The Home Improvements Thread (2)

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TaLamia said:
Question for those who know about epoxy paint: While researching about applying 2 part epoxy to a small floor area in the garage, I realised its properties sound pretty darn good for outdoor application too (UV resistant kind of course). My question is, can I use it to repaint my steel driveway gate? I assume it's currently typical solvent based enamel at the moment and it has lots of rust areas so assuming I handle all the prep work correctly and thoroughly, shouldn't the epoxy paint hold out far better against the elements than enamel?
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Yes it can be done. I wouldn't DIY it though and rather send to the professionals. I give people the option when we do gates. Most people powder coat though.

For your specific use u would first send the gate for sand blasting and then epoxy coat.
 
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Any recommendations on contractors around JHB North?

I just got quoted R16k to paint 3 rooms.

Also need new kitchen cupboards.
 
Generally I tell people to budget around R2500 labour per room if it's a proper prep, primer/undercoat and paint job. Client buys their own paints.
This includes stripping loose paint, fixing of cracks, coat of primer, 3 coats of paint (sometimes 2 is enough).

With that said, if the rooms are almost perfect condition I would obviously do a different rate.
Room sizes also come into play.
Total cost of job including materials would depend on room sizes and type of paint client wants.

For 16k I'm assuming all materials included? Must be 3 x big rooms and some very good paints. If the house is not in a bad condition I can do an entire house for 16k depending on size. I think I charged someone 20k labour for the inside of his house and separate entrance last year. Was quite a massive place though. All he supplied was his paint.
 
TStringList said:
Any recommendations on contractors around JHB North?

I just got quoted R16k to paint 3 rooms.

Also need new kitchen cupboards.
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Have a look on FB in your area. Gents from Moz / Malawi. Had one do my living room, i supplied the paint and extras.
 
Hey chaps

Not particularly a 'home improvements' question but one that I am sure one of you will have a great solution to.

We recently bought a house that has a panhandle house behind it, neighbours to each side and one across the road from us. Our house has one of those garbage bag holders on our wall/gate which seems to be used by the neighbours that are in the panhandle behind us. Which I don't mind; they have nowhere else to put their trash except on our verge as that is where their driveway comes out.

Now we have met the neighbours and all of them seem like older couples with kids already out the house, except for the ones across the road from us. The ones across the road have a toddler, and it seems like they are also putting their bags on our verge because I can usually see disposable nappies through the transparent bags.

I would normally have no gripe with this except that our garbage collection day is Friday and as of today (Wednesday), there are already 5 bags in the holder and on the grass around it. This is an issue because dogs and vagrants keep on rummaging through the bags if they are put out too early and then I have to go up every weekend and pick up beer bottles, vrot food, filthy nappies and God knows what else.

Last week we put a note in the postbox of the neighbours across the road politely requesting them to stop putting their bags on our lawn and to keep it on their side. This morning, I see another bag of theirs on our lawn again and it's been torn open and all their kak is lying on our verge.

Short of chucking their bags over their wall, what other option do I have? I am done playing nice with these r-souls.
 
PhireSide said:
Hey chaps

Not particularly a 'home improvements' question but one that I am sure one of you will have a great solution to.

We recently bought a house that has a panhandle house behind it, neighbours to each side and one across the road from us. Our house has one of those garbage bag holders on our wall/gate which seems to be used by the neighbours that are in the panhandle behind us. Which I don't mind; they have nowhere else to put their trash except on our verge as that is where their driveway comes out.

Now we have met the neighbours and all of them seem like older couples with kids already out the house, except for the ones across the road from us. The ones across the road have a toddler, and it seems like they are also putting their bags on our verge because I can usually see disposable nappies through the transparent bags.

I would normally have no gripe with this except that our garbage collection day is Friday and as of today (Wednesday), there are already 5 bags in the holder and on the grass around it. This is an issue because dogs and vagrants keep on rummaging through the bags if they are put out too early and then I have to go up every weekend and pick up beer bottles, vrot food, filthy nappies and God knows what else.

Last week we put a note in the postbox of the neighbours across the road politely requesting them to stop putting their bags on our lawn and to keep it on their side. This morning, I see another bag of theirs on our lawn again and it's been torn open and all their kak is lying on our verge.

