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Things I learned today
Feb. 1st, 2009 09:49 pmI now generally know where most of the circuit breakers in my place go.
I have one "mystery breaker" that we never did find out what it did. (I do actually know TWO women in Germany and neither of them has said "cut it out" yet)
I also have one outlet that doesn't work and I don't know why. I do however know what circuits all the OTHER outlets around it are, so if I should decide to pop it open and see what isn't connected I am unlikely to fry myself.
My sewing room closet light will likely never blow out as it seems to be on the super-duper double-breaker circuit that powers the stove and the fridge.
Empirical evidence suggests that breaker #2 actually controls![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ashtalet's cell phone because every time I flipped it we got disconnected.
But most importantly, I know which circuit the overhead light in the bedroom is on so that I am that much closer to actually INSTALLING that ceiling fan my brother gave me for X-mas.
Last night I finally hung the last shelf in the workroom. I also learned that I am unskilled at best at the art of using wall anchors. Of the 4 screws I put in the wall while doing this, 3 of them ended up as larger-than-necessary holes patched with spackle with a wall anchor sort of glued into place in the center. No I haven't actually put anything on the shelf yet....
A couple of weeks ago I put in those nifty caulking strips along my tub edge. 3 days later they all fell off. So tonight I finally peeled them off, used 'Contractor's Solvent" to dissolve and scrape off all the olf glue and caulk and then washed off the solvent. Now there is a box fan (which I rewired this afternoon) sitting in the tub making sure everything is really dry before I recaulk it before bed.
I appear to have managed to repair the leak in one of my radiator pipes. I got some stuff called "metal putty" which is sort of a cross between modeling clay and epoxy. You break some off and knead it together for a minute till it's all mixed (it gets pretty warm) and then you have about 5 minutes to smush it into whatever you need plugged/patched/etc. I scrubbed the surface down with steel wool beforehand, and let it cure overnight with the radiator off overnight. The radiator has cycled on at least 4 times today and no signs of a leak. (I would have gotten 2-3 cups of water out by now before).
So all in all I got rather a lot of useful things accomplished this weekend. Go me!
I have one "mystery breaker" that we never did find out what it did. (I do actually know TWO women in Germany and neither of them has said "cut it out" yet)
I also have one outlet that doesn't work and I don't know why. I do however know what circuits all the OTHER outlets around it are, so if I should decide to pop it open and see what isn't connected I am unlikely to fry myself.
My sewing room closet light will likely never blow out as it seems to be on the super-duper double-breaker circuit that powers the stove and the fridge.
Empirical evidence suggests that breaker #2 actually controls
ashtalet's cell phone because every time I flipped it we got disconnected.But most importantly, I know which circuit the overhead light in the bedroom is on so that I am that much closer to actually INSTALLING that ceiling fan my brother gave me for X-mas.
Last night I finally hung the last shelf in the workroom. I also learned that I am unskilled at best at the art of using wall anchors. Of the 4 screws I put in the wall while doing this, 3 of them ended up as larger-than-necessary holes patched with spackle with a wall anchor sort of glued into place in the center. No I haven't actually put anything on the shelf yet....
A couple of weeks ago I put in those nifty caulking strips along my tub edge. 3 days later they all fell off. So tonight I finally peeled them off, used 'Contractor's Solvent" to dissolve and scrape off all the olf glue and caulk and then washed off the solvent. Now there is a box fan (which I rewired this afternoon) sitting in the tub making sure everything is really dry before I recaulk it before bed.
I appear to have managed to repair the leak in one of my radiator pipes. I got some stuff called "metal putty" which is sort of a cross between modeling clay and epoxy. You break some off and knead it together for a minute till it's all mixed (it gets pretty warm) and then you have about 5 minutes to smush it into whatever you need plugged/patched/etc. I scrubbed the surface down with steel wool beforehand, and let it cure overnight with the radiator off overnight. The radiator has cycled on at least 4 times today and no signs of a leak. (I would have gotten 2-3 cups of water out by now before).
So all in all I got rather a lot of useful things accomplished this weekend. Go me!
