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Elephanthead posted:No, I don't even think grandpas use stain only stains anymore how old are you 100? Just a homeowner who has no idea what I'm doing.
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Sab0921 posted:Just a homeowner who has no idea what I'm doing.
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Jul 5, 2018 05:36
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I use stain-only stains all the time, but I've only ever stained small things like gun stocks. For a deck I'd probably go the combo route. It would take forever otherwise. Prep is the most important thing for a good even stain. Don't skimp on it.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:I’ve been wearing sneakers but it hasn’t seemed to help. 
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I have a metal roof so any puncture points I make run the risk of voiding the warranty.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:I have a metal roof so any puncture points I make run the risk of voiding the warranty. I assume your installer can tell you what they'd use. Or maybe you live in a flat roof area and noone uses anchors...
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Somehow my mother in law (who takes her summer in an in law apt in our house) drilled through a drain line (for the upstairs shower / laundry) while trying to hang a cabinet. I'm not going to have time to do a proper repair until Saturday or Sunday. Will that Flex Seal tape be an OK band aid for a couple days? It's a drain line so there's no water pressure.
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Jul 5, 2018 13:30
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Sock The Great posted:Somehow my mother in law (who takes her summer in an in law apt in our house) drilled through a drain line (for the upstairs shower / laundry) while trying to hang a cabinet. I'm not going to have time to do a proper repair until Saturday or Sunday. Will that Flex Seal tape be an OK band aid for a couple days? It's a drain line so there's no water pressure. I’d imagine so. There’s also this stuff which has been recommended to me (granted for a leak that is in my unfinished basement and not in walls): https://www.homedepot.com/p/203349065
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Jul 5, 2018 13:38
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Motronic posted:I'm voting for this. Elephanthead posted:No, I don't even think grandpas use stain only stains anymore how old are you 100? I liked this one
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Jul 5, 2018 13:59
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FCKGW posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask / Tell > Bitcoin, Forex, and Candles > Homeownership: I really don't know if this is decent progress or just a terrible waste of time. 9 characters too long
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Jul 5, 2018 14:04
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Moneyball posted:9 characters too long Get rid of 'decent' and 'just'
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Jul 5, 2018 14:12
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TraderStav posted:Get rid of 'decent' and 'just' Already did that re: my personality. Fixed the thread title though.
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Sock The Great posted:Somehow my mother in law (who takes her summer in an in law apt in our house) drilled through a drain line (for the upstairs shower / laundry) while trying to hang a cabinet. I'm not going to have time to do a proper repair until Saturday or Sunday. Will that Flex Seal tape be an OK band aid for a couple days? It's a drain line so there's no water pressure. There's an analogy here for in-laws staying over and your walls slowly filling up with septic I think what you're looking for is a neoprene sleeve and ratcheting clamps or zip ties in the time being since there's no pressure. Similar to what's used when connecting old cast iron pipe to modern PVC. And maybe a blanket ban on in-laws home improvement projects
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Jul 5, 2018 14:58
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OSU_Matthew posted:There's an analogy here for in-laws staying over and your walls slowly filling up with septic That's a Fernco coupling (or "hubless connector). You can slice one down the side and put it around the pipe (with the cut away from the hole obviously), put the clamps around it and literally forget about that forever, but if we're talking PVC is really not all the difficult to just cut get a PVC coupling without the "stops" inside (so you can slid it down the pipe), cut the pipe right where the hole is, and slide that coupling on with some primer and cement, slide it into place and call it fixed as well. OSU_Matthew posted:And maybe a blanket ban on in-laws home improvement projects This too.
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Jul 5, 2018 15:43
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OSU_Matthew posted:There's an analogy here for in-laws staying over and your walls slowly filling up with septic Yeah I will be hiding her small collection of tools in the basement. My permanent fix is to cut the section of pipe out and replace with Pex; just need a band aid until the weekend.
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Jul 5, 2018 15:51
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Sock The Great posted:My permanent fix is to cut the section of pipe out and replace with Pex; just need a band aid until the weekend. PEX is not appropriate for waste lines. It's only for supply.
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Motronic posted:PEX is not appropriate for waste lines. It's only for supply. Good to know. I am receiving this information second hand through text messages from my wife; will know a bit more once I am home from work this afternoon.
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Jul 5, 2018 16:00
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BoyBlunder posted:I mounted a giant mirror to the wall, and it's got a manufacturer sticker on the corner of it. Peeling it is fruitless, it's extremely thin and tears, and I will literally be here for years trying to pull this loving thing off cleanly. Goo-Gone
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Jul 5, 2018 18:04
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Jul 5, 2018 18:10
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OSU_Matthew posted:You lucky bastard, I wish I had that kind of wall space. If I could make a recommendation, go take a bunch of sweet photos, get on Mpix when they have a 30% off sale, and get a gently caress ton of 8x10s on metallic pearlescent paper printed with generic frames from the dollar store, and go to town on that wall. Just put them on randomly or in a pattern with wall safe command Velcro adhesive steps, and it'll be awesome and completely unique to you. 2$ - 3$ per print (depending if you can catch a sale), and a dollar per frame. Thanks! So, I got bored and tried mapping out a pattern on the wall using painter's tape. I'm imagining having a big canvas on the right side split into three vertical pieces, and then I used the "proxmity" pattern from this design guide on the left side. Here's what it looks like. I'm not totally satisfied with that bottom-right one on the left side; it might technically be balanced but I think it looks a little goofy. I'd maybe do an oversized or circular-shaped bit of artwork there instead. I also think I would put more space under that top row on the left side, and I would move the canvas further over to the right.
