LazBro
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Post by LazBro on Sept 19, 2022 9:31:39 GMT -5
I recently purchased an outdoor griddle from Home Depot for my new patio, because what it really needed to bring the room together was one more major appliance. Because it is a propane griddle, because I am mechanically inept, and because I have a shaky history with propane, I elected to purchase Home Depot's assembly service. It's right there on the page when you buy the grill. "Hey, you want us to put that together for you? It's a pain in the ass. Just sayin'." It wasn't cheap, but it was worth avoiding several hours worth of four-letter words, followed by inadvertently burning my house down.
The experience has not been good so far. For starters, there's zero information about how the process works. This was odd from the off, because we recently purchased a new patio set from Lowe's that also included assembly, and they were very clear about when and how that service would be rendered. Step by step. Not so much with Home Depot. The grill arrived in its box on the expected day - cool - but as the delivery guys started packing up and not, you know, assembling the grill, I asked how that was supposed to work. The delivery dude said he had no idea, he was just the delivery guy. Okay. I called Home Depot, they spent several minutes not believing I had even bought a grill before finally "finding my order" and telling me I needed to call the assembly company to schedule the service. Gave me a number. How was I supposed to know this? Also, the assembly company? So ... not Home Depot? I've checked the purchase screen, my receipt, and Home Depot's FAQ and did not find any disclosure that they would be sub-contracting this service. I thought I was working with Home Depot, a trusted name in home improvement for over 40 years.
I called the assembly company, Assemblers Incorporated. Their automated messenger told me I was 2nd in the queue with an estimated wait of 27 minutes! Okay, whatever, I'm working anyway, so I just put the phone on speaker, set it down, and moved on. The wait ended up closer to 40 minutes, which I think is a very long time to wait on the phone. Finally spoke to a human, and they did not have my work order. This is something they are supposed to receive from Home Depot, and they had not. Well, okay, I admit to myself that the lack of information and unclear expectations has made me impatient. After all, the grill had just been delivered an hour before. Maybe I should give it some time. I called Home Depot the next day. They again had trouble finding my order, which is a worry but we move forward, and while the story had not changed - the service must be scheduled with the other company - this time the Home Depot rep called them on my behalf. Cool. This ended up being another loooooong wait to get a hold of someone at Assemblers Inc. Not 40 minutes, but the Home Depot rep did return to my line twice to apologize for the wait. We finally got in, we confirmed they had the work order, and I was told that Assemblers Inc should contact me within 24 hours to schedule the service. Okay.
24 hours go by.
Around hour 29, as I'm closing out my Friday workday, I decided, heck, let's call'em again. No trouble finding my work order this time, but we had to go through the "Home Depot calls Assemblers Inc" routine again, after which, Home Depot tells me that in fact I do have to be the one to call the company directly. That they can't schedule or provide updates through them. It has to be me. Okay. I called Assemblers Inc for the 2nd time directly. The wait was hilariously long. Like, what even is their call center? I finally got a rep, they looked for my order for several minutes and could not find it. So they asked to confirm more of my information, and both my phone number and email address were wrong. Like, way wrong. Not even close. The rep said, "that's probably why you haven't heard anything." Uh huh, okay. What's next? Can we schedule now? I work from home so I'm real easy to schedule for. But no. This isn't the scheduling call, I guess. I was told that now that my work order was corrected, I would be contacted by their rep within 72 BUSINESS HOURS to schedule the assembly. And this being Friday afternoon, that meant by Wednesday. Okay.
So later that night I've had a couple beers and I'm doing movie night with the kids and I'm feeling kind of cheesed off at this whole process, so I decide to look up Assemblers Inc. They have a perfect - perfect - 1 star rating on BBB. Eleven 1-star reviews and nothing higher. Yelp is a positively cheery 1.5 stars, and their employee reviews on Indeed and Glassdoor are trash as well. From what I can tell, Assemblers Inc's own people are contractors themselves, and they constantly complain about the company not paying them or there not being any work to do in the first place. So that's good. Super glad I paid a not insignificant amount of money with Home Depot so they could offload the work to these people.
