w_howey
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kid4lyf said:
Isn't Rex actually an Indiana boy??? Bloomington IIRC.
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Isn't Rex actually an Indiana boy??? Bloomington IIRC.
Roxtar
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Well, he IS doing his best to make me a Colts fan.w_howey said:
BRIANHO13
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- Spring, TX
Live from Reading, PA. This part of the country is pretty.
Pat
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- Bloomington, IN
w_howey said:
yep, he's a btowner.
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- Southwest IN
Ah, the joys of home ownership. Our A/C unit took a dump last night; apparently the capacitor blew, taking the compressor motor with it. Cost to repair was only $200 shy of a new unit, sooo we're having a new one installed tomorrow to replace the ancient one that died.
Total cost:
$60 for the service call
$1200 for the new unit/labor
$70 for a hotel since the wife/kids don't want to sleep in a house that is 90* (Super 8 in Vincennes has free Wifi
)
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$1330 blown in one day on non-Jeep related stuff
Good thing we had some savings tucked away for such an occasion.
Total cost:
$60 for the service call
$1200 for the new unit/labor
$70 for a hotel since the wife/kids don't want to sleep in a house that is 90* (Super 8 in Vincennes has free Wifi
)------
$1330 blown in one day on non-Jeep related stuff
Good thing we had some savings tucked away for such an occasion.
RedHeep
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- Landenberg, PA
TellicoReadyXJ said:Ah, the joys of home ownership. Our A/C unit took a dump last night; apparently the capacitor blew, taking the compressor motor with it. Cost to repair was only $200 shy of a new unit, sooo we're having a new one installed tomorrow to replace the ancient one that died.
Total cost:
$60 for the service call
$1200 for the new unit/labor
$70 for a hotel since the wife/kids don't want to sleep in a house that is 90* (Super 8 in Vincennes has free Wifi
------
$1330 blown in one day on non-Jeep related stuff
Good thing we had some savings tucked away for such an occasion.
Did you oversize the unit for the space?
Makes a big difference in the electric bill.
Roxtar
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- NW Indiana-Chicago area
$1330?TellicoReadyXJ said:Ah, the joys of home ownership. Our A/C unit took a dump last night; apparently the capacitor blew, taking the compressor motor with it. Cost to repair was only $200 shy of a new unit, sooo we're having a new one installed tomorrow to replace the ancient one that died.
Total cost:
$60 for the service call
$1200 for the new unit/labor
$70 for a hotel since the wife/kids don't want to sleep in a house that is 90* (Super 8 in Vincennes has free Wifi
------
$1330 blown in one day on non-Jeep related stuff
Good thing we had some savings tucked away for such an occasion.
Meh
Wait till the real joys of home ownership come.
So far this year:
$21,000 for a new roof.
$1500 for new fence around pool.
Add over $5000 in auto repairs, $3700 in new computers for kids, and that's just getting them to the front doors of Indiana and Boston Universities.
Anyone still wondering why the Jeep is for sale?
Roxtar
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- NW Indiana-Chicago area
3200' ranch = big footprint.kunaji said:
Large flat roof sections = rubber.
Lots of sq ft + rubber roof = $$$
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- Southwest IN
kunaji said:
Metal roofing is the rage down here. When we were looking for a house, we saw at least two with the metal roof; one had been hit pretty hard by the hailstorm the previous year. I'm not sure I would want that sound every time it rained. Looked nice though (the undamaged one
)
HaleYes
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TellicoReadyXJ said:Metal roofing is the rage down here. When we were looking for a house, we saw at least two with the metal roof; one had been hit pretty hard by the hailstorm the previous year. I'm not sure I would want that sound every time it rained. Looked nice though (the undamaged one
You don't hear it unless you have the windows open. Our rent house had a metal roof. If we build, it's getting a metal roof.
Hale
XJ&CHZ4ME
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Metal roofs are the rage around my neck of the woods too. They are very popular b/c he have a large Amish community around one of the local towns and that seems to be their bag. Hell, we even have quite a few of these Morton Building houses going up across the country side. I was in one a few weeks back and it is finished off inside nicer then most luxary homes. This place is what I would call the "sleep car" of homes...looks like a machine shed on the outside, luxary inside...what ever floats your boat I guess. A lot of these out of state hunters and landowners are putting up the same style of buildings on their property b/c it is cheaper then buying anew RV and having to pull it back and forth. What ever happend to roughing it when out hunting??? Even hunting has become an sport that is dominated by the wealthy....BUT NOT ON MY FARM!!!
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- Coshocton, OH
I have that problem too:greensmokkid4lyf said:
Rev Den
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kunaji said:
I would rather PAY to have mine done. Hard work is for the young.
Rev
Rev Den said:
Fortunately I'm young still and actually enjoy the labor, to an extent. I've done my fair share of roofs and I know that the majority of the cost for your roof is labor. I've made $1500 cash doing two roofs in a week. That was my share and I wasn't even getting half of the profit. Maybe it's because I'm on the shallow end of the money pool. It takes me alot less time to just do it than to get the money to pay someone else to do it for me.
Rev Den
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- Plainfield, IL
Yup....when I was your age (yes...I really was) I used to choose, and most of the time it was not a choice, to do it myself.
Glad those days are over.
Rev
Glad those days are over.
Rev
Prepmech
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XJ&TJ4ME said:
I used to have one of those before I got married. It worked out great for me working on the road. I would pull my truck into my living room to work on it, it was heated and air conditioned. I changed my oil and did my laundry at the same time in the same room, wearing only my underwear. I miss that place.
Ramsey
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- Shreveport, LA
That sounds really nice actually.
HaleYes
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- Clay County, IL
What? Travis in his underware?
:gag:
:gag:
Ramsey
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- Shreveport, LA
maybe...as long as he changes my oil and does my laundry
