chit chat thread

[Rekpoint]

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[patsbimmer1]

My aunt's sister in law is selling her house and cleaning out all of her dad's stuff from when he owned a service station and in the process I scored some near perfect metal cabinets for free!

[Jdesign]

patsbimmer1 said:

My aunt's sister in law is selling her house and cleaning out all of her dad's stuff from when he owned a service station and in the process I scored some near perfect metal cabinets for free!

Those are awesome. L u c k y !

[patsbimmer1]

Jdesign said:

Those are awesome. L u c k y !

I know!  There's also about 300 trucker hats that he accumulated over the years that i'm trying to acquire to sell.  I'm not a big hat guy but I now some of these people would love!

[GB-335xiCoupe]

patsbimmer1 said:

My aunt's sister in law is selling her house and cleaning out all of her dad's stuff from when he owned a service station and in the process I scored some near perfect metal cabinets for free!

I'll gladly take those off your hands (if you don't want them). LOL

[patsbimmer1]

GB-335xiCoupe said:

I'll gladly take those off your hands (if you don't want them). LOL

Not a chance! lol

[jc43089]

I've been having some good times with my new house.  So it is a modular (not manufactured /mobile) home that was built in 2013.  So a regular house that is set in pieces and fastened together, this one is 3 long pieces and then the roof installed after because it is tall, 9 foot ceilings, and a 6/12 pitch roof.  Well I started poking around a little by the windows and noticed some mold under the window trim when I pulled a couple pieces off to inspect further.  Well one thing led to another and now I have all of the siding off of one end of the house.  repaired water damage around all of the windows due to terrible installation of the house wrap and nonexistent flashing around the windows.  Good thing we caught it now or it would have been much worse.

Pretty disappointing to find on an almost brand new house.  Of course the place that built it is out of business since then... I wonder why.  Otherwise it is a well built sturdy house.

So before winter I am trying to remove the vinyl siding, remove the windows, which is easy because they are vinyl with integrated J channel, repair any damage.  Install new house wrap and reinstall the windows properly.  Then reinstall the siding.

Watch out for modular builds from Liberty Homes, the factory is in Dorchester WI headquarters was Goshen Indiana.  I think the time it was built must have been about the end so maybe earlier ones were fine?

I will have to post some pics, everything about the weatherproofing is a comedy of errors.

[REKIII]

Windows are the worst.  There is no 'Cheap' way to do them.  Economy home builders think that they can just slap vinyl windows in and they are good.  It's nearly impossible to tell when the house is first done too, you basically have to see them do it, or wait and hope.

Good luck getting it all rectified.

[jc43089]

REKIII said:

Windows are the worst.  There is no 'Cheap' way to do them.  Economy home builders think that they can just slap vinyl windows in and they are good.  It's nearly impossible to tell when the house is first done too, you basically have to see them do it, or wait and hope.

Good luck getting it all rectified.

Yea, it was a combination of damaged house wrap, like holes all over, improper lapping.  Then the windows were just caulked on all 4 sides into the opening and no Butyl flashing tape applied anywhere.  If my wife wasn't so sensitive to mold smell we probably wouldn't have noticed until the damage was much worse.  It really isn't that bad but she thinks we just need to sell it as a distressed property for cheap and run away.  I'll chalk that up to being 6 months pregnant crazy hormones...

[REKIII]

Yeah, sounds like it's far from the point of being distressed.  Once it's done right, it will be good until the windows start to decay.

[straight6pwr]

i don't think i'd buy a house built after 1980. less and less pride in workmanship over the years combined with homeowners wanting a million square feet at the cost of using low quality materials and construction.  bad recipe!

[wasnt m3]

Shit...my house was originally built in 1881, though not much of the original is left.

[jc43089]

REKIII said:

Yeah, sounds like it's far from the point of being distressed.  Once it's done right, it will be good until the windows start to decay.

That should take a while because they are vinyl.  Mmm plastic, not the most beautiful but practical.

[suspenceful]

wasnt m3 said:

Shit...my house was originally built in 1881, though not much of the original is left. 

Got me beat by 9 years...

[patsbimmer1]

straight6pwr said:

i don't think i'd buy a house built after 1980. less and less pride in workmanship over the years combined with homeowners wanting a million square feet at the cost of using low quality materials and construction.  bad recipe!

Having owned a house built pre-1890 and now being in a house built in 1988 I can say that I much prefer my current home but there's something to be said about a house that's over 100 years old and for it's age our last home was in great condition but I had my fair share of 130 year old home issues and they were not cheap because the homes are so "unique" at that age.  Outside of a custom home my skepticism line is pretty firmly placed in the late 90's early 2000's and newer for build quality.  I've seen too many "new" homes that were absolute trash or had friends replacing roofs, window's and frames, etc. in houses less than 20 years old.

[HipMF]

Went to Devil's Lake yesterday. Wasn't feeling it, and never even took the camera out of my bag.

Took a 10 minute walk tonight, and got these pics at the dentist's office down the street...

[Jdesign]

Those are epic.

[SteelBlue]

HipMF said:

Went to Devil's Lake yesterday. Wasn't feeling it, and never even took the camera out of my bag.

Took a 10 minute walk tonight, and got these pics at the dentist's office down the street...

Tripod? or post processing?

[straight6pwr]

very 'close encounters' -  i like it.

[HipMF]

SteelBlue said:

Tripod? or post processing?

handheld, wide-open on the 1.8. a bit noisey because the ISO was cranked way up.

I do all my post-processing in mspaint.