09-23-2013, 10:13 AM
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
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