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While we’re having couch chat, has anyone used a BenchMade Modern couch? I really like a lot of their styles and they’re pretty well reviewed, but man that’s a lot for a sight unseen piece of furniture.
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peanut posted:It looks fantastic, but I usually hear 焼杉板 pronounced as yaki sugi ita on the JP home remodeling shows. You can be extra cool with this knowledge. Oh that is good stuff. I’ve had seen it written as “shou sugi ban” basically everywhere but had seen it referred to as yakisugi when i saw a documentary on it. Being incredibly lazy, I never went back and figured out the distinction. This explains it well. Thanks!!
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Jun 7, 2021 12:44
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I'm about to move to North Carolina. Since it seems like loving everything is made in NC... is furniture cheaper there?
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Jun 7, 2021 14:45
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BonoMan posted:I'm about to move to North Carolina. Since it seems like loving everything is made in NC... is furniture cheaper there? It’s mostly only upholstery that gets made in the US now. Most of it is made/upholstered to order and so upholstery needs shorter turnaround times than are possible with overseas manufacturing. With more rapidly changing consumer tastes and more desire for custom sizing etc., more higher-end places like Room & Board etc. are increasingly using domestic manufacturing even for tables and stuff. Italy is the North Carolina of Europe as far as furniture manufacturing goes, and some of the biggest and best manufacturers of woodworking machinery are Italianfor that reason. Indonesia and increasingly China and Vietnam all have big contract manufacturing export furniture industries. They can import US hardwoods, turn them into furniture, and ship them back to the US cheaper than it can be manufactured here. The big huge decorator/furniture show every year is the High Point market in High Point, NC. It’s like fashion week for interior design.
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I currently live in NC, and I don't have direct comparisons but I would imagine yes. There's tons of retailers, manufacturers, and warehouses so at minimum you're saving on shipping costs. If you're happy with floor models or last year's styles, there's outlets galore. High Point is the Center of the Furniture Universe. It's home of the High Point Furniture Market, which is a trade show that attracts professionals from around the world. It's a really big deal, like to the tune of billions of dollars of economic impact to the state. The actual event is industry only, but the surrounding area has tons of retailers. If you're in the RDU area, Glenwood Ave has piles of furniture stores all up and down it. edit: oddly enough, the only IKEA is in Charlotte. They were going to open one in Cary (which would have taken over a dead mall), but they ditched that plan a while ago and now that dead mall was just bought up by Epic Games. I've known people to get a trailer and make a day out of going to IKEA, and there are even local businesses that will shop IKEA for you and haul it back for way cheaper than shipping. DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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Jun 7, 2021 15:21
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Sweet, my mom, dad and oldest brother all live in NC now too (up in the mountains just north of Hickory) and I've visited and seen the plethora of furniture places so that'll be nice. I'm moving to Raleigh/Durham but that's not too far away.
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Jun 7, 2021 15:24
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yeah NC is super common for room and board, also I think there's a decent amount of manufacturers in Vermont.
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Jun 7, 2021 16:39
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BadSamaritan posted:While we’re having couch chat, has anyone used a BenchMade Modern couch? I really like a lot of their styles and they’re pretty well reviewed, but man that’s a lot for a sight unseen piece of furniture. Decent (plywood construction with sinusoidal springs, assembled in the US), but at the same price you can probably get a bunch of other couches that you could sit in before you purchase.
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gay_crimes posted:Bantam sofa and milo baughman recliner. I got them six years ago. The bantam seat foam needed to be replaced last year, but it’s been solid and comfortable otherwise. It wasn’t my first choice from DWR, but it was the best at the time for the size constraints of the place we were in and for what was available from their outlet. I think I would maybe get a different model now though if we needed to replace it since we have more space. oh that's cool, the 86" bantam at my store is being floored right now for like 2100 (omg that's more than 15% off!!!!) If anyone is looking for something with a Scandinavian theme and you want more options, check out Danish Design Store example https://www.danishdesignstore.com/products/zoller-scope-2-seat-sofa-sofas-softline check out how may fabric options they have, I very roughly estimated its more than 600
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Does anyone have any recommendations on a ventless-all-in-one washer/dryer? I know these are a lot more common in europe, but I'm interested in building out a bunch of shelving in our laundry space and it seems that if they're not all garbage that it would be a no brainer solution. Also, I like the idea of taking a step out of that particular chore.
