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Not all are. I tore down a 1911 house that was absolutely falling down, and built a new house that cost $190k to build in 2001. It was a decent house, but not huge. The house was 850 square feet with five additions. The crawl space had been poorly converted to a full basement, and some...

Milwaukee has constant deals for free batteries with purchase, and the like. You can even “hack” deals at Home Depot to get pretty good discounts on certain tools or batteries. Craftsman is giving away a cheap battery, and a $50 coupon, to get people hooked on their cordless tools ecosystem...

They make roofing screws where the metal covers the rubber washer completely. This helps keep the washer from deteriorating. I don’t recall the name, but I used them on the few places where I had to use an exposed screw.

You're willing to take the risk of water damage costing you thousands of dollars? Water damage claims are some of the most common insurance claims.

Is that an asphalt shingle roof? Around here, a 40 year old shingle roof would look like the next gust of wind would remove most of the shingles. I am also not sure anyone would insure a roof that old. You generally can't get a new policy on any shingle roof over ten years old right now.

This seems like a lot of work for Craftsman to only have a dozen batteries available at a limited number of locations. You end up turning away potential customers when you have so few batteries available. Isn’t the idea to hook people on the ecosystem with a cheap battery so you make a profit...

I mow about 1.75 acres of actual grass. Since 2021 I have put on about 60 hours. Granted, I don't mow even once per week most of the time. If someone is looking at an electric mower they probably are not mowing huge acres, or they would probably be looking at a gasoline mower. I worked at a...

I would prefer not to mow grass, but the alternatives aren't great either. I do absolutely nothing to my grass except mow it. No water, no fertilizer, no weed killer, or anything like that. I will mow the grass if it grows, but that is it. I have a three acre property. I would guess that...

The average person doesn’t that many hours on a riding mower in a lifetime. My father’s Craftsman rider suffered from fatal engine issues before 1,000 hours. He decided not to fix or replace the engine.

It shows discontinued on the GOJO website: https://www.gojo.com/en-US-int/Product-Catalog/Hand-Cleaner The GOJO Original Formula is about half way down the page and says discontinued.

The dealer had no problem selling him a Toro electric zero turn for about the same price. It was not in stock at the time so they were not trying to sell him something on the floor. He has shopped at this place since 1981 when they were in an old building that was falling down. They are in...

My father bought an electric zero turn three or four years ago. He went to a Cub Cadet dealer who was not selling the electric models. That dealer claimed Cub Cadet took all the inventory back and scrapped it all. I have my doubts on that as Cub Cadet was still offering them for sale. My...

How many hours do you spend cutting grass to put that many hours on a residential mower? Even a lot of ICE mowers are ready for scrap at those hours. I put around 50 hours a year on my Grasshoppper zero turn. I won't be mowing grass long before my mower hits those kind of hours. If I mow for...

Not painted, yet. The painting of the newer door is a lot higher on my priority list after what happened to the older door. I have a very nice full face respirator, but sanding fiberglass is never fun.

It is a Menards door. Probably not the best door. The damage is new. It definitely was not like that last fall. I have a two year old door from Menards on my new garage that doesn't have this issue. This door is from 2019 I recall.