Short of chucking their bags over their wall, what other option do I have? I am done playing nice with these r-souls.
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take all the loose rubbish and go put it in a neat pile in the middle of their driveway
 
Smokey mcpot said:
Generally I tell people to budget around R2500 labour per room if it's a proper prep, primer/undercoat and paint job. Client buys their own paints.
This includes stripping loose paint, fixing of cracks, coat of primer, 3 coats of paint (sometimes 2 is enough).

With that said, if the rooms are almost perfect condition I would obviously do a different rate.
Room sizes also come into play.
Total cost of job including materials would depend on room sizes and type of paint client wants.

For 16k I'm assuming all materials included? Must be 3 x big rooms and some very good paints. If the house is not in a bad condition I can do an entire house for 16k depending on size. I think I charged someone 20k labour for the inside of his house and separate entrance last year. Was quite a massive place though. All he supplied was his paint.
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Yes this is with materials included. It's a one bedroom apartment so the rooms are of average size.

I honestly thought labour would be cheaper than R2500 per room but I guess you get what you pay for.
 
PhireSide said:
Hey chaps

Not particularly a 'home improvements' question but one that I am sure one of you will have a great solution to.

We recently bought a house that has a panhandle house behind it, neighbours to each side and one across the road from us. Our house has one of those garbage bag holders on our wall/gate which seems to be used by the neighbours that are in the panhandle behind us. Which I don't mind; they have nowhere else to put their trash except on our verge as that is where their driveway comes out.

Now we have met the neighbours and all of them seem like older couples with kids already out the house, except for the ones across the road from us. The ones across the road have a toddler, and it seems like they are also putting their bags on our verge because I can usually see disposable nappies through the transparent bags.

I would normally have no gripe with this except that our garbage collection day is Friday and as of today (Wednesday), there are already 5 bags in the holder and on the grass around it. This is an issue because dogs and vagrants keep on rummaging through the bags if they are put out too early and then I have to go up every weekend and pick up beer bottles, vrot food, filthy nappies and God knows what else.

Last week we put a note in the postbox of the neighbours across the road politely requesting them to stop putting their bags on our lawn and to keep it on their side. This morning, I see another bag of theirs on our lawn again and it's been torn open and all their kak is lying on our verge.

Short of chucking their bags over their wall, what other option do I have? I am done playing nice with these r-souls.
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What @HunterNW and @Steamy Tom said... though if you want to maintain a better relationship going forward you should probably knock on their door and chat to them.

If you don't care whether you have a good relationship or not, then just put it in their driveway.

My letterbox is like a physical spam folder. Once a week I grab everything in there and bin it, almost always without looking at the contents.
 
TStringList said:
Yes this is with materials included. It's a one bedroom apartment so the rooms are of average size.

I honestly thought labour would be cheaper than R2500 per room but I guess you get what you pay for.
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Would you mind posting some pictures of the place here? I could give you an estimate quote.

Sounds like the place isn't too big. Based on my labour quote above your total cost (if all rooms are the same colour) would come to roughly 11k with a very good paint. Maxed out at 12k should you want different colour rooms (buying smaller quantities cost more than a 20lt drum).
 
Smokey mcpot said:
Would you mind posting some pictures of the place here? I could give you an estimate quote.

Sounds like the place isn't too big. Based on my labour quote above your total cost (if all rooms are the same colour) would come to roughly 11k with a very good paint. Maxed out at 12k should you want different colour rooms (buying smaller quantities cost more than a 20lt drum).
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I would prefer not to post pics but yeah gonna try to bring the price down.

Are you based in JHB?
 
PhireSide said:
Hey chaps

Not particularly a 'home improvements' question but one that I am sure one of you will have a great solution to.

We recently bought a house that has a panhandle house behind it, neighbours to each side and one across the road from us. Our house has one of those garbage bag holders on our wall/gate which seems to be used by the neighbours that are in the panhandle behind us. Which I don't mind; they have nowhere else to put their trash except on our verge as that is where their driveway comes out.

Now we have met the neighbours and all of them seem like older couples with kids already out the house, except for the ones across the road from us. The ones across the road have a toddler, and it seems like they are also putting their bags on our verge because I can usually see disposable nappies through the transparent bags.

