WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR HOME TODAY?

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Did your oven come by freight wagon? -

I hope your back gets healed up soon.

No, by truck.

[humfrz]

Cleaned and treated my roof with moss killer. I swear that stuff is just fertilizer for my roof moss -

Actually, I bought the moss killer and my son-in-law cleaned the roof and applied it. My roof days have been over for some time now. -

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Actually, I bought the moss killer and my son-in-law cleaned the roof and applied it. My roof days have been over for some time now. -

My roof days ended in 1995 when we bought a house with a 10/12 pitch roof that is either 2 (back) or 3 (front) stories tall.

I spent much of my youth scrambling across roofs (my Father owned a roofing company) and I knew better. I won't say I bought a house with a steep roof on purpose, but it has eased my guilt about paying someone to do roof work over the years.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Cleaned and treated my roof with moss killer. I swear that stuff is just fertilizer for my roof moss -

Actually, I bought the moss killer and my son-in-law cleaned the roof and applied it. My roof days have been over for some time now. -

I wish my father in law's roof days were over. But no, he cleans his own chimneys, does his own roof repairs/cleaning, paints the siding, etc at 67. In the middle of winter when everything is slick of course. This is after he fell off the roof and literally broke vertebrae a week before my wife's and my wedding.

[blsfrs]

Attachment 224089I installed a Ring (wired) doorbell camera. We live in a fairly safe neighborhood but the thing was only $50 bucks and took 45 minutes to install including setting up our phones. I haven't decided on any of Rings programs. So far, we've only recorded ourselves coming and going.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

I wish my father in law's roof days were over. But no, he cleans his own chimneys, does his own roof repairs/cleaning, paints the siding, etc at 67. In the middle of winter when everything is slick of course. This is after he fell off the roof and literally broke vertebrae a week before my wife's and my wedding.

I suggest you borrow all (except one step stool) of his ladders - and just never return them.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I suggest you borrow all (except one step stool) of his ladders - and just never return them.

I think you underestimate how many ladders this man has and of what size lol.

[pope]

Originally Posted by Spuds

I wish my father in law's roof days were over. But no, he cleans his own chimneys, does his own roof repairs/cleaning, paints the siding, etc at 67. In the middle of winter when everything is slick of course. This is after he fell off the roof and literally broke vertebrae a week before my wife's and my wedding.

Originally Posted by humfrz

I suggest you borrow all (except one step stool) of his ladders - and just never return them.

Originally Posted by Spuds

I think you underestimate how many ladders this man has and of what size lol.

My 88 year old, barely ambulatory, early dementia neighbor (deceased) was constantly going up on his roof to “do repairs” until a couple months before his death. The wife would call me at least every other week spring-fall to help get him down. We would hide the tall ladders and he’d find a way up on the small ones, only making it more dangerous getting him down. Neither the wife nor I could ever figure out how he even set a ladder up in the first place, he struggled to stand-up and walk on his own.

Those were good neighbors, I miss them.

[86-75309]

I put in a call to Pella to get a replacement sash for a window in my house. The seal between the panes failed. This is around the 4th or 5th sash I've had to replace in the 8 years I've owned the house. Fortunately, they were installed when the house was built and I'm the original owner, so no cost to me. Still, I'm not very impressed with their quality control.