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Post by 🐍 huss 🐍 on Aug 26, 2022 21:52:05 GMT -5
My gym full of bees has been upgraded (?) now to a gym full of angry bees. Progress! (We're to leave the area around the nest alone for a few days, and if there are still any bees then, the exterminator will come back. Aw, gee. No working out for me!) My roommate had a grill that became a haven for bees. He considered an exterminator, but was able to find a local bee-fancier that moved them all out (presumably so they could take them to a bee farm upstate where they could run around free with all the other bees). I can ask him where he posted to find that person. Surely there must be tons of random apiarists in New Jersey, the Garden State. |
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Post by 🐍 huss 🐍 on Aug 27, 2022 12:51:32 GMT -5
My gym full of bees has been upgraded (?) now to a gym full of angry bees. Progress! (We're to leave the area around the nest alone for a few days, and if there are still any bees then, the exterminator will come back. Aw, gee. No working out for me!) My roommate had a grill that became a haven for bees. He considered an exterminator, but was able to find a local bee-fancier that moved them all out (presumably so they could take them to a bee farm upstate where they could run around free with all the other bees). I can ask him where he posted to find that person. Surely there must be tons of random apiarists in New Jersey, the Garden State. okay I asked him and he said he got directed to the place by posting a question on a livejournal community, so first of all lol. Secondly the site was SFBA specific, but I figured there must be one in NJ. One short duckduckgo search later: njbeekeepers.org/swarmremoval/swarmremoval.html |
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Post by Liz n Dick the Halls on Aug 27, 2022 12:59:06 GMT -5
okay I asked him and he said he got directed to the place by posting a question on a livejournal community, so first of all lol. Secondly the site was SFBA specific, but I figured there must be one in NJ. One short duckduckgo search later: njbeekeepers.org/swarmremoval/swarmremoval.htmlAw, thanks for looking into that! Actually, my bees are just conversationally bees -- they're really wasps. And they were angry on Thursday afternoon just during the "Okay, their next has been sprayed by the exterminator, but they're still alive, and pouring out of the nest in droves" stage of ridding one's garage walls of wasps. Now they're all dead.  (Had they been bees, we definitely would have looked into relocating them.) |
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Post by 🐍 huss 🐍 on Aug 27, 2022 15:59:12 GMT -5
okay I asked him and he said he got directed to the place by posting a question on a livejournal community, so first of all lol. Secondly the site was SFBA specific, but I figured there must be one in NJ. One short duckduckgo search later: njbeekeepers.org/swarmremoval/swarmremoval.htmlAw, thanks for looking into that! Actually, my bees are just conversationally bees -- they're really wasps. And they were angry on Thursday afternoon just during the "Okay, their next has been sprayed by the exterminator, but they're still alive, and pouring out of the nest in droves" stage of ridding one's garage walls of wasps. Now they're all dead. (Had they been bees, we definitely would have looked into relocating them.) oh shit wasps! yeah kill those fuckers dead. |
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Post by Liz n Dick the Halls on Aug 31, 2022 9:11:08 GMT -5
I'm beginning to think the contractor I have lined up for my range installation is not a very good listener. First there was the thing where I told him repeatedly over the phone that I was looking for a contractor to handle a very small job, of very limited scope, that was really, really small, and was too small for the original person I was working with to want to keep on their docket. Just, you know, a tiny job. And then he came over to see it in person, telling me to expect to need an hour for our appointment, and then, after the five minutes it took to exchange pleasantries and then discuss the job, was like, "From your call I was really expecting a much bigger job here." I was afraid he wasn't going to take it, but after a few weeks of silence, he did finally send me a proposal, which I signed and returned on Monday.
Today I get an email from him saying, "I have an opening tomorrow. I know it's short notice, but can I get started on this then?" And... I mean, I appreciate that he wants to get this done right away, but... the range is not being delivered until AT LEAST November. I don't even know what part of November! And I told him this probably a dozen times during our five minutes of meeting in my kitchen; over and over, trying to drive home that I didn't need this right away, that it wasn't until November, that I just wanted to make sure someone was willing to get me on their slate, that I was sure he was busy now and wasn't asking him to drop anything BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T BE UNTIL NOVEMBER. I guess I needed to say it a few more times.
