The Vent and Rant Thread

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

We don't want a fixer upper, like the one we visited. EVERYTHING needed to be done. As I've said before, I think it's smarter to pay more and have to do less. With prices of supplies, long delivery times and having to pay more for the work There's a chance it isn't worth it. My sister is particular in how the kitchen has to look. And we both want a nice bathroom (having grown up without a proper one). I would love to have a shower without a shower curtain, so with a glass door or a big shower with no door and a glass divider. I realized I hate shower curtains; they always stick to your backside.

Well, as they say, different strokes for different folks; I tend (or tended to, past tense) prefer to remake the interiors as I wanted them. Give me a house with good bones but mediocre interior choices and I can do a lot. BUT, I am now also at the point where I no longer want to do that; we're not that young anymore and while we used to do things ourselves, now everything has to be contracted out.

So, yes, I feel ya!

Hitch

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

We don't want a fixer upper, like the one we visited. EVERYTHING needed to be done. As I've said before, I think it's smarter to pay more and have to do less. With prices of supplies, long delivery times and having to pay more for the work There's a chance it isn't worth it. My sister is particular in how the kitchen has to look. And we both want a nice bathroom (having grown up without a proper one). I would love to have a shower without a shower curtain, so with a glass door or a big shower with no door and a glass divider. I realized I hate shower curtains; they always stick to your backside.

I hate shower curtains too.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I hate shower curtains too.

Where we lived before here, we had to have shower curtains. They were awful. Now we have proper sliding shower doors.

[John F]

I have shower curtains and they are fine. I've used some sliding doors and they looked beautiful, but functionaly weren't good.

[mlewis78]

I would hate to try to keep shower sliding doors clean and mold-free. I spray my shower curtain liner with vinegar/water combo spray, but they do have to be replaced now and then. Still easier than maintaining the sliding doors.

[DNSB]

In one apartment I lived in, I spent too much time scrubbing the shower door tracks with vinegar to remove mold to ever want to share my living space with a shower door again. It probably didn't help that when I moved into the apartment, the couple who previously lived there believed in out of sight, out of mind when it came to cleaning.

[Rumpelteazer]

We currently have sliding doors and I hate those, too. The cleaning is part of it. But ours have wheels/rollers on both the top and the bottom. On one of the door the wheels at the bottom are broken, so it won't slide very well anymore.

I'm also not fond off bi-fold shower doors. They always fold inwards and if you got a tight shower that is awkward. And sometimes they don't fold easily.

I prefer a door or an open walk in shower. But if it's open the floor has to slope to the drain rail well. The friends I house sitted for had an open shower and the floor sloped the wrong way. So you spend a lot of your time whilst showering squeegeeing the water back to the shower drain. That's even worse than shower curtains or having to clean the tracks.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

. . .

I prefer a […] an open walk in shower.

. . .

Me too - when I had my bathroom renovated a few years ago, I replaced a too-large never-used bath with a long, narrow walk-in shower with a raised platform at the far end to sit on. The toilet, hand-basin etc are now in an adjoining room that can be accessed from the living area - i.e. it has two doors.

[Deskisamess]

We have a small shower in our master bath that has curtain, and it's fine. I actually prefer a cloth curtain because they are easy to toss in the washer.

The large bathroom has a big shower with a fixed glass front on half, and a swing out glass door, so no tracks. White vinegar with a tiny bit of Dawn dish soap in a spray bottle keep the glass clean. But I would prefer a cloth shower curtain. They are so much easier to care for.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by mlewis78

I would hate to try to keep shower sliding doors clean and mold-free. I spray my shower curtain liner with vinegar/water combo spray, but they do have to be replaced now and then. Still easier than maintaining the sliding doors.

We have a clear glass door, and the easy thing is simply to squeegee it every. single. time. you shower. That keeps it pretty clean. Yes, sure, you have to get in there and scrub from time to time--but what doesn't need that?

Hitch

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Hitch

We have a clear glass door, and the easy thing is simply to squeegee it every. single. time. you shower. That keeps it pretty clean. Yes, sure, you have to get in there and scrub from time to time--but what doesn't need that?

