ripped out the suspended ceiling to find a spaghetti bowl monster of out-of-code electric, random phone/T-1 lines EVERYWHERE (wtf? was this a call center?) "duct" work accordion tubes held together by actual duct tape, and entire rows of mis-shot nails from the subfloor down (missed the joists.) Now I know how to fix my creaking main floorboards. 10) 39 gallon bags of Armstrong suspended ceiling tiles- which I have to pay ~$225 to have picked up. Literally almost as much to buy them as to trash them. I haven't even gotten to the carpet yet, which once I do I will be faced with the decision to either A) saw/jackhammer out a faulted section and then pour new concrete subfloor B) if the fault isn't as bad as I think it is, grind the edges, fill the gap, and self-level patch it. All of this is on a house I have no intention of being in by the end of the year. I just know there is no way that basement floor was going to pass inspection. Wish it hadn't passed when I tried to buy it.
Lol...been there done that...completely gutted first house roof to basement. At the time first baby and hubby working out of town. Having cops called because I was breaking up the basement floor during the only free time I had, while the kids slept. Digging out the basement one 5 gallon bucket at a time on a conveyor belt. Walls were horse hair and plaster and wiring was a cloth type covering. Partial basement was stone and mortar. Rest was dirt and a giant cistern. Never again! Money buys land, fixes camp house, helps the kids. I honestly could care less about the house other than maintenance. Fought my taxes 3 times and had it lowered each time. As long as it's clean and warm I am happy. I haven't one person in the world I need to impress.
Imagine being this guy, bet he begs for something more than probation..... https://www.nbc-2.com/story/4014033...g-doesnt-appear-to-be-mob-related-source-says
You are welcome. To quote myself, as a good reminder for myself as much as anyone... "All of the major news networks in America are full of crap. Four different major networks, all with four different versions of the same events. Want to be smarter and more informed? Turn them all off...all of them." "I pay little, if any, attention to the "news" as it appears in the media. Once they get past the point of saying such and such event occurred, it all becomes spin. It is no longer about the events or the people affected, its about how to spin it into political ideology and society change. When the it reaches that point, I stop paying attention. The actual news is usually just a couple of minutes of any broadcast, the remainder just becomes spin. I don't need anyone from any political ideology telling me how to interpret what happened or how I should react to it. I have a brain, I will figure it out for myself. Too many people get their panties in a wad because they give too much attention and credence to the talking heads on the idiot box."
So this morning the calk was dry and the wife took her first shower with the old faucets she hated looking at were replaced. Granted I fought with the damn project sore knees from kneeling and of course a few cuts and it took longer than I wanted. She got out and I asked well how was the shower, her reply " I liked the old shower head better"
Oh no Bill my hatred for low flow is used to modify and punch out the rubber flow control orface plate in any low flow head.
My rant for the day. I dont think I do enough to help others. I have always worked hard at work trying to help people in tough situations and have always worked hard supporting my family. But am I giving enough? Am I doing more in my free time to help others? I dont think so. Been bothering me lately. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Last night, I was having dinner with a bunch of friends. One of my buddies is a SWAT officer with the local PD. He got called out to go serve a warrant on his day off. A SWAT call out to serve a warrant. You and everyone else who works in law enforcement does enough. Its the rest of us that need to step it up. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Geez man, depending there’s only so much you can do. Helping others is great! But you have to have you time too. Trying to do too much for others without some for yourself can burn you out really quick. Helping others, WHILE supporting your family is hard enough. Dont over do it.
Sounds to me like you are taking your first step into the light, a few on here will know what that means, sadly only a few as our numbers are on the decline and everyone thinks there is some conspiracy as to what we really do. But I encourage you you to seek the light in the east and all you have to do is ask12b1. Now that being said, for every 20 roofs I sell, I donate one to Habitat for Humanity. Last year I only did 4 and I still owe them 2, I pay for material out of my own pocket and they donate the labor.
Sota....ouch. as to my home repair travail, the concrete doesn't appear to be near as bad as I feared. Biggest gap is maybe 1/4" and that's only a few feet long. Jackass previous owner filled some of the cracks with some kind of really thick epoxy that they didn't bother to scrape flush. 5 total cracks will need ground a bit, then filled and then some self-leveling mud over all of it and it should be good to go. The grinding is probably overkill but I want to be sure the leveling mud will cover it and be flush. I don't think there's much more than a half inch of total elevation deviation. Holy hell am I sore. Figured about 50#/bag of ceiling tile, that's 500# up a flight of stairs and out into the Bagster. Then each section of rolled waste carpet was probably 40#, so that's another 8 trips and 320# up the stairs.
when I got down on one knee and proposed to my wife, she 2-handed me in the chest and said "F You! F You! F You!" After I got back up and pried her mouth off mine, I had to ask - "...soooo - that's a yes?"
What doesn't kill ya makes you stronger. One good note with this place, one of the previous owners had to deal with the entire East basement wall collapsing so they had to dig out the back fill on the north side, then they bulldozed all the broken block and back fill out into the woods. Replaced the the wall making special bracing blocks along length. They left north end open for a walk out. Glad we didn't have to deal with that. Though we do need to rewire some electric, and we had to replace a lot of completely blocked drain pipe. Way too small. I call this the "Mr. Second's " house...lol
LOL.. Hope you weren't in a public place! When my husband proposed 2 months after we met I said ," Sure, but I won't hold you to it in the morning"....40 years this year.
I knew this world was in trouble when my sister and I were kids watching "A Christmas Story". She would giggle just a little too much when Ralphie would describe describe how his dad was a maestro of profanity. About six years ago she was dating this wanker from Scotland and when I asked him what he really liked about her his response "She cusses like my mother." To top it off, my sister has a LIS Degree, yeah she was a librarian for a bit.
