Summer to do list/home projects

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Originally Posted by dmclone

What's on your plate?

After 6 years in our house I finally added a storm door. I also added some outdoor speakers.

I somehow managed to screw up the install of the screen door. Luckily I had bought an Andersen and couldn't be happier with their customer service. I told them I screwed up and needed to order a new part. She said that she would overnight the part for free and it arrived the next day. I think they may have parts here in Des Moines.

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I would love to put in some outdoor speakers, but I'm not a real handy person myself. And I don't think I would trust myself with electrical work. Is this very difficult?

Kinda depends. I plan on ripping off my deck (the decking part of it, along with the rail), and installing a new composite decking of some sort on it.

Beyond that, I need to remove my exterior door to the deck, replace the threshold and patch the subfloor where it's been leaking slowly for a couple years (only when it rains with a south wind). The problem is that I'll have to install new floor in my kitchen, dining room and living room whenever I do that, so not sure if I'm going to do that this year or not. After all that is done, storm door on the back to prevent it from happening again.

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Originally Posted by CycloneJames

I would love to put in some outdoor speakers, but I'm not a real handy person myself. And I don't think I would trust myself with electrical work. Is this very difficult?

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No electrical work. I'm just running speaker wire from my basement receiver (home theater) to the outdoors and tucking the speaker wire. Easy stuff. I like that these are easy to remove for winter storage.

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Originally Posted by CycloneSupt6

We just put a stamped and stained concrete patio with 2 sidewalks in, now I am working on finishing the dirt work around it. I also have to do a little landscaping and paint our front door that we installed over a year ago.

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Who did you get to do your stamped and stained concrete? Do you know if they can do anything with an existing concrete slab so I don't have to have it demo'd first?

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Originally Posted by dmclone

No electrical work. I'm just running speaker wire from my basement receiver (home theater) to the outdoors and tucking the speaker wire. Easy stuff. I like that these are easy to remove for winter storage.

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Do you just double up the connection for the main Right and Left speakers? Or does you amp have Auxillary speaker connections you used? I was thinking about doing this but I don't have another connection for more speakers. I wasn't sure how to make this work.

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Originally Posted by dmclone

What's on your plate?

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1. Sex dungeon

2. Rainbow play set


Sure hope I don't get the swings mixed up.

I've got some landscaping to do in front of our house. We bought some tan/gold edging stones to outline the front and east side of our house, mulch and sandstone rock for the bedding and various plants to come soon. It will surely look better than the four ginormous juniper bushes that sit our front now.

Already this year, I've built a small-scale retaining wall and will be finishing the painting on our basement/my mancave space. Thank God too...I've got a 55" HDTV and a surround sound system that iv've really been itching to take out of the boxes!

Installing hardwood floors is on the list of things to do. I've helped somebody install them and it's not too tough, just lots of time spent on the ground. Since I live by myself, there won't be a major time constraint where I would have to get it done in a weekend or anything, so that's a plus.

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Originally Posted by CyinCo

Do you just double up the connection for the main Right and Left speakers? Or does you amp have Auxillary speaker connections you used? I was thinking about doing this but I don't have another connection for more speakers. I wasn't sure how to make this work.

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I hooked them up to my Zone 2 but I probably should have just hooked them up to my B connections. Zone 2 will only allow non digital connections so it works fine for my Ipod but if I want to have sound from things like Directv, PS3, etc I would want to use my B connections instead.