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400lbs on the top shelf, 320lbs on the lower. No flex or observed issues. It rolls with relative ease... although let's face it... moving +700lbs means it starts off slowly.
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I put up some Christmas lights. I should probably go buy a wreath or something too. I don't think I'll bother with a tree...
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The trim pieces, nicely painted with primer...
And the post, likewise primed...
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Trim attached and handrail secured. I will trim the other side too. Although the trim isn't structural, it makes the stairs look more "complete" so to speak...
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I reorganized so I could get unfettered access to the other side of the stairwell...
So here we go...
Hmmm....
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Let there be light... or rather LED lights...
Picture from the opposite perspective... As you can see, there is one more bulb to be swapped out but I've taken all of Home Depot's stock of these LED light strips. lol
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Sump pump well...
Under-stairs shelves...
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I'm not sure how I feel about this... lol
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I've mentioned hauling pellets for the pellet stove. Here's the beast...
On the left is an oil-fired boiler which is piped to baseboard radiators... the red unit to the right is the pellet-fired boiler which is the primary distribution heat source; the brown and tan unit is the pellet stove which runs in parallel to the oil stove.
Parallel means the pellet stove supplies hot water to the hot side of the oil stove... and draws from the cool side... but the oil stove does the distribution. So when the pellet stove is on, the oil stove rarely fires up, if ever... just distributes...
The brown part on the front is the hopper where I load pellets. The hopper holds four bags (160lbs) and a worm-drive at the bottom feeds pellets into an automatic firebox. This is the mouth of the firebox.
The holes insure airflow through the burning pellets. After the pellets are burned, there is a small amount of ash left which falls to a collector box in the base. After every ton of pellets burned, as per manufacturer's instructions, I empty the ashes and clean up all parts of the stove, including the firebox which is why I have these pictures. lol
Looking into the throat of the firebox, you can see the worm drive. The hopper is hinged on the left side (facing it) in order to make maintenance easy. Very neat and efficient system!!
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My cobbled together "solution" to move the downspout at the rear of the house from being too close to the foundation. If you look closely, you can see where I added the 3ft section at the bottom. The slope of the property doesn't go toward the house so I'm baffled why it wasn't far enough from the foundation??
The weird part was the downspout was aimed at the wrong end of the concrete landing pad. I used the shovel and popped the pad, then moved it out further. You can see where I removed the pad became a puddle.
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Pride comes before the fall... I was thinking everything was going soooo well... but alas!!
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The longer screws made the difference. Reassembled the organizer and placed it into the soon-to-be supply closet. The largest scratch was on one of the shelves so I flipped the unit upside-down...
The top shelf isn't yet attached. I'm trying to decide whether to cut the baseboards and screw the unit against the wall... or just leave it free-standing.
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I removed the slat and a portion of baseboard on the left side of the closet, as well as notching the lower edge of the organizer so it fits over the baseboards at the back... Once I fitted it inside, I put two screws into a stud... and it's rock solid!! I need to cut a couple of shelves to size... not sure how many... 2 or 3?
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I installed the last light fixture... and the tech installed the water softener & salt container this morning...
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After supper, I was still feeling energetic so I installed two sets of shelves in the garage... each is four feet long; so the two sets of shelves is eight feet... I bought four sets so I will install the other two on the other side of the garage... I'm planning to remove the awful cabinets built poorly by the previous owner. The guy really liked to use 2x4s to build things...
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Shelves on the other side of the garage, close to the front...
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Closet organizer finished and loaded...
Garage shelves finished... not yet loaded...
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The rests of my workout... lol
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The weird-*kitten* cabinet thingy... After I pulled the plywood off the top, I decided to take a picture...
Okay two pictures...
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Wow. Love love those shelves 💕👏👏👏1
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Thank you. I should probably take pictures of the weird-*kitten* shelves the previous owners had scattered around the garage. So bizarre.DogloverTerri wrote: »Wow. Love love those shelves 💕👏👏👏1 -
Scrape scrape scrape; shovel shovel shovel...
I discovered an exercise setting on my iWatch called "Snow Sports" so I gave it a try as a way to keep track of my exercise session...
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Those stats 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏1
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After I ended that workout, I remembered I needed to shovel off the deck too. Luckily no ice there so things went smoothly and easily.0 -
The pellet stove opened up for service. The hopper and firebox are turned 90 degrees... and the ashcan is sitting out to the right of the stove.
This is the firebox... where the pellets are burned...
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Here's how it looks as I'm closing it up...
This is all that holds the hopper and firebox against the stove's combustion chamber...
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All buttoned up. If you look closely, you can see the little red handle.
Do you see the three "handles" to the right of the combustion chamber's viewing window? Those are for cleaning off inside the combustion chamber. The stove is a boiler and there are pipes passing through the combustion chamber to heat the water contained therein. Since there is ash inside the chamber, some of it settles on the pipes... Those handles are attached to scrapers fitted over the pipes. Each day as I add pellets to the hopper, I pulled those back and forth to clear the ash off.
Here's the hopper with four bags of pellets loaded up... ready to go!!
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Two sets of legs... and a crosspiece...
Frame for the top rails sitting on the legs...
Topper with crosspieces glued up and clamped..
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All together... just need to trim back the bench top to the appropriate size.
Painted...
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Zip zap zooop... the benchtop fits...
I wrestled the metal top back into place so I can mark it and make ready to cut it off.
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