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RetiredToker76

RetiredToker76

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Stiickygreen said:
Pat yerself on the back. So many folks don't even know where to start...much less actually starting. :rolleyes: I always laughed/cringed at those TV shows where they'd parade people through houses to get their reactions to how the house is laid out/etc...and most folks would comment on the paint colors they hated or the furniture rather than the house itself. Like ya can't paint the wall a different color? No...wait...some can't! Blows-my-mind.

"Stairs" are never fun...especially if you have to have the inspector come. LOL. In fact, none of it is fun if you have those guys in the mix. :wall:
I built a log home in my past lifetime and the county it was in was just muy-fucked-up. They hired inspector after inspector...and each would waltz in and start trying to question things that the previous inspector had approved. Nope. Not happening. Fun times...fun times. I hope yer flying under the radar...heehee...
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Yeah, I'm pretty much a DIY homeowner with the blinds drawn. I had pros do the roof, windows, siding, gutters and exterior painting, all in one go so everything jived with the next and so my pale norwegian butt didn't burst into flames in the heat. There were also some structural repairs done by them, inspected by the county bribe takers, and I sat back and smoked a bowl of dispensary weed wishing they'd leave so I could start my closet up again.

Inside the house all bets are off, I have a big hammer to tear crap down and not enough common sense to tell me I shouldn't. The first day after we bought the house I replaced the water heater and re-plumbed it. Much to the terror of my wife who'd never seen home ownership. If I find something severe (like the crack in the foundation I found last month,) I call upon a plethora of contractors and engineers that my wife and I have worked with over the years. She's in property management, so she's got a back pocket full of inspection engineers we can call. We had her three favorites check it out and all agreed it was normal settling and to just do a fill and patch.

After my parents divorced, I became the 'fix-it-guy' in the house. Dad yoinked all the 'Time Life Series: Everything Home Repair' books mom bought in the 70's and 80's, so I had to use UseNet forum groups and trade BBS dial-ups in the early 90's to figure out how to fix crap that broke around mom's house. In the late 90's and early 2000's after college I did network engineering to pay the bills between gigs. Learned a few things running wires through 10 story buildings and digging trenches between University buildings to lay fiber trunks.

That experience left me feeling that the internet started as, should always be, and must be protected as if it's the modern version of the Library of Alexandria or the Baitul Hikmah in Bagdad. Want to do something? Let me introduce you to my friend the web. Fix a car, fix a house, fix a computer, repair a dishwasher, grow weed, provide an orgasm, take your pick the information is free and out there, the only reason to say 'I don't know' in the age of the internet is pure lazieness.

As a general rule when I do something in the house my goal is to make an inspector say, "Well that's extravagantly over engineered and far beyond what is needed for code." So far, no one has said any different.

When we sell this place, eventually, I hope, someday soonish, I want to have a back yard I can have a plumber run plumbing and waste lines, have an electrician provide me with at least 100 amps, have a team come out and lay a perfectly flat level slab, and from there I'll build the rest of Dad's Outhouse (working name that makes wife and child groan) where I build my recording stuido with sound proofing throughout, a billiards room with a weed and soda bar, woodworking workshop, and grow room. I'm calling this remodel, "practice" for that project I've already started designing in AI driven archetecture software. Not a day of archetecture class in my life, but the software pretty much does all the math. :bigjoint:
 
RetiredToker76

RetiredToker76

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cannabiscrusader said:
I'm not allowed at the safety meetings
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I got called out once for getting my entire section completely baked before rehearsal. As my section wandered in, casually, the conductor started commenting on how he smelled weed. After we got tuned and setup, we started the rehearsal and within 5 minutes he stopped and said, "Ok cellos, I know you're very mellow today, thanks <looks directly at me> and for once you're not rushing, but damnit today you need to keep up. Alright?!"

I was bad in grad school.
 
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Rsawr

Rsawr

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I make tincture all the time, but I have never tried to double infuse the same alcohol. Aside from maybe tasting more vegetal, is there any reason not to run 2 batches of material through the same alcohol? There was a single bottle of 190 proof hiding amongst the 151 at the store. Score! Usually I have to go up north a few neighborhoods and make a trip of it >.<
 
Stiickygreen

Stiickygreen

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RetiredToker76 said:
Yeah, I'm pretty much a DIY homeowner with the blinds drawn.
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Ditto. I can relate to so much of what you said. I've >had to< learn how to do far too many things over the years and rarely hire anyone for help for a myriad of reasons...mostly because people are hacks and charge far too much for their so-so skills....IF you can get them to call you back/show up to do an estimate/etc. When we lived in Vail it had to be a huge, highly profitable job or no one would even call you back. I was also growing weed bigly...so letting just anyone in the stinky house wasn't an option. Thus...you learn-as-you-go/by trial and error.

Here in rural America finding anyone to do home improvement/etc. is even harder. Yet...even after putting my foot down and saying I wouldn't do >another< remodel/fixer-upper after we "retired" (re-tired)...we walked onto this property with the creek and the privacy and everything we ever wanted...and I bent right over >again<....LOL. This current house was a doozy. It started its life as a one car garage (on slab)...then it grew a bedroom and a small bathroom...and then the deck became a screened in porch that eventually grew windows. It's typical of this area...lots of cabin type dwellings/weekenders that were constructed 40-70 years ago...before codes/etc. We were lucky this place was well built...it's just small...800 sq ft....1 bedroom...1 bathroom. The creek and 7 acres were the draw. The house was a fuckin pit...and everything was broken/sketchy/nasty. At first I thought about tearing the house down and starting all over but I didn't want a mortgage/to be in debt...so I dove in and re-did >everything< inside and out. 20 windows...2 sliders/2 new man doors...new wiring...new kitchen...new bathroom...new flooring...trim...had the house all redone in PEX...painted in/out...added foo foo touches outside to the box it is...LOL... Here's a before and after....3 years apart.
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Stiickygreen

Stiickygreen

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And this is what happened today after a big, fat Slymer joint with a whip of hash in it. (the old caveman landscaper came out of the cave with his wheelbarrow and shovel)

I've wanted to clean this spot up for years so we could cool off/wade/etc. so today I moved some rocks that we pulled off the hill where we are going to build a shooting range and defined the pool/cut some bushes/etc. to make it happen. Had to get in there before the water comes up during runoff and have to use large stones or yer wasting your time. The stuff in the creek may still move. We will see. Once the water starts to go down I'm gonna buy 2 river float tubes and hook onto the culvert and just sit/smoke/float. :bigjoint::D The pool is about 2.5 ft deep and 12+ feet across.
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View looking down from on top of culvert/driveway
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