Things people don't talk about with homeownership

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tools are a must lol. lucky for me my best friend is a builder/mechanic.... and better yet a hoarder, so im tooled up!
For like 1 year straight I was at Harbor freight every weekend:wow:
I can demo this entire house with all the tools I’ve acquired now, or complete an engine swap (with a rented cherry picker) :blessed:

My dad is a lawyer so he was limited on passing down mechanical knowledge but YouTube university got your boys certs up to date
 

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This is old constuction/out in the country/boonies based but applies to new houses as well.

Avoid chimneys. All it does is add another point for leaks. The tar around the flashing is gonna crack long before you have to redo your roof and you're gonna walk past that bytch one day and see a water spot developing. Will cause wood rot in the areas surrounding it as well.

If you have trees in your yard and they're close to your house cut them shyts down before you start building or while they're small. All they're gonna lead to is you having to pick up a fukk ton of leaves and possibly causing roof moss to develop.

Avoid putting a hill drop off near your house. A hill is just going to be shyt tier for grass growing and if you get plenty of rain it's just going to cause erosion. The god damn gas line was starting to show due to rain washing away the dirt over the years.

Invest in a pressure washer. Not only is it good for cleaning outside of your house, if your kitchen drain pipe ever gets backed up you can use it to snake the pipe and clear the grease and other build up. Get as high a psi as you can afford.



Get plumber's tape and put those on all your water hoses, nozzles, and pressure washer connections. Will save you time with having to twist them shyts off and it gives your nozzle 360 degrees of motion so you don't have to mess with the hose. Speaking of hoses avoid them shyts that shrink and get you a commercial/contractor grade hose.

If you have vents on the gables of your house put mesh over them. Bats set up shop in our attic by flying in the vents.

fukk the Orkin man for anything other than termite inspection. Get you a backpack sprayer, go on domyown.com Buy a bag of Talstar grandules, and some Suspend SC or Tempo SC. They got videos to show you how to mix the shyt. Put the Suspend or Tempo in your backpack spray and 6-8 inches up the side of your house and 6-8 inches out from your house.

Once your mower gets old them batteries not gonna hold charge for shyt so buy yourself a BatteryMINDer 1510 to keep the battery charged during the cold months. You can use it for motorcycles, car batteries, or anything else. Also do not jump start your mower battery. You can fukk up the stator and cause the mower to not hold charge at all. Replacing that bytch is a chore as well.

You nikkas 6 cert 6 figure nikkas probably won't bother with this but buy an air compressor and a tire repair kit. Obviously you can just take it to a tire shop and have them pull the nail/screw but it's a great option to save you some shillings and keep your tires air pressure topped off.
Green tire slime is a good option for lawn mower tires if they get slack on you.

Obviously you need to research to see if it fits your shyt but if your dryer is not coming it's most likely the door switch that's broken. on or cutting off before your clothes are completely dry you can buy a cheap ass kit like this and fix it yourself.



Buy one of those big bottles of hand soap for toilet clogs so you don't have fukk around with a stankin ass plunger. Poor the hand soap in the toilet let it settle for like 30 seconds or so and flush. Should clear the clog on the first try. If not do it again.

Electrical is not DIY. Get a professional to do it. Unless it's some super basic damn near fool proof shyt like a light bulb, light switch, programming a garage door opener remote, or a dryer, be on the safe side and don't fukk with it.

If your not handy just get one of those home warranties. They cover appliance and other crap.

They are a waste of money for me. Too easy to download the service manual for appliances and order the parts online.
 

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This is old constuction/out in the country/boonies based but applies to new houses as well.

Avoid chimneys. All it does is add another point for leaks. The tar around the flashing is gonna crack long before you have to redo your roof and you're gonna walk past that bytch one day and see a water spot developing. Will cause wood rot in the areas surrounding it as well.

If you have trees in your yard and they're close to your house cut them shyts down before you start building or while they're small. All they're gonna lead to is you having to pick up a fukk ton of leaves and possibly causing roof moss to develop.

Avoid putting a hill drop off near your house. A hill is just going to be shyt tier for grass growing and if you get plenty of rain it's just going to cause erosion. The god damn gas line was starting to show due to rain washing away the dirt over the years.

Invest in a pressure washer. Not only is it good for cleaning outside of your house, if your kitchen drain pipe ever gets backed up you can use it to snake the pipe and clear the grease and other build up. Get as high a psi as you can afford.



Get plumber's tape and put those on all your water hoses, nozzles, and pressure washer connections. Will save you time with having to twist them shyts off and it gives your nozzle 360 degrees of motion so you don't have to mess with the hose. Speaking of hoses avoid them shyts that shrink and get you a commercial/contractor grade hose.

If you have vents on the gables of your house put mesh over them. Bats set up shop in our attic by flying in the vents.

fukk the Orkin man for anything other than termite inspection. Get you a backpack sprayer, go on domyown.com Buy a bag of Talstar grandules, and some Suspend SC or Tempo SC. They got videos to show you how to mix the shyt. Put the Suspend or Tempo in your backpack spray and 6-8 inches up the side of your house and 6-8 inches out from your house.

