What's everybody doing today?

[backlash]

Woke this morning and turned on water and it was very grey. Looks like I have a leak in the water line. The man from the water company says it's is a small leak because the meter is barely moving. It is always something. Just had the septic line repaired too.

Sounds like you're having the same luck my brother's having.
First his AC went out last Summer and he couldn't get it fixed because of no part. Then his septic system backed up. He found out the main slick pipe is cracked and washed out a void. Wouldn't be bad to repair except it's all under his stamped concrete pool deck so that has to come out to get to it.
Now he has clay in his water filter so he has a well problem.
He replaced his water softener and the new one has exactly the same error code.
Probably a power problem but he now has a new $690 water softener.
When it rains it pours.

 

[Spikedriver]

Man, I had a great flight from PHX to ORD. Those Airbus 321s are no joke. The flight was smooth as glass until we landed. The pilot bounced that sucker like a basketball. But I'm at the gate waiting for my connection to Des Moines, should start boarding in ten minutes. That'll be a little Embraer or Bombardier jet that holds around 50 people. I don't like those but it's only a 55 minute flight...

 

[Spikedriver]

Damn. My connection is on a little 4 wide plane. I have the window and next to me is a woman who apparently eats a half of beef a week. I'm smashed up against the window and she's spilling over into my seat. I'm real glad this is a short flight...

 

[Curmudgeon]

Damn. My connection is on a little 4 wide plane. I have the window and next to me is a woman who apparently eats a half of beef a week. I'm smashed up against the window and she's spilling over into my seat. I'm real glad this is a short flight...

Reminds me of what I saw at the fair several years ago. This couple is getting on this ride that goes in circles and fast, like really fast. He is probably 5'8" She a couple inches shorter. He is a skinny little bean pole and I would guess she weighed every bit of 300 pounds maybe a touch more.

Anywho, I poked my wife and said watch this, sure enough he took the outside of the bench seat and she the inside.

Now picture in your mind this thing is ripping around in circles and centrifugal force took over. I don't think I have laughed that hard since.

 

[phideaux]

I've experienced it twice a new home where

The grey is caused by air bubbles. Lots of bubbles.

I have had that happen to me twice in 4 months ,
Being on county water , I went and asked them about it.
Turns out both times was when they were working on the main line.
Water looks very very cloudy for about 2-3 days then clears up.

Jim

 

[phideaux]

Damn. My connection is on a little 4 wide plane. I have the window and next to me is a woman who apparently eats a half of beef a week. I'm smashed up against the window and she's spilling over into my seat. I'm real glad this is a short flight...

Bet you stayed warm.

Jim

 

[Bacpacker]

Damn. My connection is on a little 4 wide plane. I have the window and next to me is a woman who apparently eats a half of beef a week. I'm smashed up against the window and she's spilling over into my seat. I'm real glad this is a short flight...

Bet you wish little miss short shorts had gotten that seat. You could have helped keep her warm.

 

[Curmudgeon]

Oh, and I have been Molly Maid-ing it today, dishes, cleaned the kitchen and already have dinner prepped.

 

[Weedygarden]

We used Kilz on my FIL’s deck and then Home Depot Behr one coat, worked great and still looks good 3 years later.
My dad was a painting contractor for 50 years and always used Kilz. He used to use Sherwin Williams but then their quality went down so he used Behr from Home Depot. My brother who took over his business swears by that as well. We painted our whole inside of the house with Behr and it covered well with one coat.

Neighbor had the exterior of his 3 story Victorian home repainted summer of 2020. He had parts of the gingerbread trim rebuilt and replaced. There was a crew of about 6 people there daily for about 2 months, scraping all the gingerbread, priming and painting. He told me they used Sherwin Williams. Neighbor is a contractor, and has a home that was worth more than $1 million more than a decade ago, so I always trust what he says. I have used lots of Kilz over the years, but sometimes it has not held up as I thought it should. I have seen that some paint at Ace Hardware is around $70 a gallon.
When I purchased my home in 1990, the paint on the walls of some rooms and areas was really bad in quality. It took several coats of Sherwin Williams to cover it. I don't think I primed when I was painting that first year, but I have ever since.

 

[Weedygarden]

Wouldn't be bad to repair except it's all under his stamped concrete pool deck so that has to come out to get to it.

Neighbor is a contractor, so he is often doing top of the line things to his home that he can then show and tell his clients about. He took out a multi level deck a few years ago in preparation for a stamped and stained patio with a gas fed fire pit and a gas line to where his grill is located. He decided it was the time to replace his sewer line, because so many others have had to replace them in this area. By the time he pulled permits, hired help, etc., it had taken him a whole summer to get the job done. He told me that his wife complained all summer. The poured concrete, with all the details of stain and stamping cost him $10,000. I can imagine that would have been a pain to break out and replace if he needed to replace his sewer line.

