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Probably the infamous pygmy yard rhino sharpening it's horn.
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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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Jul 7, 2018 13:19
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I have never heard of these Bosch 3rd rack dishwashers and now I want to sabotage our old piece of junk to get one.
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Jul 24, 2018 13:40
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I live in the more "affluent" (racist rich white people) of New Orleans. I had to jump ship from Next door around the time they started the confederate monument removal. But yes, "brown people spotting" is a good description of the common usage of it before that point.
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Aug 11, 2018 13:13
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Live in New Orleans, friend of mine's parents had an older but very well maintained house in one of the nicer areas of town. It had a basement and it basically flooded anytime there was even a consideration of rain. They used it as their laundry room and just kept everything off the floor, even pouring a foot and a half tall cement platform for washer and dryer. Also basically had to run a dehumidifier in it 24/7
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Aug 14, 2018 13:15
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I'm interested in going full LAN (avoiding IOT entirely) with my home automation. Is there a good book or resource for this? I am totally ok falling into what will probably be an expensive and time consuming rabbit hole.
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Oct 11, 2018 13:33
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Crazy idea, how about just being a decent human being and disclosing it because it's the better thing to do?
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Dec 14, 2018 14:38
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I wonder if that was the motivation he needed to finally retire.
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Feb 7, 2019 19:02
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I am more interested in this magic powder that turns all the water to toilet jello
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May 27, 2019 14:25
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Leperflesh posted:ethernet is going to be obsolete, sooner probably than later, do yourself a big favor and run conduit with nice round corners and stuff so that ethernet wire can easily be pulled and replaced with whatever in 10 years I feel like this comes up often and it's always refuted because your average home usage will never need anything more than 5e or 6 and I don't see a future within the life of the structure where you're gonna be wanting to run fiber everywhere.
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Jul 10, 2019 23:17
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I didn't think it was worth specifying single or multimode because neither have any sort of practical application at home for the reasons you mentioned.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:28
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meanolmrcloud posted:We bought our house in January, and the inspector said it would be a bad idea to run or test the existing AC system while it was so cold outside. Because of this, we bought the house knowing it was an older system that might not work. It also had a 30+ year old furnace that, while functional, we had aimed to replace. Well, it turns out it the AC doesn't work and we just had a well-known company come and quote us. Our AC kicked the bucket a month before our one year of home warranty was done. We knew what the issue was, a leaky system that was basically bleeding freon. We had it charged for free by my wife's cousin when we moved in but he suspected it would end up being an issue. That said, we called the home warranty folks, they sent their contractors out, all of which basically punted on it because the problem is bigger than they can handle or they just didn't feel like doing it. Home warranty folks came back to me and said "if you find someone who can repair it and send us a quote for approval, that is fine" Got my wife's cousin on the phone, he looked at it, drew up a quote to replace the coils in the current system, warranty folks approved $2400 of repairs, it was all done without much hassle beyond that. Basically, don't be afraid to take advantage of the home warranty. For most stuff they are useless, but they can only wiggle their way around the fine print so much. Just don't let them know that your AC may or may not have been working when you moved in...
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Jul 13, 2019 05:44
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Well gently caress me
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Jul 25, 2019 22:07
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You can sorta simulate the steam by tossing an ice cube into the dryer with the item to release the wrinkles from. I've been doing that since college and it works pretty well
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Jul 29, 2019 13:32
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Ashcans posted:Are there any restrictions on the location or symmetry of the windows? Maybe you could turn a loss into a win with some creative thinking. 
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Nov 8, 2019 19:06
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My parents got one of those microwaves that install into a cabinet and have a drawer that comes out. It's pretty cool but time will tell how it holds up given it had a motor to control the drawer.
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Nov 21, 2019 14:59
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Well that sorta sells me on it as that was my only concern. I love my counter space, so whenever we do our kitchen reno, it will probably be a no brainer.
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Nov 21, 2019 18:25
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Our master bath is directly above the laundry room in our house and I've seriously considered putting a laundry chute in so many times.
