Ah the advantages of being poor and having to fix everything yourself
it's so much cheaper
Honestly, the labor is only like 10 to 20%, it's the new equipment plus the proper disposal of the old equipment that's the big part of the cost. Also, I can do things like fix a seal in the toilet, put in a new garbage disposal, fix drywall, and other minor to medium repairs. I do not want to fuck with HVAC. That's out of my league.
why don't you fuck a bunson burner or what ever it is you do at work about it
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These reno's were supposed to happen a few years ago; at least that was the plan when we first moved in.
But then we discovered, about 6 months after we moved in that the 50-year-old tree in the front yard had got it's roots into the 80-year-old main sewer line from the house.
Cost to remove tree: $1500
Cost to replace old ceramic sewer line with modern PVC: $7000
The next year, we set aside to do the heating and insulation. In theory, the expense will pay for itself in 10-15 years. Hooray.
Of course, that was also the year that the Water header tank exploded, and for some god-fool reason the overflow pipe was two pipes welded together... poorly. I awoke Easter weekend to discover my ceiling damp, my wallpaper peeling and a large puddle on the ground.
That was only a few hundred dollars to fix, but the damage was too pervasive to fix entirely.
One of the main cost overruns in the renovation was the piles under the house. Apparently there was a floating platform completely unconnected to any other part of the foundation, and the cross beams themselves were arranged in an archaic - and now poorly-regarded - way, particularly for an earthquake zone. The cost of new piles and reinforcing the foundations and attaching the floating section to the rest of the house (which was kinda important, because it was drifting away) took a week, and probably added $5000 to the cost.
So yeah, now the bank owes even more of my ass than it did at the start of the year.
That said; damn, do I love my new kitchen/bathroom/living area.
Ah the advantages of being poor and having to fix everything yourself
it's so much cheaper
Honestly, the labor is only like 10 to 20%, it's the new equipment plus the proper disposal of the old equipment that's the big part of the cost. Also, I can do things like fix a seal in the toilet, put in a new garbage disposal, fix drywall, and other minor to medium repairs. I do not want to fuck with HVAC. That's out of my league.
why don't you fuck a bunson burner or what ever it is you do at work about it
I'll have you know I masturbate an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer at work and ejaculate solutions into the thing to do trace elemental analysis. Then I tickle it's ass.
Ah the advantages of being poor and having to fix everything yourself
it's so much cheaper
Honestly, the labor is only like 10 to 20%, it's the new equipment plus the proper disposal of the old equipment that's the big part of the cost. Also, I can do things like fix a seal in the toilet, put in a new garbage disposal, fix drywall, and other minor to medium repairs. I do not want to fuck with HVAC. That's out of my league.
well there's your problem
run everything into the ground
then find a broken one that has the part you need in usable condition
I moved into a new place last month, I am still getting the old tenants mail. I have received an issue of Rolling Stone and Cosmo, I was incredibly dissatisfied with both of them.
On a serious note, one of our bathroom doors stuck when we moved in because they had just repainted it. My roommate got trapped in the bathroom for an hour that first night before I checked my phone and saw he needed help. Maintenance had to plane it down, took all the paint off the side of it, it was a mess.
I bought a place with my 2 brothers, it was going swimmingly until my big brother and his fiancée decided that they wanted out paying them out their 50k as well as keeping up with repayments wasn't fun.
Luckily, we had my dad, who lent us the money to pay him out which makes me so fucking lucky to have a parent who can bail us out like that.
I moved into a new place last month, I am still getting the old tenants mail. I have received an issue of Rolling Stone and Cosmo, I was incredibly dissatisfied with both of them.
On a serious note, one of our bathroom doors stuck when we moved in because they had just repainted it. My roommate got trapped in the bathroom for an hour that first night before I checked my phone and saw he needed help. Maintenance had to plane it down, took all the paint off the side of it, it was a mess.
I would've kicked open the door after 5 minutes
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I moved into a new place last month, I am still getting the old tenants mail. I have received an issue of Rolling Stone and Cosmo, I was incredibly dissatisfied with both of them.
