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Old 02-27-2024, 01:39 PM   #603
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Old 03-01-2024, 12:35 AM   #604
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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. -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Old 05-13-2024, 05:47 PM   #612
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Long story, when we first bought the home we are in back in 1988 it had the original deck across the back. It was probably 30 years old and showing its age. Around 1990 we had a father and son team rebuild it. The hollow concrete posts seemed good as did the main beams, cross braces and face boards. So basically they replaced the floor boards, the stairs and built proper railings. The original design had the top of the hollow concrete tubes cut in a V and then 4X4’s set at 45 degrees in that V. They used yellow nylon rope and screwed in eyelets to weave a very open W pattern between the posts. Not to any code, ever.
So 34 years later the top boards as well as all the other wood is rotting and two of those hollow concrete post had cracked and broken. We contacted several contractors but only one guy seemed interested enough to actually come out to the house, measure it up and give us a quote. We made some changes and asked him when he would be able to start. Well it kept getting pushed back. By the end of 2022 we had a firm commitment that he’d do it first thing in 2023. Well that didn’t happen either. So I contacted him back in March expecting that we’d be his first job. His reply was that he’d most definitely get it done this YEAR. After four weeks the wife happen to see an add from a company that did decks. She called, the young guy showed up the next day and they worked out a plan and a price. He said he’d start in three weeks. Two weeks later he called to say he and his helper where coming out to take down the old deck. It might be a week before they get back though because they had patio to finish. They were just waiting for the stone to arrive. Six hours and the old deck was down and gone. They ended up coming back the next two days to get all the prep work done, holes dug and new concrete footings poured. Let it sit over the weekend and back they came on Monday. They worked two days straight then had to take a break due to weather. Then back and it and it was finished before we knew it.
It’s the full length of the house, 59 ft. It’s 8ft wide on the kitchen side and 10ft wide at the bedroom end with 6 ft. wide stairs, (well 5 ½ ft.). We wanted it over 10 ft. wide the whole length but would had to have cut down trees to achieve that. Try to find a prebuilt gazebo that will fit within 7 ½ ft. is not easy. We did find one that will fit in 9 ½ ft. So that’s on order and it’ll be going over our bedroom sliding doors.
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Just finished a paver project connecting the house to the dock. It'll allow me to use a cart to get heavy stuff to the boat (fuel, ice, chum etc.). Never did a paver project before, not all that hard but everything is so heavy. 62 20"x20" concrete pavers, 52lbs each, right at 3200lbs total. Had to touch them 4 times each, palate to cart (home depot), cart to truck, truck to staging area, staging area to walkway. Then there was the sand, 40 25lb bags, 15 50lb bags. Also, 6 50lb bags or concrete for edging. Lastly the compactor I rented. Dam thing weighted over 200lbs, had to use the engine hoist to get it out/in the bed of the truck.

I'm too old for this LOL!

Going to stain it a light grey this weekend.
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We are on the Trent River, part of the Trent Severn inland water system. Our street is only 2km’s long with a Cul-De-Sac at the end. Usually its local traffic and weekend lookers. Most of the houses are up scale and newer than ours. Some are older and there are some old cottages updated and converted into year round homes. The community has grown a lot in the 35 years we’ve lived here. People thought we were nuts moving this far out from where the wife and I worked but it was the stress relief we needed. We each had a multitude of routes we would take to get to and from our jobs. Whether we rode or drove, winter or summer it was always a fun relaxing trip.
I spent too much of my money on cars, bikes, racing and other hobbies and not enough on the house. Now I’m paying for it, quite literally. I should have posted the photos of our $38k new septic system. It had to be above ground to meet new codes.
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