I got a little bit of the old skirting off the house. Started trying to dig the trench for the new stuff to slide into….Trying is the operative word there. I didn’t get very far. Hard place to dig into packed gravel, I may have to find a small mattock. Then it started to rain. By the time I got everything put away the rain stopped…lol.…[Read more]

Boschmanbrian wrote:Can I ask how did you realize that and how did you know

Chinese text when translated offering free fake diplomas…hundreds of them.

Doobie wrote:OK, just got off the phone with an engineer in Atlanta at Quikrete in regards to my stiffened 70 or so bags of ready-mix concrete. Based on how I described it, he said as long as I’m not doing anything structural or heavy load bearing, I should be OK. Phew!!!

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Thanks for the comments guys. I have used it a few times and I love it so far.

There will be one more video on it putting on the finishing touches, so stay tuned.

I finished drilling the mounting holes in the concrete board I am going to use for skirting. 24 panels X 19 holes in each. 254 holes. Naturally the battery in the drill needed changing 3 holes from finishing…lol.

Doobie wrote:But what a job.

Just looking at that stack makes my back ache…lol. Good to hear you have saved it successfully.

I made a couple of jigs/guides as a drilling template for the concrete panels I am using for the skirting and got a start on that. It’s still a boring (pun intended) job.

The 18V drill to drill holes in concrete panels. Lots more holes to go but I was surprised at how long the partially charged 2 AH battery lasted.

So close to being done! It’s finally time to glue this thing up and get some finish on it. Just a few minor things to do and it will be complete. Thanks for hanging in there for so long on this one. It’s over a year and a half since I cut up that log to start this build.

MTRoads wrote:Did a bit of prep work on the end of the shop that has the double-wide garage door panels permanently mounted in place. Plan will be to take them out and then frame things in to take a single-wide garage door.
Just having one man-door to get things in and out has been an issue.

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Got a video edited and uploaded. Should be on my channel tomorrow.

We went to the Manitoulin last weekend to spread my parents ashes. We stayed at a cottage in Sheguiandah where they had a nice stream running through the property.

I finally got the drawers and centre panel finished and installed in the bathroom. It’s a PITA doing it while the cabinet is installed. It would have been much easier last year when the cabinet was sitting in the shop. Except for that little thing we call winter and an unheated shop. Doors are on the agenda next.

Oh. I fixed a neighbours lawn tractor today too. It would fire up but not keep running. So I knew it had spark. It seemed like it was getting air OK. That only leaves fuel. Checked the hoses and the fuel pump. All OK. Started taking off shrouding and way underneath the carb was a connector just sitting there. Seems the carb has some sort…[Read more]

More digging of flower beds to clear them so I can do the skirting. Got the final coat of poly on the drawer fronts. The pulls we are sure we had are no where to be found. I bet they show up the day after we buy new ones.

smallerstick wrote:Doing the final packing up in the old shop, loading the truck and the trailer. Looking forward to setting up the new one, Pics of the new shop on Friday or Saturday.

Best of wishes and luck on your new big adventure.

Another day of multi tasking. I milled up the fronts of the vanity drawers to the point where I am finishing them now. I put in the window AC unit, which will have to come out when I change that window, and I made a drill spacing jig for the screw holes in the concrete board I am going to use for the skirting on the house. Slowly getting some…[Read more]

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:
With Lake Ontario having high water levels too there seems to be nowhere for the water too go.

They had flooding here again near me on the shore although not as bad as the last time. Weird this has been happening as it never happened before prior to recently.

Really! I thought I heard Lake Ontario…

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Small start on the skirting on our place. Put an ad in our community FB page to give away all the flowers that need to go to do the job. Dug them out for some of the older gals that showed up for them. Broke my shovel handle, got a new one, took off the horrible lacquer and coated it with linseed oil. Mowed the lawn. Dragged out the pool and…[Read more]

Boschmanbrian wrote:Wow , that’s some drive Jim , this is where your parents wanted the ashes spread.
Sorry don’t mean to pry.

Yup, up on the Manitoulin Island.