Category Archives: DIY

Custom Building a Modern Mountain Bike

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Paul Lockwood

This was a dream bike build for me and lots of readers share the dream, so here goes: Build or buy? Building means you specify all the components. Even $5K bikes often come with pretty lame wheels, crank sets, cassette etc … Continue reading →

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Non Tech: Five weeks of DIY comes to an end

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Paul Lockwood

After five weeks of DIY it stopped being fun. Over the last year we’ve all but re-built rental house #2. Everything other than the trees was 100% DIY, and these were the most satisfying: New Bathroom (only ~ $800!) New … Continue reading →

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Our $16,000 bathroom remodel

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Paul Lockwood

OK, only kidding but it got you attention right. Over the last few years I know several people that fully remodeled a bathroom. Are you sitting down before I tell you the cost? Well the cheapest was $14,000 and the … Continue reading →

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Cat-5 Wiring: Order matters – Duh!

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Paul Lockwood

This may be common knowledge to everyone but me. In our new house I made two long cat-5 cables to span from a switch to the 2nd xmbc xbox and a PC in a remote bedroom. Well neither (longish) cable would … Continue reading →

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Two weeks without work

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Paul Lockwood

Due to paperwork issues the Gods blessed me with a two week vacation. What does a .Net workaholic do with two weeks off? A lot more than I show in these pics actually. Yeah it is all boring but I’ll … Continue reading →

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