Late last night I actually did get an email from Assemblers Inc, from like a person with a name and everything, who said she was my dispatcher and that she was working to get someone in my area so they could schedule the assembly. Now I'm worried that even if I do get an assembly scheduled they just won't show up (by far the most common complaint in reviews) and that even if they do, they won't do a good job (another common complaint).
It's also possible everything will work out fine, of course, and I remain hopeful that assembly will be completed this week, because I've got the whole family coming over Saturday, and showing off the patio would be that little bit better if I had a cool looking griddle instead of a giant box where the griddle should be.
(Tangent: also my BIL bought the exact same griddle and opted to assemble it himself, which he did, and now he has a sweet griddle and I don't. Though my sister did say it took him almost 4 hours and more than once he said "I think [Bro] had the right idea to have someone else do this.")
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Sept 19, 2022 10:16:41 GMT -5
Oh god, LazBro, what a nightmare! Keep us posted. You know how much your new griddle means to me. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 19, 2022 10:24:31 GMT -5
I have a very odd man muttering in my basement between saw noises. I am given to understand they are finally reinsulating the basement walls.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 19, 2022 15:14:53 GMT -5
After some dithering I have decided to replace both additional kitchen light fixtures so they match each other, and will also match the hallway and upstairs. I also found a vanity light fixture I like...naturally it's on backorder so it may be a month but fingers crossed. I always seem to gravitate toward the backordered or discontinued ones!
So, it may be another 4-6 weeks but if I can get these installed before the end of the year, plus the fan, I figure I can wait for next year for the painting. Just make things easier.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 20, 2022 8:20:01 GMT -5
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  For a while growing up, we had an old 1.5 bathroom house, and the full bath didn't have a shower in it, just a tub. What we did have is a showerhead directly above the basement floor drain with a shower curtain around it. It was very cold showering in the winter. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 20, 2022 8:52:57 GMT -5
My house is a split-level, so when you walk in you're in a small foyer with five stairs up and five stairs down. Thus the light fixture there is 12 feet off the ground. I was just barely able to paint to that height with my extendable aluminum ladder; I guess I'm going to have to rent a ladder to change the bulb in the center of that little space. The place had all compact halogen bulbs when we moved in so I've never had to do this one before. This house was built in 1984 before such long-lasting bulbs and there are a zillion of 'em in the area - what an inconvenient but obviously common design!
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 20, 2022 10:43:59 GMT -5
My house is a split-level, so when you walk in you're in a small foyer with five stairs up and five stairs down. Thus the light fixture there is 12 feet off the ground. I was just barely able to paint to that height with my extendable aluminum ladder; I guess I'm going to have to rent a ladder to change the bulb in the center of that little space. The place had all compact halogen bulbs when we moved in so I've never had to do this one before. This house was built in 1984 before such long-lasting bulbs and there are a zillion of 'em in the area - what an inconvenient but obviously common design! I think Amazon and Home Depot and others sell a extendable bulb-reacher-pole-thingy for screw-in types of bulbs in this kind of situation. It has a grabber device at the end of the pole that is supposed to grip the bulb and let you remove and replace bulbs without a ladder. If you have a lot of bulbs in tall ceilings, it might be worth looking into. Looks like they sell for around $15-30. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 20, 2022 11:03:38 GMT -5
My house is a split-level, so when you walk in you're in a small foyer with five stairs up and five stairs down. Thus the light fixture there is 12 feet off the ground. I was just barely able to paint to that height with my extendable aluminum ladder; I guess I'm going to have to rent a ladder to change the bulb in the center of that little space. The place had all compact halogen bulbs when we moved in so I've never had to do this one before. This house was built in 1984 before such long-lasting bulbs and there are a zillion of 'em in the area - what an inconvenient but obviously common design! I think Amazon and Home Depot and others sell a extendable bulb-reacher-pole-thingy for screw-in types of bulbs in this kind of situation. It has a grabber device at the end of the pole that is supposed to grip the bulb and let you remove and replace bulbs without a ladder. If you have a lot of bulbs in tall ceilings, it might be worth looking into. Looks like they sell for around $15-30. How many poles does it take to change a lightbulb? |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 20, 2022 11:05:52 GMT -5
I think Amazon and Home Depot and others sell a extendable bulb-reacher-pole-thingy for screw-in types of bulbs in this kind of situation. It has a grabber device at the end of the pole that is supposed to grip the bulb and let you remove and replace bulbs without a ladder. If you have a lot of bulbs in tall ceilings, it might be worth looking into. Looks like they sell for around $15-30. How many poles does it take to change a lightbulb? Three - one to hold the bulb and the other two to rotate him. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 20, 2022 13:10:36 GMT -5
Now that we've moved, I've come to the slightly late realization that the bookshelves I have, and that I've been using for a long time, are falling apart. They're a mix of (at the time) relatively nice (for particle board) particle board shelving that is something like 40 years old (and is crumbling), and cheap 20-year-old particle board shelving that was never in great shape and may be bordering on hazardous.
