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Dad said That I can have about 2m by 3m of garage space to use as a fish room.
1. Whats the cheapest way to make shelving
2. Would it be best to run all (Understocked) tank filters off a large airpump to save power
3. How can I keep the room warm and insulate
4. Should I cover up any windows
5. Any other tips
Would this be a good shelf unit
http://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/storage_shelving/cupboards_and_indoor_furniture/shelf_unit_5_shelf_i_series_1800×860x350_111691.cfm?sid=1&rid=18&orderby=1
Each section will hold either two 2foot tanks (50 litres each) or four 1foot tanks
Michael P the tanks are 50 litres so they weigh 50 kg
1. it looks like you figured it out.
2. Yes, the less power used the better.
3. put styrophoam and cardboard behind all of the tanks.
4. No need to cover up some nice, natural sunlight.
5. not really
I am looking for shelving units. They have to be at least 12in deep. I want them to be at least 10ft long so all buy a few if I have to. I am going to be putting tubs of clothes on the bottom and then lighter stuff up top so I want it to be at least 54in tall. Please tell me if you know any shelves like these that are around 20$ dollars each and that each shelves hold 40 pounds. Please help!!!!
P.s. What store?
No one has anything decent for $20–that’s garage sale/Salvation Army money. Costco has great shelves that I put tons of bins on, but they’re more expensive (and sooo worth it)
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This is all about me trying to price a job for what it’s worth…So ok then, This is exactly what this one customer asked me to do " I need these old shelves in my garage cleared off and taken down, there just screw brackets that slide into the slots etc. But I need these new ones I picked up put in the same place as those there you took down, these are wired medal shelve racks, that hang on similiar brackets…would you be able to do that for me, and how much would it cost?" So with all that said, what should I charge, and by the job, or by the hour, and what’s this job worth…I know i can do it, thats not the problem at all…I’m just terrible at estimating a price out of the clear blue sky?
Do some measurements and tell him you will contact him in 3 days. He may not like that. Write it all down and present it to him.
We bought a new home almost two years ago, and it’s just as bare as it was the day we bought it. We have furniture for all of the rooms, but there are other things that I have been wanting to do such as: hang ceiling fans, install a garage door opener, hang curtains and valances, get our windows measured for wood blinds, install a screen door and a new front door, etc. The problem is I don’t know how to do any of those things. My husband doesn’t really know how either, but he’s not interested in learning. I know how to use a power drill and hang pictures and other "no brainer" things, but I have a husband here, who’s tall and healthy, and he won’t even try.
I suggested we do things together. Since neither of us know what to do, I thought it would be a good idea for both of us to try and figure it out. On the rare occasion that I can get him to do something he wants to take control of it. After weeks of basically begging him he finally hung the curtain rods, but believe me when I say he didn’t want to do it. A year or so after we were married I had to "convince" him to purchase a new living room set. He finally agreed. Earlier this year I was finally able to convince him that we needed a bedroom set. He finally agreed. I purchased a used dining table and china cabinet off Craigslist for a good price earlier this year, so that’s the only reason he was in agreeance to that.
I understand he’s a man and he’s probably not interested in home decor like I am. That’s my passion. But when I want to go find a picture, accessories for the house, furniture, etc. I have to do it alone. When I went to look for curtains I went by myself. There are times when I ask him to drive me somewhere to look at something for the house, and he refuses to go (because he doesn’t like the fact that I walk around the store twice to make sure I’m not missing a deal). When he does agree to take me, which is rare because I try not to ask, he has an attitude. I can’t even ask him to help me move anything around the house.
Yesterday, I asked him to help me move the china cabinet down a little bit. It’s two pieces and I’m short and didn’t want to turn the whole thing over. He was in the middle of playing a video game when I asked him. I didn’t want to ask him to begin with but I had no choice. He acted like I was killing him. He told me I should have asked him when his friends were over (on New Year’s Eve … as if I was thinking about it then) so he could have help. There’s only a few glasses in the china cabinet and we moved those, and I was willing to help him … I just didn’t want to move it by myself.
