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6ixStringJack: I just think you should probably have a pretty easy time finding used ones on the cheap if you keep your eyes open.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.10 10:13

6ixStringJack: Not that I even have them anymore, but I feel bad becuase I had 3 extra BEAUTIFUL head/foot boards that were "given" to me (see: leaving somebody else's hoard to add to my own), and I finally got rid of them in 2019. At least my neighbors knew somebody who was really interested in them, so they got a good home. I was going to keep dragging them back into my garage before the trash men picked them up otherwise. Way too nice to throw out. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.10 10:13

6ixStringJack: Yeah. Check out those options first for sure. Even if you could do a plywood solution, you deserve much better than that. Treat yourself to a nice looking headboard.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.10 10:10

Brenda: It's hard for me to get to somewhere that would sell plywood. That is the only problem with that. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.10 09:36

Brenda: Yeah, that is what I should do. The Sally Ann as we call it up here.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.10 09:35

6ixStringJack: And the plywood will work with the right bolts and washers, which probably came with the bed frame. The bolts might be too long, but you can find something to build up around them, like a bunch of extra washers instead of just one on each side of the plywood. It won't be the prettiest headboard, but it would work.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.10 05:23

6ixStringJack: Yeah. Check out the Salvation Army. Or if they have something like Habitat for Humanity Restore too, but at least by me they're pretty overpriced. People get rid of head/footboards all the time so you should be able to find one somewhere for a decent price.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.10 05:08

Brenda: In my city it would be the Salvation Army Thrift store. They have furniture and I might find something there. I never really thought of it. It is a good idea for sure.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.09 09:25

Brenda: Plywood is a possibility. I had one once but like a lot of things it got lost in all the moving. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.09 09:23

6ixStringJack: But finding a nice headboard that is the width of the bed is probably the best way to go. Do you have any furniture resale places? You still may want to try Goodwill. They don't sell any bedding stuff around here either because of bedbugs, but I regularly see a big stack of headboards and footboards for beds in the back corner of the store where they have their other furniture. You could luck into something really nice there for a fraction of the price if they do. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.09 03:05

6ixStringJack: Well you could do something makeshift, like just getting a piece of real plywood (not "OSB") and drill the holes where the bolts would go into it from the frame and secure it with washers. That would give you backing, but even if you stained it, it wouldn't look very good. Or you could put furniture feet pads on the back of the frame that would screw into a board and back it all the way up to the wall and use the wall for support when you were sitting up. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.09 03:03

Brenda: Yeah, I guess. Places like that don't sell beds or anything like that anymore for fear of bed bugs. So, it is back to looking at the company's web site to see if I can do anything. I appreciate the input.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 23:52

Brenda: I got it all together but it took me a bit of time including making a mistake. It was a two person job and had to ask someone to come and help fix it. They did thank goodness. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 23:50

Brenda: Because I like to sit up in bed and read or write and I need something stable behind my back and neck to do that. That's the reason for a headboard. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 23:49

Brenda: Oh, no. That's terrible. That's also one of the worst things is waiting on a call to see if someone makes it home. It was worse before cell phones, because if you called and got no answer there was a panic attack on the way. I'm glad he's alright. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 23:48

6ixStringJack: If you need a headboard, those frames are basically a standard size at this point. I'm not sure if they're one-sized fits all, and a twin frame might not also be extendable to a king-sized bed, but if you wanted a headboard you can probably find one that the end of the frame could bolt into if you got the right size headboard for your frame. I've seen plenty of decent headboards for sale pretty cheap at Goodwill over the years, so you may want to try looking there or at any similar places you have up there. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 11:40

6ixStringJack: A lot of beds just don't have them anymore and just send you with the frame you've probably got. You should just be able to put the boxspring on the frame and the mattress on top of that. They should have given you instructions to put that frame together, but they're really all the same so if you don't have instructions you could probably easily find that online. The frame will support the weight of the bed and anyone sleeping on it without a headboard once it's put together correctly. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 11:32

6ixStringJack: The first question would be, do you need a headboard?