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Jun 8, 2021 00:49
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I have never met a combo washer/dryer I liked. They take 4-6 hours for 1 load and nothing ever gets truly dry.
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Jun 8, 2021 00:51
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Here's a couple articles I read recently when I was researching compact/ventless (but not combo): - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-compact-washer-and-dryer/ - https://www.designerappliances.com/blog/best-compact-washer-dryer-for-apartments/ Haven't picked one yet.
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Jun 8, 2021 00:56
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My parents have a bosch stackable, but not a combo. Its been pretty good, but it is slow as balls. Like 2 hours? Very small capacities too.
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Jun 8, 2021 00:58
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The washing machine that was here when I bought the house is old as balls, but it whips through loads in 10 minutes and everything gets clean. Dryer does a good job too, my first experience with a gas one coming from electric.
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nm posted:My parents have a bosch stackable, but not a combo. Its been pretty good, but it is slow as balls. Like 2 hours? Very small capacities too. Yeah, I don't really care about how long it takes - that's never been a criteria for us. I think for me the sweet spot would be a standard size (3+ cubic feet) and I really don't care if it takes 5 hours to run since I'd just set it before work and leave. My only concerns are if they're only available in compact sizes and if they're prone to dying...so far it just seems like there's not even close to as many options out here in the US as I saw in europe or asia.
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Because our kitchen isn't where our washer is so we have enough space to have 2 machines with a vent and not worry about it taking forever?
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El Mero Mero posted:Yeah, I don't really care about how long it takes - that's never been a criteria for us. I think for me the sweet spot would be a standard size (3+ cubic feet) and I really don't care if it takes 5 hours to run since I'd just set it before work and leave. My only concerns are if they're only available in compact sizes and if they're prone to dying...so far it just seems like there's not even close to as many options out here in the US as I saw in europe or asia. Our houses are bigger and our power is cheaper. We're also more likely to be in single family homes where mostly it is easy run a vent and even in apartments, running vents is not uncommon. Which makes them rare. The Boschs are like 5 years old. Again, they're stackable, not an all-in-one so I don't know if that makes them more problematic. Probably get one with a heat pump, they're more energy efficent.
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Deviant posted:i put in a claim with my homeowners regarding my roof damage, due to a hailstorm. they denied the claim, citing the damage was under my deductible. Some deductibles are for wind AND hail. Do you have a copy of your policy, or at least the partial that they send with the declarations page every year? Or - PM me. I'm an insurance adjuster.
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I have compact stackable washer/ventless dryer and they're great. So nice to have a bunch of space for storage that having full size w/d took up. Storage is at a premium for us since our place is ~1000sf
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Jun 8, 2021 04:30
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Just over here lamenting that our closet built ins are very stupidly placed and entirely too small to store anything meaningful.
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Jun 8, 2021 04:37
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The Slack Lagoon posted:I have compact stackable washer/ventless dryer and they're great. So nice to have a bunch of space for storage that having full size w/d took up. Storage is at a premium for us since our place is ~1000sf I bought a small house (1200sqft) and the dryer that conveyed with it runs at one setting and the timer doesn't work. It's big and has a ridiculous ducting setup where the duct runs up behind it, over the unit and down onto the floor in front of it to a cubby to vent outside. It wastes space out in our garage that we could use for something else. I'm also constantly paranoid about lint trap fires. Looks like getting rid of this half functioning POS for a a heat pump ventless dryer is the way to go.
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There's no way in hell I would have used 4,598.000 kWh in 62 days, right? I don't even remember submitting my first meter reading but the bill says 3837 and today it was 8555. I have a feeling whoever submitted it goofed and meant 8337. This is the meter. 
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Jun 8, 2021 20:38
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How big of a house and where? Edit: noticed the Manitoba label so assuming probably not the desert. Yeah that might be off. I'm in the 1-2000 kWh range in Arizona in the summer.
