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LunarEclipse
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Re: Drain piping what not to do [Re: demiu5]
#24191048 - 03/25/17 07:27 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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demiu5 said: renting a few cabins (or shacks/shit-shacks/rat-houses/rat-nests) over the years, i've seen some pretty interesting plumb-jobs. some a little common-sense would solve, some going-back-to-the-drawing-board would solve. the worst is when you have 6 different people living in a place the landlord never took care of, so you have 7 different ideas of how something should work and/or its layout
all i can tell you is, i THINK i'm done putting time/energy into other peoples' properties
My one regret of landlording in the past was not to have done routine and thorough inspections on an ongoing basis. When you don't you run into tenants "fixing" things. Oh yeah I've seen how that story ends. Being a wimpy landlord is never a great idea. The good news is I'm down to one tenant who I know won't fuck up my house.
Anyway water damage is perhaps no is THE worst thing you can have happen to your house short of burning down. It sucks. I had a tenant let her washing machine hose leak and blame the city for not fixing their pipe as 3 inches of water collected in the basement. A stinking washer on a connecting hose but no, she had tried to solve the problem to no avail as my newish water heater rusted out etc.
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Re: Drain piping what not to do [Re: LunarEclipse]
#24191119 - 03/25/17 08:13 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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ouch 
As a renter, I've had some problems with landlords refusing to fix 'definitely 100% broken, and not by me' plumbing, which can make it very difficult for a tenant. But if you're a good landlord there's no reason for your tenants to go buggering up your property. >_< From what I gather, it can help to pre-emptively talk to tenants and make it clear you're not going to punitorialy evict them if they ask you to call a plumber
I've got some dread about tenants, when I get my house finished > done with > in a new one. I build bulletproof (literally, the walls are rated to withstand cyclones, bushfire and -it turns out- mortar-fire, though only the first 2 happen here XD ) since my household is 2 fainters ( one of whom put their head through a gyprock wall last time they went down) and a person with cerebral palsy who is freaky-strong despite being a delicate-looking little thing.... who is the bane of towel racks, taps, wall fittings, and anything else that can't survive a 'little twitch' with the force of a punch behind it but I've seen some tenant damage to houses that makes me think they really /worked/ at fucking something up.
I used to live on a flood plain, in monsoon country so the one upside was that everything was built on the understanding it'd be underwater at least one week per year and wet for months around that The plumbing and waterproofing on anything built after the 1969 mega-flood was top-notch, too many houses got totalled by water damage so they changed the laws. it was funny, one time I was on the net griping with American friends about the power being out for a few days, taps running mud, and a mile of smelly chest deep water between me and the shop... they full-on panicked, asked if I needed emergency money, the full nine yards, and there's me '...? of course I have supplies, the government gave me a keg of disinfectant and $300 since the bank's down, and the generator must be working if I'm talking to you guys. I just don't feel like swimming or paddling a blow up mattress that far because I'm out of bug spray? :p ' It's amazing what can seem totally normal when you're used to it.
when I was 19 there we actually got permission to put in a semi-permanent pool downstairs on the grounds that 'it couldn't make anything worse' from a landlord, it was marvelous. ^_^ I spent the first six months after I moved away from the area freaking out everytime it rained since people build houses RIGHT ON THE GROUND! in the new area XD
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LunarEclipse
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I always want to know about a water leak ASAP. Many tenants just don't call then put a bucket under it or some shit like that.
Cool story I want a pool. Kind of built a place for one maybe put in a water tank and have fish and water plants there. Got the big plastic trough I'll move it over there. Need some goldfish and koi. The lilies locally can be moved they love that kind of thing are already growing in my other pond.
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ichbinschizophren
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Re: Drain piping what not to do [Re: LunarEclipse]
#24191144 - 03/25/17 08:26 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah.... much better to know about it when it happens, rather than 6 months later when it's gotten worse and mold and water damage has caused a big expensive mess. Sucks that your tenants would do that to you 
pools with fish are always great- my family had one with guppies, sword tails and koi when I was a kid. ^_^ super relaxing, with little fish nibbling your feet.
If you're into permaculture, you can even use food fish, so you can go fishing when you're done swimming, and plants just love fish water
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LunarEclipse
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Yeah she eventually got evicted and owed me big $$ stole some chimney venting never rent to a HUD renter is my best advice. You are asking for trouble in more ways than one. It's a pain in the ass this BS about how great it is what a joke. Never had a HUD tenant not fuck me. Three for three that was it no more.
But yeah fish, I should try to raise even a few little guys for possible edibles. What's easy and available? I need something that can survive in a 200 gallon RubbermaidTM pond cause that's what I got. It's got a drain on the bottom I like your idea of using that water for plants I can easily put a ball valve and hook to big PVC for a drip system. Can put a float valve to shut off the feed. I dug out a wall and can enclose this thing and need to for protection and warmth and to to keep out the deer and critters. The deer are brutal I've been letting them into the yard but need to start protecting the garden area. Won't be too hard to do given my set up.
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Re: Drain piping what not to do [Re: LunarEclipse]
#24191928 - 03/25/17 01:26 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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That's really unfortunate- I know of a few landlords who quit renting to HUD-type clients (we don't have the same system, but something related) because of some truly awful tenants... the 'best' I've seen is 8 people in a 3 person unit, who took out half the walls, pooped/littered on the carpet and spraypainted all surface with shitty tags, and a woman who seriously couldn't understand why she was evicted for some fucking awful sharpie-and-poster-paint tracings of unclassy porn ...complete with hair clippings glued in appropriate spots... over the walls and letting her massive great danes through the house. Since my place has to be disability-accessible anyway, I was planning to go through the disability housing mob here for the tax break and skipping some paperwork, but if subsidised renters are a hassle, I guess I wont. :/
As for fish, Tilapia are brilliant if you're in the tropics, they can withstand some awful water and low-quality food, grow like mad and get something like 50% biological efficiency for what they eat in good conditions- and seem to prefer high fish densities (they do fight a bit if there aren't many, especially males and females fighting ). But, they're definitely a hot-climate fish. Barramundi aren't bad either, but IMO don't taste as nice.
For colder environments, I'd recommend trout, catfish or carp - all fast growing with a great food given to fishmeat conversion rate, though with the carp, you need to be a bit more careful about water quality. Largemouth bass are also pretty popular, but IMO they don't taste that great (though that's based on how they are here, apparently they're nicer from cold water).
I'd expect a harvest of up to 40 or so plate-sized fish per year in a tub that size, in good conditions after a couple years for them to build up the population from your starter fish. Unless you want to do a lot of water change-outs you'd also need to have a goodly sized filter pump to keep them healthy and happy in a little pond like that if you let them breed up densely, unless you want to go the route of pumping the water up to a raised hydroponics bed to let your plants take out the fish poop and pee before it runs back... but, that way you get automatic self-watering veggies too, so it could be worth the fuss depending on your space and interests
It's cheaper and less fussy to buy the starter fish as fingerlings, and just grow them in a fishtank with a below-gravel filter system until they look big enough to handle the great outdoors, but once you've got a few up to breeding size, they'll happily breed as nature intended (...unless you have a cannibalistic fish like barramundi, where there's a bit of extra farting about to keep babies from getting eaten >_> it's quite disconcerting to catch your fish eating its babies anytime they peek out from hiding)
Sorry for the text-lump I did a marine studies certificate a while back (long story, but the short version is: they messed up my enrollment for a different course, wouldn't give my money back and damned if I wasn't going to learn /something/ for my money ) I now know more than you'd ever want to know about growing fish LOL
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Edited by ichbinschizophren (03/25/17 01:29 PM)
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