So I have neither the tools nor the understanding on how to do that part. I was thinking of changing it out and then calling an appliance company to see if they could send someone out to charge it up. Will they do that? Or will they come out and install a compressor I purchase online? I am fairly certain I can get a reconditioned one for fairly cheap.
Its a side by side, and so I am going to just use it to store overflow beers and as an extra freezer for meat I prep for the sous vide...
May be able to do this if you call a one man shop - something like Billy Joe's appliance repair. A bigger company probably wouldn't want to mess with it this way. They also build a pretty good markup in the parts, so asking them to do just the labor may be a bit. How nice is this fridge if it's working? It's not an easy job - when I was in college I worked at an appliance place and they'd send me on these calls to help out and they would only send our best guy and they still took some time, and were quite pricey. I'd get some quotes before you agree to take the fridge off his hands.
I looked into this and by the time I would be done I figured it would be cheaper to pay someone. We got some quotes and it wasn't that ridiculous when you figure in time/equipment.
Great feedback. Its free and sitting in his garage. I am going to get the model number of it tonight. Its a decent fridge but not super fancy. I am pretty handy so I can normally do a lot of things myself so I figured I could do this until I read up on the charging the compressor part. I will probably see if anyone on NextDoor could help with it as well.
Hardest by far is moving everything out of the garage. Clean the floor, tape the edges, mix the chemicals in the kit and start painting. Do a small section at a time and then hit it with the flakes, go heavy flake. I wish I would’ve gone with tan, I think it looks better and I wish I would’ve gone heavier flake. The epoxy holds up very well though, can’t imagine the garage without it.
200 dollars for the stuff and another 100 or so for the equipment. Curious what somone would quote me
And the time because it’s not quick, lech kind of touched on it. For me, I don’t have the patience. Edit: I’ll dig out the quote we got this weekend.
Aaaaaand it pulled back out. No, bigred77, no one was using it as leverage to stand up. Fucker just popped out. Going with pilot holes and longer screws now.
Longer screws (not too much longer) and toothpicks should work, but you can use the material below to shore it up more. I've used it and it seems to work fine.
Hello yes I’m under contract on two cabins near broken bow please say a prayer for my wallet and my back
Are you going to use the management company that is popular out there? I think it was something like cabinsinbrokenbow.com. I'd be curious to hear how that that works out. We've considered doing a rental cabin somewhere
Maybe I am being dramatic but the tile people are telling me that they can't cut a glazed porcelin tile without chipping and it looks like shit when grouted. There has to be a solution right?
10-year-old GE Profile dishwasher has been leaking for a few weeks. Thought it was the door seal, so I ordered a new one and installed it today. Tested it on rinse cycle, and there's water dripping from underneath, behind the motor. So I pull out the dishwasher and flip it on its side, figure it's the inlet sump, order a new one online. Than I remove the existing one, and there's a huge tear on the top of it, where I couldn't see it before removing the whole part. Spent the rest of the afternoon removing and cleaning gunk off of all the interior parts, removing buildup, and pulling out clog material. Not necessarily the way I wanted to spend the holiday, but better than waiting a week for a tech to come out and paying them an arm and a leg for something I can do myself with minimal swearing.
It would seem that, after two hours of wrestling a new inlet sump where it ought to go and reconnecting everything and reinstalling the dishwasher, I am minimally competent at appliance repair. Gone through two rinse cycles with no leaking, and evacuation is a lot stronger than it used to be. Looking forward to seeing if the dishes are actually cleaner because of all the gunk cleaning I did woohoo
Wouldn't the problem with chipping come from it being glazed? Seems like he'd need to find it unglazed first then cut and glaze it.
any ideas on how to fix this stupid side panel that's been hanging off since we bought our house (ignore the ugly paint that we will fix soon)? We figured it'd be an easy fix but it seems to be more of a pain in the ass than we thought. A handyman that came to fix some other stuff recently told me that I should get a "licensed and bonded exterior contractor", but i feel like that'd cost a ton just for a single panel.
Get more siding. Enough to replace that shit. If you have any questions on how to attach, visit youtube. You are then your own officially licenses and bonded exterior contractor. Congrats.
Currently redoing our bedroom...bathroom and minor kitchen update coming this spring. Next year is windows and siding. I hate owning a home, carry on.
Supposed deadline of February 28th on the short sale. Looked at the exact same model in the neighborhood, but they want 75k more then our current offer and it’s not on a golf course.
A pretty big branch broke off a tree yesterday and took out a 20’ section of gutter. I’m talking to multiple companies to get the entire 50’ run replaced because I want permanent gutter guards installed. I’m not very handy and think replacing gutters is too much to take on. Am I just a soft homeowner for not doing it myself?
It ain't rocket science. As long as the fascia wasn't damaged it's literally just screwing in long screws to it and making sure that you have the entire gutter at the same angle as it was before. What have your quotes been so far?
Anybody done their sump pump lately? Trying to see what brand people are using. Zoeller seems to be popular.
Big fan of my QNAP NAS. I have the TS-251+ and, while it's a little slow with respect to processing, it's great as a dedicated file server.
$500 for 50’ of gutter and 20’ of rotted fascia. My biggest hesitation in doing it myself is the fascia/soffit problems. I have a second company coming out next week for another quote.
Mine is white, but yeah looks like that. Does not include the hard drives. May be more than you were looking for if you simply want an external hard drive.
Just bought this guy the other day: Have heard nothing but good things and you can apparently run a Plex server on it no problem. Supposed to get here this week so we'll see once I get some drives in it and get everything set up.
I'll enter the "Stupid shit my neighbor did" thread." He put a camera in his house to spy on his daughter, then tried to hide the evidence. He is no longer my neighbor.
I often will open a bunch of tabs in the morning and sometimes forget which order I opened them in, so I rely on the context of the first few new posts to tell me what thread it is. Yours was the first new post, and I was immediately able to rule out the dads thread as a possibility.