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scarletmike
Researching the Magic!
Any other Floridians here have issues with frogs even with a screened in patio? I've noticed that some sort of frog likes to use the posts that support the screen on the patio to chill (the screen has enough slack between points for them to slide between the back side of the posts and the screen), still outside the screen, so that alone doesn't bother me. The kicker is that baby frogs seem to have a tendency to go through the screen when they're still small enough, and some don't leave before they can't get back through, so they end up dead and dried out on our patio.
There's no holes in the screen, so they're definitely coming in as babies. Basically trying to figure out if there's a way to deter them from coming through without killing them or discouraging them from chilling on the screen posts entirely (the natural bug control is appreciated).
There's no holes in the screen, so they're definitely coming in as babies. Basically trying to figure out if there's a way to deter them from coming through without killing them or discouraging them from chilling on the screen posts entirely (the natural bug control is appreciated).
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bigdog3300
The G.O.A.T.
@scarletmike
Not a FL guy but I used to have frog problems....specifically one of my dogs making it a habit to bring them in every night, dead or alive. Rock salt seemed to work to keep them away - as long as it's not on your grass you'll be okay, so put around the border of your screened in porch and that should do the trick.
Not a FL guy but I used to have frog problems....specifically one of my dogs making it a habit to bring them in every night, dead or alive. Rock salt seemed to work to keep them away - as long as it's not on your grass you'll be okay, so put around the border of your screened in porch and that should do the trick.
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buxfan4life
The future's so bright, I've gotta wear... shades.
Better just get used to it if you're not going to use any type of chemical to keep them away.
I find putting a barrier around my house of Ortho Home Max (the thick smelly shit you get from Home Depot) twice a year keeps the lizards, frogs, bugs away from my house and pool
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scarletmike
Researching the Magic!
I sprayed the patio edges with Ortho Home Defense Max when I moved in, so that's probably contributing to them getting killed (slurping up poisoned bugs once they're inside the screen), and I'm on the 2nd floor, so I may see if the rock salt helps things.
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So three weeks ago the lid switch on the washer went out. No big deal; I fixed it. Well, last night the door switch on the dryer went out too. Popped the top off the dryer and went to remove the switch when I accidentally drove my putty knife through my finger attempting to get the molex connector apart. As I'm standing there bleeding all over the place in my basement, over my shoulder I hear the ignitor click in the furnace and the gas lights, but where the starter should then kick on to turn on the blower motor, there's just a buzzing sound. Probably just a capacitor, but fuck me, owning a home really sucks sometimes.
It's like every fucking thing conspires to fail at the same god damn time.
It's like every fucking thing conspires to fail at the same god damn time.
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Ah... yes indeedy....
My last three weeks... had a creaky tie rod on my car... I do a lot of that crap myself, but they're all the same age, so, I don't have a lift, and we're talking new front end and steering linkage (and I'd been putting off a muffler) So called my guy, cheaper than I thought, like $750 out the door, plus he did another weld on the exhaust... so, whatever... oh, plus $65 for an alignment at another place, and my guy dropped it there so I only had to do one pick up, dropped it off Monday, had it back Wed night... no biggie.
Except...
The kid at the alignment shop decided he'd be helpful and try to program out a CEL code I'm never fixing. So, I get it back and its all very confused, and I picked it up after hours, fuck it, drove it home reset the PCM, and that's all fine.
But... messing with that I notice a little coolant. so, fire it up, and yes, there's a hairline crack on the top of the side tank... Autozone.com, presto chango, 45 minutes later and $150 bucks with a coupon.. I have all the stuff to fix it.
This is later on Saturday, I start ripping it all apart, get the radiator back in, but not all back together as its now "too dark to find the flashlight"
Sunday morning, finish putting it back together, gonna go skiing... take it for a test drive... seems ok... park it... and dripping lots of red fluid. Alrighty, I sealed those threads, wtf is up.
So... no skiing, rip it all back apart, reseal the fittings into the radiator, fire it back up, apparently in all the fun I bent the fitting from the transmission line to the radioor enough that it seal is going to leak out the back of the fitting. Very Well, Shit happens.
