Home "Improvement"

[MDGolfHacker]

Moles tearing up my yard.

Dealt with that for two years when I first moved in. Tried all kinds of chemicals etc but nothing worked. Bought the tomcat mole trap. Caught one big mole that was tearing up my yard. Had another mole invade my lawn last year. Used the same trap and got it within a few hours of setting the trap. Lawn looked like Frankenstein's face after the first two years. They can really tear up the lawns...

 

 

 

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[TSauer]

Dealt with that for two years when I first moved in. Tried all kinds of chemicals etc but nothing worked. Bought the tomcat mole trap. Caught one big mole that was tearing up my yard. Had another mole invade my lawn last year. Used the same trap and got it within a few hours of setting the trap. Lawn looked like Frankenstein's face after the first two years. They can really tear up the lawns...

 

 

 

MDGolfHacker

I have the same trap and I've caught nothing. I must be doing something wrong

[MDGolfHacker]

Yes! I hate that one too. They messed my grass up big-time. Really a bummer when you put effort into your yard and it gets torn up by no good varmints.

 

If anyone has a fix for this, please share.

 

 

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Had great success with the tomcat mole trap. Spring loaded pincers that kill the mole. Took me a day to get it working right but after that, caught the next mole with an hour of deploying it. And it's reusable.

 

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[tommc23]

As our house was built some 25 years ago, we are having the normal settling issues- nail heads popping out, drywall cracking, etc. We just need to break down and have the interior painted. The other issue is our heating and air conditioning - we have a good furnace and good heat pump outside- (and actually replaced the exterior unit a few years ago. Problem is that inside the damping system does not work as efficiently as I would like- in the summer it is freezing in the basement, and warm on the third floor- in the winter the heat seems to run more often than not and we are using about 25% more natural gas (according to the gas company) than most of our neighbors- so I would like to get an efficiency evaluation, but will probably show we need new windows which is a cost I am not ready to invest... Although I could probably install them myself (at least the first two floors)

Does the third floor get colder in the winter? If it does that is an issue with your HVAC system not getting enough air to that floor.

 

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[MDGolfHacker]

I have the same trap and I've caught nothing. I must be doing something wrong

LOL, it took me a day to get it working properly. Instructions on the thing isn't very clear so I went to YouTube to see how it was being used. Biggest thing is to make sure the pincers have a channel across the tunnel to close and that it's an active mole tunnel (easily identifiable if you partially collapse the tunnel and the tunnel is dug back out). I thought one of my kids accidentally set the trap off after working on the trap for a day so when I pulled the trap up, imagine my surprise when the mole was caught in the pincers... They have giant digging paws and are ugly... Once I got how the trapped worked, the next time a new mole made its way to my yard, I caught it within a hour or so after deploying the trap. Less overall damage to the lawn.

 

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[MDGolfHacker]

Does the third floor get colder in the winter? If it does that is an issue with your HVAC system not getting enough air to that floor.

 

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Our house has the same issue. Part of it is that that the housing insulation within the walls have settled so more heat and cold are radiated through the walls and our windows just flat out need to be replaced as they aren't insulating anymore either. So even when shunts are directing cold air to the top floors, our master bedroom can be hot by 5-10 degrees compared to the basement and compared to the kids rooms on the same floor but at the opposite end of the hallway...

 

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[STUDque]

 

Words can't even express how happy I am to be done with this project. I've had to hear about it no less than 5x per month for the past 2 years we've been in this house.

 

Then the actual project was a combination of terrifying and annoying up on a fully extended ladder. Phew. Hopefully this scratches the itch to change stuff with the house for a while.

 

 

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[tony@CIC]

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Words can't even express how happy I am to be done with this project. I've had to hear about it no less than 5x per month for the past 2 years we've been in this house.

 

Then the actual project was a combination of terrifying and annoying up on a fully extended ladder. Phew. Hopefully this scratches the itch to change stuff with the house for a while.

 

 

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So you did the siding on your house? It looks great and would definitely be terrifying on a ladder for me.

 

 

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[STUDque]

So you did the siding on your house? It looks great and would definitely be terrifying on a ladder for me.

 

 

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Sorry, not the siding. I should've clarified.

 

 

I painted the shutters. The afternoon sun hits them hard and they were faded even when we bought the house (and got worse over the 2 years). The coat of paint really made it look like a new house.

 

 

We live in a duplex and the neighbor's shutters need to be done as well. We're now winning the curbside appearance competition lol.

 

 

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[tony@CIC]

Sorry, not the siding. I should've clarified.

 

 

I painted the shutters. The afternoon sun hits them hard and they were faded even when we bought the house (and got worse over the 2 years). The coat of paint really made it look like a new house.

 

 

We live in a duplex and the neighbor's shutters need to be done as well. We're now winning the curbside appearance competition lol.