I'd like to replace them with something nice and permanent, or at least as permanent as is realistic. That means no particle board (even if I could get some more 40-year particle board, I don't really want to). I'd like to get something that will hold up, is real wood (or possibly metal), or at the very least plywood, fills the space well (there's a 12'6" wall I want to line, plus a space next to it that would accommodate a roughly 3' shelf), and, while I'm willing to spend a fair amount on this, doesn't cost a fortune.
Looking at the various options, I'm not finding anything ideal. Everything I can find online is either limited (I don't understand why 84" tall shelves only have 5-6 rows), confusingly worded (which makes we think it's particle board that they're trying to pretend isn't particle board), or comes with some sort of dodgy warning. Looking over my options, the two best choices seem to be:
- Metal industrialish shelving, only available in black (I'd prefer a lighter color), that costs about $2200 to fill the space
- Wooden (I think) shelves from Amazon that are suspiciously cheap, based on what everyone else is charging, and would run about $2700 in total.
In both cases, it's buying five 3'-wide shelves.
I've also looked at buying actual library shelving (and I'm still actually considering it) but that looks like it's likely to cost at least double either of the other options. What I'd love is to find a library or bookstore selling surplus fixtures, but I don't think there are any around right now to take advantage, at least close enough for shipping not to likely kill any savings.
Complicating things further, my father's offered to make some together, but they're still moving in, it's likely to be months before his wood shop is organized to the point he can actually use it, and these shelves probably aren't his first priority (there's a bunch of stuff they need to do in their house). And I'm a little hesitant to pull the trigger on buying anything, lest I hurt his feelings. But I also kind of would like to get some stuff placed before unloading all of my books onto the current shelving.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 20, 2022 16:12:55 GMT -5
Now that we've moved, I've come to the slightly late realization that the bookshelves I have, and that I've been using for a long time, are falling apart. They're a mix of (at the time) relatively nice (for particle board) particle board shelving that is something like 40 years old (and is crumbling), and cheap 20-year-old particle board shelving that was never in great shape and may be bordering on hazardous. I'd like to replace them with something nice and permanent, or at least as permanent as is realistic. That means no particle board (even if I could get some more 40-year particle board, I don't really want to). I'd like to get something that will hold up, is real wood (or possibly metal), or at the very least plywood, fills the space well (there's a 12'6" wall I want to line, plus a space next to it that would accommodate a roughly 3' shelf), and, while I'm willing to spend a fair amount on this, doesn't cost a fortune. Looking at the various options, I'm not finding anything ideal. Everything I can find online is either limited (I don't understand why 84" tall shelves only have 5-6 rows), confusingly worded (which makes we think it's particle board that they're trying to pretend isn't particle board), or comes with some sort of dodgy warning. Looking over my options, the two best choices seem to be: - Metal industrialish shelving, only available in black (I'd prefer a lighter color), that costs about $2200 to fill the space - Wooden (I think) shelves from Amazon that are suspiciously cheap, based on what everyone else is charging, and would run about $2700 in total. In both cases, it's buying five 3'-wide shelves. I've also looked at buying actual library shelving (and I'm still actually considering it) but that looks like it's likely to cost at least double either of the other options. What I'd love is to find a library or bookstore selling surplus fixtures, but I don't think there are any around right now to take advantage, at least close enough for shipping not to likely kill any savings. Complicating things further, my father's offered to make some together, but they're still moving in, it's likely to be months before his wood shop is organized to the point he can actually use it, and these shelves probably aren't his first priority (there's a bunch of stuff they need to do in their house). And I'm a little hesitant to pull the trigger on buying anything, lest I hurt his feelings. But I also kind of would like to get some stuff placed before unloading all of my books onto the current shelving. There's nothing inherently wrong with plywood, it's all a matter of what quality it is and how's it's finished. Are these all in a row? Could you do some cheap shelving for now then repurpose it elsewhere once your father can do a real thing? (Like just cheap metal brackets and predone shelves that could then be repurposed elsewhere? If they're all in a row then purpose built built in is going to be so much nicer (add the number of shelves you want, make them as customizable as you want) and so much cheaper for anything nice. Signed: a person who desperately wants to do this once he can access his woodshop again. