Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 9:04 pm
Cool. Looking finnnne
aren’t you 23?Strat wrote:wow lenny
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The Home Improvement Thread
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 9:10 pm
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Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 9:12 pm
She doesn't look old.. just a little tired
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 9:13 pm
No.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:aren’t you 23?Strat wrote:wow lenny
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Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 9:14 pm
oh, wowStrat wrote:No.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:aren’t you 23?Strat wrote:wow lenny
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 9:15 pm
Way to go lenny, you've made a fool of yourself
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 9:15 pm
at least I’m not going around posting pics of elderly women in my yardtree_ wrote:Way to go lenny, you've made a fool of yourself
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Mon July 09, 2018 4:28 pm
Okay its too hot and too dry these days in the mountains. My grass is dying and ive been watering it daily. $170 water bill and now im thinking its time for some native landscaping of sorts. More concrete pavers and walk ways and get rid of the grass. its dying and its costing me a lot of money.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Mon July 09, 2018 5:24 pm
it'll come back eventually. our yard goes totally dormant and looks dead in the summer when our dry season hits. just give it a solid watering once every few of weeks to keep the roots active if it's an established yard (maybe once a week if it's a relatively new yard, to establish roots). then in the winter, it's super lush and green (though, yours will be covered in snow). if i had to guess, you have real dry and rocky soil that drains really quickly. ours won't hold water for shit unless it's constantly wet. if you wanna get wild, do some aerating in the yard (I got this one a while back, and works well for small areas), throw about an inch of compost on top of it with some slow-release fertilizer. it'll help water get down deep, break up the hard soil a little, and feed the roots for the long months.Strat wrote:Okay its too hot and too dry these days in the mountains. My grass is dying and ive been watering it daily. $170 water bill and now im thinking its time for some native landscaping of sorts. More concrete pavers and walk ways and get rid of the grass. its dying and its costing me a lot of money.
we replaced a part of it with succulents and other low-water plants, which is nice.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Tue July 17, 2018 5:21 am
Strat you should really look into a garden ... ga-harden
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Posted: Thu July 19, 2018 11:36 pm
anyone ever hired a landscape designer to redesign and plant new landscaping? just met with a contractor...curious what to expect in terms of estimates.
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Posted: Thu July 19, 2018 11:39 pm
i had an arborist here a couple months ago about some trees and vines..they were cheaper than I thought to cut back..but then again, I don't know what the going rate is...none of this probably helps your situation..go buy some dwarf fruit trees at home depotbodysnatcher wrote:anyone ever hired a landscape designer to redesign and plant new landscaping? just met with a contractor...curious what to expect in terms of estimates.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Thu July 19, 2018 11:48 pm
looking at replacing a bit of grass with new plants, extending a rock retaining wall, planting some new mediterranean-style trees. it's gonna be pimp. i have zero knowledge about PNW plants, shadow patterns, etc. and we have terrible soil, so need help with that. but we'll prob end up with a lot of low irrigation, low maintenance things.doug rr wrote:i had an arborist here a couple months ago about some trees and vines..they were cheaper than I thought to cut back..but then again, I don't know what the going rate is...none of this probably helps your situation..go buy some dwarf fruit trees at home depotbodysnatcher wrote:anyone ever hired a landscape designer to redesign and plant new landscaping? just met with a contractor...curious what to expect in terms of estimates.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Sat July 21, 2018 6:11 am
This sounds like the kind of thing where you could get 3 bids and none of them are even in the same ballpark as the others.bodysnatcher wrote:looking at replacing a bit of grass with new plants, extending a rock retaining wall, planting some new mediterranean-style trees. it's gonna be pimp. i have zero knowledge about PNW plants, shadow patterns, etc. and we have terrible soil, so need help with that. but we'll prob end up with a lot of low irrigation, low maintenance things.doug rr wrote:i had an arborist here a couple months ago about some trees and vines..they were cheaper than I thought to cut back..but then again, I don't know what the going rate is...none of this probably helps your situation..go buy some dwarf fruit trees at home depotbodysnatcher wrote:anyone ever hired a landscape designer to redesign and plant new landscaping? just met with a contractor...curious what to expect in terms of estimates.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Mon August 06, 2018 10:23 pm
I just had a natural gas grill installed by my deck. No more propane for me, friends. 
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Mon August 06, 2018 10:33 pm
That is pretty sweet, B.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Mon August 06, 2018 10:33 pm
Nice. Did they have to run a line to the deck?B wrote:I just had a natural gas grill installed by my deck. No more propane for me, friends.
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Posted: Mon August 06, 2018 11:04 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.
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Posted: Tue August 07, 2018 12:20 am
We had one of those when I was growing up. It's so fucking convenient.
Re: The Home Improvement Thread
Posted: Tue August 07, 2018 12:32 am
I have a smoker, which will convert to a charcoal grill if I need it, but I don't intend to ever need it.tragabigzanda wrote:where does your charcoal grill go then?
Yeah, it's weird, it comes out of the house, along the beams of the deck, then down into the ground to go under that lattice and back up into the grill. I have some future plans to work on the deck, so I guess that'll be fun to figure out.Monkey_Driven wrote:Nice. Did they have to run a line to the deck?