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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Poll: Name at least one thing in your house that is jerry-rigged
Come on - you know you have at least one thing that you haphazardly fixed temporarily - to be fixed or replaced later!
Re: Poll: Name at least one thing in your house that is jerry-rigged
Me first -
I dropped my clippy by my bed yesterday and crawled on the floor to get it then looked over and remembered that over 3 years ago, our sideboard of our bed had split and we had jerry-rigged it with a stack of books, to be fixed at a later date. Yeah....still hasn't been that later date, yet! I have been sleeping on a stack of books for years. Oops!
ETA: Our bedskirt hides it, so I had completely forgotten!
DH fixed our banister after 6 years of it sitting in our garage but the new brackets to hold it created a gap on the ends of the banister. His solution was to put fake wood caps that do not match the wood at all. I think their original purpose was to go on the ends of table legs. who knows
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Not really jerry-rigged, but we never completed the sheet rock repair when we remodeled our master bathroom.... before Cooper was born. We closed off a small closet in order to enlarge the shower, DH sheet rocked where the door to the closet was but we never finished sanding the sheet rock or painted it. The reason at the time was that the door faces another closet door in a narrow hallway that leads into our bedroom. We intended to sheet rock over the 2nd closet as well and incorporate that closet space as a built in china cabinet/storage space in the dining room, which is on the other side of the wall. That project hasn't happened and I don't want to create all the sheet rock dust twice, so I live with a white spot on the wall. But we bought a total fixer upper of a house so the to-do list is always a mile long. There's also patched sheet rock where the old thermostat was, and some cracks due to foundation settling so now we've just come to the conclusion we'll do all the sheet rock repair at once, some day.
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Current Status: TTA
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I can relate. DH is a mechanical engineer and was unemployed for a while. He did all kinds of stuff in the house to upgrade it. So nothing rigged there BUT...
He has a hunting cabin. The electric company wanted too much money to connect it up ($45 per month meter rental) so he is looking at alternatives. He bought an oven/stove to work off propane. When he got it home to check it out he realized the oven control is electric. He bought a 12 volt inverter to power some of the house off his truck battery. So if he wants to bake biscuits he has to connect the truck battery to the oven in the hunting cabin, start up the truck and then he can run the oven off of gas. At least we don't plan on baking that much. I suggested he learn to cook biscuits in a dutch oven.
P.S. I did think of something that may qualify as rigged in the house. We use the same circuit breaker for the AC and hot tub. We did not want the expense of buying a new breaker box to add additional circuits. DH figured we would not be running both at the same time anyway.
Nothing is rigged (that I can remember) but we started a project in late October that is nowhere near complete, so our garage is still a workshop. We are building a 12 foot window seat with storage that will run the width of the game room upstairs. We couldn't find plans for a bench that long so we had to modify some.
We also realized that at 12 feet long it would be too long and heavy to carry upstairs, so we are building it in 3 sections. I haven't let DH cutaway the current baseboard yet because I don't want to do that until we are actaully ready to install the unit. I hope we can get it done before the summer.
Dx: PCOS and short luteal phase
18 cycles (3 with our RE) - Metformin + Clomid + HCG booster did the trick!
BFP #1 6/22/09 EDD: 3/2/10 DS born: 3/8/10
TTC #2 since Dec 2011
BFP #2 7/8/12 EDD: 3/18/12 M/C @ 9w1d: 8/16/12
dude! Y'all just need to build it in place up there!
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Yeah, that would require finishing in at least the same month you start the project. : That and we didn't want to paint it up there.
Dx: PCOS and short luteal phase
18 cycles (3 with our RE) - Metformin + Clomid + HCG booster did the trick!
BFP #1 6/22/09 EDD: 3/2/10 DS born: 3/8/10
TTC #2 since Dec 2011
BFP #2 7/8/12 EDD: 3/18/12 M/C @ 9w1d: 8/16/12