Home Buyin/Maintenance Thread - Where most of us are 30ish but act 47. Oh, and fuck home inspectors

Early December

 

so one of my garage door springs snapped yesterday and wondering if anyone here has replaced one themselves? the tension spring and giant door falling on me make me slightly nervous, but maybe Im just overthinking it.

also seems like it isnt crazy expensive to have someone else do it, so not sure if its even worth the trouble to try myself

 

Don't fucking do it yourself

 

Don't even try to do it yourself

 

I’ll fuck with electricity but I ain’t messing with springs

 

ok, so my concerns were valid

 

You can literally kill yourself with those springs. I've hot swapped a breaker and I wouldn't even consider fucking with a garage spring.

 

clearly I should not be drinking too much coffee and watching do it yourself videos on youtube

 

just I’d this done as well as replacing the motor. $750 and though I think I overpaid, I’m still ok with it because I’m not fucking with those springs.

 

Late round 1 tee times are absolutely fucked

 

Agreed, I think.

 

I opened the golf thread and immediately go oh fuck where did i post that when i didn’t see it

 

Yeah let the wife and kids handle that.

 

For some reason I love it when this topic comes up via some ambitious young sojourner every 6 months. Another life saved. Well done crew.

 

With the tension on those, a screw up could be deadly.

*I see this was well covered.

We had ours replaced and I think it was in the $600-1000 range and we had to pay extra for “emergency” Sunday night service.

 

I liken it to the young clean shaven stranger in his 3 piece suit, just arriving from his trip from the east, strolling into the old western tavern to ask if anyone would help him enact justice with the ruffian that was rude to his lady outside of town

The piano stops, everyone puts down their mug and stares in horror, and the barkeep tells him, “make sure yer lady apologizes and don’t you stir up any trouble.”

 

After reading the springs posts I will no longer be doing any and all housework just to be safe

 

So just as same as before reading the posts. Got it lmao.

 

Mad lol

 

I endorse this. You can’t be too safe.

 

Irate, I need a bar to bring me down.

 

To be fair, I get worried for the safety of the entire neighborhood every time devine starts talking about lighting charcoal

 

Home appraisals came out from the county and as expected saw a significant increase from the prior year. However, neighbors on both sides of us sold in the pat 12 months and I’m confident sold at a much lower price than our appraisal. Conveniently both houses are identical square foot and nearly the same layout.

Is there a way to get actual sale prices for real estate? I don’t trust what I see on Zillow and I’m only seeing appraisals on the county assessors website.

 

There should be a GIS map in your county that shows all the property and has a record of all the transactions on the units.

 

Different states have different reporting/transparency requirements.

 

Our county has a database with the assessed value, last sale price, owner, etc of every property. You can search by address or map.

 

If you are trying to do “standard” under counter size, this was one of the least expensive ones I could find that was in stainless when I looked. I think it was only ~$400 back then though.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Magic-C...age-Cooler-Stainless-Steel-HMBC58ST/300509606

 

if you know a realtor they can usually pull what it was(but as someone mentioned it my depend on state). I still email ours occasionally just to ask about random houses being sold in the neighborhood

 

Turns out my house was built using cat5 cable to run phone lines to each room. Time to retrofit that and get Ethernet throughout the house.

Just gotta figure out what the fuck is going on with this rat nest.

 

This should help. Giving you this link to start, there are other pictures that would help you out more. At the end of the day all the colors work if they terminate to the right spot but this should help you sort with a game plan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/25-pair_color_code

 

We had a junior board event last night and I was complaining about the cold snap to some younger members and how I had to spend Friday night covering budding plants in burlap and sheets and one of them said “you sound like my grandpa”

 

I always give up on these cuz of mild color blindness.

Also it’s just a bunch of eth cable twisted together.

 

Finally got the butcher block for our island in yesterday. Kind of a cluster fuck as I somehow apparently selected the shipping option that I get no help getting this big fucker off the truck. Had to basically beg the driver to help me at least get it off the truck and into my driveway, no shot I could get it inside. Had my buddy come over after work and help me get it inside. Completely unwrapping it though, I noticed the inside of the box was wet. Well, looks like one of the corners of the box had sat in water at some point during shipping and soaked through the butcher block. I'm sure the lumber company is going to tell me I'm SOL and to take it up with fed ex, so I'm assuming it's going to be on me to fix this problem. It's walnut and unfinished as I was going to finish it myself with some kind of food grade treatment. Any one know the best course of action to treat this:

edit to add: it was actually the underside of this that was in water, so it soaked all the way through.

 

Stick it in a bag of rice

 

In all seriousness get an orbital sander and see if that helps. You’ll need to do this periodically for upkeep on butcher block as well, then treat with butcher block oil. You can use mineral oil will do but they also make specific blends. You could also try scrubbing with a halved lemon and salt

 

You might not have seen my edit, but the water was actually on the bottom side and stained all the way through. So wasn't sure if a sander would do anything in that scenario.

 

That really sucks. See if you can get a replacement. If not hopefully sanding or lemon scrub will help

 

Unrelated to the thread topic but this reminds me of when I met with some younger people (23-25) new to my industry a couple months ago and one asked me if I knew what a meme was. Bitch, I'm 33! My generation invented memes!

 

I hope you intentionally pronounced it “mee mee”

 

It may need some time to dry out still, I’d give it some time and try to isolate the room it’s in with a dehumidifier to speed up the process. I know it’s easier said than done in a kitchen but even at night would help.

Second option is make it all look like that. Before you finish it throw some wet towels on it for as long as it takes. Then dry and finish.

You absolutely should rail the lumber company. I know it’s not their fault but it’s not what you ordered and they should have insurance.

 

That's how you say it, isn't it?

 

Whelp prob time to get a new dishwasher. It’s not cleaning easy stuff like dried ketchup off and I don’t care enough to troubleshoot. It’s 10+ years old so it had a good life.

 

You married a 10 year old?

 

update: $300 and 30 min later I have a working garage door with new springs

 

Aaand you're not dead! Win/win!

 

a 10+ year old

 

Has anyone had landscape lighting installed? Really want to put some in the backyard but the costs are seeming to be higher than i anticipated.

 

I installed myself, it’s very easy. I used Volt and was impressed with the quality, though you definitely pay for it relative to the kits you will find at big box stores.

www.voltlighting.com/

 

Any guide or anything that you used for designing it?

 

Their website has some FAQs with video tutorials that are pretty good. They also have a message board which is surprisingly active where you can get specific questions answered, often from their company reps.