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Medullah posted:Maybe not the best place to ask, but what the hell. Are they not designed to be left outside? Yes, they make outdoor furniture covers you can put on them. Just google "outdoor patio furniture cover" and browse around.
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Just take any cushions off and store them somewhere dry. The furniture frames should be designed to get wet.
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Jun 24, 2019 16:28
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Unless it's unpainted metal, cover your patio furniture. Amazon has a billion outdoor furniture covers in a variety of sizes. Even if it is unpainted metal, cover it. Nothing like walking out to your patio/deck/whatever on a nice day and not being able to sit down because everything is covered in bird poo poo.
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Jun 24, 2019 16:36
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TacoHavoc posted:How confident do you feel about the appraisal vs offer value? People who buy a house (especially a hundred year old one) and ask for cosmetics rather than just reflecting it in the offer are kind of a red flag for me. If you think it will appraise, I'd be more likely to go with the 5% offer. It’ll appraise. But I think the real issue here is that the family from CA has no experience with 100 year old homes, and the other couple is local, older, and very familiar with the old homes of NE Ohio. The first buyer sent me an escalation clause when they heard about the second offer. I don’t really care about squeezing another 5% out of the house, I just want the process to be as low drama as possible.
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Jun 24, 2019 16:39
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Residency Evil posted:What's the best way to get a better looking lawn? My lawn is full, but has its share of weeds/crabgrass. Is buying one of those 4 step systems by Scott or something enough? This got buried by Competing Offers Thunderdome, but your best bet if you have weeds/crabgrass is going with a round or two of broadleaf herbicide, followed up by overseeding. After that, mow it pretty high (3"+, depending in species), preferably mulching. I've also had good success with corn gluten as an organic pre-emergent/fertilizer.
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Jealous Cow posted:It’ll appraise. I mean, you're trying to sell a house. You don't get any of the down payment money at closing so what does it matter how much somebody puts down? I would take the buyers with less inspections in a heartbeat. It's less out of pocket that you have to pay (maximizing your profit) and the deal will be less likely to be torpedoed by something a multitude of inspections would discover. I can guarantee you that the California couple would use the inspections against you to get a lower price.
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Jun 24, 2019 16:51
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TheWevel posted:I mean, you're trying to sell a house. You don't get any of the down payment money at closing so what does it matter how much somebody puts down? I would take the buyers with less inspections in a heartbeat. It's less out of pocket that you have to pay (maximizing your profit) and the deal will be less likely to be torpedoed by something a multitude of inspections would discover. I can guarantee you that the California couple would use the inspections against you to get a lower price. Local couple is also proposing a 60 day closing where the others are proposing 30. I’m probably going to counter the local couple with a faster closing and dangle the escalation clause from the other buyer that I’m not using to drive the price up as a sign of good faith.
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Jun 24, 2019 17:00
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I've got a natural spring at the edge of my lawn. Even in dry weather there is a little area where 3-6" of standing water collects in a 5 foot diameter. It's making the lawn insanely muddy and I bet it gets absolutely huge in rainy months (I just moved in a week ago). The property slopes off hard into some wetlands about 8 feet away from the spring... Maybe I can just cut a channel and have it drain by gravity? Or plant a weeping willow and just absorb it all?!
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Jun 24, 2019 17:12
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I've got a natural spring at the edge of my lawn. Even in dry weather there is a little area where 3-6" of standing water collects in a 5 foot diameter. Bottle it up and sell it as Chris’ Nectar.
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Jun 24, 2019 17:45
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It's the only water with real Chris Bits™ in every gulp!
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Jun 24, 2019 17:56
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:It's the only water with real Chris Bits™ in every gulp! Shame you don't have a septic system!
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H110Hawk posted:Shame you don't have a septic system! Or does he 
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skipdogg posted:Are they not designed to be left outside? Yeah I edited my post shortly after to say I found a bunch on Amazon because I'm not smart and posted here rather than searching.  They are designed to be left outside, but the cushions aren't removable and as we discovered Saturday night, they take a bit to dry off. So in the interest of no more wet rear end nights, I'm going to get some covers for them.
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Jun 24, 2019 19:10
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Medullah posted:Yeah I edited my post shortly after to say I found a bunch on Amazon because I'm not smart and posted here rather than searching. I purchased a grill cover and a smoker cover of the brand "classic accessories" that are tqn and brown and love them. Better quality than the covers that came for those originally, have lasted a few years so far.
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Jun 24, 2019 20:40
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I've got a natural spring at the edge of my lawn. Even in dry weather there is a little area where 3-6" of standing water collects in a 5 foot diameter.  All this water is from running my sprinkler system. We've got heavy rain coming this Thursday/Friday so it's going to be interesting to see what gets hosed up and how badly.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I've got a natural spring at the edge of my lawn. Even in dry weather there is a little area where 3-6" of standing water collects in a 5 foot diameter. Plant trees, shrubs, and/or tall vegetation. It'll soak it up and you don't have to mow it. You could try a tile drain but that's a pain to try ans save what sounds like a 10x15 section nof lawn. Plant some pollinators and bird habat and enjoy the wildlife. What region do you live in? Assuming the US, large swaths of the country have been having a tremendous amount of rain, and we're just coming off what are typically the rainiest months during the growing season.
