The Home Improvement Thread

[Self]

I'll shovel until it gets stupid. I'm not shoveling a foot of what feels like cement. I did my time.

same..did my time..for probably 15 years shoveling my parents 150 ft long driveway in boulder with one of those crooked tin snow shovels from the 70s..fight me

Holy shit, those were a monstrosity. It was a baseball bat with a handle and gigantic metal shovel. It was bigger than me. Big old bolts holding it together like Frankenstein's neck. These kids with their plastic.

Whiskey.

yeah, they were horrible..bolted on like an ibanez destroyer..whiskey

lol fuckin guy

[doug rr]

I'll shovel until it gets stupid. I'm not shoveling a foot of what feels like cement. I did my time.

same..did my time..for probably 15 years shoveling my parents 150 ft long driveway in boulder with one of those crooked tin snow shovels from the 70s..fight me

Holy shit, those were a monstrosity. It was a baseball bat with a handle and gigantic metal shovel. It was bigger than me. Big old bolts holding it together like Frankenstein's neck. These kids with their plastic.

Whiskey.

yeah, they were horrible..bolted on like an ibanez destroyer..whiskey

lol fuckin guy

you got the broncos over the chiefs this sunday?

[Self]

I'll shovel until it gets stupid. I'm not shoveling a foot of what feels like cement. I did my time.

same..did my time..for probably 15 years shoveling my parents 150 ft long driveway in boulder with one of those crooked tin snow shovels from the 70s..fight me

Holy shit, those were a monstrosity. It was a baseball bat with a handle and gigantic metal shovel. It was bigger than me. Big old bolts holding it together like Frankenstein's neck. These kids with their plastic.

Whiskey.

yeah, they were horrible..bolted on like an ibanez destroyer..whiskey

lol fuckin guy

you got the broncos over the chiefs this sunday?

no. you got the pats over san fran?

[96583UP]

1) Fixed a toilet seat

2) Put a new hose on a dehumidifier

3) Attached a corrugated drain tube to an AC condensate drain - very humid last few days and was looking more like a water fountain. needed to get the water away from the foundation

4) Reorganized the shed

[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]

no but i love to lay pipe

[96583UP]

i did actually have real plumbers in here this week to (finally) do my tankless water heater install. the new system looks pretty badass

hilariously

they were supposed to do this 2 weeks ago but the morning of i get a call from the guy saying one of their dudes has bad headaches and a fever

in the interest of caution they sent him to the hospital and i was like 'let's just hold off for a while'

i get a call later - the guy had food poisoning. taco bell the night before

classic

[96583UP]

they also switched out a leaky shower faucet and dammit it is still leaking

its just a slight drip but pretty annoying

will get that fixed the next time i have plumbers in here (prob when something breaks)

[Bammer]

I dug a french drain with my dad about 4-5’ deep through an ungodly amount of tree roots

[96583UP]

no way

did you use a prefab tube or buy pvc and drill the holes

[96583UP]

digging trenches is exhausting

i ordered like a hundred crocus bulbs when i blacked out in covid lockdown in apri and they all arrived recently and after carefully planting about a third i just dug a huge curvy channel with a pickaxe and threw the rest in

[96583UP]

i was transplanting a tree last weekend and starting digging the new hole and realized it was solid wood

there had been a tree there before that was cut down

it must have been something huge, and hard - like a maple or an oak

i got the axe and just went to work

at a point was so exhausted and it was barely budging and i channeled some inner chi and pushed through

i still have blisters on my left hand

these hands were not made for manual labor

[ghost]

Plumbers are coming today to add a shower riser to our tub, replace a couple toilets and fix a leaking cast iron pipe in the basement.

I'm starting to get anxious that we're fucking up our main bathroom. We had the remodel guy from the plumbing company come out a couple months ago to look at it. We have a tub, original 1960s tile/grout (in great shape) to about waist height, then plaster on rock lathe to the ceiling. He suggested installing cultured marble (engineered stone) shower panel walls above the tile, beveled and caulked over the lip of the tile to create a seal. But the shower panel guys just glued it to the walls with silicone. Seems like it would be pretty easy for moisture to collect between the plaster and the marble, no?

[ghost]

Now the water's off and I have to pee.

[Mickey]

Just pee!

[Chris_H_2]

i've got a bunch of workers all standing around huddled together overlooking what was a buried electrical box for our sprinkler system that falls directly in the footprint of the new front walkway that they're installing that they obviously don't know what to do with. i'm guessing that this isn't going to end well.

*edit: one of them is a spitting image of a mexican gimli from lord of the rings.

[ghost]

Did he run in yelling, "Y mi hacha!"?

[Chris_H_2]

Did he run in yelling, "Y mi hacha!"?

No, but he’s smoked about a pack of cigarettes in five minutes.

[ghost]

I peed in a wine bottle in the garage.

[ghost]

After watching what those guys had to deal with all morning...I think my plumbing dreams are over.