The Home Ownership Thread

[FlyingMonkey]

We started the process of clearing out and taking down the old house today. We're trying to do it carefully so we can salvage as much usable stuff as possible - today I was mainly taking apart kitchen cabinets and deconstructing built-in bookshelves. Doing this was actually a bit sad, but the sadness was easily outweighed by the disbelief that we managed to live in such a cold, damp, mouse-infested place for 7 years, and relief that we aren't any more...

 

[TheFoo]

Honest question: is fire glass supposed to be impressive and/or life-enhancing? Because it sounds like bits of colored glass that go on top of your fire pit. Which means you own a fire pit.

A head-scratcher.

 

[Medwed]

 

[Piobaire]

Honest question: is fire glass supposed to be impressive and/or life-enhancing? Because it sounds like bits of colored glass that go on top of your fire pit. Which means you own a fire pit.

A head-scratcher.

It's pretty. Do you dislike pretty things? Do they bring you no enjoyment?

The e-gents of StyFo have brooms stick way too far up their arses. Fire pits are awesome.

I think it's time for a break from StyFo. Bye.

 

[Medwed]

"beauty is in the eye of the bee holder", from the "Jokes by the fire-pit".

 

[js4design]

Serious question - what is wrong with a fire pit?

 

[Medwed]

Serious question - what is wrong with a fire pit?

Nothing in general, but I prefer conversation pits.

 

[jbarwick]

I enjoy fire pits. We will likely add one when we redo our outside area though that is a few years off.

 

[sugarbutch]

Nothing in general, but I prefer conversation pits.
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This would be **** with a fire pit where that table is...

 

[brokencycle]

Anyone have a good site that has good filtering for moulding - particularly crown, but also looks for ideas for doors and windows and arched opening casings.

Also paint brand? Is there much of a difference between the top of the line valspar or say Benjamin Moore? Is there some other brand I should be looking at?

 

[jbarwick]

Anyone have a good site that has good filtering for moulding - particularly crown, but also looks for ideas for doors and windows and arched opening casings.

Also paint brand? Is there much of a difference between the top of the line valspar or say Benjamin Moore? Is there some other brand I should be looking at?

I've used Valspar Reserve and Benjamin Moore Regal which is not BM top of the line. I felt both were equal and the BM sales rep said you don't need to go top of the line Aura if you do 2 coats of paint. Egg shell if more forgiving than semi-gloss but other than that, both paints felt the same.

 

[Numbernine]

BM Bath and Spa matte . The only paint I've ever found "impressive"

 

[emptym]

We used Kelly Moore and Dunn Edwards.

 

[djblisk]

Webber Grill or Big Green Egg?

Just my wife and I and I'm a noob.

 

[Ataturk]

So when I wired up my shop a couple years ago, the panel I used was grossly undersized. I thought it wouldn't be a big deal because I could just switch to tandem breakers, but apparently I thought wrong, because to use tandem breakers I needed to get an identical panel with notches cut in the bus (or wherever they are). The one that cost about $5 more...

Anyway, it occurred to me that the identical panel might actually turn out to be identical in more ways than one. I bought it and sure enough it looks like the actual guts of the panel will fit into the frame of the old one.

Not looking forward to redoing all those connections, but at least I won't have to pull all the wires out of the box itself.