Anyway, I have had so much agita about this fucking range installation, and it's been going on for over a year now, and I'm half tempted just to say, "Sure, take out my cooktop and dead oven tomorrow, cut into my counters, and then leave a hole there until November, and while I'll be two and a half months without a stove, at least I'll know that the range can just slot right in." (I can't go two and a half months without a stove.)
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Aug 31, 2022 9:15:04 GMT -5
In my limited experience, craftsmen and handymen and contractors have a short attention span. I definitely had the guy coming to do our lights try to schedule me before I even had the actual light fixtures. No, dude, there's nothing to do yet.
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Post by Liz n Dick the Halls on Sept 7, 2022 9:48:12 GMT -5
Me yesterday, coming back from a meeting at which I didn't have my phone: "Oooh! Oooh! A missed call and a voicemail from a legit number! I BET THIS IS THE FRIDGE INSTALLER!!!"
My voicemail: "Hey, this is the septic guy."
Dammit!
But at least we're finally making forward progress on that front; they're starting soil testing today. Boomer took the lead on "dealing with the septic engineer people in person" so I could be in the office. I think we all expected that "taking soil samples" would be sort of like taking water samples -- they'd just get a few test tubes of soil, or dig a few discreet and tiny holes. But nope! Septic system replacement is all about the utter destruction of your yard at every opportunity, I guess, because Boomer emailed me a picture of the large bulldozer digger thing they've got in the yard right now. WTF? Oh well... I guess that's potentially good news that they can get big equipment out there without cutting down all our trees? (And my dismay about having my backyard excavated late enough in the summer/fall that there won't be a chance for new grass to grow, and we'll be stuck looking at bare dirt in our backyard all winter, has been alleviated by the drought, which has left our backyard a barren wasteland of brown, dead grass anyway. So one way or the other, it's going to be a bleak moonscape out there all winter!)
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 7, 2022 9:54:44 GMT -5
New light fixtures are in! I'm very happy with them. One minor... I don't wanna say snag, but new thing that came up. I asked the handyman to also look at the light fixture above our sink, which we have never been able to use. I had forgotten the details but there was part of a bulb (the little metal bit on the end) stuck in the socket; he got one out and then discovered the same thing happened to the OTHER socket, and there was no getting that one out. So he recommended just replacing that fixture too, sometime. And I can do that relatively cheap - a new flushmount fixture there would only be $60 or so and I can add it to the list of handyman stuff that still needs to be done around here. (I also want to replace the bathroom light fixture in our en-suite bath, but that may be a slightly bigger project since the bathroom also needs to be repainted and I feel like those two things should be done in conjunction.) Anyway - I was telling this to TWBE and he said "we never use that light anyway" and I said "that's because it's NEVER WORKED!" ... I guarantee you I would use it if I had a working light there  |
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Post by LazBro on Sept 7, 2022 10:06:02 GMT -5
Today marks 11 full weeks since signing, 10 full weeks since permitting, and 8 full weeks since groundbreaking on our new patio. I don't remember which of these points our project manager defined as the official start of our 4-6 week project, but that hardly matters now does it?
