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Struensee posted:The inside lock on one of our doors suddenly won't turn. Don't think there's anything in the lock, the key goes in fine. The outside portion turns no problem. It's a fairly new lock, 2-3 years old. I tried a little bit of WD-40, no effect. Haven't taken the plate off yet, is there something simple I can try before calling a locksmith? Struensee posted:Didn't see the post before I came home, won't have a chance to stop by the hardware store until Friday. I took the lock out, the side that isn't working will work if I have it upside down (pins up). Any idea what causes this? In case anyone was wondering what happened, one of the pins had rusted stuck. I'm getting a new lock.
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What's the general opinion on spraying for ticks/mosquitos? I live in the northeast and we had a super mild winter and just had a few days in the 80s already. Seems like I can't walk from point A to B without picking up a couple deer ticks. My kids mainly keep to the back yard, but we also have 60 acres of woods behind our house, so spraying seems kind of futile. We did when we moved in last year, but this year I'll probably just keep up with the mowing and create some mulch barriers along the edges.
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zenguitarman posted:What's the general opinion on spraying for ticks/mosquitos? I live in the northeast and we had a super mild winter and just had a few days in the 80s already. Seems like I can't walk from point A to B without picking up a couple deer ticks. My kids mainly keep to the back yard, but we also have 60 acres of woods behind our house, so spraying seems kind of futile. We did when we moved in last year, but this year I'll probably just keep up with the mowing and create some mulch barriers along the edges. Talstar P on the lawn and into the woodland interface.
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Apr 17, 2023 15:31
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I'm also interested in that answer as the tick infestation up here just cannot be believed. Amazon has a generic in stock -- "Bifenthrin I/T 7.9 F (generic Talstar)" -- is there any reason not to go with that?
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Eason the Fifth posted:I'm also interested in that answer as the tick infestation up here just cannot be believed. Amazon has a generic in stock -- "Bifenthrin I/T 7.9 F (generic Talstar)" -- is there any reason not to go with that? That'll do just fine. All the matters is the active ingredient unless you have some real specific application needs that require a particular preparation. In this case, you're just going to be diluting and spraying out of a hand or backpack sprayer so no special considerations. It's not a 100% solution when you're up against a woodland interface, but it makes a huge difference in pushing them back out of your yard.
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Apr 17, 2023 16:49
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zenguitarman posted:What's the general opinion on spraying for ticks/mosquitos? I live in the northeast and we had a super mild winter and just had a few days in the 80s already. Seems like I can't walk from point A to B without picking up a couple deer ticks. My kids mainly keep to the back yard, but we also have 60 acres of woods behind our house, so spraying seems kind of futile. We did when we moved in last year, but this year I'll probably just keep up with the mowing and create some mulch barriers along the edges. No advice for ticks, but for mosquitos walk around your property and make sure there isn't any standing water that they're breeding in. Obviously not an option if your house backs up to a swamp, but even relatively small amounts of water that stays put between rains can lead to mosquito hell. It might be as simple as covering things, tipping other things out after a rain, etc. Check your down-spouts too, I've seen ones with the angle badly hosed (for example an extension trying to get out away from the foundation that isn't on right and runs uphill very slightly) hold onto water and create a great breeding spot.
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Cyrano4747 posted:No advice for ticks, but for mosquitos walk around your property and make sure there isn't any standing water that they're breeding in. Obviously not an option if your house backs up to a swamp, but even relatively small amounts of water that stays put between rains can lead to mosquito hell. It might be as simple as covering things, tipping other things out after a rain, etc. Check your down-spouts too, I've seen ones with the angle badly hosed (for example an extension trying to get out away from the foundation that isn't on right and runs uphill very slightly) hold onto water and create a great breeding spot. Yeah, this is a huge one. And if you're in the northeast (at least) the kind of mosquitoes that we have do not like garlic. I've been very sucessfully spraying this totally non toxic garlic stuff on the grass and shrubs around the patio and paths every 4-6 weeks and it keeps them mostly gone: https://www.domyown.com/mosquito-barrier-p-3893.html
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Introduce a possum infestation to your yard. They eat ticks. Now, as for dealing with them darned possums...
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Apr 17, 2023 19:08
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Possums eat ticks if you dump a big box of thousands of ticks onto them, as per a 1970s mad science experiment which was then extrapolated more generally.
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I leave a small cereal bowl with like half an inch to an inch of water in there in the corner of my yard and dump it into my "fish pond" every other day to supplement their feeding with live mosquito larvae. They go after them like candy. There are almost always 5-10 mosquito larvae in there, without fail. Sometimes upwards of 20. Mosquitoes breed in stagnant water like crazy, I had no idea until very recently. They don't need much water at all. I ordered a pair of these last year, apparently they're modeled after the same ones the military uses. It's a small bucket that holds a cup of water with a tea bag of low grade mosquito poison. I guess the red mouth is to attract mosquitoes (they're pollinators  ) . The mosquito lays the eggs in the bucket and within a couple hours the egg dies.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09F8858JY/ 
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Motronic posted:That'll do just fine. All the matters is the active ingredient unless you have some real specific application needs that require a particular preparation. In this case, you're just going to be diluting and spraying out of a hand or backpack sprayer so no special considerations. How well does this stuff "stay in place" and not end up as runoff? We live next to a preserve, but also we've found ticks on our kids already and they were horrendous last year.