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I'm glad I could provide the thread with a new title. This house is going to be my Vietnam. This took all day. Someone glued their raw plugs in place, i even found wooden ones in the wall.  One spot had the wallpaper sticking better than the plaster 
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Struensee posted:I'm glad I could provide the thread with a new title. This house is going to be my Vietnam. I thought for a minute you meant literally a house in Vietnam, and I was confused since I don't think you're allowed to buy property as a foreigner or something like that Sock The Great posted:Yeah I will be hiding her small collection of tools in the basement. The more I think about this, the more questions I have... Like, if she's drilling a small hole, how did she even discover she punctured the waste line? I take it that means your home smells like an open sewer now? Also, if she's trying to hang a cabinet, was she seriously trying to hang a cabinet off drywall? Like, not even bothering securing it into a stud? This is so wonderful on so many levels (it's already been pointed out, but Pex is for supply lines, you'll want a PVC sleeve to cement onto there for the permanent fix) surf rock posted:Here's what it looks like. I'm not totally satisfied with that bottom-right one on the left side; it might technically be balanced but I think it looks a little goofy. I'd maybe do an oversized or circular-shaped bit of artwork there instead. I also think I would put more space under that top row on the left side, and I would move the canvas further over to the right. Having hung a ton of stuff, I can't tell you what a godsend those command adhesive Velcro strips are vs nailing poo poo in and trying to get a frame level and on the nail Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Sock The Great posted:Good to know. I am receiving this information second hand through text messages from my wife; will know a bit more once I am home from work this afternoon. I can only imagine how much 4" PEX crimpers/jaws and materials would cost......JFC.(I'm nearly positive this does not exist) Might as well do it in copper at that point. It's just a cheapass PVC repair. The "hard" part is the drywall.
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OSU_Matthew posted:I thought for a minute you meant literally a house in Vietnam, and I was confused since I don't think you're allowed to buy property as a foreigner or something like that Maybe she thought she hit a stud and went nuts, then the bit came out with a few nuts on it?
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Jul 6, 2018 01:27
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There are about 10 baby spiders on the ceiling of our shower, so that means about 10 million baby spiders hidden in the wall 
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Those spiders wouldn't exist if there weren't a lot more other bugs in the walls to eat!
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Jul 7, 2018 00:55
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There are definitely 10 billion tiny ants in the wall that's just reality in this town
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Jul 7, 2018 01:03
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I remember finding what looked like newly hatched spiders in my apartment bathroom about 10 years ago. I think I spent several hours and got the kill count up to 42 before I couldn't find anymore and finally went to bed before the sun came up.
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Jul 7, 2018 01:57
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Phillips hue lights suck. I bought one of the cheap Chinese smart lights and liked the idea but was never happy with the warm yellow color it produced. So I thought I'd pay the extra for the hue. It does have a much better chill reading light yellow, but loses its programming whenever you turn it off at the switch unlike the Chinese one. Bah! Apparently people have been complaining for years and Phillips never improved it. Especially dumb because it needs a hub unlike the knock off.
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I don't want 10 million of anything unless it's dollars hiding in my walls thank you very much
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Woman rushed to ER with brown recluse spider bites, then finds dozens more infesting her apartment
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surf rock posted:
I think it would look better if you kept the square shape instead of turning it into a rectangle. Or try to skip having the blank line and do something like: code:
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Jul 7, 2018 18:06
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I was working on cutting down some overgrown crepe myrtles this morning and with one branch left I sawed through my extension cord 
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Jul 7, 2018 18:26
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dalstrs posted:I think it would look better if you kept the square shape instead of turning it into a rectangle. Or try to skip having the blank line and do something like: Oh, interesting! So, you think either that (to maintain the rectangular shape) or this? code:
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Jul 7, 2018 18:38
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You should do code:
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couldcareless posted:I don't want 10 million of anything unless it's dollars hiding in my walls thank you very much If you own a wood frame house then I have some bad news
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It was 120 degrees at my house yesterday and the power went out across the city https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qskAJeuo2Y When it came back up one of my A/C units no longer works. I have to sleep downstairs on the couch until I can get the parts in a few days. Hopefully it's the $20 part and not something worse. 
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SpartanIvy posted:I was working on cutting down some overgrown crepe myrtles this morning and with one branch left I sawed through my extension cord  Sad days.
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Hey homeownership thread! I have a stupid problem that I could use some advice on. I've got this big dead ash tree that needs taken down before the wind knocks it down on my house and my neighbor's house. Problem is, it's right on the property line, about 95% on my neighbor's property on the other side of the fence, and maybe a foot grown into mine. No problem, right? I just go up and knock on my neighbor's door and talk about it. Problem is, the house is vacant, and I'm fairly sure it was bought by a flipper last year. It's gotten a new roof and contractors have intermittently been in to do stuff, including tearing down a live oak tree in the front yard about twenty yards away from said dead tree. So, I can already tell there are no fucks given. The good news is that I talked to the code enforcement guy here in town and he gave me the owner's phone number. My understanding though, is that if they don't know about it in writing, aka a certified letter or something, if that tree falls down on my house, I'm on the hook insurance wise. If they do know about it, they're on the hook. What do I do? Call and record the conversation? Who's ultimately responsible for tearing this thing down?
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If I were you I’d call, record if you’re in a one-party state, and if they don’t give you their address then have a quick consult with your insurance company, perhaps followed by one with a lawyer.
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