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 11:29

6ixStringJack: The day had its moments, but was already derailed because in the last 48 hours almost everyone I know decided at the same time to make their problems my problems, so it only started out with about 4 hours of sleep after yesterday's drama. Thought I was turning in pretty early for me when a friend of mine decided to make more of his problems my own, and I was sitting around here about 2 hours waiting for him to come over without being able to reach him before his phone died. Finally got a call from him letting me know he was okay after he got home and charged his phone enough to call me. I was just trying to go to bed hoping that's where he was going because either he was lying in a ditch, he got himself arrested or dead otherwise. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 11:28

Brenda: Hey, Jack. I got a new bed but it didn't come with a headboard. You got any ideas on what I can use? The space it has to fill is 13inches wide and not sure how many inches high. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 09:10

Brenda: Hope it was a good day.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 09:09

6ixStringJack: Looooong daaaaaaaaay...... glad to be home.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.08 08:47

Brenda: Bugs, I can do with out. I don't see many if any flies in this building or spiders even in my place. Thank goodness. That other crappy place I was seeing spiders the size of a loonie. Gave me the willies for sure. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 10:01

Brenda: Yeah, mice are no fun for sure. One got into the apartment I was living in with my mum as I was looking after her. Had the balcony door open and the drain pipe wasn't covered, so it scrambled up the pipe and in one time. Took a poison trap to get it. It came out while we were out, still alive but almost dead. I took a broom to it to finish it off. Manager came up and collected it and put some chicken wire over the drain hole. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 09:59

Brenda: Well, if you have to do something, you have to no matter the time. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 09:54

Brenda: I've seen those ads on tv for those DIY shows and such. There's a few of them made up here in the east. Mostly Ontario in the cottage country. And I often wonder just how good they are. That is terrible. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 09:52

Brenda: Couldn't tell you how electrical is handled for houses and such in Canada. I would have to be an electrician for that.

And most I know about breakers is turning off the switches and turning them back on. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 09:50

Brenda: Yeah, there is. Apartments that aren't designed for seniors here don't have any, that I know of. There's been a couple since I've moved in but they didn't last long. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 09:48

Brenda: Yeah, I've heard that clogged gutters can do a lot of damage to a house. It was a couple of years ago that a little place up the Sunshine Coast had have heavy water restrictions because their reservoir was just about dry. Nothing that bad has happened were I am but warnings are usually about watering lawns and flowers. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 09:46

6ixStringJack: But they are monsters and I'm happy I don't have to look at whatever it was they're eating to get that big. I hardly ever see a bug in my house besides them, and I haven't sprayed for bugs ever since I fixed up that back porch. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:46

6ixStringJack: No critters down there except for bugs though. If I had critters down there, they're already in my house then. I haven't had a single mouse in the house since we fixed up that porch and put a proper back door on it. I still haven't replaced the door seal at the threshold of the kitchen door into that porch though, and that's where they were getting through before. I didn't have a fully sealed porch with a proper door on the back before, so they just came into the porch and got in the kitchen door if I left any food out to attract them. But the bugs are why I don't kill or even remove any wolf spiders I see when they come out of hiding and are on the prowl. They won't bother humans and they don't hide in things like clothing or shoes. And even if you do get bit by one it's just an irritation for a few weeks and nothing serious. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:46

6ixStringJack: Yeah. I didn't have light when I was bailing out the basement. It was Halloween evening when it happened, and I had about 30 minutes of sunlight left. Once it was too dark to even see what I was doing anymore down there I got as many LED flashlights as I could find in the house and made a runway from the sump pit to my toilet so I could see and I said to myself well I guess we're doing this until the batteries die or my heart explodes.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:41

6ixStringJack: DIY in the wrong hands can be bad news. A lot of these "Home Flippers" are DIY guys and they mess these houses up so bad and hide things they don't know about behind the walls. I was talking to the code enforcement guy a few years ago and he told me about an old couple who had recently died in a house fire because the "Gypsies" (his term for house flippers) who flipped the house to them had electric code violations everywhere. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:38

6ixStringJack: Truth be told though, part of my hesitancy in doing what I need to do with this plug is because I WILL be interfacing directly with that breaker box. Now that thing IS pretty terrifying to me. I will make sure before I work on this that I brush up on all my electric know-how and I don't do anything that can put me in harm's way. Yeah on the city workers. Not only do I not want to hurt anybody by doing something stupid, but if I were to install what I'm installing and that kit wasn't installed on my breaker first, that is HIGHLY illegal if you're caught with the setup. I don't think anybody would purposefully do that for any reason, and anybody who's got into trouble for it was because they didn't know better and they actually did end up hurting or killing somebody without even realizing that was a possibility. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:38

