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The biggest Do-It-Yourself Project I've ever tackled was building my first house, with my father's help. We did everything but the masonry. 1978. #doityourself #doityourselfproject #doityourselfprojects #building #buildings #construction #constructing #constructionwork #constructionworkers #working #creating #designing #carpentry #electricalwork #electricalworkers #plumbing #roofing #shingles #shingling #stickbuilt #twobyfours #twobyfour #paint #painting #foundation #foundations #pennsylvania
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The biggest Do-it-yourself Project I ever tackled was building my first home. My father and I did everything but the masonry. 1978. #doityourselfl #doityourselfer #doityourselfers #construction #carpentry #electricity #plumbing #roofing #shingles #1970s #twentiethcentury #pennwood #mifflintown #juniatacounty #newhouse #newhouseconstruction #stickbuilt #frame #framehouse #framedhouse #framehouseconstruction #insulation #heatpump #fireplace #wiring #constuctionwork #constructionworkers
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Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.