I made my first DIY YouTube video for this one. If you have a top load LG washer and you start to see gross looking brown sludge (aka scrud) show up after a wash cycle, then this video is for you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our place had some really nice bathroom and kitchen upgrades installed, but for whatever reason they were pretty stingy with the sealant. Some of the existing sealant has also corroded.

The laundry room and master toilet have a 2-gang configuration with single pole switches. They control the overhead light and exhaust fan. We kept leaving these on for long periods of time, so the main objective was to automate shut off.

We have a walk in closet, and we constantly forget to turn the light switch off. Time to solve this problem with automation! There are 2 types of motion-sensing light switches: Occupancy sensors activate with motion and automatically shut off Vacancy sensors require manual activation but also automatically shut off

So this is a fun one - installing everyone’s favorite thermostat, the Nest. I was a bit crunched for time so I didn’t end up getting as many progress photos as I wanted.