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Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 24th 2022, 10:44 am

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Posted By Maste

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Moved to the new house the weekend just gone, so lots to work on but nothing too 'big' yet. Our new house has over 15 fruit trees/bushes including wine grapes, cider apples, pear, berry bushes, among...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Aug 5th 2021, 10:49 am

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Our basement has been half finished for about a year, as we lost motivation to finish the half of the basement we really didn't have a use for. Well, I just offered a remote position starting the...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 2nd 2020, 1:14 pm

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Pulaski, my bad. Having read chawkins response, it turns out it is lath and plaster!

Chawkins, a quick google actually reveals it is indeed lath & plaster. On closer inspection, I can see some...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 2nd 2020, 12:54 am

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Posted By Maste

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Cheers, I'll look at that and get watching some videos! I'm assuming it's pretty straight forward to use/do? Yeah, it was odd. I started scraping away some of the flaking paint, and some parts just...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 1st 2020, 11:33 pm

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Posted By Maste

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Alright guys, I have a question!

I started working on the closet in the guest room, and when scraping off the paint, some of the drywall crumbled and came away too. Therefore, in the closet are a...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 22nd 2019, 11:29 am

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With the amount of trees, and therefore leaves, that surround the property, I would much rather just clean out my gutters every year. But it's easier for me because our house is only one story, and a...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 20th 2019, 9:22 pm

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Posted By Maste

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Finally got the new gutter up. It took me 8 hours of working non-stop, and I somehow managed to do it solo (never again!). Will see how it is when it rains, and I'll just adjust the pitch if needs be...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 20th 2019, 11:10 am

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Posted By Maste

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One question I forgot to ask, What's the best way to account for two downspouts? House is only 28 feet wide but for some reason it has 2 downspouts. I am keeping these as they're fine, I'm only...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 20th 2019, 1:51 am

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Posted By Maste

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Thanks for that, I'll check out the DIY Chatroom website!

Hidden hangers, so internal ones.

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 19th 2019, 11:28 pm

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Posted By Maste

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Guys, I'm going to be installing the new gutters either tomorrow or Friday, all going well. I know what I need in terms of materials, and have researched how much slope the gutter should have. I'm...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Jun 19th 2019, 3:28 am

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So far this summer I have dug out a new planting area for bushes down the length of the backyard and planted bushes, painted the garage and garage door, and now I'm currently working on the basement...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Apr 13th 2019, 1:31 am

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Posted By Maste

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Now the midwest winter is finally over, projects are starting this weekend!

Aside from little things around the house, I want to get the back yard all finished and complete. This is going to...

Forum: The Trailer Park

May 29th 2018, 1:57 am

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Posted By Maste

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Cheers for that, I'll look at Lowes and HD as we go there a lot due to fixing up things in the house a lot! Yeah, she wears a harness so I'd attach it to that so she'd just dangle like a piñata if...

Forum: The Trailer Park

May 28th 2018, 5:22 pm

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this weekend we fixed up our front porch, decorated it, planted potted plants and it's all nice now.

One final project I want to do is build a zip line for my dog across the porch so she can come...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Apr 30th 2018, 3:30 am

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Yeah, I think now we have the warm weather and the incoming random thunder showers due to the heat, I am probably going to be mowing every weekend too!

Forum: The Trailer Park

Apr 29th 2018, 8:30 pm

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First mowed lawn of the year in our garden. We appear to have pretty much skipped spring and gone straight into summer, which has annoyed as I was hoping for some mild spring days to work in the...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 19th 2018, 12:14 pm

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Posted By Maste

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I hope this doesn't sound stupid, because I know nothing about this kind of thing with regards to USA gardens and homes. I've not come across it when working with my dad back home in the UK...

But...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 16th 2018, 4:31 pm

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Posted By Maste

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I've always found our local HD customer service really good when it comes to correcting mistakes on orders etc! Hopefully you get it sorted ASAP.

Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 15th 2018, 12:49 am

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Posted By Maste

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Yeah, warm spring before the hot summer (90s at least) kicks in is my only chance to do the garden, I have to get it done between the weird winters (in the 10s) and the hot summers!

Forum: The Trailer Park

Mar 14th 2018, 2:31 pm

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Posted By Maste

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M'eh, this thread popping up reminds me warmer weather is around the corner, and therefore a load of garden work to be done soon. Great. Also got to fix up the garage too.

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 6th 2017, 11:57 am

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Posted By Maste

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No you're exactly right, he did a surface check and didn't find any lead painting in any of the top layers, and the house has changed ownership numerous times over the years that the chances are the...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 6th 2017, 2:54 am

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Posted By Maste

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I'm not scraping it all of, sorry to confuse! There are areas where the paint is flaking, and I'm just scraping those bits off only, then I will Kilz the whole thing.

Girlfriends dad has checked,...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 5th 2017, 11:14 am

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Posted By Maste

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Well, that's what I'm asking! The room is pretty much perfectly rectangular, and has no skirting or toe moulds currently, so I'm feeling it'll be an easy enough job. I also measured it up, taking...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Nov 3rd 2017, 8:33 pm

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Posted By Maste

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Right guys, pergo flooring. I know it's easy to do, but I don't have a circular saw and can't get one from anywhere, and would rather use what we have available to us as we are frugal and don't have...

Forum: The Trailer Park

Oct 17th 2017, 3:19 pm

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Posted By Maste

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I should have mentioned - it was the dwarf variation my girlfriend wanted! I was confused as to the growing huge comments as my girlfriends parents have knockout rose bushes and those are very small...

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