Topic: What you Buy or DIY show off thread

[ArticSteve]

Lotta work.  Great finish job.

[me_2]

Bought some OEM goodies for my Saturn

Air filter
Oil filter
(2) air dam spring remplacement

[KD]

Managed to shoehorn a decent chartplotter onto the boat instrument panel.  Quite a job as it's all molded fibreglass and not a flat surface to be found.  Luckily the local dealer was great and provided me with an aftermarket mount that worked.  Placement is not actually as bad as it looks in the pics as there is enough of a gap between it and the wheel to see the entire screen with just slight side-to-side movements, and still allow full adjustment of the wheel position.  The unit that came with it was original to the boat and was tiny and almost unreadable so it's filed away.  These things have come a long way and will probably take me a while to figure out everything it offers.  The transom mounted transducer unit was relatively easy to install as it fit in the same place as the old one.  Fishing the connector back up to the panel was the hardest part of that. 

https://buy.garmin.com/en-CA/CA/p/575473

[Gurgie]

^nice work Tom!

Sent from my SM-G970W using Tapatalk

[rrocket]

Put a new smart thermostat in. Noticed after my new furnace this year that my thermostat was doing funny things. Tried doing a factory reset, but didn't seem to work.

Decided on an Ecobee 3 Lite. Canadian company. I have no C wire and thought there might be issues but they include a neat C-wire converter thing. Instructions were very, very good. Install was quick and easy.

Pretty impressed so far.

[BWII]

On vacay for the next two weeks...wife decided the bathroom on the main floor needed a makeover...$1000 in...half done...and all it is is a new sink, taps, some paint, all the little doodads you need to update something that's probably well over 30 yrs old (TP roller, towel hangers etc.)...facking shi#'s expensive... Good thing the toilet is fine...
 
Also made a little sidewalk past her garden to the outside taps...and being an office monkey...let me tell you, I think I blew out a knee lifting those stupid blocks never mind the 800lb bags of pea gravel. Pk, maybe 100-150 lbs, but my knees said they were 800.  Today it's saying I'm 800...

Still so much to do (she's got MORE plans  ) and now I can hardly walk... Supposed to go camping on Friday, no idea how I'm going to load the bikes, I can hardly lift the one leg over the shower entrance without tripping.

Ahhh...getting old...when you're not even that old.

[rrocket]

Ahhh...getting old...when you're not even that old.

When we did our Zen garden/patio, I had some dude sling the pea gravel.  No way was I going to sling enough pea gravel to do a 20x18 foot area 4" deep....f-that!!   

[KD]

This is the first year since owning a home that i have no projects on the go, or planned.  Good thing too because building materials are scarce and getting expensive.  The worst part was that the post-covid lineups for the hardware stores would have made it a real pita getting in and out of there.  I haven't gone in to many stores over the last few months so not sure if that's still the case.  I have no patience for waiting in lineups. 

[Seafoam]

Ahhh...getting old...when you're not even that old.

When we did our Zen garden/patio, I had some dude sling the pea gravel.  No way was I going to sling enough pea gravel to do a 20x18 foot area 4" deep....f-that!!   

Meh, i'd rather sling the the gravel. At the very least you get some exercise and at the end of it look back to see you have accomplished something.

[rrocket]

Ahhh...getting old...when you're not even that old.

When we did our Zen garden/patio, I had some dude sling the pea gravel.  No way was I going to sling enough pea gravel to do a 20x18 foot area 4" deep....f-that!!   

Meh, i'd rather sling the the gravel. At the very least you get some exercise and at the end of it look back to see you have accomplished something. [emoji14]

I get enough exercise at work....on my day off I prefer watching someone else do something like this! 

[bridgecity]

^ Reminds me of the neighbours last night.  They came over asking if my older boy wanted to make $20 moving their 65 boxes of laminate into the basement.  I go in the house and ask Junior, he starts questioning how heavy the boxes are, etc.  I just told him, go give your neighbours a hand and stop worrying about how much effort this is for $20.  Off he went, got it done in half hour, but he was sweating.

[BWII]

My wife said I was purple...surely that's not a good thing.

[Seafoam]

^^ Maybe your wife has some extra insurance on you that you don't know about.

[Great_Big_Abyss]

I stopped by Wilderness Supply and picked up some things for my Manigotagan trip.  I picked up another 40L dry bag, so now I have one for my sleeping bag/pillow, and the other can be for my clothes and various other necessities that need to stay dry (T.P.).

I also picked up a pair of water shoes that will work well both in the canoe and for portages. 

Finally, some dehydrated meal packs that you just need to add hot water and presto, you've got a meal.  They were running perilously low on these meal packs.  Apparently there's some sort of pandemic going on that is pushing people into the outdoors more?  It seems as if there's abnormally high demand for this sort of stuff.  I might have to stop by MEC (ugh) to see if they have any more food that I can bring with me. 

[Hannibalsmith]

Put a new smart thermostat in. Noticed after my new furnace this year that my thermostat was doing funny things. Tried doing a factory reset, but didn't seem to work.

Decided on an Ecobee 3 Lite. Canadian company. I have no C wire and thought there might be issues but they include a neat C-wire converter thing. Instructions were very, very good. Install was quick and easy.

Pretty impressed so far.

How's the thermostat? I'm eyeing buying this and replacing my 25 year old Honeywell.

[Gurgie]

Put a new smart thermostat in. Noticed after my new furnace this year that my thermostat was doing funny things. Tried doing a factory reset, but didn't seem to work.

Decided on an Ecobee 3 Lite. Canadian company. I have no C wire and thought there might be issues but they include a neat C-wire converter thing. Instructions were very, very good. Install was quick and easy.

Pretty impressed so far.

How's the thermostat? I'm eyeing buying this and replacing my 25 year old Honeywell.

Me as well.

[rrocket]

Put a new smart thermostat in. Noticed after my new furnace this year that my thermostat was doing funny things. Tried doing a factory reset, but didn't seem to work.

Decided on an Ecobee 3 Lite. Canadian company. I have no C wire and thought there might be issues but they include a neat C-wire converter thing. Instructions were very, very good. Install was quick and easy.

Pretty impressed so far.

How's the thermostat? I'm eyeing buying this and replacing my 25 year old Honeywell.

Very pleased!

App is easy to use and thermostat has worked flawlessly thus far.

Tried the geofencing just to see if it works. Sure enough, as soon as we left/came home, thermostat turned off/on based on phone proximity. There's also a function that ties into your utility (eco+) and varies usage need on time of day pricing. Have not used it though. And if you want to nerd out on analytics of your house, lots of users use this:
https://beestat.io/


But we're just using the thermostat "normally"with schedules. But it can do more (with room sensors sold separately) if you need the functionality. Thermostat looks good, display is crisp (and wakes up just by standing in front of it).

No complaints so far and would recommend.

[Weels]

^ We have the Nest which does all the same stuff as above.... but it fails in what should be the most basic function - temperature accuracy.
It is off my 3 degrees F (I have it set to fahrenheit because i'm old school...).  It reads 73 when it's actually 70... 
Seems to be a common complaint.

So, it sucks as a thermostat, but hey i can change the temperature with my phone, so there's that... 

[rrocket]

^ We have the Nest which does all the same stuff as above.... but it fails in what should be the most basic function - temperature accuracy.
It is off my 3 degrees F (I have it set to fahrenheit because i'm old school...).  It reads 73 when it's actually 70... 
Seems to be a common complaint.

So, it sucks as a thermostat, but hey i can change the temperature with my phone, so there's that... 

Ecobee allows you to change that is there's an issue (temperature correction).

[Weels]

^ no such option on the Nest