The Home Improvement Thread

[E.H. Ruddock]

water with the hose no more.

Trag

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Bammer]

i think my water heater might be 20 years old actually

anyone have tankless?

tinkering with the idea

Yes and it heats the water.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i think my water heater might be 20 years old actually

anyone have tankless?

tinkering with the idea

Yes and it heats the water.

okay but where do you put the tank

[Strat]

I cant figure out how to run the computer for my irrigation system. Its too fucking complex and my landscaping guy wont get his lazy ass back out here to show me how to run it.

[Chris_H_2]

I cant figure out how to run the computer for my irrigation system. Its too fucking complex and my landscaping guy wont get his lazy ass back out here to show me how to run it.

What kind do you have. Mine has the instructions on the inside of the cover. But they’re also all over the internet.

[96583UP]

i think my water heater might be 20 years old actually

anyone have tankless?

tinkering with the idea

Yes and it heats the water.

what brand and btu do you have / how many bathrooms?

i heard that if you have 2 showers going at the same time you need one that has like extra boost

you can tell i am early in my research

[Bammer]

As I suspected, we have none other than MC Hammer to thank for this thread being in A&E!!

https://www.livingmgz.com/glamour/a-loo ... =sa&_pg=p7

[96583UP]

bought a new slow-close toilet seat for one of my bathrooms - the one that i always forget isn't slow-close and then end up accidentally slamming it loud af

went to undo the existing attachment and of course its all corroded / rusted tight. worse, there is a plastic nut on it which got immediately stripped. gonna just have to use the hacksaw and cut that fucker off. god knows when i'll have time for that. had to do that to a different toilet last year too. made a giant fucking mess

i finally got around to installing this

time flies. the new toilet seat sat in a box in my bathroom for 6 weeks.... crazy

as expected, i needed to hacksaw to get the old one off. but it was both bolts. awkward angle... 45 minutes of sawing

never again.... next time i will just replace the whole toilet

new slow-close is..... nice n slow tho

[lennytheweedwhacker]

bought a new slow-close toilet seat for one of my bathrooms - the one that i always forget isn't slow-close and then end up accidentally slamming it loud af

went to undo the existing attachment and of course its all corroded / rusted tight. worse, there is a plastic nut on it which got immediately stripped. gonna just have to use the hacksaw and cut that fucker off. god knows when i'll have time for that. had to do that to a different toilet last year too. made a giant fucking mess

i finally got around to installing this

time flies. the new toilet seat sat in a box in my bathroom for 6 weeks.... crazy

as expected, i needed to hacksaw to get the old one off. but it was both bolts. awkward angle... 45 minutes of sawing

never again.... next time i will just replace the whole toilet

new slow-close is..... nice n slow tho

i honestly don't know what any of this means

[Bammer]

I’m ‘bout to stain the d*ck today.

Spoiler: show

Deck, lenny. The deck.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I’m ‘bout to stain the d*ck today.

Spoiler: show

Deck, lenny. The deck.

i understood

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i wish i had the skill to install flooring...i'll probably spend more on labor than the flooring itself

[Bammer]

I’m ‘bout to stain the d*ck today.

Spoiler: show

Deck, lenny. The deck.

i understood

Ok

[B]

Took apart my dishwasher trying to clear a clog. Turns out the pump is shot.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[96583UP]

consumer reports online subscription highly recommended

shit will constantly break and/or depreciate to replacement and you just have to eat it and pay for it

but what reaaalllly sucks is if you pay to replace something and then it breaks

CR ratings are great bc if you need to buy a new dishawasher or something you can see there are everyman units that rate just as high or higher than designer brands at 1/2 the cost. just need their reaearchers to tell you which ones. all about finding out what is reliable

[96583UP]

<meanwhile something probably broke as i typed that>

[E.H. Ruddock]

Took apart my dishwasher trying to clear a clog. Turns out the pump is shot.

Did this today as well but mine was just a clog

[B]

Took apart my dishwasher trying to clear a clog. Turns out the pump is shot.

Can’t wait! I’ve been a homeowner for a month and it seems like this shit never ends

It was a shitty dishwasher. The first of appliances that came with the house to go. The first appliance that will go in our (eventually) renovated kitchen.