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Home ownership is overrated. Just started work on replacing my worn out wood fence with a vinyl fence, 28 8 foot panels. Then I have to replace all the grass with new sod and install a sprinkler system, so about a month's or more worth of weekends are ruined. Yay?
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Mar 24, 2017 22:28
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Applebees Appetizer posted:so about a month's or more worth of weekends are ruined. Yay? But.. But.. There's priiiiiiiide of ownerrrrrrshiiiiiip, right? I hire that poo poo out, I loving hate yard work.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:30
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I have to own property in the country, my lifestyle doesn't allow living in a neighborhood or apartment. Rednecking it up over here
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Mar 24, 2017 22:33
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keykey posted:But.. But.. There's priiiiiiiide of ownerrrrrrshiiiiiip, right? I hire that poo poo out, I loving hate yard work. Would have cost me over 7k to have the fence done. I got all the materials for under 3k. It sucks yeah, but it's a no brainer unless you have disposeable income which i don't. Gonna price out having the sprinkler system put in because I really don't want to do it.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:37
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I like owning a home. - I still had to mow lawns and weed the gardens as a renter, I'm more enthusiastic about keeping my own property tidy than someone else's. And I can change it to be lower maintenance if I want. - If I plant a garden or trees now, they're mine and not someone else's (owning a home feels like more of a long term place to live than a rental). - I can change things to suit myself. I hate electric stovetops, so now I can get myself a gas stovetop in the kitchen! - I can build a sweet double garage instead of having to put up with whatever crap shed a rental happens to come with - I was paying $200 a fortnight for 1 room in a 3 bedroom house at my last rental (sharing a house with 2 friends) and approx 130 a fortnight assorted bills from memory. Now my bills are $210 a fortnight (higher insurance and having to pay property taxes have bumped this up) and my mortgage payments are $235, but I am getting $290-$450 a fortnight in board from boarders in my spare rooms - depending on how many I have at a time. And all the mortgage I'm paying is going to myself, rather than someone else. I think I'm financially slightly better off now than I was when renting. I do have to share my space with boarders, but I had to share the shared rental with flatmates - if I wanted to rent a house all to myself I might be paying $400-600 a fortnight. I have not had any significant maintenance costs yet, I may change my mind when that hits. gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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Mar 24, 2017 22:39
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gimpsuitjones posted:- If I plant a garden or trees now, they're mine and not someone else's (owning a home feels like more of a long term place to live than a rental). The same for me. I won't have a yard. I'll have a garden, both veggies and flowers/butterfly for the kids. I'm also handy enough to do anything I'd want to do, and willing to hire out the rest.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:47
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The first thing I did when I moved into my house was to build raised beds for growing vegetables. A tunnelhouse is high on the to do list.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:49
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totalnewbie posted:Of all the things to impulse buy, a house is really not one of them.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:51
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Would have cost me over 7k to have the fence done. I got all the materials for under 3k. It sucks yeah, but it's a no brainer unless you have disposeable income which i don't. Absolutely with you on the fence thing, I built a new fence when I moved into my place in 2003. The previous fence was 5' tall and leaning so I replaced the whole thing and added an extra 2' at the bottom in the form of 1"x1'x12' redwood boards, because gently caress neighbors. I just hate weekly yard work or anything associated with grass really.
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Mar 24, 2017 23:21
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Is that like, a... a Setter-Dachshundhuahua? That's Sprocket and he's a dachshund-chihuahua mix. Applebees Appetizer posted:Nice, I've got three fishtails in my back yard and one of them is a gigantic specimen that I saved from the dumpster over a decade ago. Glorious palms but they make a loving mess once they are mature. Our property has 7 fully-grown live oaks, nothing is as bad as those pollen strings which are currently raining down at the moment. Our neighbors have live oaks too so everyone is in on the dusty party!
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Mar 25, 2017 01:18
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slidebite posted:This. Take your time and do not get house buying fever. Look at several and take your time before you plunge. If you are not familiar with homes, pay for a GOOD home inspection and make your offer conditional to it. I started thinking about buying a house 4 years ago. I just didn't post about it back then.
