Home Improvements

[DH]

holy shtein farg you farg you farg you that picture just made me turn farging white.

not to mention, im pretty sure we live in the same county, thus making the chance of me meeting one of those SOBs a distinct possibiity.

[Seabiscuit36]

I hate spiders more than anything in the world. The web was in the garage, no big deal, but still gave me a serious case of the heebie jeebies...I joked w the inspector that Im pulling my offer and he told me that people have withdrawn for issues a less serious than that - not that it was "serious" at all.

Dude, I have an office in my basement...well, it's sort of a man cave. That's where my xbox is, some TVs, etc. One day I went down there without the light on, and noticed that my kid left a stuffed animal spider on the ground. Then it moved. I turned on the light, and the thing was fast, hairy and as big as my hand. It ran behind some picture frames. I couldn't find it, but I couldn't just leave it there. So, I went over in my bare feet to scope it out...hating every second of it. But I was afraid it would get my kid or the dog.

I could see a little movement under some picture frames, so I just picked them up and started smashing them down. The damn thing came up and almost got my hand, but fell down and I crushed it...again, and again, and again.

I looked it up and I think it was some sort of mouse spider. Looked a lot like this.



Took a little while before I stopped looking for it's brothers and sisters down there.

Send them to IGY, he can use the spiders to kill the mice. 

[Tomahawk]

A friend just paid a plumber a buck fifty to install a toilet only. I'd guess labor to cost you $250 to $350

[hbionic]

holy shtein farg you farg you farg you that picture just made me turn farging white.

not to mention, im pretty sure we live in the same county, thus making the chance of me meeting one of those SOBs a distinct possibiity.

DH, if I had no knowledge of your posts here and met you in person, I'd be afraid to run into in a dark alley. Now? I'd still be afraid, but I'd bring a bag of spiders incase shtein went down.

[Diomedes]

Is this like Price Is Right? 

Assuming you retain the services of a licensed, insured plumber...I estimate $325.

Report back after you pay up to let us know.

[PhillyPhreak54]

1. Stop quoting that farging picture! I'm like DH in that I loathe spiders. Just reading Z's story about his visitor had me nervous. farg those farging things.

2. lol at Havas' fort building mice. The story of his mouse hunting a year or so ago with the end pic of the dead critter in the trap with the spatula close by was great.

3. Igy says his old lady never goes in the kitchen. Sup with that?!

[General_Failure]

[PhillyPhreak54]

Die!

[Sgt PSN]

Send them to IGY, he can use the spiders to kill the mice. 

Haha....I just made the same comment about the pic Dio posted in the random musings thread. 

We should post spider pics in every thread to farg with DH. 

[Diomedes]

I been digging.

http://imgur.com/a/ll85a#0

[General_Failure]

Looks good. What kind of shape is the gazebo in?

[Diomedes]

Turrble.  I told them to stop letting their daughter use that swing.  The deck is attached to the gazebo only by face screws on the mitred butt ends of the last eight or so pieces of decking.  If they pull those, they could push the gazebo over and the deck wouldn't be affected at all.

Also, thanks.

[Seabiscuit36]

Dio.  What's the best way to fix leaky windows?  I'm guessing I'm getting water above the 2x4 trim i believe the seal for the lip of the window is failing.  For the wood do you think I should wrap membrane above to cover the exposed wood?  This section was previously covered by a deck that we removed and have no interest in putting it back on that side of the house.  Its pissing me off at this point.  Only have water when we get wind blown rain.

[Rome]

First thing I'd do is lose the T1-11.

[Seabiscuit36]

Thats actually next up.  This repair just needs to get me thru the next two months or so.  We're throwing siding over top of it.  It's not a bad base, and i guess the orig owner planned to just do what we're doing siding.  I've only had two rainstorms since removing the deck where we had wind blown rain hitting at the right side of the house to cause an issue. 

Dio would probably appreciate the way they attached the deck to the house.  No need for lag bolts, they threw nails into concrete which amazing didnt hold a thing  Deck was 15 feet off the ground, barely attached.