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Jun 8, 2021 20:52
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Settle a dispute for me: my husband wants to be cute and mix up only part of a $30 bag of mortar for the $500+ we spent on tiles and material, and not back butter these 12" x 24" tiles because *-*reasons*-* Seems pretty stupid to me but maybe I'm just concerned over nothing?
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Jun 8, 2021 20:54
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Vintersorg posted:There's no way in hell I would have used 4,598.000 kWh in 62 days, right? I don't even remember submitting my first meter reading but the bill says 3837 and today it was 8555. I have a feeling whoever submitted it goofed and meant 8337. I mean that's pretty high, but not like impossibly high for a 2 month span depending on certain things. Odd you see that in the springtime, though. Our peak single month in the past year was 1,600 kWh, and that was like August. We're in the US Southeast where it's hot/humid in the summer and we have the A/C set to like 73 during the day. 2000 sq ft house, 2 zone HVAC, electric oven/range and electric dryer.
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Vintersorg posted:There's no way in hell I would have used 4,598.000 kWh in 62 days, right? I don't even remember submitting my first meter reading but the bill says 3837 and today it was 8555. I have a feeling whoever submitted it goofed and meant 8337. Was it 0 when you got it because if so that's only twice as much. Are you running any big loads? Electric car? AC? Heat? What's the instantaneous draw? (ours cycles from ID to Kwh total to draw.)
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Ok I called Hydro again and....... my builder hosed up. He never once submitted a reading so they had to guess so they went 3837. They came by on April 5th and got the reading at 7808! So now they are going to adjust my bill and his too for this. Thank god I called again - the rep this morning basically told me to deal with it but the one this afternooon actually looked into things and hlped me out. While we took possession April 1st we didn't really move in and live here till May 2nd (I was looking at every single picture I took - TAKE PICTURES PEOPLE). So that's about 700w since I did pop in time to time in April for stuff and they were putting up the siding still and in May used those giant concrete fan things to smooth the garage. PS they still aren't done and there's a big list of things they have to do. We have to check out contract to see how long they have - i've read it's about 26 weeks but I want to be sure. Still need our deck built, stairs from the garage to inside (we currently have to jump about a 2 feet down), adjust the garage door one isn't fully sealed (water got in), fix the garage door openers as they don't close unless we hold the button down, add the shakes to the front, complete the trim on a cabinet and other poo poo. gently caress. Owning a house sucks. e: H110Hawk posted:Was it 0 when you got it because if so that's only twice as much. Are you running any big loads? Electric car? AC? Heat? What's the instantaneous draw? (ours cycles from ID to Kwh total to draw.) Builder was using our power before possession since Hydro came by to install things. Also I use the term Hydro as they are called Manitoba Hydro...  Fortunate to have government power... although our current gently caress heads are doing everything in their power to privatize it.
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Today I discovered the previous owner bothered to use painters tape on the ceiling when painting walls, but did not bother to remove it and apparently just painted over it. So as I'm peeling off my tape after cutting in, I see that I'm also taking a nice chunk of the ceiling as well in a perfect masking tape-sized line 
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Are you sure that's painters tape and not drywall tape?
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Bingo Bango posted:Today I discovered the previous owner bothered to use painters tape on the ceiling when painting walls, but did not bother to remove it and apparently just painted over it. So as I'm peeling off my tape after cutting in, I see that I'm also taking a nice chunk of the ceiling as well in a perfect masking tape-sized line Classic previous owner move! Mine just did the oil over latex/latex over oil trick in my guest bedroom so the ceiling is constantly peeling and I can’t be bothered to fix it.
