What future projects do I have lined up?

I have several future projects that I would like to do but either do not have the time or money to do them. For example, I have a water leak coming from the hot water line to the kitchen faucet. It has been leaking for more time than I really would care to admit.

Believe it or not, it is only leaking at the orange rust goop despite the whole thing being crusty.

I bought Propress fittings and copper pipe to test Propress and see if I fairly ranked it as one of the best plumbing connector options. What is holding me back is the 160-dollar tool that is needed to crimp the connectors.

Hopefully when the vet bills subside a bit (see my previous post for the puppy update), I will have more money again to buy the tool.

Project Parked Porsche

Eventually I would like to create content on the Porsche I recently bought. As expected with an old Porsche, there are more repairs needed than I had expected. The more repairs required, the more content I can make, so I am not too bothered, but it is more things to save up for.

One of the repairs is for a new flex pipe to be welded on, which has been tricky to get done. The flex pipe I bought is stainless steel, which means few places are willing to weld it. For those not into welding, stainless steel requires a different welding setup that many people do not have.

Another issue, which should be an easier fix, is a vacuum line on the brake booster that has cracked. The replacement process is not difficult, but because it is a Porsche, the vacuum line is 60 dollars.

The cost of the vacuum line is not bad, but I'd rather put the car together when I have the exhaust fixed as well. Ultimately, I have postponed working on the vehicle until I can save up and buy both at the same time.

Why Make Porsche Content?

The Porsche is a German car, and German cars are built differently from most cars. The difference from normal cars could be a fun way to show how normal cars are repaired while highlighting the unique twists of a German car. Let’s look at an oil change for an example.

The oil filter is just the media or paper filter part, not the whole piece, and the location of the drain plug and oil filter are also unique. The car being German can account for part of the reason the oil change is unique, but the car also has a VR6 engine, which is like a hybrid of an inline-6 and a V6. How neat!

My Garage is Flooding… Still!

Yeah… it is not like the flooding is a lot, but it is still enough to make the garage unusable. I really need to channel the runoff, but this is one project that is outside my comfort zone. My attempt to resolve the problem involved buying a concrete chisel and a mini sledgehammer.

I hoped to chisel the concrete away like a beautiful stone statue. Fortunately, I have not run into any rebar, but really that is only because I have not made any serious progress.

Despite plenty of swings with the hammer, I have barely made any progress with the concrete. Yes, I initially stated concrete because I have made plenty of progress with the chisel. That is to say I have already dulled it.

I understand I could rent a concrete-cutting saw and finish the job in an hour's time, but the noise that saw would make is too much for me. With my neurodivergence comes a reluctance to loud machines, so I rarely use power tools such as my miter saw or even my impact wrench. Using a large, loud, and obnoxious concrete saw is far outside my comfort zone.

Speaking of Outside My Comfort Zone

A potentially easy and low-cost project would be to finish centering my light in the bathroom. The bathtub the previous owners put in is so huge I had to offset the vanity I installed.

With an offset vanity, it only made sense that the light also needed to be offset. When I opened up the wall to move the light, I found a Romex wire not hooked up to anything.

I didn’t get a picture of the Romex, but here is the light and how much it is offset.

I need to shut off the power to the bathroom so it is safe to go into the attic and see what the Romex cable goes to and whether it is live or not. The issue with this project is that I have never been in an attic, and the idea of doing so is not at all appealing.

Not DIY, but Projects Nonetheless

One thing that may or may not be clear about me is that I love tech. I had always dreamed of doing reviews of tech on YouTube. My fear of being judged led me to never pursue that dream, and as adulting has taken over, I have less and less time for tech. All that is to say I still love tech, and one of my current projects is “fixing” my office computer.

So there is really nothing to “fix” with the computer; it still works perfectly fine to do office work. However, it is terrible at gaming due to the small case having terrible temps because of its compact design. I really never planned to game on it, but the wife loves to game, so I bought a case and a dedicated graphics card so she could game.

A normal motherboard would have way more ports to plug things into.

I really should have built her one from the ground up because nothing is compatible with the case. The motherboard does not have the right connections, and the power supply does not bolt into the case.

Therefore, I will have to buy an all-new motherboard and power supply just to make it work. Other than the case not being compatible, most graphics cards are incompatible as they require separate power, which my original power supply did not have.

In addition, I am left with a computer that has a weak graphics card, an incompatible motherboard, and an incompatible CPU. My advice would be to just build a computer if you are comfortable. A custom-built computer will be way easier to upgrade later or change its purpose down the road.

Why the shift from DIY?

When I first moved into this home two years ago, there were plenty of little projects that were easy and quick to do. Not having to dedicate a lot of time to projects meant there was more time for me to do a write-up on them.

Now that most of the little projects have been done, I am left with the more complicated projects, such as the runoff issue and replacing an entire water supply line.

I am also not sure if I want to tackle these big projects on this house. Our pet family has nearly doubled recently, and moving to the countryside has always been a dream of mine.

Even if I decide not to put more work into the house, I will have plenty of things to share, even if they are not DIY topics.

Still Some Future DIY Topics

There were several small projects that I have completed but did not make the cut for an entire post. These projects were often too small to write entire posts on them. What I will do instead is create a compilation post of all the small projects I have done.

Not all the projects are DIY, but here is a simple list of what to look forward to: I installed a Nextcloud server, Home Assistant OS, new basement lights, cleaned my headlights with toothpaste, and painted my pantry door.

Conclusion

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