Bingo. A/c running non stop in august.

Thanks! I picked that color! My wife wanted grayige which I was tired of seeing and hearing about. The color is Evergreen fog by sherwin Williams. I think it was the color of the year last year.

Bingo!

Believe it or not, smashing your thumb was probably way more painful, so I feel for you. I had the benefit of shock, adrenaline, and heavy narcotics in the er when the latter wore off.

thanks! It was a really fun project. Coulda gone without the dismemberment part, but would do again!

We’re shooting for 50 - 60% mobility restored in the proximal joint. Ha have pretty solid movement in all the other joints on the finger. Feeling wise where the saw entered is where the median nerve (?) runs. The surgeon was flabbergasted I didn’t cut that. He doesn’t understand how it didn’t get cut given the location and damage. It’s tingly where the saw entered and slightly numbe around. Other then that I have good feeling in my top and else where.

The suregeon, specializes in hand trauma, said it’s one of the more catastrophic finger injuries he’s seen mostly due to the fragmentation of the bone which is shown in the x-ray a bit, but the CT scan showed a much more dire picture.

All things considered it’s a positive prognosis, it won’t be the same, but it will be functional.

Building the floor/lowering the ceiling added about 300sqft of what was other wise wasted space. The floor drops in room as is so it has about 9ft ceilings now which makes it feel very open.

Our air conditioning smusage has dropped about 20% between the two units as well.

Cutting a piece of trim on a compound miter saw. As I was lifting the saw up I reached for the cut piece of wood. My index finger caught the still spinning blade. Rest is history!

Be careful everyone!

Lol, stuff happens I guess? When you’re getting annoyed or rushed while using power tools, go take a break and have a cup of coffee or something.

Thank you for the compliment!

For sure. The other problems were heat and air circulation and management were a nightmare. Also you couldn’t watch tv in the living room without the rest of the house hearing it.

I can share the gnarly ones too. But here’s post op after the first surgery.

https://imgur.com/a/laiQtI1

I have a metal plate. 2nd survey was about 6 months later to do a bone graph because of non-union. I’ll have 3rd surgery soon to remove the plate and clean up some scar tissue hoping for increased movement.

I can pinch but not make a fist. Nerves are ok, lost some feeling where the saw went in but still have feeling everywhere else to everyone’s surprise.

I was googling forever to ding out if I could do it and there was so little info on it which is why I posted. The vaulted ceiling concept is so dated, I hate it. It creates an air conditioning/heating nightmare.

The floor to ceiling windows are a bummer though, that really does limit your options.

Funny you menetion that! The permit office asked the same thing. So the house is a two story house and built on slab. The entire slab was poured for a two story house so there wasn’t much inf a concern. The engineer verified it all anyways and gave it a thumbs up.

They radiate heat and we’re going for a media room vibe.