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Old 08-27-2016, 05:12 PM   #1301
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Getting two trees down today

One 30" 90' tall oak which is too close to my house for my comfort and one 20" oak which keeps raining acorns on my car. I hate to cut down trees, but I'm sure I'll appreciate it when hurricane season starts. We had 5 big ones come down in the neighborhood In the last few months. Piece of mind and all that.
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Old 08-27-2016, 05:16 PM   #1302
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Getting two trees down today

One 30" 90' tall oak which is too close to my house for my comfort and one 20" oak which keeps raining acorns on my car. I hate to cut down trees, but I'm sure I'll appreciate it when hurricane season starts. We had 5 big ones come down in the neighborhood In the last few months. Piece of mind and all that.
If you don't mind the asking, but what kind of $$ are you talking? I have similar trees I need to down.
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Old 08-27-2016, 05:34 PM   #1303
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Hope you enjoy the higher heating/cooling costs.

I welcome trees falling on my house. Insurance will pay well beyond what is needed to make it right again.

Seriously though, the chances of it falling are slim.
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Old 08-27-2016, 05:40 PM   #1304
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Insurance may pay for it, but you don't want to play that game. I'm with you, depending on the tree - if it's obviously in poor health, it's a mistake not to get it taken down. Insurance may also not cover you if it's an obviously dying tree that falls.

If it does fall, it's probably going to be in a severe storm. The last point in time you want a large hole being ripped in your house (which is already a pretty strong never) is in the middle of one of the worst storms your area sees.

Critters also love to climb them to get at your roof/attic/gutters and wreck havoc.

Trees are great, but they shouldn't be right on top of your house, energy/shading reasons aside.

Sauce: I've had 2 trees fall in the time I've owned homes, one fortunately fell short of the house by about 10 ft, the other wiped out a big section of fence. I removed one when I got to this house that was dying over my garage, and had 3 cut back significantly away from the house that are still healthy. All 3 are planted way too close, and I wish I could go back in time and tell the people who first did it to move them 10-15 ft away.
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Old 08-27-2016, 05:51 PM   #1305
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On another note, I got an ecobee3 to install on Friday to try to get better control of cooling for upstairs and dehumidifying. Humidity in the house has been hovering between 70-75%, and I'm hoping the overcooling / extended cool functionality will help fight it. It's been able to pull it down to 65% or so running part of the day yesterday.

Unfortunately, I got fed up with mounting. The ecobee mounting plate does vertical holes, which is a pretty bad design flaw for any houses in cities like Chicago where conduit is required for everything. Can't install a bottom anchor through the drywall because the wiring conduit is behind it. That aside, the drywall there over 40 years of thermostat/etc replacements was mostly plaster and hopes, so I ended up drilling a new clean hole a couple inches to the left of the old one, rerouting the wiring, and re-patching the whole mess.

The old - complete with comical note the previous owner had.

The half-way done


You can only kind of see how big the original hole was after two rounds of filling there where it's darker and wet still.

It's all filled and sanded now, crossing my fingers at my first attempt at wall painting in over a decade.
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Old 08-27-2016, 05:54 PM   #1306
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My last two houses had huge trees like this. Cost to get them removed is about $100 per inch diameter. So a 20" tree is about $2k. I'm sure it's less in some parts of the country. Some guys are twice that (with an office and overhead), some guys are half that (rednecks with chainsaws). These two were $2800 without stump grinding and I had them leave the smaller one for firewood.

Insurance will not cover if it you were negligent in caring for it. These two were healthy, but I'd rather not have them fall on my bed and kill me. Even if i survived and insurance covered me, it's not worth the hassle. Seriously, it was 15' from my bed. It's just a cost of living in the woods.

It's on the north side of the house, so no heating/cooling impact. I'm still in the shade.
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Old 08-27-2016, 06:02 PM   #1307
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Ho-ree crap that's expensive. Cost me $650 here to have a 22" tree (dying/dead) taken down by a full bonded/insured company with a 4 person crew and bucket truck.

There were a couple guys who were willing to do chainsaw/climbing style for $400, but was worried about the garage (and the neighbor's, as it was between us and less than 10ft from either)
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Old 08-27-2016, 06:08 PM   #1308
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If you don't mind the asking, but what kind of $$ are you talking? I have similar trees I need to down.
just had this one taken down. didnt measure the trunk, but the stump in the foreground is 60", and that saw has an 18" bar on it. got a few estimates and the average was $1,500 with me keeping anything they couldnt run through their chipper (8" is the smallest limb piece they left behind). to have them haul off every piece of wood would have been another $800+.

still working on stump grinding quotes, but i have one guy willing to do an 8' circle for $200 and i doubt ill find anyone cheaper.



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Old 08-27-2016, 06:10 PM   #1309
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Welcome to Northern Virginia. "****s expensive" should be on our license plate. Honestly, it's a good price for around here
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Old 08-27-2016, 06:59 PM   #1310
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This MFer



Hate to do it. Nice tree.
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Old 08-27-2016, 07:01 PM   #1311
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Hate to do it. Nice tree.
virginia.....
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dare i ask?
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Old 08-29-2016, 11:23 AM   #1312
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Perks of my father in law managing a tree company, they are coming out to remove 5 or 6 trees and in exchange I'll go split firewood with them for a day.