I just don’t understand this. This is his house too, but it’s almost like I have to beg him to do anything around here. I guess he figures because he’s not interested in home decor and how things look, and since it’s my thing, he shouldn’t have to help. When I told him I was going to hire my cousin’s handyman to help us out, he said, "I didn’t think we had money for that" in a sarcastic tone. I’ve got to do something. I bought shelving for the pantry several months ago. After trying to get it up I asked him. He started talking about what I’d have to have to hang it, etc. … when all the stuff we need is already at home. He just makes excuse after excuse when I ask him to do something of that nature … and he always has something negative to say like, "That hanger isn’t strong enough to hold that mirror" or "This isn’t the right type of screw" when in reality it works just fine.
A little history - he is an only child and his mother has never been into decorating. His father is not a home improvements type of guy either. In their home it’s just whatever … as long as they can use it they don’t care how it looks. That’s fine with me and I can respect that. That’s their home and I don’t look down on them because they’re not into decorating, but I am …
I am sharp when it comes to computers and business stuff, but hardware, tools, and measurements just go right over my head. I’m horrible when it comes to math. But if I could learn how to do these things I would. I’m tired of begging him and as long as I sit and wait on him to become interested in what I’m doing (he’ll never be that), I’ll be sitting in the same place.
I have several relatives who know how to do flooring, ceiling fans, etc. and I asked one to come help me the other day. The first thing he said is, "Okay … but what about your husband?" I’m so embarassed because my family will ask if we’ve got this up and that up, and I have to say no … and they’re all looking like "Doesn’t she have a husband?"
What should I do?
Edit: I was able to find some people to paint the living room, kitchen, and master bedroom … after asking him to help me paint. I’ve never painted before, but I was willing to try because it couldn’t be THAT hard.
Edit 2: Yesterday, I decided to return the curtains I’d bought for my living and dining room. The panels were easy to hang, but I bought a scarf and couldn’t get it to act right. Because I’m so short, and because the scarf is so long … you really need two people to work with it. When I took it back to the store that’s what the lady said … exactly what she said … it takes to people … I just laughed. I don’t have a second person.
Honestly, it sounds like he grew up a little spoiled and never had to do things around the house (take that one up with his parents! lol) You’re going to have to find a gentle, quiet way to instill a since of pride about his home in him. My husband was kind of the same when he was younger and I blamed it on the fact that we grew up differently. He got paid to mow the lawn or do things, I was just expected to do it. He was looking for a reward and my reward has always been the finished product. I think at some point he realized that I wasn’t going to stop until things were done and now he’s more into it.
I also learned to do things on my own and there was a little guilt when I was ripping a room apart to paint it while he was on the couch…..
That being said, there are still things that he wont do (or I wont allow him to do) painting is one of them (he’s awful at it). I would never ask him to put curtains up (maybe the rod) and he would honestly rather take a bullet in the head than go shopping for "house stuff" with me.
Pick your battles. If he doesn’t want to be part of the process (and many men don’t) of picking out things for the house, do it yourself. When you need his help, tell him. If he claims he doesn’t know how to do something (or you need help too) the internet is a great resource.
My husband is pretty helpful now and we talk about projects before we take them on. Sometimes, if he needs motivation, I’ll mention that I’m getting an estimate on getting something done. He’s either too cheap or prideful because the thought of another man in the house doing something that he COULD do…..kills him…lol
Good luck 
This would more or less a sort of pointless question if I weren’t looking for something specific. I’m not looking for a wallet or a little plastic container - I’d just walk into Staples or OfficeMax if I did.
I have a TON of CDs and DVDs that are "loose-leaf"; I like to buy movies cheap from rental stores, garage sales, pawn shops, etc, and as such I have a pretty vast accumulation of CDs in blank jewel cases, unlabeled DVD cases, or paper sleeves.