Once your mower gets old them batteries not gonna hold charge for shyt so buy yourself a BatteryMINDer 1510 to keep the battery charged during the cold months. You can use it for motorcycles, car batteries, or anything else. Also do not jump start your mower battery. You can fukk up the stator and cause the mower to not hold charge at all. Replacing that bytch is a chore as well.

You nikkas 6 cert 6 figure nikkas probably won't bother with this but buy an air compressor and a tire repair kit. Obviously you can just take it to a tire shop and have them pull the nail/screw but it's a great option to save you some shillings and keep your tires air pressure topped off.
Green tire slime is a good option for lawn mower tires if they get slack on you.

Obviously you need to research to see if it fits your shyt but if your dryer is not coming it's most likely the door switch that's broken. on or cutting off before your clothes are completely dry you can buy a cheap ass kit like this and fix it yourself.



Buy one of those big bottles of hand soap for toilet clogs so you don't have fukk around with a stankin ass plunger. Poor the hand soap in the toilet let it settle for like 30 seconds or so and flush. Should clear the clog on the first try. If not do it again.

Electrical is not DIY. Get a professional to do it. Unless it's some super basic damn near fool proof shyt like a light bulb, light switch, programming a garage door opener remote, or a dryer, be on the safe side and don't fukk with it.



Great post!!
 

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This is old constuction/out in the country/boonies based but applies to new houses as well.

Avoid chimneys. All it does is add another point for leaks. The tar around the flashing is gonna crack long before you have to redo your roof and you're gonna walk past that bytch one day and see a water spot developing. Will cause wood rot in the areas surrounding it as well.

If you have trees in your yard and they're close to your house cut them shyts down before you start building or while they're small. All they're gonna lead to is you having to pick up a fukk ton of leaves and possibly causing roof moss to develop.

Avoid putting a hill drop off near your house. A hill is just going to be shyt tier for grass growing and if you get plenty of rain it's just going to cause erosion. The god damn gas line was starting to show due to rain washing away the dirt over the years.

Invest in a pressure washer. Not only is it good for cleaning outside of your house, if your kitchen drain pipe ever gets backed up you can use it to snake the pipe and clear the grease and other build up. Get as high a psi as you can afford.



Get plumber's tape and put those on all your water hoses, nozzles, and pressure washer connections. Will save you time with having to twist them shyts off and it gives your nozzle 360 degrees of motion so you don't have to mess with the hose. Speaking of hoses avoid them shyts that shrink and get you a commercial/contractor grade hose.

If you have vents on the gables of your house put mesh over them. Bats set up shop in our attic by flying in the vents.

fukk the Orkin man for anything other than termite inspection. Get you a backpack sprayer, go on domyown.com Buy a bag of Talstar grandules, and some Suspend SC or Tempo SC. They got videos to show you how to mix the shyt. Put the Suspend or Tempo in your backpack spray and 6-8 inches up the side of your house and 6-8 inches out from your house.

Once your mower gets old them batteries not gonna hold charge for shyt so buy yourself a BatteryMINDer 1510 to keep the battery charged during the cold months. You can use it for motorcycles, car batteries, or anything else. Also do not jump start your mower battery. You can fukk up the stator and cause the mower to not hold charge at all. Replacing that bytch is a chore as well.

You nikkas 6 cert 6 figure nikkas probably won't bother with this but buy an air compressor and a tire repair kit. Obviously you can just take it to a tire shop and have them pull the nail/screw but it's a great option to save you some shillings and keep your tires air pressure topped off.
Green tire slime is a good option for lawn mower tires if they get slack on you.

Obviously you need to research to see if it fits your shyt but if your dryer is not coming it's most likely the door switch that's broken. on or cutting off before your clothes are completely dry you can buy a cheap ass kit like this and fix it yourself.



Buy one of those big bottles of hand soap for toilet clogs so you don't have fukk around with a stankin ass plunger. Poor the hand soap in the toilet let it settle for like 30 seconds or so and flush. Should clear the clog on the first try. If not do it again.

Electrical is not DIY. Get a professional to do it. Unless it's some super basic damn near fool proof shyt like a light bulb, light switch, programming a garage door opener remote, or a dryer, be on the safe side and don't fukk with it.

I appreciate the feedback fam. Good looking out!
 

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I'm in the middle of replacing 18 windows

bro windows are so fukkin expensive right now. They were trying to put me on a monthly payment plan for 9 windows. I just put it off for another year:francis:

Avoid chimneys

Breh the chimney is sealed off but I still have to clean that chute in the basement. Every year I think ima pull out a squirrel skeleton or some shyt. :scust:
 

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Yea a chick I work with was so desperate to get a house she didn’t read the fine print and her mortgage goes up like every or something until it’s paid off.
Increase in taxes would make your mortgage go up regardless if you have a fixed rate or not tho
 

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Projects on top of projects on top of projects. I did some renovations last week as well that was like $3K still need roofing and new paint job smh. I can go on and on new fence that’s not even 5 years old. You can cheap out on some things but it’s not recommended I’ve had some shytty renovations that needed fixing again I’m out this thread I don’t want to think about it anymore lol
 
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