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crandc said:
While crew was painting, I was in front yard planting. Contractor came over and said something like rainbow colored house and all these flowers, was I a flower child back in the day? I told him I like rainbows and got a rainbow welcome mat.

He didn't get it.
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Well, we got it and except for your future spouse, we are all that matters in here.
 
Shaboid said:
Ignorance is bliss to some, I guess?

I don't think I've ever told this story on here, but I think now is a good time.

I grew up with 4 brothers in a small Oregon town. When I was 26 and after attending OSU (say what you will about their diversity) I was looking for a new living situation and a coworker had just begun renting a large house and had an extra room in Portland. The living situation was unique. It was:
  • her, and her girlfriend
  • Her girlfriends sister, and her girlfriend
  • 3 other girls
I had only met them a couple of times socially, but knew they were great people. I immediately said yes and I think that decision had a major impact on my perspective as I grew into adulthood. Was it uncomfortable at times? Sure! But as a kid growing up without a sister, I'm glad I did. Those women had a major impact on me. I would not be who I am today if it weren't for those women.

Maybe this wasn't the right thread for it, but your comment made me think about how important it is to accept what you don't know. If you want to understand a different perspective, jump in feet first!

Alright, I'm running on 3 hours of sleep today, enough outta me!
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I wanna hear more from you.
When I was in college, I chose a roommate who turned out to be gay. Didn't bother me nor my girlfriend who worked with 'James' at the time at Lipman and Wolf.
 
Tomorrow meet with a rep to choose blinds and curtains. It's a three hour window. Not wanting to do nothing, I am bringing plants from current garden to transplant.
Ordered stove and oven.
Deck repair next week.
 
crandc said:
Ordered blinds. Ordered stove and oven. Planted spring vegetables in new back yard.
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Hope your stove is natural gas with an overhead exhaust. Love my veggies and dearly miss my old garden.
 
Next project, new flooring for the house, other than bedrooms (keep rug) and bathrooms (will get a matching flooring to the one we did in the main bathroom).

It was quite a hassle to bring down this 3.300lbs of floors down our steep driveway - as the delivery truck was too high and would run into branches.

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I am hoping they can finish it before I fly out of the country for a business trip - otherwise it would be up to the boss to handle it.
 
Our bedroom and laundry room are painted. Floor installation starts next week. Most screens missing and few there in bad condition so a company is going there tomorrow to measure windows for screens. Deck repair starts Thursday.
Once the floor is in place I can start pre-moving.
 
andalusian said:
Yes, all the flooring is outside - because nothing is as much fun as walking on bare concrete in the house. ;)
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Actually, my aunt and uncles house in Redlands, they have stained, heated, concrete floors throughout their mid century home. It's amazing.
 
THE HCP said:
Actually, my aunt and uncles house in Redlands, they have stained, heated, concrete floors throughout their mid century home. It's amazing.
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I am sure it is beautiful, but hard to step on. We are moving from tiles to bamboo for that reason. Not a fan of hard floors for the house, honestly, since I like to walk barefoot.
 
About five years ago we put down red oak throughout our house except restrooms & utility rooms. I wanted to go bamboo but wife wanted oak.
The Russian company put down a commercial grade of sealant/expoxy? a couple coats. We used Portland Hardwood Floors , family run, and they were terrific, very impressed with their craftsmanship.
However, I still wish we'd had done bamboo as I really like the look it has.
Next project is to have 2 baths remodeled and the tile is out of here, to much maintaining. Not sure yet what we want to use, maybe some of that engineered laminate?
 
Painting almost done.
I wanted bamboo in my new garden but it's selling for $80. I don't know if that's Covid or tariffs or what. With difficulty I managed to dig out a section of bamboo from current garden along with a section of salvia. I had to cut bamboo back several feet to get it into my car.
Screens arrive Friday, shades Monday. Delay in oven means I might move in a week before oven arrives. Probably won't do a lot of baking first few days.
 
crandc said:
Painting almost done.
I wanted bamboo in my new garden but it's selling for $80. I don't know if that's Covid or tariffs or what. With difficulty I managed to dig out a section of bamboo from current garden along with a section of salvia. I had to cut bamboo back several feet to get it into my car.
Screens arrive Friday, shades Monday. Delay in oven means I might move in a week before oven arrives. Probably won't do a lot of baking first few days.
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We had Bamboo when we lived in Portland, that thing got out of hand very quickly. It was a real pest to ensure it remained where we wanted it to...