On a serious note, one of our bathroom doors stuck when we moved in because they had just repainted it. My roommate got trapped in the bathroom for an hour that first night before I checked my phone and saw he needed help. Maintenance had to plane it down, took all the paint off the side of it, it was a mess.
I would've kicked open the door after 5 minutes
It opened in with very little room to get leverage on it, and he's a fairly weak guy. I think it's cause he drinks and smokes and only eats vegetables, but what do I know.
I moved into a new place last month, I am still getting the old tenants mail. I have received an issue of Rolling Stone and Cosmo, I was incredibly dissatisfied with both of them.
On a serious note, one of our bathroom doors stuck when we moved in because they had just repainted it. My roommate got trapped in the bathroom for an hour that first night before I checked my phone and saw he needed help. Maintenance had to plane it down, took all the paint off the side of it, it was a mess.
I would've kicked open the door after 5 minutes
It opened in with very little room to get leverage on it, and he's a fairly weak guy. I think it's cause he drinks and smokes and only eats vegetables, but what do I know.
I moved into a new place last month, I am still getting the old tenants mail. I have received an issue of Rolling Stone and Cosmo, I was incredibly dissatisfied with both of them.
On a serious note, one of our bathroom doors stuck when we moved in because they had just repainted it. My roommate got trapped in the bathroom for an hour that first night before I checked my phone and saw he needed help. Maintenance had to plane it down, took all the paint off the side of it, it was a mess.
I would've kicked open the door after 5 minutes
It opened in with very little room to get leverage on it, and he's a fairly weak guy. I think it's cause he drinks and smokes and only eats vegetables, but what do I know.
Did he try using his dick?
Stick in a gap, get a little hard
bam door opened
He's also "weak" in that regard, or so I've heard. A solid suggestion though, I'll keep it in mind for myself.
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Once when I was about eleven I was in my room when my dad yelled "ANDREW GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!" I was fucking scared because I thought he was going to yell at me, but when I went into the back room he was next to the radiator trying to stop water going everywhere. He'd been draining the air from the system but the water pressure was too high or some shit, and water had just shot out like a hose all over the place.
His next words were "GET A FUCKING CARROT," which I thought was strange, until I realised he wanted me to get a carrot that he could then jam into the hole and stop the water coming out. I ran into the kitchen and saw that there were no carrots, but there were potatoes, which to my eleven year old mind was the next best thing. So I got one and came back in and when I gave it to my dad he looked at me with an expression that said "what the fuck am I supposed to do with this, Son?"
Anyway eventually we carefully placed an oven tray under the spot where the water was landing and let it fill up.
Never heard my dad yell so loud in my life. He told me not to tell mum what had happened, and I was like "sure." Even today though, I remember my Dad looking over his shoulder, wild eyed and covered in water, screaming for me to get a fucking carrot. Which is pretty funny given that my dad is not a big guy and looks exactly like the music teacher he is.
This story is amazing.
I can just imagine your father looking at this "carrot" that you produced.
I have an 11 year old kid who doesn't know what the fuck a carrot is. Just how badly did I fuck up here?
Our apartment complex sends the repairman out the same day.
I would love to own... although it's highly unlikely. But in the meantime I am appreciating our apartment and its swimming pool and gym
My parents came to visit one year and they returned home to find half their roof had collapsded and the shower had been leaking. That was a fun January for my dad.
My grandparents are going to leave me all three homes they own here in their will (they just wanted to buy the house they lived in but the owner also owned the two neighboring houses and would only sell all three so they said fuck it and bought those two and rent them both out now. I currently live in one of those), and my other grandparents are also going to leave me their house in the mountains over in West Virginia. I really don't want them, I'd rather my grandparents stayed alive forever but I don't see that happening and I don't know what I'm going to do with four houses.
I rent with three other guys and one new guy cooks heaps but hasn't grasped the concept of 'if you spill edible substances on kitchen surfaces they need to be cleaned up or house becomes crack den quickly'
Needless to say pest count has gone up since he moved in.
I rent. I have two shittu and inconsiderate housemates. I'm pretty sure one of them doesn't shower and he spends 100s of euros a month on cosplay costumes that he posts pictures of himself wearing on Facebook. The problem is that he's like 300lbs and is trying to cosplay as slim characters.