On another note, I have a mystery to be solved. I'm getting ready to epoxy my garage. There are stairs leading to the basement from the garage. I have noticed water seepage in the corners of the bottom landing. I decided I would use some of the repair compound I have to fill in and seal the corners. Well I went to go remove the old floor paint that the previous owners had put down and I found something very odd. Under the floor paint was about 1/2 inch or more of a compact white powder. Most of it was wet from the water. Under that, perfectly good concrete. What in the hell is this stuff?









It goes 3 or 4 inches below the concrete in some places. It comes up easily enough with a chisel but I got tired of that and got my chipping hammer out. I have no idea what it is or why it's there, it's especially odd that they painted right over it. Any ideas would be awesome. (it's not cocaine)
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Old 08-29-2016, 11:28 AM   #1313
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Old float?

I have no idea.
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Old 08-29-2016, 11:32 AM   #1314
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Perks of my father in law managing a tree company, they are coming out to remove 5 or 6 trees and in exchange I'll go split firewood with them for a day.

On another note, I have a mystery to be solved. I'm getting ready to epoxy my garage. There are stairs leading to the basement from the garage. I have noticed water seepage in the corners of the bottom landing. I decided I would use some of the repair compound I have to fill in and seal the corners. Well I went to go remove the old floor paint that the previous owners had put down and I found something very odd. Under the floor paint was about 1/2 inch or more of a compact white powder. Most of it was wet from the water. Under that, perfectly good concrete. What in the hell is this stuff?

It goes 3 or 4 inches below the concrete in some places. It comes up easily enough with a chisel but I got tired of that and got my chipping hammer out. I have no idea what it is or why it's there, it's especially odd that they painted right over it. Any ideas would be awesome. (it's not cocaine)
Did you snort it?
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If water has been seeping there for a long time, I would guess: http://www.basementquestions.com/efflorescenc.php
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Old 08-29-2016, 11:47 AM   #1316
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Looks like it was a leveling compound.
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Old 08-29-2016, 11:53 AM   #1317
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virginia.....
noose in the tree.....

dare i ask?
...says the guy from Milwaukee.
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Old 08-29-2016, 12:19 PM   #1318
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It's all filled and sanded now, crossing my fingers at my first attempt at wall painting in over a decade.
Texturing didn't match up quite as I would've hoped - first time I've ever used latex paint, it's a bit of a pain for that, but final result wasn't too bad.

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Did you snort it?
Let's just say I confirmed what it isn't.

I just got done using an angle grinder and wire wheel to clean off what was left. That made one hell of a mess. I can't really get into the corners very well so I'm just going to clean it as best as I can and then throw the epoxy repair compound on it and hope for the best.
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I want to wire up my 5hp 240v single phase compressor. My old house i used the water heater breaker that i wasnt using.


This house i dont have that luxury. I have 2 open spots in the panel but they are across from each other. Will it work? Could i possibly move something around in the box to get 2 that are next to each other?

I'm leaning towards hiring an electrician but not opposed to doing the work myself. Panels kinda scare me though.
easy, go pick up a few 15amp doubles and replace a bunch of the singles to free up some room for a 220v breaker
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Getting two trees down today

One 30" 90' tall oak which is too close to my house for my comfort and one 20" oak which keeps raining acorns on my car. I hate to cut down trees, but I'm sure I'll appreciate it when hurricane season starts. We had 5 big ones come down in the neighborhood In the last few months. Piece of mind and all that.
I feel you. I hate to modify / cut down trees but it has to happen unfortunately. I had some 3-4 trees trimmed way back that were hanging over and on the garage. One very large maple with a tree fork, approximately 36" in diameter sitting 20' from the house is showing signs of the fork growing apart and I probably should have it evaluated or removed. One of the pines on the south property line is growing up into the power line coming off the pole and into our house. I need to call the utility company about that one.
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easy, go pick up a few 15amp doubles and replace a bunch of the singles to free up some room for a 220v breaker
See post #1299
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Old 08-29-2016, 01:17 PM   #1323
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Texturing didn't match up quite as I would've hoped - first time I've ever used latex paint, it's a bit of a pain for that, but final result wasn't too bad.

looks pretty good to me. I find that typically you're the only one who ever notices the imperfections in your drywall work.
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Old 08-29-2016, 01:21 PM   #1324
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Yeah, my wife even said the same thing, who is super OCD. In a better photo you can see a lot of texture there, but I think 99.9% of the time even I won't pay attention once I move away from the job.

The ecobee3 is doing a wonderful job at solving all the weird climate issues I had. It works really well for our odd upper floor HVAC requirements. Through a few minor settings tweaks they provide I was able to get the temperature delta from 74 at the tstat and 78 in the master down to 74 at the tstat and 75 in the master. Also able to get the humidity down from 70-75% to 60-63%. Big improvement overall with just some simple smart options that normal thermostats should probably have.
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Yeah, my wife even said the same thing, who is super OCD. In a better photo you can see a lot of texture there, but I think 99.9% of the time even I won't pay attention once I move away from the job.

The ecobee3 is doing a wonderful job at solving all the weird climate issues I had. It works really well for our odd upper floor HVAC requirements. Through a few minor settings tweaks they provide I was able to get the temperature delta from 74 at the tstat and 78 in the master down to 74 at the tstat and 75 in the master. Also able to get the humidity down from 70-75% to 60-63%. Big improvement overall with just some simple smart options that normal thermostats should probably have.
But does it help you set goals and watch sunsets?
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