We have the whole family coming over in a couple weeks for my daughter's ninth birthday. I would really like the patio done by then. It's completely usable in this state, so it'd be fine, but especially the lighting I would like done. These parties tend to go late, and I'd really appreciate being able to have lights outside.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 7, 2022 11:17:52 GMT -5
Me yesterday, coming back from a meeting at which I didn't have my phone: "Oooh! Oooh! A missed call and a voicemail from a legit number! I BET THIS IS THE FRIDGE INSTALLER!!!" My voicemail: "Hey, this is the septic guy." Dammit! But at least we're finally making forward progress on that front; they're starting soil testing today. Boomer took the lead on "dealing with the septic engineer people in person" so I could be in the office. I think we all expected that "taking soil samples" would be sort of like taking water samples -- they'd just get a few test tubes of soil, or dig a few discreet and tiny holes. But nope! Septic system replacement is all about the utter destruction of your yard at every opportunity, I guess, because Boomer emailed me a picture of the large bulldozer digger thing they've got in the yard right now. WTF? Oh well... I guess that's potentially good news that they can get big equipment out there without cutting down all our trees? (And my dismay about having my backyard excavated late enough in the summer/fall that there won't be a chance for new grass to grow, and we'll be stuck looking at bare dirt in our backyard all winter, has been alleviated by the drought, which has left our backyard a barren wasteland of brown, dead grass anyway. So one way or the other, it's going to be a bleak moonscape out there all winter!) At first I thought, "Won't the snow cover up the mud all winter?", but then I remembered most other places in the US don't have 4-5 months of snow cover. Enjoy your moon mud! |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 7, 2022 11:21:53 GMT -5
Me yesterday, coming back from a meeting at which I didn't have my phone: "Oooh! Oooh! A missed call and a voicemail from a legit number! I BET THIS IS THE FRIDGE INSTALLER!!!" My voicemail: "Hey, this is the septic guy." Dammit! But at least we're finally making forward progress on that front; they're starting soil testing today. Boomer took the lead on "dealing with the septic engineer people in person" so I could be in the office. I think we all expected that "taking soil samples" would be sort of like taking water samples -- they'd just get a few test tubes of soil, or dig a few discreet and tiny holes. But nope! Septic system replacement is all about the utter destruction of your yard at every opportunity, I guess, because Boomer emailed me a picture of the large bulldozer digger thing they've got in the yard right now. WTF? Oh well... I guess that's potentially good news that they can get big equipment out there without cutting down all our trees? (And my dismay about having my backyard excavated late enough in the summer/fall that there won't be a chance for new grass to grow, and we'll be stuck looking at bare dirt in our backyard all winter, has been alleviated by the drought, which has left our backyard a barren wasteland of brown, dead grass anyway. So one way or the other, it's going to be a bleak moonscape out there all winter!) At first I thought, "Won't the snow cover up the mud all winter?", but then I remembered most other places in the US don't have 4-5 months of snow cover. Enjoy your moon mud! I think NJ winters tend to be less snowy/more mild in general, but what happens in northern Illinois is that January is usually snowy-ish or at least cold enough that the snow sticks around, and then a freeze-thaw cycle starts in February and we go from snow to slush to mud to snow and back again. |
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Post by Liz n Dick the Halls on Sept 7, 2022 11:45:06 GMT -5
At first I thought, "Won't the snow cover up the mud all winter?", but then I remembered most other places in the US don't have 4-5 months of snow cover. Enjoy your moon mud! HA, thanks! And yeah, we don't normally have snow on the ground. There's no guarantee we'll even get snow in any winter, and when we do, it's normally gone after a few days. NJ kind of sucks in that regard -- it's cold and dreary, but just brown! And speaking of dreary, the official word is the worst-case scenario. My yard had four big trees in it when we moved in 17 years ago. There was a black locust in the front yard, a sugar gum in the side yard, and then an oak and a big shade maple in the back. The oak was diseased and dying, so we had to cut it down after a few years. The locust got struck by lightning and had to come down. The maple got wrecked by a freak October snowfall when it still had its foliage, so while it's still in place, it's on its last legs. The sugar gum is our last tall, beautiful, old-growth tree. We also have a couple of tall holly bush/tree things in the front yard that serve as a privacy screen between us and the rest of the neighborhood up the street; it is especially nice for being in our garden, where it kind of creates a big, green wall, and is a great bird habitat. Well, guess what needs to come out for access for the digging equipment? Yup! The holly and the gum tree. FUCK ME. I'm trying really hard not to cry. (We've planted dozens of apple trees around the front yard, but they're dwarf trees, so no more than 15-20 feet tall. I can't believe my yard isn't going to have a SINGLE tall tree in it.) |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 7, 2022 11:55:50 GMT -5
