House

Well it looks like Summer has -finally- arrive, we’ve had a few 90 degree days this week. Not nearly as bad as they got out west, but I don’t do well in 90 deg days and 80+ % humidity.  I was planning to start digging out for the front sidewalk this weekend, but put it [...]

Continue Reading Weather Slowing Down New Front Sidewalk

Tags: Concrete, grass, Lawn, Radio Control, Weeds

Sorry, I didn’t get any reall testing done with this problem this weekend. Instead I spent the weekend working on a nitrogen laser. Much more fun than flushing the toilet repetively. I’ll maybe look into it somethime this week and see if I can find the cause. I don’t think anyone else in the world [...]

Continue Reading General Update – Toilet Dimming Lights, Lasers, Weather, Air Conditioners, Lawn

Tags: electricity, Plumbing

Okay, right… so this has been bugging me for quite a few months now. I notice that every time I flush the toilet, the lights dim. Well that’s downright crazy! I think I already know what the problem is. I’m thinking that the toilet is plumbed into the hot water line and when hot water [...]

Continue Reading My Lights Dim When the Toilet Flushes

Well I did get manage to get the roof leak patched on the house, but I got so absorbed with things like getting the tools put away, fixing the roof, etc and I didn’t bother getting finished photos. Due to feeling kind of lousy I just ended up patching the existing ‘gutter’ for now and [...]

Continue Reading Strange Cloud Formations and Yankee Gutter Repair Updates

Tags: Clouds, Gutter, repair, summer, thunderstorm, Video, Weather

I got up on the boom lift today to check out the situation and see what kind of things I’d need.  I was thinking that perhaps the gutter was just old and needed some TLC.  Well, boy was I wrong.  This thing does not even qualify as a Yankee gutter. Apparently the previous owner had [...]

Continue Reading More Fun With The Yankee Gutters

Tags: boom lift, gutters, leak, rain, thunderstorm