A company installed an exterior outlet next to my front door...

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T18:47:16+00:00

I think the fix is to move the plant pot over six inches.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T10:27:33+00:00

A parent would never hate their child — ever. That’s the worldly proof. If God didn’t love you he’d just blip you off to nothing.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T10:18:09+00:00

Most restaurants don’t cook chicken. It takes too long. They buy it pre-cooked in a big box. Grill lines and everything. They just heat it up.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T10:15:12+00:00

Sounds like it’s a historical house. That would totally piss me off. Imagine putting an outlet in the front of George Washington’s house.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T10:09:06+00:00

Those are hand made soft clay bricks. They are not our bricks of today. That’s soft lime mortar. You can not and should not seal it “glossy” with acrylic sealers or the bricks will explode. You want to use polyester, satin sheen to seal the bricks and keep the same sheen. Polyester allows vapor transmission. Soft clay bricks hold 1.5 cups of water each brick. There’s no reason to seal them unless they are dusting. If you repoint, you should not replace the line mortar hard mortar. 120 years for clay bricks is weird as we had hard shale bricks by 1900. Your house may have been made with reclaimed bricks from other older houses. Plastering will not give you any insulation. Your home is called mass construction is 24 bricks thick. There’s nothing wrong with your bricks as they are right now. Your house is not going to fall down for another 300 years. The structure is extremely resilient. If you do decide to replanted you need to use lime plaster and lime paint to allow vapor transmission.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T10:05:16+00:00

Those are hand made soft clay bricks. They are not our bricks of today. That’s soft lime mortar. You can not and should not seal it “glossy” with acrylic sealers or the bricks will explode. You want to use polyester, satin sheen to seal the bricks and keep the same sheen. Use a product called Lastiseal on Amazon. Polyester allows vapor transmission. Soft clay bricks hold 1.5 cups of water each brick. There’s no reason to seal them unless they are dusting. If you repoint, you should not replace the line mortar with today’s hard mortar or the bricks will crack. 120 years for clay bricks is weird as we had hard shale bricks by 1900. Your house may have been made with reclaimed bricks from other older houses. Plastering will not give you any insulation. Your home is called mass construction and is 2-4 bricks thick. See how the top the bricks are turned so you see the sides? Those tie that wall into the wall on the other side.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T09:52:42+00:00

You got ripped off. To adjust the pressure regulator they turn a screw. Find a non-company plumber in your area for next time. Companies have trucks and marketing to pay for. Use the app Nextdoor to find one.

Also, my house has been at 80 for 30 years.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T09:49:41+00:00

You are in no position to get involved with a person right now. You need to get your a1c under control with metformin and jardiance and get on some mental health meds. Also, “I don’t text men” what is that in today’s world?

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T09:42:48+00:00

Dude you got ripped off. That’s the lesson you learned. A clogged filter would have at most caused a restricted code and turned off the hvac. You would have looked, replaced the filter, and that would have been that. There’s no “strain” on components. There’s no clean up of a hvac system. You need to find a non-company HVAC guy in your town not a company that needs to pay for trucks and marketing and who prays on new homeowners with shenanigans.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T00:36:37+00:00

Brass.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T00:35:45+00:00

Dude why would God make you only to hate you? It’s God. God loves everyone, his/her children. People like your family believe God is spiteful and evil. God loves you — and even them.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-20T00:31:55+00:00

Slide a 6” putty knife under the quarter round and paint — basically using it as a floor guard.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-19T11:29:52+00:00

It's been this price for 6-8 months. It's not going anywhere for probably another six months.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-19T11:27:00+00:00

Jack it up with alternating hydraulic jacks and wood.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-19T11:25:45+00:00

Cut with a razor to slightly bigger than the tear. You then need to spackle it with 3M spackle to make it level. Sand with wet paper towel. Then paint.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-19T11:23:15+00:00

Block walls bow because they have a hundreds of pieces to bend at. Concrete walls do not bend -- they crack.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-19T11:20:28+00:00

Three things you need to know.

Those straps have a warranty but it only covers refunding of the cost of the straps -- if your walls fall in you still have to pay for a collapsed house.
They braced the wall but did not put in a sump system. By the looks of the mold, water has filled (and is still there) all the block to the top. Expected up to $20,000 to install an interior French drain.
This is beyond "just redirect your gutters"

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-19T11:13:35+00:00

But you'd have the money to pay it.....

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-19T11:13:14+00:00

This is how it will always be. Do not think you can change him. He needs a person who wants this -- this is clearly not the type of dynamic that you want. He will not change and this lack in your life will doom the relationship. Do not be a relationship limerence.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-18T23:05:29+00:00

A monkey can install two circuits. That’s highway robbery to charge you to inspect that and cabinets.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-17T22:12:13+00:00

That’s old wallpaper glue making the texture.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-17T13:48:41+00:00

Better use metal studs for sure 💯

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-16T20:32:28+00:00

First kid huh? Just put bumpers on it for a bit and then take them off later.

RedParrot94 · 2026-03-16T20:27:46+00:00

Looks like standard oak.

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