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Great-grandma's antique Japanese vanity with broken trim. Trim removed and replaced for a slimmer, stronger profile (local custom/repair furniture workshop). before peanut fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jun 29, 2020 |
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Jun 29, 2020 07:05
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knox_harrington posted:We went to the Italian part of the country for the weekend, it is very lovely and looks like this https://i.imgur.com/HpmEW5J.jpg oofa
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Jun 29, 2020 09:08
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:Yeah it’s def not gonna be quite as vibrant as this but I just needed a visual aid. But fortunately Home Depot carries Glidden exterior paint for about $21 a gallon so it’s not gonna be too crazy as she has 6 colors picked out. It sounds like the fence is pretty short and, if so, you might be able to do it with those cheap little tester quarts instead of having to buy a whole gallon of each color.
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Jun 29, 2020 12:51
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peanut posted:after Flash forward 15 years to Antiques Roadshow: "As it is right now, I expect at auction it would fetch $500-600. However if you had the original wooden trim, you're looking at $12,000" looks great though for real
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Jun 29, 2020 14:50
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BonoMan posted:Flash forward 15 years to Antiques Roadshow: OPEN THE PRICE (開運なんでも鑑定団)
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Jun 30, 2020 00:52
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Call for a DIY IK https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3930843
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A landscaping service just left after evaluating my property, and while I don't have a quote yet, I'm anticipating it's going to land between $4,000 and $6,000. That's a chunk of change that I'm not eager to spend, especially when it's all demo work - ripping up weeds, assorted bushes, random plants, and turning it all into seeded topsoil. It's gotta be possible to do this sort of thing DIY, since other people have multiple acres they keep under control. Below are a few pictures of the type of overgrowth I'm looking to remove, as well as one of a handful of bushes. These images represent maybe 30 to 50% of the surface area I want to clean up. If one wanted to just wipe all this off the map, what tools would you use to go about it? (I presume I'd need to rent one or two things.)   
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Jun 30, 2020 20:06
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The Wonder Weapon posted:A landscaping service just left after evaluating my property, and while I don't have a quote yet, I'm anticipating it's going to land between $4,000 and $6,000. That's a chunk of change that I'm not eager to spend, especially when it's all demo work - ripping up weeds, assorted bushes, random plants, and turning it all into seeded topsoil. It's gotta be possible to do this sort of thing DIY, since other people have multiple acres they keep under control. You’re looking to turn all of it into lawn all the way to the edges? Keeping a bit of a border between your lawn and the fence might make yard maintenance a little easier, as well as be a little more eco friendly if you’re planning on keeping a garden on your property. Honestly the first picture looks kind of cute in a meadow-y kind of way. That said, the bushes will probably need to get chopped/sawed back with the stumps dug up- the experience can vary a lot depending on the species. Do you have a place where you can dispose of plant matter and dirt? Dirt is surprisingly hard to throw out.
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Jun 30, 2020 20:55
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The Wonder Weapon posted:A landscaping service just left after evaluating my property, and while I don't have a quote yet, I'm anticipating it's going to land between $4,000 and $6,000. That's a chunk of change that I'm not eager to spend, especially when it's all demo work - ripping up weeds, assorted bushes, random plants, and turning it all into seeded topsoil. It's gotta be possible to do this sort of thing DIY, since other people have multiple acres they keep under control. Not really clear on what you want to achieve. You want to remove everything that isn’t grass and just have turf everywhere? It’s looks pretty nice as-is, and certainly more interesting than lawn right up to a chain link fence - I’d be looking to tidy it up and add to it. If you did want to get rid of it all though, it’ll be easy to do yourself. Assuming there are no large trees: Garden fork, spade, strimmer, loppers, saw (hand or reciprocating w/ pruning blade), gloves, maybe a pick axe, some containers to put the waste in for transport, assuming you’re not going to: a) start a compost heap. b) get a dumpster You may have a decent size stump to deal with from that bush, and if you can’t dig it up you’d need to leave it to rot, burn it or get it ground off.
