Dan Lyke's Blog Archive
This blog is written by Dan Lyke | 45 entries so far |
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Bathroom Remodel #8: A little trim
Took me a couple of tries to get a mirror shape I liked: A few things I learned about cut...
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Bathroom Remodel #7: They say it's only vanity
The face is 2” thick cherry, which will be carved, so I had to modify the clamp for my dove...
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Exterior Tool Storage Closet
This went from “I wonder if Rubbermaid makes some outside storage cabinet thing” to t...
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Bathroom Remodel #6: Practicing for the shower doors
So with the expanded window, we needed to obscure some of the glass. I thought “Oh, letR...
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Bathroom Remodel #5: Toilet Paper Holder
A little side project along the way: Still need to clean up the wall of the niche where...
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Bathroom Remodel #4: Complexly Marble-ous!
Cut a board to protect the tub, put a rim of FortiFlash around the bottom of the board to protect...
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Bathroom Remodel #3: Rub a dub dub
Among the amusements of having the wall around the tub out, this instance where someone missed th...
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Bathroom Remodel #2: Demolition!
After much deliberation over tile, and patterns, and tubs, and what all else, we took a deep brea...
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Rewiring #3: Finished and Signed Off!
Got the final inspection today! Woot! Not a whole lot to add to the previous update, but got t...
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A Shop for Dan #14: Harvesting the roof
Been a while since we’ve done a workshop update. The roof has been keeping us in strawberri...
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Rewiring #2: Drillin', Cuttin' & Dust Everywhere
So: Template, made of two pieces of ¾” plywood: One has squares cut out for the two ...
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Rewiring #1: Subpanel blues
When we moved in, I looked at the wiring in the crawlspace, saw the ancient non-metallic sheathed...
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Bathroom Remodel #1: Choosing hardware
The awful paneling is starting to deteriorate and it’s time to re-do the bathroom. We’...
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Kitchen Remodel #3: Putting it back together
The floor is a pre-distressed dyed hickory, chosen because the hue matches the Mahogany cabinet d...
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Kitchen Remodel #2: Removing The Chimney
And then we got to that mysterious box in the corner: The lower part of the chimney. We knocked t...
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Kitchen Remodel #1: The Story So Far
We have long been expecting to remodel the kitchen. Shortly after we moved in, over 5 years ago, ...
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Having the inside painted
I grew up in an area about 3 hours north of New York City, and a lot of well-to-do New Yorkers ha...
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Home Automation #1: Smart Home Musings
Over this Christmas break, Charlene said “why don’t we start replacing the knob and t...
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A Shop for Dan #13: Final inspection
Just to complete the series: Workshop passed final inspection back at the beginning of August. Bi...
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A Shop for Dan #12: We have plants!
And, of course, I confused cubic feet with square feet and half-ordered my dirt, but 6 tons of di...
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A Shop for Dan #11: Lifting the soil
It’s been a while since my last update here, but work hasn’t stopped that much. I did...
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Re-Plumbing #2: Holes in the walls, but the water flows
So we got the plumbing in. Most of it done in a weekend, and it would have gone faster if I’...
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Re-Plumbing #1: PEX advice?
So I crawled underneath the house the other day to replace a thermostat wire that wasn’t co...
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A Shop for Dan #10: Starting to move in!
Back on January 2nd, Jake came over to help me run wallboard screws. Then he got bored with wallb...
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A Shop for Dan #9: I have the power!
Just gotta post this! My shop, with the lights on powered by the breakers through the panels: ...
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A Shop for Dan #8: Feels like the home stretch!
It’s been 28 days since I last updated here. It feels like the home stretch, but I know it&...
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A Shop for Dan #7: And the walls, go tumblin' up!
My Dad came out to visit for two weeks, and we kicked it pretty hard. We assembled the walls, and...
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A Shop for Dan #6: Foundation Poured!
Haven’t posted here for a while, but things are starting to come together. In August, I ...
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A Shop for Dan #5: I can dig it!
About two months ago, with engineering stats in hand, I decided to jump the permitting proc...
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Landscaping #2: Stoned
Holy crap, I’m tired. The rocks came Sunday, the boulders were delivered mostly into...
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Landscaping #1: I can dig it
The city of Petaluma offered a deal where they’d give you appropriate materials for sheet m...
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A Shop for Dan #4: Engineering a wall
Any wall within 5 feet of a property line needs to be 1 hour rated. With a living roof, each end ...
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A Shop for Dan #3: Musings on foundations
Okay, the Tuff Shed folks left us thinking that all we needed to do was provide a couple of level...
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A Shop for Dan #2: Thinking about living roofs
I’m still looking for reasonable numbers on roof loads for a living roof. I’ve run ac...
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A Shop for Dan #1: The state of what is
We live in a little 768 square foot cottage on a little lot on the southern edge of Sonoma county...
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Cedar Closets #1: Destruction and construction
Just lining our closets with cedar, to make sure we don’t have moth issues, and splitting o...
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Front Door Trim #4: Ipe threshold
With the coming of fall weather, the gap underneath the door finally got annoying to the po...
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Front Door Trim #3: Making an entrance
It’s gonna be hotter than the hinges of Hades today, so I went out this morning and f...
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Morning Glory Lattice #1: The bare lattice
On the left is how it looks now, on the right is how it used to look. You may think it’...
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Front Door Trim #2: A couple pieces of trim
The progress on the new front door continues. In my previous front door update, I’d m...
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Front Door Trim #1: A door well hung
On the left, how it looked when we moved in, on the right, how it looks as of right now. Th...
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New Windows #1: A false start
Last week, some door to door sales guys came by pitching replacement windows. I thought “th...
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Reclaiming Mahogany for Baseboards #3: Decisions, decisions
Took the weekend off to go buy lunch for a starving college student, and drive 3 hours each way f...
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Reclaiming Mahogany for Baseboards #2: Milling
Yesterday I ripped the boards down to 4” wide, the widest I felt that I could reasonabl...
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Reclaiming Mahogany for Baseboards #1: Breaking down the beams
We picked up a bunch of Peruvian mahogany box beams off of Craigslist. They’ve been si...