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brugroffil posted:How well does this stuff "stay in place" and not end up as runoff? We live next to a preserve, but also we've found ticks on our kids already and they were horrendous last year. It stays in place just fine if you apply it properly. Like most water based broadcast liquid pesticides or herbicides you need to let the area dry completely to be safe to re-enter, safe for pets, safe to not run off. So you should be applying on a sunny day with calm winds early enough that it will dry. And preferably at least 24 hours before any rain. The label will have specific instructions regarding application and in pesticides "the label is the law". I'm quoting that because it's the language used, not because it's just a saying. It's literally the law. Pesticide labels are reviewed by the EPA and approved before sale making them literally carry the weight of an EPA regulatory determination. So follow what's on there. Motronic fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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zenguitarman posted:What's the general opinion on spraying for ticks/mosquitos? I live in the northeast and we had a super mild winter and just had a few days in the 80s already. Seems like I can't walk from point A to B without picking up a couple deer ticks. My kids mainly keep to the back yard, but we also have 60 acres of woods behind our house, so spraying seems kind of futile. We did when we moved in last year, but this year I'll probably just keep up with the mowing and create some mulch barriers along the edges. I hate spraying wide spectrum poison into the lawn and woods that kills way more than just ticks. I had really good results with cedar oil last year. Apply once every few days in the spring then weekly through the summer. You spray it on with a garden hose attachment: https://cedarcide.com/collections/lawn-garden/products/pco-choice?variant=43848290435292 Expensive but it goes a LONG way. I barely went through a quart all summer on about 5k square feet of lawn. Also, treating clothes with permethrin spray works great as a backup / outside the spray area. This is the most economical bulk deal I've found on it that isn't livestock concentrate: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00TNYPQY4 skybolt_1 fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Sundae posted:Introduce a possum infestation to your yard. They eat ticks. Now, as for dealing with them darned possums... Wait, I know this. Let me remember... There was an old lady who swallowed a shoe...
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Tunicate posted:Possums eat ticks if you dump a big box of thousands of ticks onto them, as per a 1970s mad science experiment which was then extrapolated more generally.  Of course it was. Why wouldn't it be something like the lemmings.  But now that we have all these possums, it feels like a waste not to put them in your yard anyway.
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For ticks, you can make tick tubes with toilet paper tubes, cotton balls, and permethin. It's not going to solve your immediate issue since the adult ticks are already there, but it should help going forward. That page explains it pretty well, but basically you target mice which are an important part of the tick lifecycle. With tubes, there's pretty much no downside. Permethin is pretty safe once it's dry (use caution while you're soaking the cotton balls if you have pets), and you're not doing wide-area application of pesticides. I wouldn't suggest buying them commercially... they're literally toilet paper tubes stuffed with cotton balls soaked in permethin. You can get a lifetime supply of permethin from domyown.com for about $20, and the rest of the supplies are cheap/free.
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What can I do to prevent wasps from building nests on my wood fence? Last year I found wasp nests on the underside of the fence railing. They had gotten maybe fist sized, I sprayed some wasp killer stuff on them and then later smashed up them up with a hammer. I assume they are kinda seasonal because after that, there weren't any new ones. But now that spring is here, I found a couple started and destroyed em. Is there something I can just spray down that will prevent them from trying in the first place? That is also safe for my neighbors chickens and all their fruit plants?
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I recently bought a house and it’s been a fuckin nightmare. 2 water leaks and a poo poo load of water damage lol. The second plumber (who is really cool) said that the pressure valve looks to have failed so he’s going to replace that which should help. It was a really nice two weeks of owning a house where nothing was wrong. Lol
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Have any of you bent half inch pvc with a heat gun before? Can you avoid kinks without having to use sand? Just wondering how much of a pain this project is going to be.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Have any of you bent half inch pvc with a heat gun before? Can you avoid kinks without having to use sand? Just wondering how much of a pain this project is going to be. Yes. No, not unless you are really not concerned with how it looks. Wouldn't do it again unless I had to.
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It’s just a 100ft run to extend a hose so I don’t care about looks if it’ll still work.
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Apparently gray ( electrical conduit) PVC is designed to be bent with heat without kinks
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Tiny Timbs posted:It’s just a 100ft run to extend a hose so I don’t care about looks if it’ll still work. Is there a reason some combination of 90/45/22.5 elbows won't get you where you need to go? Gentle bends (like if you're just want to curve the whole run) should be fine without elbows or heat.
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MarcusSA posted:I recently bought a house and it’s been a fuckin nightmare. lol. the very first night after setting up my living room I sat down in my easy chair ready to enjoy the new place and heard a drip in the wall. It's been one goddamn thing or another ever since.
