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| Author: | Spaz [ Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
So I own a house now. I'm going to have questions |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Congrats. It's a good move, unless you bought a real shithole. |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
How long do you water your lawn? How do I win lawn of the month? Give me lawn hints |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
I do 15-20 minutes per zone twice a week. Looks good. I also pay for a lawn service to fertilize and squirt for weeds 8 or so times a year. Worth it. |
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| Author: | cap [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
That's too much. You water like trump |
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| Author: | Ichabod [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: How long do you water your lawn? How do I win lawn of the month? Give me lawn hints Set the zones with fixed location sprinkler heads to 10 minutes. If you have any zones with oscillating heads (these are usually in the backyard) set those for 20 minutes. |
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| Author: | jim jack [ Sun Oct 02, 2016 12:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Tit Whistle wrote: I do 15-20 minutes per zone twice a week. Looks good. I also pay for a lawn service to fertilize and squirt for weeds 8 or so times a year. Worth it.  I cannot agree more about the fertilization and weed killing. It makes a big difference in how the yard looks. If you don't know how to look at a weed and what to put on it, hire somebody to do it. Don't guess. Also, unless your neighbor has perfect grass, don't listen to his advice on fertilization and weed killing, either. |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Sun Oct 02, 2016 4:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Who's got good easy cheap kinda organic unless it's a whip methods of killing skeeters? |
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| Author: | Trained Goucho [ Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: Who's got good easy cheap kinda organic unless it's a whip methods of killing skeeters? Consider candlelight ambiance on a larger scale, and yes, I'm talking about tiki torches. You will want to fill them with a refreshing citronella fluid which studies have shown can somewhat help ward off mosquitoes because the smoke can confuse the bugs and prevent them from smelling you. |
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| Author: | Trained Goucho [ Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Not sure if it organically kills them though. |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
10 minutes per zone + Scott's weed n feed once a year (after the last freeze) if your lawn is already in good shape. Twice if your lawn is shit. During the hot months you'll need to water at least twice a week, even if you're under water restrictions. Set it to run overnight so nosy neighbors don't get bent out of shape for breaking the law. |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Yeah, it's a small lawn and doesn't have a sprinkler system |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Trained Goucho wrote: Spaz wrote: Who's got good easy cheap kinda organic unless it's a whip methods of killing skeeters? Consider candlelight ambiance on a larger scale, and yes, I'm talking about tiki torches. You will want to fill them with a refreshing citronella fluid which studies have shown can somewhat help ward off mosquitoes because the smoke can confuse the bugs and prevent them from smelling you. My rich ass sister has some service that does an organic spray for her yard. It's something with garlic because her yard smells like an Olive Garden |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Mon Oct 03, 2016 4:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
After a summer of moving sprinklers around the yard, you're gonna want a sprinkler system. And while I'm not a fan of Olive Garden, I'd love a yard that smells like unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks. |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Tit Whistle wrote: After a summer of moving sprinklers around the yard, you're gonna want a sprinkler system. And while I'm not a fan of Olive Garden, I'd love a yard that smells like unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks. It's super small. I don't know how we found the only DC Rowhouse in Cedar Park |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Tue Oct 04, 2016 5:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Is this one of those ironic hipster things where you don't really have a yard? |
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| Author: | rowdyhatinwalt [ Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
$2.5M in CA. |
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| Author: | rowdyhatinwalt [ Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Tit Whistle wrote: $2.5M in CA. and that's Van Nuys. |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Sat Oct 08, 2016 11:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
I got two hoses for both sides of the house. Watered it for a while with a regular 15 buck sprinkler head then got a few areas with just a spray attachment by hand. Calming. Serene. |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Mon Oct 10, 2016 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: I got two hoses for both sides of the house. Watered it for a while with a regular 15 buck sprinkler head then got a few areas with just a spray attachment by hand. Calming. Serene. Grab a beer and a lawn chair. |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Anybody got that one hot room in their house? Any advice? |
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| Author: | cap [ Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
AC |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
cap wrote: AC Seriously, set yourself on fire |
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| Author: | cap [ Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: cap wrote: AC Seriously, set yourself on fire that wouldn't cool it off |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: Anybody got that one hot room in their house? Any advice? Could be hot for a bunch of reasons. I got a hot room above the garage because it's above the garage. Your room could be hot because of bad insulation. Could be because the sun hits it all day. Could be a portal to Hell beneath the floorboards. What we need is more details. |
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| Author: | bigboy [ Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
We had a hot room for years because of a bay window that let in a lot of light late in the day and a weak, old A/C. Replacing the A/C made all the difference in the world. |
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| Author: | rowdyhatinwalt [ Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
bigboy wrote: We had a hot room for years because of a bay window that let in a lot of light late in the day and a weak, old A/C. Replacing the A/C made all the difference in the world. That there is a great story. |
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| Author: | Trained Goucho [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
| this is a slam dunkaroo answer to those tricky situational job interview questions these days that ask you to "describe a time when you were confronted with a problem and how did you resolve it" type scenario.