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Jun 30, 2020 22:03
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I had a somewhat lousy experience with an electrician yesterday, and I posted some pics over in the electrical thread because I was feeling pretty upset about how it all turned out. Now that I've got my panel replaced and there are extra slots for new circuits, I'm finally going to buy this book on home wiring and electrical codes and just do additional work my own drat self. Nothing quite like paying someone a small fortune to do a poo poo job to get you back into the DIY spirit. if i never post again it is because i have electrocuted myself
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Sirotan posted:I had a somewhat lousy experience with an electrician yesterday, and I posted some pics over in the electrical thread because I was feeling pretty upset about how it all turned out. Now that I've got my panel replaced and there are extra slots for new circuits, I'm finally going to buy this book on home wiring and electrical codes and just do additional work my own drat self. Nothing quite like paying someone a small fortune to do a poo poo job to get you back into the DIY spirit. Don't feel too bad. It happens to everyone at least once. Electricity isn't too hard or scary as long as you take precautions, double check all your work, and research things ahead of time. Also get WAGOs.
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Jul 1, 2020 17:10
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SpartanIvy posted:WAGOs Neat, never knew about these before.
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Jul 1, 2020 17:14
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Sirotan posted:Neat, never knew about these before. The 221's are the ones to get. They're life changing.
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Jul 1, 2020 17:19
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What's the general thoughts on self installation of gutters versus getting someone to do them? I'd like to get gutters installed on my house, and I had gotten a quote previously, but I've been thinking lately that I could probably buy all the parts needed at Home Depot or Lowes, and then simply stringline the slope to make sure I get good drainage. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard; originally when I had gotten a quote, it was because I wanted to try and match my fascia to meet HOA painting requirements, but it sounds like I'd have to paint it regardless, and the company doing the gutters said they don't paint them, so it seems like I could install and paint at the same time.
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Jul 1, 2020 17:59
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SpartanIvy posted:The 221's are the ones to get. They're life changing. drat, could have used some of those when I added an outlet for our bidet a few months ago.
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Jul 1, 2020 18:28
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SourKraut posted:What's the general thoughts on self installation of gutters versus getting someone to do them? I'd like to get gutters installed on my house, and I had gotten a quote previously, but I've been thinking lately that I could probably buy all the parts needed at Home Depot or Lowes, and then simply stringline the slope to make sure I get good drainage. How complicated is your roofline and do you want seemless? That will estimate how hard it'll be. I did 2 ~20ft sections of my garage. It was about $200 for all the bits and pieces. And wasn't super complicated.. I do need to go back over a seam at the end because I didn't calk it well
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Jul 1, 2020 19:54
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Just don't get the lovely plastic gutters. Goddamn we had those and they are the worst. Then I got someone to come do my entire house in seamless steel gutters for $700 and they are amazing.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:04
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tater_salad posted:How complicated is your roofline and do you want seemless? That will estimate how hard it'll be. I did 2 ~20ft sections of my garage. It was about $200 for all the bits and pieces. And wasn't super complicated.. I do need to go back over a seam at the end because I didn't calk it well The roofline is pretty simple, from the perspective of it's a single story house, and everything is easily accessible via ladder. I had planned it out previously in terms of drop locations, etc. (and it's actually the plan the installer I got a quote from confirmed and used). It's about 130 feet of gutter total, the longest section is 27' along our back patio. I'm not too concerned about seam vs seamless, since we live in Phoenix and this is mostly to help reduce/eliminate a few of the areas that sees some erosion due to how the roof drains currently to grade. BonoMan posted:Just don't get the lovely plastic gutters. Goddamn we had those and they are the worst. Then I got someone to come do my entire house in seamless steel gutters for $700 and they are amazing.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:21
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Check out local gutters, on old buildings if anything they're just a log suspended from the edge of your roof. But more likely nothing. 
