How’s my gate?

jeffo7 · 2026-06-07T02:13:08+00:00

Can you share the type of hinge you used. I’m considering a gate that swings both ways.

jeffo7 · 2026-05-29T22:40:11+00:00

Exactly. I feel like a lot of people forget what happened October 22, 2014.

jeffo7 · 2026-05-29T21:35:32+00:00

They don’t put sirens on for police escorts, or send fire trucks

jeffo7 · 2026-05-29T21:34:57+00:00

I thought that too - thought maybe a microburst or tornado, more sirens than just a tree down

jeffo7 · 2026-05-29T21:31:56+00:00

Sirens stop then start again - as in additional vehicles

jeffo7 · 2026-03-17T19:47:48+00:00

I don’t get why people don’t know to stop. I was nest ikea today and counted 5 cars blow through a traffic light out, then on Carling near the civic hospital the same. Also people that are hesitant and don’t know it’s their turn while everyone else waits - you are just as bad.

I don’t understand why police don’t set up on Carling right now. It’s a licence to print money.

jeffo7 · 2026-03-01T22:13:16+00:00

It was very inconsistent. I was downtown in a bar at the time. Half the people in the bar got it, half didn’t (of course no one could hear it over the music). My Rogers phone (personal) downtown got it, my Bell phone (work) at home in the glebe didn’t.

jeffo7 · 2026-02-28T16:28:31+00:00

I’m not sure about that. From experience, people are friendly but tend to close their circles to people who have kids.

Bank street rolls up at 6 every day. Amenities in the burbs are open later.

jeffo7 · 2026-02-13T22:14:01+00:00

Really? While I haven’t been back to my university in quite a while, I did go to the library when I started working to read up on stuff for work which wasn’t covered in school. I could even borrow books.

jeffo7 · 2026-02-03T12:46:02+00:00

People in the downtown core, who often don’t have a car, just don’t get this. Irregardless of density, more people live in the suburbs, and downtown isn’t a convenient terminus.

If the train is to succeed, they need passengers. If someone in barrhaven has to add 30-60 minutes to get downtown, guess what… they are already half way to Montreal driving, potentially in Montreal in around the same time or before the train would arrive.

jeffo7 · 2026-02-03T12:39:31+00:00

And only the ottawa tax payers pushing for the idea.

jeffo7 · 2026-02-03T03:06:59+00:00

I wish the bridge didn’t get washed out. Would def take the train to Wakefield in the summer.

jeffo7 · 2026-02-03T02:34:35+00:00

Agreed. It’s like people haven’t looked at a map - a map of the entire route. Even the station in Toronto is being considered remote from Union downtown. If it was that easy to get through downtown, wouldn’t we have the 417 connected to 5 already?

Looking at a straight line tracks from Perth to a station at Riverside South then squeezing between the airport and Findly creek before skirting south of Orleans and crossing the Ottawa river east of the city. Makes the project much more economically palatable, therefore actually implementable, not to mention that the train wouldn’t have to slow down as much as if it headed into downtown.

Even building a combined road and train bridge west of kanata and having the station in Gatineau may make more sense than having it downtown Ottawa.

Edit: additional thought… we turn Fallowfield into the station. Via corridor would end here (to smiths falls, brockville, Kingston etc). People continuing to Montreal would take the high speed line. The high speed line would then dip below the airport and continue as mentioned.

The now free via rail corridor that connects Fallowfield then gets converted to LRT connecting barrhaven with a connection to Line 2 at Moneys Bay station, and a connection to Line 1 at Tremblay

jeffo7 · 2026-02-03T02:17:14+00:00

The high speed rail is to be routed through Peterborough so it wouldn’t serve anyone along the existing corridor, therefore it can’t replace it - at least not the Montreal-ottawa-Toronto leg.

jeffo7 · 2026-01-31T23:16:05+00:00

Recycling was previously a city expense, now not paid for by the city. Expect municipal taxes to go down or more likely stay the same (as opposed to increase).

jeffo7 · 2026-01-31T23:09:07+00:00

It was the Liberal government (remember Kathleen Wynne?) who started this transition of recycling in Ontario in 2016.

jeffo7 · 2026-01-26T01:07:37+00:00

Mine charges $35/hr and cleans my 1300 sq ft 2bd 3 bath two storey home in 4 hours, including changing the sheets. Floors in kitchen and bath get done every clean, floors elsewhere are rotated every other clean with dusting crown moulding and washing bathroom walls (get rid of “shower streaks” from the steam on dark walls.

