I'm not an electrician, but I bet this is just from overtightening past light bulbs and not a wiring issue. You might be able to fix the light sockets, try googling lights keep burning out.

Nice floors!

Paging microbet.

If he doesn't show up, I'll fill in for him: "Call an electrician, do not **** with your electric service if you don't know what you're doing."

Deezy: I'm more reluctant to use self-clean because we don't want anything at 900+ degrees in the house, plus it sets dogs off. It's something I'll do ~once a year combined with regular cleanings. But yes it's mega wear & tear. I despise scrubbing the oven though.

Also bamboo floors are cool and those look great. They don't show much either in natural, pretty sure we have a dark-stained version in the cards for us. I like hard maple but been there, done that, and need something that will stand up to two dogs.

Bamboo is def one of the most sensible adds to flooring options and an ideal material. Not about huggin' trees but nice to know you don't have to sweat harvesting the stuff. I've been more sensitive because there are woods I've built guitars with 5 years ago that you can't buy anymore because of treaties, the rosewood and ebony you get anymore is much paler than we used to get too because the dark stuff is...anyway.

CDL: Bulbs may be in too tight as mentioned. If that doesn't fix whip out a voltmeter if you have and see if your outlets in your place are a little hotter than expected, get an electrician if so. If it were just one light the fixture wiring might be a little loose, usually quick/easy DIY fix, but with more than one it's probably how the bulbs are going in. Beyond that call them out.

CDL:

If you've been messing with the bulbs, and they still go out (on all the lights on the same switch), then you need to go back to the switch.

It may be that the toggle is loose, and this will be easy to identify if are able to jiggle it around without any resistance that you would feel when turning on/off the switch.

If that's not it, then you need to pull the switch off the wall.

Shut off the breaker and place tape over it so if anybody for any reason is checking on the panel, you reduce the risk of them flipping the circuit back on.

Pull the switch off the wall and check for loose screws connecting the wires to the terminals. If the screws are loose, tighten them.

If you find that the lights flicker when you turn on the microwave, oven, blender, or other high demand item, then you may be experience voltage fluctuation. If it's the last, I would hire an electrician.

One bulb, the furthest from the switch, has had no problems ever. It has also never needed to be changed in the 2 years I have lived there while the others have been changed a time or two. The switch itself feel perfectly fine and the flickering is unrelated to other appliance usage. It used to be at the point where I could readjust the bulb and be ok for a few months, but this recent time I have only been able to get it working for a few hours before screwing up again and even that takes me 15+ min of toggling with the bulb to get it working briefly.

Thanks for the help to everyone though. I will look into the bulb tightening issue and check voltage, etc.

Check this link out CDL:

http://www.askthebuilder.com/light-b...n-out-quickly/

Oven self-cleaning is great for pizza-making though!

informative. I will check this.

I would speak with a professional accountant on how you can qualify the repair/renovation as tax deductible before making the decision to invest the money.

Semi-relevant: my wife a while back mentioned something about needing a filing cabinet for stuff, so I decided to make one for her birthday. It'll be the first piece of furniture I've built. I've got all the pieces cut and just put it together to make sure everything is right. Next I'll take it back apart, sand and stain it, and then put it together for real. I don't have drawer slides in so the drawers are just mocked there, they'll be more centered with slides in.



And I just noticed the grain on the drawer fronts are going different ways, that might bother me enough to buy more oak and redo one of the fronts.

It bothers me too.

Yeah do it unless you're painting it a solid color. It jumps out at you raw, will be awful with stain and finish on it. You could always slap an oak veneer on the drawer fronts or just the one if thin enough. Really you could veneer the entire thing as flat as it is with all the 90 degree angles if you wanted.

By the way, I like the drawer with the grain horizontal.

Yup, gotta redo the drawer or it will mock you for the rest of your life.

Why would I veneer? If it's cost/effort, I don't mind doing it over. As long as this thing doesn't turn out ugly I'd like to keep it for a long time, so a little bit of extra money and time isn't a big deal.

