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Pixel 9 256 gb phone, case and screen protectors from Amazon for a Christmas gift for my son and, umm, snake food. Ah, online ordering!
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
My moto edge plus five gw..
and some snacks.
and some snacks.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
De new moto plus five WG extra package, and some snacks..
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If I bought these as dress shoes, even though they're golf shoes, do you think anyone would notice 🤔
^- For that kind of money, it had better go into the crawl space for me!
I'm not spending that much money on a flesh light either.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Monster coffee drink yesterday.. Really nothing huge since my you know what.
Some BF streaming deals- Hulu w/Disney+ and Starz @$3.98/month for a year, Peacock @$20 for a year.
I replace the ceiling fan and light in the dining room and I replaced the light bar over the hall bath vanity. Both were old and showed their age.
Yeah, many of the original ceiling fans in this house are pushing 20 years old and some run almost continuously... including two in the den. One won't spin up unless I start it on "high" and the other emits a high-pitched whine when it's on, driving me nuts. It's about time to replace them. However, we have another major project first:
We have a (once) gorgeous deck that was due to stripping and staining. Being unable to maintain it, we fell for that Permaseal scam - a silicon penetrant that seals & protects the lumber, leaving it gorgeous for decades with a 25 year warranty! We paid thousands of dollars; first application was over-pressured and splintered the wood; QA came out, sanded everything and re-applied it; two years later and the lumber is faded, cracking splitting... you think we could get QA to call us back? Return an email? Come out and honor their warranty? NO: and now the wood is so far gone that nothing can restore it. We have to replace everything from the deck surface up: railing, balusters, steps, landing... everything, with Trex composite decking and aluminum railing. The replacement will cost more than the entire original deck construction did from the ground up. Should start in the next couple of weeks and be completed by Christmas. We would LOVE to find an attorney who will go after those crooks... Permaseal needs to pay for this, not us.
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We have a (once) gorgeous deck that was due to stripping and staining. Being unable to maintain it, we fell for that Permaseal scam - a silicon penetrant that seals & protects the lumber, leaving it gorgeous for decades with a 25 year warranty! We paid thousands of dollars; first application was over-pressured and splintered the wood; QA came out, sanded everything and re-applied it; two years later and the lumber is faded, cracking splitting... you think we could get QA to call us back? Return an email? Come out and honor their warranty? NO: and now the wood is so far gone that nothing can restore it. We have to replace everything from the deck surface up: railing, balusters, steps, landing... everything, with Trex composite decking and aluminum railing. The replacement will cost more than the entire original deck construction did from the ground up. Should start in the next couple of weeks and be completed by Christmas. We would LOVE to find an attorney who will go after those crooks... Permaseal needs to pay for this, not us.
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That's a real bummer Chief.
ozonetrooper
Android Expert
It is a real shame that the shyster got away .... I live in one of the most brutal on wood places in the usa, the stain stuff never works !
Actually nothing keeps the wood from doing that with enough time, except replacing it with Trex or similar product.
I ran a framing crew that built custom beach homes for years and the Trex was just coming out on the market back then.
Now no one uses wood anymore.
Be sure and show us how it turns out Chief.
Actually nothing keeps the wood from doing that with enough time, except replacing it with Trex or similar product.
I ran a framing crew that built custom beach homes for years and the Trex was just coming out on the market back then.
Now no one uses wood anymore.
Be sure and show us how it turns out Chief.
Will do - we got samples of the Trex Transcend and the new Trex Transcend Lineage decking, and set them out on the deck side by side, in the sun, back in August. Trex advertises the Lineage as being heat-resistant, and they aren't kidding! Stepping barefoot on the Lineage was very warm... but stepping onto the Transcend was scorching hot. I broke out the instant-read thermometer and set it on the Lineage sample. It read 107F. I moved it to the Transcend and it was close to 130F. For the little extra money the Lineage costs over the Transcend, it was a no-brainer: as much as we're already spending on this thing, we may as well buy top of the line and actually enjoy the deck in season. Trex has been doing this for three decades now, and they have the science so perfected that their competition just tries to catch up.
A whole different purchase: I was hoping that my dream turntable would be on sale today (Black Friday), but Audio-Technica isn't budging on their price. While the AT-LP5X turntable is in their audiophile series, it's not the latest & greatest. It IS, however, the only one that plays the old 78 RPM records. The Darling Bride and I own two phonographs: a 1917 Edison and a 1929 Victrola. They sound incredible... but they've also been around a century and I'd prefer to not put too much more wear and tear on them (even though we have LOTS of needles for them - the needle has to be replaced after each record). It will be nice to play all these old records again with a modern turntable, tube pre-amp and our bangin' sound system. I even bought my favorite symphony, Dvorak's New World Symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic, on LP for this turntable.
Max at $2.99/month for 6 months. I'll start my movie watching mission with the initial LOTR trilogy, the extended editions. And A Christmas Story. That's my queue so far.
I just added the Max deal today to my previous BF streaming purchases. Nothing I desperately need to watch at the moment but at that price it's worth having. Just have to remember to cancel in 6 months as the other deals run for a full year.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
I got some medical supplies, iron gummies, some vitamins, some of cough drops..
Sum total eighty dollars.
Yesterday I did went into town, it was about another sixty,
lunch meat, some snacks and pens with paper.
I feel happy.
Sum total eighty dollars.
Yesterday I did went into town, it was about another sixty,
lunch meat, some snacks and pens with paper.
I feel happy.
We're having to plunk down huge money, and it's because of snake oil called Permaseal. It's advertised as a silicone-based penetrant that goes into the wood and protects it from moisture, fading, etc for at least 25 years.
If you, or someone you know, is tempted to consider Permaseal as a treatment for a deck (or anything else), I recommend saving money and running the other way. After two applications, two years later our deck boards are faded, cracked and splitting. The company stalled and delayed any warranty response until the wood was too deteriorated to save. There are boards that are so bad that if we step on them wrong, we'll go right through them: and at 12 feet above ground, that's a bad thing.
Now we're forced to replace the entire deck surface, steps, landing and railing - and quite frankly, Permaseal should pay for it, not us. At least we're going with Trex composite decking this time. Just say NO!
If you, or someone you know, is tempted to consider Permaseal as a treatment for a deck (or anything else), I recommend saving money and running the other way. After two applications, two years later our deck boards are faded, cracked and splitting. The company stalled and delayed any warranty response until the wood was too deteriorated to save. There are boards that are so bad that if we step on them wrong, we'll go right through them: and at 12 feet above ground, that's a bad thing.
Now we're forced to replace the entire deck surface, steps, landing and railing - and quite frankly, Permaseal should pay for it, not us. At least we're going with Trex composite decking this time. Just say NO!
Good luck with the new decking material Chief. Make certain the contractor hired for the installation is reputable and well established. I understand that your existing deck structure needs to meet requirements for composite decking. Decks are not my forte but all measures to avoid another expensive disaster is advised.