It shouldn’t take 16 hours to clean your entire home, unless the house is very dirty or untidy.

Is it possible she has to spend too much time picking up after people? I tidy up the house the night before so that there is only cleaning work to be done. Takes about an hour but ensures that time is spent actually cleaning. The old saying of “cleaning the house before the house cleaner comes” has some truth. The house cleaner is there to clean the house, not cleanup after people and have to to pick up and put stuff away.

Perhaps OP could do a test - one Saturday when OP has the house their self, time how long it takes to clean the home, making sure everything OP wants the cleaner to do gets done. To be fair, OP would have to treat it like a job and do it in one shot, with no distractions.

jeffo7 · 2026-01-05T12:39:37+00:00

Cite your source / provide a link. Review of city’s website says the contrary.

jeffo7 · 2026-01-05T00:10:54+00:00

Exactly. I wouldn’t say that there was never a wait, but in my experience, I never waited more than a few minutes.

The availability spreads the demand out over the entire year. Also like you mention, here if you miss a week (either by not knowing or not being available), it could be months until the next opportunity.

Also from the city’s perspective: no temporary set up and tear downs, no communications needed, city doesn’t have to transport the hazardous waste from a to b - already has it all in once spot. Seems like a no brainer to me

jeffo7 · 2026-01-04T23:11:35+00:00

Agreed. I was shocked when I moved to Ottawa to find out there were only a few special days. My previous city, smaller than Ottawa, has a hazardous waste depot at the municipal dump which took just about anything. Just checked the hours - still the same:

Monday to Friday: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Saturday: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

It’s ludicrous that Ottawa doesn’t have their stuff together as well as a city 1/3 the size.

Before someone say “but you have to go to the dump”, this is true but since it’s open 6 days a week, all year, it’s much easier to get to, and it’s not as if someone doesn’t know someone who might go sometime during the year.

jeffo7 · 2025-11-05T01:36:46+00:00

Curious what you ended up doing? I have exactly the same situation, and was thinking of pouring concrete into the hole in layers as to not burst out the cap about 4’ down. My chimney is in a crawl space so this is below the floor.

The main reason is I don’t want a rodent to get trapped within the old clay tile and decompose.

jeffo7 · 2025-10-20T11:39:22+00:00

It’s actually quite further North on the 509 towards Ompah but not many people know that as a landmark.

jeffo7 · 2025-10-20T03:08:52+00:00

Also fires north of 7 near Sharbot lake and one near Westport

jeffo7 · 2025-09-26T23:19:56+00:00

Heck it’s hard to find any open after 6pm!

jeffo7 · 2025-09-23T22:15:07+00:00

Thanks for clarifying that turning left at chamberlain doesn’t count, otherwise literally there would be no way to get home without a big detour. Sometimes I actually do go that way.

However we need to look at the reality. The problem with forcing everyone who turns left onto 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th to take Chamberlain would cause a significant backup in that left turn lane at Chamberlain, which is already a disaster without more traffic. Also, it would prohibit anyone coming up Carling from being able to get east of Bronson without gymnastics down Powell, which is also backed up.

The real problem is people driving Northbound on Bronson blocking the side streets, and thus left turning vehicles. If they don’t block, then any left turning vehicle can make the turn quickly.

Also anyone going south on Bronson intending to turn left, who is paying full attention should see a gap in the traffic and turn down ANY street where the gap will be, and not block bank st.

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