I have a router and considered doing something with the top piece, but the router I have is a hand-me-down and the bit adjustment is kind of broken, so I hate messing with it.

EDIT: And I've got some edge banding for exposed edges of the plywood.

You definitely have to redo that cabinet drawer, it would bother me so much I would end up smashing it into pieces. Drawer grains go horizontal fwiw.

CDL, best to spend the money and call an electrician. Maybe you have a loose wire in the light fixture, or maybe the wiring to the bulb socket is faulty.

Interested in seeing the end result RDH. That drawer going against the grain had me tilting from the first second, wp on changing that before setting it in stone because it could easily induce rage.

I have a few spare rooms that I've been trying to make into something that resembles a place where people live. I've had some basic stuff done before like new carpeting/laminate in all the rooms and stairs and repainting the hallways/some rooms etc. Would this be the right place to ask for some advice on what to do with them ? There is hardly any fixing left to do, just have to populate it but Im like really stupid with interior design.

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Enclosed this because yolo

Also went through the trouble of a small video of that room which I can post, this room is haunting me the most atm. The dots is where a sink is located.
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I'd really love to put at least a bed/tv/desk there but I've done that before and it just looks so empty, not really like anyone is living there iykwim.

That room's pretty big. What do you plan to use it for? If you're planning to rent it out, there's room for a bed, desk, dresser, couch and TV. It could also be a big living room with couch, love seat, recliner, coffee table, TV and electric fireplace or something.

With spring coming up I've also started working on the second half of my wooden fence (?). I've sanded down the door for 90%, just needs some manual labor tomorrow before its done. Hoping the temperatures allow for putting the varnish on, the right side was done last year and the left side will be done upcoming week if everything moves along fine. Its probably the improvement that has made one of the most impacts on my backyard.

Will post results when its done.

I dont think I want to rent out rooms anymore (wouldnt mind a housemate) but I do want the possibility of someone being able to stay over. I actually kind of like that last idea as I've always been stuck with the thought of needing an actual 2 person bed but if I could get a quality couch that could function as both a bed and couch that would be awesome and at least my brother would still have a place to sleep when he comes over.

The bed really messes up the flow of that room because its always close to the middle wherever you put it. I even have a spare minifridge that I could fit in there somewhere. AND it would allow me to chill out by myself once my gf moves in. Going to mill over that for a bit to see what its going to cost me.
Ill put out the video anyway because f yeah:

o_O wowzers that is prettaj cool thanks a lot .... mind disclosing what software you used for that ? Could use it for all of my other rooms .

http://www.floorplanner.com/

this is a problem from last week that i'm going to fix today. HD/Lowes do not carry the proper fitting, so I had to search for a pick it up from a plumbing store.

i opened up my irrigation box to find it full of water. the box is located just to the left of my main and was installed by the previous owner.

Here is (was, more on this later) the exposed area





It was leaking just below the T. The coupler below the T is connected to what appears to be a brass pipe, which was shoved in the black pvc (?) and secured with hoser clamps.

I originally though the leak was at the T, but once I ripped it apart, the pipe inserted into the black pvc has a worm trail worn in it and a pinhole. bingo.

I do not want the irrigation, so I ripped everything out and headed to lowes....which was incredibly under stocked. I wasn't sure what I needed, but they didn't even have a pvc 45* elbow, so my cart ended up full of galvanized...





It leaks much...much less now, but yeah...slow drip. The spot at the top dripping seems easy enough to fix, but I checked it this morning and it does look like it is leaking from the clamps at the bottom, so eventually...same problem.


this past week, I found a proper 1" barbed fitting to install into the 1" black poly (bottom). Unfortunately though, I could only find a 1"barb-1"Mnpt (male). You are not suppose to screw metal into pvc because it can (will) crack the female pvc fitting, so it looks like I'll be leaving it galv.




oh, plus I've got 2cy of 3/4" "california gold" gravel delivered for in front of the fence that I need to finish spreading out... :/