Good morning!!!!

[riptides]

Called it a day after 5pm. Managed to work even in the rain on the Milk House. More siding up. Fingers pretty tore up from working on the starter strip as it was close to concrete. Managed to start covering up the walkway to the barn too.

More tomorrow probably.

Hope all have a good evening...or start of the day.

 

[m7040]

Called it a day after 5pm. Managed to work even in the rain on the Milk House. More siding up. Fingers pretty tore up from working on the starter strip as it was close to concrete. Managed to start covering up the walkway to the barn too.

More tomorrow probably.

Hope all have a good evening...or start of the day.View attachment 781397

That project looks good with siding going up. The standing seam roof is that the original roof?

 

[Buppies]

Standing seem roof always look great to me great job so far on siding riptides

 

[riptides]

That project looks good with siding going up. The standing seam roof is that the original roof?

Yes. 1920. The barn just got a new roof. We are debating about removing the Milk House chimney....if we do...the roof will also be replaced.

 

[riptides]

Standing seem roof always look great to me great job so far on siding riptides

Thanks. A slow go. But then there is a lot that has been going on.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Rip, the milkhouse is looking good! What is chimney for? Can it be utilized for maybe a wood stove?

Found some more motivation..... trimmed up the trees, still have to pick up and move the slash, but the hardest part is over. Didn't want to take the tractor over the still moist side yard and leave a bunch of ruts.

took a break for a little bit, then welded up a few pieces. One edge tamer done, the 2nd needs a couple more beads, then grind / clean the edges. The knee just couldn't stop complaining, so I called it quits for the day.

Time to relax....

 

[riptides]

Rip, the milkhouse is looking good! What is chimney for? Can it be utilized for maybe a wood stove?

No idea what the original use was for. Must have been a wood stove of some sort as the opening is like eight feet up. It is weird. Will take pictures in AM as I need some advice.

 

[rswyan]

32 with haze @ 22:00 and headed down to 31F for the overnight low. Has been raining on and off most of the day.

Threw in the towel after about 30 minutes of searching for the silicone faucet grease and made the run over to the Depot to pick up another tube.

Woman asked before I left "You have your wallet ?"

Oh yeah sure ... you betcha ! ...



Guess the next time I get asked that question I'll actually reach back and check my pocket.

So after making all the way over there and opening the car door to get out I made the run back home. She was waiting at the door.

Got the grease, plus a couple of other knickknacks and beat it back home.

And after eating dinner got back into the plumbing project.

I had gotten the seat for the hot water side of the valve out earlier. That one was really critical - not a huge deal if the diverter for the shower drips a little out of the tub spout when it's diverted but need to have the hot and cold up to snuff to stop the water leakage/constant drip.

Diverter seat was a "no-go" after some additional heating and soaking with Blaster. I was putting so much torque on it I was afraid I was going to trash it completely. Woman kept wanting me to get a pipe and put the juice to it.

Nah ... don't think so ... it's only brass ...

So I went up to the shop found an aluminum oxide grinding stone that was long enough to reach back into the valve to the reach the diverter seat and gave it a little resurfacing. Looks like it got all the pits out.

At any rate, valve is all reassembled with new components except for that one seat, water is back on and best of all no leaks, no drips. Only requires a light twist to stop the flow and seal the v alve:

View attachment 781414

Old components:

(Image uploading and display is still SNAFU’ed)

Think I might try taking the hot and cold stems apart, cleaning them up, and replacing the gaskets/washers just to have spares on hand.

Now on to getting new wall board put up and the tile rehung.

In other news no bird feeders were filled and no fish were fed ... cats are eating really good though ...

Also got the top on the router table removed and the broken back panel removed. Will probably go ahead and stick a new top (and casters) on it for the time being so it can at least be used and then rebuild the rest of the table later when I get more time since the cabinet is essentially junk. Woman thinks it have originally been an old bathroom vanity that was repurposed ... looking at it that sounds about right.

Hope everyone had a great Sunday ...

 

[rswyan]

Interesting ... the two original images I uploaded (from the desktop) and attached to the previous post are now showing on the tbn app on the phone. Initially they did not.

But still not on the desktop.

 

[rswyan]

RS, thanks for sharing the shop link. I have wanted to build cabinets/drawers like that for years....never happened. Probably never will.... Always too many other things to do, ...

I hear ya brother.

and as long as the tools are where they should be.... well that's good enough for now....

My problem is I don't have a place where a lot of them "should" be ...

Stuff gets scattered all over ... mostly in four different places:

1. Shop

2. Garage

3. Basement

4. Barn



Glad you found some motivation ...

And congrats !