Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:59 am
My house can be the second leg of the tour. I’m liking this.96583UP wrote:maybe i can buy an ASCAP license and have PJ play a covers show in my backyard
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The Home Improvement Thread
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 1:39 pm
Im being told that i need a backflow system installed due to my irrigation system.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 1:44 pm
bodysnatcher postStrat wrote:Im being told that i need a backflow system installed due to my irrigation system.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 1:45 pm
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: Thu August 06, 2020 1:56 pm
What is a Backflow Preventer and why do I need one?tragabigzanda wrote:what does that do?Strat wrote:Im being told that i need a backflow system installed due to my irrigation system.
Many people do not understand the importance of having an irrigation backflow preventer and why it is necessary. The landscape around your home or business is filled with all sorts of things that can make you sick if ingested. Fertilizers, pesticides and the bacteria found in pet wastes just to name a few.
Most irrigation systems are connected to a potable water supply. Backflow preventers, as the name implies, prevent contaminated water from flowing back into the potable water supply. Backflow can occur if there is a sudden pressure drop in the municipal water line. This could be caused by the opening of a fire hydrant for example. When the pressure drops on the supply side of an irrigation system, water that is standing around a sprinkler head can be drawn back into the municipal water line, thus contaminating the potable water supply. Backflow preventers keep this from happening.
Because the potential risk for contamination is high, most municipalities require the installation of a backflow prevention device on all irrigation systems and require that they be tested at least annually.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:01 pm
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: Thu August 06, 2020 2:12 pm
Im a little annoyed. Supposedly going to cost me $1,500 - $2,000.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:32 pm
Shouldn't the system be installed with that already?
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:39 pm
Or you could just man up and buy new battery operated timers and sprinklers every year at Home Depot which crap out, without fail, every single year so you go back and buy another one next year, again, and do it again the next year, wash/rinse/repeat.
Like I do.
Like I do.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:40 pm
Spend more than 30 bucks on a control panel bammer
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:41 pm
I don’t have in-ground irrigation. I use hoses.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:42 pm
And these fkn battery timers (Orbit?) are like $65 a pop.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:43 pm
Then just go turn them on and off every day. What's that, like five minutes out of your day?
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:44 pm
Also, I've not had good luck with orbit, and that's what we have now. Rainbird ftw
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 2:47 pm
I have been doing that this year. 5 separate “zones” if you will. Pain in the ass. Takes a good hour and can’t run more than one at a time or the pressure/reach is reduced.E.H. Ruddock wrote:Then just go turn them on and off every day. What's that, like five minutes out of your day?
Plus the fkn sprinkler heads themselves always fuck up but that may be from my kids messing with them.
The only ones that work consistently are these but it’s not practical to use in all the “zones” around my house. First world problems, I know.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 3:37 pm
YesE.H. Ruddock wrote:Shouldn't the system be installed with that already?
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 8:42 pm
Been cutting up huge limbs since I got off work. It is hot and humid AF and my chainsaw needs sharpened I think
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Fri August 07, 2020 2:15 am
neighbor behind me still has his massive broken branch just dangling uncut
the branch is like 20 feet log, 2 feet thick at it's thickest...
the branch is like 20 feet log, 2 feet thick at it's thickest...
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Fri August 07, 2020 2:20 am
does it hang over your property?96583UP wrote:neighbor behind me still has his massive broken branch just dangling uncut
the branch is like 20 feet log, 2 feet thick at it's thickest...
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Fri August 07, 2020 2:27 am
it's like a couple feet away from my fence
he had tree pruners with a crane take down a huge maple a month ago, and i was like 'oh they'll surely take that limb down too, it's half dead'
nope ... left it
i was like 'wtf is this guy's problem'
but i figured if it broke, it would narrowly miss my fence
and lo and behold, that's what happened
assuming its dangle doesn't give way and cause it to tumble and roll somehow into my thing
there's another one hanging over his shed i was surprised he didnt cut, but it didnt fall.
some people just dont understand that large trees require occasional maintenance
you don't just have 50-80 footers dotted about your property and just assume all's well
you have to prune them. and remove large dead limbs
he had tree pruners with a crane take down a huge maple a month ago, and i was like 'oh they'll surely take that limb down too, it's half dead'
nope ... left it
i was like 'wtf is this guy's problem'
but i figured if it broke, it would narrowly miss my fence
and lo and behold, that's what happened
assuming its dangle doesn't give way and cause it to tumble and roll somehow into my thing
there's another one hanging over his shed i was surprised he didnt cut, but it didnt fall.
some people just dont understand that large trees require occasional maintenance
you don't just have 50-80 footers dotted about your property and just assume all's well
you have to prune them. and remove large dead limbs