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Another New Addition to Our House.

Yesterday Christi and I were going to Costco to pickup some stuff for the camping trip we are going on tomorrow. On our way there we passed Lowes in Elk Grove. It’s been a while since I was in Lowes so I decided to stop by and check it out. When we got to the front of the store we saw what our kitchen needed more than anything else, a portable dishwasher! And as luck would of had it it was a floor model or return that was discounted over 50%. The website lists it for $367 and we got it for ony $150! Pretty awesome deal. Once we got home we loaded it up with our pile of messy dishes and hooked it up. It took a minute to get working but after it got warmed up it worked like a charm, now we finally can be positive that our dishes are clean!

24-Inch Nautilus� Convertible Dishwasher (Color: White) ENERGY STAR�

Here is Christi loading it up for the first time.

Another project for another day.

I have too many home projects going on right now! I have yet to finish the trim on the window I just installed, I didn’t get any of the work done last Sunday that I wanted to, I bought a new celing fan to install in my living room (and my living room doesn’t have a fixture for it), I need to get my old concrete dumped, this Friday Our landscape department manager, Greg, is going to help me layout my sprinkler system for the lawn I want to get installed this summer, In the next week or two my uncle is going to help me set the forms for my new patio that I want poured sometime in the next month, I still need to install new carpet in my living room and front bedroom, I want to install a new front door, I need to paint my shed…

I don’t even want to mention the kitchen or bathroom…

but, inspite of all that I can still find more projects that I want/need to do, like these two electrical projects:

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/knowhow/electrical/article/0,16417,562098-5,00.html
4: Too Few OutletsWhat it means: Heavy reliance on extension cords and power strips.Code violation? No; grandfathered in. (Today’s codes require receptacles within 4 feet of a doorway and every 12 feet thereafter.) Danger level: Minimal, as long as you use heavy-duty extension cords, 14-gauge or thicker. (The thicker the wire, the lower the gauge number.) Undersize extension cords (16-gauge or smaller) can overheat and ignite a fire if loads are too heavy. Solution: Add more outlets. Expect to pay an electrician about $100 per first-floor outlet and double that for second-floor work. (There will likely be a minimum charge.) This work requires cutting holes in walls and ceilings to snake the wires. Some electricians will patch the holes; others leave the patching to you.

and

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/knowhow/electrical/article/0,16417,562098-6,00.html
5: No GFCIsWhat it means: Increased risk of electrocution in wet areas, such as baths and kitchens. GFCIs (ground-fault circuit interrupters) shut down circuits in 4 milliseconds, before current can cause a deadly shock.Code violation? No; grandfathered in. (Codes today require GFCIs within 4 feet of any sink and on all garage, basement, and outdoor outlets.)Danger level: High.Solution: Replace old receptacles with GFCIs (about $12 each). This is a simple job that many homeowners do themselves. Electricians charge about $20 per outlet. (There will likely be a minimum job charge.) Note: As an alternative, GFCI breakers ($25) can be installed on the main panel. But then every time one trips, you have to go down to the basement to reset it.

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Clinton Offered 40 Goats For Daughter

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You know, Clinton should take the offer… I mean trading 1 goat for 40 is a great deal!!!

Check out this cool multi use tool from the Ice Age!

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House project #137 – Installing a new window.

This house is just one project after another. If you read my previous entries you’d know that a while back I bought two windows from a sale at the Home Depot. These windows were really good quality windows, but their nailing fins were ripped out. The nailing fins serve two purposes in a window:

1. To nail the window to the framing of the house
2. To keep water from leaking into the house when it rains.

Now, I didn’t know anything about windows when I bought these. All I knew at the time is that they’d fit into my old single pane windows and that they were a great deal, $20 a piece! I figured that these probably were store display models that they no longer wanted. Once I learned about the nailing fins and what their purpose was I didn’t want to install the windows for fear of future problems with leaks and wood rot.

But one day Ed the handy man came into my life, he told me he could install them for me at $75 a pop. That sounded like a deal to me, i figured i’d have two new installed windows for a total of $95 a piece, installed! You can’t beat a deal like that! He said that you just need to make sure that you do a good caulking job. However, Ed the handyman turned out to be a flake. He only installed one window, which he didn’t get all the way finished. I blogged about that here, here, and here (BTW, I still have all the stuff that Ed left here). When Ed installed the window I watched him and it looked fairly simple, so I took on the task. You can see all my pictures below.

The one thing that Ed screwed up on was that when he installed the window he didn’t make sure that it would line up right with the rest of the windows. So when I installed the last window I made sure that it would align with the other front window. However after I did that I noticed that the window Ed installed was 2 inches higher that the one I installed! That dip shit. So, I guess you get what you pay for. But, on the other hand, if i’d never seen Ed install that one window I wouldn’t have realized how easy it was and neither of them would have been installed.

I think the only things I’m going to work on today are finishing the window and installing two soffits into my shed.

Note: The one stuipd thing about Blogger is that it only shows a few of the current posts, so you can’t see all the pictures i posted up from my window project unless you click here.

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I ran out of dry wall so this is what the window looks like after day 1. 

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Here I am with caulk in hand! 

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Here I have insullation installed, caulk layed down, and I’m screwing the window in.