DIY Renos

Well done Norm



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I designed it so I could shut off any major plumbing zone, without affecting the others. and did it for both the Hot and Cold water lines


I've done the same thing to our house:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

I held back installing the main floor ceiling drywall and vent fan in the bathroom, because the new upstairs bathroom lines are directly above. Now I can finish it up. With all the plumbing on the same side of the house, I gain more workshop space in the basement; I can have staright stair access to the basement and get full sheets of plywood into the shop, and we can get our kingsize bed upstairs!

These prairie houses were built for existing, not living or upgrading. This one will now.

 

Norm - it is really good to have you back and posting. Always enjoy your updates on the house, wagon, other projects.

Your wife must be very proud of you right about now.

 

I'm kind of lucky that her jealous streak prevents her from telling her co-workers what I've done. She tells her sisters in Mexico, but they're 2,600 miles away. 2 neighbours (single women in their early 50s) keep trying to get me over to fix stuff, but she's the Defenseman!

I'll be on and off during the winter (Home drywalling/ painting/ stairs/ partitions), but in the Spring. My wagon goes to the top of the TO DO list!

 

Sounds like you have plenty of reason to be both a happy camper and a proud bastard! Good work. Not easy to plumb a whole house like that. By the way, the 'pros' figure if there is a 1% leak rate, they are doing well when it comes to copper supply line soldered joints! At least here in Ontario!

 

Thanks Mike. I'm glad to say that there aren't any leaks (0%), only the ones I want, when the taps are open.

Noticed you've got a nice 1978 T-Bird. There's one here in Manitoba, with this auto-wrecker. It looks fairly complete under the hood and interior, if you need some bits.

http://midnightauto.ca/

 

...what??...no one drowned?....or crashed?...or lit on fire??
....ITS a Beautiful day in Normland...........

Hya Normy

 

Noticed you've got a nice 1978 T-Bird. There's one here in Manitoba, with this auto-wrecker. It looks fairly complete under the hood and interior, if you need some bits.

http://midnightauto.ca/[/QUOTE]


Thanks for the link. It says Thunderbird not found. They have what looks to be a GREAT 1960 Ford Galaxie sedan, though. Looks terrific! Nora is a rolling wreck, I'm afraid. The picture in my avatar was taken the day I bought her. Unfortunately, the man I bought her from had been ripped off by the body shop. Bondo over carpet does not stand up to winter, nor to people hitting the old girl. Soon time to shop for a complete, intact, car!

 

Bondo over carpet does not stand up to winter
Must have been the same body man I bought a few cars from. At least the cut beer cans in the floor of my 55 wagon seemed to hold up fairly well till I got it.
Also cardboard does not work in wet climates behind bondo. However screen wire isn't bad.
Who'dda thunk ?

 

I have used bondo and bed sheet to certify a car. had to take a cold chisel to it to remove it for proper repair, too. The trick is to coat BOTH sides of the cloth! These idiots only coated the outside. Of course, they also charged the gentleman $3,000 to 'fix' the part of the car that is painted blue! I have the receipt! To bad it was done 12 years ago. Oh, the joys of buying a car that is so carefully driven!

 

Thanks for the link. It says Thunderbird not found. They have what looks to be a GREAT 1960 Ford Galaxie sedan, though. Looks terrific! Nora is a rolling wreck, I'm afraid. The picture in my avatar was taken the day I bought her. Unfortunately, the man I bought her from had been ripped off by the body shop. Bondo over carpet does not stand up to winter, nor to people hitting the old girl. Soon time to shop for a complete, intact, car![/QUOTE]

A lot of his cars aren't listed. Send him an email (Shawn or ??? - don't remember the other guy's name) and ask him about it. It's white with a red vinyl roof. He's got a baby blue Fairmont wagon that I've scavenged parts from, over the years.

 

Proof positive that Pride Precedeth the Fall...

There's two small electric instant (On-Demand) hotwater heaters under the kitchen counter area. The documentation comes with pictures and drawings, for a single unit OR a series of units. One unit will heat up to 3 gallons per minute (gpm), 2 will feed just over 6 gpm.

The clothes washer needs 4 gpm, a regular tap uses around 2 gpm, the dishwasher wants just under 2 gpm. With 2 units, I can feed both bathrooms or those major water appliances.

The older one has a special circuit board with a fuse that protects the main heater integrated circuit. 1/10 of an AMP on a 220 to 250 Volt circuit. Couldn't find one locally, so I ordered one from Eastern Canada. Should be here this week.

But the really humiliating part of this little tale is that I didn't 'get' that the installation instructions clearly state to not connect them to 'Mixer Valves', but the picture for multi-unit setups shows how to make each unit able to run without the others.

Here's their picture:



Here's my installation on the mounting board:



Those 2 of mine don't have their own incoming coldwater shut-off. So when I ran the left-hand newer unit by itself, all I got was luke warm water in the tub. WHAT!?!?!?. The other unit was getting cold water in and since it wasn't heating, its output was also cold, mixing up the warm with the cold and giving luke-warm. I had visions of buying another one from Puerto Rico, or a small hotwater tank, and all those horrible thoughts, until I sat down and stared at them. SOB!!! I saw what was missing! 2 shut-off valves to make them independently operable! Did I feel like an idiot? Do bears crap in the woods?

The only appliance that would run optimally would be the clotheswasher. Ours are from Bosch, and it has its own water heat augmenter system, depending on the setting used, so if one of these two failed, everything would run just fine on one unit. The Bosch washer can also run with cold water, but ours comes in at 45 F during the winter, making it kind of useless. The Bosch does a good job with summer cold water coming in at 55 F, but it kind of chokes at 45 F.

Anyway, I humbly and hopefully think I did a good job, enough to be able to recognize my blindspot. RTFM and look at the factory Pics.

 

Hey Rev! Hows the yard filling up?

Nope, no drownings. no more crashes, except toe-stubbing on the icey sidewalks.

 

I'm disappointed with our City's Water authourity. I just installed the water filters about 2 weeks ago, and they're already light brown (past beige - 2 filters!

Our water comes from 140 kilometers away from Shoal Lake, Manitoba, right next to a First Nations Reserve that is still waiting for their sewage system to be repaired from leaching into the lake. I'll bet they've got signs in their homes "Flush Twice, its a long way to Winnipeg!"

Our Federal Indian Affairs is well-known for dragging their butts to fix anything, so the City went on a Chlorine campaign. Now its smells like Floor cleaner and looks like sh*t! :banghead3:

And the real bite is that the water bill has 3 items:

Water cost: $13.00
Billing fee: $12.75
Sewage Treatment cost: $18.00

That's a summer bill per month, averaged out. They bill us every 3 months, Oh and tax on the Billing Fee! They give us this muck to drink and bathe in, more like a sideline than a reason for its existence.

So I've got a brain-wave. Set up a Rain/Snow water recovery system for 100% in-house water, using a passive solar boiler to clean and filter the water, and since the sewage cost is a percentage of 'clean' water usage, they'll have to figure out how to charge us for the billing fee! Don't worry, they'll probably try to say that their water is 'adequate', or use some legaleze to impose their will. But I'll go to the Press, and nail their game!:banghead3::banghead3: