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Re: MONITOR SERIES 5 Jr
Fairly Serious Amplification driving these, so far as A/V Receivers go; (2001 PIONEER ELITE VSX-47TX)
Tasuke
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Re: MONITOR SERIES 5 Jr
Did i Say 100 percent? More like 1000%
the RD0s got laid over on through the weekend, thanks to USPS. they came in to my PO today,
and i couldn't pick them up and install them until this Afternoon;
Tasuke
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Re: Let's have a shootout.
Stock? Awe shoot....I'm out. Not much in my rig is. Love the thread though!!!
Tom
Tom
treitz3
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Re: Home Ownership And You!
So, the roof saga, I'll keep this short since I don't have any pictures.
So this started in June 2024. I started looking around for places that would finance me and I was figuring 35K since I needed to get two roofs repaired and replaced.
While I was doing that, I got a notice at the end of June that my homeowners policy was going to be dropped. They cited, literally, the ENTIRE list of reasons they use for doing so and basically said "It's one of these, so up yours, too bad, so sad, eff you very much! You have until August 24th to find new coverage and report it to us."
Wait, what? Report to you, the insurance company? Get real.
So I had all the insurance through that company and I got assigned to a new agent last year who I could not get to talk to me about anything for the past year. So I went and found new insurance, got a MASSIVE rate cut for better coverage too. So I moved EVERYTHING in one shot. When the old company asked for reasons for the cancellation, I read their BS statement about the level of risk that they were unwilling to assume. The next day, the agent who wouldn't talk to me for a year called me, furious about why I was leaving and if I had just called him he would have been able to help me out. I just laughed and hung up.
Anyway, it's now the week after the 4th of July and I have 5 different roofers I'm looking for quotes on.
One called me back right away, said he'd be out in a couple days and gave me an honest quote without crawling all over the house or flying drones or anything. Said it might change if we have a ton of repair work to do. Yep, fine, I'm expecting that
Another never called back.
A third gave me a super high estimate because he couldn't get a good view of the house from Google Maps....for real, not making that up. I told him I had a garage that needed a new roof too. He just tacked on $15K right then and there without questions or anything.
A fourth came, crawled all over everything for an hour, spent an hour trying to butter me up and then asked if I had any more quotes in the pipeline. I was honest and told him I have 4 more I was waiting on. So he threw out a number he thought was good and then I sent him on his merry way 2 hours later.
The 5th guy got my address and apparently parked across the street and flew a drone over the house and took pictures. Never even knocked on the door, never asked what was needing to be done, just came back with the highest quote for just the house and he did it via a text message. WTF?
Anyway, long story short, after 2 high pressure sales wonks, the no show and the non-contact shenanigans, I went with the first guy who ended up being the cheapest. Even after all the repairs.
New roof day, dumpster drops. A van shows up with all these Mexicans. They got to work at like 7am. Started tearing the old roof off and that was when we found an even older roof underneath. Dumpster 1 fills up in record time. It gets picked up and dumpster 2 gets dropped off. That's filled up by the end of the day and picked up the next morning. Dumpster 3 drops.
They get to the extension where the master bedroom is. Start pulling up shingles and both sides of the gable, the plywood is super soft and starts delaminating as soon as the nails are pulled. All the plywood on the extension is bad. Something like 8 sheets to repair it. They can't understand why. I know why. Captain Halfass vented the bathroom fan into the attic, not to the outside. That's moisture damage from Captain Halfass scrubbing his Halfass.
The other problem is where the extension gable meets the original roof? There is a 2 foot gap between the edge of the plywood and the valley on both sides of the valley across the entire stretch of the gable. The roof was held up with just tar paper and stapled shingles. You couldn't see the valley in the attic either because the original roof extended past the valley and obscured it.
The porch roof was the worst and the double layers of shingles had evidence of water runs everywhere. They replaced probably 85% of the plywood on the porch roof. We had the skylights pulled and covered up too and when they pulled those, one came up with the plywood that it was anchored to and the other one left it's flashing in place and separated completely from it. All because of the water damage from the double layer of shingles.
Thankfully no structure needed repairing. The garage roof had a couple holes punched in it from tree branches from Tree of Heaven that was behind it that we needed to get a harvester on a boom truck to reach over the garage and cut them down but it was straight forward.
Those dudes were here for 26 hours of work over 2 days fixing the Captain Halfassery. I felt so bad for them but they did a tremendous job! The original quotes ranged from $22.9K to $56.7K and we ended up going with the $22.9K quote because he was the only one who didn't jerk us around. We ended up needing $3700 in plywood and other lumber to repair water damage from Captain Halfassery and even at that, we were still in under the next closest quote by $900. For two roofs, too. 3800 square feet of roof. Even added ridge vents to code too. That was a deal I couldn't beat with a stick!
It is insane how hard it is to get anything done anymore, though and find help that isn't going to jerk you around and actually be honest about stuff.
