Fresh from a week-long trip to Ottawa (which helpfully rained freezing rain the whole time and reminded me why I do not live in Ottawa anymore) I have decided my goal is to finally, FINALLY finish the damn heater install. This… Continue reading
As part of the effort to track down the mysterious leak over the desk, I’ve decided to rebed the teak hand rails on the cabin roof. The first step was to remove the little teak plugs. The best way I… Continue reading
So I snagged a Scotty electric 1106 downrigger during a recent sale because I’m GOING TO CATCH A SALMON ONE DAY DAMMIT and today I had a bit of downtime and decided to mount it. First I used the plastic… Continue reading
So the fiberglass attached backing wood finally dried, and it was time to drill the hole in it! This SUCKED AND TOOK AGES since the wood was really really hard. Eventually, after 3 battery pack swaps, I got through Next,… Continue reading
So my plan didn’t work, to build up the lip using marine-tex, so my next thought was to use some wood as the primary platform and build up to it. So I got some pretty sweet free wood from work,… Continue reading
So there were like a billion ‘cure’ jokes I could have put here but I decided on the one above. You are welcome. Long and short of it, temperatures have plummeted and it’s too cold for the marine-tex to fully… Continue reading
So I woke up the next morning to find a small hole from the centre of the hole saw in the ceiling and snow on the ground GREAT. So I carried on with the hole saw and managed to finally get… Continue reading
So with all the parts of my heater in place, it was time to install the Flue! First, I marked off the length I needed to saw off the pipe. Then I cut the pipe with my beasty electric saw… Continue reading