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Jul 1, 2020 20:58
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The Wonder Weapon posted:A landscaping service just left after evaluating my property, and while I don't have a quote yet, I'm anticipating it's going to land between $4,000 and $6,000. That's a chunk of change that I'm not eager to spend, especially when it's all demo work - ripping up weeds, assorted bushes, random plants, and turning it all into seeded topsoil. It's gotta be possible to do this sort of thing DIY, since other people have multiple acres they keep under control. I had my side yard and a wooded area cleared for under $3000. They spent two days with a few guys and a small bulldozer. So maybe get a few quotes. The picture with grass is maybe 2/3 of the wooded area after it was cleared,and the picture with the driveway is about 2/3 of that area as well. It has filled in nicely since the time I took the picture. https://imgur.com/a/Y1oi43f
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Jul 2, 2020 10:20
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SpartanIvy posted:Don't feel too bad. It happens to everyone at least once. Electricity isn't too hard or scary as long as you take precautions, double check all your work, and research things ahead of time. Also get WAGOs. This is spot on. I added a 120 and a 220 with that book and WAGOs. My only complaint is that working with 10ga wire into a socket is a right pain. Works great though.
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Jul 2, 2020 20:42
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Doin fence thangz Shout to to Sherwin Williams and their quart size samples.
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:Doin fence thangz I love it
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So, I hired a crew to repaint our house. It's an oldish stone colonial (between 90 and 95 years old) with the original doors, windows, and trim. Nothing extreme -- surface prep followed by spot primer and two top coats on most surfaces other than the windows, which only were getting one coat because they're behind some triple-track storms. The foreman (who is the owner's dad) was a little non-specifically weird, but nice enough. They finished up while I was sleeping between shifts and when I did a walkaround, it was obvious that as the work progressed, everything got worse, in particular everything the foreman worked on personally. I mean, the doors (which were painted on the last day) were terrible. The prep was almost nonexistant. You could see the old pain through the new pain in places, while other places had rubbery blobs from pain splattered on. There was huge overpaint onto the glass and onto the hardware. Hell, not only was there paint on the surrounding trim, I found a splash of paint onto the door into our dining room, four feet away from the front door. I found lots of other areas of bad to nonexistent prep and poor painting, again mainly what the head guy was working on. Weirdly, they repaired and repainted the rotted trim around the garage door and did a phenomenal job ... and it was specifically excluded from the contract. I called the contact guy, pretty pissed, and he came the following afternoon. He seemed legitimately shocked and said he'd take pictures, e-mail the owner, and come up with a plan to address everything. Then the owner called. He called his dad the following morning to ask him what the gently caress happened, and said his dad just sounded off. Well, turns out he had a temperature of 102 and now is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. "Thank God, they said it's not COVID." (It's going to be COVID.) I'm annoyed that everything needs to be readdressed, but it's kind of hard to fault a guy who was delirious. Ah, home ownership.
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Jul 4, 2020 11:19
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Also, you know, risking you and/or your family with a pandemic.
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Hubis posted:Also, you know, risking you and/or your family with a pandemic. B) LOL at the notion that they guy who wasn't within ten feet of us at any point was my family's risk factor as opposed to the multiple COVID-19 patients I treated through the painting project. I feel badly for his crew, though, and I bet he will too when he's not delirious from fever and/or COVID brain.
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Fence thangz pt. 2
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:3 :3 :3 Those pastels look so good!
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What was the ant bait reco in this thread? Terro stakes? We've got a stubborn infestation. I can see precisely where they are outside, but every time I Raid their path and entryway they find another way in.
