Home Improvements

Seabiscuit36 · March 14, 2013, 08:40:40 AM

You'll be fine as far as the ground test I'd imagine DH. As everyone said, chip in, get the unit that fits your sq footage and that is going to be the most energy efficient. Be happy that they're putting a new system in, because that's unusual.

Seabiscuit36 · March 14, 2013, 08:46:50 AM

Hell, my buddy is selling his house, just tested positive for Radon in the basement and Chlorophorm in his water. I always wondered why his wife was so subdued.

PhillyPhanInDC · March 14, 2013, 08:49:38 AM

Need to clear this up - I think Dio is saying the same thing - ANY unit they put in MUST be capable of supporting the square footage of the house. Don't accept anything that doesn't, it subpar and any HVAC guy worth a shtein wouldn't allow it.

Once you've made sure of that, you can kick in some money to get a more efficient unit or a better warranty, etc.

Seabiscuit36 · March 14, 2013, 08:53:05 AM

I've seen contractors put in heat pumps that were yanked from other jobs to just get something in place before. Again, having a reputable HVAC guy makes a difference. Plus a good inspection.

ice grillin you · March 27, 2013, 01:24:25 PM

anyone know ballpark what it should cost me to have a contractor finish a roughed in bathroom for me...light fixture is in...walls are done...just literally need the toilet and sinked hooked up to the plumbing rough in's

and before you say how easy it is and that i should/could do it myself very easily.....NO

DH · March 27, 2013, 01:26:51 PM

I thought you had a family of mice living down there

Sgt PSN · March 27, 2013, 01:31:06 PM

He's obviously doing some nice upgrades for them. Or getting ready for Todd to move in.

If the plumbing is already in place and all you need to do is put in a vanity/sink and toilet then the installation should be fairly cheap. Can't imagine it'd be much more than a couple hundred bucks plus the cost of the sink and toilet.

ice grillin you · March 27, 2013, 01:37:59 PM

Quote from: DH on March 27, 2013, 01:26:51 PM
I thought you had a family of mice living down there

those fargers were/are upstairs....i went into the drawer below my oven last week to get out some muffin tins...its a drawer i havent been in in probably 4-6 months....wifey hasnt been in the kitchen in years....i asked he where she wanted to go on vacation this summer and she said somewhere ive never been before...i said how about the kitchen....anyway i open this drawer and the muffin tins are filled with my dogs food...these farging mice have been luggin the dogs food from his bowl on the other side of the kitchen behind the stove into this drawer and just dropping it into my muffin tins...none of it was even eaten....it was like they were building a mice fort or some shtein out of dog food......so creepy

DH · March 27, 2013, 01:41:48 PM

it may be time to move...i had my home inspection on friday and the inspector found a spider web the size of my head - i withdrew my offer.

Sgt PSN · March 27, 2013, 01:42:13 PM

Haven't you had them for like 2 years now? WTF? You letting them stay until the babies grow up and go to college?

Sgt PSN · March 27, 2013, 01:42:55 PM

Quote from: DH on March 27, 2013, 01:41:48 PM
i had my home inspection on friday and the inspector found a spider web the size of my head - i withdrew my offer.

Why? Where was the web?

DH · March 27, 2013, 01:45:53 PM

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.

ice grillin you · March 27, 2013, 03:40:24 PM

Quote from: Sgt PSN on March 27, 2013, 01:42:13 PM
Haven't you had them for like 2 years now? WTF? You letting them stay until the babies grow up and go to college?

i killed two in the last year....the last one being maybe last summer?....havent seen or heard any evidence of mice since then until i discovered the dog food fortress....it could be that they were in mid construction when i murdered the last one and its old but it still creeped me out to see it

Zanshin · March 27, 2013, 04:14:40 PM

Quote from: DH on March 27, 2013, 01:45:53 PM
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.

Seabiscuit36 · March 27, 2013, 04:22:12 PM

Clean it out, see if you have any fresh nests popping up. My dad was cleaning my grandmothers place up the other day to help her out and found an old mouse next that was under the oven. The mice have been gone for about a year now, as we had pros come in and fix the problems.

As far as your rough in. You'll probably have to pay for pump if they didnt set you up with one already.