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  • #31
    Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
    They are only weeds if you regard them as such.

    I prefer the term, "welcomed native flora".
    and the 74 gremlin on cinder blocks in the front yard is an "American Motors provided Nature Preserve".
    "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

    “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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    • #32
      My dandelion patch is at two acres and growing.
      No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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      • #33
        Work really hard for a month, get everything in shape, and take pictures of your perfect lawn. Post it to all your social networking sites and put it as a background on all your computers. Never invite anyone over to the house. Then just pretend that's how it really is from then on

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Zoetstofzoetje View Post
          out of five houses I lived in, in the NorthWest, four had it.
          Ah, the North.
          Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
          Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
          We've got both kinds

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          • #35
            with the isolation as it is, imagine what it would be like if they did not carpet everything... bloody freezing igloo
            Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
            GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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            • #36
              Well currently I have not had this problem as I have rented so far...I will probably buy a place in a couple of years so I have very few maintenance activities. I had a house previously but the grounds were communally maintained which suits me down to the ground - I don't do gardening. Now I have a 3 bed city centre pad so I don't have any gardening whatsoever to worry about.

              Which reminds me, I must hire a cleaner
              Speaking of Erith:

              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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              • #37
                The only thing I actually put effort into is our vegetable garden. There's a payoff there: food. Tomatoes, mostly, but also basil, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, strawberries and asparagus (not much though, this is only year 3).

                Well, I did recently do battle with underbrush (small trees and a TON of prickers) in the forested-but-within-the-fenceline area out back. I love that area, because the dogs can do their business there, not in the lawn itself. They're pretty good about that. By "doing battle" I mean going out there with clippers and spending ~2 hours laying waste (note: not timed. Betcha it was 1 hour). That's battle for me, after which I have clearly earned the right to drink tasty beer.

                -Arrian
                grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                • #38
                  Not gonna lie, I love plumbing.
                  "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
                  'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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                  • #39
                    You mean laying pipe?
                    Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                    • #40
                      More gay slang?
                      Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                      Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                      We've got both kinds

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Boris Godunov View Post
                        You mean laying pipe?
                        I'm the bawdy butcher, give you dick by the pound.
                        "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
                        'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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                        • #42
                          that's what the English call a BBC

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Zoetstofzoetje View Post
                            When I complained about this to my landlords, one poured concrete on top of the carpet

                            Ah, that's my kind of DIY.
                            The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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                            • #44
                              It gets better. When the bathroom wall showed a leak, he didn't fix the leak, he added another layer of bricks.

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