An ex farmer I knew said they planted oats along with the grass seed to act as a nurse crop. He said you had to make sure you mowed it. The oats wouldn't come up the next year. I never tried it.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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My Trex decking order is finally showing up, some sq edge material for stairs on back order, but they can go in later. Only been about 4 months so not bad. Stair treads and and some fasica will come end of August.
8ftx8ft deck off second story will be about 5k finished. Yikes.
8ftx8ft deck off second story will be about 5k finished. Yikes.
Dumbass thought but yesterday I was having my morning coffee while looking at the back yard through the six-foot patio doors. Hmmm If I was replacing them could I use the old ones to make a glass railing for the deck?
They would be about the right height if set on edge, tempered glass
Another screwy thought to mess with my brain.
They would be about the right height if set on edge, tempered glass
Another screwy thought to mess with my brain.
Maybe? Normal railing glass is much thicker (>1/2" glazing) instead of ~1/8" in a door. I suspect it would probably be a code violation if it came down to it but an inspector would have to be pretty annoyed at you to flag that on your own house.
I had to take a break from the rewire on the long weekend to deal with roots in the clay pipes. Rented the machine this time and DIYed it this time. $70 vs the $400 to $500 for the plumber "emergency" call.
The drains are next on the list, this was the 3rd time in 12 years....
The drains are next on the list, this was the 3rd time in 12 years....
The double panes would be an offsetting factor and a lot would depend on where one would land if the thing shattered. Would the fall be catastrophic? The frames would be left on protecting the edges of the glass. The Achilles' heel of tempered glass is the edge. Actually most glass is easier to break from a tap on an edge. Been there and had the soiled underwear.
Obviously the sizes would have to fit the opening.
Nothing screwy about it. My dad made glass walls around his gazebo from old patio door glass.
Looks awesome, keeps heat in winter, prevents bugs, I want that done to mine also with time.
@backmarkerducati thanks for the reminder. I’m going to snake all the lines from the house. Dad has a 100ft snake that we can use. Good call! Hell maybe I can offer the service to people for a fee….hmm…
I may be a customer. Downspouts at my house go to a drywell. At some point before I bought the house, the drywell cleanout was buried under a patio (or never existed). wtf. Decades of leaves go underground to nowhere. That doesn't end well. Tried shoving a shopvac hose down each leader last year to get some out but pushing more than 20' of hose through bends is a loser. I couldn't get anywhere near the drywell. Anyone have a vacuum that sucks enough to get high flow rates in 4" pipe? I figure if I cap off all except one, put on a big sucker and remove caps one at a time to get a rush of air I may be able to get some more of the junk out of there. Currently at anything over a light rain, all leaders are overflowing. I wasn't here when it was built so I have no idea as to its original capacity.
I’ll talk to my dad about borrowing it and we can chat if he’s cool with it (he doesn’t like renting his tools).
What kind of dog?
OK, after some painful non-quality time reading of the plumbing portion of the Ontario Building Code..... My question from many many pages before in this thread....
ABS can be used above and below grade. PVC PSM (plastic sewer main) cannot be used above grade but DWV (drain waste vent) can. Assuming they meet the ASTM or CSA specs. quoted. So long and short of it is plumbers that say ABS cannot be used below and PVC cannot be used above don't know their code.... and there are lots of them! Likely trained via old-wives-tales.....
Yeah, I may be a future customer.... I rented the 50 footer (as it fits in the car) but it does not make it all the way to the city demarc so some are likely missed.
I also bought some of the foaming root killer crystals to give them a try. Doing some research it appears to get good reviews. Basically either dump them in the closest toilet to the front and flush or better yet down the toilet drain pipe with the toilet removed and then dump water down the pipe. They foam up in the sewer pipe and contain a chemical that kills the roots they contact but not the tree..... put them in at night and no flushing again until morning.
Full size golden doodle. She's been pretty docile aside from random bursts of "chewing everything" lol
+1 for finding and reading the code on your own. My (ex) insurance agent told me I needed railing on my front porch. After reading the code I found that adding about 6" of topsoil to the surrounding garden made the porch low enough to not require the railing.
It's like when I was at work. Before we get wound up what does the drawing actually call for?
The bench/railings that are so popular in home improvement shows are a clear code violation that is hard to fix without it being ugly. I'm not sure how they get away with putting them on almost every project. A friend was getting hassled for a railing and I told them to build raised gardens around the deck. Solved. Plants where you can see them and a smaller drop so no legal railing required.
Was gonna be a Rottweiler but my fiancée is allergic.
We found her on Kijiji, went to visit the puppies and see how they were raised. Our puppy came up to us and flopped on my foot, so the choice was obvious lol
If I remember correctly.... 42 inch railing is needed if the drop is > 2 feet.... less than 2 feet no railing (or sideways glass doors @nobbie48 ....)
Close. <2' drop, whatever you want. More than 5'10" drop, 42" railing. Between those two, 36" railing.
The stupid bench railing combo turns almost every situation into a >2' drop that requires a railing 36" above the bench, not the 18" that is typically there.
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