At first I thought, "Won't the snow cover up the mud all winter?", but then I remembered most other places in the US don't have 4-5 months of snow cover. Enjoy your moon mud! I think NJ winters tend to be less snowy/more mild in general, but what happens in northern Illinois is that January is usually snowy-ish or at least cold enough that the snow sticks around, and then a freeze-thaw cycle starts in February and we go from snow to slush to mud to snow and back again. Minneapolis is usually more like first snow that sticks around is in December. January is cold as shit and subzero for weeks. February slight less cold as shit but the snow is still around. March it might be 60°F or it might be -20°F or maybe just both within days of each other. Lately that means much of the snow melts and you start seeing the slush/mud/dirty piles of plowed snow. April is who the fuck knows anymore but it will probably snow at least a foot one day which will stick around for at least a week. May is almost okay, but the nights will still likely be below freezing*. Rarely do we get May snow, but if we do it's gone quick. June will be 100°F. *Fun rule of thumb in southern Minnesota is that you don't plant your garden until after Mother's day because the chance of hard frost is still high. |
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Post by Liz n Dick the Halls on Sept 7, 2022 12:01:18 GMT -5
Minneapolis is usually more like first snow that sticks around is in December. January is cold as shit and subzero for weeks. February slight less cold as shit but the snow is still around. March it might be 60°F or it might be -20°F or maybe just both within days of each other. Lately that means much of the snow melts and you start seeing the slush/mud/dirty piles of plowed snow. April is who the fuck knows anymore but it will probably snow at least a foot one day which will stick around for at least a week. May is almost okay, but the nights will still likely be below freezing*. Rarely do we get May snow, but if we do it's gone quick. June will be 100°F. *Fun rule of thumb in southern Minnesota is that you don't plant your garden until after Mother's day because the chance of hard frost is still high. I feel like having snow on the ground makes miserable winters so much better! And we also can't plant until after Mother's Day, but instead of spring snows we just have a dreary slog of cold rain from March through the end of May. It's great here, I really recommend it! (To make up for our relatively charmless winters, NJ June is generally a really great time of year, so we've got that on Minneapolis, at least.) |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 7, 2022 12:16:48 GMT -5
I think NJ winters tend to be less snowy/more mild in general, but what happens in northern Illinois is that January is usually snowy-ish or at least cold enough that the snow sticks around, and then a freeze-thaw cycle starts in February and we go from snow to slush to mud to snow and back again. Minneapolis is usually more like first snow that sticks around is in December. January is cold as shit and subzero for weeks. February slight less cold as shit but the snow is still around. March it might be 60°F or it might be -20°F or maybe just both within days of each other. Lately that means much of the snow melts and you start seeing the slush/mud/dirty piles of plowed snow. April is who the fuck knows anymore but it will probably snow at least a foot one day which will stick around for at least a week. May is almost okay, but the nights will still likely be below freezing*. Rarely do we get May snow, but if we do it's gone quick. June will be 100°F. *Fun rule of thumb in southern Minnesota is that you don't plant your garden until after Mother's day because the chance of hard frost is still high. We do get snow in November and/or December sometimes, but it often isn't much or doesn't stick around. I don't think we got any snow last December, but it can vary wildly from year to year. |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 7, 2022 12:24:28 GMT -5
Minneapolis is usually more like first snow that sticks around is in December. January is cold as shit and subzero for weeks. February slight less cold as shit but the snow is still around. March it might be 60°F or it might be -20°F or maybe just both within days of each other. Lately that means much of the snow melts and you start seeing the slush/mud/dirty piles of plowed snow. April is who the fuck knows anymore but it will probably snow at least a foot one day which will stick around for at least a week. May is almost okay, but the nights will still likely be below freezing*. Rarely do we get May snow, but if we do it's gone quick. June will be 100°F. *Fun rule of thumb in southern Minnesota is that you don't plant your garden until after Mother's day because the chance of hard frost is still high. I feel like having snow on the ground makes miserable winters so much better! And we also can't plant until after Mother's Day, but instead of spring snows we just have a dreary slog of cold rain from March through the end of May. It's great here, I really recommend it! (To make up for our relatively charmless winters, NJ June is generally a really great time of year, so we've got that on Minneapolis, at least.) You want to visit Minnesota in September/October. That's the sweet spot. And the beginning of June is sometimes nice. And sorry about your trees. That's a real bummer. Our neighborhood has been having a tree culling over the last several years as all the maple trees along the boulevard and big ash trees planted in people's back yards have become diseased/bug infested and died. New trees, with a good bit more variety is species, have been planted, but my house needs another 20+ years before it can really benefit from the shade again. The front of my house is so damn hot in the summer now. Just full sun from 1pm to sun down. I plan on putting in a red oak tree up front this fall that will someday be nice. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 8, 2022 8:24:57 GMT -5
So here's my next, very minor dilemma. There are three lights in our kitchen - one over the table (A) which just got replaced, one in the middle (B) and one over the sink (C). B and C match - they are nearly identical but B is semi-flush and B is flush. They go with A well enough and I do actually like them.