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Anybody have a good recommendation for some interior door handles that come in both lockable (with a knob/button) and dummy varieties? They need to be satin nickle. My mom wants to replace all the hideous brass door knobs and hinges inside her house with satin nickle and I'm trying to get her to convince her to use handles and not knobs when she does this.
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Sirotan posted:Anybody have a good recommendation for some interior door handles that come in both lockable (with a knob/button) and dummy varieties? They need to be satin nickle. My mom wants to replace all the hideous brass door knobs and hinges inside her house with satin nickle and I'm trying to get her to convince her to use handles and not knobs when she does this.  I just redid my house with these. I like 'em just fine. The Dummy versions are $10 per single lever
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Jun 28, 2019 00:23
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You're looking for a privacy set, that's the button or thumb turn lock, and passage sets, which have no lock. You might actually also mean dummy but those generally are just for a push pull, with no latch at all. Those don't get used much. I've ordered a lot of hardware from directdoorhardware.com as they have good pricing, selection, and the website is pretty good.
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Thanks, I'll forward both of those on. And yeah, I meant dummy knobs, she's got a bunch of hallway closets that use them. Edit: lol at the Kwikset Balboa 4-pack being more expensive than just buying 4 of them separately. Nice work, Home Depot.
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I thought I could just fake fix this cursed saddle tap by replacing just the stinger valve thing, but obviously that was wrong. When I really saw the corrosion I was ready to buzz down to Home Depot for a real quarter turn valve and the rest but I didn't want to go so late. So on went a new saddle tap that I swear I'll replace some day. After I finish painting the master bedroom and moving a couple of sprinklers and patching a hole from the doorbell and hanging wallpaper but definitely before or during or after the remodel of the master bath.
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Jun 29, 2019 03:36
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Why the gently caress would you hang wallpaper in tyool 2019, OP
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Why the gently caress would you hang wallpaper in tyool 2019, OP maybe they're part of one of those wills where like you have to sleep 3 nights in a haunted house in order to inherit it, but in this case they have to ruin a house's interior with frustrating bullshit, but they weren't able to find any old cans of lead paint so they went with the next best thing
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I love wallpaper. We did a wallpaper accent wall in a bedroom and it looks pretty sharp. Fight me
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Wallpaper is coming back in. They just call it 'modern wallpaper', so that you don't confuse it with Aunt Gertrude's purple-red floral pattern wallpaper from the 50s. Many of the HGTV design shows are using it, if only for a single wall of a room.
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I don't give a fart what you think of my design choices.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Why the gently caress would you hang wallpaper in tyool 2019, OP Look the previous owner hosed me hard with their projects, you bet I'm going to pass that on to the next guy.
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Modern wallpaper is easier to remove, right?
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Why the gently caress would you hang wallpaper in tyool 2019, OP If you're in my house, 120 year old plaster walls with cracks and patches that the paper covers up!
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StormDrain posted:I don't give a fart what you think of my design choices. Post pics of the wallpaper pattern!! I'd love to see what modern vogue is after just finishing up 4 rooms of pink floral poo poo
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From the BWM thread:spwrozek posted:If he went from a one bedroom to a 4 bedroom just to fill it would easily run 10k. Heck you buy a solid wood dining table and that could be 10k easy alone. We were thinking about getting a dining table and chairs from a place like this: https://www.barnfurnituremart.com/amish-dining-room-sets/ We're going to go fiddle with it in person but before we deal with a trip out is there some obvious scam here I am missing? It seems really cheap for hardwood furniture.
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H110Hawk posted:
I can't speak to their tables but I got 3 bookshelves from them for basically the same reason (nicest looking cheap hardwood). It's not artisan work by any means and the backs are pretty cheap pressed wood, but they look way better everything similarly priced.
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I'm in love with just about all the wallpaper choices that Anthropologie sells: https://www.anthropologie.com/wallpaper?page=1 They're all expensive as gently caress, and I'd only use it to create an accent wall in a room painted in complementary colors. In a previous apartment I almost bought a couple rolls of this:  https://www.newwall.com/shop/wallpaper/marimekko-collection/biloba-13043/ Kinda bummed to now see it's discontinued. Sirotan fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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if you have a lot of dark wood, wainscoting and leather chairs, etc this kind of wallpaper would look good in an evil Victorian study or smoking/drinking room. there are some very nice modern wallpapers out there but it has to be done in just smaller areas and in conjunction with woodwork.
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So I buy mine all from "wallpaper direct". Yes if you're keeping track I do prefer to buy from places that have direct in the name. You can find it yourself and see. There are thousands of choices. Some of them are $300 or more per roll, which are some beautiful designs but no way do I want to buy 10 rolls for a room. I have floral with hummingbirds and pineapples. I took these just for you Chris.  
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I like that!
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Can you take a picture of the table with a bowl of strawberry-filled hard candies on it
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StormDrain posted:So I buy mine all from "wallpaper direct". Yes if you're keeping track I do prefer to buy from places that have direct in the name. You can find it yourself and see. There are thousands of choices. Some of them are $300 or more per roll, which are some beautiful designs but no way do I want to buy 10 rolls for a room. I can appreciate this but I’d never buy a house with this in it.
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Any suggestions other than dehumidifier to make a basement smell less basementy? I've got a nice big one in the new house and am hoping to camp out in it on some hotter days, but it's definitely got a funk even with the dehumidifier running 24x7
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