 

[Terri9630]

I should be putting siding up on the barn. Its trying to snow and I feel exhausted, just no get up and go today.

 

[Spikedriver]

Bet you wish littlebmiss short shorts had gotten that seat. You could have helped keep her warm.

If lil' miss shortshorts was in the seat next to me, she would still be six inches away from me and still would have room to spare...

 

[hashbrown]

It is a cold rainy/snowy day school let out this morning for weather. I worked on my old 1976 Harley and the boy put new tires and installed a new winch on the Polaris 6x6. Pretty good day in the shop.

 

[The Lazy L]

...Wouldn't be bad to repair except it's all under his stamped concrete pool deck so that has to come out to get to it...

Unknown if its available in the area, there is a method of inserting a sleeve inside the old/damaged pipe. Then they inflate the sleeve and harden the sleeve. Good as new with out tearing out concrete.

 

[Amish Heart]

Finally finished painting the bathroom upstairs and the floor with floor paint. Under penalty of death do the grandkids step on it tonight. Ha Ha. The light will have to stay on all night because I can't reach the switch.

 

[Double R]

If we are able to move I’m hiring you @Amish Heart. I HATE painting and most of the places we are seeing there’s no way we won’t need paint. Who paints walls dark blue or bring red or purple and……..Maybe I’m just not cool enough to have walls wild colors. I’m not even sure how you’d cover that up with lighter paint.

 

[Amish Heart]

We had to cover up wild paint colors when we bought the farmhouse. The family room was very dark gray, almost black. Took 3 coats of white to cover. Dining room was red, 3 coats on that. One of the upstairs bedrooms was splatter painted to look like cammo, and that was a bear to get off. Another room dark blue. The last people here were not amish and had very interesting paint preferences. The worst in the house right now are the wood floors downstairs. Not sure how I'm going to do those. The last owner did half (yes, half) of them painted in dark brown with a high gloss. The other half is nothing. They put sticky squares on the kitchen floor over wood floor, and that's in real bad shape. Probably next to paint is the guest room and hallway upstairs flooring. I think I have some more white floor paint somewhere. The 3 grandkids flooring needs a redo, but they'd need to empty out their room first. Company coming in the first of March, so maybe before then, we'll see.

 

[Double R]

So what your saying is no problem you have plenty of practice???? That’s what I’m reading

 

[Amish Heart]

I'll help you if you're my neighbor. Ha Ha. Around here they call it having a "work frolic", meaning it's supposed to be fun.

 

[Double R]

I miss being able to help my neighbors. Gosh I can’t wait to move.

 

[SheepDog]

The key to painting over dark or very bright colors is a good primer. Primers are more opaque than color paints so I always use a good primer - like "Killz" and then the first coat of color looks good. NEVER use a combination color-primer mix. It sounds like a good idea but it will take three to four coats to look good and a good primer and color coat looks better after just two (one of each) or three (one primer and two color) coats.

 

[Amish Heart]

Hey Double R...just saw what one of our neighbors posted on youtube. Look up Jordans Harvest and the video is called Amish Coyote Drive 2022. They just did that the weekend prior. He was careful not to get any amish (except their legs, ha) in the videoing. They do that here, and were right down the road from our place.

 

[Spikedriver]

Sigh...got home and my tub drain was frozen shut again. The hot water to my kitchen is frozen too but the cold is good. I left it trickling when I left last week, must not have gotten enough hot water flowing to the sink. Luckily the hot water is good in the bathroom. I forgot to put rubbing alcohol in the tub drain like somebody here advised me to do. I'm going to run to Dollar General and get some in a bit.

My place was sided last summer. The old siding was wood, the new is vinyl. Even with Tyvek under it, I'm guessing that the vinyl doesn't cut the wind well enough to stop the temps from getting below freezing in the space behind the bathroom wall. Looks like I'm going to have to consult with the landlady...

 

[Amish Heart]

Bummer, Spike. We looked at where we were putting the handicap shower and toilet in our build on bedroom with a bathroom, made sure the plumbing would not be on an outside wall.

 

[Neb]

We had to cover up wild paint colors when we bought the farmhouse. The family room was very dark gray, almost black. Took 3 coats of white to cover. Dining room was red, 3 coats on that. One of the upstairs bedrooms was splatter painted to look like cammo, and that was a bear to get off. Another room dark blue. The last people here were not amish and had very interesting paint preferences. The worst in the house right now are the wood floors downstairs. Not sure how I'm going to do those. The last owner did half (yes, half) of them painted in dark brown with a high gloss. The other half is nothing. They put sticky squares on the kitchen floor over wood floor, and that's in real bad shape. Probably next to paint is the guest room and hallway upstairs flooring. I think I have some more white floor paint somewhere. The 3 grandkids flooring needs a redo, but they'd need to empty out their room first. Company coming in the first of March, so maybe before then, we'll see.

