Home Repairs/HoneyDo List/Advice & Tips/etc.

[muffler dragon]

I hate drywalling, too. Mrs. Katt comes home covered in the dust and gets it all over my nice, clean bathroom.

But not all over the areas between an outside door and the bathroom? Methinks you're a liar. :hear hear:

On the wall going up the stairs??? Either it parallels the stairs and doesn't cover the seam, or it matches the seam and dead-ends at one of the stairs.

Either way, WHO THE FUCK SITS IN A CHAIR ON THE STAIRS?

Regardless of whether or not I saw the stairs in the bottom corner of the picture is irrelevant!

 

[ScriptOhio]

Three words:

Chair.
Rail.
Moulding.

It looks like it is by the stairway, etc. (i.e. lower right hand corner looks to be a step). If it is, not sure you would really want "horizontal" molding in a stairwell, etc.

 

[muffler dragon]

It looks like it is by the stairway, etc. (i.e. lower right hand corner looks to be a step). If it is, not sure you would really want "horizontal" molding in a stairwell, etc.

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Come late to the party often?!

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

But not all over the areas between an outside door and the bathroom? Methinks you're a liar. :hear hear:

The back door opens onto the utility room that has the shower in it. I have no qualms about referring to it as a bathroom.

Regardless of whether or not I saw the stairs in the bottom corner of the picture is irrelevant!

Your powers of observation are never irrelevant!

 

[muffler dragon]

The back door opens onto the utility room that has the shower in it. I have no qualms about referring to it as a bathroom.

So... it's your nice, clean utility room that gets soiled, huh? tsk tsk Sounds like something needs to get polished.

Your powers of observation are never irrelevant!

I'm speechless.

 

[Mac]

It's a split level, this is at the bottom of the stairs leading to the bottom part. Jeez. I didn't think this image would be a "where was this picture taken" or "what is this a picture of"

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

It's a split level, this is at the bottom of the stairs leading to the bottom part. Jeez. I didn't think this image would be a "where was this picture taken" or "what is this a picture of"

Only for muffler, whose powers of observation, although never irrelevant, are quite lacking.

Like some of his other powers, I've heard.

 

[jlb1705]

I hate drywalling, too. Mrs. Katt comes home covered in the dust and gets it all over my nice, clean bathroom.



On the wall going up the stairs??? Either it parallels the stairs and doesn't cover the seam, or it matches the seam and dead-ends at one of the stairs.

Either way, WHO THE FUCK SITS IN A CHAIR ON THE STAIRS?

 

[buckeyebri]

So, you are saying he should get a bulldog or a mother in law? I vote bulldog...:)

 

[jlb1705]

So, you are saying he should get a bulldog or a mother in law? I vote bulldog...:)

Well, I certainly wouldn't bother putting up fancy chair rail moulding in the stairway for a mother-in-law.

 

[jlb1705]

My wife and I bought our first house back in May, and the deferred maintenance by the previous owners is catching up to us.

First it was the main line to the sewer backing up into our basement's floor drain. Had Roto-Rooter out to auger the line and then do a jet cleaning. The first technician hat to bust out the cap on the cleanout in the stack because it had been in place for so long and never opened up to maintain the system. After the jet cleaning they tried to sell us on excavating our basement, but I watched them run the camera thru the thing, I knew better. Now that it has been cleaned out properly, I think we'll be fine. It's night and day from what it was when they got there to run the auger.

That was about three weeks ago. Then last week, we tried to run the furnace and found it wasn't working - namely the blower wasn't doing anything. Ended up having to have the motor replaced. Thinking back to the summer when we were running the A/C it wasn't moving that much air even then, but we didn't think much of it at the time because the house was being kept cool anyway.

Back when we bought the house, I had started a thread on hear about the purchase and somebody mentioned that home warranties "aren't worth the paper they're printed on". Well, we ended up with a home warranty for the first year, paid for by the sellers. It worked out well for us. With these two issues coming up back-to-back, I can't imagine having to go out-of-pocket for both of them right now. While the sewer issues were excluded from the warranty, the HVAC issues were covered, which was nice.

The other thing that has come up - that we're going to try to continue to defer ourselves until next spring - is maintaining the trees in our yard. We have a large in front of the house and an even bigger one right behind it. They are both starting to grow over the roof a bit and need trimmed back. The one in the back yard is especially a problem, and we're thinking of having it removed altogether. It's just too close to the house. I hate the idea of removing an old-growth tree like that, but the cost of the constant maintenance that comes with it and the risk of property damage just seems like too much.

