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Moving in to our new house next month. 1Gbit up/down for ~ 45 USD / mo. We could also go broadband, which is 35 / mo for 25 mbit up/down. Wasn't even a contest.
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Bought a brick house from 1954 this July 1st from my in laws. Ended up pulling out some old shelves from the living room (30 m^2) that have been in the house for 40+ years and some old wood paneling from the floor to about 70 cm in height) from the master bedroom (15 m^2) and spare bedroom (8 m^2). The wallpaper in the master bedroom is impossible to pull off, so we're leaning towards just cleaning the walls and putting up glassfabric. There's virtually no unevenness. I had decent luck scraping off most of the wallpaper in the spare bedroom, but there's still some stubborn spots left. There was no wallpaper behind the shelving, so we'll (eventually) have to redo the living room too. There's plaster behind all of it. I wonder whether the spots that are left in the spare bedroom are going to be susceptible to the steam wallpaper stripping machine we've borrowed. Anyone have any input? It's my first time renovating a house.
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Jul 3, 2018 21:01
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Motronic posted:My man.....we are talking the same language. My current house is below (undetectable) levels for radon, the new one a mile away needs and has an active mitigation system. Just depends where you are on the ridge line......... I tried some wallpaper removal solution which kinda works OK, but I'm much more fond of the steamer I borrowed. This is a couple of hours of work with a steamer and a wallpaper stripper (basically a half metre stick with a boxcutter blade at the end).   I really don't know if this is decent progress or just a terrible waste of time.
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Jul 4, 2018 18:51
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I'm glad I could provide the thread with a new title. This house is going to be my Vietnam. This took all day. Someone glued their raw plugs in place, i even found wooden ones in the wall.  One spot had the wallpaper sticking better than the plaster 
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Jul 5, 2018 22:29
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Let me tell you about the mason bees slowly eating the mortar in my brick house.
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Jul 12, 2018 23:09
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Ashcans posted:Our house had this really ugly still-life-fruit wallpaper border around the top of one room. My wife was just going to paint over it, but I said 'oh no we own this house, we should do things properly!' So I started removing the wallpaper and found out that the previous owners had no such views, they had just tacked it up over successive layers of wallpaper. Once I started I couldn't work out how to back down, so I ended up stripping off all the wallpaper. Under that was some sort of weird plaster and surfacing layer that is probably as old as the house and started to crumble from age once exposed. So now I am stuck having to remove those crumbling areas, replaster them, and probably apply some sort of skim coat before finally painting. I should have just painted over it all. This was me this summer. You'll be happy when you finish because you'll finally be done.
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Oct 24, 2018 16:41
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Went up to clean out my gutters and found out that some of the plants growing up our walls have sent feelers up under the tile roof. Ugh. We're talking about getting a deeper basement so there's room for heated floors, but this also necessitates putting in insulation on the outsides of the basement walls, which naturally clears the vines and roses we have growing along the walls. Getting all this stuff done is going to cost a fortune.
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Dec 9, 2018 10:11
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I bought a roll of cat6 cable and ran it through my brick house behind baseboards designed for cables behind them, it took maybe a couple of hours. YouTube videos are literally all you need for this. One for the punch tool, one for beginners mistakes for the modem and switch setup. One thing I'd recommend is to definitely get a switch with PoE. I'm looking at replacing my one year old switch because I didn't know any better when I bought mine.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:53
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Sepist posted:That looks like what I would need but I've already committed to someone doing the dirty work. I helped a member of my wife's extended family remove a cast iron tub like this - they had put it in wet concrete way back when they put it in, and his father in law was trying to get below it with a big old drill to pull it out in one piece. It was taking forever. We ended up smashing the tub with a sledge hammer in order to get at the drain. Took like 10 minutes.
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Aug 30, 2019 20:32
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Oh, the joys of homeownership. Just pulled this clog outta my drain.  
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Oct 18, 2019 19:29
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Anonymous Zebra posted:California puts a limit on the duration of warranties I googled this and got https://www.lhfconstructlaw.com/art...of-limitations/
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Oct 18, 2019 20:12
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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. This thread is getting out of hand
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Nov 8, 2019 20:21
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Just came in here to complain. I had a guy come out to blow insulation into my hollow brick walls, and it looks like he realized half way through that he wasn't going to be done by quitting time, so he didn't insulate my gable at attic level, expressly against what I agreed on with the company owner. Problem is I can't see if they've filled up the rest of the wall from my external attic access. One of his colleagues came out and helped with the East-facing wall, but now I don't know that I can trust that they've done a proper job there. It's also too drat dark to see anything by the time I get home, so I won't be able to assess before the weekend.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:23
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So glad I complained in this thread. Wouldn't have thought of it myself.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:47
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:Hi everyone! Hope this is the right thread to ask this/get some advice. I'd replace that poo poo in a heartbeat.
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Dec 13, 2019 23:57
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Good news on the insulation front. Bought a camera, took photos of my house and returned it (thank you, generous consumer protections). Insulation company is coming over friday to fix the problems I did discover. Also found out I really need to insulate the base of the house and probably the basement too.
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Dec 18, 2019 08:20
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joepinetree posted:The added complication is that the sears outlet near me now has the pair I want (GE) but they only have the ventless version. It's about a 600 dollar difference for the pair (also the sears are refurbished versions, but with full warranty). We could just buy the washer there and the dryer at full price somewhere else, but the added delivery fee would eat into the savings. If it's a "ventless with dry in 75 minutes what a vented dries in 60," then savings are worth it. If it's "2 hours later and things are still damp" it might not be. It's weird because for other appliances I seem to be able to find all sorts of testing but for dryers its much harder to find. Our samsung condensation drier takes 3 hours and fifteen minutes to dry out a load. Maybe it's the a+++ energy efficiency.
