The Home Improvement Thread

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Fuck it... move and let someone else deal with it. :)
 

tex

That's Mr Asshole to you
Good news about that is you can drain it to the road properly. If it was the other way around that would suck/be impossible undermining his driveway for a drain and rock backfill.
speaking of drains. There is already a drain at the bottom of the wall and it flows out to the street.
 

tex

That's Mr Asshole to you
Fuck it... move and let someone else deal with it. :)
I tried that a few years ago and couldnt get what we wanted/needed for our house or find one that we both agreed on. Also my wife wont leave this area and I wont move unless I can move about 30-40 miles west of here.
 

Oswego

n00b
speaking of drains. There is already a drain at the bottom of the wall and it flows out to the street.

thats great if you can reuse it ~ less for the new guys to work on.






One another note I think this is pretty interesting. If I attended this guys class in 83' and followed the teachings/lifestyle I have a feeling I'd be pretty freaking set right now.

I'm a capitalist, but I still find it an deep quote if you really think about it and then understand how he's trying to apply it to his premaculture class.

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CowboyTaco

Well-Known Member
I tried that a few years ago and couldnt get what we wanted/needed for our house or find one that we both agreed on. Also my wife wont leave this area and I wont move unless I can move about 30-40 miles west of here.

I know of a house on an acre that is probably 30-40 miles north of there. Have I mentioned that it's closer to your hunting "lease"?
 

AlienXtx

Nignog
Someone's gotta soak up that shade.
 

balakay

BabyMax
Looks like I'm gonna be adding a couple more cameras to the house as well as adding/repositioning some lights. Had a guy try to come through my yard around 6am. He was in my neighbors yard trying to come over the fence into my yard. My alert dog did her job great and me and the neighbor were armed and ready. Never got a good look at him. I only saw a silhouette and the neighbors cameras only show a silhouette/blur moving through their yard.
 

Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Replaced #2, top portion of the valve jar, diaphragm, spring and solenoid.

so Orbit has change the design of the 1” and 3/4“ FMT in-line valve body’s, it will now have 4 larger screws instead of the 8 screws. So I found three more of the old style ones and package of 5 more diaphragms that fit these valves. I may order 3 more, cause if you can’t find those in-line valve bodies, that would require digging up everything and plumbing in the newer design/model valve body which would be total PITA, especially mine located in the rock flower beds.



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old solenoid busted in 3 places, it was still working intermittently and diaphragm was wore out.
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Replaced another sprinkler head as well.
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AlienXtx

Nignog
he has a point, it really does lol
 

Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
A tiny bit of harvest from the Victory Garden, green onions, cucumber and maters. I’m starting to get one or two maters a day now :chuck:.


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AlienXtx

Nignog
Any ripe ones? lol
 

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Yep.. we tried a bunch of things to keep (sparkly hanging things, some other shit I forget) the birds from just pecking a fucking hole in the good ones. Someone said to put a bird bath near the tomatoes because they poke holes in to get water and not really to eat the tomato. Not sure if true since we have a fucking pool 60' away. Lazy fucking birds. :) We built a chicken wire cage over them last year, kinda a bitch to get in and clean out weeds and whatnot but the birds stayed out.
 

tex

That's Mr Asshole to you
I guess it's all about pest control. Wife found a dead bird in the garden yesterday and somehow a tree rat got lead poisoning to the face. Need to put out my traps, saw a coon on the driveway camera last night.
 

Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Soon as you see the tomatoes turn in color, pull them, they can ripen just fine in the window seal.
 

Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
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