drain even though we told him to slope it and even though it was on the plans. Fortunately, my wife caught the problem before the concrete was poored around the second floor drain near the basement bathroom/laundry and got the floor sloped there. We may run a flexible water hose from the pan over to the drain in the utility room. The downside is the hose will have to snake about 4 feet across the walking space to reach the drain.

There's always a solution....You can build a deeper pan and put the drain a titch higher on the pan so it still has slope to the drain.

And what kind of concrete guy doesn't slope a slab to the drain? You don't need to be told that... I mean c'mon...

 

[Obed]

Here are pictures of the front porch with the new posts.

I was surprised at how much the posts changed the looks of the house. My wife got 8" square fiberglass posts. She didn't like the smaller posts as much. Now that I see how the bigger posts look, I'm glad we got the bigger ones.

 

[dstig1]

Obed, peel those stickers off the windows before it is too late. They will get more aggressive with time and you will never get them off without solvents...especially on the south and west sides

 

[Obed]

Obed, peel those stickers off the windows before it is too late. They will get more aggressive with time and you will never get them off without solvents...especially on the south and west sides

Good point. I guess there's no real reason to keep the stickers on the windows; it's not like we'll be returning them.
Obed

 

[doall]

You're just doing like the guys that drive around with the window stickers on their new car for a month, so everyone knows it a new car.:laughing: But they will get very hard to remove if left on.
You're house looks great.

 

[dcyrilc]

The house is looking beautiful.:thumbsup: Don't be suprised if you start seeing lots of company next year so that we can all see the real thing and not just pictures.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

 

[tommu56]

Thanks all for the great comments regarding the hot water heater and the filters. We bought a sediment filter today.

We will put a pan under the hot water heater. We have a floor drain near the hot water heater. Unfortunately, the original construction manager did not tell the concrete guys to slope the floor toward the drain even though we told him to slope it and even though it was on the plans. Fortunately, my wife caught the problem before the concrete was poured around the second floor drain near the basement bathroom/laundry and got the floor sloped there. We may run a flexible water hose from the pan over to the drain in the utility room. The downside is the hose will have to snake about 4 feet across the walking space to reach the drain.

Can you put the water heater up and pan on a couple of cement blocks then you would have some elevation to work the pan drain out of the way?

tom