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Got some old tobacco sticks from a family barn..put together a quick decorative ladder for some family.



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Yes...but not as convenient

1..with loose mulch there is a possibility of bringing in termites..With bags, it gets so hot in the bag, the heat kills em

2..I live in the Mts, and there are a lot of stone stairs to the various places I need mulch..With loose mulch and a wheelbarrow, I would have to erect ramps..Thats more work..With bags, I throw 1 over each shoulder and away I go

3..There is a guy who comes with a huge truck and a blower..he will blow mulch where ever you want it at. The problem there is he is extremely expensive..The truck and blower costs half a mil, and he has to recoup that..


So, I'm stuck with bags...lol

I have done alot of mulching by both methods.... and I know what BB means.... Bags sometimes are the only option depending on the situation.

That said.... the best way we did it was my uncle would go fill up the back of a pickup with mulch at a nearby place that loaded the bed with a front loader and he would drive it up next to the big areas we had to mulch and 3 of us would empty it with big ass pitch forks till the truck was empty and then he would go get it filled back up..... oh Summertime during college lol
 

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I have done alot of mulching by both methods.... and I know what BB means.... Bags sometimes are the only option depending on the situation.

That said.... the best way we did it was my uncle would go fill up the back of a pickup with mulch at a nearby place that loaded the bed with a front loader and he would drive it up next to the big areas we had to mulch and 3 of us would empty it with big ass pitch forks till the truck was empty and then he would go get it filled back up..... oh Summertime during college lol


I tried that, but the only access to the area where I need the mulch is up a steep bank. Empty, my truck can clear it.. But loaded down, the frame scrapes and I lose traction
 

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Something I made for a buddy over the weekend. He does pro audio for clubs and whatnot. I guess its going to have like 40k watts worth of amps mounted to it.















 

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Built a swinging gate with auto-close hinges and clasp today for the back deck.

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Is that for the new "addition"?

Partially for him, and partially for the dog - lol. Still got one to make on the other side (have two sets of steps on that deck), and need to paint that one to match the deck..but happy w/ how it turned out.
 

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Is there a season for gutters and siding? Looking to get all that redone, and one of the guys I talked to declined to come out. He said to call back in October because it would be much cheaper.

Can anybody confirm this?
 

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Is there a season for gutters and siding? Looking to get all that redone, and one of the guys I talked to declined to come out. He said to call back in October because it would be much cheaper.

Can anybody confirm this?
I would say labor would be as jobs are more scarce
 

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I would say labor would be as jobs are more scarce
Even with all the storms? Or is it because of the storms? I can't imagine jobs are scarce with the damage that has been done.
 

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Bob Vila and Norm Abram are much disappoint.

Dedicate a lifetime to how-to shows, including quite a few on gutters and siding, and you still ask in a DIY thread about finding a good time for contractors. :fist:
 

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Bob Vila and Norm Abram are much disappoint.

Dedicate a lifetime to how-to shows, including quite a few on gutters and siding, and you still ask in a DIY thread about finding a good time for contractors. :fist:

if I were not afraid of heights, I think I would do the siding job. Seen it enough times on tv that it looks almost "Lego Easy"
 

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Yeah, I was afraid of heights at one point and time too. It's a fear you can conquer. I was a communication field tech a while back. The funny thing is, I took the job without even thinking about my fear of heights. Then I had the first day where I had to climb a 30 foot pole. LOL Long story short, you get over it. I jumped out of planes, helicopters, hang glided. It gets easier once you get over the hump.

Falling off a roof is a legitimate fear, but it's also very simple to minimize risk. Hell, before my Grandfather died, he still did his own roof at the ripe age of 88(and no, this isn't why he died, he outlived his expectancy because he actually got off his ass and did things).
 

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Just reading that I have sweaty palms.
 

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Bob Vila and Norm Abram are much disappoint.

Dedicate a lifetime to how-to shows, including quite a few on gutters and siding, and you still ask in a DIY thread about finding a good time for contractors. :fist:
Bob Vila and Norm Abram probably also recommend swallowing your pride and allowing contractors to do the job when you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself, since you're the one that has to live with the mistakes.

And I don't like starting threads when I can find the information by posting in a similar thread.
 

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I know this is going to make me sound like a jerk and I don't mean it that way at all.

Isn't there a difference between a hobby and a DIYer?
IMHO a "Hobby" is something done for the hell of it. A DIY is something that there's a pressing need or want to be done.

For instance: working on my car doing everything up to and inclusing CV axles, rewiring every switch to a dimmer, installing everything as LED's inside our apartment, hanging privacy drapes, wiring up my home theater, scrwing in temperature-dependent LED faucet nozzles, and the like would be more DIY projects. Building my HTPC, along with the associated NAS for storing all of our recorded TV shows (that can pump into the network backplane to any device on our network), along with building my own tesla coil would be hobbies IMHO.
 

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Galley kitchen re-do. Demo pics coming.

You too?
We did ours in '12, and I ended up installing the tile flooring. Not thrilled with how they installed all of the trim, so I may need to get that redone.
 

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