Gadgetory

excellent what's up everybody and welcome to today's video which is going to be pretty sloppy this is a garage work log and I have some goals that I'm going to try to accomplish today the goals do not include doing good filming though so that's why I have the camera sets like full automatic right now and apart from that I wanted to share my situation so let me show you guys what's going on here so this is where I've been kind of like getting work done I don't know for the past few weeks or month or two or whatever and as you can see it's pretty much like just all in chaos and shambles there's just stuff everywhere this is our dining room table which we haven't used to eat dinner and quite some time that's an extra table I set up over there I keep moving stuff back and forth from between the garage and out here and we're trying to go through like an organization project but um it's just kind of become a sprawling mess but apart from all that let me kind of walk in here to show you guys the situation in the garage look how dark it is so the garage is also a sprawling mess and this is like my desk where I like do stuff over here this is like my workbench which is covered with crap there's all this stuff over here and every I don't know I don't know where any of this stuff came from but the main point is that I'm going to be doing some air conditioning out here which I've been talking about for quite some time I'm finally ready to do I was going to go for a split unit but I've decided to take a hopefully an easier route and go with a portable unit because it was much cheaper and installation wise I think I'm just gonna have any hopefully an easier time with it so here's what I'm going to try to do today if I can one is to set up some exhaust for the AC and second is to insulate the garage door over here which will hopefully handle insulation as well as a bit of noise dampening so I have a kit I'll show you guys that in hopefully just a few minutes for now I need to race against the clock to get this AC up and running because it's supposed to be like well over 100 degrees today in Southern California and if I don't get this thing up and running I'm just I'm not going to be able to spend any time out here in the garage so my main dilemma is that I have a 5-inch exhaust hose for this a/c unit that goes on the back of it and yes you have to kick the the hot air out some somewhere I'm planning on going through my same place where the dryer goes in that's but this is a four inch so I've gotten a replacement one of these guys to vent it outside that's going to kick through the wall right there and then I've gone and gotten this little splitter right here so this is a four inch and a five inch both going into a five inch so that's going to come out of the wall they're going to be able to do the dryer through one AC through the other and then I also got these baffles which are like one-way one-way units and that will help me keep like for instance when I have AC on and it'll keep it from ejecting back up into the dryer if the bear is kicking out stuff it'll keep it from coming back up into the AC and I hope this all works anyway let's let's get this done okay so in the interest of moving on with stage two for today and keep them things little below here see I got the five inch hole punch through and moved in here from the outside and I have just run the temporary exhaust from the AC to that and I have actually used duct tape on a duct this is like the first this is an absolute first for me that's there's duct tape on a duct as you can see if the dryer exhaust is not currently connected and I need to do some cleanup still but this is just to get this AC unit tested so one thing is I honestly haven't even powered it on or anything like that this is a 12,000 BTU unit from higher it's supposed to be pretty quiet and it says it will handle about a 500 square foot room and this garage is about 300 square feet so even though it's got like taller ceilings and everything it is insulated so I think we should be okay in here okay I think that's all that's this work on on no broken okay I'm back from Home Depot and now it's on to the next phase which is these big old boxes right here that were shipped to me this is my garage door installation project so I'm gonna get started on that but stuff I got at Home Depot I got like some insulation for the tubing which i think is a be useful with these metal strips I'm going to use to hopefully mount it to the wall I got I get this guy right here which is just kind of a fun fun little thing I haven't had before there no infrared thermometer you can tell how hot stuff is apparently it's 83 degrees okay so yeah I'm going to put the insulation around the tubing and then I got some caulk and a bunch of other stuff so you grab this I'm not sure why I'm doing all this while I'm filming I should have done this well that wasn't filming but here goes alright so that in the garage there's my lovely weather stripping for around the garage door that's what I'm gonna work on next here's my new and improved tubing duct so I'm working on getting this all set up I got got a couple 90-degree elbow bends there so I can kind of bring it from where it's coming out of the wall over there around at an angle because I'd like to have this up against the wall rather than just sticking out into the garage applying the baffles to it to again keep air from back drafting but I'm actually going to put this little project on hold for now because I do have the a/c functional although I just turned it off so yeah AC is functional up and running and exhausting out the side of the garage and I'm going to leave that as is for the time being because yeah I wish it was a little bit quieter that's for sure I thought this is going to be a little bit quieter than it is but I think it's still alright because now I have this that I need to work on like ASAP this is the Sun has sun's moving around and then the Sun will start hitting