6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2016 00:48
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Anybody know anything about gutters and how much they should cost?
I got a quote for all the material I'd need for my house and garage last year and it was around $1,200 bucks. Kind of prohibitive, even though I'm working now. I was talking to a guy at work today and he thought I should be able to get everything I need for about $400 bucks at Menards..... but I wouldn't have seamless gutters then. I was considering maybe just paying the expensive place a delivery charge to come out and run my seamless gutters and then buy the rest of the parts I'd need from Menards.
I'd be happy if I could get them done for about $600 bucks and owe one of my friends or my brother a huge favor for helping install them.
Aside from buying a battery backed up sump pump, it's really the last large Critical thing I need to take care of. Everything else is just cosmetic.
My step-dad is coming out this weekend and we're going to run a shit tone of electric through my garage. Finally get some outlets out there, some serious lighting inside and finally get the motion sensor lights on the outside. I can't wait!
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I know I have better things to buy, but I was really getting tired of not having some outdoor patio equipment so people can sit and relax and eat outside. I've been working at The Mart for a week now and this set caught my eye:
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id=600&op_sharpen=1&qlt=90,0&resMode=sharp&op_usm=0.9,0.5,0,0
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id=600&op_sharpen=1&qlt=90,0&resMode=sharp&op_usm=0.9,0.5,0,0
Imagine the thrill when I saw that they were having a 50% off Outdoor Living sale, and for this week there was an extra 10-15% off! With very little internet research I found sites that gave online coupon codes for items there. Unfortunately the BIG $20 and $30 discounts didn't work on "extreme deal" merch, but I did find one for 5 bucks off a 50 dollar purchase that worked, and since you could split this up into two separate orders it was worth 10 bucks. 
Normal price for the table and chairs: $700
Sale price for the combo pack: $299.00
Sale price after additional 10%: $269.10
Sale price after additional 10 bucks off: 259.10
After tax, it was about 280 bucks! Not bad for a 700 dollar set.
It doesn't come with the umbrella and stand though. Those were an additional 150 or so on sale.
I've still got a heavy duty vinyl MGD umbrella that I yanked from a bar in my idiot youth days that I've never used to this day. I'll be making good use of that and some left over paver stones to anchor it until the umbrella goes on clearance in the fall
Until then.... White Trash up in this Bitch!
I'm so excited to get it all put together!
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BIG WIN AT THE MART TODAY!!!!
Membership has it's benefits, that's for sure.
15,000 sq/ft Scott's Turf Builder - $31.50 (Normally $63.00)
2 bags 5000 sq/ft Scott's Turf Builder - $7.49 each (Normally 14.99 each)
2 bags 5000 sq/ft Mart Weed'n'Feed - $6.49 each (Normally 13.99 each)
10 lb bag of Kingsford Charcoal - $3.49 (Normally 6.99)
Lighter fluid for charchoal - $4.50 (Real price)
Are these prices for real, that's for sure. How are they possible? Being a Mart employee. I even got the full employee discount off the whole ordeal.
Aside from the lighter fluid, they were all "damaged goods" which means the bags had holes and customers wouldn't buy them, so employees get first crack at the half priced goods before the public gets them.
AWESOME!!!!!!
Everything on that list cost 5 bucks less than the single bag of 15,000/sq turf builder would have cost alone after tax!
Sure.... it's money I haven't even put in the bank yet, but after sales tax it's what I made working tonight before taxes. Can't pass up a deal like that.
Got the grill working for the rest of the year and got my fertilizer needs for the next 1 1/2 years taken care of in only one nights labor costs.
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Has anybody had any experience with Bamboo or Reed fencing? I didn't even know it existed until tonight at work. I had two ideas for where I could use this. The first would be to cover both of my neighbor's hideous privacy fences. The second would be to cover the walls in the basement that I had to expose to remove the mold.
The only problem is that it's not exactly "cheap".... It's sure cheaper than having my own privacy fences installed when I can just piggyback off of their fences, and it's a better alternative in the basement right now to leaving bare studs everywhere for the next few years since I don't want to do a full on rehab until I know that the water issue is quelled.
