Just switched all of my lightbulbs to LED. btw, there are a lot more lightbulbs in a house than I expected.
I've been in my house for 3 years and I'm still only about three quarters of the way there. A prior owner must have loved dimmers. Almost every light switch has one of the old dimmers that needs to be converted to an LED compatible one. Consequently, I just wait for the existing bulbs to die and then change out the dimmer and light bulb at the same time.
So I put some LED's on what may be a normal dimmer. They work, but they definitely audibly buzz. Is that why? Signed, I don't know shit about electricity.
Yes. The old dimmers work by cutting the amount of power going to the light. LEDs don't work that way so that is why you get the buzzing and you also don't get the full spectrum of dimming. http://recessedlighting.com/led-buzzing/
We are same. Two dimmers changed, only 4 left to change out. The only thing I don't like is the slight delay from the time you flip the switch until the light comes on. I told the wife that I was going to switch the chandelier in the dining room over to LED. The ten 100W light bulbs in that thing were like a beacon for ships lost at sea. I replaced them with the new LED bulbs and now the wife doesn't like the color of the light. She doesn't want it "too white", but she doesn't want "the yellowish" light either. I fucking give up. On a side note, I've got about 100 or so 100W Reveal incandescent bulbs that we stocked up on before they stopped making them. At the time, the CFL's were shit and there was nothing that gave off good light other than the incandescents. Is there a black market for these things, or should I just save them for 50 years and donate them to a museum?
Your wife isn't wrong. There is s fine line between sterile and yellow and getting the right warm lighting can be a challenge with LEDs. The bulbs are expensive so it sucks missing the mark.
Wasn't someone in here recently saying we shouldn't replace everything with LEDs because there's some other improvements on its way soon? Can't remember who it was, but it fit my objective of not replacing all my light bulbs so I bought into it.
I've seen them before, but I have enough time to do the traditional pitch. Those Kerdi systems are expensive af.
PSA: a jigsaw blade gets hot as fuck cutting through backerboard around molding. Don't touch it immediately following or you will blister the tip of your fingers and make texting more difficult. Thanks.
I've got the impression of the back side of the blade blistered to my finger tips. It'd be cool if it didn't hurt.
My wife had a day off last week and replaced the kitchen faucet I was going to replace on my weekend. Looks good, but she didn't tape the junctions, but otherwise it's good - I was impressed. Had to do some other work and taped up all the PVC junctions underneath, and needed to re-putty the in-sink drains. Cheap, easy fix.
They are. $650 with the drain for 30x60, ish. You can set tile on them the next day though, so the time tradeoff (and the absolute waterproof aspect, make them a good investment for me.
So today was day 1 of the house being listed. Had 5 visits and the 1st one mad an offer. If i accept it, I could say that our house sold in 13 minutes (the guy who made the offer called our realtor within 13 minutes of the listing being online and was our first visit). They came in 5K over list...but asked us to cover 5K of closing costs....so it's basically list price at the end of the day for us, granted it looks better on comps for my neighbors. Honestly overwhelmed with how fast that just happened.
congrats dude, usually I say don't take the first offer but it depends on how quick you want out of there.
Agreed. If he is in a market where people are offering that right off the bat, then he should have some room for negotiations.
well we are moving to get out of here quick so thats something to consider and i think they came in with a premium offer to just get the process moving quick too so that we are closed about a month from today. The reason they came in 5K over right off the bat I believe is to give us list price (post closing costs) while minimizing his own closing costs probably to hold onto some cash. So the bottom line is we get our asking price while at the same time he isnt on the hook for asking-price-closing-cash. Asking us to pay the 5K I believe is completely based on going over list price. This makes sense in my head...not sure if it did in typing...
No that absolutely makes sense. It's $5k less out of his pocket at close because he is financing that extra $5k. Even so, I may counter with a slightly higher "purchase price" because I feel that you have the leverage.
