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I rented a house once with hardwood throughout but carpet in the kitchen. All I thought was “yeesh, something really bad must’ve happened to the floor in here”.
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Axiem posted:When we were looking for a new house a couple of years ago, one of the houses we looked at had hardwood floors everywhere—except for carpet tiles in the kitchen, and carpet in the bathrooms. We were 100% baffled. WithoutTheFezOn posted:I rented a house once with hardwood throughout but carpet in the kitchen. All I thought was “yeesh, something really bad must’ve happened to the floor in here”.  like did space aliens come up with those flooring layouts and just forgot which rooms normally have carpet in them, like they knew there was some faux pas regarding carpet placement that they read in the How To Be Human manual but just mixed it up?
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Jul 21, 2018 06:06
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My house had carpet in the bathroom. The literal first thing I did after signing the papers and getting the house keys was drive over and rip that poo poo out.
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Jul 21, 2018 12:12
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I 100% agree with carpet-chat, but in an act of total hipocracy we do have an area carpet in our kitchen; however, it is a sisal/rope "indooor/outdoor" carpet that I can take outside and hose down periodically if needed.
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Jul 21, 2018 13:15
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Long shot, but does anyone or has anyone here owned a house in Las Vegas? I’m moving there in like 2 years for work and I’m wondering about what it’s like to own there and how much things like summertime AC will run me for a 3br/3ba house or so. All I know is that there is very little water or rain, which is good and owns.
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Jul 21, 2018 13:40
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Axiem posted:
I like to say my clothes don’t leave the second floor unless I’m wearing them.
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Jul 21, 2018 14:11
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:Long shot, but does anyone or has anyone here owned a house in Las Vegas? I’m moving there in like 2 years for work and I’m wondering about what it’s like to own there and how much things like summertime AC will run me for a 3br/3ba house or so. If I remember right it gets cool at night so it is not as bad as you might think plus heat in the winter is nothing. Also spring and fall are not hot. I rented because I wasn't staying more than 9 months and the place was small and 15 years ago so basically I am useless.
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Jul 21, 2018 16:01
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:Long shot, but does anyone or has anyone here owned a house in Las Vegas? I’m moving there in like 2 years for work and I’m wondering about what it’s like to own there and how much things like summertime AC will run me for a 3br/3ba house or so. Here are my annual electric bills for a 3500 square foot place that I keep at 73 when I'm home. 2014 bills are probably close to what the previous owner paid and are probably typical of my neighbors now, but even in 2014 I had already replaced all like 60 incandescent light bulbs with LED lights. I would estimate that $500-$600 of the 2014 cost was from a 2000 watt pool pump running 5 hours a day on average. The biggest decreases are from switching to time of use billing, linking my AC thermostats into my home security/automation stuff to take advantage of the TOU billing and whenever I'm away or sleeping, and getting a better variable speed pool pump. 2014 $3,437.06 2015 $2,925.75 2016 $1,777.47 2017 $1,965.59 Also, in the summer it stays hot all night and one of my biggest surprises was how hot it stays all the way through midnight. Today's high for example is 99 and it's forecast to be 86 at midnight. But Arizona is even hotter and gets less rain.
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Jul 21, 2018 16:23
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Arizona also has zero humidity, so the temperature fluctuates more easily.
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Jul 21, 2018 17:00
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That's actually great info. I'm looking for something in the bog standard 1800-2200 suburban home size, so hopefully the bills will be a little easier. Also, I don't need/want a pool. Something like this: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sa...7x5fk&3col=true I'll be working from home so I'm basically going to be at my house 24/7. I'm also pretty good with my money and I don't take many vacations or have any kids, just my wife and I, so I think I can splurge a little on keeping a house fully AC'd during the summer. I have a tiny 265 square foot apartment in central Tokyo now and I pay around $110-140 a month for electric, so the change won't be huge but the cost performance will be much better.
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Jul 21, 2018 18:00
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QuarkJets posted:like did space aliens come up with those flooring layouts and just forgot which rooms normally have carpet in them, like they knew there was some faux pas regarding carpet placement that they read in the How To Be Human manual but just mixed it up?
