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

SVeezy said:
Pics?

Edit: Disregard. Late to the party.

Although finished pics would still be nice


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It definitely wont be as impressive to you as it is to me. Trust me it looked a lot worse before. I've got more plywood to put up on the back and left side, then I'm going to tile it. Need practice on doing backsplash so I can do my kitchen once I get new countertops.

All the water on the ground is because I didn't hook the vent tube up - its all good now though.

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Planning some unexpected work on the northern palace. The big dig starts next week, waterproofing foundation with delta dimple, adding 2” of SM insulation, upgrading incoming waterline from 1/2” to 3/4 (upstairs shower will now work like a pressure washer).

Rest of the year will be expensive. Replacing roof trusses and doing a steel top. Time permitting will add a 24x7 covered porch to the front.

7 hr drive complicates things, fortunately tools and truck are already there so I can ride up and back.
 
48Connor said:
It definitely wont be as impressive to you as it is to me. Trust me it looked a lot worse before. I've got more plywood to put up on the back and left side, then I'm going to tile it. Need practice on doing backsplash so I can do my kitchen once I get new countertops.

All the water on the ground is because I didn't hook the vent tube up - its all good now though.

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Nice work looks expensive look at all that wood!! :LOL:
 
^ I should add this isn't my design. I found this online for $3600usd and liked it, but I'd never spend close to $5kcad by the time it got here on something I could make for $250 in materials. I imported an image of it into Fusion360 to get the proportions right and find the radius of all the curves. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out
 
48Connor said:
^ I should add this isn't my design. I found this online for $3600usd and liked it, but I'd never spend close to $5kcad by the time it got here on something I could make for $250 in materials. I imported an image of it into Fusion360 to get the proportions right and find the radius of all the curves. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out
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Looks awesome

Hopefully there’s no copyright infringement


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mimico_polak said:
Anyone use this thing or something similar?

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Tons of needles and leaves getting dropped into our gutters and causing blockages.
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I know some people like them but I am anti-gutter guard. In-laws have some at the cottage but crap builds up on top. They need to be pulled down yearly to clean them (trees growing in the stuck material) and in a hard rain, it can't get through fast enough and flows over. Defeats most of the purpose of gutters.

I think they could work if they had enough slope on them to be self-cleaning but I have never seen any with slope.

Don't even consider the foam, they plug solid very quickly.

I bought a big candy cane for the leaf blower. Throw on a rain coat and walk around the house and the gutters are 90% cleared.

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Thanks @GreyGhost those may not be the best solution.

Although I am curious about the attachment to the blower. Had one on the ShopVac and that was a complete failure.
 
mimico_polak said:
Thanks @GreyGhost those may not be the best solution.

Although I am curious about the attachment to the blower. Had one on the ShopVac and that was a complete failure.
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It makes a mess but it works. Much faster and easier than moving a ladder. Obviously if you can wait a while after rain, it works better with drier/lighter debris. It even got most of the gravel out of the trough from the new shingles.
 
We've had those gutter guards on our cottage for probably 10 years now. I think we got them at Costco but they look the same. I've never looked under them (I guess maybe I should) but they seem to work well. Once a year I get up on the roof with a broom and brush them off - takes like 5 mins.
 
48Connor said:
We've had those gutter guards on our cottage for probably 10 years now. I think we got them at Costco but they look the same. I've never looked under them (I guess maybe I should) but they seem to work well. Once a year I get up on the roof with a broom and brush them off - takes like 5 mins.
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Roof pitch? How far do shingles hang over gutters? Given the right combination of factors, it should be possible to have them mostly self-cleaning. The inlaws cottage is comfortable to walk on (probably 4:12).
 
48Connor said:
We've had those gutter guards on our cottage for probably 10 years now. I think we got them at Costco but they look the same. I've never looked under them (I guess maybe I should) but they seem to work well. Once a year I get up on the roof with a broom and brush them off - takes like 5 mins.
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Thanks. My dad just installed them at the cottage.

The last ones have failed after 10 years but they were soft fabric. Just go up, blow them away, and done.

@GreyGhost where did you buy that extension?
 
mimico_polak said:
Thanks. My dad just installed them at the cottage.

The last ones have failed after 10 years but they were soft fabric. Just go up, blow them away, and done.

@GreyGhost where did you buy that extension?
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I happened to get it at Kooy bros as it was on sale there for ~$60. I think the Stihl one is normally ~$100 and there are other brands with very similar products. One kit is ~10' so it has no problem reaching first floor but second floor is awkward or impossible depending on grading (hold blower over your head and have two stories at 8' finished and you may be able to get it to work). You could add another kit, but it would start to get really wobbly. Even one kit bends ~12" with the blower at full speed.

If you really want to clean them as opposed to debris removal, I have a drain cleaner for a pressure washer but I need to rig up a hose for it. It has one jet forward and six back at an angle so it drags itself along as fast as you feed it hose. Not sure if it would try to jump out of a trough though.
 
GreyGhost said:
Roof pitch? How far do shingles hang over gutters? Given the right combination of factors, it should be possible to have them mostly self-cleaning. The inlaws cottage is comfortable to walk on (probably 4:12).
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Its not that steep. Might be a 3:12 but I don't know for sure. I did the roof on it myself but don't know how much they overhang, probably half an inch?
 
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