Home Improvement

Noodleface · Oct 26, 2020

Burren said:
For the 25 years I lived in New England, no one did a single thing about grass before the winter and every year, the grass was happy and healthy each spring. You don't need to do anything because that's the natural cycle of the environment. If you were in Nevada it would be different because grass isn't native there.

This is pretty true. I find my grass comes in really healthy in the spring and then of course I am lazy and it gets fucked up all summer.

Dandai · Oct 26, 2020

Lanx said:
you might still have time to put down some nitrogen rich fertilizer for root growth, but i learned the number one thing to do is not get lazy with leaves and get that shit blown, mulched or vac'd cuz 3 leaves could fuck up a patch of grass

Not to be that guy, but late October is almost certainly not when you’d want to throw down heavy nitrogen. Nitrogen is for top growth. As your turf prepares for dormancy, you want it focused on growing down, not up. Phosphorus is for root growth. The “best” way to introduce phos is to mow consistently and don’t bag your clippings, but supplementing is a good idea if a soil test says you’re low. Conventional wisdom says that if you have a lot of fungus/mushrooms in your lawn, you have plenty of phos and shouldn’t add more.

Edit: timing varies by zone, but pre emergent and heavy nitrogen goes down in the spring once you’re approaching the last day you could experience a frost. You don’t seed in spring because there’s no way to get your turf seed to grow without also feeding weed seeds.

All of these tips are assuming you’re not in the transition zone (Brahma probably isn’t), and your turf is cool season and not warm season like Bermuda, centipede, zoysia, etc.

LachiusTZ · Oct 26, 2020

Alasliasolonik said:
Did you fix this yet? I had to do this about 500 times in my previous life.

Any wisdom you can give me?

Youtube etc make me think I'm way out on the distribution curve of how hard this is

Lanx · Oct 26, 2020

Dandai said:
Not to be that guy, but late October is almost certainly not when you’d want to throw down heavy nitrogen. Nitrogen is for top growth. As your turf prepares for dormancy, you want it focused on growing down, not up. Phosphorus is for root growth. The “best” way to introduce phos is to mow consistently and don’t bag your clippings, but supplementing is a good idea if a soil test says you’re low. Conventional wisdom says that if you have a lot of fungus/mushrooms in your lawn, you have plenty of phos and shouldn’t add more.

Edit: timing varies by zone, but pre emergent and heavy nitrogen goes down in the spring once you’re approaching the last day you could experience a frost. You don’t seed in spring because there’s no way to get your turf seed to grow without also feeding weed seeds.

All of these tips are assuming you’re not in the transition zone (Brahma probably isn’t), and your turf is cool season and not warm season like Bermuda, centipede, zoysia, etc.

oh did i get my numbers mixed up? is it the second number is phosphorus?

10-20-30

so it'd be 20 we worry about for fall and 10 for spring?

Dandai · Oct 26, 2020

Lanx said:
oh did i get my numbers mixed up? is it the second number is phosphorus?

10-20-30

so it'd be 20 we worry about for fall and 10 for spring?

Technically, yes. I strongly recommend performing a soil test before throwing down anything but nitrogen. My lawn in NC was off the charts high in phosphorous but off the charts low in potassium. Nitrogen is very mobile and doesn’t stay in soil very long. You can easily damage turf with too much synthetic N but it’s almost impossible to damage turf with organic sources of N.

For cool season turf grasses the standard recommendation is 4lbs per 1,000 sq ft per year. Typical growth season is Mar-May and late Aug-Oct. You’ll be mowing your ass off throwing down that much N per year, but if you’ve got a patchy lawn and lots of weeds, you can choke them out and build up your soil health in just a couple seasons by pushing growth like that.

Erronius · Oct 26, 2020

This is the season for shredding the corpses you've built up over the previous year in your freeezers, and sowing the mulched flesh in your yard at night.

Especially when you get to Halloween, you can do it while decorating.

Intrinsic · Oct 26, 2020

Do we have a furniture / woodworking thread? I have a question.

We need a woodworking thread....

Dandai · Oct 26, 2020

Don’t think so. We get the odd woodworking question here but usually more like carpentry.

Erronius · Oct 26, 2020

Intrinsic said:
We need a woodworking thread....

Captain Suave · Oct 26, 2020

Intrinsic said:
Do we have a furniture / woodworking thread? I have a question.

We need a woodworking thread....

