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My wife has been after me to help her organize our storage room in the basement. She had the room emptied out, and was planning ways to improve the organization of the storage inside the room. She wanted a large set of shelves to store stuff on, and was planning to use some old counter-tops I salvaged from work. Last weekend, she dragged me into the room, and I figured out a way to rebuild the existing shelves to form a support system to hold the counter-tops as four shelves along the length of one wall of the room.
Yesterday, when we got home from church, I changed clothes and dug out my tools. I spent the rest of the afternoon cutting boards and screwing them together to create the modular support. When I quit to fix dinner, I had six of my eight components built. This morning, I finished the last two, and cut the counter-tops to fit along the wall. My wife and I then installed them, and we now have four shelves, each six feet long and two feet deep. My wife is happy, and we might even be able to find things in that room now!
As my wife began to move all the contents of the storage room back where it belongs, I moved on to another project. The sink drain in our daughters' bathroom has been slowing down lately, to the point where I was afraid that it was going to be completely blocked soon. As much as I hate plumbing, it was time to take the trap apart and clean it out. When I got the trap off the drain, it wasn't blocked, so I dug out my plumber's snake and snaked the drain and then put the trap back together. The drain now runs freely. I was stunned at how smoothly it all went. Normally, jobs like this take me about five times longer than they should!
Of course, I was basking in my success when I noticed water dripping off the pipes. At first, I thought that I hadn't tightened all my drain fittings properly, but when I looked closer, I realized that the faucet fixture was leaking, badly. So, it was off to the home improvement store to buy a new fixture. I figured it was looking at a couple of hours of banged knuckles and stifled cursing to remove the old fixture and install the new one, but again, I was surprised. The old one came off in about twenty minutes, and the new one only took about fifteen minutes to install.
So, I feel like I actually accomplished something this weekend. While I can't really say that I enjoyed my holiday, it was good to get some things done around the house. Tomorrow, its back to the office and the usual grind...
Yesterday, when we got home from church, I changed clothes and dug out my tools. I spent the rest of the afternoon cutting boards and screwing them together to create the modular support. When I quit to fix dinner, I had six of my eight components built. This morning, I finished the last two, and cut the counter-tops to fit along the wall. My wife and I then installed them, and we now have four shelves, each six feet long and two feet deep. My wife is happy, and we might even be able to find things in that room now!
As my wife began to move all the contents of the storage room back where it belongs, I moved on to another project. The sink drain in our daughters' bathroom has been slowing down lately, to the point where I was afraid that it was going to be completely blocked soon. As much as I hate plumbing, it was time to take the trap apart and clean it out. When I got the trap off the drain, it wasn't blocked, so I dug out my plumber's snake and snaked the drain and then put the trap back together. The drain now runs freely. I was stunned at how smoothly it all went. Normally, jobs like this take me about five times longer than they should!
Of course, I was basking in my success when I noticed water dripping off the pipes. At first, I thought that I hadn't tightened all my drain fittings properly, but when I looked closer, I realized that the faucet fixture was leaking, badly. So, it was off to the home improvement store to buy a new fixture. I figured it was looking at a couple of hours of banged knuckles and stifled cursing to remove the old fixture and install the new one, but again, I was surprised. The old one came off in about twenty minutes, and the new one only took about fifteen minutes to install.
So, I feel like I actually accomplished something this weekend. While I can't really say that I enjoyed my holiday, it was good to get some things done around the house. Tomorrow, its back to the office and the usual grind...
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