The Home Improvement Thread

[Bammer]

Discovered the wife's vanity sink was leaking into the cabinet below, luckily it seems to have all dripped on a makeup box and mostly saved the cabinet itself

Haha nevermind there's mold between the vanity and the marble countertop.

Your inspector fucked you so hard

[Mickey]

Discovered the wife's vanity sink was leaking into the cabinet below, luckily it seems to have all dripped on a makeup box and mostly saved the cabinet itself

Haha nevermind there's mold between the vanity and the marble countertop.

Your inspector fucked you so hard

Appreciate you keeping this bit alive, but this one is actually my wife's fault.

[spike]

Hook yourself up with some wifi water sensors, playa.

[Mickey]

Hook yourself up with some wifi water sensors, playa.

I don't think that would have helped. What happened was--the faucet came loose from the vanity on her sink (probably just normal loosening from house settling?). Water that landed on the countertop was getting under the seal and trickling into the cabinet below. My wife, nonchalantly yesterday, was like "have you noticed that my faucet isn't parallel anymore?" No, of course I haven't noticed that. I tightened the faucet up, no problem, but god knows how long that was going on.

I'm worried some of it might have traveled along the underside of the counter and caused some mold to grow between the back of the cabinet and the drywall behind it. I ran some paper towels along the edge and they came back slightly black, so I hit that area with some bleach spray and it's clean now. I can see from where the water pipes come into the cabinet that there's no mold on the drywall halfway down, so I'm weighing between just sealing that area up and hoping anything there dies or more drastic measures.

It would have been a very small amount of water and it doesn't *smell* like anything, so there's that.

[spike]

Hook yourself up with some wifi water sensors, playa.

I don't think that would have helped. What happened was--the faucet came loose from the vanity on her sink (probably just normal loosening from house settling?). Water that landed on the countertop was getting under the seal and trickling into the cabinet below. My wife, nonchalantly yesterday, was like "have you noticed that my faucet isn't parallel anymore?" No, of course I haven't noticed that. I tightened the faucet up, no problem, but god knows how long that was going on.

I'm worried some of it might have traveled along the underside of the counter and caused some mold to grow between the back of the cabinet and the drywall behind it. I ran some paper towels along the edge and they came back slightly black, so I hit that area with some bleach spray and it's clean now. I can see from where the water pipes come into the cabinet that there's no mold on the drywall halfway down, so I'm weighing between just sealing that area up and hoping anything there dies or more drastic measures.

It would have been a very small amount of water and it doesn't *smell* like anything, so there's that.

You put the sensor in the cabinet under the sink.

[Mickey]

Ah I was picturing the things you put on the pipes to monitor pressure.

[Bammer]

Our fridge was making some noise, that was most likely
the fan hitting ice buildup. After some minor disassembly, I was able to get in and chip out what was back there. Hopefully I didn’t break anything.

Hey spike is your fridge still running?

It is

Better go catch it!

Mods?

Yeah this is a bannable offense, bammer

Spike knew exactly what he was walking in to

I genuinely thought you cared.

Look, I thought I was taking an extended break from this thread but then trag comes in here with “hot water heater” and I couldn’t help but jump back in.

[Mickey]

We have just recently moved into a new house, and we will have to arrange many things for ourselves.

Strong first post.

[Monkey_Driven]

Had 160 sheets of drywall delivered earlier this week. Lot of drywall.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Had 160 sheets of drywall delivered earlier this week. Lot of drywall.

Are you going work on this at 5:00 pm today?

[porijendel]

I want to sell my restaurant. The furniture, bar and kitchen equipment, everything’s working and functioning. I DIYed a lot of things here – a bar stand, stainless steel shelves and tables, most of the repairs. I also made 250 feet walking fridge in the basement. I constructed it after the restaurant was already opened with all the necessary papers. So I wonder if new owners will have problems getting a license for their kitchen. I must consult Building Inspections Perth for this.

[epilogue]

I want to sell my restaurant. The furniture, bar and kitchen equipment, everything’s working and functioning

Good luck!

[Mickey]

I will buy it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I want to sell my restaurant. The furniture, bar and kitchen equipment, everything’s working and functioning

RM user: Jorge was just saying how he was in the market for restaurant equipment for his new Argentinian-Canadian fusion restaurant. Please PM him as I’m sure he’d be interested!

[Mickey]

No I will buy it.

[Monkey_Driven]

Planning to install a new kitchen faucet this weekend. Can't wait for the 1-2 hour project the take the entire afternoon.

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Don’t you just drop it in the hole and plug in?

[Bammer]

Planning install a new kitchen faucet this weekend. Can't wait for the 1-2 hour project the take the entire afternoon.

sounds about right

Tou guys this is 2 hours tops even if something goes horribly wrong

[Monkey_Driven]

Planning install a new kitchen faucet this weekend. Can't wait for the 1-2 hour project the take the entire afternoon.

sounds about right

Tou guys this is 2 hours tops even if something goes horribly wrong

Gotta factor in the kids element. You of all people should know.