Steve is spending a great deal of time talking about tools and his acquisition therof; it’s amusing and nice to see him learning what tools to use for what jobs and how to use them. <\/p>\n
Growing up around people who used tools for a living, it never occurs to me that people don’t instinctively understand tool use. <\/p>\n
It also doesn’t occur to me not to do stuff myself. Sure, there are diminishing returns, but for most jobs, I rent or buy or DIY. <\/p>\n
Example: I have a Michigan ledge in my basement. A michigan ledge is what you get when you dig out a crawlspace to form a basement. Usually they stay back from the house foundation about 4′ and pour a new wall and footing. FOr reasons unknown to me, they didn’t do that here, they dug flush to the foundation and poured a wall. I’m concerned about the way they did it, so in order to make sure the walls don’t move around, I bolted them together. I did this by drilling a series of holes along the wall, and anchoring the michigan ledge walls to the original footings. A lot of work. Work I think should have been done by the folks who poured the ledge walls, but wasn’t. <\/p>\n
This wasn’t brain surgery. I calculated that I wasn’t going to induce any unwarranted stresses, so I knew the plan was sound. I knew how many bolts per wall I needed so I was secure there. And I just did it. At the sdame time there was a segment of wall that had shifted, and the blocks cracked. I supported the beam over it, removed the blocks, relaid the blocks with sharp sand mortar. <\/p>\n
it doesn’t dawn on me that other people are mystified by this stuff. It doesn’t dawn on me that I am doing anything unusual. I just do the stuff, and am done with it. <\/p>\n
Are there times when i might be better served to let someone else do the work? Maybe. Maybe I might even be better served to move to an apartment that doesn’t require any maintenance. It’s just not me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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