An Idiots guide to House Repair

First coat of astroglide applied. I’ll probably need 2 bottles of cutting board oil for this stupid pine.

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It's turning out pretty decent. Not ultra4 levels of cool. Decent4 levels of cool. Need to steel wool it tonight.

Nothing neat to add. I got the locks changed Saturday and finished moving all the stuff in on Sunday. I haven’t had a proper listening experience in a while, definitely worth it.

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bad zuki said:
It's turning out pretty decent. Not ultra4 levels of cool. Decent4 levels of cool. Need to steel wool it tonight.

Nothing neat to add. I got the locks changed Saturday and finished moving all the stuff in on Sunday. I haven’t had a proper listening experience in a while, definitely worth it.

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Ok, explain your setup here.

Looks like an old school stereo setup but then there are 2 speakers off to the side
 
crispins said:
Ok, explain your setup here.

Looks like an old school stereo setup but then there are 2 speakers off to the side
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The ones on the shelves are just for displays until I run wiring into the office when its done.

Head unit is a 1976 Pioneer 9xx and a JVC L-A55 with Klipsch RP-600Ms. It's a stereo single seat setup. I've got to mount the speakers on the wall beside the map soon. I'm still getting distortion when listening to albums at a medium volume with the filters off.
 
bad zuki said:
So you're saying I need to add some house plants or something? :laughing:
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No, enjoy it as it is. Let the hoes think that they get to change it to their liking and kick them out before they get that far.

bad zuki said:
Outside of the radio and albums, all of my furniture was free. If it wasn't comfortable, I wouldn't have kept it.
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As it ought to be.
 
No house renovation until after Toyotathon, or whatever you celebrate. Buddy donated this to my collection and I decided to make it into an umbrella holder. The explosive sticker had faded and I bought a roll of stickers to do one tube. It was cheaper to buy 500 paper stickers than 1 regular sticker, so I have 499 stickers leftover.

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bad zuki said:
No house renovation until after Toyotathon, or whatever you celebrate. Buddy donated this to my collection and I decided to make it into an umbrella holder. The explosive sticker had faded and I bought a roll of stickers to do one tube. It was cheaper to buy 500 paper stickers than 1 regular sticker, so I have 499 stickers leftover.

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Cool umbrella stand!
 
Well, (I'm saying well because it's a water pun.)
I'm glad that I have some form of saving account, but dam I hate using it. Just found out that the water softener hasn't worked in a while and the PO's just put it in bypass mode instead of maintaining it, like the sale contract said.:mad3: No wonder the water heater sprung a leak last spring. The store delivered the master bathroom stuff on Saturday. That will be moved to the back-burner for the time being.

Stuff I need to fix before the bathroom.
1. Replace the water softener.
2. Reline the Chimney. I knew the flue was cracked, but it's been colder than I had planned, so I need to get a fire going.
3. Finish the Kitchen Island.

New rule of thumb. Budget 3 times the time and 3 times the cost you think it will be. Kinda like a 4800 car you CAN'T drive. :homer:
 
List of labs (it is really log)

Accredited Commercial Laboratories link is what you want. It is going to open a spreadsheet with a bunch of information.

Find a Lab

The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS) maintains an updated list of accredited and certified laboratories.
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RunningProblem said:
This was one people mentioned for brewing beer. Yes people nerd out on water for making beer.
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I get it, people go crazy over the quality control on anything. I know too much about power conditioning for high end audio equipment. Any public utility generally isn't the cleanest or best anything, let alone a well from 1972. The plumbing company I've been going through has an in house lab too. I'll check pricing with them, but I'm sure everyone is closed for the "Lexus December To Remember" sales event, so I'll get on that on Thursday.
 
It’s the little things that nobody tells you about that will catch you off guard the most. I had a skunk fall into the pit and dug up roughly 12” of dirt and covered up the window…

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Got a neat skull though. :ghost:

Is there supposed to be gravel in the bottom of these?
 
bad zuki said:
It’s the little things that nobody tells you about that will catch you off guard the most. I had a skunk fall into the pit and dug up roughly 12” of dirt and covered up the window…

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Got a neat skull though. :ghost:

Is there supposed to be gravel in the bottom of these?
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Skunks are the worst. Jess was 8 months pregnant when a litter of skunks were born under part of our foundation.

They were getting into our crawl space and spraying in the middle of the night. Evidently the little ones have very little control.

Happened 3 nights one week. Open up the whole house at 2am. She went and slept in her car. Rough times. I ended up catching 5 skunks from that den under our porch.

Pulled up the porch boards so I could fix the foundation.

Thanks for the reminder.

Gravel might be nice so any water isn’t splashing red dirt on the window.
 
Covecrawler said:
Thanks for the reminder.
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It’s the least I can do. :laughing:

PAToyota said:
Typically you have some sort of dry well to provide drainage - or tie it into the foundation drains. And, as was said, typically you have something at the bottom other than dirt to keep it cleaner.
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I’ll look into it. This house doesn’t have foundation drains that I know of. I’m eventually going to redo the waterproofing on the basement, but that might be a bit down the road.
 
MigGunslinger said:
Is it just popping on it's own or are you plugging something in?
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It's popping on it's own. Thought it was just a bad outlet and swapped it in. tripped the breaker after I hit reset. I'll see if I can trace it down and verify nothing stupid happened.

MigGunslinger said:
I just had to replace a GFI outlet with a normal one at the new shop because the fancy fridge would pop it 5-10 minutes after plugging it in. Apparently a known issue with the samsung fridges.
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I'll keep that in mind. It's just the outlet and everything else on the circuit works. :confused:

In other news, Another ground hog fell into my window sill while I was on vacation and managed to dig out and made a nice drain for that window. :laughing:
 
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