Home Improvements

[SunMo]

Old mailbox at my house was a joke


So I bought a new one and made my own stainless steel post.

[Diomedes]

Big improvement.  Nice touch with the stainless...got that from work?  Did you fill it with concrete?  I'd consider setting another post just ahead of it, and a foot taller, so kids can't get a good swing at the actual mailbox from a car.

[PhillyPhreak54]

kids these days are too busy playing video games to go mailbox bashing

[SunMo]

Big improvement.  Nice touch with the stainless...got that from work?  Did you fill it with concrete?  I'd consider setting another post just ahead of it, and a foot taller, so kids can't get a good swing at the actual mailbox from a car.

Yeah, i used a piece of 2" stainless drop we had.  I didn't fill it with concrete because it has a cap on it for the mailbox to bolt to.  i did put shear studs on the bottom and poured two bags of quickcrete in the hole which is 13" deep.  that farger isn't going anywhere

[Rome]

Challenge accepted.

[smeags]

haaa.

yeah i had to put in a mailbox thanks to my dog otis' love for mail carriers. he doesnt quite understand that the big mail bag is not a pull toy. i put it in real quick so it bascially looks like sunny's before pic. think it's about time i put the thing in right before the ground freezes.

[Seabiscuit36]

Dio has a videogame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfJ7LQn8kp8

[smeags]

if you have never removed and disposed of vinyl siding hung over asbestos siding you have not lived.

[shorebird]

Big improvement.  Nice touch with the stainless...got that from work?  Did you fill it with concrete?  I'd consider setting another post just ahead of it, and a foot taller, so kids can't get a good swing at the actual mailbox from a car.

Yeah, i used a piece of 2" stainless drop we had.  I didn't fill it with concrete because it has a cap on it for the mailbox to bolt to.  i did put shear studs on the bottom and poured two bags of quickcrete in the hole which is 13" deep.  that farger isn't going anywhere

13" isn't deep enough. You should go at least two feet to get to the frost line. If the ground gets saturated and then freezes this winter it could push it up or sideways.

[Diomedes]

I figured it was a typo and he meant 31", which still isn't frost but it's close, and honestly...we haven't had a frost below a foot or so in I don't know how long.

[Sgt PSN]

I'm sure this isn't the first or last time sunny didn't go deep enough.

Zing!!

[General_Failure]

So his neighbor's going to do it right while Sunny's at work? That's nice of him.

[hbionic]

if you have never removed and disposed of vinyl siding hung over asbestos siding you have not lived.

[Rome]

if you have never removed and disposed of vinyl siding hung over asbestos siding you have not lived.

What did you do with the asbestos shingles? 

[hbionic]

...what everybody else does...paint over them.