And the shower broke :(

I guess I should be updating more as I'm doing but seem to be having trouble with that.
I went to replace the seals in the old Delta faucet in our bath/shower, somehow I managed to mess it up and water was leaking behind the wall afterwards. The drip from the faucet was gone though!

I guess I forgot to take a pic of how it looked before but this was after cutting out the supports for the old diverter/temp valve and bath faucet.

Heres with the new supports put in and the pipe connected to the shower head and tub faucet, still need to run the hot/cold water pipe to it.

Here's the part that goes through the wall to the tub faucet. Once it's through I glued a threaded fitting on that the tub faucet screws onto.

Here's the new valve with fittings, the owners before us put the shower head, tub faucet and escutcheon on but left the old valve in. After doing this I know why! The nice thing with this new valve is that you can control the temp and pressure separately, all you have to do is set it to the temp you like and turn the shower on and off, it will always stay at that temp which is nice.

Here it is almost ready. 

All done except the handle.

Attic closet Pt 1

So here's my attempt to turn part of the attic into a closet. The first part looks pretty good, next is to add a closet bar across the back and move the dressers to the opposite wall which includes moving a vent in the wall. At least it's cool right now as I have to go into the attic to do it.

I had to take notches out of the baseboard so the frame would fit flush against the wall. I figured this would be easier than trying to cut the pattern into the frame itself and if we ever pull the drywall and baseboard to better insulate the attic I won't have to reshape the frame for the new baseboard.

In the two outside boxes of the frame I used drywall anchors to hold the 1x2's to the wall then used 2.5" #6 wood screws to hold the frame to the 1x2s. I used flanges for the closet rod and one support in the middle that is held by the drywall for extra support.

Surge protector outlet

So I found these cool surge protector outlets from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Leviton-7280-W-Suppressor-Receptacle-Industrial/dp/B001FB64JE/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1320368004&sr=8-8
They function like a surge strip but without the clutter. I used one under the home for the gate opener to protect it.

So these are more pictures than are necessary but I was curious about how it hooked up before I bought it. You wire it the same as a normal outlet but if you want the ground to be isolated you just run a seperate grounding conductor back to the panel from this instead of using the one that goes to the other outlets on the circuit.