prokyonid

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[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Started the process of exposing the interior wall - this would have been the original exterior wall of the house, before the patio was closed in.

Back of wainscoting panel

Exposed sheathing

Blurry picture of back of carpet and underlayment

This all looks relatively healthy to me so far, though this is only one four foot section. I'll proceed towards the corner, once I find a home for the stuff I have stored back there.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure this would pair very well with my analog broadcasting equipment and the recent lack of FCC enforcement

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think this is a good idea but I don't think it'll be workable for my space unless the entire structure comes down.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you mean, raise the floor? I believe the concrete patio floor was poured as part of the foundation of the house.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Had an electrician go through the entire place when we first bought the house so we could get safe three-prong outlets in place of the two-prong ungrounded outlets that were originally there. Didn't do a full rewire because there's no ceiling access - originally, the only heatsource for the house was electric radiant ceilings, though a couple baseboards were installed at some point after initial construction. The wiring for the sunroom's A/C is run through a conduit on the outside of the house. I replaced the original through-wall unit shortly after we moved in, and I've seen that whole circuit.

What about the interior wall, against what used to be the exterior of the house?

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, when we first moved in the plan was to put in an alternative heat source so we could use it as combination exercise / office space. I'd really like to be able to set it up that way - I like the view the sunroom gives but I really need more year-round floor space so I'd be willing to lose the sunroom functionality completely if I had to

 

I live in a 1960s-built single-story ranch in Ohio. The house was originally built with a covered back patio, floored with concrete. At some point, the original owners closed it up into a large sunroom.

The sunroom conversion was done extremely haphazardly - the exterior siding doesn't match, carpet was laid with no padding on the concrete, the hood in the kitchen vents into it, and the walls are uninsulated and undrywalled - wainscoting panels attached directly to studs. I don't know what the plan was, but at some point they must have been tired of it being so cold back there because they added a woodburning stove in the middle of the room (without properly screening off the chimney, so a few times a year a starling or a squirrel falls in and either breaks their neck or starves to death) and it must have too hot as they also ran wiring to install a large through-wall A/C unit.

I'm sure it's obvious from my description but the room is impractical to use as anything but storage at this point. In the winter, it gets colder in there than in my garage but I'm not about to run that woodstove and burn my house down, and in summer it's so leaky and humid from the poorly installed a/c unit and ancient single-pane sliding windows that every attempt to habitate it has resulted in having to clean blue mold off the walls and furniture in there. Thankfully the old patio door seals it all off pretty well, and that's what we've done for the last few years since we realized just how bad the situation in there was.

I'd like to make the space functional again, especially as it would increase my square footage by around 40%, but don't really know where to start.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

I'll recommend some modern keyboards that are suitable for your retrokit - I'm a big fan of Unicomp keyboards myself, though they do not do N-key rollover, if that is something important to you. Their lighter shade (they call it 'white') is more of a grey than a beige.

You may also consider USB keyboards that can handle P/S2 protocol with use of an adapter (not all of them can do this very well). I have a WASD keyboard for my modern PC that I sometimes also use with my older machines. I would recommend them, but they appear to be out of business.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is an old article. I believe the original seller already depleted their stock. There's a lot of good components in them for tinkerers and some folks still have interest in recreating the original services. I bought one while they were still being sold cheap, the things really were just like brand new

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

Until LaRose is gone, every referendum is going to have fucked language.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's the Lilac color scheme that really makes it - we had that on my family's first PC and classic Win UIs don't look quite right to me without it.

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Had to hit pause on it this week, but recently I have been working through Final Fantasy IX, the PC remaster on Steam w/ Moguri Mod. Started my playthrough in early September, and I just got the boat and entered the grindy minigame hell portion of the game.

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