Our dryer vent is at the back of our house where we have a walk out downstairs. The dryer is on the second floor…so the vent is three floors up.
We clean the dryer vent from the inside…not the outside. It never once crossed my mind to do it from outside.
Brilliant!!! that’s my answer the next time she complains about the fire hazard… It opens up on inside and can be cleaned from the inside - or at least I will make sure it can be cleaned from the inside
Our dryer vent is on the roof, second story. I wonder what she’d think of that!
Right…we take the dryer hose off, and DH has some kind of snake he uses.
We are very vigilant about cleaning out the lint filter…and usually there is nothing in the vent, or the hose.
That’s creepy. I just googled the address to see if this thread comes up and it doesn’t. Maybe one of your workers??
I’m glad you checked that! ^^^ I was hoping that a potential buyer wouldn’t be able to find this thread.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out this is a flip.
I have a condo in SC on the 3rd floor (out of 4) and the dryer vent is about 30 feet above the ground. There are companies you can hire to clean your dryer vent (and the condo association is all over it, believe me). They just use really long poles.
Last year everyone got me worried that potential buyers would read through all the poop stories. I googled and CC didn’t come up anywhere near the first 4 pages. Lots of real estate links, but no CC. Our secrets are safe!
The only way to uncover this thread is to know where it exists. IOW, if one goggled the site name and the address, then it comes up immediately.
If you just googled the address and “prior owner” or something similar, then you get confirmation of (Coralbrook’s) purchase price and date of sale.
^^^Which is quite a relief, since she is making all those updates to the house!
Exterior paint colors
I have painted a bunch of swatches on front of house (photos loaded tonight). After deliberation I realized that if i paint the house a lighter color or different color we will need two coats. I believe its an unnecessary and costly expense. We have such a safety and logistic issue painting the back and sides of this house that I want to avoid a second pass.
So I’m going to stay in the same range as current dark color. Its OK because its conyemporary and we will improve everything with trim and details.
Choice is
Behr. Elephant Skin
Glidden color (will be higher quality paint) Silver Screen for trim
But the Silver screen painted over the dark to check it out front is turning pinkish so i may change the trim color
Elephant Skin - what a name!
Yes, isn’t that a sexy and appealing paint color name?? If I visualized the color from it’s name, it would not be something anybody would want. But, it is the best match to current color
I’ve loaded photos of the paint swatches on walls
I must say, I love the Castle Grey that you decided was too green.
But H has been heard to declare, regarding colors at our house, “No more green!” 
I think the decision to keep it close to the existing color is probably wise.
Coralbrook, I like the choice that is close to the existing color as well, but can’t help wondering if a bit of “lightening up” might still be preferable. Perhaps it’s my dislike of the name of that choice speaking. (I have seen enough photographs of elephant poaching that the name is too evocative of something horrible.)
Anyway, I consider there to be somewhat of a “muddy” quality to the preexisting color, so I would choose something that glowed a bit for the new dress. Perhaps there is something in between your two options.
I confess to looking up elephant skin.
cb, I don’t think you’ll be painting today! Hopefully the heavy rains didn’t cause or reveal any problems for you.
The rain is good for many reasons. It always gives us a chance to crawl around everywhere to look for leaks. I want to be able to disclose eeverything possible and that is impossible if it never rains. Not like im going to go on roof with a hose and try to recreate a rainstorm.
Good news is roof is good and , for some reason, not much water comes down steep driveway even though the street is pretty flooded.
Bad news is we discovered strange leaks coming in through 2 new windows downstairs. Poor carpenter put on a big hefty bag and went on roof. Turns out that the wood ledger boards between upstairs new addition T1 11 and lower floor stucco(see side pics) is rotted on top in several places and water has been flowing in walls for a long time. Someone had to know about it. But absentee landlords are always negligent in disclosure.
We are going to repair and replace and diligently pull apart walls if we have to.
Way to go two steps backwards!!
Much better to learn now than having a mad potential buyer wanting to back out of sale because of said undisclosed leaks. Glad you discovered the cause and can fix before listing!
Probably would have never been found during purchase inspection.
Better not to have extremely mad buyer calling 6 months from now and threatening to picket my home and stalking
BTW, there is one spot so bad, water coming down through wall and puddling inside bedroom area on floor. Now we are going to have to dry it out with fans before we can close up the drywall.