Pink House

Install Tuya Smart Lock

Tuya BT Smart Lock

I installed Tuya App Bluetooth Smart Lock for the shed so everyone in the family can access whenever they want with smart phones, fingerprint, key code or physical key. It’s quite convenient and only cost $50 from Aliexpress. .

Replace Rheem Electric Water Heater With Gas

Rheem gas water heater

The electric bill last year 2023 increased more than $1500 because we’ve changed to Electric Water Heater 4.5kWh in Dec 2022. The bill was $600 in January so we had to replace with a gas water heater to lower our bill. In NorCal, we can only use low nox water heater which costs more than

Replace Shingle Roof

After the heavy raining season 2023, the storage shingle started to leak into the ceiling, we need to replace it since it’s only 125 SQF total. The sheathing panel some parts were rotten so we had to buy new ones to replace. It’s not hard but just lot of work to remove all the old

Light Fireplace With Pine Cones

pine cones

It’s winter and it’s cold out, when mornings don’t have spare the air alert, we light our fireplace. We used to buy fire starter but they don’t work as well as dry pine cones that fell off the trees. The pine cones are amazing fire starter, they lighted up quickly with great fires.

Taftek AML101 Non-Reversible Door Lock

outside lock

The kids bathroom door lock was broken so I had to find one quickly, Amazon has one “non-reversible” door lock which fits our door perfectly for $10.99 in Satin Nickel. It took me less than 15 minutes to replace the old one with this one. It came with everything needed to install. Very sturdy, nice