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Apr 19, 2020 19:00
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PREVIOUS OWNER!!! 
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Apr 21, 2020 20:05
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Why didn't you just take the branches off the tree, put a rope around the trunk and pull it out while chopping the biggest roots? Wouldn't have had to wait 3 years. Looks small enough to do it in my view.
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Apr 28, 2020 09:15
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Well you can't really undo what you've done. They say you should replant when the trees are dormant and trim branches when they're in full swing around august-september. Maybe it'll be fine.
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May 4, 2020 16:25
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The diseases they carry are no joke.
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Jul 5, 2020 12:57
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My buddy who's a carpenter advised me to think on what needs to be changed about the house over a few years. Nothing like shelling out a lot of money for one thing, and then having to redo it later. We've been slowly making changes that make sense - replacing windows, insulating, getting a new sliding door towards the yard installed. Definitely paint the house, though. I spent my 3 weeks of summer vacation after we bought the house hanging glass tissue and painting while my wife was 8 months pregnant.
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Jul 8, 2020 23:07
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LloydDobler posted:Mine are the side sliding aluminum frame windows from the 80's. One of the rollers on the sliding part was crooked so it biased the window inward. There's a tiny overlapping lip of aluminum on the window with a mating one on the frame (on the vertical rail in the center). The lips were bumping each other instead of overlapping. I loosened the roller, tightened it while holding it straight, and bam, the window closes. It's YOU!
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Aug 5, 2020 19:15
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Bioshuffle posted:I completely forgot that I had termite inspection done. Ignorance, paranoia and fatigue do not play well together. I just have no idea why that part of the wall is torn up like that. Have you considered that some kind of electrical fault might cause the house to burn down and that you'd be able to build an entirely new one? I know I have.
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Aug 7, 2020 19:27
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Bioshuffle posted:I made the mistake of reading about fires due to dryer vent lint. Posting about it is a good way to establish plausible deniability imo
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Aug 8, 2020 07:41
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You probably want to either insulate the basement walls from the outside (hella expensive) or heat the cellar. The reason you're getting humidity is the warm summer air cooling down in the basement, which causes condensation. We have the same problem, which requires us to run radiators in the cellar in the summer.
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Aug 24, 2020 10:52
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You're looking for the house buying thread, friend.
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Aug 24, 2020 19:52
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joepinetree posted:So the question is: how much should I worry about temporary high humidity like this? I bought a cheapo small dehumidifier that is not handling the load, so next step is one of those $300-400 bigger units. How much humidity is there in the air when you have that unit running?
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Aug 28, 2020 20:21
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TheWevel posted:My basement fridge doesn't seem to be cooling anymore. It's from 1997 and it worked totally fine when we moved in 2 months ago. It seems like the freon evaporated...it was a steady decline in cooling over a few weeks. It sounds like the compressor is working since it's running all the time. Also, wasn't there a DIY forum? Get a new fridge that's more energy efficient.
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Oct 10, 2020 16:12
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Recommendations for a shop vac? Getting real tired of my lovely old vacuum. I'm in Europe if it makes any difference.
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Dec 20, 2020 11:39
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I pulled cat6 cables from my basement to my first floor pretty much without a hitch in a 50's european brick house. This includes a 40 cm bore hole at an angle through concrete where I used the Pythagorean theorem. It's really not that hard. Struensee fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Mar 14, 2021 |
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Mar 14, 2021 17:26
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Highbrow Slick posted:Looks like the 45 day timeline I was quoted on 1/29 was...not entirely accurate. Halfway through May and all I have to show for it is a missing bedroom door that the contractor took yesterday to match paint after arriving at my front door completely unannounced. Hooray You must've misheard "a monday" as "this monday at the latest" Lot of that going around lately. BaseballPCHiker posted:This is the reason for our basement remodel. We have 1 kid due in the next 3 months, and want to have one more in the next 2 years. We can make it work with babies but eventually will want the room for kids. Our son whos turning 3 in 3 months only just got his own room, so you might be able to play for time. Struensee fucked around with this message at 17:31 on May 11, 2021 |
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May 11, 2021 17:26
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Are they the same as the series 8? I'm in Denmark and been thinking about getting a new dishwasher. Product code SMV8YCX01E
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May 22, 2021 11:04
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Your neighbor fired their friend because they did a poor job and told you about it and you still want them to do the work?
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Jun 4, 2021 14:17
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CornHolio posted:I paid them $5700 so far so yeah I want them to do something. Do I have any recourse to get my money back if they haven't done anything yet? Everyone's trying to get you to realize that you need to cut your losses.
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Jun 4, 2021 15:38
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Had a carpenter out to take down an old wood stove and chimney. Ended up costing 1300 USD for an hour of work. I didn't realize I could've probably done it myself.
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Jun 9, 2021 18:17
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Hadlock posted:I mean, it depends on whether or not it really ties the room together Underappreciated post.
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Oct 9, 2021 08:02
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Hadlock posted:smoke detectors within 8 feet of where you sleep Rather this than burn to death imo
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Dec 10, 2021 23:14
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I fixed an error code on our old bosch by taking the front panel off, drying up the water under the styrofoam disc that's used to detect water leaks and putting it back together. Tightened the screws around the drain, fixed it for about a month before the print board gave out.
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Piper sealant tape? Take it off, wrap the thread in tape, screw back on
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