Remodeling

[R. J.]

Looks great. . Now you need to paint your home fuel tanks. . When I went to VMDs in 2018 I first stopped in PA and ended up helping my older Brother Mike derust, primer and paint his fuel oil tanks with VALSPAR bonding primer and flat black STORM coat from LOWES. Time spent about nine hours and a 24 case of yuengling light. 12 each for me and the big guy Mike. . It was great doing something with my #2 Brother. . BONDING primer from LOWES. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Valspar-In...mEcwMDhOsogDwnIJ5EBoCwykQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds. Flat black storm coat from LOWES. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Valspar-Pr...or-Paint-Actual-Net-Contents-116-0/5001305267 . OSPHO from ACE. You will need 2 gals. of both the bonding primer and the storm coat. Make sure you do it on a dry day. The storm coat take about 8 hours or so to dry. https://www.acehardware.com/departm...k0HPOmSMkjEmh3KC02xoCh8cQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds . Our process. 1. Degreased the two tanks with a pump up sprayer. 2. Pressure washed the tanks. 3. Sprayed tanks down with 1 gal. of OSPHO using a pump up sprayer and let it dry for 30 minutes or so. 4. Rolled on the bonding primer. Let it dry for an hour or so. 5. Last but not least rolled on the STORM coat.

 

[87kawzl]

Yeah, the tanks will be moved once I can figure out a place for them, and they do need some attention. The oil furnace was in the garage side of the basement now it's mothballed on the other side. In case you haven't realized, oil heat isn't the most cost efficient lately. A 2 55gal drum wood stove may be the way to heat my out building if and when I ever get it built.

 

[R. J.]

Did you finish your porch project.

 

[R. J.]

After selling my back 1/4 acre lot. 73K. Paid 5K for it in 1986 I am using about 9.5 K of the money to put up 490 feet of fence around my 1/2 acre.

 

[87kawzl]

Adding some decorative screens under it when I get a chance.

 

[R. J.]

I started my fence in September. I'm working on it in my spare time. I'm hoping to be done by the end of January. . I am going over board like I always do. . I sat down with my friend Steven who is a Structural Engineer. He and his Dad have their own Company. I told him that I want to build a CAT 5 6 foot forever fence. Here's what we came up with. I'm wrapping the pressure treated posts with felt paper on the bottom. The 8 ft 4"x 4" posts are to be 20 inches in the ground in two five gallon buckets stacked inside one another along with 130 pounds of concrete. I'm spacing the 4x4 posts 5 feet apart. I'm using 15 ft x 6"x 1" pressure treated decking planks along with 2 1/2" screws. On the top of the fence for extra support I'm putting 56" long pressure treated 2x4s between the 4x4 posts. On top of them for even more support and protection from the weather I'm going with 15 ft x 6"x 1" decking boards. On the outside of the fence I'm installing 6'x 4"x 3/4" pressure treated boards at each post and in the corners. I'm doing 5 gate openings. One 10 footer at the back left of the yard. One 10 footer at the left front. One 4 footer to the right of it. One 5 footer to the left of the 10 footer inline with the work shop. One 4 footer at the back right near the side of the house.

 

[R. J.]

Looks great as always. .

 

[R. J.]

Septembers fence work. To start off with I bought 200 16'x 6"x 1" pressure treated decking planks, 36 8'x 4"x 4" treated posts, 24 8'x4"x 1" treated boards, 24 80 lb bags of concrete, 24 8' 2x4s & 25 lbs of screws, Getting in the mood was hard and getting started was even harder. , I had to go to three different LOWES and HOMEDEPOT for supplies. It rained a ton in September so I didn't get much done.

 

[R. J.]

Octobers fence work. My two Sons helped me when they could. We got up 70 feet of posts and planks. We also laid sod as we went.

 

[ZLrider]

That's quite a fence. Are you starting a nudist colony?

 

[R. J.]

Novembers fence work. My two Sons and I got 55 more feet of fence done. I'm also putting retaining walls around some trees because of the extra fill dirt that we had brought in to level the back yard. 400 yards in all. My friend gave us the dirt for $50 a load. I had to pay $100 per 18 yards a load to have it delivered. We also got 3000 square of sod laid. It's $150 for one pallet of 400 sq. ft. of sod. I made the gate so that you can't tell from the outside. I had to get with my neighbor in order to take out their 4 ft chain link fence. Most of it was under 3 ft of my fill dirt.. I have 48 yards of fill dirt on hand to finish up on the property line. My neighbors are really nice. He's 30 and his wife is 45. They told me I can do what ever I want because they said I do great work. The only thing is I have a hard time understanding them. . So for all I know is they could be calling me a butt plug. .

 

[R. J.]

ZL RIDER I'm to old and fat to have some hot young thing to see me nude. .

 

[ZLrider]

Curious looking by Yankee standards. So you have to set your posts in 5 gal buckets due to all the sand? What a pain. I guess Handy Tubes wouldn't work either, eh?

 

[R. J.]

I'm most likely the only person to have used 5 gallon buckets and 1 1/4"x 6"x 15 foot long decking planks on a fence. Some of these so called professional fence installers use very little concrete or none at all. Putting the buckets in the ground is the easiest part.

 

[87kawzl]

For my deck, poured a couple of inches of concrete in the hole and set the posts the next day by tamping in dry bags of concrete. That method works good in PA.

 

[R. J.]

I like doing it the old school way and mix the concrete. Next door two handy man service guys put in a four foot chain link fence. They poured dry concrete mix around the posts and didn't water it in. This is why I'm doing my own fence.

 

[ZLrider]

IF you do it RIGHT, you can use dry mix. A certain amount of water is needed as you pour. This works in our heavy clay soil, doubt if it would be a good option in RJ's neck of the woods.

 

[87kawzl]

If ya take one of those posts out that your neighbor's handyman placed, I'd bet there is a big chunk of concrete stuck to the end of the post. As long as it's right in your mind.

 

[R. J.]

ZLRIDER: That is what I'm using. Like I said I'm doing it old school way and mixing it anyway.

 

[87kawzl]

If you're using a sono tube or bucket you should mix it since it won't pull moisture from being in contact with the ground