Sprinklers and cabinet
So today I mowed the one section of our yard that is growing (absorption field for septic). Then I raked up a ton of leaves and mulched them with the gas leaf vac.
Then Chris came over and we tackled the sprinklers. We replaced the main valve on the system and lo and behold, the whole system started working. So this has to be the main main valve. It seems like the valve wasn't opening all the way, so none of the zones was getting enough water pressure to operate. I was worried that we didn't have enough water pressure from our water supply. But we measured that and it was actually extremely high. About 70 PSI!
So we got the zones all working, but then we found out that zone 1 had a broken piece of pipe in it (just a riser though - a very short piece). We had to dig up the yard a bit to get to it, and then a couple trips to the hardware store, and voila! Everything is working.
It was great, when we got the system to work, sprinkler heads were popping up all over the place, ones we didn't even know we had. A lot of them were buried under a bunch of grass, and you could hear them bubbling, so you had to tear the grass away and then they would pop up and start spraying. Before, I had counted 6 sprinkler heads total, for the whole yard. Well, after we fixed it, we found out that we have probably 6 heads in each zone! Probably 30 or so for the whole yard. AWESOME! This is going to make our lawn maintenance SO much easier. Green yard here we come!
And then after that I got a haircut. I'll post a picture tomorrow. It's the shortest my hair's been in like 2 years. So far I like it.
This evening, we replaced one of the cabinets in the kitchen. The one over the stove. So now the microwave we mount there will not be so high. We're going to mount it tomorrow. And probably going to cut a hole in the cabinet so we can exhaust the microwave/hood vent through the roof. The one we replaced already vented out there, so there is already a vent in the roof.
Then we will seal the tile and grout tomorrow evening, and move all of the stuff back into the kitchen. Dishwasher, fridge, oven/stove. THEN our kitchen will finally be taking shape. One more cabinet to hang in there. Recessed lights to install. Knobs to put on cabinet doors. That's pretty much all of it. It is the last major project of the house.
We're also going to be staining the new front doors so we can get them installed finally. Oh, and the tree guy came to size up the project again. He is going to take all of the ball moss out of the front trees, take off all of the dead wood, trim the bushes, take a couple trees out, take the limb that hangs over the driveway off, and trim everything back several feet off the roof. He will mulch all of that and leave us the mulch for flower gardens. $600 for all of that. That's not too bad considering the amount of work he has to get all of that done. It's a two day job. He starts Monday, finishes Tuesday.
Ok. off to bed. CIAO!
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Then Chris came over and we tackled the sprinklers. We replaced the main valve on the system and lo and behold, the whole system started working. So this has to be the main main valve. It seems like the valve wasn't opening all the way, so none of the zones was getting enough water pressure to operate. I was worried that we didn't have enough water pressure from our water supply. But we measured that and it was actually extremely high. About 70 PSI!
So we got the zones all working, but then we found out that zone 1 had a broken piece of pipe in it (just a riser though - a very short piece). We had to dig up the yard a bit to get to it, and then a couple trips to the hardware store, and voila! Everything is working.
It was great, when we got the system to work, sprinkler heads were popping up all over the place, ones we didn't even know we had. A lot of them were buried under a bunch of grass, and you could hear them bubbling, so you had to tear the grass away and then they would pop up and start spraying. Before, I had counted 6 sprinkler heads total, for the whole yard. Well, after we fixed it, we found out that we have probably 6 heads in each zone! Probably 30 or so for the whole yard. AWESOME! This is going to make our lawn maintenance SO much easier. Green yard here we come!
And then after that I got a haircut. I'll post a picture tomorrow. It's the shortest my hair's been in like 2 years. So far I like it.
This evening, we replaced one of the cabinets in the kitchen. The one over the stove. So now the microwave we mount there will not be so high. We're going to mount it tomorrow. And probably going to cut a hole in the cabinet so we can exhaust the microwave/hood vent through the roof. The one we replaced already vented out there, so there is already a vent in the roof.
Then we will seal the tile and grout tomorrow evening, and move all of the stuff back into the kitchen. Dishwasher, fridge, oven/stove. THEN our kitchen will finally be taking shape. One more cabinet to hang in there. Recessed lights to install. Knobs to put on cabinet doors. That's pretty much all of it. It is the last major project of the house.
We're also going to be staining the new front doors so we can get them installed finally. Oh, and the tree guy came to size up the project again. He is going to take all of the ball moss out of the front trees, take off all of the dead wood, trim the bushes, take a couple trees out, take the limb that hangs over the driveway off, and trim everything back several feet off the roof. He will mulch all of that and leave us the mulch for flower gardens. $600 for all of that. That's not too bad considering the amount of work he has to get all of that done. It's a two day job. He starts Monday, finishes Tuesday.
Ok. off to bed. CIAO!
Read the rest of this post - CLICK here!
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