My Father-in-Law, The Chatty Buddha, wanted me to make him a pizza peel and while I have built cutting boards and boat paddles, I hadn’t yet made a peel. I agreed, sourced the lumber from a local salvege store. It used to be flooring, but after some magic with the table saw, jointer, some glue, and a hand plane or three – he has a pizza peel that I gave to him for Christmas. I hope to be enjoying pizza from it for years to come.
Tag: F-Bomb Garage
House Remodel Status September 2, 2016 – 7.5 months in
Here is the house/garage re-build/build status for the 1st part of September.
- The F-Bomb Garage has been painted – at least the outside walls. I need to paint the trim and doors next.
- Repaired some major issues with the trim and siding on garage – real unhappy with my garage builder!
- Front yard is still green, but need to clean and re-seed the back yard.
- There oar only 2 rooms in the house that are complete and need no work at this point. Stamps-With-Foot could be happier with me right now…
- The mounting brackets for the granite in the basement are done and I will install them this weekend.
- Our washing machine went out… fuck. The bearings finally gave up the ghost. need to haul it out and put another in.
- No garage power yet. Huge load of confusion between the City of Seattle and my electrician. Maybe worked out now, but we will see.
- The yard is completely fenced in and the rear gate is installed. just a couple of tweaks and then power wash and polyurethane coat.
- The living room corner cabinets are in place, but not painted or installed.
- We have a small roof leak – motherfvcker!!! it is around the kitchen vent and from where the moss removal team got too eager with the power washer. I will go up there this weekend and seal it.
- Got a huge bill from our plumber for work that they didn’t do before abandoning the job. wanted to scan my ass into the 3D printer and send them a copy. Called a lawyer instead. we have a plan forward.
The yard is now secure for the puppies
I spent my evenings after work this week rebuilding 35’ of fence, connecting it to the corners of the new garage, and installing two gates using reclaimed boards and stringers from the original fence that I carefully tore down back in January. I reused the screws and most of the hardware, but had to buy 7 new treated posts, 2160 lbs of Sakrete, 4 bolts and two 2x8x10s. Total cost was $160 and 14 hours of labor including the tear down and hole digging.
My neighbor has been INCREDIBLY patient with me, my mess, noise, and building debris. When I rebuilt the fence on her side of the yard, I tore out some more of the existing, replaced two rotten posts and then leveled the tops of each section to make it look nicer. There were a couple of solid posts left from the previous fence location – about 2′ from the new garage – that I just couldn’t chop down or pull out so, I leveled them up and built her a simple trellis for honey suckle or wisteria. I also bought her a $50 Starbucks card as a small ‘Thank you!’.
The back gate and adjoining section is a nice mix of mostly reclaimed and reused hardware, boards, bits mixed with new posts and structural support. I did double up on the facing boards (set on both sides) for some additional privacy as our hot tub is right on the other side. The gate itself used to be on the opposite side of the yard. I had to trim it a bit to get it to hang plumb, and move some hardware around a little. I will be adding an additional hinge in the middle for added support and some face boards on the outside as well, so it gives the same amount of privacy and so it matches the fence. The whole thing then will get a power washing and a coat of polyurethane in the coming weeks.
