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I want to murder the people who installed my gutters. The downspouts are enormous (5"x6") and seemingly too big for splash blocks and the like. My mulch beds are turning into deep valleys in my front yard, and the positioning of the gutters and bushes combined with the size is making it a nightmare to figure out a solution. They also neglected to put up a splash guard on the corner of my garage, so the locking sand between my pavers has been washed out and there's a noticeable ridge (my driveway has a bit of an elevation change). /vent
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TacoHavoc posted:A few pictures and maybe someone here could help with a solution. I feel like 5x6 is a big gutter for residential. Is your house all roof or does everything drain to one point or something? Good call. First up, the gutter near the garage. It's digging quite the hole to China https://imgur.com/a/fRauI9p Next, we have the gutter that empties into the bushes. Looks like this bush doesn't have much left to grab onto before it washes away https://imgur.com/a/7HpgNrO Here we have the garage. It's hard to see in the photo, but basically the water rushes in that corner, jumps over the gutter, and has created a bit of a ridge down the paver driveway. All of the locking sand is gone. https://imgur.com/a/1bpqklo And finally, we have the drain near the pool. The landscapers put in the box, which follows a five foot long pipe the yard. It doesn't seem to work too well, as the end of the pipe will flood along with the box. https://imgur.com/a/qE2z2Fp
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Sep 10, 2021 16:35
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Motronic posted:Gutter downspout s need to be extended at least several feet from your foundation to be effective. That hasn't been done and it may require grading changes but that's difficult to tell from pictures. Don't even get me started on these people... I can't say I've seen any houses in this area that have gutter downspouts that extend several feet from the house. My plan is to get some 6" flexible piping and route the water away as best I can. The pool deck drain, I have no idea how to fix that part
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Sep 10, 2021 17:05
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StormDrain posted:And post pics inline. Sorry, imgur isn't letting me add .jpg to the link in order to do that for some reason. They are 5x4, not 6x5 as I originally thought, just went out and measured them again. And yeah, I plan to do a splash guard in that corner and see if that helps. I gotta stop that, then have the pavers re-set and locked, then have them sealed. Homeownership: it never ends Edit: I know they make flexible downspout extensions, but all I can find are 2x3 or 3x4, so I think going with a 6" flexible pipe is my best option to route the water around the bushes and away from the house Omne fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 10, 2021 |
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Sep 10, 2021 17:54
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Nitrousoxide posted:You can just string multiple flexible extensions together if you need to go further The problem is i can't find 4x5 extensions, only 2x3 and 3x4
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Sep 10, 2021 18:45
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We've had good luck with Rocco & Roxie for cleaning up our dog's gifts on our floors
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Dec 2, 2021 02:05
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Our HOA is either the best, or the worst. Changing a rule requires a quorum of property owners, of which there are 800+ units. We inherited rules from the builder, many of which everyone hates, many of which need updating because they don't make sense. But because there are so many rental units/out-of-town Brazilian owners, quorum has never been reached in the three years that residents took over running the HOA. It's nearly impossible. So the rules remain, enforcement is nearly impossible (because the builder doesn't want to enforce poo poo, they make it hard to do so....and we can't change it without the quorum), and keyboard warriors in the Facebook group bitch and moan all the time.
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Mar 12, 2022 00:37
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Leviton or Lutron for smart switches? A few are 3-ways
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Mar 19, 2022 18:15
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Motronic posted:Depends on what you're trying to do. All of mine are honeywell. Any of them will support 3 way. You may consider Inovelli as well. Lots of people in the home automation thread have them and like them. Pretty much just to use voice control or turn on/off lights from afar. The builder included two Leviton 1st gen decora switches, and the lights for that switch no longer turn on; neighborhood consensus is that the switches die and need to be replaced with 2nd gen or another brand.
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Mar 19, 2022 19:08
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KS posted:I have 30+ of the Gen 2 Decora Smart switches and I can’t recommend them. The physical switches actually crash. It’s mind blowing. I should post a video. So you'd recommend the Lutron Caseta's over the Leviton's? I'm hesitant on the Leviton's because the gen 1's broke in most of the homes here and I'm not sure I trust them. Then again, the look of the Caseta's is different than what I'm used to and would require switching everything out, and I'd prefer true three-way switches vs. the wall remote option
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Mar 20, 2022 23:38
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Motronic posted:Question about "broke": are they dimmers? What is no longer functioning? Particularly can the still be recognized by the home automation whatever but no longer work as switches? Not dimmers, they're the gen 1 version of this: https://www.leviton.com/en/products/d215s-1bw They're still recognized by both the Leviton app and Google Home but the coach lights won't turn on anymore when using either the switch itself or via the app. Asking around the neighborhood, most people had to change the switches when this happened. I switched the bulbs twice, just to be sure. Of course, in the deep recess of my mind there's a possibility that it's a bigger issue, but for now I'm going with consensus that it's a lovely switch.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:36
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We were the first to move in, and because our lot is huge our back fence runs along the property line for three rear neighbors. All three asked if they could tie into our fence and were willing to pay; I said all good, don't worry about it. I didn't want the hassle of dealing with three separate neighbors if anything happened.
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Apr 2, 2022 16:49
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Got a lot of rain on Saturday, and water started coming out from the top of the window where it meets the drywall, highlighted here. The exterior of the house is stucco. Who I even call for this? Stucco repair? Exterior painter? Window people? 
