Home handyness
May. 7th, 2010 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beltaineladyI've got a bunch of little projects going, small stuff around the house to make things a bit better or more convenient. I installed a handle on the outside of the sliding door to the sun porch because the finger-pull that was there was hard and broke my nails. At some point, I want to take the door off and see what's up with the rollers. It's constantly getting stuck and lubricating the track doesn't really fix the problem. I've installed new rollers before, I just need another person to help me get the door off. It's heavy.
I bought a new doorbell kit, since the entire set-up was cheaper than just getting a replacement chime. It's a good thing I did: the button needed replacing and so does the transformer. After rummaging around in the house I found it: next to the AC. So again, I need another person to help me replace it. I'll be putting Will to work this weekend, lol. I'm also going to replace the lock on our mailbox. I hope to build some screens for our bedroom windows at some point as well. The windows in this place SUCK BALLS, but when it IS nice outside I like to be able to open them up and get some air. Maybe get some insulation strips for the front door as well. There's tons of little places where our heat/cool seeps out of the house. And without an active landlord, I do what I can. We really need to get the window in Will's office replaced, but we have to pay for it and then take it out of the rent. Ideally all the windows need to be replaced...but she won't go for it. So, one bit at a time...
At least, I know how to do these things and what I don't know, I can find out. I'm not going to spend the money having someone come to fix the fridge: the water dispenser doesn't work. And I'm not going to rig a water line heater so that it does. That's more work than I'm confident in doing, so I'll do it the old-fashioned way: a hair dryer. It's not my fridge so I'm not spending more on it than I have to.
It's almost as if I own this place with all the work I do to it.
I bought a new doorbell kit, since the entire set-up was cheaper than just getting a replacement chime. It's a good thing I did: the button needed replacing and so does the transformer. After rummaging around in the house I found it: next to the AC. So again, I need another person to help me replace it. I'll be putting Will to work this weekend, lol. I'm also going to replace the lock on our mailbox. I hope to build some screens for our bedroom windows at some point as well. The windows in this place SUCK BALLS, but when it IS nice outside I like to be able to open them up and get some air. Maybe get some insulation strips for the front door as well. There's tons of little places where our heat/cool seeps out of the house. And without an active landlord, I do what I can. We really need to get the window in Will's office replaced, but we have to pay for it and then take it out of the rent. Ideally all the windows need to be replaced...but she won't go for it. So, one bit at a time...
At least, I know how to do these things and what I don't know, I can find out. I'm not going to spend the money having someone come to fix the fridge: the water dispenser doesn't work. And I'm not going to rig a water line heater so that it does. That's more work than I'm confident in doing, so I'll do it the old-fashioned way: a hair dryer. It's not my fridge so I'm not spending more on it than I have to.
It's almost as if I own this place with all the work I do to it.
