@Angeline, my son is going to buy something like that. It just needs to be fast enough for his games, and I understand cable is fastest. Or has been until lately. He's going to check something out with his friends. I'll forward him what you recommended above, thank you!
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Ah ... wireless generally isn't fast enough for games. Maybe he could get by with wireless most of the time, and only plug in when it isn't a tripping hazard!
"Speak your truth." - Scarlet Remember to play! Do the right thing, whether anyone is watching or not. Be married, until you are not.
We always lay the rug over most of the cable so that noone trips.
_____________________________________________________________________________ If you want us to be unapologetically feminine, be unapologetically masculine.
@Roses if you haven't dealt with the screen door yet ... don't bother with a repair kit.
It's just as easy to replace the entire screen, looks a lot better, and hardly more expensive.
Yes. I got quite proficient at replacing our slider screen door at our old house. We had a Beagle that went through it like three times going after squirrels. It is easy. Just take your time as you have to use a bit of force getting the spline in the track, so it's not hard to slip off the spline going too fast and then cut into the mesh.
@JellyBean and I finally finished the boys' bathroom:
The peel-and-stick floor tiles went down fairly easily. Next time we do this, I will use an additional spray-on adhesive, as a few of the tiles weren't completely stuck down in the center.
The white paint on the walls made the bathroom 50% better on its own. Then replacing the junk builder's flat mirror and ugly light fixture, and putting up a brighter shower curtain made huge strides, too.
We're definitely getting better at doing concrete on counter tops. A blog that JellyBean had found said to use an acrylic sealant. However, it's sort of soft, and I think it will have to be redone in a year or two.
Next time I will use the same floor finish we used on our kitchen cabinets and the stair hand railing. That stuff is really tough and smooth.
I think the next room in the house to tackle will be the master bath. It's got the same lame linoleum that the boys' bathroom had, a similar light fixture, and a big cheap flat mirror. JellyBean found a picture of a similar sink set up to ours (dual sinks) that had a pretty cool solution to the ugly mirror. Instead of replacing the mirror, the DIYers put framing around the mirror, with a central set of shelves, effectively dividing the mirror into two visually separate mirrors. I can't remember if the single light fixture was replaced with just one, or if there were two. Either way, a big improvement. We'll do peel-and-stick on the floors, too.
This would be "temporary" - it will last us a few years while we save up for the real deal:
Ultimately, we would like to make a radical transformation of the bathroom. In the screenshot, the far left opening is the door from the bedroom. Against the far wall are two separate spaces with short "L" shaped walls. The left one is where the tub was, the right one is where the shower was.
We would like to turn the former tub area into a shower area with a rain shower coming from the ceiling, and benches against the walls. The former shower area will just be a nicer shower. We have one window in the wall, over the tub, but I'm thinking of putting in two windows, the one by the regular shower being glass bricks. The other window would be openable... not yet sure what exactly the window will look like.
As we do this major reno, we will get rid of the carpet in the bedroom and master closet, and maybe put in real wood planks. Anything is better than the cheap carpet there now.
Lol, that's what I meant by repair! Put a new screen on. Except I couldn't find spline or a spline tool and ended up using a flat head screwdriver and the old spline, which hasn't worked so well. Doesn't stay more than a day or two. Stupid stores want to sell me a whole new storm door. Since the door isn't standard-nothing about this house is standardized- that translates to entire new door, doorway, locks . . . I'm going to see if Amazon sells spline. I'm such a blond, I don't know why I didn't think of that before!
Lol, that's what I meant by repair! Put a new screen on. Except I couldn't find spline or a spline tool and ended up using a flat head screwdriver and the old spline, which hasn't worked so well. Doesn't stay more than a day or two. Stupid stores want to sell me a whole new storm door. Since the door isn't standard-nothing about this house is standardized- that translates to entire new door, doorway, locks . . . I'm going to see if Amazon sells spline. I'm such a blond, I don't know why I didn't think of that before!
I've redone a couple of screens, and the rolling spline tool is a must-have.
Had a little downtime in the shop today so I decided to finish up the bathroom. I made up a frame for around the window so it would be easier to seal up when installed.
After the window was all sealed up I moved on to installing the game/heat lamp. The wiring was all in place from earlier in the year so it was just a matter of mounting the fan unit and running the ducting out through the soffit.