6ixStringJack: Electricity isn't scary to me. Not sure if you do it the same way in Canada as we do, but we split that power coming into our house so it's only 110-120v at the outlets. Unless I'm messing with the breaker box itself, even the idea of being zapped a little is no worry. I've done it before and I'll probably do it again. I did think it was funny though that the guy who taught me electric decades ago wasn't working on any electric without turning off breakers in his old age, but we did it all the time back in the late 90's and early 2000's. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:32

6ixStringJack: Sweet... You got a genny in your building? I never lived anywhere with one of those. The benefits of senior living. My brother lives in a primarily senior place and they've got one of those too. He never gets any power outages though and he's almost been there a decade. That's not fair!

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:30

6ixStringJack: Got myself an extension kit for my leaf blower and used it for the first time this year in my gutters. That thing was awesome. No more climbing on ladders to do that anymore, which means no more pulling my car out to get my heavy 14ft fiberglass A-Frame out to clean out that back gutter either.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:28

6ixStringJack: Haven't had much water since 2020. That was a terrible, terrible year. We actually had so much rain in these parts that it was ruining crops because all the farmland was flooded out too. 2 springs ago I got worried because even with my gutters up I did have just a little bit of water in the basement on 3 separate occasions. Just about 2 gallons each time. It wasn't until the 3rd time it happened I realized why. I just happened to be in my basement and heard the waterfall coming from my high-up gutter in the back of the house. Nothing ever usually gets up there, but it was all clogged up. So in a heavy rain all that water was going right up against my foundation instead of being pulled away with my long downspout. Oops. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 07:26

Brenda: Need all the light you can get to go through a crawl space to do any kind of work. Whether it's to chase critters out or flooding. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:35

Brenda: That is true too. Good lesson learned. That sounds like a real nasty job especially in a crawl space. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:33

Brenda: I remember those stories from California myself and truthfully you would think they would know better. But live and learn I guess. I think I'll be alright and that is why I stay tuned to weather for my area. Need to know high the temps are going to go. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:32

Brenda: I hope so. Was a good breeze around today. But yeah we need some serious rain in the West for sure. Just no lightning. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:30

Brenda: I'm glad you know what you are doing wiring wise. DYIing stuff like that can be dangerous for you as well. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:28

Brenda: That's the good thing about the apartment building I live in. Because there are people here with medical equipment the building does have a generator, so if there is an outage power comes back on in a few minutes. The odd blackout happens in the Lower Mainland where my city is but usually that is because of someone hitting a pole with their car or a transformer blows. I've heard of rolling blackouts that some areas do but again that is usually in Summer. BC Hydro has been saying for the last few years that power consumption has gone up in the summer. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:26

Brenda: Yes, you wouldn't want to zap any city workers definitely. I would think when wiring a generator into a house system there would be extra steps to take. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:22

Brenda: Well, keeping water out of your house anywhere is a good thing. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 04:19

6ixStringJack: I immediately went out that next day and bought a $100 beefy indoor/outdoor extension cord, and everything I needed to hang it all up along the ceiling in the crawl as well as a few hooks to wrap all the line that goes out to the garage right at the crawl door for me to easily grab and throw out the window. It's saved me from back-breaking bailouts in the dark, dank crawl four times since I did that. I still have to go down there twice (once to switch to the extension cord, and once to switch back to the house when the power is back on). But I'm not crabwalking with 3 gallon buckets out to my toilet to dump water and fill up again on repeat anymore. Once I get this new system installed I won't even have to do that anymore.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 02:01

6ixStringJack: Just like my genny... Better to have it and never need than not having it when you do. I learned that lesson when I had a major power/flooding issue that could have easily been solved with a working generator. I had a working generator. What I didn't have was a water-safe extension cord long enough to get it from the garage to inside my crawl when I needed it and I ended up bailing out the crawlspace for dear life for 3 hours until the power came back on. - http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 01:57

6ixStringJack: Yeah. Make sure you have a good amount of water on hand. People can get crazy when they're trying to hoard after the fact and didn't prepare early. Good to have that stuff safely at home beforehand so you don't have to worry about any of that. And after hearing some horror stories of people stuck in those California wildfires without any drinking water for days, I just don't want to see anybody I know get themselves stuck in a situation like that when you have working water right now and you can fill up a few "just in case" jugs.

- http://www.fireflyfans.net 06.07 01:55