{"id":17055,"date":"2021-12-17T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=17055"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:18:47","slug":"17dec2021-ocf-update-the-joys-of-home-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/17dec2021-ocf-update-the-joys-of-home-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"17DEC2021 &#8211; OCF Update &#8211; The Joys of Home Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went out armed with enthusiasm and determination.\u00a0 Also with bespoke fence supports, rebar, sledge hammers, levels, shovels and stainless steel screws.\u00a0 And after several hours I came back a broken man.\u00a0 My only solace is that I learned a valuable lesson, namely whatever you assume the worst case is, quadruple it.<\/p>\n<p>My predecessor at the Compound was an inveterate do-it-yourselfer.\u00a0 Which I&#8217;m sure saved him scads of money on contractors.\u00a0 However, it meant that orthodoxy was not something he was held to.\u00a0 When putting in a wooden fence it is best practice to set the posts in concrete.\u00a0 Apparently Mr. DIY decided that was way too belts and suspenders for him.\u00a0 So bye bye to bespoke supports.\u00a0 Hello to hammering in any wooden or metal stakes I could get my hands on and nailing them to the posts.\u00a0 Even aside from the unpleasing aesthetics of this makeshift solution, my confidence in the dependability of these repairs is very low.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this spring, I will get to experiment with installing concrete footings.\u00a0 But as a very lazy man my soul rebels at the enormous effort I&#8217;ll be expending.\u00a0 Oh, the pain, the pain.<\/p>\n<p>Well now by comparison writing a post or two seems like a walk in the park.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be doing a review of another of the last of the Star Trek season three episodes.\u00a0 It was terrible but now I have something worse to compare it to, home improvement catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went out armed with enthusiasm and determination.\u00a0 Also with bespoke fence supports, rebar, sledge hammers, levels, shovels and stainless steel screws.\u00a0 And after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1263],"tags":[3475,580],"class_list":["post-17055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-that-personally-interests-me-miscellaneous","tag-home-repair","tag-ocf-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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