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:That's actually great info. I'm looking for something in the bog standard 1800-2200 suburban home size, so hopefully the bills will be a little easier. Also, I don't need/want a pool. Well here are some other bill estimates for a couple with a house here for what it's worth. Zero state income tax is worth a lot too. code:
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Jul 21, 2018 18:31
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Hubis posted:I 100% agree with carpet-chat, but in an act of total hipocracy we do have an area carpet in our kitchen; however, it is a sisal/rope "indooor/outdoor" carpet that I can take outside and hose down periodically if needed. Isn't that more of a rug? Rugs are cool in any room In my book, if it's something you can easily pick up and take outside to clean then it ain't carpet
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Jul 21, 2018 21:16
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StormDrain posted:I like to say my clothes don’t leave the second floor unless I’m wearing them. Look at this scrub without a laundry chute  QuarkJets posted:Isn't that more of a rug? Rugs are cool in any room yeah, fair. I was more trying to point out the option of an "outdoor" rug for a space like a kitchen.
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Jul 22, 2018 00:30
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Hubis posted:Look at this scrub without a laundry chute Nah bro then I gotta carry the clothes back up stairs. This is a no stair solution.
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Jul 22, 2018 01:12
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What's a reasonable price to pay for a dishwasher that will last? Are any brands better than others as a rule? Seems like there's a YouTube cottage industry in keeping decades old appliances alive, but I don't know if I can fix this. The never reliable Sears Home Repair is the only appliance repair outfit around, and they want $100 just to diagnose it.
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Jul 22, 2018 18:52
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I bought a dishwasher last year and my priority was something quiet (due to aforementioned open floor plan), and in the end I had narrowed it down to Bosch, KitchenAid, and Samsung. Around $1k USD seems to be the right amount to spend. The stuff that was cheaper ended up compromising on a lot of features, and the stuff that was more expensive didn't offer much more.
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Jul 22, 2018 19:07
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Get a Bosch with the third rack up top for silverware. Life changing poo poo man.
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Jul 22, 2018 19:17
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Buy a floor model dishwasher. They don’t hook up dishwashers to run, so it’s just been opened and closed and manipulated for a year or so, if the door and racks feel good it’ll last. $500 or less dishwashers were fine for us. The last one I bought was 9 years ago, $300, quiet, and best yet had a programmable delay so I’d just set it to run overnight and wouldn’t hear it no matter what. I like some of the new ones have bottle washers so it gets to the base of them. Overall they are pretty simple, ours got loud and it was a pump going out, bought a replacement for $80 and had it back in service.
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Jul 22, 2018 19:28
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I ended up with the Samsung dw80m9550ug. It is literally quiet enough that you can't hear it running at all. All I hear when it runs is the occasional sound of water draining into the sink. Another feature I like is that the door pops open at the end which helps air dry the dishes and keeps it from getting swampy inside.
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Jul 22, 2018 19:50
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I popped off my window trim and there are so many carpenter ants  I've put out 5 bait traps, sprayed, and put dust in the wall. Hopefully they all die soon. E: and squished like 300 while they were panicking
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Jul 22, 2018 20:21
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Halloween Jack posted:What's a reasonable price to pay for a dishwasher that will last? Are any brands better than others as a rule? ~$900~1,100. Bosch FTW. HEY NONG MAN posted:Get a Bosch with the third rack up top for silverware. Life changing poo poo man. Which third rack model do you have? Bosch came out with a new one. E: These are the two I am looking at. They're identical except the rack and dBA rating - and while I understand that is "double" the sound, my parents have had two of the 42's in an open configuration and you could be sitting in the dining/sitting area RIGHT in front of the dishwasher and have a quiet conversation without interruption. SHXM78W55N ~$950 42-dBA with Flexible 3rd Rack https://www.bosch-home.com/us/productslist/dishwashers/top-controls/SHXM78W55N SHXM98W75N ~$1,125 39-dBA with MyWay 3rd rack https://www.bosch-home.com/us/productslist/dishwashers/top-controls/SHXM98W75N SiGmA_X fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jul 22, 2018 |
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Jul 22, 2018 20:40
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enraged_camel posted:Well, I went nuts. I'm happy to report that, since doing this a week ago, I haven't seen a roach inside the house. Gonna give it another week before I hang the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner on the wall.