I would normally have no gripe with this except that our garbage collection day is Friday and as of today (Wednesday), there are already 5 bags in the holder and on the grass around it. This is an issue because dogs and vagrants keep on rummaging through the bags if they are put out too early and then I have to go up every weekend and pick up beer bottles, vrot food, filthy nappies and God knows what else.

Last week we put a note in the postbox of the neighbours across the road politely requesting them to stop putting their bags on our lawn and to keep it on their side. This morning, I see another bag of theirs on our lawn again and it's been torn open and all their kak is lying on our verge.

Short of chucking their bags over their wall, what other option do I have? I am done playing nice with these r-souls.
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Most of the others have given you good advice: have a proper chat with your neighbors.

One thing you should note though: the verge is not your property, but actually publicly owned and managed by the municipality. There are some municipal bylaws that allows you to “beautify” up to one meter of the pavement.

So legally speaking, you have no standing.
 
Steamy Tom said:
take all the loose rubbish and go put it in a neat pile in the middle of their driveway
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I have contemplated this, believe me. I don't want to make enemies but why go through all the effort to put your bags on someone else's lawn? It's inconsiderate especially if they can see that after the vagrants have been, it's 99% their rubbish strewn all over my verge.

SAguy said:
What @HunterNW and @Steamy Tom said... though if you want to maintain a better relationship going forward you should probably knock on their door and chat to them.

If you don't care whether you have a good relationship or not, then just put it in their driveway.

My letterbox is like a physical spam folder. Once a week I grab everything in there and bin it, almost always without looking at the contents.
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They blast their music through their open windows all hours of the day so I doubt they are the type of neighbour I would want to be associated with anyway - still, it would have been nice not to have to resort to these measures in the first place. I have tried getting his attention the first time it happened but the guy ignores me like a stop street in Bellville. Pretends I don't exist for some reason.

ElixirCoder said:
Most of the others have given you good advice: have a proper chat with your neighbors.

One thing you should note though: the verge is not your property, but actually publicly owned and managed by the municipality. There are some municipal bylaws that allows you to “beautify” up to one meter of the pavement.

So legally speaking, you have no standing.
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This is also true. I think that the best course of action is to place his rubbish back on his verge. If this guy is playing dirty and pretending that our verge is his rubbish dump then so be it.

Off-topic, but last weekend I went and cleaned up our verge, the pavement gutters, everything because our municipality haven't been cleaning the streets for a few weeks now - some sort of deadlock between suppliers and tenders or something to that effect. Managed to clean up 6 black bags full of old leaves, grass, sand, bottles, nappies, vrot bananas and apples and avodacos, old takeaway packets - and our verge is only 14m long as our property is in a sort of triangle shape where it's narrow by the street but wide towards the back.
 
Steamy Tom said:
Personally I would rather use polycop and compression fittings
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Had a chap that came out to do a leak test in my yard and said that Polycop is not SABS approved for residential pressure systems anymore? Suggested I use Unitwist as replacement for all future plumbing.
 
PhireSide said:
I have contemplated this, believe me. I don't want to make enemies but why go through all the effort to put your bags on someone else's lawn? It's inconsiderate especially if they can see that after the vagrants have been, it's 99% their rubbish strewn all over my verge.



They blast their music through their open windows all hours of the day so I doubt they are the type of neighbour I would want to be associated with anyway - still, it would have been nice not to have to resort to these measures in the first place. I have tried getting his attention the first time it happened but the guy ignores me like a stop street in Bellville. Pretends I don't exist for some reason.



This is also true. I think that the best course of action is to place his rubbish back on his verge. If this guy is playing dirty and pretending that our verge is his rubbish dump then so be it.

Off-topic, but last weekend I went and cleaned up our verge, the pavement gutters, everything because our municipality haven't been cleaning the streets for a few weeks now - some sort of deadlock between suppliers and tenders or something to that effect. Managed to clean up 6 black bags full of old leaves, grass, sand, bottles, nappies, vrot bananas and apples and avodacos, old takeaway packets - and our verge is only 14m long as our property is in a sort of triangle shape where it's narrow by the street but wide towards the back.
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Same thing here with dirt on our verge... people are fkn disgusting. It's such a pain as well when walking my dog as I have to make sure she doesn't eat chicken bones and things while we walk.

Who tf eats a piece of chicken while walking down the street?
 
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