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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri June 28, 2019 12:30 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri June 28, 2019 3:09 pm
by Chris_H_2
the entire state's going to get swallowed up by the ocean if it doesn't burn to the ground first.

how much is property insurance in the monterey area doug?

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri June 28, 2019 5:00 pm
by doug rr
daft twat wrote:
doug rr wrote:
bart wrote:Doug are you moving out of the Los Angeles area?
not in the near future...im scoping out places in monterey and vancouver though..
Why not Carmel instead of Monterey?
i'd take either place to be honest..the first time i ever went there many years ago i told my wife we would live there one day..

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri June 28, 2019 5:06 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:the entire state's going to get swallowed up by the ocean if it doesn't burn to the ground first.

how much is property insurance in the monterey area doug?
i don't know..its california so its expensive...my property tax here is just stupid..
but i consider it to be worth it when its cloudy and 63 degrees all year and the sound of crashing waves is all around...

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri June 28, 2019 7:15 pm
by bart
The ocean around there is the coldest I’ve ever swam in. Can’t imagine being out in it surfing for hours, even with a thick wetsuit.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri June 28, 2019 7:34 pm
by doug rr
bart wrote:The ocean around there is the coldest I’ve ever swam in. Can’t imagine being out in it surfing for hours, even with a thick wetsuit.
yeah, its not friendly water...i'll just retire to a small kayak in the cove at pebble beach

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Fri June 28, 2019 10:20 pm
by oasisfan35
doug rr wrote:
daft twat wrote:
doug rr wrote:
bart wrote:Doug are you moving out of the Los Angeles area?
not in the near future...im scoping out places in monterey and vancouver though..
Why not Carmel instead of Monterey?
i'd take either place to be honest..the first time i ever went there many years ago i told my wife we would live there one day..
I said the same about Santa Barbara

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 1:11 am
by bart
doug rr wrote:
bart wrote:The ocean around there is the coldest I’ve ever swam in. Can’t imagine being out in it surfing for hours, even with a thick wetsuit.
yeah, its not friendly water...i'll just retire to a small kayak in the cove at pebble beach
You ever read this article?

http://kingofkooks.blogspot.com/2009/12 ... 2.html?m=1

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 5:53 am
by Bammer
I’m pretty sure Carmel is the setting for the original Parent Trap movie starring Haley Mills x2

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 8:44 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Image

Just installed a new outdoor ceiling fan on our screened porch. That fucker was heavy.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 8:48 pm
by B
I've done a lot of my own electrical work, including installing a new breaker and wiring part of the crawlspace in my old house for an office. Well, we sold that house to someone my wife works with. This week, on the google group for the neighborhood (which we never unsubscribed from), they were asking if anyone else was having weird electrical issues. I was shitting my pants, but staying silent.

Turns out, it was a problem with the power going into the house. Nothing I would have had access to. :thumbsup:

It kind of sucks knowing the people that own your old house.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 8:59 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 9:34 pm
by washing machine
Whoever said Frontpoint for the security system question, that’s the one I went with. Impressed with their customer service and it was super easy to install.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 9:43 pm
by washing machine
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Image

Just installed a new outdoor ceiling fan on our screened porch. That fucker was heavy.
Remember to reverse the fan blades in the winter.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 10:04 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
True story. It's an outdoor fan so it doesn't have the reverse function

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 10:15 pm
by doug rr
i love the denver bronco float tubes..

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sat June 29, 2019 10:16 pm
by washing machine
I think those are Astros tubes.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun June 30, 2019 12:31 am
by bart
Is that a lifeguard chair?

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun June 30, 2019 3:04 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Yeah it's an old one we found and lowered and painted

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun June 30, 2019 11:38 am
by B
tragabigzanda wrote:Good thing tree’s not here, otherwise he’d report B for doing his own electrical work.
Hey, the only electrical problem on the inspection was stuff done by a pro.