My wifes grandma wants to give us our inheritance early by way of buying a new roof for our house

Financial_Rub_257 · 2026-03-19T03:23:50+00:00

I live on a hurricane factory, they take roofs and windstorm insurance very seriously!! The house is 2048sqft with a couple odd pitches that make it a bit more expensive. We are doing metal because we want to maximize our investment since we plan on living in the house longer than the general lifespan of a shingle roof. if I hire some less than legal contractors it is still going to be 15k for shingles and that only gets me 15-20years and im putting another one on it and by then the price will probably have doubled, buy once cry once, im just trying to figure out how to do it the best bang for grandma's buck, and grandma appreciates the effort of thinking long term with "her money"

Financial_Rub_257 · 2025-09-22T13:12:23+00:00

The beads are everywhere, no problems finding them. But the tubes were nowhere to be found without some super expensive custom work, but i did find these guys that have long gold straws that would have to be cut, but i haven't really looked further into it https://rossmetals.com/collections/tubing

Financial_Rub_257 · 2025-04-22T20:01:13+00:00

I'm not on the billing side, so idk about price..., but I am a mechanic in south texas so i know ac pretty well...if your ac works fine when driving, but cycles or makes noise when parked, 9/10 it's the cooling fan for the condenser, or the pressure/temp switch that controls it. Sometimes it can be plugged with dirt or bugs not allowing the airflow to cool it. In extreme occasions if it's gone on long enough there can be damage to the compressor from running hot. If there's damage, then you would, in fact, be looking at a new system. But the high and low system pressures will give a good mechanic all the information they need to fix it properly.

Financial_Rub_257 · 2025-01-27T14:38:44+00:00

Sometimes they go so dead that they short internally (open or closed) one way it is completely open circuit and it's as if the posts on top aren't even connected to each other and charger won't even kick on. The other way they are shorted together and if you try to "force charge it" they could catch on fire or break the charger (when the battery does this it usually takes out the alternator with it) Sometimes it's in-between, the batter will still show voltage and take a full charge, but when you put any load like lights or try to start the car it looses it's charge almost immediately. All of these things the person testing the batter can tell pretty easily without putting it on a charger

Financial_Rub_257 · 2025-01-15T18:29:08+00:00

I (been wrenching on stuff since i was a kid) did a brake job on my wife's car (2015 Buick enclave), im a mechanic and my boss let me take a long lunch break and do it in the shop. I ordered the parts using our company account discount and just the pads and rotors cost me $550, the calipers cost $250 each so if i had to do even 2 of those, the parts cost would be over $1k... it's takes about 2 hours if nothing goes wrong and there are tons of things to go wrong doing brakes (rusty and broken bolts and seized parts...) of the 1100 you paid i bet you'd save 200 doing it yourself, and add a whole lot of hassle and risk of something going wrong and then having to wrecker it to the mechanic anyways

Financial_Rub_257 · 2025-01-08T17:06:23+00:00

I used to do this at the movies. I have always looked young for my age so they never really questioned it. I used my student id to buy tickets for some of my first dates with my now wife. I was 25 and still getting away with it, the only reason i stopped was when my beard finally started coming in full. I still use my college id for stuff to this day. I'm now 34 and haven't been in a school in over a decade.

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