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 20, 2022 17:20:48 GMT -5
How many poles does it take to change a lightbulb? Three - one to hold the bulb and the other two to rotate him. As opposed to the number of polls, which I'll have to ask around to confirm. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 20, 2022 19:53:03 GMT -5
My house is a split-level, so when you walk in you're in a small foyer with five stairs up and five stairs down. Thus the light fixture there is 12 feet off the ground. I was just barely able to paint to that height with my extendable aluminum ladder; I guess I'm going to have to rent a ladder to change the bulb in the center of that little space. The place had all compact halogen bulbs when we moved in so I've never had to do this one before. This house was built in 1984 before such long-lasting bulbs and there are a zillion of 'em in the area - what an inconvenient but obviously common design! I think Amazon and Home Depot and others sell a extendable bulb-reacher-pole-thingy for screw-in types of bulbs in this kind of situation. It has a grabber device at the end of the pole that is supposed to grip the bulb and let you remove and replace bulbs without a ladder. If you have a lot of bulbs in tall ceilings, it might be worth looking into. Looks like they sell for around $15-30. It miiiight be possible. The bulb is inside a big bowl but is mounted sideways, assuming it is like the other fixtures that look like that. |
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Post by GumTurkeyles on Sept 21, 2022 6:49:14 GMT -5
Now that we've moved, I've come to the slightly late realization that the bookshelves I have, and that I've been using for a long time, are falling apart. They're a mix of (at the time) relatively nice (for particle board) particle board shelving that is something like 40 years old (and is crumbling), and cheap 20-year-old particle board shelving that was never in great shape and may be bordering on hazardous. I'd like to replace them with something nice and permanent, or at least as permanent as is realistic. That means no particle board (even if I could get some more 40-year particle board, I don't really want to). I'd like to get something that will hold up, is real wood (or possibly metal), or at the very least plywood, fills the space well (there's a 12'6" wall I want to line, plus a space next to it that would accommodate a roughly 3' shelf), and, while I'm willing to spend a fair amount on this, doesn't cost a fortune. Looking at the various options, I'm not finding anything ideal. Everything I can find online is either limited (I don't understand why 84" tall shelves only have 5-6 rows), confusingly worded (which makes we think it's particle board that they're trying to pretend isn't particle board), or comes with some sort of dodgy warning. Looking over my options, the two best choices seem to be: - Metal industrialish shelving, only available in black (I'd prefer a lighter color), that costs about $2200 to fill the space - Wooden (I think) shelves from Amazon that are suspiciously cheap, based on what everyone else is charging, and would run about $2700 in total. In both cases, it's buying five 3'-wide shelves. I've also looked at buying actual library shelving (and I'm still actually considering it) but that looks like it's likely to cost at least double either of the other options. What I'd love is to find a library or bookstore selling surplus fixtures, but I don't think there are any around right now to take advantage, at least close enough for shipping not to likely kill any savings. Complicating things further, my father's offered to make some together, but they're still moving in, it's likely to be months before his wood shop is organized to the point he can actually use it, and these shelves probably aren't his first priority (there's a bunch of stuff they need to do in their house). And I'm a little hesitant to pull the trigger on buying anything, lest I hurt his feelings. But I also kind of would like to get some stuff placed before unloading all of my books onto the current shelving. At that price, you might want to get a quote from a carpenter to build you shelving. We replaced our slanted, crappy bookshelves and had built-ins put in. Altogether it cost $3,000. It felt weird at first, but now it feels like it was always part of the house.   |