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| Author: | Spaz [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
bigboy wrote: We had a hot room for years because of a bay window that let in a lot of light late in the day and a weak, old A/C. Replacing the A/C made all the difference in the world. Yeah, it's upstairs in a 1 zone AC house. We may need to update the AC. It's our bedroom. What's crazy is it's hotter in that room and it changes when you step out into the hallway. Gonna get up in the attick and check the ducts if a volume dampener is closed or something |
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| Author: | Trained Goucho [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
I hate going in attics. Newer houses aren't as bad when they plywood floor a lot of it but those older ones are creepy. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
My attic is completely useless. No ladder access. No plywood floors. Can't store anything up there. I'll take a creepy one as long as it's useful. |
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| Author: | bigboy [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Trained Goucho wrote: :babyarm: this is a slam dunkaroo answer to those tricky situational job interview questions these days that ask you to "describe a time when you were confronted with a problem and how did you resolve it" type scenario. I didn't get my job slinging monkey shit using my good looks and math skills. I have plywood decking over my garage and I store all of the Christmas decor there. The rest of the house is pretty useless because of the a/c ducts and a vaulted ceiling in the living room. Does anyone else store stuff in their attic? |
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| Author: | jim jack [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
I always used to store stuff in mine. Christmas decorations. Unwanted furniture. Shit that I was hiding from the wife. |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Tit Whistle wrote: My attic is completely useless. No ladder access. No plywood floors. Can't store anything up there. I'll take a creepy one as long as it's useful. This sounds like my attic |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
jim jack wrote: I always used to store stuff in mine. Christmas decorations. Unwanted furniture. Shit that I was hiding from the wife. your previous wife's body... |
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| Author: | jim jack [ Tue Oct 18, 2016 7:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: jim jack wrote: I always used to store stuff in mine. Christmas decorations. Unwanted furniture. Shit that I was hiding from the wife. your previous wife's body... 
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| Author: | Spaz [ Wed Oct 19, 2016 3:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Fucking HOW MUCH WATER DO YOU WANT, LAWN?!?!? |
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| Author: | Spaz [ Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Any of you guys on a neighborhood Facebook page? Is yours just full of white people freaking out when a black person walks through the neighborhood, too? |
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| Author: | rowdyhatinwalt [ Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: Any of you guys on a neighborhood Facebook page? Is yours just full of white people freaking out when a black person walks through the neighborhood, too? Latest update from the Studio City one: "Unknown Ford Truck, hispanic driver, drove up and down street twice" |
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| Author: | cap [ Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Spaz wrote: Any of you guys on a neighborhood Facebook page? Is yours just full of white people freaking out when a black person walks through the neighborhood, too? you must live in a nice neighborhood. |
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| Author: | rowdyhatinwalt [ Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spaz's Blog of Home Ownership |
Here's another one, bitching about all the street parking (It's LA, hello! Parking is at a premium) I can speak for my home and my neighbors that every day and night there are cars parked in front of my house and our gardeners cannot clean the leaves from the curb area. |
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