Although I now have an OCD conundrum that I have been filing the HouseRebuildWeb photos under Home_Garden_2017 so I either need a new folder or bifurcate how I store them on my PC vs. how I store them for the web #SysAdminProblems
Not a lot of photos as I didn't have a good weekend, but we made some progress:
Anyway, we're in the middle of the longest below 20° streak in the last century:
But I started moving some boxes back to the house...letting them warm up overnight before even considering opening them:
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Well at least all the lights work in the fridge!
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But dayum there was a lot of stuff to wash, and now to figure out how to put back this puzzle:
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-2° last night, with wind chill warnings, and the basement just got down to 32° with no pipes frozen. I call that significant progress from past years where I would definitely be in the frozen pipe range with multiple cold days with no significant daytime temperature recovery.
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Gluing down some shims so when I screw down (from the bottom) the butcher block they don't rotate.
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Some sanding to finish fitting the butcher block
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So, especially without tile on the floor yet, moving the stove is a bitch and even felt feet don't slide easily on this cement board. So I built a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am dolly for it. Even had a piece of left over plywood that was the exact 24" x 28" I wanted, and a furring strip cut in half so I could use some 3/4" screws.
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Still needs a bit of work, maybe a couple handles I can screw to the front of the dolly as needed...then damn stove wants to slide on the plywood easier than the wheels want to line up and roll into position.