The "I did this to my house" Thread.

[codetocontra]

Framers and carpenters who build stairs for a living also hate building stairs. Nice work though.

[waltdogg]

Finally rebuilt my walk in closet. Put up curtains in my bedroom and den. And modified a giant IKEA Kallax to be a TV stand.

[UglyCasanova]

That sounds cool, but we need them pics!

Put the new big window in and the new porch door. Feels much roomier now. I approve.

[$harkToootth]

So proud of u

[UglyCasanova]

[UglyCasanova]

Had some time off to write my semester papers for uni. But, the heating pads are now installed, and they're so sci-fi looking I almost felt bad putting floors over em. Getting there!




GF painted one of the three bedrooms upstairs and the gaming room (hell yes). Nice. I hate painting.




The kitchen arrives, in parts, next Monday. Got a lot of shit to do until then. This week will suck big time.

[$harkToootth]

I believe in you. You're going to do great.
Wow. Crown molding really brings a room together.

[JonnyAngle]

The most impressive thing is how clean the floor covering is. If i use one at all, it’s an old bedsheet and I usually drift away from it

[Dowi]

Nice work you're doing here UC, also I love that huge porch window.
First time I saw those kind of heating pads, are you planning to connect those to photovoltaic panels? Actually I don't know if you have enough sun up there to justify those

[UglyCasanova]

Thanks, my dudes! 99% of our electricity is renewable, water and wind based, plus we live so close to the artic circle that half of the year the sun is pretty much non-existent. Right now the sun pops up at 9:30am and is gone again by 3:30pm. In terms of saving money, it would probably pay off in 15-20 years to use solar panels. Not a commitment I'm willing to take on any house haha. We got the house 4 months ago and I haven't even had a chance to walk around and get to know the area, so I don't even know if I like living there yet. I assume I'll like it, but we're trying to only use money that will jack up the price of the place if we don't like staying there. So, most materials are fairly cheap, but handymen are extremely expensive here, hence us DIYing the work just makes the price of the house inflate. I'm not certified to install solar panels, so it would be more of a non-profit purchase.

[JonnyAngle]

Re: Solar panels

in a residential application, rarely does the cost outweigh the cost savings.

I looked into it and I'd break even after about 11 years.

[Dowi]

Thanks, my dudes! 99% of our electricity is renewable, water and wind based, plus we live so close to the artic circle that half of the year the sun is pretty much non-existent. Right now the sun pops up at 9:30am and is gone again by 3:30pm. In terms of saving money, it would probably pay off in 15-20 years to use solar panels. Not a commitment I'm willing to take on any house haha. We got the house 4 months ago and I haven't even had a chance to walk around and get to know the area, so I don't even know if I like living there yet. I assume I'll like it, but we're trying to only use money that will jack up the price of the place if we don't like staying there. So, most materials are fairly cheap, but handymen are extremely expensive here, hence us DIYing the work just makes the price of the house inflate. I'm not certified to install solar panels, so it would be more of a non-profit purchase.

thanks for the explanation, forgot you have a lot of wind power plants up there, that's surely the most convenient option.

Re: Solar panels

in a residential application, rarely does the cost outweigh the cost savings.

I looked into it and I'd break even after about 11 years.

If you have to do it from zero i guess your calculations are right. I'm gonna have those in my next home, with an accumulation system, but that's because the house is new and they put it by default in those residential spaces here, plus we have plenty of sun . The warehouse where i work is huge and a lot of the working spaces are powered with solar panels, and we produce huge refrigerators, air conditioners and heat pumps, the energy consumption is high.

[JonnyAngle]

Thanks, my dudes! 99% of our electricity is renewable, water and wind based, plus we live so close to the artic circle that half of the year the sun is pretty much non-existent. Right now the sun pops up at 9:30am and is gone again by 3:30pm. In terms of saving money, it would probably pay off in 15-20 years to use solar panels. Not a commitment I'm willing to take on any house haha. We got the house 4 months ago and I haven't even had a chance to walk around and get to know the area, so I don't even know if I like living there yet. I assume I'll like it, but we're trying to only use money that will jack up the price of the place if we don't like staying there. So, most materials are fairly cheap, but handymen are extremely expensive here, hence us DIYing the work just makes the price of the house inflate. I'm not certified to install solar panels, so it would be more of a non-profit purchase.

thanks for the explanation, forgot you have a lot of wind power plants up there, that's surely the most convenient option.

Re: Solar panels

in a residential application, rarely does the cost outweigh the cost savings.

I looked into it and I'd break even after about 11 years.

If you have to do it from zero i guess your calculations are right. I'm gonna have those in my next home, with an accumulation system, but that's because the house is new and they put it by default in those residential spaces here, plus we have plenty of sun . The warehouse where i work is huge and a lot of the working spaces are powered with solar panels, and we produce huge refrigerators, air conditioners and heat pumps, the energy consumption is high.

Commercial applications are a whole different ball game! We looked at doing it at work but our roof can't support them with snow.

[oldangelmidnight]

Had some time off to write my semester papers for uni. But, the heating pads are now installed, and they're so sci-fi looking I almost felt bad putting floors over em. Getting there!

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Should have put down a clear acrylic floor.

[UglyCasanova]

That would have been pretty sick!just pour crystal resin all over it and call it a day.

If anyone wants to know what hell looks like, it looks sort of like this:



That's 250 items from IKEA and like 30% of a kitchen. Kitchen is like halfway done now. I'm just focusing on getting that done so we can actually live there (and assemble furniture for weeks on end). The end is in sight, but it's still some time away. Fatigue has settled in and everything feels tedious and frustrating.