First of MANY projects

Hey everybody, Jay here.  This is my first blog post soooo please bear with me.  I am not the best writer/typer but here goes nothing.

First off, I want to say "Thank You" to my beautiful wife Lindsay for starting off this blog and doing an amazing job with it.  I hope that I can become half the blogger that she has become over the past few weeks.   Also, a BIG thank you to everyone that helped out with the move!  I could not have done it without the help of  Ryan Marut, Brian Taylor, Dan Marut, Sharon Pagani (Bubba) and anyone else that helped but I have forgotten.  I am sure that I am missing a few people but i can't remember.  So if I have forgotten you, sorry and thank you soooo much!!!

I have worked on a few projects since moving in.  The first one that I tackled with the help of my brothers Ryan and Danny was the Laundry room.  When packing the truck up to move, this was by FAR the hardest things to move.  We were very happy when those came off truck, so we wanted to get them installed ASAP so we could start to crack open the beers!  As you can see here, the setup with this washer and dryer is absolutely horrendous.  

My plan was to stack our LG Front-load washers to save space and look better.  Something that I always wanted to do but the setup in our apartment didn't allow me to do it.  With the help of my trusty Black and Decker level that I got for Christmas as a gift, we had to level the washer.  This took a little bit of time because my brother forgot how to use a Wrench, but he figured it out after a few tries.  Once the level was green we were good to go!


Next was the dryer.  "All we have to do is lift it up and plug it in and hook up the exhaust, then we are done".  Sounds pretty easy, right?  Come on, this is our first day as homeowners, why would it be easy?  Turns out, the outlet was a 220V and the plug on the dryer did not fit.  Time to make my first trip to Home Depot as a home owner.  Good thing I had to drop Dan off at his car which was on the was to Home Depot.  Just as I was about to pull in, I remembered that I could just pull the plug off of the old one.  WHAT WAS I THINKING???   So after turning around, I made it back home and started to take off the plug off of the old unit.  Sounds easy, right?  Well, it would have been easy, if I had a socket wrench set.  After getting two of the three nuts off with a pair of needle nose pliers, the last one would not budge.  Stuck again.  Thankfully I was able to get a hold of my mom while she was one the way to see our home and she picked up a socket wrench set for me.

So now that I have my socket wrench set, I can finish the project.  Sound's pretty easy, right?  Well guess what, it actually was!   It is amazing how easy some projects could be with the right tools.  I disconnected the cord and connected it to our dryer.  Once that was done, all we had to do was lift up the dryer on top of the washer and connect the exhaust.  We lifted it up without a problem and Ryan was able to screw the exhaust to the back and we were finished!  A project that probably should have taken about 20 minutes took close to 2.5 hours!  But the thing is, it was totally worth it.  What do you think?

Hopefully, you enjoyed reading my first home project.  I know it might have been a little long, and hopefully my editor (Lindsay) doesn't kick my DUPA for going on too long.  Come back soon and you can read about fun with electrical and thermostats along with a whole bunch of other stuff!!!