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 21, 2022 7:20:07 GMT -5
Now that we've moved, I've come to the slightly late realization that the bookshelves I have, and that I've been using for a long time, are falling apart. They're a mix of (at the time) relatively nice (for particle board) particle board shelving that is something like 40 years old (and is crumbling), and cheap 20-year-old particle board shelving that was never in great shape and may be bordering on hazardous. I'd like to replace them with something nice and permanent, or at least as permanent as is realistic. That means no particle board (even if I could get some more 40-year particle board, I don't really want to). I'd like to get something that will hold up, is real wood (or possibly metal), or at the very least plywood, fills the space well (there's a 12'6" wall I want to line, plus a space next to it that would accommodate a roughly 3' shelf), and, while I'm willing to spend a fair amount on this, doesn't cost a fortune. Looking at the various options, I'm not finding anything ideal. Everything I can find online is either limited (I don't understand why 84" tall shelves only have 5-6 rows), confusingly worded (which makes we think it's particle board that they're trying to pretend isn't particle board), or comes with some sort of dodgy warning. Looking over my options, the two best choices seem to be: - Metal industrialish shelving, only available in black (I'd prefer a lighter color), that costs about $2200 to fill the space - Wooden (I think) shelves from Amazon that are suspiciously cheap, based on what everyone else is charging, and would run about $2700 in total. In both cases, it's buying five 3'-wide shelves. I've also looked at buying actual library shelving (and I'm still actually considering it) but that looks like it's likely to cost at least double either of the other options. What I'd love is to find a library or bookstore selling surplus fixtures, but I don't think there are any around right now to take advantage, at least close enough for shipping not to likely kill any savings. Complicating things further, my father's offered to make some together, but they're still moving in, it's likely to be months before his wood shop is organized to the point he can actually use it, and these shelves probably aren't his first priority (there's a bunch of stuff they need to do in their house). And I'm a little hesitant to pull the trigger on buying anything, lest I hurt his feelings. But I also kind of would like to get some stuff placed before unloading all of my books onto the current shelving. I agree with Gum, I would go with a carpenter to build you something custom. It might take longer, but you will get more what you want. Library shelves are nice, but they are overbuilt for the average homeowner who just needs something to display their books without sagging or falling apart. I have probably posted these before, but I had them built last year by my same woodworker friend who makes the sacrifice cutting boards. This one cost about $1,300:  It is not built in, but it was built to fit the space, eventually we will get a matching one for the other side of the window and maybe a bench under the window. I have added LEDs to it since it was installed but I don't have any pictures of it lit up for some reason. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 21, 2022 7:37:57 GMT -5
I agree with Gum, I would go with a carpenter to build you something custom. It might take longer, but you will get more what you want. Library shelves are nice, but they are overbuilt for the average homeowner who just needs something to display their books without sagging or falling apart. I have probably posted these before, but I had them built last year by my same woodworker friend who makes the sacrifice cutting boards. This one cost about $1,300: It is not built in, but it was built to fit the space, eventually we will get a matching one for the other side of the window and maybe a bench under the window. I have added LEDs to it since it was installed but I don't have any pictures of it lit up for some reason. Your entryway reminds me so much of our house in Fort Wayne. Must be a northern Indiana thing. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 21, 2022 9:56:50 GMT -5
I have new windows, drywall and potentially painting today.