I'm game. Here's my last completed project:

Burren · Oct 30, 2020

Shower head just pulled away from the tile wall in one of our bathrooms. I don't know WTF is going on here, but it's not attached to the wall in any fashion inside. As far as I can see, it's literally just the pipe standing up in the wall and some bullshit silicone used to secure the ring to the tile. Who does that?

I can't get the other side of the wall opened up to add blocking because it's an exterior wall with brick. Do I just half-ass it like the prior owners?

Dandai · Oct 30, 2020

Burren said:
Who does that?

Do I just half-ass it like the prior owners?

I believe you answered your own question lol

Hopefully someone can offer some good advice. That looks like a good/permanent solution is going to be painful no matter what direction you choose to go.

BrutulTM · Oct 30, 2020

Burren said:
Shower head just pulled away from the tile wall in one of our bathrooms. I don't know WTF is going on here, but it's not attached to the wall in any fashion inside. As far as I can see, it's literally just the pipe standing up in the wall and some bullshit silicone used to secure the ring to the tile. Who does that?

I can't get the other side of the wall opened up to add blocking because it's an exterior wall with brick. Do I just half-ass it like the prior owners?

View attachment 313630

I don't really think that's all that unusual. The female fitting that your shower arm threads into (the pipe that goes through the wall) should be screwed to something, but if it's not accessible then some caulk might be your best option. It won't last forever but it might be preferable to tearing your wall apart.

Crone · Oct 30, 2020

Last piece of the kitchen remodel finished today and the gas meter was installed and turned on! First time gas cooking! Very excited to have this all done.

Dandai · Oct 31, 2020

Lanx said:
oh did i get my numbers mixed up? is it the second number is phosphorus?

10-20-30

so it'd be 20 we worry about for fall and 10 for spring?

I stand corrected. Apparently fertilizing just prior to winter is a thing. I just got this mailer from GCI Turf yesterday:

Fight · Nov 3, 2020

Burren said:
Shower head just pulled away from the tile wall in one of our bathrooms. I don't know WTF is going on here, but it's not attached to the wall in any fashion inside. As far as I can see, it's literally just the pipe standing up in the wall and some bullshit silicone used to secure the ring to the tile. Who does that?

I can't get the other side of the wall opened up to add blocking because it's an exterior wall with brick. Do I just half-ass it like the prior owners?

View attachment 313630

This is what you are missing. I have installed a couple of them when I replaced out tubs/shower stalls. They come standard with most new Shower Head/Faucet packages. Unless you are willing to take that piece of tile off, you are going to have to put it back and caulk around it, because a bracket like this needs to be screwed into a stud/back mount to give it any stability.

DP18-174556_NPC_HT_Install_A_RainShowerHead_SCI_1_3_2

Burren · Nov 3, 2020

Fight said:
This is what you are missing. I have installed a couple of them when I replaced out tubs/shower stalls. They come standard with most new Shower Head/Faucet packages. Unless you are willing to take that piece of tile off, you are going to have to put it back and caulk around it, because a bracket like this needs to be screwed into a stud/back mount to give it any stability.

Appreciate it, but those aren't really options unless I tear the tile out, which I'm not keen on doing at the moment. I haven't looked real hard behind the tile, but I'm hoping there is at least something I can use to secure the pipe to the wall, like a metal strap and a couple of screws.

Gator · Nov 4, 2020

If you have enough room to work with, that should work for a quick fix that no one will see. Or just use a pipe clamp

Lanx · Nov 4, 2020

this piece of shit from last year ripped right at the hose

now i gotta blow all the leaves into my backyard for now

Dandai · Nov 5, 2020

Lanx said:
this piece of shit from last year ripped right at the hose

now i gotta blow all the leaves into my backyard for now

Flex seal tape might allow it to work well enough if you can’t find a local replacement for the hose

Search

Home Improvement

Noodleface

A Mod Real Quick

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>

LachiusTZ

Rogue Deathwalker Box

Lanx

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>

Erronius

<WoW Guild Officer>

Intrinsic

Person of Whiteness

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>

Erronius

<WoW Guild Officer>

Captain Suave

Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.

Burren

Ahn'Qiraj Raider

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>

BrutulTM

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.

Crone

Bronze Baronet of the Realm

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>

Fight

Ahn'Qiraj Raider

Burren

Ahn'Qiraj Raider

Gator

Trakanon Raider

Lanx

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>