Creating a Workshop & Home

[BoneheadNW]

Eddie-

One more question about the weather: Are you guys expected to get a boatload of rain from the hurricane? Do you need to do any special preparation for the storm or is the place (other than rain gutters) weatherproof? Did you build your place with storms like this in mind (i.e. do you ever have to endure high winds/horizontal rains there)?

Nice work by the way. You and your significant other are tops!

Bonehead

 

[AlanB]

Man is that impressive Mr. Eddie. You and Stephanie have a lot to be proud of.

I will second the vote for nailguns, or even just a palm nailer. It sure makes some of that work go better.

My hat is off sir.

 

[EddieWalker]

/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif You guys kill me!! Getting her a nail gun would be cheap, what she keeps telling me she wants is a plasma cutter !!!!

We spent a good part of the day today cleaning up and organizing the workshop. She's all excited about the best room in the house and can't wait to get it all set up so she can start doing some projects /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

But before that, I put some Home Depot gutters on the bathroom side of the building. Now that it's sealed up, I want to cut down on the splashing.

 

[EddieWalker]

Here I am fitting the downspout. I wanted it to come back to the wall and then exit out the side. This way it wont distract from my cedar posts.

 

[Bird]

That appears to be aluminum? On our place in the country, I had the continuous aluminum gutters installed, but the only ones I've done myself were the vinyl. It really is looking like a nice place. I noticed in previous posts that your living space is exactly the same square footage as this mobile home we're now in. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

Four months ago I had a deadline to be out of the Container Barn I'd built and sold. The deadline was August 31 was my last day, then I had to be out. The buyer is a nice guy and I'm sure he would have let me stay a few days longer, but it was important to me to meet my deadline.

The water was turned on Monday, August the 29th. That was my last hurdle to jump in order to move in. The next morning I arrived to find this on the kitchen floor.

 

[EddieWalker]

Along with packing and moving all my stuff here, I now have to fix a water leak. This is above the master bedroom, and is the line to the ice maker in the kitchen.

I didn't figure out if it was a bad glue job or there was somehow a pinhole in the line. It's looks like it's coming out from the bottom of the pipe, just before the fitting.

Either way, I cut it out and replaced it.

 

[EddieWalker]

I also had to put the water heater in. I started another thread on water heaters and after getting some great advice and learning a bit about water heaters, I chose the Whirlpool Lifetime Warantee model. Not so much for the watantee, but because of the added featurs in their best water heater. Two stainless steel element, extra insulation, smart controls and two 5,500 watt elements compared to 4,500 ones in all the others.

Of course, nothing goes in without it's problems. When I had it all installed and turned on the water, I went to the bathroom to open the hot water lines to bleed out the air and came back to find the water heater leaking.

The water was coming out of the top of the tank!!

I called Whirlpool and told them what was happeing, and without asking me what model of type of water heater I had, he told me the annoid needed to be removed and resealed. The socket size I needed was 1 1/16 inch.

Obviously this is such a common problem that he knew exactly what it was. Anyway, I pulled it out, cleaned the threads and wraped teflon tape around them. Put it back in and problem solved!!

Here it is in all it's glory. The platform is large enough for three water heaters along with the plumbing stubed out for the time it happens.

 

[Farwell]

Eddie,
I have done my own plumbing for the past 35 years or so and have yet to tackle a big job with out finding at least one copper fitting that was a cold sweat or forgotten. When any major plumbing modifications are done by me from now on I will put in a bunch of isolation ball valves so I can shut down the troubled area and keep water flowing to the rest of the building. I also try to avoid in the wall plumbing where possible.
Hope you caught the leak before any real damage was done.
Farwell

 

[EddieWalker]

Not only am I moving furniture, clothing and personal item, tools and equipment, I also had to move my collection of hunting trophies.

I put OSB on one wall, and hung all my heads on that wall.

If you're offended by dead animals or taxidermy work, then dont' look at the next two posts.