Some Disassembly Required

Finally finished this “poor man’s hall tree” for the garage. Started in October and finally finished after months of sickness holidays and other plans.

Sometimes you need a sharper screwdriver

I’m fortunate to have access to a Bambu X1-C w/ AMS at work, and to be able to enjoy this view while keeping an eye on that first layer.

The plumbing projects continued this weekend as I replaced the leaking dripping old drinking water faucet with a shiny new one.

Saturday Dishwasher Update: After some modifications to the cabinetry with an oscillating tool, a chisel, and a hammer, the dishwasher now fits in the cabinet. This is a test fit, and I have learned that I need to adjust the water line again, so I will be making another trip to tomorrow. I am very lucky to have a home improvement store that is five minutes away from my house!

Friday night dishwasher update: I’ve been to Menards 3 times in the last 24 hours.

The hot water line needed to be moved to the back of the cabinet. It was routed through the floor and up to just below the dishwasher, with no shut off valve, so I changed the hot water line to feed from the pipe that feeds the sink and added a ball valve to the line. It sounds a lot simpler and easier than it was!

If I keep doing plumbing projects I am definitely going to buy one of those electric pipe cutters because cutting through so much pipe with a manual pipe cutter is absolutely awful.

I also added a ground wire to the electrical, which was pretty simple. Especially with the help of my neighbors fish line!

How’s your Thursday night going? Here’s what mine looks like.

I’m taking out the old dishwasher to make way for the new one that will be delivered tomorrow morning. Had to do some plumbing work so that’s why I’m finishing up this phase at 11pm. 😩