Lol, that's what I meant by repair! Put a new screen on. Except I couldn't find spline or a spline tool and ended up using a flat head screwdriver and the old spline, which hasn't worked so well. Doesn't stay more than a day or two. Stupid stores want to sell me a whole new storm door. Since the door isn't standard-nothing about this house is standardized- that translates to entire new door, doorway, locks . . . I'm going to see if Amazon sells spline. I'm such a blond, I don't know why I didn't think of that before!
Where are you shopping?
I found mine in Home Despot, right next to the rolls of screening.
Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH
So last Thursday a neighbor from across the street saw one of our sprinkler heads acting dorky. He offered to help fix it, plus any others that needed attention.
He's an awesome dude - we first met him late 2014. He has a thick Italian accent, and when I asked him if he was from the Old Country, he replied, "Yes, Brooklyn."
Anyhoo, he helped me for 5 hours last Friday digging up sprinkler heads, cutting away thick roots from our dumb tree, and repairing/replacing the heads.
I did the rest of the work on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, today, tomorrow, and forever and ever. I keep finding sprinkler heads hidden under this weird low, thick grass.
The main front portion of the yard now has working sprinklers. Now I have to finish digging up and fixing some closer to the house, then the back yard (only a few there).
Unfortunately, the Toro control system is on the fritz, as only one of the four zones turns on automatically. Might be some broken solenoids.
Soon we might actually have green lawns instead of fields of dirt clods!
I gotta hand it to our neighbor. He really took a lot of time to help us out, and he refused wine and/or beer. I don't know if he doesn't drink, or if he just doesn't want to accept anything in exchange for his help. Either way, he's super cool.
Hilda, my Home Despot (like that!) sent me to a local glass store, which had screen by the foot but no spline. 'Nobody replaces screens anymore. They just get new screen doors.' Which around here is more like nobody can afford new screen doors, so folks live with busted screens.
Hilda, my Home Despot (like that!) sent me to a local glass store, which had screen by the foot but no spline. 'Nobody replaces screens anymore. They just get new screen doors.' Which around here is more like nobody can afford new screen doors, so folks live with busted screens.
Our house was built with non-standard everything. I tried to find matching screens at Home Despot, but no dice. Which reminds me that I still have a ton of screens still to fix.
Dammit.
JellyBean is my wife.
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HildaCornersWinter? You call *that* winter?Gold WomenPosts: 3,377
Our BORG (Big Orange, another name I like for Home Depot) must be weird ... but New England still has old fashioned independent hardware stores — and five and dimes. And I haven't been in a Wal-Mart since I moved here ... don't know where the closest one is!
Anyway, my local BORG has several different types of roll screening, plus low and moderate quality screen rollers. I didn't realize other stores in the chain would have none.
[And I need to go there this weekend to buy stone tile for my gecko's new, larger tank floor. Dry laid tile, with large sand-filled gaps ... it will look pretty and I think she'll like it.]
Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH
Geekengineer, I didn't know you lived at my house!
I want to just replace the hardware in the old wood windows, and a cracked pane of glass in one. Others think new vinyl windows are the way to go. There is no option to repair the vinyl windows with busted openers, they have to be replaced entirely, and I hear from the window sales guys that we can't expect the hardware on the replacements to be good for more than twenty years, then the windows will have to be replaced again! How much bigger an energy saving deal are new windows versus old double panes? Mom hasn't had curtains because they "interfere with the view" but I will put curtains on as soon as construction is done on the new place and my folks move. Maybe blinds, but probably curtains-I like the softening effect.
@Roses, when I was in college, we had every single window in my fraternity house replaced. The original were single-pane wavy glass in wonky metal frames with huge gaps (winter really sucked!).
The new windows were brand-new double-pane nitrogen-filled vinyl affairs, but they required new structure to fit properly. So, for three (3) weeks, the window crew LIVED AT OUR HOUSE. They all snored horribly.
The crew would go room-by-room, removing the windows and the existing wooden framing, then put in new 2x4s to frame out the new windows. It was a tedious process, but it resulted in a huge improvement in the draftiness of the house. Oh, and thankfully as soon as the windows were installed we had new siding put on the outside of the house. It looked sooo much better.
