Red Mosquito

For 40k I'm going to need it to last forever

Bammer wrote:I don’t need it to look perfect forever.

I do want the surface to perform and feel functional for a very long time though.

Biggest appeals in order:
- no more dirt/mud tracked into house
- it’s dry like 30 minutes after it rains
- being dry right away will encourage kids to use it more often, rains a lot here
- no more mowing or pulling weeds

wow none of this seems worth the price tag.

Tell your kids to not be idiots.

I can dream!

What if you have a dog? The pee just sits there?

verb_to_trust wrote:For 40k I'm going to need it to last forever

$40k is so much money. You can dump it all into one big project, but unless your house is huge, you can completely transform every room but the kitchen for $40k. We found a great old school local jack of all trades on Next Door, and he’s been fantastic.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:What if you have a dog? The pee just sits there?

He said it dries quick. So basically, he wants his yard to reek of dog piss all the time.

wease wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:What if you have a dog? The pee just sits there?

He said it dries quick. So basically, he wants his yard to reek of dog piss all the time.

we put down some of this a couple years ago; it has little drainage holes all over it. our dog pees on it and it's fine.

We bought a pergola kit from Overstock. Wife and I are planning to assemble it ourselves. Will it end our marriage? Stay tuned.

ghost wrote:We bought a pergola kit from Overstock. Wife and I are planning to assemble it ourselves. Will it end our marriage? Stay tuned.

i've considered this path. keep us updated!

spike wrote:

ghost wrote:We bought a pergola kit from Overstock. Wife and I are planning to assemble it ourselves. Will it end our marriage? Stay tuned.

i've considered this path. keep us updated!

Ending your marriage over a pergola?

wease wrote:

spike wrote:

ghost wrote:We bought a pergola kit from Overstock. Wife and I are planning to assemble it ourselves. Will it end our marriage? Stay tuned.

i've considered this path. keep us updated!

Ending your marriage over a pergola?

lol

Got up on the roof this evening after I got home from work and cleaned off all the leaves that had accumulated thru the years. The layer against the roof was all decayed like a forest bed. Would’ve been a great compost heap.

(I also repaired a piece of equipment at work and felt great satisfaction upon completion, but we don’t have a thread for that).

wease wrote:Got up on the roof this evening after I got home from work and cleaned off all the leaves that had accumulated thru the years. The layer against the roof was all decayed like a forest bed. Would’ve been a great compost heap.

(I also repaired a piece of equipment at work and felt great satisfaction upon completion, but we don’t have a thread for that).

Oh I beg to differ

http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 10&t=16206

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Got up on the roof this evening after I got home from work and cleaned off all the leaves that had accumulated thru the years. The layer against the roof was all decayed like a forest bed. Would’ve been a great compost heap.

(I also repaired a piece of equipment at work and felt great satisfaction upon completion, but we don’t have a thread for that).

Oh I beg to differ

http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 10&t=16206

That’s not a “repaired something at work” thread.

At our stovetop in the new place, there is this bar along the backside of it. It has 6-7 buttons on it. They looked to be vent controls and such but they didn’t really do anything. From our first day in this house, I would push those buttons and nothing would happen. So Sunday, during our gathering, we’re in the kitchen and my brother sees the buttons and says “what does this do?” and presses a button. This 8 inch deep panel starts sliding up out of the island and a vent fan comes on. I’d been pressing these damn buttons for a month and he just walks in and BAM this fucking thing comes to life.

wease wrote:At our stovetop in the new place, there is this bar along the backside of it. It has 6-7 buttons on it. They looked to be vent controls and such but they didn’t really do anything. From our first day in this house, I would push those buttons and nothing would happen. So Sunday, during our gathering, we’re in the kitchen and my brother sees the buttons and says “what does this do?” and presses a button. This 8 inch deep panel starts sliding up out of the island and a vent fan comes on. I’d been pressing these damn buttons for a month and he just walks in and BAM this fucking thing comes to life.

Be grateful, not annoyed.

LetMeSleep wrote:

wease wrote:At our stovetop in the new place, there is this bar along the backside of it. It has 6-7 buttons on it. They looked to be vent controls and such but they didn’t really do anything. From our first day in this house, I would push those buttons and nothing would happen. So Sunday, during our gathering, we’re in the kitchen and my brother sees the buttons and says “what does this do?” and presses a button. This 8 inch deep panel starts sliding up out of the island and a vent fan comes on. I’d been pressing these damn buttons for a month and he just walks in and BAM this fucking thing comes to life.

Be grateful, not annoyed.

Oh, I was grateful to him. But annoyed at the stupid appliance for making me look like a dumbass.

wease wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:

wease wrote:At our stovetop in the new place, there is this bar along the backside of it. It has 6-7 buttons on it. They looked to be vent controls and such but they didn’t really do anything. From our first day in this house, I would push those buttons and nothing would happen. So Sunday, during our gathering, we’re in the kitchen and my brother sees the buttons and says “what does this do?” and presses a button. This 8 inch deep panel starts sliding up out of the island and a vent fan comes on. I’d been pressing these damn buttons for a month and he just walks in and BAM this fucking thing comes to life.

Be grateful, not annoyed.

Oh, I was grateful to him. But annoyed at the stupid appliance for making me look like a dumbass.

That shit pisses me off so much.

So we ended up painting the inside of our house instead of sod-cutting that weekend. I sod-cutted the following weekend. It went more smoothly than I imagined it would, I was pretty convinced I was going to fail miserably with it. The biggest challenge was getting it out of the truck and started up the first time, but the actual sod cutting was pretty easy. Well, except when I hit a soft patch and had to physically manhandle the machine out sunken dirt.

Clearing all the grass/weeds sucked. The yard was full of weeds so it mostly didn't roll up so that was by far the toughest part of the job.

This past weekend we made an island in the yard and put in a couple of palm trees and a bunch of plants, so now it's down to prepping the yard (dirt) for laying the sod on Saturday.

ghost wrote:We bought a pergola kit from Overstock. Wife and I are planning to assemble it ourselves. Will it end our marriage? Stay tuned.

Did most of this today. Went surprisingly well. You can't really do it with only 2 people though. A friend stopped by to drop off a hammer drill and ended up helping us with the steps that involved standing up the posts and connecting them to the joists. Not sure how two people would manage that unless they were experienced builders. Anyway, just have to install the bar table and anchor it to the patio tomorrow. The instructions said 8 hours but it'll be closer to 12.