[Broke It, Bent It, Tried To Fix It: Home Improvements]

On 8/10/2017 at 3:18 AM, Bastet said:

See, I would put electricity at the top of your list, because it shouldn't be scary.  If you learned the fundamentals of electricity and plumbing, you'd be able to handle a lot of repairs yourself (and you'd have the necessary knowledge base to properly evaluate anyone you might hire to take on the more advanced jobs).

I agree with this. I also have some issues before with how do I do fire and water damage restoration. Learning the basics is really quite hard takes time and effort but it will be all worth it after learning.

[Texas health conditions]

On 9/1/2017 at 10:22 AM, Spunkygal said:

We were talking about that at my hair appointment today. Those poor people walking in that water that has sewage, fluids from vehicles, critters, etc., was just horrifying. God forbid you cut yourself in that water and it gets infected. If I were being rescued I would demand a tetanus shot pronto and a horse shot of an antibiotic. I might even shave my head and start over with that. And the sweet little old folks rescued from nursing homes who already are frail and have compromised systems. I can't imagine what all those people will be facing. 

This whole thing is just incomprehensible.

I am also shocked with all these terrible happening. I really suggest that you have a tetanus shot. flooded house means all those waste from the basement have been flowing all over. 

On 9/4/2017 at 1:43 AM, BooksRule said:

My parents lost their house in Katrina and I along with my brother and sister spent days trudging through debris that had gone through storm surge.  (Most of the house collapsed, but enough was standing that we could walk through parts of it.) I tried not to think of what that water had in it when it came through (it was sea water, but it had gone through at least two streets of houses before it reached my parents' house), but we wanted to salvage what we could (mainly items that could be carefully cleaned).  The water had receded, but anywhere that water could have been trapped had that stinky water in it (we called it 'Katrina Stew' and it was bad).  I took precautions where I could.  I didn't climb on anything that could make me step in the water itself, I tried to be very careful not to get cut or scratched.  I wore work gloves that I left outside each night when I got home along with my sneakers.  Those never came into my house and were discarded as soon as I finished salvaging.  My clothes went into the washer to be washed each night as well (luckily my laundry room is where you enter when you go into my house) so they never went farther than that room.  I also got a tetanus shot as soon as I could.  We did the best we could and were happy that we were able to salvage at least some of my parents' belongings, but I never want to have to do that again and I really feel for the people that have to go through that ordeal in Texas.  We were lucky that no one got sick.

You also got lucky that none of your family members drowned. I have a friend that she also had survived with the flood over the last years but did not get any tetanus shot, few days passed she had chicken pox from the waste of water damage clean up and she even had to drink some accidentally while evacuating the place

[Broke It, Bent It, Tried To Fix It: Home Improvements]

On 5/24/2014 at 0:56 AM, stillshimpy said:

It's a holiday weekend here in the U.S.  This means that it is time to invade the home improvement stores of the world, in an attempt to gussy up various beat up things around the house.  Now seriously, I just used the phrase "gussy up"  ...that was stuck in my brain somewhere and now it is free at long, long last, because I don't think I've ever used it before.   Frightening.  

 

Anyway, so here's one of the projects I'm starting today.  It's very much based on this:  The project I am outright copying.   

 

Reason being?  I own this poor, unfortunate soul:  

 

 

It was always sort of a cheesy looking thing anyway, but it managed to sustain scuffs aplenty during a thousand mile move (thanks a lot relocation company, argh) and I figure it can't possibly get any worse.  Of course, I've never put silver (actually aluminum ) leaf on anything before, so it might go spectacularly wrong, but since the tiny dresser has been banished to that workshop area for  a year and a half, it's not like I'm risking much.  

 

Anyway, I figured I can't be the only person who's ever seen a DIY project and thought, "Hey, I could do that...maybe, I think.  Crap, I wonder how good you have to be at this stuff to pull that off?"  I thought I'd share the progress and see if anyone has any helpful advice like "Oh my God, run for your life, you'll never get the wisps of metal leaf out of your home."  

 

Anybody else starting anything?  

We also used to own a cabinet (a very old one) what my dad did was he reconstruct and made it to a case and put ou television inside. So if we are going to watch a program we first open or slide the cabinet and on the TV. This is just one of my Dad's DIY self reconstruct thing. Its also one of my dad's ways to protect our things which cost electricity from our flooded floors.

[Texas health conditions]

We all know what condition Texas is now. I am just curious, since its raining so hard in the place and water damages, floods, water pumps are broken even drainage are flooded in water. How are the condition of the people there? That with all these water damages there's gotta be sickness that they can get with all these flows of the water.

[S02.E02: Haute Dogs of Dallas]

Favorite show this week.. D'andraaaaaaaaaaa ... but I am curious, how do they these kind of events here in Dallas TX? it this based on real story for dallas people?

Anyway, been starting seeing this show since I moved here.

[RH of Dallas in the media]

Sadly, I also missed recaps. But this link work, will it? Thanks anyway.