Make sure you find a way to limit where it can grow - because if it can - it will spread...
 
Painting complete. I have a stove and screens on windows. Bathroom fan past repair. Monday shades arrive and work starts in flooring.

Two outdoor sheds had bare unfinished floors. Previous owner had 18" square red clay tiles all over the yard. They are now floors in sheds. Toting them one at a time and laying side by side was a chore. I am tired.
 
crandc said:
Painting complete. I have a stove and screens on windows. Bathroom fan past repair. Monday shades arrive and work starts in flooring.

Two outdoor sheds had bare unfinished floors. Previous owner had 18" square red clay tiles all over the yard. They are now floors in sheds. Toting them one at a time and laying side by side was a chore. I am tired.
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When do you move in?
 
We are officially remodeling our Hawaii house....

...by replacing the carpet in the two bedrooms (of 3 total) that has carpet. I love fresh, clean, new carpet.
 
Damn. Move in date pushed back a week since floor hasn't arrived. I have moved almost everything that can be stored in two outdoor sheds.
Soil in front yard so bad I have been digging up dirt on the Bidens, I mean, digging up dirt from current house and bringing it over in bags. Previous owner put down black plastic, which kills soil. Back is better due to two large bags of soil conditioner I dragged there. Seeds are sprouting. Saw radishes, lettuce, kale and bok choy seedlings.
 
Flooring arrived! Oven gets installed Monday. Making progress.
This is well over budget so I am looking for temp job to rebuild treasury. Not thrilled but needed.
 
So, after too long I finally managed to connect the wemo switches in the main bathroom.

What happened is that I had some switches I bought 3 years ago for another project and we changed course on that one so I had them. Apparently these are the old version that only talk on the 2.4 band of wifi. Most new phones have 2.4 and 5 bands and will try to connect on 5 if found.

So, to connect a new switch, it acts as a wifi access point, you connect to it on the phone, get into the wemo app, it connects to it, you give it a name, the name of the real wifi and password, it connects to that wifi to verify it and send it to the switch which connects to it. Once connected, you can link it to Alexa and everyone is happy.

Apparently after verification when it tries to connect to the switch access point again, the new phones always try too connect over 5ghz and fail with these old switches. Took me a while to figure it out and I found an old Nexus 5x phone that only has the 2.4ghz band...

Once I got this, all is connected and an Alexa routine allows me to say "run bathroom shower fan" to automatically run the fan for 30 minutes after a shower to ensure air circulation and avoid mold. Can't believe how long it took me too figure it out
 
andalusian said:
Once I got this, all is connected and an Alexa routine allows me to say "run bathroom shower fan" to automatically run the fan for 30 minutes after a shower to ensure air circulation and avoid mold. Can't believe how long it took me too figure it out
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Found out I don't even need to make a routine for this. Just "Alexa, in 30 minutes turn off the bathroom fan" works as expected.
 
I am meeting with contractor and it looks like it is over revised (much higher) estimate. Oh shit.
 
Found out that the estate we bought the house from was the original owner and we were provided with a bunch of pictures of the place over the years, as well as the original drawings. Excited to be able to use them for the basement remodel. Should really help us with the design!
 
Overrun not as bad as I feared. Oven installed, blinds going up, floor should be ready tomorrow.
There is a built in hutch by kitchen. I thought I could put cookbooks on the shelves. The shelves, turns out, are cheap glass. When I put books on them they shattered. I got pine shelves at hardware store.
 
All cookbooks moved except one I am keeping on hand to use next few weeks. Nine boxes.
Going to look for second hand couch tomorrow.
 
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