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Mar 25, 2017 02:29
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Does that engine cover say V12?
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Mar 25, 2017 02:36
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CornHolio posted:Does that engine cover say V12? I want the leather sunroof in the advertisement.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:14
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bolind posted:I'm the giant mono viper. It's not giant, it's 24 inches (61cm). It uses a mechanical linkage to sweep across the width of the windshield.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:18
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Guy buying the house: make sure to get a thorough home inspection pre sale! I feel very lucky to own my house but just be prepared. It is a lot easier if you are single with no kids (I have kids, when AC or water heater goes out I have to fix, if I was single I'd get to it eventually and just drink and bear it)
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Mar 25, 2017 03:24
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Cage posted:I started thinking about buying a house 4 years ago. I just didn't post about it back then. Buy the house, don't let your brother in if he's the same brother that stole from you. It sounds great for a starter house. No need to heat a big house in Buffalo. Have someone inspect it for sure. Water is the enemy, make sure the foundation, structure and roof are ok. No major rot, insect damage or cracks. Paint is cheap, the rest is not.
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Thanks for the tips, all. I probably won't be buying, but just on the small chance I want to make an offer I want to be ready. It's been on the market for two days and has two offers already so says my realtor friend. She's going to meet me tomorrow and we'll look at the house together. My brother has actually been doing better. Not sure when I last updated, but he's in school at the moment for medical coding.(he got a beyond amazing opportunity, he doesn't have to pay anything) I say at the moment because he's on zero tolerance probation and if he slips up on a tox or misses a group meeting he's in jail. We went out for family dinner last week and he was actually pleasant to talk to for a change. Cage fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Mar 25, 2017 03:50
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CornHolio posted:Does that engine cover say V12? Like I said, monumentally bad decision. 
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Mar 25, 2017 05:33
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KakerMix posted:Our property has 7 fully-grown live oaks, nothing is as bad as those pollen strings which are currently raining down at the moment. Our neighbors have live oaks too so everyone is in on the dusty party! Luckily I don't have oaks in my yard, but there is enough around to make everything yellow. This time of year everything gets yellow, the poo poo even goes through screen what the gently caress.
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Mar 25, 2017 05:49
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Owning my own home meant that when i wanted to dig up a corner of my block and build a 6mx9mx4m garage and workshop all i had to do was get permission from my missus and go through council approval. Im also paying as much a fortnight in my mortgage payment on my 2yr old built as I want it house as my mate is in his rental home, which is about 50yrs old, draughty, uninsulated and he cant do ANYTHING to to rectify it- he burns about 4x as much fire wood as I do just to keep one end of the house warm. The opposite end to his bedroom of course.
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KakerMix posted:Our property has 7 fully-grown live oaks, nothing is as bad as those pollen strings which are currently raining down at the moment. Our neighbors have live oaks too so everyone is in on the dusty party! My neighborhood has a lot of oaks, including a big one on my lot. Pollen strings clogging everything, and my white Crown Vic has been yellow for a week or two. Also lost a big limb out of the aforementioned oak the other night due to to some strong winds. Get to saw that up this weekend, along with all the other stuff planned. At least I mowed last weekend. And edged, after I cursed at the gas string trimmer for a half-hour for not starting (my fault - I bungled switching the choke and flooded it). Lawn mower started on the first pull of the season. Edit: guess I'll have a little time to do stuff after next week, if my company doesn't find me another contract quickly. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Mar 25, 2017 15:14
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KakerMix posted:That's Sprocket and he's a dachshund-chihuahua mix. Sprocket is a Good Dog, and needs to be informed of this.
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Mar 25, 2017 18:10
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House was really nice, but the price was a little too high for how small it was. Nice big yard for a doggo though.
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Mar 25, 2017 19:59
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When I was house shopping a few years ago I came across this really nice looking place, big lot for the dogs, heated shop, and perfect for my price range. The upstairs had 6' ceilings. I'm 6'3".
