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Post by iacon45 on Sept 11, 2022 22:23:28 GMT -5
Weather roller coaster here. 80s, 90s, 80s, and back again to 90s Fahrenheit
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Post by triumshockwave on Sept 12, 2022 15:15:07 GMT -5
I remember going back to school in September and it actually being like Autumn.
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Post by Deinonychus on Sept 12, 2022 18:54:22 GMT -5
Same as every day for the Past 6 weeks. 90s with 100% humidity until about 4PM when it rains 3 inches in 90 minutes then it’s hot and muggy the rest of the evening. Reset, do again tomorrow.
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Post by machsabre on Sept 12, 2022 23:53:56 GMT -5
I've been suspecting for a while now that climate change has pretty much screwed up any preconception of what we will assume seasonal weather will be.
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Post by triumshockwave on Sept 13, 2022 9:19:16 GMT -5
Same as every day for the Past 6 weeks. 90s with 100% humidity until about 4PM when it rains 3 inches in 90 minutes then it’s hot and muggy the rest of the evening. Reset, do again tomorrow. In other words, you live in Florida I've been suspecting for a while now that climate change has pretty much screwed up any preconception of what we will assume seasonal weather will be. That's what I was getting at. I feel like distinct seasons will become something we reminisce about when we're 70, and the kids have no idea what we're talking about.
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Post by SporkBot on Sept 13, 2022 9:51:54 GMT -5
We've had a pretty dry summer, but started getting rain a couple weeks ago.
Then, the other day we had damn-near 24 hours of nonstop rain, to varying intensities of downpour. Sometimes heavy, sometimes light, apparently totaling about just under a foot, give or take.
Somehow, some water leaked into one of the wall closets in the master bedroom. It could've been a small opening in the metal frame under the lip of the roof (the area seems about right, and maybe with some wind assistance it leaked inside...that's my theory anyway). OR, one or more roof tiles flipped loose in the wind, and water got in THAT way. But to add to my Dad's frustrations, the roof is only a couple years old, the company that installed it has since gone out of business so the warranty he got means squat, and other roofers are hesitant to touch it because "if they fix it, they 'own' it" (this is according to my Dad, who's calling around to have the area checked out and that gap in the frame closed).
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Post by machsabre on Sept 13, 2022 23:44:02 GMT -5
We had a similar situation too a year ago. Our house's former owners... Let's just say that they had more faith in their DYI skills than they ever should have. Half of our home repairs is fixing their fixes! Anyway, our roof was one of those fixes. A few shingles were missing... Nothing bad, but early spring we had some huge rainstorms and water started leaking. It ended up being easier to actually replace the entire roof's shingles. Obviously that's not an option for you, as yours is still new. But we found out just how halfassed of a job they did. We also had a hire a contractor to replace the front porch columns... Which not only were starting to rust, but were only held in place by friction and not anything like bolts or the like. (One strong windstorm hitting the right way and our front awning would have collapsed.)
In some ways, I really miss renting. Until I realize that the price we pay in our monthly mortgage is only a hundred bucks more than a decent rent was.
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Post by triumshockwave on Sept 14, 2022 10:20:05 GMT -5
Considering the increases in rent, my old one bedroom apartment may be more per month than my mortgage is by now
Edit: I checked. Those apartments now start at $1550/mo.
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Post by Optimal Megatron on Sept 14, 2022 10:28:03 GMT -5
We had a similar situation too a year ago. Our house's former owners... Let's just say that they had more faith in their DYI skills than they ever should have. Half of our home repairs is fixing their fixes! Anyway, our roof was one of those fixes. A few shingles were missing... Nothing bad, but early spring we had some huge rainstorms and water started leaking. It ended up being easier to actually replace the entire roof's shingles. Obviously that's not an option for you, as yours is still new. But we found out just how halfassed of a job they did. We also had a hire a contractor to replace the front porch columns... Which not only were starting to rust, but were only held in place by friction and not anything like bolts or the like. (One strong windstorm hitting the right way and our front awning would have collapsed.) In some ways, I really miss renting. Until I realize that the price we pay in our monthly mortgage is only a hundred bucks more than a decent rent was. I'm wondering if your former owners moved to where we are and became our former owners. We had to replace an entire roof because the shingles were put side by side rather than overlapping, which isn't great for keeping rain out. Also, when walking on top of it, certain parts sag, because the joists in the ceiling were not properly put together. When we got a new air conditioning installed, one of the techs looked at the fuse box and went "...that's not code" in the way that suggests he's not paid enough to make it code. Several other "repairs" have just been fixing fixes. We're probably going to have to replace the entire back wooden staircase from the yard to the back of the house eventually before it collapses. And yet, still better than renting under our last landlord.
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Post by machsabre on Sept 14, 2022 14:01:19 GMT -5
I'm wondering if your former owners moved to where we are and became our former owners. We had to replace an entire roof because the shingles were put side by side rather than overlapping, which isn't great for keeping rain out. Also, when walking on top of it, certain parts sag, because the joists in the ceiling were not properly put together. When we got a new air conditioning installed, one of the techs looked at the fuse box and went "...that's not code" in the way that suggests he's not paid enough to make it code. Several other "repairs" have just been fixing fixes. We're probably going to have to replace the entire back wooden staircase from the yard to the back of the house eventually before it collapses. And yet, still better than renting under our last landlord. The former owners here, apparently there was a history of really dumb life choices. There was once a front lawn, but they removed it for a rock garden. (Not a good rock garden, but just a pile of rocks.) There's no outside hose, so if we want to water the back lawn, we have to have a rain barrel or connect a hose from the inside. The inside doors are a beautiful cherry oak, with a worn finish. An easy fix... But they decided to paint over them all with semigloss white paint. Instead of properly fixing the stairs, which would have cost a couple hundred, they kept re-carpeting the stairs. over the decades. It's a house full of little DIY choices that add up to a lot of questionable intelligence. And of course when the wife died, the husband just let the house go and moved to Florida to live with his mistress and didn't tell the kids. And since he didn't leave them anything in the will, the house went to the bank and so them and the bank just did a quick half-assed patch job. Like I said, most of our home repairs is fixing their home repairs. May wherever they live in the netherworld be a shithole.
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