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Cannon_Fodder posted:Ladies, gents, milestone hit. Welcome to the fold. Swapping out my kitchen sink was the most stressful thing I did because it was the first thing I did when I bought my current and first house.
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H110Hawk posted:For your paint tray buy double the number of plastic liners you think you need, plus one. This shows my lack of experience. What're these? Hahaha, nevermind, I guess a "paint pan" in my head has always been the actual liner and not a metal pan. 
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Jun 24, 2017 02:21
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Higgy posted:Welcome to the fold. Swapping out my kitchen sink was the most stressful thing I did because it was the first thing I did when I bought my current and first house. There's a shower in the basement for some loving reason and the utility sink next to it both constantly drip water. That's my first thing to tackle in the land of plumbing so we'll see how badly I gently caress it up.
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Jun 24, 2017 02:24
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Cannon_Fodder posted:There's a shower in the basement for some loving reason and the utility sink next to it both constantly drip water. That's my first thing to tackle in the land of plumbing so we'll see how badly I gently caress it up. Head on over to the DIY subforum for some amazing reads and to ask for help if you need it. In other ownership news, my neighbor who was growing a weed (not the fun kind) garden in his rocky patch where the previous owner had his cars parked finally plucked them all out. Looks a million times better...they were turning into small trees.
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Cannon_Fodder posted:There's a shower in the basement for some loving reason and the utility sink next to it both constantly drip water. That's my first thing to tackle in the land of plumbing so we'll see how badly I gently caress it up. that's a decontamination chamber for working on bioweapons
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Jun 24, 2017 02:40
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Higgy posted:Head on over to the DIY subforum for some amazing reads and to ask for help if you need it. In particular, Fix It Fast has your back for "help how do i house" questions. Even if you don't have any questions, it's a good place to hang out and absorb knowledge.
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Jun 24, 2017 02:42
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Bozart posted:that's a decontamination chamber for working on bioweapons It's my new brewery 
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Jun 24, 2017 02:51
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emocrat posted:Eh, theres some fairly simple stuff that I have found useful and pretty easy. For example, my living room has no switched lighting, we use 4 lamps to illuminate it. I set up an Insteon wall switch that controls a lamp module I put on each lamp and now I can control the lights from the hall. Hell of a lot better than walking a circle around the room turning each lamp individually as you go. By no switched lighting, does that mean that all of your lights are hooked up to a wifi router?
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Jun 24, 2017 05:05
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BusinessWallet posted:How can I build a floating wooden deck on top of my fiberglass roof deck? I'd like to do this because it'll look nicer than the coated fiberglass, protect the roof, and most importantly level out the slope of the roof so it's more usable. Right now all the furniture doesn't sit right, like you're being ejected from the seat you're in. And my dog is eventually going to drop a tennis ball into the gutter somehow. Be really, really, really, really, really careful here, is all I can say. My parents tried to have a deck over a flat roof and it constantly leaked everywhere the membrane was pierced. The third time they tried rebuilding it they finally used "pitch cups," where every support post sat in a literal cup of pitch, trying to keep water out of the holes. That kind of worked for a while. A slight slope probably will make it work better, but unfortunately roofs do their jobs the best if you don't put holes in them.
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Has anyone here ever messed with bat houses? I just moved from the frozen tundra of the upper Midwest to South Carolina and while the trees and lakes around the house are beautiful, the flying insects are shall we say a low point. Oddly enough I did a fair amount of cave camping as a kid and have no such aversion to bats. Does someone want to talk me out of raising an army of furry children of the night to descend upon the mosquitoes and wasps?
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Jun 24, 2017 13:22
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Higgy posted:In other ownership news, my neighbor who was growing a weed (not the fun kind) garden in his rocky patch where the previous owner had his cars parked finally plucked them all out. Looks a million times better...they were turning into small trees. I am definitely your neighbor. I haven't pulled the weeds out of my mulch bed in a year (and haven't put down new mulch either). I can't tell the difference between my bushes and my weeds at this point, and I honestly don't give a poo poo.
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I am definitely your neighbor. I haven't pulled the weeds out of my mulch bed in a year (and haven't put down new mulch either). I can't tell the difference between my bushes and my weeds at this point, and I honestly don't give a poo poo. I have an area of yard that has rail road ties as a border and mulch. Used to have a kid's playset on it. Took down the playset and the mulch just sat and turned into a weed garden. I've got a stand of those prickly bastards that's at least 6 feet tall and probably 10 feet around. I should probably figure out how to get rid of it, but the whole area is like 25'x40' with really bad fill dirt someone used. It's awful.
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Nevermind, answered this very page!
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Tricky Ed posted:Be really, really, really, really, really careful here, is all I can say. My parents tried to have a deck over a flat roof and it constantly leaked everywhere the membrane was pierced. The third time they tried rebuilding it they finally used "pitch cups," where every support post sat in a literal cup of pitch, trying to keep water out of the holes. That kind of worked for a while. Good advice. I was not planning on going through the roof at all.
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Tricky Ed posted:Be really, really, really, really, really careful here, is all I can say. My parents tried to have a deck over a flat roof and it constantly leaked everywhere the membrane was pierced. The third time they tried rebuilding it they finally used "pitch cups," where every support post sat in a literal cup of pitch, trying to keep water out of the holes. That kind of worked for a while. Speaking of holes in the roof, what's the preferred method for fixing up the holes left by removing a satellite dish? I've left the eyesore up because I don't want to deal with leaks but I'm aching to get rid of it.
