I own an old house in an affluent town in Greater Boston. I am with you 100%.
That said, my roof has European pitch, for which I'm very grateful.
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That said, my roof has European pitch, for which I'm very grateful.
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And I'm not changing it. See other post above. In addition to normal county in california bullshit, we have all kinds of other dumb shit regulations specific to lake tahoe. In typical liberal fashion, this entire region is set up to only serve millionaires and billionaires now. I don't own the house but my partner does. You have to have licensed contractors do anything and contractors for the poors don't exist anymore. The county has patrol cars looking for people doing unpermitted work every fall when everyone skirts them
1. have you updated your pros & cons check list of living in Tahoe, even if only mentally, lately?
2. have you tried to find other locations to live that meet your must-have needs?
In other words, have you considered moving?
It took us nearly 10 years and we literally had spreadsheets with questionnaires, weighted blind scoring, etc to find a place to move to. I got to know enoug about oregon land use, zoning and permitting that I seriously considered hiring my services out.
Got adequate ventilation and insulation in the attic?so let me tell you what would be involved in updating the very badly outdated electrical in this house, needed to run heating strips.........................
Unfortunately, if heating cables aren't feasible, most of the solutions at this point outside of an insurance fire are going to be expensive...
constantly.....
I've looked into jobs in Bellingham (shit boss), Helena (shit work conditions), Lander, WY (too long to list), and now looking pretty seriously at Klamath Falls.
I had one foot out the door on a few of those but I couldn't get the other half onboard. When the pandemic hit, I almost just packed my bags and moved out solo. But a funny thing happened....all our dumbshit upper management realized we started meeting all our publication dates as soon as we started working from home, something that never happened previously.
So I have skiing/snowmobiling/biking/dirtbiking literally right out of my front door, and an employer that finally after about 15 years of saying no, finally respected our requests to work from home when weather and tourists make shit impossible. For a hermit that hates people, that has some value. For all my bitching, those are some heavy columns to offset. The impending fire doom finally got my partner on board. We're going somewhere but nowhere we want to live has houses we can afford. We caught the very end of the last even remotely affordable wave of tahoe housing prices. Now everywhere else is just as expensive and neither one of us is exactly getting raises ever. I love the little micro-community I live in though. It really is the last cohesive working class neighborhood in north tahoe. People look out for each other.
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there was not an insignificant part of our mindset during the caldor and mosquito fires that were pointed right at us that was chanting "bring it yo"
So about that roofing contractor, did he offer you a warranty?
If not, got a few ideas you won't like.
You have to find the entrance point. By now your insulation is all wet and needs to be taken out. I'm assuming flat roof so no attic. Ceiling will need to be open at some point. You might not be able to see were the water comes in from outside.
Whilst not to the level that woo is currently dealing with I just discovered a structural crack in our house that's leaking water through a 10" thick concrete slab that forms our deck above the garage and the garage ceiling.
I hate to even think about what would be required to fix it. I'd like to sell our house in July last year now please.
I guess time to somehow find a structural engineer who'll come out for an assessment?
I hate to even think about what would be required to fix it. I'd like to sell our house in July last year now please.
I guess time to somehow find a structural engineer who'll come out for an assessment?
I said July last year as that's about when prices peaked. Even without this we occasionally discuss where to move to avoid running out of water and burning down.
@Toshi is that someone you've used?
You should consider NYC. I could surf, ski and mountain bike all in one day if I put a little fucking effort in. Plus today I saw some dudes riding motos in a little patch of dirt in between JFK Expressway and the Belt Parkway. And have you heard about the pizza? You'd never have to leave.
I mean... I considered it in the morning when the lifts opened and the shitshow was in full effect:
I don't know how you tolerate that shit.
backed up 9 miles from the entrance to squaw/palisades and 6 miles from northstar yesterday
he's the dude coming up to the house for my deck folly
so he'd definitely trek out to you
make sure he has a good gps track of the driveway
fam hike in the "grand canyon of the east coast" to see the annual daffodil fields blooming. steep trail is steep-drops 1500' in one mile.
view on the way down ain't bad...
view on the way down ain't bad...
Can you camp in the daffodil fields ?fam hike in the "grand canyon of the east coast" to see the annual daffodil fields blooming. steep trail is steep-drops 1500' in one mile.
view on the way down ain't bad...
probably hammock. think you need a permit. pretty sure there are some sites right by the river there
whoa that's not the same thing as this?fam hike in the "grand canyon of the east coast" to see the annual daffodil fields blooming. steep trail is steep-drops 1500' in one mile.
view on the way down ain't bad...
I could barely tell the difference!
BEHOLD, THE NYC PIZZA OF THE WEST!!!
A friend texted me yesterday about hiking in the gorge. Seen video of the fields in bloom. Purty.
It's been a few decades since I was a roof monkey so not sure where the industry has gone but I would go with a rubberized membrane instead of tar paper for a house in a location with a lot of snow. At least use it in any valleys or lower on the roof where ice dams can occur.
The roof on my house in Virginia started leaking badly all of a sudden. When I went into the attic to locate the leak there was a small hole with daylight shining through. Pretty sure it was a bullet hole. Pew pew pew pew, 'Merica!
yeah man hindsight.....
I can promise that roof will have a different composition come september
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Got the E4. Still a ridiculous (embarrassing to be frank) price to pay for a kitchen appliance, but I love it. There are days in the winter when it is the only reason I get out of bed in the morning. Haha!
If you are serious about never dealing with this BS again go metalyeah man hindsight.....
I can promise that roof will be have a different composition come september
flashing will existIf you are serious about never dealing with this BS again go metal
My Breville has been going strong for 3 years. There were a few times when I thought something was wrong and it wasn't building pressure but I just learned that some beans require significantly differing grinds/tamps than others.
y u no get implied sarcasm of quotation marks? next thing you know i'll be saying the 4000' blue ridge mountains are "the rockies of the east"!
Please do
It will get all the denver yeti riding fucks out of the colorado mountains so the rest of us can quit asking "mind if I squeeze by" to all the sphincter puckerers.
You can frame it as 'orginal artisan appalachia'
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/me would like a standing seam metal roof for teh mountainsIf you are serious about never dealing with this BS again go metal
It is every bit as loud as you think it’ll be. That is first person experience speaking…fyi. I love our ss roof, but it makes a drizzle sound like a deluge.