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paid to have the biggest homeowner's special hack job that was on our house fixed - an insane porch roof shitshow under our balcony with emergency flashing tape (they covered up the built in gutter, lmao good job). we aren't able to add in a gutter, but had permanent EDPM and a metal drip edge installed. now this won't leak in a year and rot out our front porch roof, and doesn't look like dogshit from the street.
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Motronic posted:Is there a reason some combination of 90/45/22.5 elbows won't get you where you need to go? Gentle bends (like if you're just want to curve the whole run) should be fine without elbows or heat. I want to mount it a few feet off the ground along the fence but a couple 22.5 elbows might be ok if it has enough flex on its own. The curve is pretty gentle past the first 10 feet of awkward geometry.
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Tiny Timbs posted:I want to mount it a few feet off the ground along the fence but a couple 22.5 elbows might be ok if it has enough flex on its own. The curve is pretty gentle past the first 10 feet of awkward geometry. Why not use something like sprinkler swing pipe? Flexible, UV stable, dark color will blend in pretty well, cheap. https://www.amazon.com/Rain-Bird-SWGP100M-Coil-Pipe/dp/B0002YP94Q/
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skybolt_1 posted:Why not use something like sprinkler swing pipe? Flexible, UV stable, dark color will blend in pretty well, cheap. Good point. I was just going with the material as a requirement. Well line is also cheap, easy to use and readily available. And appropriate for direct burial if that's a thing OP is interested in.
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I'm probably overthinking it. I was thinking a hard line elevated a few feet along the fenceline would help me with draining it in the winter and let me attach a couple garden hose valves at useful intervals but that's a lot of work to make a permanent fixture that I'd have to keep slathered in UV-resistant coating when I could just do some stuff with flexible hose and clamps.
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phosdex posted:What can I do to prevent wasps from building nests on my wood fence? Last year I found wasp nests on the underside of the fence railing. They had gotten maybe fist sized, I sprayed some wasp killer stuff on them and then later smashed up them up with a hammer. I assume they are kinda seasonal because after that, there weren't any new ones. But now that spring is here, I found a couple started and destroyed em. Is there something I can just spray down that will prevent them from trying in the first place? That is also safe for my neighbors chickens and all their fruit plants?
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What should I be looking for in pavers for a patio? Any particular characteristics or is it just basically stones that will eventually fade, regardless of the marketing?
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MJP posted:What should I be looking for in pavers for a patio? Any particular characteristics or is it just basically stones that will eventually fade, regardless of the marketing? What are you trying to accomplish/what are your goals? I think EP Henry reconstituted stone looks like garbage so I've got a bluestone patio. It does not fade. It is not dead level like reconstituted stone. It costs a lot more. It may cost a lot a lot more if you don't live some place where it's being quarried literally a mile away, but you may have a reasonable substitute where you live.
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Motronic posted:What are you trying to accomplish/what are your goals? I'm getting our current old patio demo'd and rebuilt with a few more feet to it. I'm looking for a mostly smooth/non-textured neutral light color stone with thin joints that won't absorb too much heat in the summer. I don't need anything too fancy or intricate designs - it's going to be only like 13 by 9 feet - so simple, rectangular shaped should be fine.
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MJP posted:I'm getting our current old patio demo'd and rebuilt with a few more feet to it. I'm looking for a mostly smooth/non-textured neutral light color stone with thin joints that won't absorb too much heat in the summer. I don't need anything too fancy or intricate designs - it's going to be only like 13 by 9 feet - so simple, rectangular shaped should be fine. Who is doing the work? They should be telling you where to go to look at samples. But this all sounds like engineered stone and yes, it's all going to fade no matter what they say. Something that closely matches what you've said so far is a concrete slab. If that's too plan/boring consider getting it stamped.
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Hand glazed tiles from the Middle East?
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So, drinking my morning coffee and notice some noise seeming to come from the backyard, look out my window and... My neighbor is replacing our shared fence! Sorely needed, the old one was practically falling over. I am a little shocked he didn't at least let me know he was having this done, but apparently it's costing him 13k so, I ain't complain-in! Sent my dad a pic more just for a laugh then anything and he immediately responded "Make sure the clean side is facing you, if they're building the fence they should have the clean side facing your yard".  Chatted with the owner and he's having it built with the posts facing my side, as it was before. Since he's fronting the cost, this seems utterly silly to complain about. It didn't bother me before, it's not something I would ever have worried about, and I'm just glad this is getting done.
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hobbez posted:So, drinking my morning coffee and notice some noise seeming to come from the backyard, look out my window and... lol at your dad. That's very boomer dad thing to say. And you've got it right, you're not paying so you don't get an opinion unless asked.
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It might be my midwest brain talking but I would want the "ugly" side facing my house to have official status as the better neighbor And if its truly on the property line I would ask to contribute cash. I think in a lot of places you are required to share responsibility esquilax fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Best practice when a neighbor is building a fence is don't say poo poo about the fence ever for the rest of your life
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