Category: House

Oct 11 2013

LR wall day 37

All the wall patching has been done and the supports for the shelf has been fabricated and installed. Now it is time for painting which is a problem, as my original cans of paint have dried out. I hope I can get a good color match at H.D.

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I also decided to paint the white wall speakers black. They just stand out too much in a blue wall.

Sep 19 2013

LR wall day 15

The wall is now sheet rocked, but I don’t like al the outlet boxed and the separate support for the TV. I also decided not to use curtains so I am going to change the design element too.

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I decided to cover over all the boxes and and move the TV to the back wall. Sure wish I knew from the beginning where this project was going. I would have saved myself a bunch of time.

Sep 16 2013

Sheet Rock day 12

The walls are up and some of the wiring is now done. I decided that the living room mess is driving me crazy. So I plan to finish the LR side first then transition into the closet.

This is the stud wall up.

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With 2 sheet of wall board. I will have the rest of the board up tomorrow, and taped and mudded. I’ll also finish up the last of the wiring. Then I’ll really be able to straighten up the LR and get back to a semblance of normality…

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What a mess of wiring!

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My first iteration of the wall. I don’t think I really like the look of the TV on it’s own support…

Sep 05 2013

LR Renovation 2

Today started with taking my Mercedes into the shop to have a problem fixed…. Then it was off to the airport to vist Bob and talk some with him. He is building (playing actually) an SQ2000 canard with a full retract system on it. He doesn’t make it often to CHS so it was good to catch up for a few hours.

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Next it was home to start on the wall again. I was able to get all the studs up and tomorrow, the wiring will be started for speakers and electrical. Once done, the wall can be sheet rocked.

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Sep 04 2013

Living Room Renovation 1

Today I started my living room renovation.

When I moved up from a low resolution 52” standard definition TV to a HDTV the Home Theater websites I consulted recommended a distance of 8.5-11 ft away from HDTV. I then came up with the idea of shortening the LR to move the TV closer to the viewer.

So I temporarily shortened the living room to see how I would like it. Then I put up a bunch of sheets from Walmart to make a curtain and located all the equipment is behind the sheets and found I REALLY liked the viewing distance and didn’t miss the size of the room at all.

With a lot of extra space behind the curtain, I made the decision to enlarge my bedroom close. Seemed like a no brainer.

My GOAL with this project is to have a built in entertainment center, and a MASSIVE closet I could just about live in. I’ll never come out of the closet and announce my….. completion.

It will be 7 x 32 feet with lots of built in drawers, cubby holes, make-up disk for a woman, and a dressing area. When I sell the house it will make a huge impact on the wives who looks at it.

A lot of work, but I am tired of my cramped closet.

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This is the other side of the wall.

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The LR before the start of the work. One of my favorite rooms. Clean and not busy.
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After the wall removal, this is how much more space I have to work with.l.

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Curtain is down, Framing of the new wall is started. Finally, I am on my way.

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Jul 05 2013

Getting ready for the big move

Today I prepared the truck for moving the Cozy 3 to the Mount Pleasant airport. I really think the aero club is going to close and since I have a hangar in Mt P anyway then I am prepared if the club close while I’m on vacation.

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While swimming, I notice the vinyl area under the ladder pads seem a bit scratched and abraded but not the other side.

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With a close examination, I found a bit of metal embedded in the foot! It was probably there when I built the ladder, so it was probably the cause of the roughness. It was surgically removed and both of the pads were sanded smooth.

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Tomorrow I will meet Scott at the club who will helping me with the move.

Apr 30 2013

Grand Rapids EFIS

I decided an install a representation of an Electronic Flight Information System display by Grand Rapids in the hole of the the design. This is just a paper one which is given out at air shows but eventually I want to have one made which indicates the plane flying into the Charleston Airport complete with proper engine and altitude information. Carlos at GTR said he would make it for me if I give him the flight data for the plane.

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I intend to back light the design to go with the night lighting of the plane.

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Apr 27 2013

A new carard is born

The end wall was assembled without a hitch. Amazingly, I did not have to cut or make any changes to the project at all. Apparently the careful planing with the design program worked perfectly.

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Some white paint on the plane really sets it out from the rest of the boards. I plan to install small LED lights into the structure to highlight the runway, the thresh hold lines and the VASI lights. Natrually, there will have to be some wingtip running lights and strobe lights.

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Hum, what should I do with the big hole in the fusalage?

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Apr 26 2013

Screen Framing

I wanted to do something different for the screening of the pool area. So with my trusty Acad. program I designed a little art work into the project.

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Crazy thing is it actually took me longer to come up with a design I liked than it did to build it. With a good set of plans, I cut all the pieces in about 3 hours. There is not one 90 deg cut in the design. Every one of them is an angle cut which I made on the miter saw.

All the pieces are now cut.

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When I started assembling it, I thought there is NO WAY this is going to work out or fit proper.

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A new airplane is born.

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The installation has started.

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Apr 18 2013

Pool Decking is done

Today the pool decking was completed. I really like the look of it the deck and how well it fits together. For some reason the spacing just worked out perfectly.

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Next is the interior steel for the sides. AS you can see there is lots of insulations (3” of it) on the sides and it needs to be covered for the liner to be installed.

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I am using what remains of the old round steel pool I salvaged gosh, it must have been 12 years ago (kept it for a future project). I hate throwing useful stuff away when I might need it someday. Well the someday has come.

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