I've tried multiple times to get them to stop doing the shitty stuff but it lasts for about a month then they just become terrible again so I've given up.
I'll be moving out when the lease is up and either living on my own or with people who can behave like adults and not like fucking children.
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why don't you fuck a bunson burner or what ever it is you do at work about it
But then we discovered, about 6 months after we moved in that the 50-year-old tree in the front yard had got it's roots into the 80-year-old main sewer line from the house.
Cost to remove tree: $1500
Cost to replace old ceramic sewer line with modern PVC: $7000
The next year, we set aside to do the heating and insulation. In theory, the expense will pay for itself in 10-15 years. Hooray.
Of course, that was also the year that the Water header tank exploded, and for some god-fool reason the overflow pipe was two pipes welded together... poorly. I awoke Easter weekend to discover my ceiling damp, my wallpaper peeling and a large puddle on the ground.
That was only a few hundred dollars to fix, but the damage was too pervasive to fix entirely.
One of the main cost overruns in the renovation was the piles under the house. Apparently there was a floating platform completely unconnected to any other part of the foundation, and the cross beams themselves were arranged in an archaic - and now poorly-regarded - way, particularly for an earthquake zone. The cost of new piles and reinforcing the foundations and attaching the floating section to the rest of the house (which was kinda important, because it was drifting away) took a week, and probably added $5000 to the cost.
So yeah, now the bank owes even more of my ass than it did at the start of the year.
That said; damn, do I love my new kitchen/bathroom/living area.
I'll have you know I masturbate an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer at work and ejaculate solutions into the thing to do trace elemental analysis. Then I tickle it's ass.
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well there's your problem
run everything into the ground
then find a broken one that has the part you need in usable condition
repeat ery day
I moved into a new place last month, I am still getting the old tenants mail. I have received an issue of Rolling Stone and Cosmo, I was incredibly dissatisfied with both of them.
On a serious note, one of our bathroom doors stuck when we moved in because they had just repainted it. My roommate got trapped in the bathroom for an hour that first night before I checked my phone and saw he needed help. Maintenance had to plane it down, took all the paint off the side of it, it was a mess.
Luckily, we had my dad, who lent us the money to pay him out which makes me so fucking lucky to have a parent who can bail us out like that.
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I would've kicked open the door after 5 minutes
Good bye thousands of dollars.
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It opened in with very little room to get leverage on it, and he's a fairly weak guy. I think it's cause he drinks and smokes and only eats vegetables, but what do I know.
Did he try using his dick?
Stick in a gap, get a little hard
bam door opened
He's also "weak" in that regard, or so I've heard. A solid suggestion though, I'll keep it in mind for myself.
This story is amazing.
I can just imagine your father looking at this "carrot" that you produced.
I have an 11 year old kid who doesn't know what the fuck a carrot is. Just how badly did I fuck up here?
Satans..... hints.....
I would love to own... although it's highly unlikely. But in the meantime I am appreciating our apartment and its swimming pool and gym
My parents came to visit one year and they returned home to find half their roof had collapsded and the shower had been leaking. That was a fun January for my dad.
Not that there aren't advantages to renting, to be fair I never really wanted my own property in the next 20 years anyway.
Hot water EVERYWHERE. Took several hours and 12 towels to clean up.
hi5 yes
Needless to say pest count has gone up since he moved in.
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yeah, cause lord knows I'm so hipster
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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It makes me feel like a man
I'm sure your ass sweats in ways that Pip's ass hasn't even heard of.
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My apartment is fucking hot right now. It is at least 10 degrees hotter inside than it is outside and it is like 90 outside.
not bad
we have a broken bathroom fan
we bought a new fan months ago
he has not installed it yet
until he does, he demands that everyone leaves the bathroom door open while they shower so the steam can get out
plus he could probably beat up your dads
well probably not actually he's getting old
ughhhh
I've tried multiple times to get them to stop doing the shitty stuff but it lasts for about a month then they just become terrible again so I've given up.
I'll be moving out when the lease is up and either living on my own or with people who can behave like adults and not like fucking children.