Home repairs

[PessOptimist]

Sounds like you're moving right along and is basically how the process worked for me. Never dealt with a tile roof so I'm no help there. Just be happy it's not you on the roof in the hot sun.

It's all done, we wrote a check to the contractor for about $3k today and that is it. The crew did a pretty good job cleaning up. I am still finding nails and pieces of underlayment here and there. Mostly under the leaves left from the daily thunderstorms this week.

Now on to the other things this 15 year old house needs replaced before I retire.

Let's see...washer, dryer, domestic water heater, water softener, dishwasher, HVAC, insulation where none was ever installed on this "energy star rated home". Oh yeah, it could stand to be repainted and the stucco cracks fixed. Let's see...oh yeah that hole in the ground filled with water always wants some cash poured in to it. I'm sure I am forgettting something.

 

[nasa1974]

It's all done, we wrote a check to the contractor for about $3k today and that is it. The crew did a pretty good job cleaning up. I am still finding nails and pieces of underlayment here and there. Mostly under the leaves left from the daily thunderstorms this week.

Now on to the other things this 15 year old house needs replaced before I retire.

Let's see...washer, dryer, domestic water heater, water softener, dishwasher, HVAC, insulation where none was ever installed on this "energy star rated home". Oh yeah, it could stand to be repainted and the stucco cracks fixed. Let's see...oh yeah that hole in the ground filled with water always wants some cash poured in to it. I'm sure I am forgettting something.

Ah!! The privilage of owning a home. It's not a money pit but sometimes you think it is.

 

[nnuut]

There's always something, no getting away from it, if you neglect it You will pay more in the end.:notrust:

 

[PessOptimist]

Too true nasa and nnuut. Why I am trying to take care of it all while I am still working.

 

[PessOptimist]

I knew I forgot to mention some minor things. This morning I woke up and the bedroom door was closed. Unusual as its only the two of us. After I had been up for a while and went to the kitchen I heard one of the smoke/CO detectors beep. Ahh haa. Apparently it was annoying sig other. I never heard it.

In defense of sig other ignoring the alarm, we have experience with what is a trouble code and what is a 911 emergency.

The manual (yeah I keep them things) says it is a failure code. I look on line. Turns out they automatically annoy you seven years after initial power up. Isn't technology wonderful?

A vast left/right wing conspiracy? Maybe a co-conspiracy? Left want's to protect us from ourselves, right wants to sell detectors? Many detector manufacturers have been bought by Kidde who is owned by UTC who is really based where? They say the US. The truth is out there.:worried:

Oops, better cool it or I will have to put an asterisk at the beginning of the thread title.

Then I find the connectors/mounting brackets may not be the same. Then I find adapters. Then it occurs to me I know where the breaker is, I own a screwdriver and am quite capable of operating wire nuts. I just wasted a bunch of time trying to find the easy button.

Other ambiguous warnings say they may or may not work together in spite of meeting a spec. So just buy six new ones.:notrust:

Money well spent since the grands are coming for Christmas.

As stated before, it never ends.

Almost time to replace those detector batteries and if the detectors have been around a while, replace them.

Then of course there is the americium-241 in ionization type smoke detectors. Safe disposal? It really does never end.

PO

 

[nnuut]

Planned obsolescence it's a never ending story.
Have you ever owned an inground Swimming Pool? :laugh:

 

[konakathy]

I hear ya about those smoke detectors!

Why do they always go off in the middle of the night? I never heard the little bleep..bleeps - mine just went off on full scream alert last week. That is one of the more
frightening ways to awakened from a deep sleep, let alone being cut off from a Hugh Jackman dream.

And of course, it was the detector that was on the 15ft 'a' frame ceiling. I only had step stool in my condo (ladder is downstairs) the neighbors are starting to come out
wondering if there's a fire. I'm starting to get pissed because the frickin' thing is so loud and I can't reach it.

I end up climbing on the kitchen counter, grabbed the hammer from the drawer, stretched over holding onto the celing beam and smashed the crap out of that detector.

The neighbors were happy that they didn't have to sleep on the beach that night and I got to take my frustrations out on that detector for ruining my dream.

