In the process of buying a larger home as my current home has appreciated a little over $100k in 23 months (before including the renovations my Dad and I have done/are finishing). Really got lucky, as the overall metro area has appreciated a little bit, but my neighborhood's valuations have exploded within a certain price range for some reason.
love indy. you actually downtown in one of those older neighborhoods or elsewhere? i'm not sure what they consider those row houses downtown to be considered or if that is even downtown? always thought it was dtown.
Not sure exactly which neighborhood you're thinking of. In the actual downtown area, there's Lockerbie and Old North Side (Federal, Italian, Victorian, Mansard, Queen Anne architectures). If you take Meridian Street north (cuts right down the middle of the city), immediately after the Old North Side you'll see large old mansions, mostly tudors. To the left of Meridian starting ~10 minutes north of downtown, there's Butler-Tarkington, and to the right it's Meridian-Kessler. Those two neighborhoods have similar style homes (again, mostly tudors, but there's a huge mix -- cape cods, craftsmans, various mediterraneans, etc.). I'm selling/buying in those latter neighborhoods.
yeah, i have no clue what i am talking about but i just remember the times i have gone there are some nice houses real close to downtown. guess how the city is laid out so flat, it all feels part of downtown imo.
Replaced a ton of light fixtures yesterday and have a couple more to go today. The guy who flipped the place put in shitty bronze/yellow lights that were dim and ugly. Replaced with some nice pieces the wife found. Anyway when I went to replace the ceiling fan in our bedroom I found they had mounted it to a regular light box rather than a ceiling fan mount and if I hadn't gone to change it, it probably would've fallen on me and broke my foot eventually. I was pretty pissed off so I grabbed my chainsaw and took it out on a bush my wife wanted removed and then I felt better. Now there's a regular light fixture in there.
Anyone know if Lowes, HD, or Menards has a mulch sale soon? Need to buy a shitload for all the beds around the house (prob 60-70 bags). I would buy a cubic meter or three, but that seems like a lot of work instead of just rolling bags around and cutting them open.
By the time you load that many bags and then unload them you'll wish you had it delivered in bulk Source: I did like 65 bags last year
Pro Tip: those fuckers load it for you. Just like I did in HS when I worked there, hating every motherfucker who wanted 50+ bales of straw
I would have walked in and asked for a refund. Let them explain to the store manager why they didn't do their job. Fuck that.
Fwiw the milk glass was centerpieces from our wedding and she decided to keep most of it. Also I'm p sure we had this discussion in here when I painted the den of my last house
Pulled weeds for about 8 hrs over the last week or so a little at a time and just put down $150 in grass seed Hoping the lawn fills in nicely as it was pretty spotty from the original sod the builder put down last summer before I bought it in October
I'm in the same boat. Going to pull weeds this weekend. Been in the house a little over a year and the weeds are trying to take over the laid sod.
I know this has been discussed before, but I wanted to refresh the conversation. I'm in the market for a roomba or similar device to clean my floors at night. What should I buy?
In the span of less than a week, my 16 month old was able to break off the door stop for the door to our backyard, and then swing it open all the way so the bracket that holds the blinds on the door punched a hole through the drywall. I patched, textured, and painted the wall, and installed a door stop that threads the pin on the top door hinge so we don't have to worry about that again...
55 bags of mulch procured and put down. Will post some before/after pics later, once I eat, shower, and hit the couch.
Story time... I was setting up to grill some chicken for dinner tonight and nearly burned the house down in the process. I usually coat the grill in Pam for grilling but I was all out. I had the bright idea to borrow my wife's Pam for baking. I sprayed a generous amount like always, turned on the propane and lit the burners. Everything was fine and I left for about 10 min. while the grill got hot. As I'm getting ready to back outside to my backyard patio I see orange through the blinds. That's interesting. I open the door and it's like a scene from the movie Backdraft, flames fucking everywhere. The brick behind the grill was seemingly on fire, flames had nearly engulfed the grill including the propane tank below and I had embers burning on my deck and the spare propane tank. I calmly closed the door not wanting to alert my wife who was in the kitchen and had no clue what was going on. I quietly grabbed our fire extinguisher and went back outside. It took at least 30 seconds to get it all put out. I shit my pants at least twice. Take home point: Pam for baking CANNOT fill in in a pinch for Pam for grilling.
seriously, lock yourself in shed under porch almost burn house down with pam ........others that i am forgetting lechnerd is actually every md i have ever known
If my insurance company knew the half of it I'd be screwed. The dermabond stories in this post were true if you are looking for more embarrassing scenarios: https://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/what-is-your-most-embarrassing-work-story.166035/ I tried to post most of these stories on TMB when they happened. Problem was they were so far fetched with my persona nobody believed them. I mean what Doctor glues a glove to a patient's face?
Ugh woke up this morning to no hot water. Gas is working so clearly something is up with the water heater. Tried resetting the pilot light but didn't sound like anything was going on. Luckily my brother is a plumber and is coming up this afternoon to work on it.
We needed ours done a few years back. Went to lunch and saw some random guy buidling a brick sign holder for the restaurant. Asked him to swing by and give us a quote. Was prepared to pay $1500 or so, guy quotes us $600. I ask if we need a permit, he says "Don't worry, I'll do it over the weekend." He takes it down Friday night, calls early Saturday and says that it's going to be more, he has to go get antique bricks because they are a different size and our house is 100 years old. I think "Fuck, here's the catch," but it was only $100 more. And it looks great. Moral of the story: find a random Mexican to do it before he gets deported.
I had a grease fire in my kitchen the first time we hosted friends for dinner after moving in to our house. I was going to do steaks in my cast iron skillet. I didn't realize how much higher powered our cooktop was than the one in our condo and as we were showing them around the house I left the pan preheating on the cooktop longer than I normally would. When I poured the grapeseed oil on the hot cast iron flames shot up almost as quickly as oil coated the pan. So then I'm standing in the middle of the kitchen with flames about 12 inches high, while holding the skillet away from anything that could catch fire, trying to explain to my wife where she can find the lid for the Dutch Oven that could safely cover the flames. Luckily my friend thought quickly and ran to the patio door and opened it for me so I could get the skillet outside to let it burn out by itself on our paver patio. We have white cabinets in our kitchen and the area above the stove was covered with greasy black soot. It was really tough to get it off but we managed.
Your mortar is old and letting moisture and heat through or retaining water and expanding causing damage. Bricks will hold up but mortar needs redone at some point
Understood, I was reading it as if they had to reroute the discharge point of the chimney, which leads to a whole other set of questions.
They're tearing off the existing metal siding today and wiring the electric in the addition. I'm really fortunate the house has good bones and the metal siding protected the structure. Underneath, the original cedar shake from 1950 is still in good shape. With the trayed ceiling in the bedroom, we'll have four recessed lights in the corner and a ceiling fan. Light in shower and capped access point above soaking tub to add small hanging light after CO. Expecting to hang sheetrock and then open up the doorway from dining/kitchen later this week or next post structural inspection from county. GC told me last week we're 45 days out, gf moving in Friday to a construction zone. My dear, I damn sure tried.
What are the signs I should look for with foundation issues? Our house was built just over a year ago but I got some things I'm seeing that's starting to worry me. We hear popping all the time over the last year which I expected from the house settling. But I have a window that's cracked out the outside facing. You can see under the back patio slab. We have a column at the edge of our front porch that was even with the slab but now hangs over it by a quarter inch.