Related....anyone have any moving companies they would recommend??? Preferably one that is good about holding my stuff in storage for a month or two while I close on another house? Plus I think I need to rent an apartment for a month or two and go through a furniture rental to furnish it? Airbnb would be an option but I dont know exactly how long I would need yet until I put in an offer...
yea I mean it's Atlanta to Orlando so going back and forth one or twice isnt the biggest deal in the world...but getting the sale cash fast for a down payment is probably a priority.
no longer under contract. after inspection, the roof needed replacement, hardi plank needed painting (badly), and both furnaces and one heat pump are beyond life expectancy. wanted the seller to come down or pay for something. they offered to "put some more shingles on" and to fix the ticky-tack cosmetic shit listed in the inspection. fuck off.
yeah, i think you probably take that and save yourself the hassle of multiple visits and all the shit that comes with listing a house. You definitely have leverage since he bid so quickly, so it probably wouldn't hurt to counter with a slightly higher price if you want to extract a few extra K from the guy. But if he seems likely to make it to closing (never a given) I would go for it.
No, the poof part is when you're fixing all the shit that is broken/breaks immediately after you move in.
This is one of the things I've struggled with while moving from one house to another. Didn't know there were moving companies that would actually hold onto your stuff for that long. Would make it a lot less stressful during the transition. Wonder how expensive that would get, though.
PODS seem like a good option for this, and you can load it at your pace instead of having to do it all in a three hour period or whatever. I've not used them, but i see them all over the place
fair enough, yeah PODS is really geared to DIY movers. I'm with you though, fuck that self-moving thing.
Have area in back yard off corner of house where water accumulates. Dug a decent trench around back corner of house to side, put drain and (solid/non-perf) flex pipe routing around corner of house to spill into front yard. Rather than fill in with dirt (I live in clay territory fwiw), looking to get extra utility out of ditch digging effort by filling with 1. gravel, 2. fabric barrier (strainer), 3. sand, to allow the ditch to double as a French drain surrounding the flex pipe. Is there a certain type of gravel that is best/cheapest for this application that I can pick up at a Home Depot? Normally I'd get a delivery of the crushed construction concrete/tile mix, but don't think the volume here justifies a delivery fee.
You want it to be relatively coarse so it doesn't pack down eventually. A lot cheaper to buy from a landscape company in bulk than from HD fwiw
Yea but does that landscape company have cool aprons and give you free paint stirrers? Didn't think so.
I used All my sons when I moved from Orlando to viera. Not sure on the storage situation but I was happy with the move they did as well as the pricing.
Finished the garden. I've never done masonry before but surprisingly I didn't run into much trouble besides the weather. Hardest part is keeping everything level. I'm going to try and replicate the stone work when I redo the landscaping in my front yard. I was torn on irrigation but simply went with risers on existing sprinkler heads as opposed to drip irrigation.
My Pioneer SC-91 receiver crapped out on me. That's 2 Pioneer receivers in less than 3 years. Best Buy let me do an even swap for a sonos playbar and sub under the extended warranty. Worked out in my favor honestly because I loved the sonos setup so much in my game room that I was seriously considering buying the sonos setup anyway. So now I'm 100% sonos in every room of my house other than the guest bedrooms and the media room. Such a great product.
On my February recess from school. Already stripped the old lady wallpaper in the kitchen and replaced the main drive gear in the garage door. Next move is to rewire the vent above the stove, as it keeps tripping the breaker.
Wife and I are wanting to move this summer/fall and are considering an array of options including new construction in an established neighborhood, buying a lot and finding a builder, and buying a "used" home. Does anyone know what kind of differences in price there generally is between new construction and older home? And is one worth it over the other? The thought of customizing a new construction is really enticing to us b/c we both like doing that kind of stuff, and the thought of updating an older home makes me cringe, just wondering if anyone has had the same dilemma and if you have any regrets or advice for the process.