Good morning, and happy New Year. Welcome to another peaceful and calming Saturday Morning gabfest unencumbered by politics and lefty infighting.
Grab a cup of Joe, pull up a chair to the woodstove and join us as we share home repair/improvement stories and sometimes even help folks out with their emergencies or schemes.
I am easing into break time here; I have closed down my day job for the next month or so while Winter plays itself out and I get a break to stay at home and catchup on some of my own projects.
I'm in the middle of installing a roll-up door on my garage/shop, a door I salvaged from the garage we demolished over a year ago when we started taht day job. Amazingly, all the parts are there, and I seem to have retained enough knowledge from watching pros do garage door installs to be able to do my own.
Of course, I am doing in three days what the last guy I watched did in 3 hours, all by himself (and it was a double door). He was good; made it look easy, and he didn't waste a movement.
I have also come to have appreciation for the lowly but ubiquitous garage door. They have been figuring this out for decades; there must be tens of millions of them in use, and the design is very flexible and accommodating. The working tolerances are nowhere near as precise as for a regular door. The unit doesn't fit into an opening in a wall, it merely covers the opening up from one side, and it really doesn't matter that much how precisely the opening was framed, the bane of conventional door installers.
The wind has come up this morning, blowing 30+ mph and gusting higher. A change from the past week of mild weather (hasn't frozen all week here), with temperatures expect to be 20-30 degrees colder by tonight. Yesterday it was 65, which is fairly shocking for the first week of January.
OK, it's show time...