 

 

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Nice - glad you didn't have to do the dormers on the roof.

 

 

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[MDGolfHacker]

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Words can't even express how happy I am to be done with this project. I've had to hear about it no less than 5x per month for the past 2 years we've been in this house.

 

Then the actual project was a combination of terrifying and annoying up on a fully extended ladder. Phew. Hopefully this scratches the itch to change stuff with the house for a while.

 

 

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Looks great man!  Had to do that when we first moved in so I totally get it.  No matter how much money you spend on a ladder, being that high up never feels stable to me.

 

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[Rickp]

We originally lived in the Northeast and plants and trees go dormant for 6 months so didn't mind taking care of them.

Moving to Florida our house HAD about 40 trees, shrubs and freakin flowers. Nobody told me FL had a 12 month growing season!! I was going nuts taking care of all the greenery. So I took out about 10 of the worst offenders and deal with the rest.

 

 

 

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[STUDque]

We originally lived in the Northeast and plants and trees go dormant for 6 months so didn't mind taking care of them.

Moving to Florida our house HAD about 40 trees, shrubs and freakin flowers. Nobody told me FL had a 12 month growing season!! I was going nuts taking care of all the greenery. So I took out about 10 of the worst offenders and deal with the rest.

 

 

 

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That probably made a neighbor or two angry.

 

 

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[tony@CIC]

We originally lived in the Northeast and plants and trees go dormant for 6 months so didn't mind taking care of them.

Moving to Florida our house HAD about 40 trees, shrubs and freakin flowers. Nobody told me FL had a 12 month growing season!! I was going nuts taking care of all the greenery. So I took out about 10 of the worst offenders and deal with the rest.

 

 

 

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40 trees holy moly - you must be in a different part of Florida then where I go. Most of the homes in Marathon have 1 token palm tree and a couple of bushes

 

 

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[Rickp]

We originally lived in the Northeast and plants and trees go dormant for 6 months so didn't mind taking care of them.

Moving to Florida our house HAD about 40 trees, shrubs and freakin flowers. Nobody told me FL had a 12 month growing season!! I was going nuts taking care of all the greenery. So I took out about 10 of the worst offenders and deal with the rest.

 

 

 

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The 40 is the total amount of “greenery” we had mostly this fast growing stuff I can't even name. Got about 6 trees left, Irma took 2.

The shrubs are the worst offenders, they grow a foot an hour in rainy season!

I won't plant any Palm trees had 6 1st house and they go crazy growth.

 

 

 

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[JAGolfore]

Screen doors. With kids 3 & 5 and two Labrador retrievers we go through about 3 or 4 a year.

 

 

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[Rickp]

Screen doors. With kids 3 & 5 and two Labrador retrievers we go through about 3 or 4 a year.

 

 

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That's cut, brings back memory's from many years ago. Only difference was English Setters.

 

 

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[L.I. Rich]

The 40 is the total amount of “greenery” we had mostly this fast growing stuff I can't even name. Got about 6 trees left, Irma took 2.

The shrubs are the worst offenders, they grow a foot an hour in rainy season!

I won't plant any Palm trees had 6 1st house and they go crazy growth.

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We planted roughly a dozen each of Leland cypress and green giants along a potion of our property line about five years ago and holy moly, they have exploded in size. I'm going to have to get them cut back now severely, every year. I'd estimate that they are growing at least two feet vertically per year, and the Lelands really need to be shaped. I'm sure I'm not the first and the guys with green thumbs are thinking, “what the heck did you expect, dummy?”, but the growth has become exponential.

[Rickp]

We planted roughly a dozen each of Leland cypress and green giants along a potion of our property line about five years ago and holy moly, they have exploded in size. I'm going to have to get them cut back now severely, every year. I'd estimate that they are growing at least two feet vertically per year, and the Lelands really need to be shaped. I'm sure I'm not the first and the guys with green thumbs are thinking, “what the heck did you expect, dummy?”, but the growth has become exponential.

Some of these trees, shrubs just grow incredible fast.

 

 

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[Rickp]

SWMBO came home with 4 plants about a month ago. 3 of them don't seem to be fast growers but #4 is cranking. Not going to be a favorite of mine.

 

 

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[AH1980MN]

Screen doors. With kids 3 & 5 and two Labrador retrievers we go through about 3 or 4 a year.

 

 

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My old beagles would get a sniff of something and head full bay and full steam out the back door- I don't think they ever noticed there was a screen door.

[MDGolfHacker]

Screen doors. With kids 3 & 5 and two Labrador retrievers we go through about 3 or 4 a year.

 

 

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So is the frame busted up or is literally just the screen portion ?  They are super easy to replace.  All you need is spline, the spline roller tool, and the proper size screen (not all that expensive either).  I replaced all the screens in my house myself and enclosed a covered deck with screens.

