Tell me about the dumb place you live
and the dumb problems you have.

Also trash day is Tuesday thank you.

I need to build new steps for the back deck. So much shitting up them and they have rotted.

Yeah I need to deal with my back door.
All the hardware is wallered out and loose
and it closes like garbage.

It’s been on the list for YEARS
but maybe it’s time to actually deal.

I’m replacing the slider on my sun porch this weekend. Why? It needs replacement and I’ve put it off for over a year. Now we are selling the house and I need to get it done.

My house is perfect and true and needs no tending

Space Cat said:

I need to build new steps for the back deck. So much shitting up them and they have rotted.

I just did that, but I waited until the old ones were so rotted they actually gave out. No one died tho so it's all good.

It was both easier and harder to build steps than I expected. And I still haven't gotten a handrail installed cause I'm a lazyass.

We're waiting to buy a house. This rental is ok, but the backyard grass won't grow no matter what I do

Grass is for suckers. Scrub is where it's at.

succ is also

Recently had a baby, so instead of simply repainting a room we stripped it entirely and restored everything.

congrats on breeding and nice work!

Very nice.

Nice floor

Well housed, houseowner

house it goin lmao

Nice

My fridge is acting up.
I woke up the freezer is warm a the fridge is barely out of the danger zone. I turned off the power for a few hours and turned it back the freezer got back down to temp for a few hours. The starts warming up again.

This has been going on for a week.

Recently updated the bathroom and wanted to change the tub handles, took them off and realized the new ones wouldn't work with the stems that exist and after putting the oild ones back on I have a constant drip...just annoying.

Shortpants said:

My fridge is acting up.
I woke up the freezer is warm a the fridge is barely out of the danger zone. I turned off the power for a few hours and turned it back the freezer got back down to temp for a few hours. The starts warming up again.

This has been going on for a week.

Theres a thermostat in the bottom-back near the compressor that is likely going out. Unplugging then cold drifting to warm is almost a sure sign.
The good news is the part for mine was like $30 and a youtube video showed me exactly how to install it.

I pulled it out from the wall and cleaned the coils as well as I could. They're underneath and impossible to get to. It's held it's temp overnight. Hopefully we're good.

Started a mid size remodel (architect estimate was ~$90k and 3-4 months paying contractors to do everything), found asbestos.... Had been mixed into the plaster that made up all the walls and ceilings... Abated that by removing all the interior walls and ceiling, only to reveal a complete lack of insulation, termite damage, water damage, and no exterior sheathing, just shitty siding nailed directly to the studs.

Now we're over $200k in, nearly 4 years later, but things are looking up! Got half the house reframed and sheathed and new windows installed (the side in the pic and the front side), all new plumbing, electrical, HVAC, new roof, $50k in foundation repair, the egress windows are new, this has pretty much been my life since we started, this and my actual job.

That sounds like a worst case scenario. Congrats on the new house.

Shortpants said:

That sounds like a worst case scenario. Congrats on the new house.

Yeah, I think the only thing that could have made it worse is if the house was just physically bigger

If you remember, last November the contractors started work on creating an apartment above our garage.
It is still not completed.

We sit at about 95% done and it doesnt change. They come, fiddle about, and leave.

LadyAlthea said:

If you remember, last November the contractors started work on creating an apartment above our garage.
It is still not completed.

We sit at about 95% done and it doesnt change. They come, fiddle about, and leave.

Sue them maybe, if you had a contract?

Well, we bought a house in South Carolina, in Murrells Inlet. There is a contingency in place that our house in NH has to sell by a certain date for everything to work out in our favor, so our realtor is having an open house this weekend, and we are hopeful we get some offers. If it doesn't happen, we'll go back to South Carolina in the spring and start the search again. But I really hope our house sells fast, because we LOVE the house we bought.

There is a contract.
I never signed it as the homeowner, my brother did and he is not the home owner.
This company is fucked up.

crtoonz said:

Well, we bought a house in South Carolina, in Murrells Inlet. There is a contingency in place that our house in NH has to sell by a certain date for everything to work out in our favor, so our realtor is having an open house this weekend, and we are hopeful we get some offers. If it doesn't happen, we'll go back to South Carolina in the spring and start the search again. But I really hope our house sells fast, because we LOVE the house we bought.

Good luck Toonz! I love that area , in fact I will be down there for a week after Cmas.

My toilet started running this morning, so I replaced the flapper. That wasn't the problem, but it was starting to turn into a mushy mess, so it was time. At first I put the new flapper on upside down. I noticed immediately but was still like WOW that was dumb, but I hadn't even had a single sip of coffee yet, so I cut myself some slack.

Anyway, I'll replace the fill valve when I get home. Ain't nobody got time for that before work.

I would have just shut off the water for the day

Yeah use the trough dipshit

blook gets unlimited free water for life tho

Mine needs a new fill valve too but I keep putting it off because it otherwise works fine

I did finally get 2 cabinets completed. Obviously lots and lots of work left to go, but I have got the pieces cut (and are currently sitting clamped together in my living room) for the next 2 upper cabinets.

The first 2 took 14 months (including much time off trying to solve problems with routers and collets and learning how to use a paint sprayer and finding handles and hinges... oh gosh the time spent on hinges...)

I'm hoping the next 2 take about 1 month. The problem is that no matter how much I want to work on the cabinets, they are way down the list of priorities, and its getting colder and colder in the garage

I took down my garage door opener yesterday in preparation for installing the new one, and realized I had installed the arm wrong when I put it in a few years ago. So the problems I've had since then were my fault. Neat!

I'm still going to put the new one in. I bought it about a year ago because I got a great deal on it. It's much nicer than the cheap-o one it's replacing. But now I have a perfectly operational garage door opener to get rid of. I wonder if Habitat will take it.

hook it up to your bathroom door in case you start pooping and realize you didnt shut the door. you can do it remotely!

... it's the same door

oh. well... can i have it?

im jealous of your new garage door. theres nothing wrong with mine, but like, its not... new, you know? i dont need it, but now i want a new garage door.

I decided to use it to pull my pants up and down.

ahh, that makes sense. so you dont blow out the back of your backup JUICY pants, right?

Yeah, and you can't use it. It has a 7' rail so it's not long enough to pull your pants over your ass.

Got the new opener installed as much as I could before the arrival of the reinforced bracket I had to order because blook installed the arm wrong and the old one ripped out. Fuckin hack.

My mini split that keeps my garage shop at 46 degrees
loves to ice over on the outside.
It was above freezing today so I fired up the forge in the garage
and then turned on the cooling feature
and it heated the ice off the out door unit.

I don’t know why I’m telling u this.

Fuck ICE!
ICE out!

This is all you've heard these last couple months
I get it

the cold maker made cold hotter than the cold water on the hot part of the cold maker

*mind blown*

The garage door opener bracket finally came today so I finished the installation. It's so smooth and quiet, and I haven't even installed the new rollers yet. It'll make negative noise after that's done.
And it has a motion sensor so the light turns on as soon as I step into the garage and now I don't even want any of you switch-touching animals in my house. Gross!

bet u ain't even got it hooked up to an app smdham

Listen... I scanned the QR code and downloaded the app, but haven't yet created the account.

make sure you follow them on livejournal and post to their geocities guestbook