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BonoMan posted:What was the ant bait reco in this thread? Terro stakes? I've always had good luck with this for Argentine ants, which is probably what you have: https://www.amazon.com/AMDRO-Block-Home-Perimeter-Granules/dp/B000QDEQ7E . Sprinkle it all the way around your house when it's not going to rain, especially near where they're coming in. The downside is you have to wait a day or two for it to take effect, but the upside is it kills the whole colony so the problem goes away entirely. Refresh the perimeter every month or so. When you spray Raid on their trail, you just kill a few ants and the colony finds another path. When you use this stuff, they carry it back to the colony as food and it kills them all slowly over a day or two. I feel a little bad, but it's better than ants in the house.
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I swear by the terro borax baits, I've had several instances inside and out where I've had to use them and they always do the job in a couple days
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Qwijib0 posted:I swear by the terro borax baits, I've had several instances inside and out where I've had to use them and they always do the job in a couple days Same. I've always had great luck with them. If I'm spraying the yard for things like that including ants I'll typically use something like Talstar Pro, but I'd rather not use that kind of thing inside. It also kills them to quickly to bring back to the colony so it's really just a surface treatment. Terro baits absolutely make it back into the colony. So it takes longer, but it WORKS.
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Qwijib0 posted:I swear by the terro borax baits, I've had several instances inside and out where I've had to use them and they always do the job in a couple days Same. I get a line of ants to them within a day or two and then they disappear from the area.
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BadSamaritan posted:You’re looking to turn all of it into lawn all the way to the edges? Keeping a bit of a border between your lawn and the fence might make yard maintenance a little easier, as well as be a little more eco friendly if you’re planning on keeping a garden on your property. Honestly the first picture looks kind of cute in a meadow-y kind of way. wooger posted:Not really clear on what you want to achieve. You want to remove everything that isn’t grass and just have turf everywhere? For the time being the plan is to make as much of my property lawnmower-capable as possible, which means converting a good bit to turf. The PO spent 40 hours a week cultivating the various flora, which I'm sure was nice when it was maintained, but we don't want to commit to that. If I can't ride over it in a lawnmower, it means it requires special attention, and I just know that we'll fail at that eventually, at least for now. I don't disagree that a planter area alongside the chainlink fence would be quite pretty, but only if it's not packed to brim with weeds, you know? Since I made that original post, a bunch more of those weeds have already started to sprout in the turf adjacent to the overrun planter. I ended up talking with a friend that's an avid gardener, and I feel like I've got a battle plan. For now: -Spray roundup or some other weed-killing chemical generously on areas overrun with weeds, and areas where weeds are encroaching -Chainsaw any large bushes down to the ground level -Begin treating bush stumps with Epsom salts In the fall: -Rent a brush cutter (a higher octane string trimmer, basically) to clear out all the overgrown areas -Rent a tiller and till all the soil where the weeds, etc are growing -Spread landscape tarp over the tilled areas, then cover with mulch. Idea being, all the leftover organic matter will die and break down over the fall and winter, then in the spring the soil will be ready for grass seed I'm not entirely sure what I'll do with the pile of bushes and weed stalks that I end up cutting down. I'm tempted to just pile them up in a corner of my lawn, and then in the spring burn it all. As for the dirt, I'll have pseudo-trench from all the small bushes I'm going to end up digging out, so any extra dirt can go there. I may end up getting a second opinion from a landscaper if I can get one to come to the house, but nobody seems to be hurting for business at the moment, so getting someone out for an evaluation has proven difficult. tetrapyloctomy posted:I had my side yard and a wooded area cleared for under $3000. They spent two days with a few guys and a small bulldozer. So maybe get a few quotes. The picture with grass is maybe 2/3 of the wooded area after it was cleared,and the picture with the driveway is about 2/3 of that area as well. It has filled in nicely since the time I took the picture.
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You'll still need to take your chainsaw to the large bushes and rent a rototiller, but for clearing the brush have you considered renting a herd of goats? Could be cheaper than what you're planning, you won't need to put down a bunch of pesticides, and there wouldn't be any leftover brush. Plus, free fertilizer!
