Cooter, Help! Zambo gets Betty too hot
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I'm not so sure. Many homes that are built with a septic system from ~25 years ago and back used a french drain septic system. Those don't channel the water away from anything other than the tank. They just let the water seep into the ground there in the yard. Some do use them to help channel water away from buildings and such but the way they are designed, most of the water just seeps into the ground in the trench just a couple feet below the surface. Not trying to argue though...
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Very cool pics. I love the "father and son" sized ladders. Also good to see N8 doing some precision cutting. How does he hear the needed measurements with the earbuds in though? And that bottom pic looks much better on my home PC than it did on my phone when you texted it to me. Very nice...Got the drywall hung this weekend. It’s not pretty but nothing that a little (or lot of) mud can’t fix.Now the real fun begins.
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French drains are primarily used to prevent ground and surface water from penetrating or damaging building foundations and as an alternative to open ditches or storm sewers for streets and highways. Alternatively, French drains may be used to distribute water, such as a septic drain field at the outlet of a typical septic tank sewage treatment system. French drains are also used behind retaining walls to relieve ground water pressure.
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A French drain can end, i.e., open at a downhill slope, dry well, or rain garden where plants absorb and hold the drained water. This is useful if city water systems or other wastewater areas are unavailable.
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Our basement foundation sits on top of a French drain. I don’t recall them running lines out from it either but I guess they could have taken it out to the pasture. We don’t have a sump or anything else to assist and have not had issues. Even when the pasture has flooded with 8’ of water we have been dry fortunately.
We just had to re-do the septic last summer and that sucked. We tore down a house re-built but the health dept let us keep the original one. In all it lasted 65 years!
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Thanks, the kids have been a huge help. Good learning experience too. This is a different photo from last night too.
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Do you have a bathroom in the basement?
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yes. It was put in later so it has a pump.
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Mrs. Nalt cherishes the memories she has of going to work with her dad when she was growing up. She has said that in middle school she was one of the only kids that actually knew how to read a tape measure.
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The weather finally cooled off enough to start working on the vintage RV but then I got sidetracked preparing to attend the Baja 1000. Now I'm back from that and I wanted to get started on the RV but I'm looking around at how much crap is piled up everywhere and nowhere to put anything else so I decided to organize and rearrange the garage first. I need way more storage area so time to put in some much needed shelving.
First step was to build a 24" deep workbench along the side wall. Split a piece of 1" plywood for the top of the 16' long bench. Then I built some 12" deep shelves on the last ten feet of the bench.
Next I built 5 shelves along the back wall. I ripped 5 pieces of 1/2" MDF to 16" wide and made a set of 16" long shelves. I have 5 more pieces of MDF left over and when I can clear the far side of the garage I'll put some more shelves along that wall. There is only so much room and way too much stuff so I have to move things out of the way, build some shelves, put stuff on those shelves to make more room for the next set, etc.
One of the problems I had with the freestanding shelves that used to be there is that I have too many things that need to roll around like spare tires, jacks, welders, etc. With the built in shelves I can roll all this stuff underneath the first shelf which adds a ton of available floor space for me.
First step was to build a 24" deep workbench along the side wall. Split a piece of 1" plywood for the top of the 16' long bench. Then I built some 12" deep shelves on the last ten feet of the bench.
Next I built 5 shelves along the back wall. I ripped 5 pieces of 1/2" MDF to 16" wide and made a set of 16" long shelves. I have 5 more pieces of MDF left over and when I can clear the far side of the garage I'll put some more shelves along that wall. There is only so much room and way too much stuff so I have to move things out of the way, build some shelves, put stuff on those shelves to make more room for the next set, etc.
One of the problems I had with the freestanding shelves that used to be there is that I have too many things that need to roll around like spare tires, jacks, welders, etc. With the built in shelves I can roll all this stuff underneath the first shelf which adds a ton of available floor space for me.
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Looks nice. Great storage & lots of it!
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Shelf-a-palooza if finally drawing to a close. I'm beyond ready to be done with this and move my buggy back into its nest.
BTW, there is a special place in hell reserved for men who glue carpet down to a garage floor. The PITA getting that stuff up is causing me PTSD just thinking about it.
BTW, there is a special place in hell reserved for men who glue carpet down to a garage floor. The PITA getting that stuff up is causing me PTSD just thinking about it.
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You purposely started this shelving project to divert our attention from the RV didn't you.
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Like I said, I wanted to start on the rv again but i was totally out of room to work.
Got plenty of space now!
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Indecision may or may not be my problem
Grrr
I have found that if you want a natural grey/tan/blue tone like that... go much, much lighter. It'll look practically white in the paint can.
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Where did you find this?
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I found it by painting it too dark. Then still too dark. Then still too dark.
