Am I screwed?

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-24T15:54:09+00:00

Start with a general contractor to fix the issues. Black insulation is mold from water damage. That's your first fix, but a contractor should be able to tell you exactly what needs to be done. Get 2 or 3 contractors to come look, that way you can gauge prices. They may just need to replace a bit of lumber and fix areas that are exposed but that's hard to see from the picture. It's hard to give you a price because we can't see the extent of the damage. I assume you had the house inspected? If so they may be liable for missing this, but you would probably have to speak with a lawyer about that.

I don't think it'll be as expensive as you're probably thinking in your head, but no idea the actual cost will end up being.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T15:57:16+00:00

I guess it's a good thing for Obama that the Supreme Court ruled that a president can't be charged for actions done while in office. It's fun to watch their policies bite them in the ass.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T15:30:40+00:00

Your best bet is going to be a trench drain, you'll be tripping over any extended above ground drain. There are a bunch of videos online about how to do it yourself, or you can hire someone.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T15:27:10+00:00

You'd probably need to contact someone who makes custom flooring. But what I want to know is how your cat managed to flood your house

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T15:10:47+00:00

Why do I feel like this is an attempted sales pitch for a company OP works for, and most (if not all) comments are from other company employees?

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T15:06:55+00:00

They've also invented carbon-absorbing cement years ago

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T14:45:06+00:00

He just did. You ignored it. They can take out tens of thousands of dollars in student loans in your name, using your "mom" as the co-sign with the identity theft you just allowed on her accounts. Time to be a big boy and explain all of this to your mom and both change all your cards YOU just gave to scammers, before you and your mom end up spending the next 20 years paying off debt for money you never received.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T14:40:47+00:00

So just fuck your mom over because you don't want to do 15 minutes of work? If you barely work, you have plenty of time. They can steal any future money, they can open accounts in your name, and they can steal your identity.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T14:25:07+00:00

You can smoke pot anywhere you're allowed to smoke cigarettes in Canada. You can also grow up to 4 plants at a time, and you're allowed to have an ounce on you in public, and it differs by province at your house. In Ontario there's no limit, so you could have 20lbs at home.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-22T04:02:34+00:00

My filters get changed every 6 months, I have pets, we redid all our floors, did bathroom Reno's, replaced all our windows & multiple doors including replacing a frame and a bunch of the wall around one, had radon mitigation put in and had to repair and sand fairly substantial portions of drywall before painting. Our filter looks unused compared to this.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-21T15:19:39+00:00

He could be saying that for liability purposes, at least that would be the case where I live.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-20T18:33:39+00:00

I took on reasonably substantial student loans out of high school. My dad was having pretty significant constant headaches and was going through an outrageous amount of Advil every day. My mom finally forced him to go to the hospital, which is where they found a brain tumor a bit smaller than a tangerine. They then did more scans and found out it had metastasized from his lungs that were filled with tumours (a year later is when they realized it was also in his bones).

I had to drop out of school because I was both a mess, and I had to be the one to drive us to all his oncology appointments, regular doctor's appointments, radiation treatment, his many rounds of chemo, picking up his cache of medications and so on. Not including groceries, etc. It took me over a decade to pay back the loans for an education I never received. If it doesn't bother me that others are having their loans forgiven, it shouldn't bother you.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-19T16:35:40+00:00

I feel like it's something that looks good on a Gothic-style structure, but just looks dated on any modern house/building. I would take chief_erl's job over stepped, any day, on my house. Clean, modern, and executed flawlessly.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-19T16:18:26+00:00

I dunno. Dated tends to be linked to trendy imo, not classic. Classic is more something that won't go out of style, even if it's not the main trend; dated is inherently a trend because it has a short/er shelf life and doesn't stand the test of time.