I've never used C because it's never worked - and we discovered that there was a bit of lightbulb stuck in one of the sockets and the handyman said we were better off replacing the whole thing.
Here's the question: since B and C match, should I replace both of them? It would of course add some extra cost, but it wouldn't be stupidly expensive. On the other hand, I can find a replacement for just C that goes well enough with the other two, even if it's not an exact match anymore. HMM.
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Post by Liz n Dick the Halls on Sept 12, 2022 12:13:08 GMT -5
The septic saga continues. We had soil testing done last week, where they're checking to see what the permeability is in our ground. The worse your soil, the higher a mound has to be built to provide an adequate amount of more permeable soil for all the effluent that gets filtered through the system. A number of my neighbors have recently had new systems put in, and all are flush with the ground. Turns out my yard is on a rocky ridge or something, because our permeability is dreadful. (This is not surprising, considering how swampy it gets in the back of our yard where the septic system will have to go.) I got lost in a lot of what the engineer/test guy was saying (he seemed to assume a far more thorough understanding of septic systems than I have), but at first glance it seemed we were going to need the maximum-height mound for our system. Which BLOWS. I mean, we're already losing all our trees -- do we really need to gain an enormous hillock across the back of our yard? UGH.
But the testing gets run overnight, and I guess by the next morning things were looking juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust better enough that we somehow managed to pass. That was the entirety of his report to us. I don't know if that means we get to have a lower mound, or whether it means we get a fully-flush new system. But it's supposed to be good news.
Anyway, the point is that the guy was like, "Okay, next step is you'll be getting a 'red-letter' notice from the township. Informing you that your soil passed, BUT ONLY BARELY." So apparently our test results came with a big "See me" from the teacher on them. You know what I say to the township? SUCK IT! Passing's passing! It might just be a D-minus, but it's not an F!
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Post by LazBro on Sept 12, 2022 12:55:50 GMT -5
Lights are in.
Just gutters to go, plus the sun shades which I'll install myself once everything else is done.
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Post by LazBro on Sept 15, 2022 7:38:09 GMT -5
Gutters are in. Just "final walkthrough" to go. We're in business, people. I also got my new griddle delivered yesterday, and because it's a propane griddle and I'm mechanically incompetent, I purchased professional assembly. Unfortunately, delivery and assembly are too separate teams, so right now all I've got is a nice looking box, and I have to call and schedule with the assembly team.  |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 16, 2022 9:26:58 GMT -5
I am unbelieveably annoyed that I wasn't able to get any of my "while the ceiling is open" things done even though they aren't critical. That said the fact that the inside of my house might be mostly back to normal by next friday is amazing news.
Still can't believe I didn't find one space to run a pipe up though.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 16, 2022 10:01:39 GMT -5
Is it reasonable to ask for new light fixture, new exhaust fan and painting in a smallish bathroom in one day? Like, is that a reasonable thing to expect to get done in a day? Or should the painting be separate?
