homeownership
Posts regarding any part of being a Homeowner. From Children to Finance.
Do Your Part to Stop Bag Breakage :: On ReUsable Shopping Bags
7April 27, 2010
by jb
in homeownership
I know for my family it has been difficult to remember our bags (purchased for 99c each) on food shopping trips. We try to work them into our regime; I mean -- what good do they do if we can't seem to remember to bring them along?
Motivation: 15 plastics, this waste often floating around our city, easily replaced by five or six sturdy canvas bags. They seem to stow ever so neatly into our all too small trunk. Our memory will hopefully get better, at least a little bit better.
And while I think of hanging them near the side door (the one closest to the driveway), and toy with the idea of attempting to let them live in the car, my plans of now are to earmark some space for them in our pantry (which will receive work hopefully pretty soon). [ . . . ]
Make a Wood Molding Mini-Library
1April 3, 2010
by jb
in homeownership
Jot down the Wood Molding Profile, aka WM#, number (if you have it), add the sample's species and/or construction too (if you know it): FJ for Finger Jointed, PP for Primed Pine, and so on.
Other options for what to write might be -- "base in back hall bedroom 2; fuschia room -- southeast " or if you profile your own, use something like "1/4" beading bit" or "3/16" cove." [ . . . ]
Do You Have a Digital Camera in Your Toolbox?
4March 19, 2010
An inexpensive digital camera comes in handy . . .
If only you could drive your house up to the home center
3December 1, 2009
These conditions are due, in part, to the temporal and fading nature of things. Much as a car's odometer rolls with every tenth of a mile accumulated - your home loads on mileage, too, with each passing year. Short of noting proactive discretionary improvements, and extending beyond the mechanical equipment found in your home, all parts in, on or of your home will wear and ultimately fail (if left unchecked). [ . . . ]
the curious case of the exploding toilet :: an Update
0September 28, 2009
by jb
in homeownership
This mysterious crack, as he tells me now, was approximately 1/8 inch wide and ran from above the flush handle, down and all the way around to the back of the tank's base. It was large enough, as he estimates, to spill about a gallon of water every 15 minutes . . . . And over the course of week, it dumped enough water to cause lots and lots of damage.
$10,000 worth of damage, to be exact, or at least this is what the insurance company has given him for the repairs. The restoration is now underway. [ . . . ]
the curious case of the exploding toilet :: a True Story
3August 24, 2009
Ok, it didn't explode -- the toilet, its tank had developed a rather large crack that ran from its base all the way up to the flush handle . . . .
At this point, we do not know why and how this happened. And I really do not want to speculate on it too much. My immediate feeling is -- it is possible that a small crack had gone unnoticed from the time the toilet tank bolts were cranked down. [ . . . ]
