The House Thread (aka the GET OFF MY LAWN! thread)

[at0m]

I know several of the other oldies (and proto-oldies like me) own homes. I decided to start a thread about it. I'm talking about my house, may post pictures, may just kvetch about stuff, may ask for advice, whatever. Feel free to join in.

Things I've had to do in the last few weeks:
- Yell at a flooring company for trying to fuck me over.
- Hire a contractor to tear out doors and a good portion of flooring, fix dry rot, and put in more doors. And flooring.
- Strip Wallpaper. JESUS CHRIST NEVER AGAIN.
- Replace the flapper in a toilet, unsuccessfully.
- Find out how to properly seat a toilet on a wax ring.
- Make jokes about how the room with no windows in my basement is a sex dungeon.
- Purchase a weed whacker secondhand from a coworker for $30, find out it's nearly brand new and retails for $180.
- Try to figure out which lawnmower I want and throw my hands in the air and walk out of the hardware store. Twice.
- Try to figure out how to properly balance pool chemistry, unsuccessfully.
- Find out which of my friends I should've given the 'coloring book test' to before setting them loose in my house with painter's tape. Or paint. Or dropcloths, because one of them managed to get paint UNDER the dropcloth he was laying down, and subsequently adhere it to the new hardwood floor.
- Rekey doors myself.
- Make more jokes about how the room with no windows in my basement is a sex dungeon.
- Remind myself how to use a hammer & chisel to properly carve out a recess for a strikeplate.

INSIDE RENO PICTURES HERE

[Dtrain323i]

Look at Honda for push mowers. Mine bags and mulches and has 2 counter rotating blades to mulch better

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[Squishy3]

honda mowers are fucking ace, the one i got is a beast.

[Chooly]

[A. Crow]

Real Men use Reel Mowers. 

Seriously, it's part of my workout regiment.

[Squishy3]

Real Men use Reel Mowers. 

Seriously, it's part of my workout regiment.

I have one just to say I own one. I think I used it once. Never again. Mowing the lawn with a gas motor is already bad enough since it gets ridiculously hot in Ohio during the summer.

[Didzo]

So how soon until that room is actually a sex dungeon?

[at0m]

So how soon until that room is actually a sex dungeon?

Gotta finish moving my furniture over from my condo (this week), then need to reorganize storage to clear it (next couple weeks), THEN need to figure out how to hang the sex swing (whenever I figure out how the ceiling is attached and whether it can bear the weight). Then, I can kinda call it that.

[HeK]

Look at Honda for push mowers. Mine bags and mulches and has 2 counter rotating blades to mulch better

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Also expensive as balls.
A $100 Murray from Walmart (with a Briggs and Straton) will last for ever. As long as your yard isn't huge.
Change the oil every summer, clean the air filter when it looks dirty.

[Dtrain323i]

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Look at Honda for push mowers. Mine bags and mulches and has 2 counter rotating blades to mulch better

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Also expensive as balls.
A $100 Murray from Walmart (with a Briggs and Straton) will last for ever. As long as your yard isn't huge.
Change the oil every summer, clean the air filter when it looks dirty.
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Yeah but they're awesome

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[rumbot]

Three points:

a) sex dungeon doubles as lan party room (FIOS, Y'all)

b.) at0m forgot to mention that everyone who helps him in this thread get priority bathroom queuing when he hosts lan parties (queues just like ps2)

c) my contribution is regarding pool chemistry, learned after many years of living the baywatch dream
        - get a read on the PH balance of your water source, most run low. high or low will accelerate the rate the chlorine degrades
        - get a good amount of cyanuric acid in the pool. it stabilizes the chlorine. Too little and the chlorine disappears overnight. Too much and the chlorine gets too high and burns. proper cyanuric acid and chorline also help to keep the ph in check, at least until you get a big rain.

d) I didn't know you got a pool! sweet.

[Elder]

Learn chemistry again
Buffer solutions are your friend.

Rule of lawnmowers. Less plastic = more sustainability

Also never put up wallpaper. Always paint.
The story of how someone put texturing under all the hallway paint at my sister's house, having to sand it all down so we can repaint it later was awful