New projects or honey-do lists?

Well I certainly have a lot of extra time on my hands these days. Fortunately, my wife is making the best of it. My question is “What projects are you taking on if you have found yourself at home much more?”
My wife discovered the joy of accent walls in our home so I’ve been given the task of painting one kitchen wall, a bedroom wall, a living room wall, and three ceilings.
For my own selfishness, I purchased the lot next door to my home for a workshop/ garage. I’m clearing the property by hand, but it’s a great workout.

It looks nice T. Good work !

I'm not really out of work but i did get cut back to 3 1/2 days a week. I've been busy getting caught up on all of the scrapping work backlog in the shop. The problem is that i'm running out of material and there's not much new stuff coming in these days. ( What little that does come in gets quarantined for a week. )

I guess i'll have to go on to generators & firewood pretty soon. I've got 2 operational gas jobbies and three other gasoline powered machines in the shop that need to be gone through. One propane home standby unit installation but that will have to wait for another month or so. Ten cord of firewood for next winter will be a month of Sundays so it's not like there's a lack of things that need to be done.

It's a pretty full life.

Well it was before the virus came here, but over feb. I cut out the rotted sill and a foot off the bottom of the studs and replaced them 2 at a time on the south garage wall. Put a 4 in strip of alum along the outside wall and burried it a inch under the dirt to keep the water from coming in the garage when it really pours out. No water yet! The garage (the scrapshack) is almost 100yrs old and now may last a few more decades i hope

Nice job, tOOnces2!

While I'm still working during this time, my hobby of fixing up microwaves has been slowing down a lot. For the past 3 weeks the appliance shop I get microwaves from has had 3 units each week for me to get. Last year around this time I would be getting 10-20/week. I get the good with the bad so there's typically a 40%-60% repair rate. I have several microwaves stacked up to work on, but am waiting for parts from China so 3-4 weeks before those come in.

With all this extra time I have begun the process of learning how to repair dishwashers. It's not going the way I had hoped. I am 5 dishwashers in and just got my first one going. The other 4:

1. bad motor (waiting for parts)
2. roasted control board (repaired board and unit is still not working)
3. roasted control board (repaired board and currently testing unit)
4. broken rack wheels (waiting for parts)



I don't remember microwaves being this hard to work on


*also scrap steel has dropped to $15/ton so that's definitely not good.

I've been veeeery busy around the house this week because I was on furlough. My wife is happy with everything I've done and they are calling me back to work Monday morning.

Originally Posted by hills

It looks nice T. Good work !

I'm not really out of work but i did get cut back to 3 1/2 days a week. I've been busy getting caught up on all of the scrapping work backlog in the shop. The problem is that i'm running out of material and there's not much new stuff coming in these days. ( What little that does come in gets quarantined for a week. )

I guess i'll have to go on to generators & firewood pretty soon. I've got 2 operational gas jobbies and three other gasoline powered machines in the shop that need to be gone through. One propane home standby unit installation but that will have to wait for another month or so. Ten cord of firewood for next winter will be a month of Sundays so it's not like there's a lack of things that need to be done.

It's a pretty full life.

Originally Posted by snorton1

Nice job, tOOnces2!

Thank you. I feel kinda bad because all the painting there you can see are the three windows and shutters and gutters, the rest is brick. The rest of the way around the house is all wall that had to be painted.

I mowed my yard, after waiting all winter.

I built a castle.

Then I moved it.

Then it flooded.

So then I rebuilt it again.

Stupid sand castles.

Tomorrow I'm running a class on how make sand angels.

Social distancing will be enforced. All coolers next to me, everyone else out in the ocean.

Sirscrapalot -

I got the first picture joke, not sure about the second.

But, i remembered today going into a café with friends one 1994 night, we all got coffee around one table. Soon i realised that since we were all in a 'condition', we were going to be everybodys elses entertainment.
So i ordered a plate of nachos. When they arrived.
"Whats those?"
"Nachos"
"Can i have some?"
"No"
"Why not"
"Because they are nachos".

Rebuilding/repainting the bobcat trailer.

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

I got the first picture joke, not sure about the second.

But, i remembered today going into a café with friends one 1994 night, we all got coffee around one table. Soon i realised that since we were all in a 'condition', we were going to be everybodys elses entertainment.
So i ordered a plate of nachos. When they arrived.
"Whats those?"
"Nachos"
"Can i have some?"
"No"
"Why not"
"Because they are nachos".

That dude was jalapeno in your business.... translation = All up in your business.

Sirscrapalot - Excelling at confusing others during these trying times.

Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

That dude was jalapeno in your business.... translation = All up in your business.

Sirscrapalot - Excelling at confusing others during these trying times.

Studies have shown that the funniest jokes need to be explained.

Originally Posted by Patriot76

It is nice when I get frustrated trying to build or fix things I can go to the shed and break things to my hearts desire. This is a blessing that many individuals do not get to enjoy. To my disappointment, my wife does not consider this part of a honey-do list. The secret to life is balance, you need to find the right ratio of things you break to the things you fix. The wife believes in a ratio of 1 to 1, I am leaning towards a 1,000 to 1.

Ohh yeah .... been there. I was in the trades for over 30 years with the last 16 years spent as a self employed freelance carpenter. A few years ago i transitioned into a low skilled job pumping gas and serving the community. It's apples & oranges. Two completely different things.

One is precision work where all the little 1/16ths & 1/8" of an inch make all of the difference in the world. You're creating something and doing it all by the numbers so that it all comes together at the end of the project.

Scrapping is production work where you are destroying stuff.

I don't do very much skilled work anymore. My head isn't in the right place. I hire it out if i can.