If anybody has advice on the tree issue, I'd like to hear it.

 

[Zippercat]

My wife and I bought our first house back in May, and the deferred maintenance by the previous owners is catching up to us.

First it was the main line to the sewer backing up into our basement's floor drain. Had Roto-Rooter out to auger the line and then do a jet cleaning. The first technician hat to bust out the cap on the cleanout in the stack because it had been in place for so long and never opened up to maintain the system. After the jet cleaning they tried to sell us on excavating our basement, but I watched them run the camera thru the thing, I knew better. Now that it has been cleaned out properly, I think we'll be fine. It's night and day from what it was when they got there to run the auger.

That was about three weeks ago. Then last week, we tried to run the furnace and found it wasn't working - namely the blower wasn't doing anything. Ended up having to have the motor replaced. Thinking back to the summer when we were running the A/C it wasn't moving that much air even then, but we didn't think much of it at the time because the house was being kept cool anyway.

Back when we bought the house, I had started a thread on hear about the purchase and somebody mentioned that home warranties "aren't worth the paper they're printed on". Well, we ended up with a home warranty for the first year, paid for by the sellers. It worked out well for us. With these two issues coming up back-to-back, I can't imagine having to go out-of-pocket for both of them right now. While the sewer issues were excluded from the warranty, the HVAC issues were covered, which was nice.

The other thing that has come up - that we're going to try to continue to defer ourselves until next spring - is maintaining the trees in our yard. We have a large in front of the house and an even bigger one right behind it. They are both starting to grow over the roof a bit and need trimmed back. The one in the back yard is especially a problem, and we're thinking of having it removed altogether. It's just too close to the house. I hate the idea of removing an old-growth tree like that, but the cost of the constant maintenance that comes with it and the risk of property damage just seems like too much.

If anybody has advice on the tree issue, I'd like to hear it.

Make sure you clean out all the gutters this month. Gutters packed full of leaves can equal ice dams in winter, leaking into the house and/or causing the gutters to collapse.

What kind of trees? How close to the house are they? Was your sewer problem caused by tree roots?

Don't forget the trees help shade the house, reducing your cooling load.

 

[BuckTwenty]

If anybody has advice on the tree issue, I'd like to hear it.

Can you put up a picture of the tree and its relation to the house, jlb?

 

[jlb1705]

Make sure you clean out all the gutters this month. Gutters packed full of leaves can equal ice dams in winter, leaking into the house and/or causing the gutters to collapse.

What kind of trees? How close to the house are they? Was your sewer problem caused by tree roots?

Don't forget the trees help shade the house, reducing your cooling load.

Can you put up a picture of the tree and its relation to the house, jlb?

This photo is from a few moments ago. The tree is on the north side of the house, about twenty feet away from the foundation. It did not cause any of the sewer problems. As you can (kinda) see, it's already growing over the house. It's easily twice the height of the house, probably over 100 feet tall. The trunk splits three ways - I'm no expert but it seems like that would complicate efforts to trim it back significantly away from the house - wouldn't it make it unbalanced?

We'll definitely be cleaning out the gutters - we just have to wait for some of the damn leaves to fall.

Also as you can see, there's still a lot of work to be done back there. That deck is pure shit and needs to go. This picture actually flatters it a bit. That patio roof needs to go too, but we can't do anything with it until we are also ready to pour a new concrete slab in that spot. The current one has settled and slopes toward the foundation, so that shitty piece of sheet metal is diverting the rain water.

 

[Zippercat]

This photo is from a few moments ago. The tree is on the north side of the house, about twenty feet away from the foundation. It did not cause any of the sewer problems. As you can (kinda) see, it's already growing over the house. It's easily twice the height of the house, probably over 100 feet tall. The trunk splits three ways - I'm no expert but it seems like that would complicate efforts to trim it back significantly away from the house - wouldn't it make it unbalanced?

We'll definitely be cleaning out the gutters - we just have to wait for some of the damn leaves to fall.

Also as you can see, there's still a lot of work to be done back there. That deck is pure [Mark May] and needs to go. This picture actually flatters it a bit. That patio roof needs to go too, but we can't do anything with it until we are also ready to pour a new concrete slab in that spot. The current one has settled and slopes toward the foundation, so that [Mark May]ty piece of sheet metal is diverting the rain water.

Does not look like a proper trimming would cause much impact on the look of the tree. You don't have to trim back so far/much that the tree is not over the house...just want to trim so that the tree is not touching your roof.