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Take the pole and dish off the shoe that's bolted to your roof. Leave the shoe. That's what I did...you can't really tell it's there.
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Tricky Ed posted:Be really, really, really, really, really careful here, is all I can say. My parents tried to have a deck over a flat roof and it constantly leaked everywhere the membrane was pierced. The third time they tried rebuilding it they finally used "pitch cups," where every support post sat in a literal cup of pitch, trying to keep water out of the holes. That kind of worked for a while. I think he's saying he already has a fiberglass deck with a slope and he just wants to install a floating deck on top. I'm considering the same thing (next year).
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TheWevel posted:Take the pole and dish off the shoe that's bolted to your roof. Leave the shoe. That's what I did...you can't really tell it's there. There were three other empty mounts on the roof  Easy enough to take off the dish and toss it in to the yard, though. I also managed to make a dent in the rat's nest of coax the previous owner had set up.
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Jun 26, 2017 03:09
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You guys who don't like grass are silly click for bigly
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lol hope you like mowing all day
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Jun 26, 2017 03:52
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 CloFan posted:Ain't she a beaut oh god I've become Hank Hill
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Lol you live in the hills
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CloFan posted:You guys who don't like grass are silly Seeing a yard like this, I see some usable space, and a bunch of "maybe use this giant lawn on occasion if I throw a big party" waste that needs to be mowed all the time. I'd go about planting shrubs and native herbacous plants to get some pollinators and songbirds in there, keeping a smaller lawn for day to day enjoyment. But yeah, to each his own.
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CloFan posted:You guys who don't like grass are silly I don't mind mowing open areas because it is just a straight line. I loving hate mowing around landscaping/trees/any kind of obstacle. That wouldn't be so bad.
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Jun 26, 2017 16:25
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I heard a critter in my crawlspace last night. 
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I feel you. We found a baby mouse in our bathroom last night and now I feel like it's a race to get the rest before they multiple infinitely and I live in Mouse House.
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Best option to get rid of the remains of a tree corpse? Neighbor and I took down a big one between our houses and are looking into the cheapest options for getting rid of it. He thinks there is a place that'll take the remains off our hands for free if we chip it first (vs ~$100 per trailer load otherwise) and haul it out there so I'm looking at renting a 6" chipper from a big box store and breaking it down. Had a tree service out to quote haul/dispose and it was $1400. It is super sappy so I don't think it'll make good firewood.
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If you have the space, maybe use it for a hugelkultur bed?
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buffbus posted:Has anyone here ever messed with bat houses? I just moved from the frozen tundra of the upper Midwest to South Carolina and while the trees and lakes around the house are beautiful, the flying insects are shall we say a low point. Oddly enough I did a fair amount of cave camping as a kid and have no such aversion to bats. Does someone want to talk me out of raising an army of furry children of the night to descend upon the mosquitoes and wasps? This has been on my "someday" list for years. Keeps getting bumped by other projects but would love to hear if anyone does have experience with bat houses.
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The Dave posted:I feel you. We found a baby mouse in our bathroom last night and now I feel like it's a race to get the rest before they multiple infinitely and I live in Mouse House. Day one in our new place and we found a few half dead baby mice scattered in a corner of the basement. So nasty. Got some traps down there now to catch their lovely momma but no luck yet. My wife insisted on using humane traps which seems generous considering the mice didn't seem too concerned about their own offspring.
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novamute posted:Best option to get rid of the remains of a tree corpse? Neighbor and I took down a big one between our houses and are looking into the cheapest options for getting rid of it. He thinks there is a place that'll take the remains off our hands for free if we chip it first (vs ~$100 per trailer load otherwise) and haul it out there so I'm looking at renting a 6" chipper from a big box store and breaking it down. Had a tree service out to quote haul/dispose and it was $1400. Pile some in your front yard, Craigslist -> "FREE FIREWOOD", see what happens.
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H110Hawk posted:Pile some in your front yard, Craigslist -> "FREE FIREWOOD", see what happens. Had a guy come knocking at my door once, trying to sell me some firewood that he'd taken from the free pile three doors down.
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Delivery fee, sounds legit.
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novamute posted:It is super sappy so I don't think it'll make good firewood. That's the best firewood. Starter logs are made of sappy pine stumps.
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Paint tape is up, paint is being selected. While I toiled on getting every goddamn thing taped up, I was interrogated on color speculation. Now I'm being talked into resurfacing the floor and replacing the upstairs carpet. I'm gonna say "gently caress that" and mop the fucker, and rent a carpet stretcher from the Hoe Despot.
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Hoe Despot.
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Lysandus posted:I heard a critter in my crawlspace last night. You may be able to get your insurance company to pay for the poop removal and new insulation. Edit: Nevermind crawlspace is under the house, get a tax abatement for running a nature preserve.
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Elephanthead posted:You may be able to get your insurance company to pay for the poop removal and new insulation. Better solution: Move to a place where crawlspaces are practically unheard of and nearly every home has a real basement as God intended. 
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paternity suitor posted:I think he's saying he already has a fiberglass deck with a slope and he just wants to install a floating deck on top. I'm considering the same thing (next year). Yep! There are some pedestal systems that exist for this purpose specifically and seem pretty easy to DIY, but they're pretty expensive.
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When we had to call some wild life people out, it felt like we were getting mugged. Quotes ranged from $350 to a little over $7,000. All pretty much the same work. Granted the $7k guy wanted to do a steel reinforced concrete moat around the house. Not kidding.
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