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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

Re fences: Check the soil. Ours is clay and it would be hard to drive one of the pegs in. It's also a day's work to manually auger one hole.

In soft soil I wouldn't trust a driven post support for anything over a few feet.

Also, When my daughter had her fence done a few years back the guy was going five feet down. Climate change

If you pull the old post concrete the digging is done at the same time. Just refill the hole.

The legalities of someone taking property isn't the land grab some think. Apparently there are two jurisdictions and it depends on which one the property is located.

An uncle in Manitoba bought a house and years later approached the neighbour to the north and bought 10 feet to widen a driveway. When they resurveyed they found his house was already on the land.

The neighbour on the south side thought his lot was bigger than it really was and fifty years later had to give up the space.

The marina we docked at in Orillia owned the land that provided land access to another marina. One weekend a summer the road would be closed to traffic. I don't know if it was to prevent some sort of squatter's rights or just a firm reminder of who owned what.
 
nobbie48 said:
The marina we docked at in Orillia owned the land that provided land access to another marina. One weekend a summer the road would be closed to traffic. I don't know if it was to prevent some sort of squatter's rights or just a firm reminder of who owned what.
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I understand in some rural (any maybe municipal) areas there are fairly antiquated "right of way" and access laws that if access has been given for a period of time that access is assumed and cant be denied, it becomes grandfathered in. The weekend closure may have been the break required to avoid the 'assumed' road.

When we put two 10 acre building lots on the front of the family farm , the farm lane-way went between the two properties. When my parents decided to sell the farm it was required to leave an 80ft roadway and the 80ft was gifted onto the other side of one lot to avoid 80 acres of land being "landlocked"
 
GateKeeper said:
No grass seed yet, still a bit early, but with the few days of sun and dry weather I have been able to de-thatch the lawn, so it’s ready, once the temps pick up a bit, seed will then go down, a layer of peat moss, a bit of soil, and hope for the best...

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Geez, I still have a foot of snow on my lawn.
 
crankcall said:
I understand in some rural (any maybe municipal) areas there are fairly antiquated "right of way" and access laws that if access has been given for a period of time that access is assumed and cant be denied, it becomes grandfathered in. The weekend closure may have been the break required to avoid the 'assumed' road.

When we put two 10 acre building lots on the front of the family farm , the farm lane-way went between the two properties. When my parents decided to sell the farm it was required to leave an 80ft roadway and the 80ft was gifted onto the other side of one lot to avoid 80 acres of land being "landlocked"
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A family we know in Upper New York has a similar problem. Over the years they sold off building lots around the perimeter of the family farm when they needed cash. There is still a sizable piece in the middle but if they sell off any more lots, it becomes landlocked.

Suddenly the logistics change. If they want to sell interior lots they have to build roads. If they don't bring power closer the lot prices won't be worth a lot as it adds to the building costs. Putting the required roads and services in for one or two lots would be cash flow negative. Then who owns and maintains the road, easements etc. Go big or stay home.

They don't have the mental or financial resources to become a developer, too poor to take up farming again.
 
nobbie48 said:
A family we know in Upper New York has a similar problem. Over the years they sold off building lots around the perimeter of the family farm when they needed cash. There is still a sizable piece in the middle but if they sell off any more lots, it becomes landlocked.

Suddenly the logistics change. If they want to sell interior lots they have to build roads. If they don't bring power closer the lot prices won't be worth a lot as it adds to the building costs. Putting the required roads and services in for one or two lots would be cash flow negative. Then who owns and maintains the road, easements etc. Go big or stay home.

They don't have the mental or financial resources to become a developer, too poor to take up farming again.
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Family friends are selling their farm. They have spun off four or five lots around the perimeter over the past 40+ years but they aren't allowed to do that anymore. Lots of access but they are cashing out. It will be interesting to see if it becomes a 200 acre hobby farm or a subdivision. It's a beautiful place with multiple ponds with islands (at one point containing quite possibly the biggest bass you can find in ontario but I haven't fished there in decades), fields, forest, tons of buildings and a farmhouse. Under 5M. Compared to what people are paying for crap, it is very reasonable. From a farming viability perspective, it takes a hell of a long time to make that much money.
 
GreyGhost said:
Family friends are selling their farm. They have spun off four or five lots around the perimeter over the past 40+ years but they aren't allowed to do that anymore. Lots of access but they are cashing out. It will be interesting to see if it becomes a 200 acre hobby farm or a subdivision. It's a beautiful place with multiple ponds with islands (at one point containing quite possibly the biggest bass you can find in ontario but I haven't fished there in decades), fields, forest, tons of buildings and a farmhouse. Under 5M. Compared to what people are paying for crap, it is very reasonable. From a farming viability perspective, it takes a hell of a long time to make that much money.
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I get the feeling that a lot of food based businesses are growth and income investments IF you can own the property. You make a living and then cash out the property when you retire, getting the growth part.