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BonerGhost posted:Settle a dispute for me: my husband wants to be cute and mix up only part of a $30 bag of mortar for the $500+ we spent on tiles and material, and not back butter these 12" x 24" tiles because *-*reasons*-* This is very short sighted. The manufacturer should have installation guidelines for the tile. Large Format Tiles, should be installed using mortar designed for LFT's, and be backbuttered. You really need good solid coverage with the larger tiles. Vintersorg posted:There's no way in hell I would have used 4,598.000 kWh in 62 days, right? I don't even remember submitting my first meter reading but the bill says 3837 and today it was 8555. I have a feeling whoever submitted it goofed and meant 8337. I know you got this sorted already, but just for reference the most electricity I have ever used in a single month was 2900 kWh. That was in South Texas, in August. I have a 3400 sq ft house and my 2 AC units pretty much ran non stop for a month straight. I mean it's doable
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skipdogg posted:This is very short sighted. The manufacturer should have installation guidelines for the tile. Large Format Tiles, should be installed using mortar designed for LFT's, and be backbuttered. You really need good solid coverage with the larger tiles. Thanks for the input. I'm pretty against not following the instructions but his dad wants to half rear end it too, so I guess they're half assing it.
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SpartanIvy posted:Are you sure that's painters tape and not drywall tape? I thought it was drywall tape when I was priming, but when it came up there was another layer of paint underneath (blue ceilings were a... bold choice).
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skipdogg posted:This is very short sighted. The manufacturer should have installation guidelines for the tile. Large Format Tiles, should be installed using mortar designed for LFT's, and be backbuttered. You really need good solid coverage with the larger tiles. Haha, oh yeah - for sure doable. This is just a 1350~ sq ft house and 1 AC unit but the winter we run the heat too as it gets to be -10 to -30C (10 to -20F or so). We'll see how hard it goes this year.
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BonerGhost posted:Thanks for the input. I'm pretty against not following the instructions but his dad wants to half rear end it too, so I guess they're half assing it. I don't get this. I read all the instructions and then I go on YouTube and watch a few videos where people have actually used it and half the time they're like "Make sure to read the instructions and then make sure you do this one thing EVEN MORE than the instructions say because I've had it fail on me". Like, in my experience the instructions are the best case scenario and then best practices are even more stringent than what's in the instructions whereas half-assing it is usually even WORSE than the instructions... I guess what I'm saying is, even the instructions are only three-quarters assing it, so if you're half-assing from there, you're in an even deeper hole. In doing my bathroom this past year, there have been at least 2 or 3 times where if I hadn't read the instructions 4 times and THEN gone to look online too I would've ruined dozens of hours of previous work.
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mutata posted:I don't get this. I read all the instructions and then I go on YouTube and watch a few videos where people have actually used it and half the time they're like "Make sure to read the instructions and then make sure you do this one thing EVEN MORE than the instructions say because I've had it fail on me". Like, in my experience the instructions are the best case scenario and then best practices are even more stringent than what's in the instructions whereas half-assing it is usually even WORSE than the instructions... Yeah you know it's weird, literally everyone we've seen use this mortar is like "follow the mixing instructions on the bag, don't screw with it, it's a very specific measurement for a reason" yet here we are. His dad is really confident in this eyeballed bullshit though so if it fails he can fly back up and fix it.
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BonerGhost posted:Thanks for the input. I'm pretty against not following the instructions but his dad wants to half rear end it too, so I guess they're half assing it. Show them this picture of my hosed up tile installation, and ask if they want to pay to have it all ripped up and redone. My builder's tile guys did a crap job, they ripped up 1200 sq ft of 12x24 tile, ground it all down to bare concrete and had to do it again. No idea what it costs, and it took me 12 months of arguing with them to get them to fix it.   It's a lot cheaper to do tile the right way the first time, but I also recognize that you're not going to win this battle with husband and FIL, so I guess sit back and enjoy the shitshow?
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How does that even proceed without agreement on following the instructions? I would never halfass something if my partner wanted to be more conservative. Wrong forum for that I guess
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BonerGhost posted:Yeah you know it's weird, literally everyone we've seen use this mortar is like "follow the mixing instructions on the bag, don't screw with it, it's a very specific measurement for a reason" yet here we are. His dad is really confident in this eyeballed bullshit though so if it fails he can fly back up and fix it. Jesus christ. Half assing the floor under tile, or the mortar bed, or anything just seems like such a bad idea to me. I do not want to be stuck chipping out a tile, sourcing a replacement if one cracks, and re-doing any part of a tile installation
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