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 16, 2022 11:20:52 GMT -5
Is it reasonable to ask for new light fixture, new exhaust fan and painting in a smallish bathroom in one day? Like, is that a reasonable thing to expect to get done in a day? Or should the painting be separate? I think it would be doable, might depend on if the exhaust fan needs any work once opened though |
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 16, 2022 11:49:05 GMT -5
Is it reasonable to ask for new light fixture, new exhaust fan and painting in a smallish bathroom in one day? Like, is that a reasonable thing to expect to get done in a day? Or should the painting be separate? Or if the exhaust fan can be replaced from below the ceiling or if you have to go in the attic and/or run a new exhaust line. I had to do that one time and it was an all day, messy, dirty job. It makes sense to do them together because if they can pull the old exhaust fan and light fixture before painting, then it is one less thing to paint around. If it needs more than a couple coats of paint, then they might wait until the next day to install the new fixtures. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 16, 2022 12:08:14 GMT -5
Is it reasonable to ask for new light fixture, new exhaust fan and painting in a smallish bathroom in one day? Like, is that a reasonable thing to expect to get done in a day? Or should the painting be separate? Or if the exhaust fan can be replaced from below the ceiling or if you have to go in the attic and/or run a new exhaust line. I had to do that one time and it was an all day, messy, dirty job. It makes sense to do them together because if they can pull the old exhaust fan and light fixture before painting, then it is one less thing to paint around. If it needs more than a couple coats of paint, then they might wait until the next day to install the new fixtures. I don't think anything needs to be replaced besides the fan itself, but I can't be sure. It's just really old. The light fixture should probably be replaced before the painting, or at least the old one removed, because the new one is likely to be smaller/take up less wall space - the one there now is a wide metal bar with 6 lightbulbs. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 16, 2022 13:17:38 GMT -5
Is it reasonable to ask for new light fixture, new exhaust fan and painting in a smallish bathroom in one day? Like, is that a reasonable thing to expect to get done in a day? Or should the painting be separate? Generally this formerly professional painter advises doing interior coats of paint on separate days. My plan of attack would be to remove the old fixtures, put on a coat of paint, wait overnight, put on a second coat, and install new fixtures once the second coat is dry to the touch. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 16, 2022 13:37:46 GMT -5
Is it reasonable to ask for new light fixture, new exhaust fan and painting in a smallish bathroom in one day? Like, is that a reasonable thing to expect to get done in a day? Or should the painting be separate? Generally this formerly professional painter advises doing interior coats of paint on separate days. My plan of attack would be to remove the old fixtures, put on a coat of paint, wait overnight, put on a second coat, and install new fixtures once the second coat is dry to the touch. That would mean not being able to use our master bath for several days Though we do have another bathroom we can use for a few days. To be fair, the ceiling also needs to be repainted, so I dunno. I may consult the handyman service and see what they recommend. |
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 16, 2022 15:38:40 GMT -5
Generally this formerly professional painter advises doing interior coats of paint on separate days. My plan of attack would be to remove the old fixtures, put on a coat of paint, wait overnight, put on a second coat, and install new fixtures once the second coat is dry to the touch. That would mean not being able to use our master bath for several days Though we do have another bathroom we can use for a few days. To be fair, the ceiling also needs to be repainted, so I dunno. I may consult the handyman service and see what they recommend. Could be worse, in our old house we only had 1.5 bathrooms, so I set up a very rudimentary shower in the murder basement laundry room:  We only had to use it for a week while the the new shower/tub was getting tiled, but it worked and I successfully returned some of the plumbing parts to the hardware store for a refund |
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Post by Liz n Dick the Halls on Sept 16, 2022 16:02:36 GMT -5
Could be worse, in our old house we only had 1.5 bathrooms, so I set up a very rudimentary shower in the murder basement laundry room: We only had to use it for a week while the the new shower/tub was getting tiled, but it worked and I successfully returned some of the plumbing parts to the hardware store for a refund After using that luxurious spa-like set-up, I can't imagine ever wanting to go back to a normal bathroom! |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 16, 2022 19:22:06 GMT -5
Could be worse, in our old house we only had 1.5 bathrooms, so I set up a very rudimentary shower in the murder basement laundry room: We only had to use it for a week while the the new shower/tub was getting tiled, but it worked and I successfully returned some of the plumbing parts to the hardware store for a refund After using that luxurious spa-like set-up, I can't imagine ever wanting to go back to a normal bathroom! Look at the high-end concrete finish on the walls! |
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(Had they been bees, we definitely would have looked into relocating them.)