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Mar 25, 2017 20:04
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Was right in the middle of changing a customers headlight when some shitbird in a bro truck pulled in next to him and let rip with his train horn. loving summary execution should be legal for people like that. Just yank them out of the truck, put them on their knees and dispense .45 justice to the back of his head. Edit: Feel better now. More rednecks came in and tried warrantying out factory gm rotors and carquest pads. Calling him out in front of his 3 friends as they laugh at him for getting busted followed by him coughing up $130 for new poo poo was fairly cathartic. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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Mar 26, 2017 00:39
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Was right in the middle of changing a customers headlight when some shitbird in a bro truck pulled in next to him and let rip with his train horn. loving summary execution should be legal for people like that. Just yank them out of the truck, put them on their knees and dispense .45 justice to the back of his head. Couldn't that one be considered assault if it's an aftermarket horn? I'm all for safety and whatever, but permanent hearing damage is not worth stroking the ego of someone in a giant overcompensation machine
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Of more risk was me injuring myself or damaging the customer's vehicle that I was working on. About 2 minutes before I was considering using the shop knife on the cart to trim back the cover making the light a bitch to get back in. In the end, nothing was broken and nobody hurt, but I still went and hid in the back before I got a call to corporate on me for telling him his part wasn't here (it was) and I'd start looking for it when my ears stopped ringing (they weren't). I'd probably find in about a week or so.
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Add rolling coal to that and I'll second the motion for execution. Though you'll have to change it to .40 S&W if you want cops to be able to do it. Only sheriffs carry .45
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Mar 26, 2017 04:25
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Summary execution may be carried out by any citizen of good legal and moral standing. A notarized copy of the Dispersal of Justice form must be filed by end of the next buisiness day with the local law enforcement agency with name of the accused, any government issued ID in possession the accused at that time and a list of crimes. Failure to do so may result in fines and/or incarceration. Why yes, I have been reading alot of WH40K novels lately. It may be affecting my thinking.
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Mar 26, 2017 04:37
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Off-topic, gently caress ceiling fans. I mean, ceiling fans, once installed, are awesome. But gently caress installing, repairing, or wiring ceiling fans. Hunter Fans! Why do you put the motor capacitors in the failure-prone remote receiver unit?!
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Was right in the middle of changing a customers headlight when some shitbird in a bro truck pulled in next to him and let rip with his train horn. loving summary execution should be legal for people like that. Just yank them out of the truck, put them on their knees and dispense .45 justice to the back of his head. There's a truck driver (as in 18 wheeler) that does deliveries to the warehouse I work out of every day. Every day, he stops in the middle of the road and rips the air horn for a solid 20-30 seconds. And gently caress you if you think about walking around his truck (which is completely blocking traffic) or where he wants to put it, he'll yank that drat horn again, even if you're standing next to the truck and just asking him if you can walk around. He doesn't seem to get why everyone calls him Napoleon. Probably for the best. That's not nearly as bad as a bro truck train horn though, that would have resulted in an rear end kicking if someone did that right next to me. I'd be angry enough that I wouldn't give two fucks about the job at that point. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Hunter Fans! Why do you put the motor capacitors in the failure-prone remote receiver unit?! Wait what? When the gently caress did this become a thing? (and i bet it makes changing the receiver a lot more fun when you remove it and brush your hand across a wire) Suddenly my ~33 year old no-name wobbling ceiling fan doesn't look so bad... aside from the fact that "high" on it is about like "low" on the early 00s Hunter I had at my parent's house, and "low" on this one is "still wobbling a little, but moving just enough air to keep you from dying of heat stroke if you're directly under the fan". High on the Hunter I had was "attempt to send the roof of the house into low orbit, and make drat sure anything lightweight in the room goes flying" I really wish I had a ceiling fan in the bedroom at this apartment.  Hell, if it even had a ceiling junction box, I could just slam a cheap 42" 4 blade hugger-style fan up there and at least get SOME air moving. Those don't weigh much.