Very glad my long meeting today was cancelled.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 21, 2022 12:23:13 GMT -5
I feel like a shitty person but I'd really love if the various contractor's assistants would stick to normal smalltalk and not have every conversation I have turn into them confessing something about their personal lives that I find vaguely or very depressing.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 21, 2022 13:21:33 GMT -5
A solid 40% of why I bought this house was that we had been planning to build built-in shelves wherever we moved, and this place already had them. Built-in bookshelves are magic. Of course I'm still using my beloved Ikea Ivar shelves in other places, this isn't an either/or situation.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 21, 2022 14:17:11 GMT -5
I have about a dozen bookcases I was able to buy at a school surplus auction. I used them for years until we moved into the farmhouse. Right now they are set up in a storage container we have, full once again of books, just waiting until we get our other building renovated and can move back there. That place has a large, wide hallway where the book cases work really well, and I want to build shelves above them.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 21, 2022 14:29:51 GMT -5
We have a bunch of IKEA Kallax shelves and I know they're particleboard, but they're honestly really sturdy. I don't know if they'll last 40 years, but ... *shrug*
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Post by nowimnothing on Sept 21, 2022 14:53:22 GMT -5
I have about a dozen bookcases I was able to buy at a school surplus auction. I used them for years until we moved into the farmhouse. Right now they are set up in a storage container we have, full once again of books, just waiting until we get our other building renovated and can move back there. That place has a large, wide hallway where the book cases work really well, and I want to build shelves above them. I got another one of my bookcases from our university surplus store, almost as big as the custom one above, solid wood and only $70. Not as pretty, so we use it in the office, but I am sure it will outlast me. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 21, 2022 15:18:07 GMT -5
We have a bunch of IKEA Kallax shelves and I know they're particleboard, but they're honestly really sturdy. I don't know if they'll last 40 years, but ... *shrug* My set of Ivar shelves are older than I am, my parents bought them during the first Reagan administration. As solid as the day they were made. Great for using as the core of a DIY built-in arrangement, too. |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 22, 2022 8:45:37 GMT -5
I had forgotten whta it felt like to be able to clearly see out the windows that have been replaced so far. The sunlight difference is amazing (they've been coated with grime since the fire and while I hosed them down none was really easily reachable for a scrub and I wasn't gonna pay for someone to come do it knowing they'd be replaced any time now)
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Sept 22, 2022 10:28:10 GMT -5
My oven, not quite 11 months old, needs a whole new control panel/motherboard. Is it under warranty? Probably, but we can't find the paperwork. SIGH. (For extra adventure, the repair guy almost had to leave it inert in the middle of my kitchen, because it was installed wrong and he couldn't get it back into the cabinet. As it stands, he's gotten it as far into the cabinet as he can, so it's kind of sticking out a little bit more than it used to, to go with the long-dead oven that is hanging ajar out of its own cabinet across from this one. I used to really love my kitchen. I'm beginning to reconsider that.)
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 26, 2022 10:27:39 GMT -5
The wiring in my house is absolutely bizarre, which is how I very nearly electrocuted myself removing a light fixture yesterday.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 26, 2022 16:03:14 GMT -5
Not only were my contractors hours late today when they're supposed to be hurrying to wrap up the project they're late on, they spent like 1/3 of the time they've been here fixing a piece of furniture they broke while moving even though I specifically told them if they moved it to do it a certain way.
They have not yet told me they broke it, I just saw it upside being glued while sneaking into the area to use the sink earlier
Super not impressed.
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Post by LazBro on Sept 28, 2022 12:16:02 GMT -5
So all my grumblings about the scheduling of my grill assembly aside, the two-man assembly team that arrived today were on time, very friendly, clearly knew what they were doing, and got the job done in about an hour vs. my BIL's four. I haven't had a chance to fire it up or anything, because it has to be seasoned and such, I need to make time to do it, but really no complaints at all with the assemblers themselves.
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Post by ganews on Sept 28, 2022 12:36:17 GMT -5
Mice, dammit. We found poop under the sink, then a little while after that a hole appeared dug into the corner of the dining room carpet. A trap there quickly nabbed one, but the mouse that is left (at least I could hope it is only one) is smarter and more brazen. It hasn't gone for any of the traps, and I found it chewing a hole in Wifemate's bookbag to get at a single M&M in a fully lit room - disappeared before I could get something to trap it.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 28, 2022 20:26:49 GMT -5
Mice, dammit. We found poop under the sink, then a little while after that a hole appeared dug into the corner of the dining room carpet. A trap there quickly nabbed one, but the mouse that is left (at least I could hope it is only one) is smarter and more brazen. It hasn't gone for any of the traps, and I found it chewing a hole in Wifemate's bookbag to get at a single M&M in a fully lit room - disappeared before I could get something to trap it. Best thing I have found to catch mice is to get some basic Victor-type spring traps, wrap and tie some soft string around the little trip plate, then rub some peanut butter into the string for bait. They love peanut butter, seems like they can smell it from across the room, and the string makes it a lot harder for them to take the bait without setting off the trap. |
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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.
