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Usually just a really hot, long wash. Not sure how worth it is to run it without some sort of cleaning agent.
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One of us is complaining about the odor of their laundry, one of us is not. *shrug*These are stupid expensive if you ask me.We use Downey scent beads (I think they're called) with every load of wash, either Unstoppables or one of their other kinds. I think we run the clean cycle with Affresh tablets once every two months or so.
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Im deadMeat sweats of days gone by.
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After 25 years and two kids, we are finally having our contractor start to consult about our Formica and linoleum based kitchen.
They can’t start until September but they are worth waiting for.
They can’t start until September but they are worth waiting for.
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Bathroom SITREP
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What kind of monkey's ass contractor did you hire?
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The contractor has been great. This isn't a contractor issue, this is a vendor. The vendor is 5-stars on Yelp and Home Advisor, 4.9 stars on Google, 4.3 stars on Angie's, they were about as vetted as they could be. Everything else was totally fine or resolved within the day we raised an issue (the vent fan they initially sent us didn't have a humidity sensor, which is a code requirement if you only have a single vent/fan; that was corrected within like 3 hours). But this f**king vanity, jesus tapdancing christ what a stupid ordeal.
We'll gladly work with the contractor again. But I'm more predisposed to chuck a brick through the vendor's window as I am to give them any more business after this.
They have been saved by the tardy tempered glass guy at this point. If our finish date got pushed because of a supplier issue that has persisted for a month, I'd go mental. As it is, we have less than one full day's worth of work left. We just can't even schedule that work right now, and that's massively frustrating.
We'll gladly work with the contractor again. But I'm more predisposed to chuck a brick through the vendor's window as I am to give them any more business after this.
They have been saved by the tardy tempered glass guy at this point. If our finish date got pushed because of a supplier issue that has persisted for a month, I'd go mental. As it is, we have less than one full day's worth of work left. We just can't even schedule that work right now, and that's massively frustrating.
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I'm not sure how I feel about that code requirement. Great that a fan is code, because where I live having a window in the bathroom will suffice (nobody opens bathroom windows... ever). My master bathroom fan is on the same switch for the light next to the shower. I did install a timer in my daughter's bathroom because she kept turning it off too soon.Source of the post he vent fan they initially sent us didn't have a humidity sensor, which is a code requirement if you only have a single vent/fan
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We ripped out the 150ish sq foot deck last summer and replaced it with trex. If you cut the tip of a home plate off (the part that points to the catcher) that’s the shape and it just had one set of stairs on the one diagonal part. We opened up the other side to put in a paver patio. I ran out of steam and decided to push that part of it off to this year.
I was going to hire someone to come do the digging and sod/dirt removal but then I thought: let’s just hire someone to do the whole thing. Got a few quotes for paver patio and they were 8-10 K for a 150 sq foot area. Got a concrete guy out to give me a quote one stamped concrete: just under 5K for the same thing. Going with that for sure.
I was going to hire someone to come do the digging and sod/dirt removal but then I thought: let’s just hire someone to do the whole thing. Got a few quotes for paver patio and they were 8-10 K for a 150 sq foot area. Got a concrete guy out to give me a quote one stamped concrete: just under 5K for the same thing. Going with that for sure.
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Stamped concrete
If you decide to have yours colored, make sure that they mix the dye in the actual pour and are not just throwing it on top. In case it chips or cracks (when, really), it’ll be much less noticeable.
If you decide to have yours colored, make sure that they mix the dye in the actual pour and are not just throwing it on top. In case it chips or cracks (when, really), it’ll be much less noticeable.
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My only complaint with our concrete patio is that we didn’t make it bigger. We had it done about 6 years ago and it’s been awesome
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I actually used a landscaping app to design mine because I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going too small or too big. I think it helped, and I'm glad that I designed a bump out in mine for my grill so that it didn't actually take up that usable patio space. Also really glad I never installed railings or anything, too.My only complaint with our concrete patio is that we didn’t make it bigger. We had it done about 6 years ago and it’s been awesome
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Design:
Actual patio:
Actual patio:
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Nice mow lines. Is that you or a service?
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That's all me. Over a decade of mowing the same pattern will do that for you/
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