Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (C) Harold Dossett, 2013

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Much needed and ongoing (never ending) maintenance!

Not a lot going on in the last couple of months, but here is a run down.

I did end up ordering the Multimeter from Home Depot.  I get their daily email with the daily special and one day that meter showed up at about 35% off so I ordered it.  It been a couple of months and I really haven't used it for anything yet.  The Radio Shack one is working better after I worked on it a little bit.  Now  I will have one to keep in the RV.

I was working in the garage one day and M came in and told me the shower door had broken.  Being tempered glass, it just kinda of crinkled all over.  I accused her of braking it because she has wanted a new one for some time now.  I finished braking it out and removing it  and installing the curtains from the other bath until we find a door that works.  This being a manufactured home, a lot of things are sized a little different and that's what happened with the shower doors.  No one has this size in stock so a special order is needed.  We did find a suitable door at Lowes and got it ordered.  Takes about a week to get it and I managed to get it installed the next day.  It's called Rain Forest or something like that, with it looking like rain water is running down the glass.  It works, and we even got the special coating to help prevent, or at least reduce, the hard water etching.

Other routine maintenance included ordering and replacing the outside hose bibb,  ordered and replace the broken auger in the refrigerator ice dispenser, and replace the washers in the toilet supply valves that was somehow causing a very slow tank refill.  Put sealer on the front deck after a year, maybe it will help it last longer.  I replaced the cabin air filter in the truck, I think it made a difference,  after all, it is 15 years old!  

M went to Florida to visit and help out her sister recovering from a busted up shoulder and the resulting surgery.  This gave me an opportunity to get more maintenance done!  So I built and installed more garage shelving, and replace the rollers on the sliding screen door which is working properly for the first time in ten years.  I also decided to acid wash and paint the shed floor.  That was fun.  I decided the vacuum the floors and naturally, the vacuum is not working properly.  It is the belt, seem they tend to stretch over time and need replacing, so I get a couple of the ordered, replace one and get the floor cleaned up!

This week has been Kaleidoscope Days in Jerome, so I took the RV to the top of Mingus Mountain for M to stay so she doesn't have get a room or drive 100 miles round trip each day.  She takes a couple of Kaleidoscope classes and helps out with all the goings on for the week culminating in an auction to benefit the humane society of Jerome.  She may come home on Sunday, and drive back up of a class on Monday.  She has yet to decide what she will do.

I also took the home alone time to acid wash and paint the garage floor.  Got it finished before the rain system moved in.  It has been cloudy and raining for the last couple of days.  I hope the paint works on the shed and garage floors, concrete is so fickle when it come to painting it.

Somewhere in there I had time to get my pace maker checked out and it is working just fine!