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falz posted:Sorry, but in no way would i cyberstalk the gently caress out of my neighbors to determine what profession they have, get a bunch of ammo and whatnot, before just saying "hi neighbor of two years, how are you? I'm good too. How about that 'rona! Oh, can we talk about this wall?" 1.) The neighbor in question is by default always using an attorney. 2.) Just because you consult an attorney about how to do this doesn't mean that they immediately fire up the nasty letter generator. You go get advice, then you approach the neighbor as you suggested. But informed, rather than blindly. I too would like to live in a world where this kind of thing isn't necessary and prudent. But that is not where we live.
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Yeah I'm not going to haul off and sue him or anything. I really just want to know if I give up my rights to have him pay to fix the wall if I do nothing for 10 years. The wall can collapse into the back of my yard for another 5 years or so before I even tackle the garage. I just want to make sure the guy who owns the wall, whose property is being held up from collapsing onto my lot, pays to fix his own poo poo eventually.
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I guess my world view doesn't consist of consulting with attorneys by default for pretty much anything, housing or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've owned homes for almost 20 years and the worst I had was a neighbor who's tree fell on my fence, he said he'd fix it, didn't in a few months so I did and it cost me $50 and no stress, which was just fine with me. sorry for derail, sally forth
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H110Hawk posted:Key features: Must be able to disable all sound. Exhaust to the outside. Microwaving is also nice but not beeping is key. Why the !?@$& does every microwave beep incessantly when it's done? gently caress you, I'm not going to forget where my food is, and I don't need a robot telling me what to do
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Jun 8, 2020 21:41
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Epitope posted:Why the !?@$& does every This is true of all electronic gadgets. The only devices I want beeping at me are life safety devices. iPhones are the worst at this with their inability to disable most of their beeping while maintaining a ringer on the phone. Also: Instant pots, instant pot air fryer lids, etc. Mute should be the default, or if you need an ADA compliant method and initial setup that speaks it out with how to turn it off forever. gently caress beeping.
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Jun 8, 2020 22:32
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The Dave posted:Just refied down from a 30 year at 4.8 to a 15 year 3.1 and will ultimately save $30k. Just opened a bottle of red. Similarly, closing Friday and going from a 4.75 30yr to a 2.875 30yr. We were only one year in on this mortgage so it doesn’t really set us back. The $250/mo lower mortgage payment we’re gonna plow right back in to principal. Between that and throwing in an extra payment every year since we run on a 4 week budget cycle, we could theoretically have this paid off in 18 years and save over $120k in interest. 
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Jun 8, 2020 22:54
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devmd01 posted:Similarly, closing Friday and going from a 4.75 30yr to a 2.875 30yr. We were only one year in on this mortgage so it doesn’t really set us back. The $250/mo lower mortgage payment we’re gonna plow right back in to principal. Between that and throwing in an extra payment every year since we run on a 4 week budget cycle, we could theoretically have this paid off in 18 years and save over $120k in interest. Where’d you get that rate and how many points, or VA?
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Jun 8, 2020 23:23
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pmchem posted:Where’d you get that rate and how many points, or VA? I just got a VA purchase loan at 2.75%, interest rates have been insanely low lately.
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Jun 8, 2020 23:45
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I’d like to refi as well since I bought last year at 4.5 for a 30 year, but I don’t have that chunk of cash on hand for closing. Is it typical/possible to roll those costs into the loan?
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:I’d like to refi as well since I bought last year at 4.5 for a 30 year, but I don’t have that chunk of cash on hand for closing. Is it typical/possible to roll those costs into the loan? Yeah, that's what I did. It's typically ~1% of the loan amount, not like a full down payment. The only cash we had to send was the new escrow balance (and you get your old escrow balance back within a month). We went from a 4.75% 30yr to 3.375% 25yr after 6 years on the loan. We also got out of PMI because the value has gone up, so it's a pretty sizeable savings.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:09
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:I’d like to refi as well since I bought last year at 4.5 for a 30 year, but I don’t have that chunk of cash on hand for closing. Is it typical/possible to roll those costs into the loan? Just did the same thing myself about 6-8 weeks ago. They can just roll closing costs into the loan. If the numbers make sense definitely do it! I refinanced from %4.5 to 3.2 and will save about $50k over the cost of my loan on a 30 year mortgage. If I'd known numbers were going to drop under 3 I may have even waited a bit longer. I dont know how they possibly get any lower.
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H110Hawk posted:This is true of all electronic gadgets. The only devices I want beeping at me are life safety devices. iPhones are the worst at this with their inability to disable most of their beeping while maintaining a ringer on the phone. Also: Instant pots, instant pot air fryer lids, etc. Agreed. One day at my old house I went ham removing piezo buzzers from the Verizon ONT BBU, Waffle Iron, etc. much happier after that 
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Jun 9, 2020 01:49
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Hed posted:Agreed. One day at my old house I went ham removing piezo buzzers from the Verizon ONT BBU, Waffle Iron, etc. I rewired my Verizon ONT bbu into bypass. Now it's a massive empty box as a wall wart. Gave the lead battery to autozone.