 

[PessOptimist]

Planned obsolescence it's a never ending story.
Have you ever owned an inground Swimming Pool? :laugh: View attachment 20259

Yeah, I do right now. I sometimes feel getting a few hundred a month in ones and throwing it in the pool might appease it. Probably would create more problems, like people coming over the wall to "dollar dive". Wonder what that would do to the PH? (the bills not the intruders)

 

[PessOptimist]

I hear ya about those smoke detectors!
Why do they always go off in the middle of the night? I never heard the little bleep..bleeps - mine just went off on full scream alert last week. That is one of the more
frightening ways to awakened from a deep sleep, let alone being cut off from a Hugh Jackman dream.

And of course, it was the detector that was on the 15ft 'a' frame ceiling. I only had step stool in my condo (ladder is downstairs) the neighbors are starting to come out
wondering if there's a fire. I'm starting to get pissed because the frickin' thing is so loud and I can't reach it.

I end up climbing on the kitchen counter, grabbed the hammer from the drawer, stretched over holding onto the celing beam and smashed the crap out of that detector.

The neighbors were happy that they didn't have to sleep on the beach that night and I got to take my frustrations out on that detector for ruining my dream.

I know what you mean. I have also had that experience in the past and had them all go off at the same time. I have one on a 15 foot ceiling that is not close to a wall.

After a couple of these episodes my bestest buddy Daisydog would go to the nearest door at the first chirp and start banging on it. She also would get interested if I got a ladder out and if I put it under a detector would also demand to go out and station herself in her lair under the hedge. I can only imagine what that hellish racket must sound like to a dog.

I don't believe they know TOD but do believe that the programmers assumed they would be installed during the day and cleverly programmed them to only malfunction with a 12 hour offset from when first powered up.

So, you woke up from a dream and were standing on the counter all stretched out...what were you wearing

Never mind. My brain often forgets my chronological age...

Yes indeed those smoke detectors and other technological devices can be troublesome. Various agencies and organizations say they are saving lives and most municipalities require them by code.

PO

 

[nnuut]

Yeah, I do right now. I sometimes feel getting a few hundred a month in ones and throwing it in the pool might appease it. Probably would create more problems, like people coming over the wall to "dollar dive". Wonder what that would do to the PH? (the bills not the intruders)

I know one thing, if you don't keep the pool right it will rebel against authority and cost you a bucket of money to get it right again. This year new liner and new ladder and hand rail anchors in the concrete deck, rebuilt my Polaris 280 cleaner two months ago. Last year new pump and salt water chlorine generator cell and replaced the diving board rusted steel fasteners with stainless steel bolts and brass nuts. Should be good now about everything has been replaced.

 

[PessOptimist]

I know one thing, if you don't keep the pool right it will rebel against authority and cost you a bucket of money to get it right again. This year new liner and new ladder and hand rail anchors in the concrete deck, rebuilt my Polaris 280 cleaner two months ago. Last year new pump and salt water chlorine generator cell and replaced the diving board rusted steel fasteners with stainless steel bolts and brass nuts. Should be good now about everything has been replaced.

Truer words have never been written. I keep up with the PH and chlorine level (please no lectures about salt generators) though I often vow to drain it and make it a land fill. I failed to do that one winter in the past and did pay for it. (keep up the PH and chlorine, not drain it)

Whenever I get in the "fill it in" mode I dredge up memories of past visits from children, grand children, siblings and friends. When I really need inspiration I watch the video of my 30 something children trying to harm each other while my daughter-in-law sits on the deck trying to protect my grand daughter.

It is probably cheaper to keep her, the pool that is.

The kids/grands are coming for Christmas. The pool temp will be in the 40s by then but I will have it ready just in case. I may even set an example by going in. Both kids have some first responder type training in case I go in to hypothermic shock. If the weather is typical, all they would have to do is put me in the sun. Such an event may cause them to hesitate going in the water, so I must be strong.

PO

 

[nnuut]

I still love the pool even if it can be a pain in the butt! All of the kids are coming for Christmas to see us too, but the water willl be too cold so no swimming this time, that 's a shame the Grand Kids love it.