"100% of people who do not save money do not have any!"--Dave Ramsey

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I came back here to say that, I was out racking leaves.

Looking at it now, I'm seeing three four colors that aren't on their outage scale.

I'm situated right between a substation and the maintenance yard, but I still have a bug-out bag.

I'm starting to like the idea of a pusher trailer made from a Prius. Could the battery pack be relocated to over the drive train?

Anyone in the Cascadia Earthquake zone should have a bug-out bag and a month of supplies at a minimum. Personally I have about 3 months of food and 2 months of water. Nothing special on the foot just non-perishables that we normally eat rotated on a first-in / first-out basis.

[redpoint5]

Here's my weather station data. It isn't quite accurate because it's only about 10ft off the ground, and near a fence, houses, and a tree.

I plan to relocate it to 6ft above the peak of my house.

https://ambientweather.net/dashboard...b5b0a74/graphs

I've got security cam footage showing my recycling container scooting from one side of the driveway to the other, stopping on the bumper of a truck parked on the street, then skirting around it to who knows where. The truck came and apparently picked up the can, and then my neighbor put it back in my garage.

I picked up a couple dozen cans along the street and arranged them such that the lids didn't fly open.

Despite those efforts, the neighborhood still looks like Portland with all the trash strewn about. What luck the day after Christmas, so wrapping paper and ribbons everywhere.

[Xist]

Huh. Dad installed his weather station about 4' above the 6' fence I put in.

[freebeard]

What luck the day after Christmas, so wrapping paper and ribbons everywhere.

Decorate a tree and throw it in the yard... -- John Pine

[Xist]

Someone converted the garage into a storage room, which seems like a waste of money, but Zillow guesses this is worth $100,000 more than Mom's house, and this is the major difference.

There are tons of smaller differences, like luxury vinyl flooring and a paintjob during my brother's lifetime.

There is also that weird sunroom on the south side.

What happened to prohibiting building within 5 feet of the property line?

Well, the layout is completely different. It is on a corner. The north side faces a school.

This was once a daycare, which seems awesome, because the backyard is gravel!

There aren't any windows facing the backyard (with playground equipment), but the bedrooms are in the back of the house.

The storeroom and the front patio are the entire front of the house with the living room and the kitchen behind, then the bedrooms.

It doesn't show the sun room in any other pictures. I think there is a door with a pull-down shade in the dining room. All that I see is the bottom corner.

Supposedly they accepted an offer after 3 days, so they probably got their asking price.

3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 1,632 square feet

If I could afford it I would want to put a garage on the north side, but that would block all of the windows.

[redpoint5]

I contemplate tearing out the tile floors in the bathrooms and replacing with vinyl laminate, or even higher grade sheet vinyl. Grout is dumb, and tiles are cold. I could throw cheap heating under there too while I'm at it.

[Xist]

We just have linoleum, which should have been replaced throughout the house at least 10 years ago. We have gone through many bathroom heaters--I still have a couple in the garage that I plan on taking apart one of these decades.

I had Mom ask about replacing the bathroom vent with one with a built-in heater because plugging in a heater for my brother's baths makes my spider-sense tingle.

Yes, it should be fine, but I would rather not worry about it, and it would be nice to not periodically replace heaters--especially out-of-season.

Mom says that she wants laminate throughout the house, but she has fallen multiple times, and had a huge bruise the last time.

She got the thickest carpet she could when they bought the house and when it is actually clean it looks all right.

I have never seen laminate that i have liked. The Spruce says they print 3d woodgrain, but all of the patterns that I have ever seen looked absolutely flat.

It sounds like the only benefit that The Spruce showed for laminate was that it seemed warmer, while vinyl is waterproof, and is quieter.

I once watched a video where a guy put in pine flooring.

What if you wear heels on pine?

freebeard, I need you to find out for me!

[freebeard]

Well, I had a comment but it wasn't that.

I've been watching the laminate flooring at the local recyclers (BRING), figuring I needed three 20SQ FT bundles at $55-65. Today they had a pallet of loose 4FT pieces, 108 or more, for $75.

I'd purchased a nice campaign table and got the last punch on a bonus card, so I was right back with more cash. With the $50 bonus and a Veteran's discount on the remainder, I was out-of-pocket $17.50 for something that that would have been $200 or more if I'd been impatient.

Plus which, I got twice as much as I wanted so I can do the whole floor. The underlayment to bring the front half up 3/4" will cost more than the flooring.

Happy for me?

[ME_Andy]

I'm happy for you, fb.

[redpoint5]

I dislike laminate. Even more, I dislike home shows where people say "oh, I like the hardwood floors", pointing to the crappy laminate.

I installed the laminate flooring in my parent's used 2.5-wide manufactured home and it looks good, so you know dummies can do it.

It's junk though. Have 1 incident of water sitting on it and it'll warp, and there's no remedy except to deconstruct the floor to the point where it warped and replace the boards. Hopefully it happened on an edge.

Wet mopping or robot moping not recommended.

I've not tried vinyl laminate yet, but I'm prepared to like it. Softer, warmer, doesn't try to absorb water in an attempt to destroy itself. Should be installable by dummies like me.

Carpet is good. Rooms don't echo when they are carpeted. Remotes and phones don't explode when dropped on carpet. You can sit relaxed on carpet. You should have a no shoes in the house policy with carpet (or in general, you silly Americans).