All Forum Posts by: Genny Li

 Yes!  That's really freaky, isn't it???

 I just switched to these!  They make me do a happy dance.  I'm not super strong, so I waddle-walk toilets into and out of place, and adding the ring and having to be extra sure I don't gouge it with the bolts (if new) or get it on the floor (if old) is a pain.  I trusted them because I liked their wax rings to begin with, but they aren't kidding about it being Better Than Wax!  It's one of those little handyman pleasures to work with.

An awning?  

There are also canopies that are made of plastic that do the same.

 These are the decking tiles, which really are sweet:  https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/r...  They actually look good in person, and they weather to a nice gray. So much better than a mucky concrete balcony.

Just take off the tiles entirely.  The decking drains great.  A demo bar should remove the tiles:  https://www.amazon.com/Gutster...

If your patio or balcony is properly sloped, removing the tiles should fix the water issues, and the decking tiles should fix the ugly mess that leaves behind.

Can't remember the last time I saw shower glass doors. They are the most hideous, useless and dumbest inventions by mankind. They get stinky mildew between the tracks, they get stinky black mildew outside the tracks and frames, they leak and damage the floors, the glass is hard to keep clean and I personally had a friend who slipped in a shower, fell through a glass door, cot cut bad, passed out and bled to death. When is the last time you saw glass doors in a motel or hotel. There must be a reason!

 She said sliding glass door, so I'm assuming a patio door. Can't see how you'd get a chair through a bathroom door in a typical house while horsing around.  I'm sorry about your friend. My husband nearly died going through a commercial glass door as a child. Both are supposed to be safety glass, so that is supposed to be impossible.  In my husband's case, it was not safety glass at all.

In my own home, I have glass shower doors and absolutely love them, but they're pivoting doors with sweepers on the bottom--no tracks to collect muck.  But the new shower doors actually usually have tracks only on the outside and nothing at all on the inside, so they don't collect too much grime.

I wouldn't put them on a rental, though.

 Sorry! Guess I did not real thoroughly enough.

 It's good for people to be aware if they have an old rental house that it might not have the kind of glass it should to keep people safe, though!

 Yes, this. If you have mice and hear them, you almost always have to track them down. Then you figure out where their nest is. They don't follow you. Please bring in someone you trust. Hallucinations do seem real. If they didn't, they wouldn't be hallucinations. 

I use super cheap maintenance paint on the ceiling. Better paint everywhere else. It does tend to splatter as cheap paints do, but I always do drop cloths when I do ceiling anyway and I do ceilings before walls. 

 If you know what you're looking at, you'll probably find things that your appraiser missed, too, when you go there the first time.

 No.  No asbestos in use in popcorn ceilings then.

 My pinhole leaks in my 50-year-old house....after the previous owner had fixed a bunch of pinhole leaks when the house was about 35 years old...would like to talk to you about that 75 year statement. lol.

PEX is inert and doesn't poison anyone.  But PEX is not inherently anti-microbial, as copper is.  If you have baddies in your water, PEX will give them a surface to grow on.  So will your HW tank, BTW, unless you have it at +140 degrees with a mixing valve, like I do for my personal house.  I've had my water tested, and the only thing in it doesn't hurt people, only munches on iron, so I'm good. :)