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Apr 5, 2022 01:08
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Hadlock posted:Send someone up in the attic and figure out where the water intrusion is. Looks like the top of the window is near the roof eave, so I'm not convinced it's the window or stucco It's a bit hard to see (well, impossible really) in the photo, but there's another story above the window in question; that roofline you see is a small part of our lanai. If it was coming from up above the window itself, I'd see it in my office which is above that room. I am fairly confident it's coming from around the window frame itself. GoGoGadgetChris posted:Unless your siding is EIFS, in which case, it's coming through the EIFS! I believe it's stucco, but I'm not sure how to really determine that. It's Florida, I think most houses are CBS here
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Apr 5, 2022 01:37
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https://imgur.com/a/xbVlcbR gently caress me
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May 18, 2022 01:33
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BigHead posted:That happened to me. Buddy who installs windows says some Alex brand siloconized acrylic caulk fixes it. For the inside our outside (which is stucco(?
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May 18, 2022 20:47
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Oh boy, this loving house... On our front porch, we have a crack in the concrete, and I thought my mind was playing tricks on me for thinking there was a drop from one side to the other. Sure enough, using my level there's a change in pitch. Who do I even call about this
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May 26, 2022 00:43
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Hadlock posted:How old is the house, what region/soil do you live in, when was the last time you had foundation work done, how aggressive is your lawn watering schedule House was built in 2019, central Florida area. Lawn is watered 2-3x a week. Never had foundation work done as the house is pretty new
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May 26, 2022 01:10
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Democratic Pirate posted:I did my first re caulking project on the bottom sill of my amazing mega window that’s the width of 3 standard windows. Used half a tube of caulk and wiped off 65% of what went on, but I managed to get it looking okay. Getting the old caulk off and everything smoothed down was a PITA, though. That reminds me, I need to find someone with a tall ladder to get a ball stuck in one of our gutters... It was me. I was messing with the dog.
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Jul 8, 2022 17:48
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Quick paint question: we got a few quotes to paint the exterior of our home, one with PPG Permanizer and one with Benjamin Moore Regal. There's a ~$700 difference. I talked to my soon-to-be brother-in-law who works for PPG and he said there's no difference in paint, they're the same level, but I've also seen that dude eat four frozen pizzas in one sitting...
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Jul 14, 2022 16:45
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Prepping for Hurricane Ian made me realize we do not have a shop vac. Too late now, but I want to put the order in. I can’t remember what the goon consensus was between Rigid and DeWalt, or Craftsmen, Stanley, etc
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Sep 28, 2022 13:59
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Our housekeeper is the best money we’ve spent. She comes every other week, and we clean on the off weeks. She’s not a part of a service, but she does a lot of homes in our neighborhood. Dog chat: she requests our dog to be here so she can say hi. Then the dog goes in her kennel until the cleaner is done. Works perfectly for us
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Dec 20, 2022 03:19
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Pool chat: Our pump stopped working, no power at all. Call the people, they come over, fix it all up, said they had to replace the whole motor and assembly as it shorted out. Why did it short out? "Do you really wanna know?" Yes, yes I do. Apparently multiple frogs and lizards had climbed in, died, and became mummified and shorted it out when it clicked on one day. Thankfully it was covered by warranty
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May 29, 2023 23:08
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Got a question for Motronic and others... Our house was built in 2019. In true Florida-new-development fashion, no gutters. We had them installed in 2020, 6" gutters and the 4"x5" downspouts. When it rains hard (which....it's Florida; it's a daily occurrence in summer), water shoots over the garage and has pretty much removed all locking sand on our paver driveway. Over the tallest part of the house, water just comes straight down from the gutter, splashing into a mulch bed and loving spreading dirt and poo poo ALL over the lanai - every single time it rains. I had another company out to look at the problem areas, and I need a bullshit check. He said that the 6" gutters are insufficient for a tile roof, it needs to be 7". I'm not sure that makes sense, as there's only two problem areas, representing maybe 20% of the total gutter run. He also said the gutters are hung too low, which I can agree. Initial install cost was $2500 (November 2020, the height of Covid fuckery). This guys is quoting $4600. ETA: Water is the enemy, I want this poo poo away from the house
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Motronic posted:I mean, there's a calculation for that and yeah, it sounds like they gutters are under-sized. I don't know jack about tile roofs being from the great frozen north but I can surmise they shed water real drat fast like a metal roof. This is all part of the calculator, as well as the design criteria for max precipitation. Going "I bet you need them exactly one more everywhere" sounds like bullshit to me, when for the actual calculation you need dimensions, roof pitch, etc and you may need to change the size of the downspout to accommodate. And this is probably only necessary in some sections where you are having a problem. Definitely going to get a second opinion. And if I do go with 7" gutters, I only want them on the independent runs that are problem areas today. There is no reason to replace functional ones. H110Hawk posted:Put a rock in the bottom of your gutter downspout. Or like, 4-5 small ones. Something to make the water flow and not shoot. The downpouts aren't really the problem (though they terminate too close; I'm getting extensions to rectify that). Tile roofs can be an issue because they basically create funnels for the water vs. an asphalt shingle roof that spreads it around. I only have one problem channel (the one over the garage) and I think just lifting the gutters higher would allow the gutter splash guard to cut it down. Even better would be something to diffuse the water across a few channels
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In 2019 our policy cost $1400/year. For our 2024 renewal, it's $2800. And we got off lucky
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