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Well small update, after paying ARS to come out and look at the plumbing, i found the low pressure to be calcium built up in the shower pipe. the water was turned off for so long, there was a bit of calcium preventing the valve from letting water through.. 125$ lesson.. ill never have to worry...

I have found a pretty affordible source for radiant barrier material, so im going to pick up about 2000 sq ft, and do that prior to the insulation, so i wont be rolling around in 12" of cellulose

i grew up in a house where one person smoked.... a LOT. so much so that the walls were actually yellow.. maybe its me being forced to grow up in a house that way, but id go with pretty much any color other than yellow.

the way the roof is leaking, is it something you could caulk? Pictures definitely would help

welcome, i JUST signed on my papers on thursday 6-2-11, so im in the same boat as you. brand new house, we moved in half of our stuff, and the other half will be moved in 6-11-11. sounds like you have alot of repairs and work to do to your house!

what about the steel lines? our home inspector made of note that the piping in the attic was not insulated. i had assumed he had meant the steel piping

Just curious, in your experience, if re-piping the house, would you suggest veering away from a PEX setup? ive heard mixed reviews, what is your thoughts?

And here is a horrible pic of the attic, and how bad my "insulation" is, after 5 years of the house being un-occupied. also please note that the piping in the attic isnt insulated. this will be taken care of quickly.. i have a feeling i will need to replace the ducting as well.. it looks like...

see, there is the issue, you had ALLLL of that insulation done at once, so its impossible to tell if just the R-B backed plywood helped or not. if you went from the original insulation, to R-B backed plywood and it made the difference, that would be more of what im trying to find out.

And just for the record, this is what i am working with.

man, another texan. take some pics of the construction process! its always nice to have that kind of stuff documented, so other noobs can see how its done. I intend on taking a few pics of me fixing up my house once i get started on it.

what type of metal did you make the frame out of? I can remember having difficulties painting galvanized steel before. the galvanization coating made it difficult for the paint to adhere smoothly.

are you trying to keep the old door instead of replacing it?

+1 the deeper the better.

Ive been looking into it, seeings as i'm going to have to do a lot of work in the attic, i would rather get all of the hot stuff done at once. I will be spraying in f-glass / cellulose insulation which i have calculated out to 10$ per bin (40 sq ft), and i will need approximately 40 bins , so a...

eh, a lot of the projects are things that will take under an hour to do. Termite barrier, and control treatment isn't even preformed by me, so i'm paying bullseye to come do it. replacing the water heater.. it takes longer to drain the 40 gallons, than it does to unhook the 4 connections...

On our old outdoor spa, we used the thin bubble/solar plastic cover, and it helped increase the temp of the water, it just doesnt look as nice as a leather hard top pool cover

Yeah, ive messed around with rustoleum oil based paint, and read to use veggie oil to remove excess.. worked on my skin..

vegetable oil. i would suggest that, due to leather is "practically" skin anyways, and its suggested to use vegetable oil to remove oil based paint off your skin. unless you want to start slathering your leather with mineral spirits :EEK

have you thought about doing something like this? obviously the MS paint version may not be to scale! but some sort of brick wall to blend in with the rest of your patio scheme, and have the same angle as the roof. If its rounded off nicely in the front, with a nice top moulding, it...