No I mean pressure treated and then follow that up with sealer/paint whichever. Me and my pops built the deck on our old house when I was 12, it got totally neglected, the decking didn’t get squishy for about 15 years.
Treated lumber. Yeah, it’ll rot in 20ish years give or take, but it’s half the cost or less for the materials and probably so much easier to work with it’ll reduce labor costs (whether you’re diy’ing or paying someone). If you maintain it by sealing or painting every year or two you can easily get longer lifetimes. This composite, you scratch it, there’s no fixing it. You cut a bird wrong, there’s no cheating it.
Oh I am, I’m currently pretty mad at said dog cause he got into the damn trash bag I had out here and pissed all over it. Great way to start the morning lol. She doesn’t discipline her dogs and half the silly shit we’ve had to do our here has been for the dogs, like doing the railings before finishing the actual deck.
Another reason i have a genera dislike for composite. It scratches. I have a feeling this was one of the dogs, probably the big one. It was definitely done after install.
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It never gets old either lol. She keeps trying to give me impossible deadlines knowing I work here around my day job, at first it started at 6 weeks, i shot that down immediately. Then it turned to end of March, at the beginning of March, shot that down. Now it’s beginning of June, and I told her the same thing again, I can’t promise an end date because this isn’t a small project and I’m here when I can be, not every day. It’s been hilarious lol also in the middle of all this she had me stop working on the deck and redo a bathroom floor, which took like 5 or 6 work days and is still currently incomplete cause the husband said he’d finish it and hasn’t yet lol
I love when a piece of a project gets two pieces away from completion and the owner decides they don’t like the design they been talking about the whole time lol so that second staircase is now going to get the fancy miter on the other end, which will be against the lattice and not have railing, so I’m not sure how it’s gonna look. Whatevs, means another day of work for me. Her husband had apparently drawn a sketch and we’ve all three talked about it multiple times and the wife just now realized all of it. So amongst all the wanting to rush this project along, now we got a whole extra day of redoing something lol good times
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Eggcelent. I might have to find me some.
Do they have similar health benefits to goji?
Yeah man, just check in with me. These things can reproduce fairly quickly so hopefully we can work out a deal
Interesting. They just did an update like last week on iOS that actually made a bunch of stuff better and added some nice features, hopefully they’ll jump on the issues for yall
Well, I kinda scattered my worms all around when I reset the white bin at the beginning of spring, threw some in each of my compost bins and some of my raised beds, so I don’t really have a whole lot to move at the moment. I only found a handful to throw in the new bin.
If you’re needing some in the next couple weeks, I probably wouldn’t be able to. However, if it’s gonna be a month or two, hit me back up, I may have some to send your way.
Bahahah! There is that! They also apparently love coffee grounds, so if anybody drinks coffee get them to pitch the grounds and the filters in the same bucket, or you can hit up Starbucks. They actually will either take buckets from you to fill up or they have bags of the old grounds set out in the floor in a basket or something for whoever to grab. My wife drinks coffee but it’s usually Keurig cause she don’t drink but a cup or two a day and I don’t drink coffee, so it ain’t quite worth emptying those pods. I have been known to do it, I just don’t make a habit of it lol.
I don’t know that I’d say thrive per se, but mine have done fine on it. They probably get 95% paper and cardboard if not 99%. When I reset the white bin at the beginning of this spring you couldn’t pull out a handful of castings without a boatload of worms wriggling around in it
We don’t do many veggies in my house, but we do have a boatload of paper and cardboard. I bought one of those $200 24 sheet shredders and I shred all the cardboard and paper and it goes to the worms, whatever extra goes directly to the compost bins. Any veggie/fruit or plant scraps we do have (like pruning our garden plants, plants that didn’t survive the winter, etc) goes to the worms too. You can put meat in a worm bin too but it draws flies/maggots and they get in the worm juice and make it not great for direct fertilizer, so I just put meat scraps directly in my compost.
It’s also low maintenance. I didn’t even bring my bins in for the winter. Not much happens over the winter of course, but when the temps came back up they took off!
Do it! It’s been really fun for me, they tear up some compost really fast. I had been using the juice for watering my plants but I’ve decided to start putting it into my compost bins to hopefully speed them up. I think the trash cans are just a touch too small for compost to really move quickly, so maybe the worm juice will help it speed on up.
I’ve not had any issues these last several days. Y’all android or iOS?
Expanded the worm farm. Been wanting to for a while cause I’ve already used all my big trash cans for either scrap metal or compost (5 of them are compost bins) and I just happened to spot this black bin on the way home. College kids were moving out and the hinges were broke so they set it beside the road, and I snatched it up.
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That angle is a part of my desire to do it, but also to maybe save myself some money on chew lol and to better control what’s in the chew I’m chewing