Normally, I keep them in a couple of big CD wallets - I have 2 "books" that hold about 250 CDs each that do just fine.
They just don’t…well…look nice. Now, I actually like the idea of keeping them in ‘compact’ storage like this, it’s cool to have DVDs out and all, but after you have so many, they take up shelf space that I just plain don’t have. So, what I’m looking for is a shelving unit that’s designed to hold and organize loose CDs without cases. Especially one that is easy to re-organize (alphabetically for example) (CONTINUED)
…when I want to add more to my collection, without having to shuffle around all the CDs after it as much.
If possible, provide links to any online stores, or suggestions on places to look for a unit like the one I’ve described, if one, uh, actually exists.
My hubby and I are fond of collecting a lot of different stuff. Try this:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/
Good Luck and have fun organizing!
Custom shelves I built in my garage.
Do you live right above a basement that looks like the inside of a well used ashtray? Did an overworked, underachieving alcoholic construction foreman leave it half finished, furnishing you with 2 to 4 tiny and extremely ugly wannabe windows? Windows that are almost too high to reach and yet visible enough to poke tiny little needles into your decorating eyes?
When it’s late at night and you sneak downstairs for a quick cigar/glass of wine, does that basement seem to cast a disproportionate amount of shadows, looking at you through shadowy, evil eyes, quietly sneering with the maniacal grin of some hideous, satanic, soul-sucking beast?
OK, OK, enough. As you can tell I have a flare for the dramatic. There is a point behind my prose, so I’ll postulate already. There are things that you can do - mostly on the cheap and on your own - to make any basement eyesore look significantly better. In most cases you need only shell out for minor purchases, improvising with things that you already have laying around, or things that someone is dying to get rid of at a garage sale.
So here are some tips to exercise the demons away from the Evil Basement of Abyss.
If you do actually have those tiny little wannabe windows residing far too close to the ceiling, one cheap trick is to take some long-ish fabric blinds, pleat them once or twice, and install them just above the offending buggers, covering the windows along with some of the wall…presto, the illusion is complete. You’ve now got proportionate windows in your basement (until someone peaks) and now you can set out to properly pull rabbits from behind them.
If your basement is one sprawling sea of nothingness - semi-finished and unorganized - here’s a trick I have used on many occasions when budgets were smaller than those tiny little evil windows. This trick comes in steps, and here they are:
* scour garage sales and used furniture stores for some old, large, shelving units and get a matching set. Those old massive bookshelves can work great for “basement hacks” of all kind.
* Purchase paint, preferably of a color that won’t make Sparky the Dog have an epileptic seizure.
* Knock out the back walls of said recently purchased shelving units, making them open on both sides. Then you can sand down any problem spots and paint. Oi! Wait for the paint to dry, yes? Place the shelves at right angles to the wall, in areas you think would seem natural for room division.
* Angle them to mimic a new wall - as in - pointing at each other (not leaning against the walls).
* Adorn the empty shelf space with anything from model cars to framed photos, candles to magic 8 balls. Anything. Really.
Presto, you have created the illusion of separation in the room, allowing for two easily definable areas, such as a sitting room + a games room, or a laundry room + workout area. If it were up to my son there would be a Playstation 3 room, and a XBox 360 room, but I digress.
If you have a washroom in the basement it is usually a bathroom that any self respecting vampire would avoid like daylight. Since it is the dreaded “basement washroom”, it is possible that the room fell victim to the “We Be Out Of Cash” phase of construction. You might be stuck with dirty or cheap tile, the space might be small, constricting, half built, and just generally neglected in all areas. I see this far more often than not.
To make that washroom truly appeal to your finer sensibilities, it will cost some money. This is the one area you don’t want to bargain your way around. Don’t get me wrong however, it won’t be all that much money to decorate, and in the end it will be worth it.
Firstly, redo the floors and walls. I like to use lighter shade, large-ish stone tiles, as in marble or even certain ceramics. Smaller spaces look more regal when they have a heavier feel. Take advantage of wall finishes that will compliment stone tiles, perhaps even going with dark wood or deeper paint colors.
