so it’s obviously a work in progress still. I have a ton of touch up to do and still gotta paint the front door and shutters but here’s a before/after
This. The house we are about to move into has a spot that gets super saturated. Yard drains fine eventually but would like to do this or maybe a French drain to help
I think including all paint and supplies I spent about $850 so it turned out much cheaper than the $3-5k I was being quoted
Painting the exterior of my cabins. 155 gallons of primer. I paid someone to do it because I’m not a psychopath
Jorts took care of me and my wife(who got got feet dozens of times) and was patient the whole way through. He’s good.
yeah I actually painted the garage door (and the shutters) with gel stain. It has the faux grain on it and thought it would look cool and I was 400% right
I bought a sign on Etsy. It’s getting shipped from Cyprus so it’ll take a minute to get here. I have some plywood with my numbers drawn on it sitting in my mailbox right now
Do not forget it is in eastern Oklahoma. When prepping for a project, you have to double the normal amount of material needed because half of what you purchase walks off the job site to be sold in exchange for meth.
Feel like we just had this convo but don’t want to go back and find it. What’s the recommendation for appliances? We’re not going with Samsung as we had issues with every Samsung we’ve had. I feel like all are pretty much a crap shoot these days.
1. The correct spelling of our savior is Jesus 2. It’s two cabins that haven’t been touched as far as general maintenance since 2005 3. Meth
We get water in our walkout basement occasionally after big rains. We are getting quotes with some proposals for French drains and others for an interior trench/drain system. Anyone know much about these?
for the bathroom renovating crowd. How difficult is it to turn a center shower drain to an end shower drain. Want to put in linear drains and the guy doing my bathroom is giving me a lot of push back.
Weird, didn't finish that reply yesterday... If you're on a slab, it's probably going to be a pain in the ass and expensive.
ok thanks. The guy doing a lot of the work is really good at what he does, but he's used to doing renovations for flips so he wants to take the path of least resistance to get it done as fast as possible, so it's a balancing act of getting him to put in the extra effort to do what we want and not doing stuff that truly is more effort/cost then it's worth.
The process is essentially busting up concrete in a line from the original drain to where you want the new drain. Bonus points if it’s a post tension slab and you get to deal with the tension cables running through the project. Then you get to report concrete and level it all so that you can cover it up. It’s a pretty big pain in the ass. Side story when I was building houses we had the plumber fuck up and miss the plumbout on a toilet. Basically the toilet drain ended up coming up where a wall was supposed to be. They had to move it. So they start busting up concrete and find the post tension cable. They must have hit it with the pick axe at some point bc they took a break and we were talking in the living room and I hear an explosion. It sounded like a bomb went off. The cable had snapped and thrown concrete everywhere. Through the ceiling, walls, etc. luckily they are made where you can lose one or two and it’s no big deal. Scared the shit out of me.
that graco sprayer worked amazingly but good god the cleanup sucks. i couldn't imagine having to switch colors in the middle of the job
What did you spend on the grayco sprayer? My future brother in law is looking at getting one to paint his interior. I already told him he is crazy.
After sealing i would power wash everything. It makes cement look 10x better/newer. It might even get rid of stain under the planter.
planing on tiling our bathroom over memorial day weekend, any recommendations for underlayment? Cement board or this plastic membrane?
Use the Ditra. It's what we did in most of ours. If you want to get real fancy, use the Ditra Heat and get heated floors. It's what we did in the actual bathroom areas.
Its called a linear drain. I just put one in my master shower. It has no added benefit except you can tile the inlay to give the shower floor a seamless look.
Here’s a story. So I was putting up a flood light in the back and figured out that these fucking monsters don’t have junction boxes anywhere for the exterior lighting. This light I bought didn’t have much space inside for wire nuts and stuff to set so I had to improvise