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Mar 26, 2017 07:11
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I have a new hunter in my bedroom but my wife doesn't like it because she "feels like she's blowing away" when it's on low 
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Yeah. This Hunter is from 2001, and all of the motor capacitors are in the Remote Control Receiver Unit. So, since the remote unit has gone bad (and Hunter doesn't even make any replacements, either receiver or remote, for this model anymore), the entire fan is SOL. Instead of two wires going to the fan motor, there are five. A pink, red, brown, grey, and yellow one. After spending an afternoon with it, it turns out that they are the individual motor coils, along with the starting capacitor. And Hunter runs their fans in a H=1+2+3, M=1+2, L=1" fashion. So, literally no aftermarket radio unit will work with it, as they generally have to input wires (neutral/live), and two output wires (lights on/off, fan motor on/off, but voltage-controlled). There are four capacitors along with a MOSFET and associated circuitry in the remote control unit, and it switches between each circuit for different speeds. It also controlled reversing with the unit, which means that EVERYTHING is/was integrated into a sort of black-box of electrical fuckery that nobody makes replacements for anymore. I kinda made the universal aftermarket unit work, by wiring it to two motor windings, and then shunting the third winding through to a capacitor to the switched hot. So the fan starts and runs (without the capacitor it just buzzes and gets hot, of course), but only in what I would describe as a "medium-low" setting. Good enough for the spare bedroom, but still garbage. I switched my bedroom's fan with the living room's fan (the living room had this bullshit remote control thingamajig) so the LR would have a functional three-speed fan, controlled with pull-cords, and put my hacked-to-gently caress fan in my bedroom, which is essentially the spare bedroom now. Enough to move air around, and silently. Unfortunately, the hook that hangs the entire carousel on it after you remove the shroud's screws snapped in half when I was out of the room. I came down from the ladder to take a piss and heard a massive CRASH, and went back into the room to discover that two of the fan blades broke on their way down. I currently have them glued up and clamped between blocks of wood, in a vain hope that they come out at least somewhat balanced.
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gently caress. That. The Hunter I had is either 01 or 02, but wasn't remote controlled. Just the typical pull chains. Good to know for whenever I shop for a fan again though. I'm not really a fan of having an integrated remote control unit anyway... the remote is just another remote for me to lose. You can get a complete set of blades at big box home improvement stores, but good luck on them being balanced (I think they do come with weights, but... balancing a fan is a PITA) I remember that hook when I hung my old fan, and mentally going "how the gently caress is this piece of thin stamped metal supposed to support the entire fan?". Every other fan I've hung mounted a brace to the box (which Hunter does too), but the brace had the receiver (I guess that's the term) for the ball on the end of the rod - instead of the entire weight of the fan being supported by what should be a decorative cover. But it's been there for 16 years, and used daily for most of that time (moved 3 times tho). It's probably getting moved back into my original bedroom in that house soon, which is now an office - more because the fan that's in there now only has a single bulb lamp (complete with candelabra base and shallow, odd-sized globe), and it's a cheap fan where you can't replace the light fixture portion. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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First day of seeing the sun in two actual whole weeks. Sure I had to work all day but now I'm sitting on my deck listening to great music drinking a beer soaking up some rays. Going to fire up the BBQ and do some lamb soon, got a bunch of chimichurri to put on it. Life is ok right now.
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slothrop posted:First day of seeing the sun in two actual whole weeks. Sure I had to work all day but now I'm sitting on my deck listening to great music drinking a beer soaking up some rays. Going to fire up the BBQ and do some lamb soon, got a bunch of chimichurri to put on it. Life is ok right now. The grass is like 30 cms high after two weeks away. Woooow
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The grass is like 30 cms high after two weeks away. Woooow Well done missing out on the last two weeks, it's amazing how much it affects your brain.
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Mar 26, 2017 09:49
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This site is pure AI. How have we not been discussing some of these absurdly cool engine swaps before? http://www.engineswapdepot.com/
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I'm so goddamned sick of getting sick this winter. Every time I turn around the kids bring some new crud home. P sure this latest was brought by the wife helpfully watching one of her co-workers little brats. Usually the youngest gets it when we have to drop her into daycare for a day here and there. Last year I paid almost $1k for the privilege of letting my kid share space and disease.
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