House Stuff

[Stumplegriltskin]

So sick of electronics and gadgets I'm all done with a big house, couldn't care fucking less. Endless stuff in my house and all it does is fucking break. Tired of fixing shit. Heat, Toilet, Bed. That's all I need really. I had to rebuild my router Saturday night at 11pm after I was drinking all day. Thing just stopped working. All indications of the ORBI system were fine, but it wouldn't hand out IP addresses. So........I thought to myself, I could do it now, or in the AM. I knew I wouldn't sleep till I fixed it and figured it would take 1/2 hour. Well, 1/2 hour for the router. Then 1/2 hour for the satellites to connect. Done? NOPE. Fuck. Ring doorbells and 2 ring chimes. 20 flights of stairs stepped and that was done. Another 1/2 later. Done? NOPE. Fucking WIFI lights. Can supposedly do all the 6 high hats in my living room all at once. Nope, didn't work. I had to take all 6 of them out (grab the ladder) and remove all six and do 1 at a time. Flick the light switch 6 times to put the 1st bulb into configuration mode after removing the protective cover from the switch plate which prevents accidental shut offs. Flick the switch 3x to get each bulb into configuration mode.

Nope, 3 switch flicks did not work as the instructions in the app states. Get on my mac to google it. Boot the mac up like an idiot. Oops, no wifi. Have to look on my cell phone. Google says 6x. Flick the switch 6x. Nope. Repeat flicking the switch at varying tempos 6x x 10x and finally bulb number 1 is blinking blue in config mode. 10 minutes later 1 fucking bulb done. 5 more to go. Configure the 5 bulbs, now the first one is fucked up. Redo that one. Then the last one is fucked up. Redo that one. Done? 1 hour process for 6 fucking bulbs.

Done? Fuck!!!!! Nope, not done, have to redo the fucking wifi thermostats. Another 15 minutes. Done? Nope, fuck, another 4 high hats upstairs to do. Same fight as the 6 in the living room. Another 1/2 hour gone. Done? Nope my smart bed has wifi also. LOL. Luckily I saved that for the AM as my wife was sleeping in the bed. Wife wakes up "the TV doesn't work" LOL. Configure the wifi on 3 TV's. I used the same SSID as prior thinking everything would be fine, but nope, there must be some new code or something when setting up the router as new behind the scenes, regardless of whether the SSID and password is the same. But as a bonus, I didn't have to buy a new Wi-Fi system. Mine just decided that it wanted to fuck me on a Saturday night. and require a factory reset. Oh and to really piss me off, forgot about this. 2am Sunday morning, 1 hour into my sleep a fucking 9V in one of the 15 smoke alarms in my house decides to die.

Fucking so sick of gadgets.

 

[70 Mach 1]

yeah and my patience level to fix shit dropped 99% since i was in my 20

Had to make 5 trips to Lowes for a goddamn sink strainer. who'da known they make 40 difference variants. they all look the same

on my last trip i bought them all and returned what didn't fit

 

[Stumplegriltskin]

yeah and my patience level to fix shit dropped 99% since i was in my 20

Had to make 5 trips to Lowes for a goddamn sink strainer. who'da known they make 40 difference variants. they all look the same

on my last trip i bought them all and returned what didn't fit

OMG I had a builders toilet. That came with my house. It was an American Std, but a builders model. Went to replace the innards of the tank. 4 fucking trips to HD and I gave up. Went to lowes and bought 3 new toilets and did them all at once.

Got 5 years out of those toilets. Hired a plumber for another task and had him add 3 toilets onto the list. "why don't you just have me replace the insides?" Nope, replace and dispose of all 3 toilets please and replace the shut off valves and feed lines. That was a $2500 day. Money well spent. Fucking can't stand plumbing. It's the easiest shit in the world as far as installing the parts. I monkey can do it. But if have a part in your hand and don't know what it's called, you're screwed. I recall another time I went to get a supply line for a sink. That was fucking 2 trips to HD.

 

[Stumplegriltskin]

yeah and my patience level to fix shit dropped 99% since i was in my 20

Had to make 5 trips to Lowes for a goddamn sink strainer. who'da known they make 40 difference variants. they all look the same

on my last trip i bought them all and returned what didn't fit

What they do too is this. You buy a faucet. That's the list time you see that faucet, EVER. They do 1 run of a faucet and then throw out all the molds. No parts, so you have to buy a whole new faucet. That's what I do. I wont even fuck with a sink aerator any more. Replace the whole fucking faucet. Fucking China.

 

[JDs Couch]

yeah and my patience level to fix shit dropped 99% since i was in my 20

Had to make 5 trips to Lowes for a goddamn sink strainer. who'da known they make 40 difference variants. they all look the same

on my last trip i bought them all and returned what didn't fit

Sorry to hear that you struggle at basic adult tasks. These type of simple activities would be easier if you weren't perpetually hammered.

 

[70 Mach 1]

You should be able to get the cartridges.
I have delta that's 20 yrs old.

Lifetime warranty. I called gave them the model, good thing I saved the owners booklet.

He sent me 2 because he had a feeling the other would leak next month.

So while i was in there cursing i did both

Another time i had to do a toilet valve and didn't trust the service valve so i closed the main

When i went to turn it in the handle broke
This was the day after Thanksgiving.

No plumbers picked up.

I called the water department. They knew someone who did work on the side

Wasn't bad. Only charged me $250 and he came right away and was in and out in a hour

 

[70 Mach 1]

Sorry to hear that you struggle at basic adult tasks. These type of simple activities would be easier if you weren't perpetually hammered.

Listen you inbred phoney iommi.
If your sisters and cousins were good in bed you wouldn't be this fucked up and miserable

Go find a non relative to have sex with.

 

[Findthetone1]

Either of you have a house that's 125 years old? It will kill your will.

 

[70 Mach 1]

Either of you have a house that's 125 years old? It will kill your will.

Well it was about that. We totally gut in in 2007 and added on 1200 Sq ft extension

Soooo everything was new but shit is starting to show its age now. Even the ruff

 

[MadAsAHatter]

The joys of homeownership; amirite???

 

[MadAsAHatter]

Either of you have a house that's 125 years old? It will kill your will.

I think I'd take that over a new construction DSLD build.
My house is an older DSLD one. I think I lucked out and didn't have problems or they were taken care of before I bought it. Anything in my neighborhood built in the last 5 years or so is a pile of crap.

 

[Findthetone1]

I think I'd take that over a new construction DSLD build.

Maybe. The only issue with a house that old is that during it's life, someone has lived there that has no business touching a hammer, you know, a retard like JD's Coochie, and it turns every project into 3

 

[VonBonfire]

Lol @Stumplegriltskin now you know why I built a glorified shed to live in. Screw all that fancy crap. I don't even own a tv set.....

 

[Geo]

Things have gotten progressively worse when it comes to quality, especially appliances. HVAC stuff too.

Nowadays you are better off fixing the old instead of buying new.

And forget all that smart shit, I don't want any gadget or appliance connecting to the internet. I will never own a fridge that shows me commercials on the door.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

I will never own a fridge that shows me commercials on the door.

At some point we'll be having to watch a 30 second ad just to get to the leftovers.

 

[Robostyle]

The smarter the devices get, the dumber the humans become.
Simple as. Imho

 

[Geo]

And suddenly, the Amish riding around in their buggies doesn't seem so silly.

 

[Monkey Man]

The smarter the devices get, the dumber the humans become.
Simple as. Imho

Preach brother.