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  1. crankcall

    COVID and the housing market

    There were literally thousands that came here and took a similar path . Staying on the right side of the law and paying your bills was what mattered. You were respected inside and outside your community for those values . Things have changed . Hard work to get ahead is for suckers , there is no...
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    Time to boycott

    Local independents are getting harder to find . They are around but less of them it appears . High end independents are easy enough to find but that’s a special event night these days . The thirty dollar bottle of wine turns into seventy . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    I was never a fan of windows in a bathtub area, they seem to always leak inside the wall no matter how hard someone tries to keep them sealed . Europe has some wonderful products to make small baths nicer but they done have much market share here and are often really expensive. Here we go out...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    OVE And cultured marble are nearly the same thing if you read the recipe , it’s polyester resin with stone dust . Im doing over a shower in a spare bathroom , aluminum Z bars will be epoxied to the panels on sixteen in spacing , they can hang in place . I have an option to buy Corian in full...
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    COVID and the housing market

    30 yrs ago Brampton was working class with auto sector workers and aerospace employees. Lot of manufacturing and engineering. Then it changed . Not for the better . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    MM Products , Arvin St Hamilton , cultured marble and stone Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    Natural slate is a terrible choice in a bath area , it will collect grime . Granite would look gorgeous. There is a company in Hamilton whose name escapes me at the moment that produces synthetic marble and stone , full size wall panels custom made . They also install , three to five seams ...
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    Time to boycott

    Next your going to tell me Col Tom Parker wasn’t a Colonel , and could have been a German illegal alien . Sent from my iPhone using...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    Ceramic tile at Eden Tile in Hamilton has four ft x eight ft ceramic wall tile . I don’t want to be the guy drilling for faucets , but it solves a problem . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Time to boycott

    Mary Brown was an east coast institution. But if you want to live a healthy life don’t eat that stuff . And Tim’s is a wasteland of industrial food product . I ate lunch in a restaurant five days a week for thirty yrs . It wasn’t KFC or Mary Browns , or Pizza Hut . Sent from my iPhone using...
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    E bikes rampaging Toronto streets

    Twelve yr old kid in Van pegs a car , kids guardian gets six various tickets . Van passed a bylaw you need to be sixteen for an E kick scooter , no helmet on kid , it’s a start . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    Arm and leg is correct , we needed a new A/C unit and had a quote from the company that installed the furnace a yr earlier . It was a fail in January so we decided we would do AC later . Friend I would not have considered asking, offered one picked up at the Canadian distribution center , he had...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    There is a diy mini split on market , but it’s for one room essentially, either bedroom doors stay open or you cook . If you have a forced air furnace that probably the ticket . It’s likely a six grand problem. Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Pickup Trucks

    Any truck is just fine for work , used within the design spec for that truck . Don’t buy the Vsix F series and expect to pull seven thousand pounds uphill . Guys with the new Tacoma turbo four pulling RV trailers , that’s going to suck . Just don’t under buy . If you decide , I only move the ten...
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    I used Gord’s on a house with multiple poured foundation cracks . Quite happy with Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Soccer Canada car flags $4

    The empty stands should indicate the value is just not there . There are tons of people that can afford those prices , they just didn’t. Leaf games are all sold out and you know they will suck . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Tool Deals Thread

    I dont know your nieghbourhood , but if a 12yr old put a sign up on my street he'd be doing every house. Nobody on this street mows their own lawn. At least 10 different property manitenance groups , they all own stihl backpack blowers with H-D straight pipes on them . All hours of the day ...
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    Soccer Canada car flags $4

    I may be over sensitive but coming out to find someone kicked my car door over soccer flags would wreck my day . Many of the hot blooded Latin countries take football way too seriously. And then there are the Brits lol . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Has the city lost it's mind...

    I followed the live video of the TTC meeting , the whole world uses alpha numeric to get you around , trains , airports, subway , anywhere in the world. Not Toronto here you can take the Beaver line to the moose terminal . It’s so fun!! Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    Personally of all the options you have considered, I’d go up , not addition out ward ,never the basement . But wasaga is the new frontier since collingwood is over the moon and contractors smell Toronto money . If the foundation you have would support the second story , I’d be doing that . Find...
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