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Jul 5, 2020 21:31
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The Wonder Weapon posted:For the time being the plan is to make as much of my property lawnmower-capable as possible, which means converting a good bit to turf. The PO spent 40 hours a week cultivating the various flora, which I'm sure was nice when it was maintained, but we don't want to commit to that. If I can't ride over it in a lawnmower, it means it requires special attention, and I just know that we'll fail at that eventually, at least for now. I don't disagree that a planter area alongside the chainlink fence would be quite pretty, but only if it's not packed to brim with weeds, you know? Since I made that original post, a bunch more of those weeds have already started to sprout in the turf adjacent to the overrun planter. What climate are you in? Our front yard is super easy to take care of with just a hedge trimmer once a month (or less) as it's all "California Native." Literally everything can just be hacked down to size by it just walking by. They also use very little water. Around me not having grass in the front yard/part of the back yard literally saves me enough money in water to pay for "mow and blow" style gardeners because it's so loving hot out. 3 guys come by twice a month for $65 spending around an hour doing their thing, often less if there isn't much to do. I'm not just trying to be a tree hugging hippie here, I don't know what kind of artisinal crap the PO put in, but you might save even more money leaving it alone and replacing the persnickety stuff with native things. Our buckwheat didn't get watered for a year, in a drought, where august saw 115F temps. It was all brown. It rained in the winter and it all perked right back up. I will say: Don't "Liberally" apply glyphosate to anything. A little dab will do ya if you're going to poison everything and kill a bunch of other poo poo in the process. The most permanent way to deal with weeds is to spend the time to rip them out by their roots. They make special tools to do this which make it fast. Mowing them down is going to just re-seed them. Once the turf is in place it should help keep the weeds down.
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The Wonder Weapon posted:For the time being the plan is to make as much of my property lawnmower-capable as possible, which means converting a good bit to turf. The PO spent 40 hours a week cultivating the various flora, which I'm sure was nice when it was maintained, but we don't want to commit to that. If I can't ride over it in a lawnmower, it means it requires special attention, and I just know that we'll fail at that eventually, at least for now. I don't disagree that a planter area alongside the chainlink fence would be quite pretty, but only if it's not packed to brim with weeds, you know? Since I made that original post, a bunch more of those weeds have already started to sprout in the turf adjacent to the overrun planter. There are ways to encourage fairly low-maintenance gardens, which you may be able to get some guidance from your gardener friend about. It might provide a buffer zone from weeds coming in to your lawn from outside the fence, and you can scoot up to the edge on your lawnmower if you’re smart about what edging you pick. A lot of people have decent gardens at a ‘throw a few plants in early in the season’ level of engagement, and they’re not starting off with what sounds like a pretty healthily cultivated plot. Starting healthy turf from almost scratch will take quite a bit of ongoing work for a couple seasons if you don’t want it to be mostly weeds/crabgrass (or $$$ if you lay down sod).
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The Wonder Weapon posted:For the time being the plan is to make as much of my property lawnmower-capable as possible, which means converting a good bit to turf. The PO spent 40 hours a week cultivating the various flora, which I'm sure was nice when it was maintained, but we don't want to commit to that. If I can't ride over it in a lawnmower, it means it requires special attention, and I just know that we'll fail at that eventually, at least for now. I don't disagree that a planter area alongside the chainlink fence would be quite pretty, but only if it's not packed to brim with weeds, you know? Since I made that original post, a bunch more of those weeds have already started to sprout in the turf adjacent to the overrun planter. Crazy thought: instead of spending a bunch of effort making your garden a featureless grass plain, maybe just spend the money hiring a gardener to maintain the bits you can’t. I’m sure it’s not 40 hours of work a week.
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Started on the shed build, prepping the ground  We'll be filling in gravel (for the draining properties) and leveling, that will be the base for the foundation, as per this plan. I will also put a layer of insulation under the cast concrete base which is not pictured.  Cat doesn't seem to be afraid of heavy machinery. 
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