Wife and I went to see Trans Siberian Orchestra for the first time. Great show!
I hope you're taking the racing line through that....
101 ways to use a power washer.
I hope you're taking the racing line through that....
What type of soil do you have? It looks like some sort of clay.Got the temporary-permanent power box connected to underground power.
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It is basically in its final position and the house grows up around it.
Class M, moderately reactive clay. There is a layer of topsoil there somewhere too. They have gone a bit over the top with the slab and given it 90 lineal meters of piers. That makes it low risk for the builder but much more expensive for me. Piers should not be needed in the area I live.What type of soil do you have? It looks like some sort of clay.
My previous house was built as a slab on grade but in an area with highly expansive clay. A previous owner had the foundation system repaired by having the house jacked up on steel piles pushed into the ground. To do that they dug tunnels under the house to access every location to push in a new pile, over 100' of tunnels. We had a plumbing problem so I had the entrance to the tunnels dug up and I went into them to do the repair. In all I made 5 trips into the tunnels, each time coming out almost solid black with mud.Class M, moderately reactive clay. There is a layer of topsoil there somewhere too. They have gone a bit over the top with the slab and given it 90 lineal meters of piers. That makes it low risk for the builder but much more expensive for me. Piers should not be needed in the area I live.
I always thought when I retired my job was going to be wearing out Jeep tires. I've been trying my best but had to miss my trip to the desert this year due to family issues beyond my control. I'm anxious for March to get here so I can go again. The tires I have are good for a couple more trips and I have another set (used) in my storage shed waiting.Got new tyres on the Jeep today. I love the smell and grip of new tyres. Makes for an expensive day though.
Finished priming the skirting boards and architraves in the powder room. Now to find the enthusiasm to do two coats of enamel on them in the next couple of days.
Big load of styrofoam (actually EPP I think) delivered by a massive truck and dog, for insulation under the slab. The excavator that leveled the block yesterday put two breaks in the stormwater pipes. The plumbers came out and repaired one of them .
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Slab pour is scheduled for Monday . I guess they will do the reinforcing tomorrow.
No, not many at all. It's not really a thing here.No basements in down under?
There's no equivalent of Kansas in Australia. I have a basement because my house is on a slope. So it was naturally there.No basements in down under?
There's a less expensive solution.Today I went through all my chemicals. They were in tool boxes and ammo cans of different sizes and the chemicals were mixed in them. I got a bunch of big ammo cans that are the same size and then emptied all the old ones and put one chemical in each new can. I was shocked that I had 75 pounds of KNO3. How did that happen. I have 14lbs of aluminum, 12lbs of magnesium and 14lbs of ammonium perchlorate. Plus many pounds of assorted other chemicals. It's nice and tidy now. Yesterday was very depressing. The interdimensional porlal opened again. This time it wasn't two shop towels, which I never found. This time it was a pair of glasses. They are my glasses for things up close. Only good to about three feet. 95% of the time they are on my desk in the garage next to my laptop. The other 5% of the time they are on the kitchen counter, on the counter in one of the bathrooms or on the coffee table in the living room. If I have to look for them I'll find them in five minutes. When I couldn't find them in the usual places I started looking else where. First I looked at all the flat surfaces in the garage and in the house. Then around and under those places. Then under stuff, in boxes. I retraced everywhere I had been. I looked in the trash and recycling. Then I started looking in crazy places. Looked in the refrigerator, the safe, the ammo cabinet. I got a ladder and looked on high up shelves. I looked for more than three hours. I even looked outside. Looked on top of the mail box, a large flat rock outside the garage, in the back yard, on the lawn tractor, the landscape light controller, the irrigation clock. At that point I decided they were gone for good. I looked a little more on and of for another hour. Today I looked in the cat toy box. I've been looking everywhere I go today. Two shop towels don't cost much. The glasses will. And the frosting on the cake is that I need a new pair of my regular glasses. The lenses are crazed. I took them to the eye center where I got them and showed them to the manger who I have known for a dozen years. He said the most likely cause was heat. He said it happens mostly if they sit on the dashboard in a car. Nuts. I didn't know that. So now I need two pairs of glasses. It will be close to $1000 to replace the two pairs. It's been a crappy couple of days.
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