I'm just wondering if they hold up well at all. It sounds like a great idea, but for the price if it looks like crap after 3 years that was a lot of wasted money.
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Nope. I know bamboo iz very dense, so that givez me the impression that it'll last, but you shoud research it.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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Nope. I know bamboo iz very dense, so that givez me the impression that it'll last, but you shoud research it.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com]
Yup.... "Mature" Bamboo is VERY dense and will probably last a lifetime for me..... Unfortnuately mature bamboo is much more expensive per sq/ft that drywall and paint is....
I need to make a decision here.
I could make it work and cut around outlets and if the tax man cometh I can tell him to go scratchif I have bamboo walls.....
BTW... just got a letter in the mail today. I was wrong about owing nearly 60 bucks come November on my taxes, it seems that my 2 installments were so low that if I get it notarized I have a 48 dollar overpayment coming back my way. My taxes, believe it or not, were slashed over 50%!!!!!!
I'm going to just call them up and ask if they can apply that to my next year's taxes rather than go to a notary and do all that BS. On principal, I usually don't like having any excess government funds out of my hands when they don't need to be, but I make that in like 6 hours now.....
More trouble than it's worth.
Just glad I don't owe another 1,150 in November and they actually owe me now :)
It's F-KING official now !
I owe only 47.9% of the taxes I owed in May.
I guarantee that I could NEVER repeat these results for 99% of the population that asked me because I lucked into a prime postion myself, but I can also guarantee that I could reduce anyone's taxes by at least 10% if they asked me to help.
I might be a dick, but I'm a "dick for the people" :)NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
DAAAAAAAMMMMM! Did a long post here & the whole site crashez! HAKEN?!
I rote about my year & 1/2 uv not being able to drive very far kuz the enjin overheats. O! It wuz a rouzing tale, worthy uv a Firefly episode adaptation! Similar to Out uv Gas, but preferably with more hot naked chicks!
Anyway, long story short: Turnz out it wuz the fan clutch; "a nothin part till you dont hav wun". I spent over 6oo$ and untold owrz goofing around trying to fix it, including changing the fan clutch with a uzed wun. So my usual 20 mile round trip 2 or 3 timez a week woud often include an owr uv sitting in a parking lot or on the shoulder waiting for it to cool down.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com
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Speaking of nothing parts man.....
My advice, always have a spare thermo-couple for your furnace on hand.
Stupid little 8 dollar part, but if yours ain't working one cold February night, you'll be glad you don't have to wait until the morning to buy one, especially if you have work the next day
Glad you figured out the car though man. I don't know crap about cars except for changing oil and tires.
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Originally posted by JO753:
DAAAAAAAMMMMM! Did a long post here & the whole site crashez! HAKEN?!
I rote about my year & 1/2 uv not being able to drive very far kuz the enjin overheats. O! It wuz a rouzing tale, worthy uv a Firefly episode adaptation! Similar to Out uv Gas, but preferably with more hot naked chicks!
Anyway, long story short: Turnz out it wuz the fan clutch; "a nothin part till you dont hav wun". I spent over 6oo$ and untold owrz goofing around trying to fix it, including changing the fan clutch with a uzed wun. So my usual 20 mile round trip 2 or 3 timez a week woud often include an owr uv sitting in a parking lot or on the shoulder waiting for it to cool down.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Welcome back!
Spare thermocouple iz a good idea. I hav a very old furnace and shoud get sum spare parts for it. I had spare motor luckily a few yearz ago, but its even older than the furnace!
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com
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I don't know much about motors, but a spare thermocouple is a must during the winter.
You'll be your wife and daughter's hero when you get the heat working again at 1:00AM when nobody who carries one is open and it's 20 below with the wind chill.
Not a bad price to pay.... 8 bucks...
I've got a potential job lined up that would be along the lines of what I used to do. I'm not used to driving 1 1/2 hours round trip for a job, but if it pays nearly double what I'm making now with benefits I'm down for some travel.
Wish me luck,
~6
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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