So, roll over to the Napa warehouse, knowing full well this is a MOPAR specific part. But, see if we can rig it up anyway. 45 minutes of that and then explaining to the guy in front of me how to reference a BMW part number to NAPA part numbers for the oil cooler thermostat that he broke that he obviously didn't read the tech release on that said, "get one of these, you're gonna break this doing your other job" - but he got one, for $100, that he could have got for $35 had he not needed it "now" - --- anyway, some weird arsed threading on mine... no go... its Sunday afternoon, I'm over it.
Monday morning, drop my wife at work, call the dealer about the part... They don't have it... don't know when they will (in an exact enough way for my taste) and its $51 once they do (and another major hassle ripping all this stuff out again), so, I say screw it, order a Transmission cooler I can pick up on the way, do that, 25% coupon, and $100 later (there was some extras in there), I pick it up, but was late, and its dark, so do it in the morning.
Morning comes, wife goes to work, take the shrink wrap off the trans cooler... and there's a different number on the actual box than was on the outer package...
Gets better (now what it really should have been won't work anyway) but I open the box, and bam, no transcooler in there. Some weird tightly shrinkwrapped paper that's kind of aluminum level heavy... but no cooler.
Call the store... they're like, well, that's weird... bring whatever you have back. So, now I have to wait for my wife to come home for lunch, she does, I go back, get the right one, come back, put it back together in between calls I had to be on... no problem.
Its about 4, job's all done, sitting at the kitchen table... and i hear a rumble... its the fucking refrigerator. Now, I've replaced the circulation fan twice, and it lasts about 18 months, but I decided last time, that the next time, was the last time (and really it was, there's something up with the electricals other than that)
So, its replacement came this morning (oh, and of course, Lowe's didn't make an appointment, at 10:30 they called me and said, "we'll be there in 20 minutes"- whatever I went back and met them, annoying but done)
Now I'm waiting for the old, "What's next"
(Before you say hot water heater, I'm gonna schedule a pre-emptive strike on that POS next week or so)
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The only self inflicted wound in the story was the cooler line connector... and, the solution for that is actually a much more effective device.
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scarletmike
Researching the Magic!
Holy shit, @AKAK, I would have given up after the radiator system issue reared its ugly head. 
Kudos for powering through that. The only thing that makes it tempting me to keep renting a place is to avoid having to pay for replacements/repairs out of pocket right away. Otherwise, I really want to own a home.
Kudos for powering through that. The only thing that makes it tempting me to keep renting a place is to avoid having to pay for replacements/repairs out of pocket right away. Otherwise, I really want to own a home.
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Well. I'm too cheap to buy cars that have warranties. Pay cash.. Whatever.. Haven't had a car payment in 5 or 6 years. I really enjoy doing it. What I don't enjoy is bad weather and have to get it done in a certain time (because invariably I need 2 extra trips to the store) so really what I need is a 3rd car. Money not the problem, it's the clutter in the driveway I have to sell at home. (Well, money might be the problem after a few more major appliances, but whatever.) E46 M-3's are rather reasonable right now and the motors reasonably conventional. And don't take up much room, right?Holy [Mark May], @AKAK, I would have given up after the radiator system issue reared its ugly head.
Kudos for powering through that. The only thing that makes it tempting me to keep renting a place is to avoid having to pay for replacements/repairs out of pocket right away. Otherwise, I really want to own a home.
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Yeah. Nice cars are nice, but no car payments are even better. Got a 16 year old Camry XLE and I intend to drive it until duct tape won't hold it together no more.
Hadn't made a car payment in 11 years until I finally relented and bought the wife an Odyssey in October. And the person who sold me on it was my six year old daughter. We were driving to Grove City one morning in the car when she said to me, "Daddy, if you'd just buy a new van with a DVD player in it we'd stop annoying you."
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Things you don't want to hear your HVAC friend say ... "Wow, I haven't seen a furnace wired like this in 20 years! Yeah, your inducer motor is complete seized up. Capacitor is only pulling about 60% capacity now. You smell that? Yeah ... the control board is scorched. How old is this? So, uh ... how many square feet is this house?"
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