To go the extra mile, clear as much space between the toilet and the rest of the washroom as you can. For example, if you fell victim to that lame, nonsensical, prefabricated cabinetry around the sink assembly - as most basement washrooms do - rip it to shreds and replace it with a thin fixture (sans cabinet), or perhaps a sink that rests on it’s own raised shelf with exposed stainless pipes below. Look below for just one example of this.
If you do have a shower in the bathroom, consider tiling the entire enclosure in marble/ceramic tiles, raising a small section of floor between the shower and the rest of the washroom to catch excess water. Grab up and install one of the Kazillion gorgeous shower-head assemblies that exist these days (some wonderful examples below) and don’t even bother installing a shower door. If you accessorize this area with complimentary towels, strategically placed framed art, and light the room properly, you’ll find that a shower door is not required. This will considerably open up the area, and by using the same tiling patterns throughout the entire washroom you are creating another illusion, the entire area will feel waterproof.
All in all, you could reasonably complete a task like this at a very reasonable price, if you don’t mind the hard work and assuming your DIY skills are up to snuff. At least then you can rest assured that there will be no portals to the dark side opening up underneath you as you sleep upstairs.
Once you are thinking along these lines, any neglected area of your home could be spruced up with a little like minded thought and some elbow grease. At <a href=”http://www.theinteriorlivingroom.com/”>Interior Living Room</a> we promote this kind of creativity. Take a minute to look around at things you have packed away. If they are completely useless and taking up space, find the clues that can make one object work in an entirely different context. Sometimes the grandest ideas come from the most unlikely beginnings. I once used an old window frame we had laying around our shop as a feature mantle piece in an outrageously expensive Vancouver area penthouse. I’m not joking. It sat directly above a wonderfully appointed faux fireplace. It came complete with discolored and broken glass panes, rusted hinges, et all. The end result of that experiment was more striking than I could have ever imagined.
So say your hail Marys, make a good and cheap-ish DIY plan, and become the Interior Design and decorating expert yourself.
Peter F Gibson
http://www.articlesbase.com/diy-articles/diy-magic-tricks-to-stun-and-amaze-756470.html
My 11 year old daughter has been lying for over a year, doing things like:
letting her homework pile up for three months (she’s done this three times, but the second time she was caught after a month, and the third time she was caught after two weeks)
sneaking little things like gum and snacks from others’ rooms and my purse, and then not fessing up that it was her - even when she’s chewing the very food/gum in her mouth at the time of being accused
buying lunch at school on credit instead of making her lunch like she was supposed to (she was "busy" that morning, so she couldn’t do it…she only did this once, btw)
Sneaking time on the internet and/or tv when she’s not supposed to (I’ve password protected the computers, but there’s nothing I can do about the tv and it’s too big to move)
destroying/vandalizing others’ property - instead of informing me so I can make the effort to try to talk to those who she feels have insulted her or us as a family (she’s scratched designs into a dining room table, taken a patch of paint off someone else’s wall, thrown mud on someone’s garage, and wrote bad words in chalk in front of another neighbor’s house)
repeatedly not wearing her glasses while reading at home - especially while in her room at dusk (she’s supposed to wear them all the time, but she doesn’t even wear them when she reads)
I’ve totally had it! I’ve talked, cried, yelled, lectured, given time outs (11 minutes in her room, away from me) given the silent treatment, and taken away privileges. No change in behavior. Nothing. I’m at a total loss….but I have ordered a few new parenting books, which should be here in a few days.
Anyway, this is the grounding I want to dole out:
Confined for two weeks with no tv, computer, toys, radio or books (why help her weaken her eyesight further since she’s not willing to wear her glasses unattended). Oh yeah, and no new Harry Potter movie until it’s out on DVD.
No leaving her room unless she needs to go to the bathroom, get drinks of water, take a shower, and do chores (emptying the trash every two or three days, re-shelving clean dishes, doing her laundry). Her three balanced meals and two healthy snacks a day will be eaten in her room.