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Jul 22, 2018 20:42
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enraged_camel posted:I'm happy to report that, since doing this a week ago, I haven't seen a roach inside the house. Gonna give it another week before I hang the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner on the wall. 
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Jul 22, 2018 21:59
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Re: first floor laundry discussion on the last page, my parents have a first floor laundry and a few years ago had the water line behind the washer break open when they were gone for the weekend and it flooded half of the entire house to the point where the drywall in the basement ceiling was falling off. I know it's a flukey thing but I'll keep my washer in the basement in any case.
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Jul 23, 2018 03:08
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Our washer is in the garage, which is next to the kitchen. This seems sensible to me; if the washer itself fucks up then the water just slides out of the garage, if the pipe in the wall bursts then we're dealing with replacing drywall instead of drywall *and* carpet and at least some of the water will just leave via the garage Houses in our part of the country don't have basements because they cost a shitload due to the ground being very rocky and there not being a frost line to worry about
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Jul 23, 2018 03:40
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QuarkJets posted:Our washer is in the garage, which is next to the kitchen. This seems sensible to me; if the washer itself fucks up then the water just slides out of the garage, if the pipe in the wall bursts then we're dealing with replacing drywall instead of drywall *and* carpet and at least some of the water will just leave via the garage Really if you’re worried about a pipe in the wall breaking and causing damage then the bathrooms are much more likely candidates since they are used more and have more valves.
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Jul 23, 2018 05:07
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StormDrain posted:Really if you’re worried about a pipe in the wall breaking and causing damage then the bathrooms are much more likely candidates since they are used more and have more valves. The real smart move is to get a leak sensor connected to an automatic shut-off valve on the washer in flow pipe
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Jul 23, 2018 13:54
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I squashed a bug on my pillow last night that may or may not have been a bedbug. Pray for me thread.
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Jul 23, 2018 14:23
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SpartanIvy posted:I squashed a bug on my pillow last night that may or may not have been a bedbug. Pray for me thread.  Got my new water heater installed last night! Then, took a nice hot shower to celebrate
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Jul 23, 2018 15:15
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SpartanIvy posted:I squashed a bug on my pillow last night that may or may not have been a bedbug. Pray for me thread. You know how to check for them, right? Look it up if not. If you see one you have a bunch.
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Jul 23, 2018 15:19
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Just got a brand new whirlpool dishwasher and it doesn’t dry the dishes. On their website it says it may take 2 weeks to start drying fully. Did I install it incorrectly or should I just return it, or wait?
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Jul 23, 2018 15:20
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It takes 2 weeks? What’s going on during that time? Is it just shy?
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Jul 23, 2018 15:22
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StormDrain posted:You know how to check for them, right? Look it up if not. If you see one you have a bunch. Yeah I had a bad infestation back in 2007 when I lived in a lovely apartment. Hopefully this is just another PTSD overreact but I'm going to tear my place apart when I get home today and see if I can find anything. E: to make matters worse I was sleeping on the couch last night because of my carpenter ant treatment in the bedroom. So if I do have them I've just doubled the infested areas! 
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Jul 23, 2018 15:24
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Subjunctive posted:It takes 2 weeks? What’s going on during that time? Is it just shy? That’s what I’m wondering. It says that on the whirlpool troubleshooting site.
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Jul 23, 2018 15:31
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Having bedbugs was one of the worst experiences of my adult life.
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Jul 23, 2018 17:14
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In other news Zillow seems to hate my house now. It's zestimate has dropped $10K in the month I've owned it 
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Jul 23, 2018 20:19
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They've figured out that goons live there.
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Jul 23, 2018 20:25
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Apparently the chicken coop raised the value of my house by $20k
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SpartanIvy posted:In other news Zillow seems to hate my house now. It's zestimate has dropped $10K in the month I've owned it Eh, Zillow is reading tea leaves anyway. I wouldn’t sweat it.
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