My grandparents painted the walls carnival green. We guessed it was because my grandfather was able to get extra paint from the county where he worked. The Princess was not happy with that color and painted everything white.

That has been the rule until my buddy who was renting half of house got one of the early big screen TVs. I decided to paint the wall behind the TV the same color as the carpeting.

I wouldn't want all of the walls that dark but it worked good enough for me.

Ben

 

[The Lazy L]

Sigh...got home and my tub drain was frozen shut again. The hot water to my kitchen is frozen too but the cold is good. I left it trickling when I left last week, must not have gotten enough hot water flowing to the sink. Luckily the hot water is good in the bathroom. I forgot to put rubbing alcohol in the tub drain like somebody here advised me to do. I'm going to run to Dollar General and get some in a bit.

My place was sided last summer. The old siding was wood, the new is vinyl. Even with Tyvek under it, I'm guessing that the vinyl doesn't cut the wind well enough to stop the temps from getting below freezing in the space behind the bathroom wall. Looks like I'm going to have to consult with the landlady...

Suspended ceiling in the office below you? If yes remove the ceiling panel that’s under your tub drain? Resulting heat might thaw the drain.

 

[Spikedriver]

Suspended ceiling in the office below you? If yes remove the ceiling panel that’s under your tub drain? Resulting heat might thaw the drain.

If it hasn't thawed by tomorrow I might try that, thanks.

 

[Weedygarden]

Damn. My connection is on a little 4 wide plane. I have the window and next to me is a woman who apparently eats a half of beef a week. I'm smashed up against the window and she's spilling over into my seat. I'm real glad this is a short flight...

My now deceased uncle lived in Altoona, Iowa. After he lost his wife in 1989, he ballooned up so much that I was told he couldn't fly. I don't know what it takes to determine whether someone can fly or not because of their size. Like some things, wouldn't someone sue the airlines for taking their size into consideration? What can an airlines do to get around these situations? Can they make seating arrangements where people have to enter their weight and then have a code or designation for seating, such as all people over 300 pounds get put into this section, where there is extra space for them?

 

[Peanut]

Took dad for his mri today. He has back problems like many men, a nerve causes his legs to twitch sometimes. His mri was on his knee. A simple non contrast knee scan took an hour and 15min. I knew something was up, even in the hall I could tell the tech was restarting scans. (I used to service mri's). Dad's leg kept twitching causing the tech to restart, again and again...

Just thought of something... soooo funny! Long ago very elderly lady was getting a chest CT. I could see she had hearing aids in both ears when the techs got her on the table. They get her arms up out of the way. Then the tech starts the preview scan...

Just before the start of the scan the tech presses the intercom and says "Hold Your Breath!" Obviously the old lady didn't hear correctly... she brought both her hands down and cupped her breasts. She heard "Hold Your Breasts" instead of "Hold your Breath". Poor lady... They tried 3 more times, the lady still didn't understand. They finally scanned her with her arms down.

The funniest part, later as I left the hospital the two people walking in front of me were the same little old lady and a granddaughter. They seemed to be arguing... the lady kept saying "They did! They kept telling me to hold my boobies"... The youngster.. "No grandma, surely they said something else!!!" I was about to die laughing!!!!

I couldn’t let the poor lady go home and have her family think she was nuts. They were parked a few spaces away. After she was helped into the car I told her granddaughter what really happened. She thought it was funny too! Poor lady...

She is in my top 5 of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in a hospital. But nothing will top the poor lady who got stuck in a mammo machine at the mayo clinic… Now that lady was funny!!!

 

[Weedygarden]

Sigh...got home and my tub drain was frozen shut again. The hot water to my kitchen is frozen too but the cold is good. I left it trickling when I left last week, must not have gotten enough hot water flowing to the sink. Luckily the hot water is good in the bathroom. I forgot to put rubbing alcohol in the tub drain like somebody here advised me to do. I'm going to run to Dollar General and get some in a bit.

My place was sided last summer. The old siding was wood, the new is vinyl. Even with Tyvek under it, I'm guessing that the vinyl doesn't cut the wind well enough to stop the temps from getting below freezing in the space behind the bathroom wall. Looks like I'm going to have to consult with the landlady...

When you talked about this when it happened the last time, it seemed that access to those pipes was difficult. I had wondered if "heat tape" might work to keep those pipes from freezing? I've known people who lived in mobile homes and others with cabins who have had pipes freeze and this worked for them.
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