The only issue we had in all of it was the miserable **** who picked up the 3rd dumpster scraped up the driveway because he drug it on to the truck instead of lifting it with the winch and track.
So this started in June 2024. I started looking around for places that would finance me and I was figuring 35K since I needed to get two roofs repaired and replaced.
While I was doing that, I got a notice at the end of June that my homeowners policy was going to be dropped. They cited, literally, the ENTIRE list of reasons they use for doing so and basically said "It's one of these, so up yours, too bad, so sad, eff you very much! You have until August 24th to find new coverage and report it to us."
Wait, what? Report to you, the insurance company? Get real.
So I had all the insurance through that company and I got assigned to a new agent last year who I could not get to talk to me about anything for the past year. So I went and found new insurance, got a MASSIVE rate cut for better coverage too. So I moved EVERYTHING in one shot. When the old company asked for reasons for the cancellation, I read their BS statement about the level of risk that they were unwilling to assume. The next day, the agent who wouldn't talk to me for a year called me, furious about why I was leaving and if I had just called him he would have been able to help me out. I just laughed and hung up.
Anyway, it's now the week after the 4th of July and I have 5 different roofers I'm looking for quotes on.
One called me back right away, said he'd be out in a couple days and gave me an honest quote without crawling all over the house or flying drones or anything. Said it might change if we have a ton of repair work to do. Yep, fine, I'm expecting that
Another never called back.
A third gave me a super high estimate because he couldn't get a good view of the house from Google Maps....for real, not making that up. I told him I had a garage that needed a new roof too. He just tacked on $15K right then and there without questions or anything.
A fourth came, crawled all over everything for an hour, spent an hour trying to butter me up and then asked if I had any more quotes in the pipeline. I was honest and told him I have 4 more I was waiting on. So he threw out a number he thought was good and then I sent him on his merry way 2 hours later.
The 5th guy got my address and apparently parked across the street and flew a drone over the house and took pictures. Never even knocked on the door, never asked what was needing to be done, just came back with the highest quote for just the house and he did it via a text message. WTF?
Anyway, long story short, after 2 high pressure sales wonks, the no show and the non-contact shenanigans, I went with the first guy who ended up being the cheapest. Even after all the repairs.
New roof day, dumpster drops. A van shows up with all these Mexicans. They got to work at like 7am. Started tearing the old roof off and that was when we found an even older roof underneath. Dumpster 1 fills up in record time. It gets picked up and dumpster 2 gets dropped off. That's filled up by the end of the day and picked up the next morning. Dumpster 3 drops.
They get to the extension where the master bedroom is. Start pulling up shingles and both sides of the gable, the plywood is super soft and starts delaminating as soon as the nails are pulled. All the plywood on the extension is bad. Something like 8 sheets to repair it. They can't understand why. I know why. Captain Halfass vented the bathroom fan into the attic, not to the outside. That's moisture damage from Captain Halfass scrubbing his Halfass.
The other problem is where the extension gable meets the original roof? There is a 2 foot gap between the edge of the plywood and the valley on both sides of the valley across the entire stretch of the gable. The roof was held up with just tar paper and stapled shingles. You couldn't see the valley in the attic either because the original roof extended past the valley and obscured it.
The porch roof was the worst and the double layers of shingles had evidence of water runs everywhere. They replaced probably 85% of the plywood on the porch roof. We had the skylights pulled and covered up too and when they pulled those, one came up with the plywood that it was anchored to and the other one left it's flashing in place and separated completely from it. All because of the water damage from the double layer of shingles.
Thankfully no structure needed repairing. The garage roof had a couple holes punched in it from tree branches from Tree of Heaven that was behind it that we needed to get a harvester on a boom truck to reach over the garage and cut them down but it was straight forward.
Those dudes were here for 26 hours of work over 2 days fixing the Captain Halfassery. I felt so bad for them but they did a tremendous job! The original quotes ranged from $22.9K to $56.7K and we ended up going with the $22.9K quote because he was the only one who didn't jerk us around. We ended up needing $3700 in plywood and other lumber to repair water damage from Captain Halfassery and even at that, we were still in under the next closest quote by $900. For two roofs, too. 3800 square feet of roof. Even added ridge vents to code too. That was a deal I couldn't beat with a stick!
It is insane how hard it is to get anything done anymore, though and find help that isn't going to jerk you around and actually be honest about stuff.
The only issue we had in all of it was the miserable **** who picked up the 3rd dumpster scraped up the driveway because he drug it on to the truck instead of lifting it with the winch and track.
Jstas
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
When car interiors had soul. Alvis and Facel Vega.
OleBoot
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
It's fairly easy to spot the little glitches in AI-generated images with a little practice. Someone kindly circled them in the following image to help you get started.
Re: Ferrari in Formula One...
mhardy6647
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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...
How you know you live in an Italian neighborhood.
tonyb
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