The Home Improvement Thread

[Silverback]

My luck I'd spend $350 on toner and the printer would die a year later. LOL

 

[Taco Loco]

My luck I'd spend $350 on toner and the printer would die a year later. LOL

I would buy the same printer and return the old,

 

[Silverback]

LOL.. good idea.


So my sprinkler system had some issues, several zones not working. Called out the guy who fixed it after we put in the pool. He was here for about 6 hours. Got 2 line breaks fixed and all the zones back online.. and replaced the controller with a Rachio 3 16 zone system.. apparently I have 14 zones. Anyhow this thing is cool. All controlled from my phone (or the controller).. but it's got WiFi so it will monitor the weather so if it rained the night before it won't wast water and the same for if its supposed to rain that day. We'll see how it goes.

 

[AlienXtx]

LOL.. good idea.


So my sprinkler system had some issues, several zones not working. Called out the guy who fixed it after we put in the pool. He was here for about 6 hours. Got 2 line breaks fixed and all the zones back online.. and replaced the controller with a Rachio 3 16 zone system.. apparently I have 14 zones. Anyhow this thing is cool. All controlled from my phone (or the controller).. but it's got WiFi so it will monitor the weather so if it rained the night before it won't wast water and the same for if its supposed to rain that day. We'll see how it goes.

I like mine better, if it rains my yard gets wet.

 

[Silverback]

Yeah.. good luck with that. Yo must have a rain maker in your house.

 

[AlienXtx]

Yeah.. good luck with that. Yo must have a rain maker in your house.

No, I live out in the sticks and dont give a fuck if my yard is green or not. Dead grass mean I dont have to mow

 

[Silverback]

I like a nice yard. I like my trees and shrubs not dead.

 

[AlienXtx]

I like a nice yard. I like my trees and shrubs not dead.

My trees are fine, and I dont have shrubs.

 

[Silverback]

Well mine need water... and the sky is not providing it.

 

[AlienXtx]

Then get to watering bud. I got mine all cut down nice and even and I have not had to start up the dust storm in 4 weeks so far. It's not "dead", but it's going dormant for sure. I have that damn bihaia (no idea how its spelt) t by at grows like crazy and looks like shit, so when it stops popping up I dont help it out any.

 

[Silverback]

My sprinkler system will get to watering soon. Tomorrow morning unless it rains tonight.. LOL.

 

[Mitt78]

First small project

Cleaned and put a little mineral oil on the wood floor. At some point it will need to be redone but at least it looks better now.

 

[Oswego]

I should look into getting a simple black and white laser for just printing stuff.. because 90% of the time its just B&W I am printing. Hmm..

Thats the set up I have at home. Ive had a brother laser for so many years I can't remember how long ago I got it. Great printer. Only filled it once and that's only because they ship w/ a half filled toner. After that I got the huge one and never needed to fill it again. I'm also one person that may print once or twice a month except for tax time.

if I want to print fancy colors and sizes like full body silhouettes in color I just print at work

 

[Anathollo]

Thats the set up I have at home. Ive had a brother laser for so many years I can't remember how long ago I got it. Great printer. Only filled it once and that's only because they ship w/ a half filled toner. After that I got the huge one and never needed to fill it again. I'm also one person that may print once or twice a month except for tax time.

if I want to print fancy colors and sizes like full body silhouettes in color I just print at work

Same here. I finally talked my boss into getting us a color printer in addition to our massive B&W printer we have. Makes it handy to print off free gun targets

 

[Oswego]

Same here. I finally talked my boss into getting us a color printer in addition to our massive B&W printer we have. Makes it handy to print off free gun targets

We did a "team building" axe throwing day last year. I printed out a full size silhouette pic of the boss to put up and throw axes at. He was actually a good sport about it - the place we rented lanes in not so much. They were a bunch of city libtards who told us we could not hang it up. Skinny jean & flannel wearing, bearded fruitcakes

 

[CowboyTaco]

If y'all are in the market for good (and affordable) color laser all-in-one printers, sign up for the best buy deal of the day email. I see $4-600 printers on sale for $1-300 fairly frequently.

I need to look up how to refill your own toner though.

 

[Taco Loco]

Thats the set up I have at home. Ive had a brother laser for so many years I can't remember how long ago I got it. Great printer. Only filled it once and that's only because they ship w/ a half filled toner. After that I got the huge one and never needed to fill it again. I'm also one person that may print once or twice a month except for tax time.

if I want to print fancy colors and sizes like full body silhouettes in color I just print at work

Same here. I finally talked my boss into getting us a color printer in addition to our massive B&W printer we have. Makes it handy to print off free gun targets

Everyday is a Saturday, I’ll print from home naked if I wish .

If y'all are in the market for good (and affordable) color laser all-in-one printers, sign up for the best buy deal of the day email. I see $4-600 printers on sale for $1-300 fairly frequently.

I need to look up how to .refill your own toner though.

I get those emails.

They typically do not put the business models on the deals of the day, I have priced the one I bought for the past few months, every now and then Office Depot would throw a $50 off and that’s it, and $50 might actually be $5 cheaper every where else.

 

[Oswego]

Heading out to do some yard work before my buddy shows up with his Pathfinder to swap his front coil-overs out. Fingers crossed 11 years worth of rust on a Jap truck doesn't equal torches, grinding disks, saw zall blades melting, and a ton of expletives being shouted all about my yard

First night all summer temps dropped below 60*. Woke up to a chill in my house this morning and that put a smile on my face immediately. Going to be a great day to be outside with low 80* temps and low humidity. Now starts my kid of weather. All that heat & humidity crap can suck it.

 

[Oswego]

only took what seemed like three months but I got this monster knocked out today

not the strongest way to do it, but I had the carpenter put solid blocking in the walls and top of the knee wall so all my clips have good bite into wood. I also never use notches int eh glass where the clips can pull out from. Just holes with relief notches. Even with a bad design I was forced by my buddy's wife to make happen, this things not going anywhere

normally I like to run the glass to the top of the tile, but from the end of the river rock on the right to the end of the ceramic on the left the tile was out of level by 1-1/2" and I was not messing with that so it's a 72" door with a 6" base so at 78" there shouldn't be that much splash over.

BTW - I H8 caulking. Freaking eyes and throat are burning up right now from all the fumes.

At least my buddy has a good view for when we were taking breaks

 

[Oswego]

Unless you built it yourself - never trust any sort of balcony railing or glass with your life by ever leaning on it or letting your kids lean or crawl on them. heck, I don't even like being out on them. 90% of the time they aren't waterproofed properly so you can't even see the rot under the pretty top finishes. I'd go into detail regarding some of the shady practices Ive seen, but will plead the fifth.

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