The DIY thread - DIYourself

jmanic said:
Tell the truth, he uses a service, amirite?
No one but Iggy gets this right on their own.
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He has some OCD about his lawn and he does his own mowing etc... but he does have the guy come 4-5 times a year with the cart that fertilizes etc... I asked him about it today and he said its like $50-60 bucks per visit which I never thought was worth it. But then again no one has a nice brown dandelion garden like mine ! 😛
 
jmanic said:
Got some U-pick oak from the neighbor.
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We dropped it more than a month ago, and it’s still full of gravity.
Gotta find a place to stack it.
Love me some free firewood.

Edit: huh. Internets telling me oak is easier to split when it’s green.
Guess I’m not done just yet.
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thats the first one that came up on my google search. 😛

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iman29 said:
He has some OCD about his lawn and he does his own mowing etc... but he does have the guy come 4-5 times a year with the cart that fertilizes etc... I asked him about it today and he said its like $50-60 bucks per visit which I never thought was worth it. But then again no one has a nice brown dandelion garden like mine ! 😛
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It's a lot of work to keep up! I was pretty into it for the first few years after buying my house, but gave up on the lawn chemicals once we started trying for kids. Particularly with a dog who's always in the back yard, that idea didn't sit well with me.

My next door neighbor goes with the Scott's steps, and you can see the line between our lawns. IMO that and a spring and fall weed killer application are probably the easiest bang for the buck.
 
Had a pretty useless closet off the kitchen/laundry room had one wire shelf up top. The boiler exhaust stack comes through the closet and makes it smaller, why they didn't shift the closet, who knows. Seemed like an after thought.

The left side is 6" Deep and the right side is full depth 22" wide. So I made some shelves. Trying to match the stain of the oak wood work has been an impossible task when using any type of pine. This was the closest on the can and the color chart and came out way more cedar than I was expecting it to. The search for the right stain continues.

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Try amber shellac. They sell flakes in lots of shades. Mix with denatured alcohol.

It's not a super durable finish, but nobody is looking at the top of the shelf, anyway.
 
rlb said:
It's a lot of work to keep up! I was pretty into it for the first few years after buying my house, but gave up on the lawn chemicals once we started trying for kids. Particularly with a dog who's always in the back yard, that idea didn't sit well with me.

My next door neighbor goes with the Scott's steps, and you can see the line between our lawns. IMO that and a spring and fall weed killer application are probably the easiest bang for the buck.
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yeah I never been into it beyond just cutting it, and like you said with the chemicals between dogs and the kids I didnt do anything. I will check out the Scotts stuff again and see if I decide to try it or save the money for other stuff. I did realize how bad the thatch is on the lawn so might get some attention on that and some more topsoil/seed which is pretty low cost too.
 
Karate Monkey said:
Try amber shellac. They sell flakes in lots of shades. Mix with denatured alcohol.

It's not a super durable finish, but nobody is looking at the top of the shelf, anyway.
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The bit of stain i found in the house was Cabot "Amberwood." When you put that on the pine, its like non existent. When it on the back of a piece of existing oak molding it was spot on. I'll look for some amber shellac.
 
iman29 said:
yeah I never been into it beyond just cutting it, and like you said with the chemicals between dogs and the kids I didnt do anything. I will check out the Scotts stuff again and see if I decide to try it or save the money for other stuff. I did realize how bad the thatch is on the lawn so might get some attention on that and some more topsoil/seed which is pretty low cost too.
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Best time for seeding is a few weeks before labor day. Anything that starts growing now (aside from weeds) will have a tough time surviving the summer. If you start something late summer it has 3 good months of growing, then the following spring, so it will be much more prepared to survive the summer heat.
 
rlb said:
Best time for seeding is a few weeks before labor day. Anything that starts growing now (aside from weeds) will have a tough time surviving the summer. If you start something late summer it has 3 good months of growing, then the following spring, so it will be much more prepared to survive the summer heat.
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Yup I figure I can’t make it worse and now I don’t have to mow that whole area for the next 3-4 weeks when the weeds start up.
Wait till I show off my dandelion garden it’s the best. ?
 
Weird problem with my baseboard. I ‘thought’ I drained the system before raising the radiators in the front of the house to accommodate the new floor I am putting in, but after completing the job now only the front of the house gets heated. Tried and remove any trapped air in the remaining radiators and none was found, water only squirting out of them , all of them. So I went for another crawl space tour and found out the front of the house and the back are actually two separate loops with bot ends splitting when entering the house from the furnace room. The loop that doesn’t heat up was not drained (I think). Same thing happen when the system was drained two years ago when we upgraded to a gas combi boiler. The installer came and fixed it back then, but my wife doesn’t know what he did nor she wants to gave him back. I contacted a local plumber because I am at a loss at this point. What gives?
 
serviceguy said:
Weird problem with my baseboard. I ‘thought’ I drained the system before raising the radiators in the front of the house to accommodate the new floor I am putting in, but after completing the job now only the front of the house gets heated. Tried and remove any trapped air in the remaining radiators and none was found, water only squirting out of them , all of them. So I went for another crawl space tour and found out the front of the house and the back are actually two separate loops with bot ends splitting when entering the house from the furnace room. The loop that doesn’t heat up was not drained (I think). Same thing happen when the system was drained two years ago when we upgraded to a gas combi boiler. The installer came and fixed it back then, but my wife doesn’t know what he did nor she wants to gave him back. I contacted a local plumber because I am at a loss at this point. What gives?
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Can you shut one down with a valve and run a hose through the other to purge any air?
no electric zone valves ?
 
Patrick said:
Can you shut one down with a valve and run a hose through the other to purge any air?
no electric zone valves ?
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1 zone only. Both half loops have a valve right before they merge in the return line, but the half loop that heats up is the one that I emptied...shouldn’t it be the opposite?
 
serviceguy said:
1 zone only. Both half loops have a valve right before they merge in the return line, but the half loop that heats up is the one that I emptied...shouldn’t it be the opposite?
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simpleton thought by me. Close the return valve on the good side as a test? if water is being forced to go somewhere it will go to the other side. Perhaps some crap hung up in the line and only needs a small push. All things being equal water will travel where it is least restricted.
 
So I'll continue to stick my neck out on a heating system I know nothing about. If there is a restriction on the bad side, perhaps just throttling the good side will get you a little bit of a balance forcing heated water that way. Still would mean there is a restriction there though.
 
Bleeding from the register side doesn’t always work. Better to hook a hose up and thoroughly flush to ensure no trapped air.
 
Jmann said:
Bleeding from the register side doesn’t always work. Better to hook a hose up and thoroughly flush to ensure no trapped air.
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This maybe most likely the case, I am figuring out how to do it. This system is like a maze, whoever converted it to baseboard must have been high on something...
 
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