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I came into some money and have wanted to buy a set for a while. Was looking at Dewalt and Porter/Cable at Lowes and Ryobi at Home Depot.
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I have like 4 Ryobi tools. No issues. Swappable batteries are nice since they all use the same one.
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I have some Rigid stuff that I’m a fan of. My dad has pretty much every battery powered tool that Milwaukee makes and loves them all.
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I'm also not doing anything hardcore. Just household chores.
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I hate the color of Ryobi.
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I really agree
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It’s honestly the reason why I don’t own any Ryobi stuff.
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All my power tools are Bosch, Makita or Milwakee.
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Ryobi, ridgid, and Milwaukee are the good, better, best lines. I believe they are all made by the same parent company.
My main thing is I don't do "much" either and when I do, the batteries are worn out. With ridgid I can get consistent replacement batteries free of charge
My main thing is I don't do "much" either and when I do, the batteries are worn out. With ridgid I can get consistent replacement batteries free of charge
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Same.All my power tools are Bosch, Makita or Milwakee.
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Ended up getting this and buying the impact driver separately.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/PORTER-CABLE-2 ... d/50353174
https://www.lowes.com/pd/PORTER-CABLE-2 ... d/50353174
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Just closed on a new house and am getting ready to start projects, first of which is new blinds. Has anyone had blinds installed at a reasonable rate? Is it worth me looking into? I have no problem doing it myself, just comes down to if the cost can be low enough where it’s worth the time I gain out of not doing it myself.
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The previous owner of our house had blinds purchased and installed by JustBlinds. I'm glad they footed the bill, because while I do like the blinds they chose, they paid an insane amount of money (IMO). I would have installed them myself if I were in their shoes.
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Blinds are stupidly expensive and I refused to pay money for custom blinds or installation, so we went with these from Home Depot: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Decora ... /301179727
Can cut in store to fit your windows and cost less than $50 per blind.
Can cut in store to fit your windows and cost less than $50 per blind.
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Yeah, that’s why I’ll probably end up doing.
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We used Ikea blinds in our house until we realized that we don't really need blinds living in the middle of no where. They re cheap and good quality
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We hung our own Levelor blinds. Lowe's had to custom cut two out of ten blinds. Pretty easy to do imo. 12 years later, all are still hanging level.
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If we were surrounded by forest/the sticks, there's no way in hell my wife would let us go without blindsWe used Ikea blinds in our house until we realized that we don't really need blinds living in the middle of no where. They re cheap and good quality
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It is fun waking up in the morning/middle of the night and seeing a random light in the woodsIf we were surrounded by forest/the sticks, there's no way in hell my wife would let us go without blindsWe used Ikea blinds in our house until we realized that we don't really need blinds living in the middle of no where. They re cheap and good quality
(usually it's a car about a mile away)
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That’s someone with a spotting scope looking in your windows.
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$70 and a hammered finger later and it wasn't the tub bearing. I had to chisel out the bearing nut as the thing was frozen on the shaft.Pretty sure my washing machine tub bearing is bad. It will spin if there's a small load or no load, but if there are too many clothes it won't spin. Spent $70 on parts to fix it, but after watching the youtube video on how to do the repair, I expect most of my Saturday to be washed away.
Beats paying for a new machine, so I hope this works.
Spent about 6 hours on the dumb thing and probably half of that trying to remove the nut. No amount of liquid wrench, heat or pounding on the wrench with a hammer did the trick.
Guessing the real issue was the transmission. Wasn't going to spend $175 on a new one so the old washing machine is gonzo.
New washer coming Saturday. If it lasts anywhere near as long as my old one I'll be happy.
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WELL WELL WELL
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WELL WELL WELL
at least I had some time to myself and learned how a washing machine works
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