Hitch

The ones they're now making for universal access -- no shower door at all, just a no-hump entry that you can roll your wheel chair into. And a floor that is designed to drain properly. Of course. If I were building now? That is what I would choose.

[John F]

Originally Posted by Hitch

We have a clear glass door, and the easy thing is simply to squeegee it every. single. time. you shower. That keeps it pretty clean. Yes, sure, you have to get in there and scrub from time to time--but what doesn't need that?

Hitch

A shower curtain? Either throw it away or put it in the washing machine?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by CRussel

The ones they're now making for universal access -- no shower door at all, just a no-hump entry that you can roll your wheel chair into. And a floor that is designed to drain properly. Of course. If I were building now? That is what I would choose.

If I were building now and assuming that I had the room--those things do take up some ROOM, trust me--that's what I would do too.

Originally Posted by John F

A shower curtain? Either throw it away or put it in the washing machine?

I just...don't like them. Never found one that suited. I'm happier with glass and eh, different strokes for different folks, right?

Hitch

[Rumpelteazer]

On Thursday we took a lot of old bookkeeping (1983-2016) to the paper destroyer. We parked around the corner since my father kept the papers in a back room and it was easier to bring them through the side door (the one that was constantly blocked by the restaurant next to it). There a parking spot there especially for loading and unloading (you can only park there for a short amount of time). The car was parked for maybe 15 minutes, throughout that time my father and I were constantly taking boxes of paper to it.

Yesterday we got a visit from the police; the restaurant had complained about us being parked for too long. But by the time they came we were already gone. The police was told we had parked there for over 90 minutes. They couldn't ticket us because they hadn't actually seen us there, but wanted to give us a warning.

So I took them to a neighbour who had several cameras, one pointing down that street. She showed them that we were there for about 15 minutes and were loading the car the entire time.

So we didn't get a warning, the restaurant did, for making false claims.

I will not be missing this BS. I'm hoping that wherever my sister and I end up we live next to the quietest and most easy going neighbours ever.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

On Thursday we took a lot of old bookkeeping (1983-2016) to the paper destroyer. We parked around the corner since my father kept the papers in a back room and it was easier to bring them through the side door (the one that was constantly blocked by the restaurant next to it). There a parking spot there especially for loading and unloading (you can only park there for a short amount of time). The car was parked for maybe 15 minutes, throughout that time my father and I were constantly taking boxes of paper to it.

Yesterday we got a visit from the police; the restaurant had complained about us being parked for too long. But by the time they came we were already gone. The police was told we had parked there for over 90 minutes. They couldn't ticket us because they hadn't actually seen us there, but wanted to give us a warning.

So I took them to a neighbour who had several cameras, one pointing down that street. She showed them that we were there for about 15 minutes and were loading the car the entire time.

So we didn't get a warning, the restaurant did, for making false claims.

I will not be missing this BS. I'm hoping that wherever my sister and I end up we live next to the quietest and most easy going neighbours ever.

Lord, if that were me, I'd have been screeching at them. What BS.

A quick word of advice--one thing I learnt early on, in apartment, condo and house shopping is to walk up and down the street or building and ask everybody you can find about problematic neighbors. Try to find older gossipy folks (who are typically bored sh*tless and love to talk, not to generalize, but...), or bored housewives stuck at home with kids, etc. It can save you all sorts of aggro.

We once looked at a great duplex apartment, and I was in LOVE with it--until the neighbor across the way told me that the owners had been bitching for YEARS about how difficult the sharers were (the people in the adjoined duplex apartment).

Playing uber-loud music all night, screaming fights, leaving their barking dog home alone all day, etc. Fortunately, even though I was hot and tired that day, I'd "done the rounds" and it saved us. Strongly recommend that home shoppers, especially for buying or longer-term leases or rental agreements, do that.

I keep trying to think of some evil thing you can do to the restaurant people as a parting gift...hmmmm...

Hitch