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Jan 14, 2020 21:55
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That looks pretty steep there, so gravity should really do most of the work unless the picture is playing tricks on my eyes. It would probably be best to follow that French drain and see where it stops being inundated with water, there might be something causing stoppage halfway is my guess.
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Feb 7, 2020 14:47
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Nest Hello is our only camera and it's my favorite thing. I can shout at the kids to get off my lawn with the push of a button.
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Feb 20, 2020 05:26
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Further tree talk: we had a pine tree in the strip between sidewalk and street in front of our house. It was leaning bad, I put in a 311 notice with the city about it and about a year and a half later they came and chopped it down no questions asked.
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Mar 9, 2020 20:36
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rt4 posted:Anyone have recommended brands or vendors of outdoor rugs? My balcony has a black rubber roof for a floor and it's terribly hot now that the sun is out. We get our outdoor rugs from Costco. They have some large, thin, plain colored outdoor rugs made from recycled plastic for only $15.
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May 25, 2020 16:23
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So wife and I are beginning to seriously prep for a big master bed and bath reno. This will be my first big reno and given the plans we have for the bathroom being non standard (removing large jacuzzi tub, replacing with large walk in). I expect the bathroom job to be more specialized since it will likely involve gutting to studs. My question is, who do I go to once we have the cash in hand to get this process started? My assumption is find a general contractor, but if we have very specific ideas for the bathroom, do I need to seek out a more specialized outfit to at least get a design/plans on paper?
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Sep 28, 2020 02:42
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We just bought a really nice door for our backyard, it is a torrefied door from Masonite and it's pretty solid and amazing. Just need my FIL to completed the finishing on it. Set us back a few grand for sure, but was well worth it.
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Mar 23, 2021 20:57
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On the topic of lighting, we have an off center boob light above our dining table that's been there since we bought the house. I've been trying to find a good replacement for it and was wondering 1. What would you call this style? And 2. For these double mount fixtures, is the power usually only coming through one ceiling mount or is it typically on both? I'm hoping this could help solve the off center issue without having to tear open more ceiling. 
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Mar 26, 2021 22:30
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That's good to know and opens up a lot of options for us for this. I'll probably just shop around for similar mounted fixtures as the style I could prob take it or leave it.
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Mar 26, 2021 22:41
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Everyday I'm thankful I got my pergola up and fence extended last summer before lumber supply went to total poo poo.
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Apr 26, 2021 21:00
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hobbez posted:Anyone here sealed up pavers with polymeric sand before? I like the idea of having the durability of poly but have seen the horror shows of the haze that can result from botched installs. I finished up my patio with poly sand. Didn't have any issues to be honest. Just followed directions as noted and swept, watered, repeated as recommended.
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Jun 1, 2021 00:43
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Costco has a deal on the 17' little giant right now. Replaced my older janky folding ladder with it
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Jun 4, 2021 21:54
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There was a reddit post from awhile ago I bookmarked for this purpose (living in NOLA makes me constantly aware of what's on our ground floor incase we have another catastrophic event). Kinda covers what was mentioned and more
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Jul 11, 2021 08:07
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Condensation pump have a float switch to kill AC if it's not working perhaps?
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Jul 13, 2021 04:52
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Can anyone identify this ant? There's been a few crawling around my pergola this summer and wondering if I should be looking at ways to murder them.
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Jul 23, 2021 22:30
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For exterior door chat, we just had 2 doors installed. One was a Dutch door in place of a standard backdoor, the other was the door going in what was a door sized window frame. Despite both of these jobs being somewhat non standard door installs, guy was great (if a little hard to nail down at times) and was about $500 per door for the install. We bought the doors separately and just paid him to come out for the work. Obviously ymmv depending on pricing in your area, but $1300 for install seems a bit steep.
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devicenull posted:*good* extension cords. Don't buy the lovely 16/3 ones under any circumstances. 14/3 is the bare minimum, 12/3 if you're planning on running anything like power tools on the other end. While you're at it, get some velcro straps and learn how to over/under wrap them. The over/under wrap took awhile for me to get my head around but when I finally learned it, it seriously is crazy useful.
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