the garage door later in a day and it's probably already like hotter than it should be how does it you get to see that focus focus yeah it's already the garage door is already over 100 okay guys I'm not exactly sure when I cut off the last video but I wanted to do an update here so yeah all the work has been done on the garage door over here and also the air conditioner unit down there and I'm going to show you guys what I did and how it's working out I'm also watching the set for a nation livestream right now because sapphire edie as well as Doug are like doing shots for followers and stuff and they're both they're both a little toasty right now they're having a good time uh so I'm just chilling out here guys if you haven't if you've never checked out a set the Sapphire livestream sapphire nation they're good people there so check it out and this one in particular has been quite funny but anyway so let's take a look first off the AC unit over here and this has been doing a pretty good job I've actually run this through some tests now that I have everything sealed up it's louder than I wanted it to be so that's a little bit of an issue but what it's doing is it's making it liveable in here in the afternoons when it's getting pretty warm and like the 90s and low hundreds here in the back you can see where I've gone and I did some insulation around this entire tube I use a little splitter tube which you can maybe see down there at the bottom so that actually the dryer tube comes down there and it goes up in here I put the two baffles in between there's a baffle there and there's a baffle up here other than that I just did a little metal bracket on the wall to kind of hold that whole assembly in place again I insulated everything on the inside because there's a lot of hot this whole tube gets really warm and it just emanates heat so insulating it's going to help keep more of that heat going outside and then there's where that punches through the hole goes to the outside and actually even did a somewhat reasonable job and put sealants around edges all that and stuff so that's been doing a pretty good job I'm actually really happy with that so what this is allowing me to do is come out here in the mornings so if I get out here in the morning I can actually sit over here in my space and get some work done if I need to sit there like behind the camera or be on camera because like let's be honest the main issue with it being hot is that I get sweaty and stuff but I can I can record the on-camera stuff in the morning and then this the a/c keeps its cool enough in the afternoon that I can be out here shooting like some b-roll or any of that kind stuffin and get all that stuff done all right now obviously there's a whole lot of work still left to be done out here but I can actually do it it's like a look at what I did with the garage door and then lastly I have some overhead ceiling racks to put up that I just picked up yesterday and that's what I'm going to be working on for this the day today so here's the garage door from the inside and basically what that kit was as a bunch of styrofoam panels that you kind of cut down to the right size and then they just kind of pop in here in they stay in place they don't really need much to hold them because they're pretty lightweight that provides some insulation I was using the heat gun on this and in the afternoon because the Sun comes in the afternoon it actually hits this door directly then the afternoon this was making the difference in temperature of about 10 to 20 degrees depending on where I was pointing a little laser again it actually even provides a little bit of sound dampening it's not killing the noise of the trains going by or anything like that but I'm actually pretty happy with how this has turned out so far and I'm still debating whether I'm going to do these top windows and kind of fill in around the edges I still like the windows I like having a little bit of light coming in from that but I'm that's still that still remains to be seen how that's all going to work out here's the exhaust and I did seal around the outside of this as well just for some some weather sealing there then skull flap down here that's uh opens up which is some air pressure so that the air can come out and it's all coming out there nice and strong so those baffles aren't killing the airflow very much on the front of the garage I did this ceiling sort of around the outside edge so these are just picked up a Home Depot they're really not very expensive at all and they have these little little flaps that go there and just push up against the inside of the edge of the door and it's closed works out pretty well actually so I did those all around the outside I went and sealed around the edges of that also with sealant I suppose or the plastic II stuff again just trying to kill anywhere that air might seep through of course you're still going to get air in the gaps of the garage door and stuff but this is like way way way better already I can tell than it was even down here to the bottom I sealed around there and then this side of the garage door was actually that the cement was a little bit lower so I put a little bit of foam stripping just along the edge right there to kind of keep a seal along that edge and then also replaced at least part of this this rubber pad here that kind of compresses when they when the door goes down and that makes sure that the air stays inside and lastly I have a couple overhead metal white roof racks there's four overhead storage I'm going to set up here in the garage this is the last thing and I'm going to close off this video with this little time lapse so hope you guys have enjoyed watching me toil away in my garage making some upgrades here of course I have lots of work still to do so I have a few more garage work logs probably coming your way I have some tech videos too I'm going to throw in there too so stay 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