November rain

It's November so it rains, no surprise there.
All water from the roof just falls off and gathers up as a nice little lake under the house.
Some might claim it's a feature, type of an indoor jacuzzi.

Well not to keen on having water standing under the building for the entire winter I had to do something about it.
Hardly rocket science, it boils down to fitting the rain gutters and drain pipes.
Spent the entire Saturday wrestling with the rain gutters. Pretty satisfied with the fact that the gutter from the garage drops down to the gutter from the sauna building and then finally down to the sewers.
Luck?
Don't think so. Endless hours of planning and measuring now pays off. The edge of the roof from the sauna is just below the edge of the roof from the garage...sweet.

My wife stepped into action and managed to throw some paint on half of the building. At least covering the back and the right side since those are the most exposed parts.

Sunday I took a break. Haven't had a free weekend for...umm, can't remember so we thought we'd do something with the entire family,
Off to Kalmar and visit IKEA, the kids love it and my wife gets to spend time with all the trinkets you associate IKEA with.

Well I didn't completely drop the sauna project, a quick visit to Bauhaus to pick up some essentials.
Power cables, light fittings, laminate floor for the dressing room.
Figured that even though floor boards were shipped with the building I'd rather put a laminate floor on top of that as it makes it so much simpler to keep it clean.

Then it struck me, my own Christmas present.

A multitool + driver drill combo with a triple LI 18v battery pack and speed charger....

All neatly packed in stackable boxes.

My wife looked at me and wondered, don't you already have two of those?
My old Makita is ~10 years old making it a rarity,
It uses a 12v 2.6Ah battery pack, the new one is a nose shorter and has a  LI-ion bat pack with a whopping 18v 3Ah....woah.
Gotta have one....

So here they are, the veteran vs the hotshot.

Old school vs the young gun

Yeah I know it sort of became a bit of tech porn towards the end of this post but you know, boys and their toys.


Title reference: November rain/User your illusion I/Guns n' roses