#house repairs

[luckyfirerabbit]

Repairs are done and Insurance has paid all they are going to pay(derogatory), we don't know the full amount we still owe yet but will soon. Any little bit would be really helpful.

[crazywolf828]

You're obviously just begging for money and aren't actually using it on what you're saying it for, knock it off

You really do think that don't you? Alright fine, in case anyone was wondering what I'm "lying" about it's my flooded mold filled basement and my roof being partially caved in. Winter is about to happen and I need to fix it soon. My mom and grandma are both immunocompromised, I need to stop the mold spread before it gets too high up into the house.

So! If you don't believe me, here is a list of things I need you can send directly to me so you know it actually comes to me

If you do believe me however please feel free to donate to my kofi, I'm almost halfway to the goal to get supplies I need for the roof.

Even if you just reblog I'd be forever thankful!

[novelties-and-notions]

Like most of the remaining houses in Sunnyville (formery known as Achmothogair), Sunnyville House, the headquarters of Novelties and Notions, is in a dilapidated state and in need of fairly extensive renovation. Not one of the few residents of this tiny hamlet have any money to spare – indeed most folk here have no money at all – and the state of the properties, if you could call them that, is more or less deplorable. It is not an exaggeration to say that in some cases dislodged roofing slates are held in place by glue, and the parts of buildings that threaten to fall are secured with rope.

Anyone who lives in such a remote and isolated community is necessarily resourceful, but despite their willingness to make do and mend, problems do arise when, for example, having finally managed to source some replacements from a scrap yard, the householders discover, in the last gleam of light at the end of a tedious day working on repairs, that they have been supplied with the wrong windows.

[bobowizard]

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

You are NOT going to believe this, because I don’t believe this.

We had this coffee table that belonged to my grandparents, a ship’s wheel with an incredibly thick and heavy glass too. Because we had run out of space we had many years ago took it apart (easy since the top only set on it and the legs screwed in). It had been stored safely beside the piano, until yesterday.

So with the piano having to be moved, I needed to do something with it. Naturally this meant hauling it to Mom’s house, where with the floor collapse almost everything is stored anyway. After struggling to get it there and in the house, I needed a safe place to put.

The perfect spot was behind the sofa in front if the boarded up fireplace. That fireplace had been sealed over before my parents ever started renting the house and sofa had been there longer than I’ve been alive. It would be out of the way.

So I cleared things from behind the sofa, maneuvered the glass table top through the narrow space, rolled it back there, and…..

THUNK!!!!!!

I looked to see what the heck had happened.

The bricks that make up the hearth had fallen away!!

The old mortar had crumbled away under the weight if the glass. (the house was thrown together quickly and cheaply in the 1800s) It had been a double thick layer of bricks, a couple of feet wide, and all of them for half the length of the fireplace fell to the ground below.

I now had a big hole in the floor of the living room, open to the outside world! And this is the house in good shape!!

So, great. I have a new major problem!

On the plus side, I got that piano moved. Ok, it blocks the front door, but at least it isn’t going to fall. For now, anyway. This is the house that is rotting away, with collapsed floors in every room. But the piano isn’t going to face plant into the abyss or squish a cat. I wasn’t sure I could get it over that tangle of planks I had over the chasm, not by myself. But woo-hoo!!! I did it!!!

On the negative side, I have a royal mess to deal with in the aftermath. For instance, I have to reconstruct the platform I’d had over the place where the floor should be. Tricky, especially since some of the plywood broke up moving the piano.

Of course, there is the hole in the hearth at the other house to fix. Somehow.

I wonder what disaster tomorrow will bring….

[sleepycelestialprincess]

This reminds me of ſome of the many ways in which a particular group keeps others from being able to do ſomething by making the language impoſſible to underſtand unleſs you are in the know.

(((This reminds me of some of the many ways in which a particular group keeps others from being able to do something by making the language impossible to understand unless you are in the know.)))

We can thank Noah Webster for helping to phase out whats known as the long s in American English. He published the "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828 leaving out the long s to make reading more accessible to every day people. The long s was used from 8th to early 19th centuries mostly to keep knowledge away from the general public by making texts harder to read.

The long s ( ſ or ſ ) looks a lot like the fetter f. All letter s'es in a word would use ſ except if its the last letter of the word, then it would use s. There were exceptions too. Wikipedia ſ for more info.

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Another example my wife and I came across when trying to fix stuff in our house. (a 100 year old house that needed a lot of work) It had new-ish modern plumbing and we were replacing the kitchen sink. Pipe sizes do not make any sense! I measured the outside of the pvc drain pipe at ≈1½ inches. I needed to get a fitting. I bought one that was labeled 1½ and it was much to small. Apparently it was a "2 inch" pipe.

We learned that back when pipes were not PVC, the walls of the pipe were much thicker, but pipe size is rated by the inside diameter of the pipe. So an old 2" pipe and a modern "2 inch" pipe have the same inner diameter but the modern pipe is only about 1½ inches wide on the outside.

WTF! Why not just measure the inner diameter if the pipe then?! Yeah, yeah, its the "standard" and thats how it ended up, but thats excesses. The real reason is to keep every day people from being able to fix their stuff! It becomes such a pain to research everything that many people just give up because nothing is labeled as it seams it should be.

There is just not enough time or energy in life to look every term up to figure it out! It doesn't matter how "simple" it seams to those who know about it.

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[hisforhome]

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[warriorandthestorm]

Jeff needs treatment for ADHD & anxiety. I need my anxiety/depression meds adjusted.

We need our car repaired, our house to be fully repaired (roof, floors, insulation, skirting, etc) and sold. We need a more appropriate place to live, to get out of debt & poverty.

We need a fresh start, for the sake of our mental, emotional and physical health. We desperately need love & care.

Please pray that all of these things will come to pass soon.

[jepergola]

New story today: "Procrastination Is My New Best Friend"

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[bisonbuiltec]

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[leche-flandom]

I'm sure the homeowners before us Tried Their Best when it came to construction and renovation.

My husband's managed some short term fixes for our heating and cooling problems, which considerately alternated their annual breakdowns, but now we are forced to replace the furnace-A/C unit entirely. The repair man removing the old unit (situated so uniquely in a tiny bathroom closet that the guy went "huh" when I showed it to him) has been drilling and sawing for a while, and I, being ignorant to how long this process should take, thought everything was hunky dory until he muttered under his breath just now, "What in the WORLD?!"

As the person who's also been discovering all the fun little quirks during home improvement projects, I don't want to know what's wrong but I'm sorry and good luck amigo 🫡

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[hisforhome]

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