The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[Ryan T]

Cleaned out the underside of my mower deck today. With just one mowing season on it I scraped off 5 dustpans full of grass chunks and dirt. Little over 2 pounds. I recommend you all do the same. Also need to install my mulch control kit on it. Let’s me shut off the discharge shoot when wanted and open it back up when in open yard.

[D_Eclipse9916]

Working hard on thanksgiving. Almost done with this damn wife “Pinterest” wall.

[JPolen01]

That looks great! Did you do the woodwork or just painting it? My brother in law did that for his kid's nursery. By hand with no nail gun. He's crazy.

[D_Eclipse9916]

That looks great! Did you do the woodwork or just painting it? My brother in law did that for his kid's nursery. By hand with no nail gun. He's crazy.

Yup did it all, though I used a Ryobi electric nail gun, can’t imagine by hand.

[Sijray21]

It does add a lot of character to an otherwise boring flat wall. Looks good!

I like the lines matching with the window panes/frame.

[.RJ]

nail guns are worth their weight in gold. i bought one when i redid all my baseboards & shoe molding

[Apoc]

Needs more shiplap.

[Ryan T]

nail guns are worth their weight in gold.  i bought one when i redid all my baseboards & shoe molding

Same here, and I’ve found it to be infinently valuable in tons of other situations and projects.

[ScottyB]

that looks awesome DJ. at first i thought you only did the paint, then i realized you put up the strips too. nice!

[D_Eclipse9916]

that looks awesome DJ. at first i thought you only did the paint, then i realized you put up the strips too. nice!

Thanks Scott! My body is protesting but we got this done, Eli’s new room done with mountains, moved my office and the guest bedroom and got Christmas going in the house this weekend. Allllmoost done with the interior house projects for 2018. Going to be warm this week so working on the outside.

Amazing what can be done in the house when you aren’t pouring hours into the race car :/

[ViPER1313]

You need a larger tree.

[ScottyB]

You need a larger tree.

i mean.....the couch is positioned perfectly for easy Elf style star placement, go for it

[Apoc]

When you get the final water bill for all the work put in to fixing your lawn.

Over the last two months, our daily consumption was at 144 gallons; up from 99 gallons/day the year prior.

[Sully]

So...uh yeah. Our wall in our brand new house isn't even close to straight even after I complained multiple times during the building process that it wasn't and said it's fine if it looks like shit as long as it's straight enough to fit a standard 36"fridge and they tore off the drywall on the non fridge side. I guess to try and pull the wall to straighten it which basically did nothing (visually) and no definitely confirmed today when fridge showed up and comes nowhere close to fitting. Thought it was moulding originally but popped 1/4 round off before shoe moulding and realized the top was hitting while the bottom was still 1/4" away from shoe moulding which is half inch from wall as it is.

I have a great agent who I'll use as long as he is working on principal alone cause I like the guy that much (yes I know it's his job to make me like him). I text him a picture not expecting anything on a Saturday night. I was really just showing him for the hell of it and planned to follow up myself on Monday. He said he'll get the sales rep we dealt with on the phone tomorrow to get this fixed. Our sales rep with hhhunt was also pretty good although the rest of the company sucks as far as I'm concerned (maybe all production builders?)

If they refuse to do anything, I feel I could cut out the drywall from the top of the fridge maybe 10" down and get it in there.

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[.RJ]

Closing is on my old house today.... I'm glad for this rollercoaster to be over.  All in all things went pretty smooth, but the thing that absolutely killed me was community (Reston) HOA.  

My realtor advised that we should wait until we had a contract before ordering resale documents, which includes a walk around of the exterior of the house and takes two weeks to receive.  On a 30 day closing it didnt leave much time to address the things that they came up with.  I should have done it the day I listed the house, and I would have been in the house and easier to deal with stuff - like repainting siding and power washing the fence is easy when I'm there and all my tools are there and I can knock it out in a few hours instead of getting ghosted by 2 contractors and paying $800 for the job when its 40 degrees outside and no one wants to take that work on.

None of them were major but I'd already moved across town and I had back surgery 2 weeks ago which just made things real pain in the ass, at a time when the HOA is also being a pain in the ass and illogical.  Sometimes I think they forget that they work for us, not the other way around. 

Once the money comes back from the sale its new kitchen time in the new house, so at least I have that to look forward to.

[Apoc]

Sometimes I think they forget that they work for us, not the other way around. 

That doesn't sound right... are you sure you have that right?

[.RJ]

Everyone pays $690/year to sustain their bullshit. Therefore they work for us.

I like that it keeps the communities looking nice but they dont have to be so goddamn difficult about it.

[Ryan T]

So I’d planned on buying a blade and weights for my mower around the first of the year, since we haven’t gotten a significant snow before New Years here in like 10 years, but alas, the weather is calling for 8-12” this weekend. I mentioned to my uncle (who has 6 John Deer mowers, because old man money), that I wanted to go look at a blade. He tells me he’s got an old GT225 with blade, whee weights, liquid filed tires, and chain straps sitting in his garage doing nothing. He’s got blades on his 530 and 540 ready to go, so not using the 225. I went and picked it up this evening and brought it back to the house. He’s plowed with this mower a bunch of times and said it never got stuck or had any problems, so I’m excited for some snow!

[JPolen01]

Why do you need liquid filled tires? Better traction?

[.RJ]

Closing is on my old house today.... I'm glad for this rollercoaster to be over.  All in all things went pretty smooth, but the thing that absolutely killed me was community (Reston) HOA.  

My realtor advised that we should wait until we had a contract before ordering resale documents, which includes a walk around of the exterior of the house and takes two weeks to receive.  On a 30 day closing it didnt leave much time to address the things that they came up with.  I should have done it the day I listed the house, and I would have been in the house and easier to deal with stuff - like repainting siding and power washing the fence is easy when I'm there and all my tools are there and I can knock it out in a few hours instead of getting ghosted by 2 contractors and paying $800 for the job when its 40 degrees outside and no one wants to take that work on.

None of them were major but I'd already moved across town and I had back surgery 2 weeks ago which just made things real pain in the ass, at a time when the HOA is also being a pain in the ass and illogical.  Sometimes I think they forget that they work for us, not the other way around. 

Once the money comes back from the sale its new kitchen time in the new house, so at least I have that to look forward to.

And now the HOA rejected some of the work I did, saying the exterior paint doesnt match.  Yeah its a shade off but its also new paint.  Their only insight was to paint the whole house.... sorry, thats $3000 to paint the whole house to cover up some discoloration from an old gutter and shutters?  They DGAF that its an unreasonable solution.

The house closed yesterday anyways but I'm on the hook and have 90 days to resolve the HOA nonsense, which is a more reasonable solution than trying to get a house paint done in the middle of winter.  I feel like I've been taken for a ride by the buyer and the HOA here and it leaves a real sour taste.  I didnt make the best decisions about this while recovering from surgery but live and learn and I guess this is this rounds version of losing your cell phone, cost inflation included.

The offending trim color, FWIW. New paint on bottom.