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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun October 24, 2021 8:05 pm
by bodysnatcher
Also check your air vents to make sure they aren’t clogged

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun October 24, 2021 8:14 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
bodysnatcher wrote:Also check your air vents to make sure they aren’t clogged
I don’t think that is a thing on an electric mower

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun October 24, 2021 9:06 pm
by spike
didn't we already do this with wease's electric mower?

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun October 24, 2021 9:41 pm
by wease
That was a question regarding battery life.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon October 25, 2021 3:01 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Our basement remodel began in earnest last week. The contractor finished the demo and is beginning to cut concrete this week. Every day after work is a fun surprise.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue October 26, 2021 5:02 pm
by wease
wease wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Are you positive the handle latches are locked into place near the base of the unit, and that the telescopic handle is extended as far out as it will go? It sounded like one of those safety features is powering you down.
Yeah. That’s not the issue. I started it and held the safely bar for 4 minutes and it ran smooth as silk. It’s only when I actually move the mower that it dies. I’ve looked for some kind of odd sensor or something and can’t find anything.
Trag was exactly fucking correct. I called customer service and there are sensors at those latches both where it telescopes up from and at the frame of the mower. There’s also one for the mulching plug/bagger. One of the latches was just a tiny bit unfastened and that was it. Good call trag. Should’ve listened to you from the start, my friend.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue October 26, 2021 5:19 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Trag on his way to redemption from the Cinnabon debacle.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue October 26, 2021 5:34 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 October 30, 2021 11:49 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
Got an unexpected bill for $832 in my mailbox this afternoon, that’s how much my escrow shortage is going to be this year, largely because of a local tax increase.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Sun October 31, 2021 4:28 am
by Bammer
Biff Pocoroba wrote:Got an unexpected bill for $832 in my mailbox this afternoon, that’s how much my escrow shortage is going to be this year, largely because of a local tax increase.
Yeah that’s fun. But .. resale value.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed November 10, 2021 4:01 pm
by ghost
The window job we put money down on in April is finally finishing up* this week. Installer dude said the living room picture window with double-hungs on each side was the largest/heaviest window he's ever installed. Took 4 people to set it in place.

*haha not really because we're still missing a window that he'll have to come back for at some undetermined point in the future

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed November 10, 2021 4:22 pm
by Strat
I want to paint my kitchen but not sure what color.

I want to paint my little office/closet in the second bedroom but not sure what color.

Also need to touch up some trim paint. That will be white.


The end

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Thu November 11, 2021 1:51 am
by 96583UP
Strat wrote:I want to paint my kitchen but not sure what color.

I want to paint my little office/closet in the second bedroom but not sure what color.

Also need to touch up some trim paint. That will be white.


The end
black, red, yellow

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Thu November 11, 2021 1:55 pm
by Bammer
96583UP wrote:
Strat wrote:I want to paint my kitchen but not sure what color.

I want to paint my little office/closet in the second bedroom but not sure what color.

Also need to touch up some trim paint. That will be white.


The end
black, red, yellow
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon November 15, 2021 9:00 pm
by doug rr
god damn m*ther F*cking sh@t crap....came home to a flooded master bath and soaked carpet in the bedroom...stinky black water coming up through the shower drain..same thing happened 4 years ago..i think its tree roots from outside...f*ck..plumber on way

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon November 15, 2021 9:03 pm
by Monkey_Driven
doug rr wrote:god damn m*ther F*cking sh@t crap....came home to a flooded master bath and soaked carpet in the bedroom...stinky black water coming up through the shower drain..same thing happened 4 years ago..i think its tree roots from outside...f*ck..plumber on way
the worst, the absolute worst

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon November 15, 2021 9:03 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: Mon November 15, 2021 9:04 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: Mon November 15, 2021 9:04 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: Mon November 15, 2021 9:05 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.