Home Improvement Today?

Asphalt is cheap-ish, but it’s horrible in the summer time. Aggregate sucks because it hurts your ass more than regular gravel. Gravel sucks because it needs regular maintenance and gets in the yard etc. Concrete is the only way to go.......... But it costs a FORTUNE.

 

Living in California with constantly shrinking and expanding clay soil I would vote for pavers. More work to install initially and more expensive depending if you take on the project yourself or not.

recently got a quote to redo my 80’ driveway for 12,500 or do it all with pavers myself for around 3,500 including materials. Hire a couple guys and got a pattern to going with these things and I had more than half of the driveway done in one day. Second day was a lot more drinking so it took another half day to throw down the polymeric sand and vibrate it into the gaps

 

this is also a good idea...

 

I save TONS by not living in Cali. Lol

 

I make TONS living in CA though haha

 

So what you’re saying is, it’s a wash then.

 

Yes but I don’t have to shovel my driveway

 

But but but........... We make a damn good living in TN , without all the bs. I won’t post what my household income is , but I sure hate my tax bracket with the Feds. Lol

 

Sure you do... just don’t have to shovel snow off it.

 

I don’t think I’ve ever had to use a snow shovel in Nashville. Everything melts in a day and we might get a “real” snowfall like once a decade.

 

I need to move to TN soon

 

Franklin area

 

I’m having a new gas hot water heater installed tomorrow. The current one is leaking and not from a connection or the relief valve. Yeah, homeownership s$#t right before Christmas!

 

I hear Boise/Eagle area is nice as well.... Need to check out there too

 

Good thing because you need it. Especially living in the human toilet formerly known as the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

It is. I have some family out there and visit quite often. Northern Idaho is amazingly nice. Anything around Montana’s west side was just awesome all around

No offense but have you been? Don’t be too quick to judge a place you only hear about on the news. The place is really nice but most people just think it’s poop on the streets and gang wars. You need to check out the marin headlands, east bay hills, South Bay mini mountains. So many nice places

To stay on topic, anyone use copper for propane lines? I’m building a bbq pin the back yard and would prefer to use soft copper so I can bend and twist it nicely in place. I know it’s allowed but just looking for anyone with experience on how well it held up.

 

Yes it’ll hold up if it’s protected and flare your ends and I use rectorseal on gas

 

I have and the news has it spot on with the shit everywhere. It may be the place for some but it has gotten out of control!

 

I think we are going to stay on the east side of the country as much as I love the west coast its just not for me anymore....

 

Montana sucks, stay away... gross!