That afternoon, Efiwym, my wife, and I went out to return the ridiculously priced wire nuts and get some drywall patching material and insulation spray foam. We went to the big box home improvement store to save 11%. I picked up what I needed and Efiwym found the pendant lights she wanted in clearance. (Read…
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I found a retrofit electrical box that had screws inside the box that you could use to fasten the box to the wall stud. When I got home, I was ready to install the box. I needed to separate and tape up the four bundles of wires to run them through the box. I tried…
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I compiled a list of electrical items I needed to install the switch for the pendant lights and to change all the outlets and switches in the kitchen and the dinette from the ivory to white. I thought white would look so much nicer against the new backsplash than the ugly ivory ones. After multiple…
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Efiwym, my wife, and I were discouraged that the pendant light we really, really liked was not available. Before we went home, we stopped at a couple more big box home improvement stores. We looked at their limited supply of pendant and overhead lights. We decided to go home, but first we needed to get…
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I already had in mine the type of pendant lights I wanted. A bronze-colored, single pendant light with a tannish glass shade. In fact, I already had it picked out. I showed Efiwym, my wife, the pendant from my phone. She said that she wanted to see it in person. However, it was not available…
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We made our trips to the two stone distributors and decided on the Icon Gold quartz. We visited Elizabeth the following weekend and finalized the purchase. We would see the template guy in 2 weeks to measure up the countertops. I have two projects related to this Non-DIY project. Tiling the backsplash and installing pendant…
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Efiwym, my wife, and I decided to start looking at replacing our laminate countertops with stone countertops. Efiwym seemed to be very interested in this project. Unlike other DIY projects where she would just let me take the reins, she wanted a say. That was fine with me, as I sometimes get Monday morning quarterbacked…
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I was ready to finish up this project. I wrapped the Teflon tape around the threads of the new valve and screwed it in the copper pipe. I tightened it down and made sure the outlet of the valve was in the same location as before. I went downstairs and turned the water on again…
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I headed to the store, and I walked to the plumbing area to find my valve. I took a picture of the new valve on my phone, so I had it available to compare. It was called a “boiler shutoff valve.” I walked back and forth in the aisle, and I could not initially find…
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I really needed to work on the leaking shut off this weekend. But now, I needed to remove the laundry sink cabinet to have better access to the valve. I did not have the room to get at the valve to remove the Flex Seal® tape. And if I could not remove the tape to…