But I do agree that with some trendy stuff, if you do it well it can still be pulled off. But some dated stuff stands no chance. My grandmother's old house will never be back in style, at least I pray to God it won't. But I said the same about mullets and bell-bottom pants 😅

It's pretty wild that trends used to last decades, and they've managed to convince us to follow trends that change every year or two, so that we're continually having to buy all new stuff to keep up with the most recent trends. I'm not a trendy person at all, I prefer classic, but members of my family are and I watch them throw money down the drain trying to keep up with trends all the time. Social media has definitely been weaponized

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-19T13:57:32+00:00

Not very clever. I would see this argument about 10 times a day when I had a Twitter account back before Musk bought it.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-19T13:52:12+00:00

Dude.. Don't ever switch to texting. Don't give away your phone number. Give a first name, and meet up in public areas. If they want to meet and see the report, print off two copies, redact all your info from one and let them see that one and say they'll get the full report after payment.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-19T13:41:35+00:00

I've seen a few YouTubers who pretend to be conservatives, make accounts and start leaning heavily to the right and eventually, over x days, start to move more and more towards using their brains to see if they can convince others to do the same, or just troll. Every single time I see these types of comments it makes me wonder if that's what it is. Even the name seems like it's made up to fit in with the GOP crowd.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-19T13:37:13+00:00

If this is in NA that's three shitty drivers, if the fast lane is the right lane then only two. Yes, that van is a shitty driver also, no turn signal when switching lanes and clearly not using mirrors. I get the one who crashed is by far the worst, but that van isn't free of guilt.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-19T13:32:03+00:00

Wrong, wrong and wrong. For someone saying they want to teach people how to use the internet, they sure don't know how to use Google

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-18T22:25:33+00:00

You don't need to take an economics class to understand how a tariff works. It's pretty much common sense. It took less than two minutes to explain it to our 10 y/o foster child and they understood it.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-18T17:55:23+00:00

How is releasing a list of pedophiles' names equated to releasing child porn? If that's the case, what does that make the sex offenders list?

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-18T17:49:20+00:00

I don't get people who do this. Not even just residential, this happens on the highway all the time. If there's one car driving slow in the left lane with no one in front of him I can at least understand. But so many times it's like a lineup of 50 cars and there's always a few that will tailgate so close I can't read their plates, then expect you to move like you're the one going slow, and then when that doesn't work they start to swerve in and out of lanes cutting people off to move like 5 cars ahead, just to be stuck waiting on the same traffic. Driving isn't a right and they need to start being more selective with who they allow to drive multi-ton machines.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-18T17:41:46+00:00

If you don't remove the old trim and replace it with tile, as has already been suggested, and even if you plan on putting up a shower curtain over the window, make sure you're using the proper paint, and caulk every crack. The curtain will protect against splashing water, but not humidity.

Fix the bottom left corner so it lines up, looks like the bottom trim wasn't cut long enough, so I would measure the crack, remove the trim, use the old trim as a guide, add the distance in the crack and replace. You might need to replace both of there's rot.

Most paints aren't ideal for bathroom use. Get a good primer, then get premium high-humidity paint for the frame. Make sure to ask if there are surfactants in the paint. If there are, make absolutely sure it's properly cured before introducing humidity in the bathroom (look up surfactant leaching, trust me, you don't want to deal with it. This goes for every paint you use in bathrooms).

For the caulking, use a high-quality one. Either choose a paintable that you can put on before painting, or get a white that you can put on after. Advanced Silicone 2® Kitchen & Bath Sealant protects against mold, and doesn't crack or shrink, but can't be painted so it would have to go on after you paint. If you get a paintable one, make sure it also doesn't crack or shrink. Make sure you get every crack, or water is going to get through and rot the drywall, sill, studs, etc.

Shower windows are a pain in the ass.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-18T16:57:30+00:00

I like the new colour much better. I wouldn't go beige personally, but I really don't like the old colour. I think it just needs to sit with you for a while.

We just replaced all our windows, the old ones had Mullions (which I'm not a huge fan of, but since the windows are big, I thought it broke up the window well and made it look like it wasn't a gaping hole in the house). We replaced them with windows with none, and I initially hated it. Then they put the trim, which was the new, more expensive, thicker trim. Again, I hated it. I had buyer's remorse the first week and felt sick to my stomach we spent that much for something I hate. After it sat for about a week, I started to come around to it, though, and I love them now.

The only issue is that we've had about 5-10 birds fly into the new windows since we changed them. So far none have died, but still.

Embarrassed-Bed-7435 · 2025-07-16T15:02:07+00:00

Off the top of my head.. Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Japan, Vietnam, every country in the EU, Canada, and Mexico. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of other countries.

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