Unfortunately in the GTA restaurants tend to be leased and the growth nest egg is virtually non existent.
 
nobbie48 said:
I get the feeling that a lot of food based businesses are growth and income investments IF you can own the property. You make a living and then cash out the property when you retire, getting the growth part.

Unfortunately in the GTA restaurants tend to be leased and the growth nest egg is virtually non existent.
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I do have a semi-serious business idea...,

Do you know what the most expensive edible plant product in the world is (not truffles)? It's wasabi, Japanese horseradish used in sushi. Most sushi restaurants just use plain horseradish with green dye instead of the real thing. The reason is that it’s very hard to cultivate wasabi. There’s an Icelandic operation that grows it sustainably but not much else. It needs moving water I think.

Anyway...a wasabi farm! That....and bananas (with global warming).
 
Painted the 2x4's around garage door openings and window casings in garage as apparently when I asked the painter to paint the garage he didn't feel like doing those. Also trimmed the garage man door to house as there were gaps between drywall and existing trim that annoyed me.
Tried to pull two more speaker wires for patio speakers through wall conduit that is rather stuffed already and it didn't work out. Ordered a wall snake and will have to go through attic, drill hole in 2x4 and and feed wires down.
Camera system arriving this week so will be spending plenty of time in attic doing wiring next week.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Painted the 2x4's around garage door openings and window casings in garage as apparently when I asked the painter to paint the garage he didn't feel like doing those. Also trimmed the garage man door to house as there were gaps between drywall and existing trim that annoyed me.
Tried to pull two more speaker wires for patio speakers through wall conduit that is rather stuffed already and it didn't work out. Ordered a wall snake and will have to go through attic, drill hole in 2x4 and and feed wires down.
Camera system arriving this week so will be spending plenty of time in attic doing wiring next week.
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Have you lubed the wires? It makes a huge difference in ease of pulling. Also gets a hilarious reaction from your wife when the slime comes out as she is pulling.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Painted the 2x4's around garage door openings and window casings in garage as apparently when I asked the painter to paint the garage he didn't feel like doing those. Also trimmed the garage man door to house as there were gaps between drywall and existing trim that annoyed me.
Tried to pull two more speaker wires for patio speakers through wall conduit that is rather stuffed already and it didn't work out. Ordered a wall snake and will have to go through attic, drill hole in 2x4 and and feed wires down.
Camera system arriving this week so will be spending plenty of time in attic doing wiring next week.
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What did you use to pull the wires? Those fibreglass rods should do the trick.
 
mimico_polak said:
What did you use to pull the wires? Those fibreglass rods should do the trick.
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Ordered a fiberglass rod afterwards to put them down through the wall when it arrives.
Don't think lube would have helped. Conduit was just barely big enough to get wires down the first time so I don't think I've got much room to put the rod and two more 14g speaker wires down and don't want to risk not getting them back through it if I pull them all back, add two wires and try to push them back through. Had them taped to a cat5 cable that wasn't working anyways to try to pull them through but that cable broke about a foot from where I needed them.
Have to pull the 70" tv off wall to get to upper conduits and wife hates helping to take tv down so at this point it's just easier to go in through roof now.
 
Agreed. The only other thing I've seen is a metal 'cable' that you can snake in through very small openings, and that tied to the cable should do the trick. But if it's that tight, I'd stick with your plan of going through the ceiling.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Ordered a fiberglass rod afterwards to put them down through the wall when it arrives.
Don't think lube would have helped. Conduit was just barely big enough to get wires down the first time so I don't think I've got much room to put the rod and two more 14g speaker wires down and don't want to risk not getting them back through it if I pull them all back, add two wires and try to push them back through. Had them taped to a cat5 cable that wasn't working anyways to try to pull them through but that cable broke about a foot from where I needed them.
Have to pull the 70" tv off wall to get to upper conduits and wife hates helping to take tv down so at this point it's just easier to go in through roof now.
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I would definitely be using a metal tape not a rod for existing conduit. If you didn't leave a string, you're right, it will suck. Everytime you do a conduit pull, attach a string to the cables you wanted to make it easier the next time. With lube and someone feeding the opening, you shouldn't have to pull very hard (assuming the packing factor on the conduit wasn't crazy, I always run at least one size bigger conduit than I think I need). If it's hard, pull it back a little and it should go forward easily.
 
GreyGhost said:
I would definitely be using a metal tape not a rod for existing conduit. If you didn't leave a string, you're right, it will suck. Everytime you do a conduit pull, attach a string to the cables you wanted to make it easier the next time. With lube and someone feeding the opening, you shouldn't have to pull very hard (assuming the packing factor on the conduit wasn't crazy, I always run at least one size bigger conduit than I think I need). If it's hard, pull it back a little and it should go forward easily.
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Lessons learned while building house. So many thing to consider that although I planned ahead and had the builder run the conduit I didn't actually measure to see that the approx 2" conduit piping they were running wasn't big enough to fit an hdmi/couple cat5/12+ speaker cables.
On another fun note, only 4mo into living in new build the wife has decided the deck should get extended 15ish feet and she also wants her office painted another colour. My to-do list continues.
 
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