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Jun 9, 2020 13:42
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BaseballPCHiker posted:in her opinion one homeowner cant break off a section to fix it on their lot without causing damage to the rest of the wall. She's almost definitely right, and there are engineers that specialize specifically in retaining walls. That's gonna be one hell of a bill. Somebody back in the day must have REALLY wanted their lot just a bit more level. Now repairing/replacing is gonna be a pain, and removing it would come with a whole new set of drainage issues.
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Jun 9, 2020 14:46
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BaseballPCHiker posted:The wall spans the entire block, Does the neighbor in question own the entire wall, or just the section of it adjacent to your property? If the ownership of the wall is divided among several of the properties on the other side of the block, it seems like they'd all need to agree & split the cost of replacing/repairing it. That might explain how it's gotten so bad, there hasn't a point been where all the owners had both the desire and the funds to fix it at the same time.
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falz posted:I guess my world view doesn't consist of consulting with attorneys by default for pretty much anything, housing or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Epitope posted:Why the !?@$& does every microwave beep incessantly when it's done? gently caress you, I'm not going to forget where my food is, and I don't need a robot telling me what to do I've got a Toshiba (this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076V72BZ6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and it has an option to mute all sounds, just hold the "8" button for like 3 seconds. The irony? To confirm all sounds are disabled...it lets out one, very long, very loud, beep. Of course, I only have to hear that if I, say, lose power or unplug the microwave and have to turn the sounds back off again since it will reset to the default. But in an ideal world, I could customize all the sounds on the microwave to my exact wants: 1) Button presses silent. I can see how it's useful to the visually impaired, but I can see on the screen that I hit a button. 2) Beep when the microwave is done, but only ONE single beep, low level of loudness, and lasts for maybe two seconds. 3) However, if it's between the hours of, let's say, 11 PM to 9 AM, that beep is disabled. I once rented a house with a built-in microwave in the wall that, no lie, had FIVE beeps when it finished, about 1 second each, with a second of silence between them, except the last beep lasted like 3 to 4 seconds. And, on top of that, if you didn't open the door, it would do another long beep every minute until you did. No way to turn it off.
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Jun 9, 2020 16:54
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DrBouvenstein posted:I once rented a house with a built-in microwave in the wall that, no lie, had FIVE beeps when it finished, about 1 second each, with a second of silence between them, except the last beep lasted like 3 to 4 seconds. Ah so we have the same microwave.
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I had a rental with a nicer Bosch dishwasher that was super quiet, could barely hear it when it was on. When it would finish, it would beep for several seconds, on repeat, every 15 or 30 minutes. You could hear it throughout the house. I can't even imagine how insane that would make me now that we run the drat dishwasher so much with kids. That rental microwave sounds awful; I would fantasize about drilling and filling with expanding foam everywhere I could until I could finally give it the office space fax machine treatment.
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Jun 9, 2020 18:42
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Hed posted:I had a rental with a nicer Bosch dishwasher that was super quiet, could barely hear it when it was on. When it would finish, it would beep for several seconds, on repeat, every 15 or 30 minutes. You could hear it throughout the house. I can't even imagine how insane that would make me now that we run the drat dishwasher so much with kids. I bet that is configurable to disable. Mine doesn't do that and I have it set to just turn off after 1 minute of "idle time". I'm not even clear why anyone would care for the other settings of "20 minutes" or "never." It blinks when not running, that's it.
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Mine just quietly runs a fan and then opens the door a bit to let the moisture out.
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Anyone have thoughts on a good room air purifier? Wirecutter recommends a Coway model, but there are so many out there that may or may not be good and it's hard to find actual reviews not on Amazon.
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Question about cleaning the grout from my bathroom tile floor - you can see in the picture the bottom part is quite dirty, whereas the upper part is how it should look when clean (that's behind the door so I'm never stepping on it). I tried cleaning it using some online guides that mentioned vinegar and other things, along with a specific type of scrub brush, but I didn't make much progress. What recommendations do you have for products? here's one from home depot that has pretty good reviews https://www.homedepot.com/p/TECH-128-oz-Grout-Cleaner-17001/205446894 or https://www.homedepot.com/p/Custom-Building-Products-Aqua-Mix-1-Qt-Heavy-Duty-Tile-and-Grout-Cleaner-010382-4/300176036 actionjackson fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Jun 9, 2020 20:11
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:Anyone have thoughts on a good room air purifier? Wirecutter recommends a Coway model, but there are so many out there that may or may not be good and it's hard to find actual reviews not on Amazon. we have a couple of those Coways; i'm happy with them, though if you have it set to the automatic quality detection it'll rev up and get fairly noisy if you have one near or in your kitchen and you've just cooked something smokey and then try to watch a movie but you can easily turn that off, and they really are effective, i'd recommend them. haven't had to swap out a charcoal odor filters yet either - they're not expensive and seem to last p well
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actionjackson posted:Question about cleaning the grout from my bathroom tile floor - you can see in the picture the bottom part is quite dirty, whereas the upper part is how it should look when clean (that's behind the door so I'm never stepping on it). I tried cleaning it using some online guides that mentioned vinegar and other things, along with a specific type of scrub brush, but I didn't make much progress. What recommendations do you have for products? What else have you tried besides vinegar? Generally, using acids like vinegar on grout is a bad idea, because it will eventually eat it away or weaken it. The internet 'mommy bloggers' are loving stupid about vinegar, thinking it's some time of magical cleaner that doesn't contain 'harmful chemicals', where almost anything else will work far better. Anyway, for light grout, your best bets are probably hydrogen peroxide and bleach/oxyclean. I'd start with hydrogen peroxide and move to bleach if it isn't able to get it done. The commercial products you listed are just a small amount of sodium hydroxide (lye, drain cleaner), soap and water. You could make your own version of this for pennies if you wanted to try it, but trisodium phosphate would be a safer choice with the same effect. TSP/lye would be better on dark grouts where you are worried about bleach lightening the color.
