I think I’m going to start tracking what all I’ve accomplished around the house. Even though it severly cuts into my available time for building my model, I think it’s worth it.

This last week:

  • Replaced bulbs in garage lights. Replaced ballasts in garage lights with high quality electronic ballasts.
  • Repaired upstairs air handler unit (new motor control switch).
  • Remounted upstairs thermostat because original mounting was loose (cracked drywall around anchors)
  • Repaired master bedroom air handler unit (new motor control switch).
  • Disinfected master bedroom air handler (had some A/C related mold issues).
  • Flushed master bedroom A/C drain pan and lines (try to eliminate standing water and thus mold).
  • Last year we upgraded our hot tub circuit to a 220V 50amp circuit and ran new wire to the hot tub. But, it was just laying loose in the crawl space. This week I took the time to properly nail the new wire to the underside of joists and pull it tight up to the point where it passes through the outside wall. Then I unhooked it from the outside electric panel, pulled it all inside the crawl space, drilled out the hole in the outside wall a little larger than it used to be on the inside, pulled the flexible conduit all the way through the inside, put a new end on the flexible conduit that will keep it from being pulled out of the hole in the wall, then rethreaded the electric line through the conduit and back into the panel. Then I pulled all of the slack out of the line, re-cut a new end, and re-wired the panel up from the new end. All in all, removed about 15-20 foot of 6-3 or 8-3 wiring. If anyone needs some heavy amp wiring, let me know, you can have it.
  • While in the crawl space already, I spent some time looking for the source of our settling issues. Found one joist that was busted. Otherwise, nothing really jumped out at me. Need to get two people down there with some straight edges and start looking at suspect areas for bowed joists. If we find some that are bowed, then we’ll need to put in a support beam.

I think that covers most of my work this week, on the house anyway.