Is the type of grounding I have in mind child abuse? Of course, I don’t want to do it if it is.
Thanks!
Thanks for the responses so far! I’m gaining a lot of insight from the longer ones with feedback!
An addendum to the homework situation:
Regular communication was used between her teacher and I via a homework journal (and even email); her teacher would sign off on her homework the day it was assigned, and I signed off on it the evening I saw that they were completed.
What ended up happening was that my daughter would get the daily homework signed, and then scratch them offer her list (so I couldn’t read what she was supposed to do) and then she’d write "done at school" near her teacher’s signature before meeting me after school - just yards away from her classroom’s door. Nice, eh?
Again, thanks for all the feedback. I’m learning loads. Keep it coming!!!
Putting her in a room with nothing to do and only letting her out for the things you mentioned could be considered psychological abuse. Certainly similar treatment has caused problems in our military. And isolating her during meal times from the rest of the family just further stigmatizes her as a bad child and may cause psychological problems or make any she already has even worse, and it will breed resentment and rebellion! That being said, there are lots of things you can do to control her behavior (just don’t put her in her room like that under those conditions).
I would start by telling her that since she can’t tell the truth, you will assume that anything that comes out of her mouth is a lie and you will act as if it is. Then I would hire an adult babysitter for her and never ever leave her unattended. This babysitter would walk her to and from school (she will find that humiliating) AND collect the homework from the teachers (you would need to arrange this from the school). If the teachers ask about the babysitter, tell them that you are having trust issues with your daughter and this is what you need to do to protect her from her own actions (vandalizing, lying, etc.). And then give her a permanent 8 pm bedtime. Tell her that since she has behaved like a toddler, she goes to bed when a toddler does too.
And then you take away all her privileges (no telephone, no cell phone, no computer (she can write her homework by hand), no internet (instant messaging, emails, etc.), no television, no radio, no dvd/vcr player, no ipod, no nothing other than a Bible and school work). Oh and if she has any jewelry, including earrings in her ears, take them away from her (no jewelry, not even a watch). And then you strip her room bare and take off the door. Leave her with a mattress on the floor, a pair of sheets, two towels, two face cloths, and a change of clothing, plus pajamas. Lock everything else up of her’s or give it away (remember that she has no property rights as a minor). And if she gets any mail, you read it first and decide if her behavior justifies receiving it (ditto for all parcels and gifts). Don’t forget to take the lightbulb out of her room. And when you go to bed at night, take the telephone and the power cords to the computer and television(s) to bed with you.
And her grounding lasts a full year, not two weeks. She gets no privileges and she can’t leave to go to friends or have friends in. And she doesn’t get one single solitary privilege (including celebrating her birthday or Christmas (other than Christmas dinner)) until she stops lying, changes her attitude, stops destroying other people’s property, etc. Personally, I do think that she could benefit from some counseling. Make this mandatory. Your daughter has to learn that she is entitled to nothing other than a roof over her head (shelter), clothes on her back, food (nothing says it must be either hot or tasty), and basic education and health care. Anything above and beyond that is a privilege that she is not entitled to but must earn. And if she does not earn her privileges, she will have none. The choice is her’s. And don’t bend. And whatever else you do, don’t forget that babysitter.
Take care.
I’m throwing a surprise birthday party for my brother (30) and his daughter (9). We were going to have an outdoor party with a bounce house but it’s going to rain 
We want to clear out our garage to have more room since our house is really small. I was going to hang drapes or a mural of some kind to hide the shelving. Any ideas on how to do this? That’s our main focus along with keeping the kids entertained. All kids attending are between the ages of 4 to 10 about 11 kids total. We have an office so i was planning on clearing it out and setting up an arts and craft room. My son’s room is possibly being coverted into a "movie theater" and we’ll have different movies for choice. We also have a karaoke machine…how can I make these ideas come to life and any other ideas? Thank you!
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