The Home Improvement Thread

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Titan2

Dude. You are the most informative and generous with your knowledge poster on this site. All of those tips are well worth considering and the fact you even think of this stuff is pretty impressive. Every post is detailed with tons of info.

I have thought this for a while and just wanted to let you know it is appreciated.

Thanks.

Note that HD has no "pro" level fixtures. You'll have to go somewhere like Robinson for the good stuff. Whatever you do don't look at the Riobel...

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Whynotnow

You will likely need a load management relay of some sort with your charger, so if you have an electric dryer or oven it will allow them to run over your charger. It’s not an issue because you are pairing the charger with something that has intermittent usage.

Most homes that go to a level 2 charger that have either an ac or hot tub are gonna need this solution since you won’t want to upgrade your service and there’s really no need to anyways as the load management keeps your below the limit of the panel.

Yep very good advice here, the product name you’re looking for is a load miser. In all likelihood if it’s only a car charger with 30A @240v and you have no other major electrical loads (basically no AC, no hot tub, no baseboard heating) you will likely be ok without a lod miser. If you do have multiple of those then it’s time to get an electrician in and have a load calculation done on your home.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Yep very good advice here, the product name you’re looking for is a load miser. In all likelihood if it’s only a car charger with 30A @240v and you have no other major electrical loads (basically no AC, no hot tub, no baseboard heating) you will likely be ok without a lod miser. If you do have multiple of those then it’s time to get an electrician in and have a load calculation done on your home.

Hmm. We do have AC though. I guess worst-case, it would at least be nice to put one of the garage outlets on it’s own circuit, since our level 1 charger trips the breaker if we try to use our central vac at the same time.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Now have two of four exterior walls framed in. Pepsi will be disappointed that the door is not salmon coloured.

[CroFlames]

You shoulda made a new thread for this build. Clearly tons of people are interested and have no shame in sharing their opinions on how you should spend your money. Me included.

#teamgreen

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Team Blue vs Team Green have been going to war lately among my family members. Team Green has begun a smear campaign to the effect that the blue is too dark and will "look black" in some lighting conditions, while team blue is more subtle (e.g. "I know sage is very popular and trendy right now, but it looks kind of industrial to me").

The battle rages on.

[Fuzz]

If they really stand by their convictions, they'll offer to help you paint it the other option if you don't like it.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Team Blue vs Team Green have been going to war lately among my family members. Team Green has begun a smear campaign to the effect that the blue is too dark and will "look black" in some lighting conditions, while team blue is more subtle (e.g. "I know sage is very popular and trendy right now, but it looks kind of industrial to me").

The battle rages on.

How often do the surrounding trees look yellowy like in the exterior wall pic you just posted? What does it look like if you use the hardy board samples to cover the entire house and look at what it looks like with the trees behind?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Now have two of four exterior walls framed in. Pepsi will be disappointed that the door is not salmon coloured.

In my defence, salmon/pink/orange would look great with a dark grey. Had a known you were between blue/green and set on black trim, I never would’ve suggested it (but there’s always time to change your entire plan to accommodate my excellent design advice).

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Team Blue vs Team Green have been going to war lately among my family members. Team Green has begun a smear campaign to the effect that the blue is too dark and will "look black" in some lighting conditions, while team blue is more subtle (e.g. "I know sage is very popular and trendy right now, but it looks kind of industrial to me").

The battle rages on.

After seeing your reference pics and understanding your trim choices, I’m not passionately on team green. Blue would be terrible, possibly a war crime. Green is majestic.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

How often do the surrounding trees look yellowy like in the exterior wall pic you just posted? What does it look like if you use the hardy board samples to cover the entire house and look at what it looks like with the trees behind?

Did you see the samples I posted in the spoiler in post #6485? I think that gives an accurate impression of the surroundings. The house will be in the shade most of the time.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

In my defence, salmon/pink/orange would look great with a dark grey.

Easter bunny color palette. Guess it works one day a year. Neighbours must love you.

[Sliver]

Green looks woke.

[topfiverecords]

Blue reads "lawyer" more than green does.

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Green looks woke.

Ha. Green is a monument to manliness. A green cabin in the green woods. It basically screams that a guy with a beard and a gun live here. Nothing more conservative and lumberjack than that.

Blue is for hippy-dippy beach houses in California.

[puffnstuff]

Black trim? Iron gray. Then add natural cedar accents.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

I'm confused now because I have it on good authority from Monty Python that Lumberjacks are extremely woke.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Did you see the samples I posted in the spoiler in post #6485? I think that gives an accurate impression of the surroundings. The house will be in the shade most of the time.

Yeah, I did. Sorry, I meant if there is one where the lighting on both board and background might be a better representation.

I quickly tossed the pic in paint (zero photoshop capabilities), did selections of Deep Ocean and Mountain Sage swatches and pasted/moved them on around the construction portion of the pic to see what it looks like with the background.

Due to the extreme differences in lighting, this exercise makes it looks like I'm intentionally doing Mountain Sage dirty.

Example:

Spoiler!

It deepens my vote for blue by a lot, but I'm not convinced that mountain sage should look so terrible via this exercise.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Man, I was swaying back towards Team Green, and then someone sends me this as an example of the Deep Ocean with black accents... why must Jesus always give me his toughest battles?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1nwqop...NwZ2Rjbnh3NWts

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Brendone

Easter bunny color palette. Guess it works one day a year. Neighbours must love you.

WTF kind of modernist hell do you live in where dark grey and salmon are the Easter Bunny colours?

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Man, I was swaying back towards Team Green, and then someone sends me this as an example of the Deep Ocean with black accents... why must Jesus always give me his toughest battles?

Yeah man I don’t know how to tell you this but that’s just grey and that looks terrible (grey and black with beige stone as an accent? ew). You know what would really make that picture pop? Salmon door.

[Geraldsh]

That stone work clashes! I don’t recall you saying anything about stone or the colour of it but if you do, you got to go green.