what did you do around the house today?

[rx7boi]

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My eavestroughs look full of gunk and the downspout is clogged on my garage. Should I attempt to unclog on own or hire pros?

Are you in the NW near Sage Hill? If so, come by my place and you can borrow my pressure washer.

[dj_rice]

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Are you in the NW near Sage Hill? If so, come by my place and you can borrow my pressure washer.

Thanks for offer. I'm in Edmonton. Much appreciated. I do have a pressure washer. And a ladder. But I'm a big guy, joints hurt. It looks pretty gunked up thick with mud and debris from years of previous owner and me. Dunno if pressure washer would do anything, probably needs me to get up there and scoop out.

I gotta replace my roofing soon, lol maybe i'll pay them to do some gutter clean up since they up there ha

[88CRX]

Clogged gutters and downspouts should be fixed immediately. Pushing your luck with potential leaks into the attic/house.

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Finally got photobucket to work.

What I’ve been tackling at the lake property.


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90% done

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That’s a sweet little shack!

[ExtraSlow]

Even if you can't do a full clean, get up on the ladder at the top of the downspout and use your hands to scoop out as much as possible, then see if you can get that downspout flowing. You can leave the rest for later, but you want the downspout working.

Sorta off topic, but I think we should start designing buildings without eavestroughs and just let water drip off into a gravel bed around the perimeter. Seems way better.

[dj_rice]

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Clogged gutters and downspouts should be fixed immediately. Pushing your luck with potential leaks into the attic/house.

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That’s a sweet little shack!

Where its clogged it the downspot on my attached garage. Its a 2 story front attached home. Hasn't leaked in my garage yet and its been this way for awhile. But yes I'll man up and do it, just have fears of falling off the roof or ladder. LOL was gonna use the plumbing snake and see if that helps.


Thanks for all the suggestions all

[Brent.ff]

I dug all of half a post hole for my deck before asking myself why im not renting an auger... Auger rental tonight

[Tik-Tok]

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I dug all of half a post hole for my deck before asking myself why im not renting an auger... Auger rental tonight

Post holes is the one thing I refuse to DIY. Last I checked, you can get a guy in with a mini-Cat to get them done at $10 a hole. WELL WORTH IT.

[88CRX]

The hand held auger still sucks when you start hitting rocks. If there is anyway to get a mini-cat in there do it and pay whatever price they want.

We did 100% everything in our yard except dig fence/deck holes. Fuck that shit. We ended up having to shift a hole over by 6-8" because the bobcat missed the spot and it must have taken us 4 hours to widen the hole.

[Brent.ff]

It's only 4 holes, so not enough to bring a cat in for as they all have minimum charges of around $200, and fenced in so hard to get a cat itself in

maybe i should just rent this thing

https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/too...lic.08823.html

[raceman6135]

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It looks pretty gunked up thick with mud and debris from years of previous owner and me. Dunno if pressure washer would do anything, probably needs me to get up there and scoop out.

I'm also not a fan of ladders, so I rigged up my own gutter cleaner apparatus from 2" ABS and a couple of elbows. It attaches to the 2-inch hose on my Wet-n-Dry Shop Vac (because I knew there would be wet leaves and mud and gunk in the gutters), but I did have to use my heat gun to stretch the vacuum end of the ABS to fit snuggly onto the Shop Vac hose.

Our two-storey house required about 20 feet of ABS, so with the fittings and pipe, I have about $50 invested, and I can use it as often as I want and it should last for years.

This won't help if the clog is in your downspout, though.

EDIT: ugh, I can't seem to attach the image of my gutter cleaner, but I found an online image that's similar (courtesy of Instructables https://www.instructables.com/id/Hom...ter-Cleaner/):

[roopi]

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I dug all of half a post hole for my deck before asking myself why im not renting an auger... Auger rental tonight

Rent yourself the concrete mixer as well when you go to pour. It's worth the $40.

['93 SR-V]

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It's only 4 holes, so not enough to bring a cat in for as they all have minimum charges of around $200, and fenced in so hard to get a cat itself in

maybe i should just rent this thing

https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/too...lic.08823.html

Those things look better than they are. I rented one thinking it would be good for my fence posts... 3 holes and 4 hours later (after hittting some relatively small rocks) I called a bobcat guy!

[Brent.ff]

Holy hell that was hell. First one was super easy, next 3 were hell on earth.

My personal favourite was finding a 2x4 and fibreglass insulation at about 3 feet below grade, so builder/contractor just filled over a bunch of garbage. I coulda murdered them.

Got them done. But yes, I need to just pay for this shit in the future

[88CRX]

Haha. Just be glad they’re done. I swore off that shit after our first fence, never again. Bob cat operator... Take My Money!

[jaeden]

With my last fence I had to hand dig about 8 holes because of underground utilities. Split the work with the neighbour so it wasn't quite as bad. Definitely happy to pay the bobcat guy a few hundred bucks for the other 20+ holes though!

Drywall mudding and taping is the other thing on my "100% would pay someone else to do" list

[phubu]

What else would you guys add to the “would pay someone else to do” list?!

[killramos]

Had my sewage ejector fail a few months ago.

Well worth it to pay a guy to suck out the sump pit

[speedog]

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Had my sewage ejector fail a few months ago.

Well worth it to pay a guy to suck out the sump pit

Shitty job but someone's got to do it.

[ExtraSlow]

The 1m leader hose that goes to my hose reel started leaking at the end. What a piss off. Oh well, easily fixed.

[Brent.ff]

Odds of someone saying ‘this is incorrect’ are high. But my give a fuck is low