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I’m Mike Schweitzer, a software engineer in video games.

This is my blog. I talk about tech, DIY, and autism.

Furnace Maintenance

Lot of backstory on this one! Feel free to skip ahead if you don’t want to read a wall of text.

When we moved into our house, one of the first things we noticed is that the whole house would get blanketed by a thin layer of dust every night that we used the AC, fan, or heat.

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Stripped Screw Hole Repair

My wife alerted me to a loose cabinet face in our kitchen. She said she’d been screwing one of the hinges tight for several months, so I decided to investigate and discovered this.

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Dutch Door Repair

OK, this is my first Fail blog. It’s a fail because I failed to fix the actual problem despite doing a bunch of work towards that goal.

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Concrete Crack Seal

I have a patio with some very nice looking (and feeling) ceramic tiles sitting on top of concrete. A big chunk of the floor is like this, and there is a built in, matching fire pit and bench. The bench has the same sort of ceramic covering. It’s all quite nice and was probably very expensive. Definitely a huge selling point of the place!

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Toilet Seats

My house came with 3 Sterling toilets. 2 of them had the cheap stock seats that slam when you let go of them, and one of them had a fancy Kohler Bidet toilet seat.

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