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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue July 28, 2020 3:53 am
by E.H. Ruddock
tragabigzanda wrote:water with the hose no more.
Trag

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue July 28, 2020 3:55 am
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: Tue July 28, 2020 5:21 am
by Bammer
96583UP wrote:i think my water heater might be 20 years old actually

anyone have tankless?

tinkering with the idea
Yes and it heats the water.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue July 28, 2020 12:03 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Bammer wrote:
96583UP wrote: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

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue July 28, 2020 12:54 pm
by 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.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue July 28, 2020 1:06 pm
by Chris_H_2
Strat wrote: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.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed July 29, 2020 3:34 am
by 96583UP
Bammer wrote:
96583UP wrote: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

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed July 29, 2020 3:06 pm
by 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

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 3:43 am
by 96583UP
96583UP wrote: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

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 2:13 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
96583UP wrote:
96583UP wrote: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

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 2:18 pm
by Bammer
I’m ‘bout to stain the d*ck today.
Spoiler: show
Deck, lenny. The deck.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 2:24 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Bammer wrote:I’m ‘bout to stain the d*ck today.
Spoiler: show
Deck, lenny. The deck.
i understood

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 2:24 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
i wish i had the skill to install flooring...i'll probably spend more on labor than the flooring itself

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 4:07 pm
by Bammer
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Bammer wrote:I’m ‘bout to stain the d*ck today.
Spoiler: show
Deck, lenny. The deck.
i understood
Ok

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 9:44 pm
by B
Took apart my dishwasher trying to clear a clog. Turns out the pump is shot.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 9:46 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: Sun August 02, 2020 10:15 pm
by 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

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 10:15 pm
by 96583UP
<meanwhile something probably broke as i typed that>

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun August 02, 2020 11:41 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
B wrote: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

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon August 03, 2020 12:08 am
by B
tragabigzanda wrote:
B wrote: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.