Yesterday we had a water leaking on the floor from the main water line. It looked like it might have been leaking from the connection that goes to the water meter. It turned out that nut came loose on the shut off valve. While I had the washing machine moved out the way to fix the water leak. I thought I would test the transformer for the door bell. The door bell hasn’t worked in quite some time. I haven’t looked into til now. The transformer tested fine. So I started to trace the wires in the crawlspace. I found a break in the wires where the electricians installed one of the outdoor outlets ..read more

Still waiting on an 18V battery ..read more

Sorpa wrote: I have another one. The house is gutted completely. It was a weird design so they built concrete stairs and a porch on top of the stairs. The tread and the riser are the same : 7 1/2″. The tread, IIRC, is supposed to be around 9 1/2″. 2″ less is a lot when you step on it. It’s like tiptoeing. The posts are 2 pieces of nontreated 2×8 sitting right on top of that concrete. One is barely touching the surface. Kind of a head scratcher. No metal ties anywhere top or bottom. I was afraid to look closely at the connection ( screws ) between the wood and that concrete surface. OMG, if y ..read more

JimDaddyO wrote: Miamicuse wrote: Don’t piss against the wind. I’d get icicles on my dingus. LOL that’s cold. You can stand outside and piss around in a circle and end up with a yellow ring of ice on the snow ..read more

Just curious have all the final redemptions been realized? or are there still missing redemption out there? I know my backordered items are still in limbo. Anyone else ..read more

Miamicuse wrote: Don’t piss against the wind. I’d get icicles on my dingus ..read more

JimDaddyO wrote: Another day of blowing snow out of the driveway. On the good side, it is cold so it was light to blow. On the bad side, it is cold so the light fluffy snow blew back in my face a bunch of time with changing wind gusts. Don’t piss against the wind ..read more

Got a coat of poly on all my trim stock. Then a light sanding and got a 2nd coat on a bit of it. It may be install time by the end of the week. I have to take the old stuff off first though. I will do it as I go ..read more

I have another one. The house is gutted completely. It was a weird design so they built concrete stairs and a porch on top of the stairs. The tread and the riser are the same : 7 1/2″. The tread, IIRC, is supposed to be around 9 1/2″. 2″ less is a lot when you step on it. It’s like tiptoeing. The posts are 2 pieces of nontreated 2×8 sitting right on top of that concrete. One is barely touching the surface. Kind of a head scratcher. No metal ties anywhere top or bottom. I was afraid to look closely at the connection ( screws ) between the wood and that concrete surface ..read more

They’ll close the walls and nobody will notice. It’s a flip house. No inspection, no nothing. Nada. Fix what is to be fixed and as cheaply as possible and sell it away ..read more