 

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[MDGolfHacker]

SWMBO came home with 4 plants about a month ago. 3 of them don't seem to be fast growers but #4 is cranking. Not going to be a favorite of mine.

 

 

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Well shoot, tell her to buy me some bushes .  Since I've moved into my house (5 years ago), I have replaced the same bushes in front of my house under the windows (a total of 5 bushes) each year.  They seem to take at first, but nosedive into the brown, leave shedding death by the end of the summer.  The front of our house gets a lot of sun, but I kept those bushes hydrated and made sure they had nutrients to survive the sun.  Well, at least the dead leaves add to ambience when halloween rolls around.  The only thing I haven't checked is the soil I've been planting them in to see if there's a pH issue.  All I know is I'm sick of digging up bushes and paying out the wazoo for them too!

 

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[JAGolfore]

So is the frame busted up or is literally just the screen portion ? They are super easy to replace. All you need is spline, the spline roller tool, and the proper size screen (not all that expensive either). I replaced all the screens in my house myself and enclosed a covered deck with screens.

 

MDGolfHacker

Yeah it's just the screen. Very easy to replace like you said.

 

I should switch it to glass for a good laugh once.

 

 

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[MDGolfHacker]

Yeah it's just the screen. Very easy to replace like you said.

 

I should switch it to glass for a good laugh once.

 

 

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Funny story - my wife and I were at a neighbor's house on their deck.  It was getting dark but we were all sitting on the deck having beers and wine.  Wife gets up with a full glass of red wine in her hand and goes to walk through the doorway thresh hold...only she didn't see that the screen door was closed.  Busted the screen out of the door and spilled wine all over her.  We all about died laughing.  The next day I came back over and replaced the screening (I had just enclosed my deck with screens so I had the larger screen rolls.  

 

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[Kor.A.Door]

the Biggest issue is the accumulation of stuff. Before you know it, you have all this stuff, and then realize your house is full of things, and you don't know how to get rid of it.

[yungkory]

the Biggest issue is the accumulation of stuff. Before you know it, you have all this stuff, and then realize your house is full of things, and you don't know how to get rid of it.

Living in Hawaii where real estate and space is a premium, this is something I can relate to

 

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[Rickp]

Well shoot, tell her to buy me some bushes . Since I've moved into my house (5 years ago), I have replaced the same bushes in front of my house under the windows (a total of 5 bushes) each year. They seem to take at first, but nosedive into the brown, leave shedding death by the end of the summer. The front of our house gets a lot of sun, but I kept those bushes hydrated and made sure they had nutrients to survive the sun. Well, at least the dead leaves add to ambience when halloween rolls around. The only thing I haven't checked is the soil I've been planting them in to see if there's a pH issue. All I know is I'm sick of digging up bushes and paying out the wazoo for them too!

 

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I don't know how this stuff grows in FL. nothing but sand. Of course plenty of sun and water help.

 

 

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[MDGolfHacker]

the Biggest issue is the accumulation of stuff. Before you know it, you have all this stuff, and then realize your house is full of things, and you don't know how to get rid of it.

 

Yep, been there, still there.  When we moved from our condo to the new townhome, we put everything in storage as our builder was running behind and we already committed to a move out date.  Needless to say, when we moved into the new townhome, we liked the feeling of space.  We promptly sold everything in storage except for my TV and a couch that was passed down from my parents.  Fast forward 12 years and now we're moving from the townhome to a single family home now with two kids.  Didn't learn our lesson and filled a 2 car garage with miscellaneous boxes, LOL.  It was so bad that I didn't get to park in the garage for the entire summer.  It just happens...you get stuff, then more stuff, and I'm pretty sure they start multiplying on there own, LOL.

 

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[Rickp]

Yep, been there, still there. When we moved from our condo to the new townhome, we put everything in storage as our builder was running behind and we already committed to a move out date. Needless to say, when we moved into the new townhome, we liked the feeling of space. We promptly sold everything in storage except for my TV and a couch that was passed down from my parents. Fast forward 12 years and now we're moving from the townhome to a single family home now with two kids. Didn't learn our lesson and filled a 2 car garage with miscellaneous boxes, LOL. It was so bad that I didn't get to park in the garage for the entire summer. It just happens...you get stuff, then more stuff, and I'm pretty sure they start multiplying on there own, LOL.

 

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It's amazing how we can accumulate “stuff”. When we moved to FL from CT 5.5 years ago I could not believe how much we had. We gave to the kids whatever they wanted then to our friends after that piled remaining in the garage. Let the neighbors pick that over, the rest Goodwill. Still brought too much to FL.

BTW, we are accumulating “stuff” all over again in FL.!

 

 

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