What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Coming from a person who does home repairs on the side, this is 100% true. Can confirm!
Coming from a person who is considered a conspiracy theorist, and is crazy, I can also confirm! A screw is loose!
LOL not an endorsement of the movie overall, but it's a quote from "The Breakfast Club."
But agreed on both counts, me too. Well the home I have to repair is my own, I don't get paid for it other than saving not having someone else do those things I can do myself....
Yes having these skills comes in very handy. Being able to work on your own home, and do basic tasks that you would have to pay somebody else, saves a lot of money. I’m pretty darn handy, let’s just say that. And I’m a woman. my best friends and woman and we both do the home repairs on the side. I learned it from my dad! He had a Machine Shop, when he passed away I inherited all of his tools, and I have a whole crap ton of tools.
Heh, you're above my pay grade then for sure! I.e. I can do stuff like simple plumbing e.g. toilet repairs, minor repairs in general, but not like real woodwork/metalwork/machine shop type stuff. But yeah, this still saves money as a recent example was discovering my kitchen faucet line leaking and I'm sure a plumber would have charged more than the faucet.
(I only had to go back to the hardware store once on this one, when after all due dilegence/measuring etc, I shortened the wrong line. Oh and apologize to the Lord for some abuse of His good name throughout the proceedings but especially when I discovered what I'd just done at this particular point.)
Oh yeah I totally understand. I’m not at the machinist level, but my friend and I pretty much kick ass. We can replace toilets, water heaters, sinks, Fossetts, all different kinds of water damage with drywall, hanging light pictures, and fans - just every type of odds and ends. Sealing off windows! Everything except electrical. We don’t get involved in that. I don’t want peoples houses to light on fire, and be accountable for damage or death of somebody.
We basically have a real estate agent, and a property owner that we do work for. Then when the real estate agent sells homes, the owners usually want to have stuff done afterwards, and she will give them our number. That’s where we get all of our business. And it’s more than we can handle at times.
But I completely understand having to go to the hardware store, over, over and over. If you can just only have to do it once it’s a miracle isn’t it! Irrigation is my pet peeve, and plumbing. But irrigation above all is such a nightmare, we redid my mom‘s entire front and backyard and still have to keep things flowing smoothly. Lots of leaks from the spaghetti line here in Arizona.
Pro tip if you’re laying PVC for irrigation, use pool noodles, Cut them straight down the middle, and wrap them around the PVC once all the PVC has been laid - before you put the dirt back in. I haven’t had one leak, and generally here in Arizona because of the ground being so hot dry and full of rocks, you’ll get lots of cracks. But not a one!
The hardware store was the one place during the entire pandemic, were The majority of people were never wearing masks. You’re not gonna see a bunch of Chad‘s - trying to do their jobs, in the Arizona heat, wearing masks to buy supplies. It just didn’t happen.!