Projects around the house

[BurnItDwn]

I intend to complete this first list within a reasonable amount of time

1. Upgrade my PC (replace video card and power supply. Upgrade boot drive from an Seagate 7200.9 to a WD640 drive)
2. Finish work on GF's PC (her PC had been crashing frequently for years, found problem to be Hard Drive (never had any errors, but machine would totally lock up every 20 minutes or so. I stuck in my spare drive (5400rpm 20GB, ouch) and installed XP and it ran fine for 3 days. I am going to install a faster drive and Windows and apps.
3. fix the sidewalk and steps to the house from the driveway so that no one trips on it and sues us
4. powerwash the deck and restain it.
5. get a truck
6. get a decent ladder and go on the roof and clear out all the gutters
7. add more insulation to the attic
8. replace some wood panel walls with new drywall & paint.
9. Paint the siding on my house.
10. replace main breaker panel (currently 100 amp, 20 breakers, upgrade to 150 or 200 amp with at least 30 breakers)
11. refinish part of the basement and add some additional circuits for electronics and so I can run a microwave downstairs without shutting off my computers.
12. build new home theater in the refinished area
13. replace hot water heater
14. replace central AC unit
15. replace/upgrade ventilation as needed (already sealed up all visible major leaks with tape)
16 replace furnace

These are long term eventual goals that I don't intend to meet any time soon.
1. Add 50 watt electrical sub panel.
2. build fully enclosed "gazebo" in the back yard, 12 x 12 square. Put wood burning stove and hot tub in gazebo.
3. build a 2 car garage at street level (about 5 feet lower than my ground floor on my house since my property is sloped), Build a second story above the garage making the entire area living area. Extend the living room by 6 feet to connect to the new garage. Have the stairs in the garage so that you can go down to the basement from there or up to the living room from there. Remove the existing stairway and extend the kitchen by that amount of space.

 

[DrPizza]

I've got about 1000 feet of fencing to put up, get the corner posts put in, etc.
Vault the kitchen ceiling & put in the skylights that I bought
Now that I have the hole dug, figure out how to build a form for exterior stairs down to my basement - finish that whole project off
After I have an exterior entrance to the basement, then the kitchen wall gets moved back 4+ feet.
Begin stage 1 of the kitchen remodeling job: new floor & new cabinets, sink on the new side. Replace countertop on the old side, eliminating the old sink.

 

[Chunkee]

tiling last two bathrooms. eegads...ruff work...bleh. my father and i gutted our kitchen last year and built at 50,000 galley kitchen for my wife. I tiled the whole floor...after doing that, i told my wife to remind me to never tile again...well she forgot...one bathroom down and one to go....it looks good though.

next will finish the sheetrock in the garage, pulll everything out and paint it. level all cabinets from old kitchen in there and put on new counter top. after that... paint porch spindles and rails and columns; fix screens that cat tore up, put a a screen door on the garage rear entrance, and powerwash house and concrete pad on the side.

beer time afterwards...

 

[oddyager]

Our water heater is leaking from the bottom. Going to have to flip it and see if its a crack we can fix or buy a new one.

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
1. Part of my property is a clearing where I like to have campfires in the middle of my woods that are next to my house. I am going to dig a firepit, fill it with gravel and line it with brick. I'm still trying to decide if I want to rig some sort of swing arm to hold a pot and/or grate for cooking purposes. I already have purchased and hauled about 850 used 100-year-old bricks; I just need to finish the job now.

2. In the same area, I want to install a nice picnic table. Some of the bricks I bought will be used to make a pad for the table so I won't have to mow under it.

3. The path that runs from my house to this clearing needs some work - it is on the side of a steep hill and needs some shoring. I'm going to buy some 8"x8"x12' salt treated lumber to stabilize the path. Then if I can buy some more used bricks, I'm going to gravel then brick the entire path - all 300'-400' feet of it. I already know a guy who has the bricks I need; I just need to talk him down on price.

4. One ongoing task involves my woods. The previous owner of my property was real zealous about cleaning out undergrowth, which to him was anything smaller than a full grown tree. The result of this is that I have no young trees and about a million old trees, many of which are dead or dying. I constantly am planting saplings in the woods to help my woods become healthy again (i.e. I want my woods to stay dense even when some of the old trees finally fall).

5. Wage war on various insects.

 

[child of wonder]

1. Finish hauling rock from driveway to edging around the house. 1/3 done. 6 more tons to go.
2. Remove carb from snowblower and send to uncle so he can fix it.
3. Install kill switch for water heater so final electrical inspection can be done, then final inspection of finished basement.
4. Clean and stain deck.

I'm probably forgetting many others....

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: Squisher
I just got my honey do list down to the last few items. Before she thinks of more. :roll:

Bleh, I HATE it when people say "honey do list". I just don't get it, do some women dictate a list of tasks for their partners and expect them to do it alone? My spouse and I do pretty much all of the projects around the house/property together. If one person doesn't know much about a particular task, the other one directs the work while the one who doesn't know just does what he/she is asked to do and runs after tools/supplies.

 

[Canai]

Hanging pictures on the walls, working out the details of where my HT audio is going to go, killing those FUCKING ANTS that have been here since the flood, and de-molding my shower curtain. That's just at my place. I have a couple running projects at the parent's house too. HTPC is being built, server as well. Organizing all of my step dad's tools. There's some siding that needs to be re-hung, some shingles need tar, one of the roof vents needs replacement, gutters need screening, the list goes on and on haha.

 

[ForumMaster]

well we don't have so many projects around the house but rather the house is our current project...we're building our house now and since my dad is the architect, he is constantly there to make sure everything is done right. in the meanwhile, we're packing and getting ready to move.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Squisher
I just got my honey do list down to the last few items. Before she thinks of more. :roll:

Bleh, I HATE it when people say "honey do list". I just don't get it, do some women dictate a list of tasks for their partners and expect them to do it alone? My spouse and I do pretty much all of the projects around the house/property together. If one person doesn't know much about a particular task, the other one directs the work while the one who doesn't know just does what he/she is asked to do and runs after tools/supplies.

My wife has in the past helped me a ton on projects, but now I'm retired and she travels for her job. Besides I like to blame her for stuff, it just makes me feel better.