The Home Improvement Thread. Successes and Failures

[St. Clown]

****ing quack grass. I don’t want to use round up so I need to dig it all out. 12 inches out from any, and six inches deep needs to be removed.

I don’t need to call 811 for that depth, do I? What would be buried less than 6 inches? Cable and telecom are above ground because that’s just the dumb ****ing way this part of Edina is

If it your wired services - electric, etc. are all coming in from a pole, then you just have water and gas. Those should both be about 18” below ground when initial rough grade of your lot was set. Final grade would adjust both of those by a few inches either way, so a 6” dig should be safe. That said, look at where your gas meter is, and assume a relatively straight line to the street. You’d have to do a similar process for water and sewer, but trace them from their entry/exit to/from your house within your basement.

[Kepler]

> quack grass

TIL. Apparently you can eat it during famine, so let it grow. Lawns are so Boomer.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

****ing quack grass. I don’t want to use round up so I need to dig it all out. 12 inches out from any, and six inches deep needs to be removed.

I don’t need to call 811 for that depth, do I? What would be buried less than 6 inches? Cable and telecom are above ground because that’s just the dumb ****ing way this part of Edina is

[joecct]

Well foamed the coils and they were a "tad" dirty. When I rinsed them with water, the runoff was just a bit brown.

Will do another in the fall which will include a vacuum of the inside (it felt like 100+ outside today) when things get cooler.

[St. Clown]

This question does not fit this thread exactly, but here goes.

My laptop curser is misbehaving, both with the touchscreen and bluetooth mouse. burd is confused and thinking more and more about kicking the dog. This dog would kick my arse if I tried that, so help a guy out.

How full is your hard drive? If it’s ~90% filled, then you start seeing some bad behavior. Just adding to the list to check.