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Doesn't TSP attack grout as well? I've been told it's good for cleaning up stray grout after tiling which suggests it'll eat away at the stuff in your floor if you clean with it...
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Steam wand/mop?actionjackson posted:Question about cleaning the grout from my bathroom tile floor - you can see in the picture the bottom part is quite dirty, whereas the upper part is how it should look when clean (that's behind the door so I'm never stepping on it). I tried cleaning it using some online guides that mentioned vinegar and other things, along with a specific type of scrub brush, but I didn't make much progress. What recommendations do you have for products? Steam wand/mop?
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B-Nasty posted:What else have you tried besides vinegar? Generally, using acids like vinegar on grout is a bad idea, because it will eventually eat it away or weaken it. The internet 'mommy bloggers' are loving stupid about vinegar, thinking it's some time of magical cleaner that doesn't contain 'harmful chemicals', where almost anything else will work far better. Actually I think it was hydrogen peroxide, not vinegar. But even Bob Vila says use vinegar? https://www.bobvila.com/articles/cleaning-grout/ I think I will try oxiclean. thanks.
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fralbjabar posted:Doesn't TSP attack grout as well? I've been told it's good for cleaning up stray grout after tiling which suggests it'll eat away at the stuff in your floor if you clean with it... I've haven't heard of that, and I can't think of what the mechanism would be. I have heard of using vinegar for that, and for wiping off the grout haze if you didn't do a good job with the sponge. I've mostly just used bleach, which works really well without tons of scrubbing.
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Bleach works great as a cleaner, we generally don't use it because it, well, bleaches fabrics. I've had an issue lately where I get a chemical burny feeling in my lungs from some type of common spray toxin based cleaner. At first we thought it was just whatever Clorox we happened to buy 6 months ago, and 409 didn't do it, but whatever type of 409 we bought this time is definitely doing it. Likely back to vinegar for us, it's what we used when we had the bird. 
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:Anyone have thoughts on a good room air purifier? Wirecutter recommends a Coway model, but there are so many out there that may or may not be good and it's hard to find actual reviews not on Amazon. I jumped on the air purifier bandwagon after reading a bunch of articles about all of their benefits and havent look back. We use a couple of different models in our house and have been happy with the operating costs and performance of all of them. In our bigger rooms we use a Winix model that we got from Costco, ours is a bit older than this one, but same basic model: https://www.costco.com/winix-c545-4-stage-air-purifier-with-wifi-with-plasmawave-technology.product.100500281.html In our bedrooms and smaller rooms we use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073WJDQMN They are a big help in cutting down on dust. They seem to help my wife with her allergies a bit. Beyond that I cant say for certain that they are some health godsend but our air feels better. I dont know if thats all placebo effect in my mind or not.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I jumped on the air purifier bandwagon after reading a bunch of articles about all of their benefits and havent look back. H.P. Hovercraft posted:we have a couple of those Coways; i'm happy with them, though if you have it set to the automatic quality detection it'll rev up and get fairly noisy if you have one near or in your kitchen and you've just cooked something smokey and then try to watch a movie
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I just had an electrician in to get a second quote on replacing and upgrading my service panel. Dude comes to my door with no mask on, then acts real annoyed when I ask if he has one. I just received the official quote and his email says the permit is optional. Lmao, nope nope nope
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Sirotan posted:I just had an electrician in to get a second quote on replacing and upgrading my service panel. Dude comes to my door with no mask on, then acts real annoyed when I ask if he has one. I just received the official quote and his email says the permit is optional. Lmao, nope nope nope
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This guy definitely has insurance.
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Spoke with a lawyer today about my retaining wall woes. Basically I can ignore it for as long as I want. I dont have to take any action within a set amount of years or lose out on making my neighbor fix the wall. So when it comes time to do something about it I can go talk to him. Onto the next thing now. Who here has chipped up concrete sidewalks around their house and fixed the grading? I feel like I have a big project in front of me.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Who here has chipped up concrete sidewalks around their house and fixed the grading? I feel like I have a big project in front of me. Assuming you're talking about poured concrete and not pavers, I've done it in two ways. 1. With a chisel attachment for an SDS drill 2. With a pneumatic needle on an excavator I would not recommend option 1 for anything but the smallest jobs.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Spoke with a lawyer today about my retaining wall woes.
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