I will try to reach him, from what I can see using the magnifyer on my computer on a Toro recycler image, the A shaped piece appears to be upside down. Tried using a regular wrench yesterday, but will damage the points on the nuts if I continue to do so. Somewhere in this house there should be wratchet wrench? I know what it looks like anyways, just not crazy about pilfering through boxes in the basement when there are probably spiders in them. I will try to contact him, we are all on school vacation, and see if he removed the handle. I went to Home Depot, but they did not have one in stock, and the lawnmowers were displayed 10 feet up. The manual has sketches, which appeared to support the upside down position as well.

I'm sorry that your package went to the wrong house Daniella but I know that you made out like a bandit cause I read your other post. I remember all these things going on last year too. Missing boxes, Poor Karyn she did have problems as did Mike and Kristy late boxes and so forth.I never laughed so hard at Mike and Kristy. They were one anothers SS and didn't have a clue. Both of them kept emailing me to check with the other one about their gifts. LOL it was so funny. I think they were both very surprised to find out that they were one anothers SS all along. It was fun, crazy, and alot of work. In the end there were some awesome gifts from some very wonderful gardeners. I recall last year that people opened their gifts, took photos of their loot and posted them on the brug forum. It would be nice to see some photos of your gifts. Good luck and have fun in the true spirit of Christmas. Tis better to give than receive. Love Marian

Been there, done that...lint is such a HUGE annoyance to my life. We're in a 2nd floor condo where the dryer vent ducting goes to the roof through the attic over 20 feet and several elbows. My husband bought the condo years before we met, and the ducting was clogged after several years. At the time, he decided to disconnect the vent from the duct. The resulting moisture did some damage to the cabinetry (swelling of the particle board, even under layers of oil-based paint). Soon after we married, he decided we needed to fix the problem correctly. He went up into the attic and disassembled the ducting, brought it outside, and blew it out with his air compressor. I pushed some cleaning tool through it as well. We can't be doing this regularly! I mean preferably, never again! So, I had him put a filter -- a gallon paint strainer -- over the dryer vent where it connects to the machine. This clogs every month or so, we pull the machine out, disconnect the vent, clean the strainer, and put it back. This is still an annoying chore, but not the nightmare of dealing with the whole duct run. My husband had a cool idea, that what we need to do is sew a new, longer strainer that tapers to a skinny point, so that even when it clogs at the point, there can still be air flowing past the clogged strainer, and we should be able to go longer between cleanings. We got a new dryer last summer, and pulled the ducting out of the attic to clean it -- but it was already clean as a whistle. So, our secondary filter system has kept the duct run clean for 9 years. I found you can buy secondary lint traps with a door that opens to clean them out, but we don't have room to install the box in our laundry room, and I don't think it would work any better or be easier to clean than our homemade filter. When I redo the floor, I plan to put magic slider thingies under the dryer feet to make it easier to move in and out, plus I won't want to gouge my new floor. I have researched other solutions. People claim that solid metal vent will maintain better airflow than pleated, but I think it will still clog because we need 2 90-degree elbows to get it connected to the duct in the wall. And if it clogs, how do we pull out the machine with a non-stretching vent? If we could move the duct in the wall to match the dryer vent outlet, that would eliminate 2 elbows and would probably help... I also found you can install a secondary fan in the ducting near the exit, increasing the airspeed in long ducts so the lint won't clog. They cost $150-200, but if I never had to clean out the duct run or pull out the dryer to clean my makeshift secondary lint trap ever again, it would be well worth it. I also think that our ducting is leaky somewhere, because rooms on the other side of the wall (our master bath) get crusted with lint all the time. Finding and sealing those leaks would probably improve airspeed some, plus save me tons of work cleaning the lint all the time. I think the additional fan is the way to go. In 2 other areas where we replaced an ineffective low-cfm cheap fan with a high-cfm good one, like the hood over our cooktop, it made an amazing difference, night and day. Here is a link that might be useful: example of dryer duct fan

Great post! I am looking to forward to seeing some ideas as well with regards to the screens, finish work etc as I am trying to finalize my plans as well. The link below has photos of my partially finished screened in deck. Ipe T&G floor, the posts and walls will be Ipe, soffit and ceiling is T&G fir, and the interior will be finished off with a ceiling fan and rope lighting around channel. http://wedman.smugmug.com/gallery/2116403/1/123007579 Ken