I've never heard of the "you're going to have to replace the windows again in 20 years" thing. That is annoying.
The newer the window the better when it comes to energy savings. The latest and greatest back in 1995 is not as good as the latest and greatest in 2006. There are always small improvements in manufacturing that add up to long-term savings.
Go to homedepot.com and in the search box, enter: Fiberglass Screen Kit with Spline and Roller Purchase the kit online. Model # 3024907. It is $8.48. Select "Ship to Store" (this is free) They will email you when it comes in Print out your receipt and take it to the Customer Service desk
I apologize for not giving the direct link, every time I tried it kept displaying all kinds of details about my own location!
The reviews say the kit comes with good instructions
I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it. Anne Shirley - Anne of Avonlea
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HildaCornersWinter? You call *that* winter?Gold WomenPosts: 3,377
New windows will make a huge difference. It's not so much the glass, but the way they make the frames — there's a ton of leakage around old window frames.
The right curtains will help block the leaks ... but you'll probably need to sew your own. Check out a product called Warm Windows ... it's a combination curtain liner/batting insulation and a foil radiant barrier in one. It works really well ... if you seal the edges to the wall or window frame. The Warm Company used to sell magnet kits, you'd put one part in the hem of the curtain as you sewed it, and put the other part on the wall.
You can also take the cheap way ... pick up a piece of foil covered insulation board at BORG, and cut it to a jam fit in the window opening. Add tape handles, because you'll be taking it out every morning and putting it in every night. It's ugly, but it works.
[One of the many books I never wrote is full of energy saving tips. It doesn't take much to get me started on the subject!]
Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH
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Remember to play!
Do the right thing, whether anyone is watching or not.
Be married, until you are not.
Email address: angeline.greenwood@att.net
If you want us to be unapologetically feminine, be unapologetically masculine.
Remember to play!
Do the right thing, whether anyone is watching or not.
Be married, until you are not.
Email address: angeline.greenwood@att.net
If you want us to be unapologetically feminine, be unapologetically masculine.
The peel-and-stick floor tiles went down fairly easily. Next time we do this, I will use an additional spray-on adhesive, as a few of the tiles weren't completely stuck down in the center.
The white paint on the walls made the bathroom 50% better on its own. Then replacing the junk builder's flat mirror and ugly light fixture, and putting up a brighter shower curtain made huge strides, too.
We're definitely getting better at doing concrete on counter tops. A blog that JellyBean had found said to use an acrylic sealant. However, it's sort of soft, and I think it will have to be redone in a year or two.
Next time I will use the same floor finish we used on our kitchen cabinets and the stair hand railing. That stuff is really tough and smooth.
I think the next room in the house to tackle will be the master bath. It's got the same lame linoleum that the boys' bathroom had, a similar light fixture, and a big cheap flat mirror. JellyBean found a picture of a similar sink set up to ours (dual sinks) that had a pretty cool solution to the ugly mirror. Instead of replacing the mirror, the DIYers put framing around the mirror, with a central set of shelves, effectively dividing the mirror into two visually separate mirrors. I can't remember if the single light fixture was replaced with just one, or if there were two. Either way, a big improvement. We'll do peel-and-stick on the floors, too.
This would be "temporary" - it will last us a few years while we save up for the real deal:
Ultimately, we would like to make a radical transformation of the bathroom. In the screenshot, the far left opening is the door from the bedroom. Against the far wall are two separate spaces with short "L" shaped walls. The left one is where the tub was, the right one is where the shower was.
We would like to turn the former tub area into a shower area with a rain shower coming from the ceiling, and benches against the walls. The former shower area will just be a nicer shower. We have one window in the wall, over the tub, but I'm thinking of putting in two windows, the one by the regular shower being glass bricks. The other window would be openable... not yet sure what exactly the window will look like.
As we do this major reno, we will get rid of the carpet in the bedroom and master closet, and maybe put in real wood planks. Anything is better than the cheap carpet there now.
I made up a frame for around the window so it would be easier to seal up when installed.
After the window was all sealed up I moved on to installing the game/heat lamp. The wiring was all in place from earlier in the year so it was just a matter of mounting the fan unit and running the ducting out through the soffit.
I found mine in Home Despot, right next to the rolls of screening.
Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH
He's an awesome dude - we first met him late 2014. He has a thick Italian accent, and when I asked him if he was from the Old Country, he replied, "Yes, Brooklyn."
Anyhoo, he helped me for 5 hours last Friday digging up sprinkler heads, cutting away thick roots from our dumb tree, and repairing/replacing the heads.
I did the rest of the work on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, today, tomorrow, and forever and ever. I keep finding sprinkler heads hidden under this weird low, thick grass.
The main front portion of the yard now has working sprinklers. Now I have to finish digging up and fixing some closer to the house, then the back yard (only a few there).
Unfortunately, the Toro control system is on the fritz, as only one of the four zones turns on automatically. Might be some broken solenoids.
Soon we might actually have green lawns instead of fields of dirt clods!
I gotta hand it to our neighbor. He really took a lot of time to help us out, and he refused wine and/or beer. I don't know if he doesn't drink, or if he just doesn't want to accept anything in exchange for his help. Either way, he's super cool.
Remember to play!
Do the right thing, whether anyone is watching or not.
Be married, until you are not.
Email address: angeline.greenwood@att.net
Dammit.
Anyway, my local BORG has several different types of roll screening, plus low and moderate quality screen rollers. I didn't realize other stores in the chain would have none.
[And I need to go there this weekend to buy stone tile for my gecko's new, larger tank floor. Dry laid tile, with large sand-filled gaps ... it will look pretty and I think she'll like it.]
Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH
I want to just replace the hardware in the old wood windows, and a cracked pane of glass in one. Others think new vinyl windows are the way to go. There is no option to repair the vinyl windows with busted openers, they have to be replaced entirely, and I hear from the window sales guys that we can't expect the hardware on the replacements to be good for more than twenty years, then the windows will have to be replaced again! How much bigger an energy saving deal are new windows versus old double panes? Mom hasn't had curtains because they "interfere with the view" but I will put curtains on as soon as construction is done on the new place and my folks move. Maybe blinds, but probably curtains-I like the softening effect.
The new windows were brand-new double-pane nitrogen-filled vinyl affairs, but they required new structure to fit properly. So, for three (3) weeks, the window crew LIVED AT OUR HOUSE. They all snored horribly.
The crew would go room-by-room, removing the windows and the existing wooden framing, then put in new 2x4s to frame out the new windows. It was a tedious process, but it resulted in a huge improvement in the draftiness of the house. Oh, and thankfully as soon as the windows were installed we had new siding put on the outside of the house. It looked sooo much better.
I've never heard of the "you're going to have to replace the windows again in 20 years" thing. That is annoying.
The newer the window the better when it comes to energy savings. The latest and greatest back in 1995 is not as good as the latest and greatest in 2006. There are always small improvements in manufacturing that add up to long-term savings.
@Roses
Go to homedepot.com and in the search box, enter:
Fiberglass Screen Kit with Spline and Roller
Purchase the kit online. Model # 3024907. It is $8.48.
Select "Ship to Store" (this is free)
They will email you when it comes in
Print out your receipt and take it to the Customer Service desk
I apologize for not giving the direct link, every time I tried it kept displaying all kinds of details about my own location!
The reviews say the kit comes with good instructions
I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.
Anne Shirley - Anne of Avonlea
The right curtains will help block the leaks ... but you'll probably need to sew your own. Check out a product called Warm Windows ... it's a combination curtain liner/batting insulation and a foil radiant barrier in one. It works really well ... if you seal the edges to the wall or window frame. The Warm Company used to sell magnet kits, you'd put one part in the hem of the curtain as you sewed it, and put the other part on the wall.
You can also take the cheap way ... pick up a piece of foil covered insulation board at BORG, and cut it to a jam fit in the window opening. Add tape handles, because you'll be taking it out every morning and putting it in every night. It's ugly, but it works.
[One of the many books I never wrote is full of energy saving tips. It doesn't take much to get me started on the subject!]
Enneagram 5w4. I'm researching what that means, before designing t-shirt art about it.
"I feel no shame in making lavish use of the strongest muscles, namely male ones (but my own strongest muscle is dedicated to the service of men - noblesse oblige). I don't begrudge men one whit of their natural advantages as long as they respect mine. I am not an unhappy pseudomale; I am female and like it that way." RAH