Man, how do people manage to have jobs and keep maintenance of their home? I quit my job 6 months ago because of shitty slave workplace culture and ever since It's been nothing but repairs and maintenance to my house which my parents didn't have time to do in 40 years. Paint the roof, paint everything else, wash rainwater barrels full of algae which I need to wash again, repair cabinets, sort out hoards of papers, books, files, etc. When is someone supposed to do all this while holding a job?
Its hard
I have all kinds of roof and gutter jobs that need to be done and theyre weather dependent and the weather is bad here a lot of the time
No youre soft
I hung gutter for 20 years no matter the weather.
by doing a little bit every week and not just ignoring it for 40 years
is option B really so bad?
>Paint the roof
iSHYDDT
English, homosexual
do you speak it?
>Job is 40-50 hours a week
>Awake for 130 hours a week
>How do I allot 2 hours a week to general upkeep
Lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Where do you exist that weeks are 180 hours?
168 hours in a week.
Week day:
9 hours work (include commute)
1.5 hours eating
8 hours hygiene + sleep
5.5 hours left in a day.
>Awake for 130 hours a week
168 hours - (40 hours) - (7*9.5 hours) = 66.5 hours left in the week. Half of your 130 hours figure.
8 hours work
15 minute commute (if any)
OMAD but you spend an hour cooking
6.5 hours sleep
shit at work
regardless you need to manage your shit better bro
>one meal a day
>6.5 hrs sleep
Enjoy an early death moron.
Look up Paul skallas on twitter. He talks about this... It's called the 4 hour life (4hl) because the average wagie has about 4 hours to themselves once obligations are met.
>Enjoy an early death moron.
>t. chronic sipper that literally can't go 15 minutes without something to munch
get some self control
Sleep and food are good for you. Fasting every day on 6.5 hours of sleep just means you're running purely on adrenaline and cortisol. You will pay the toll eventually.
No, that means that (You) would be running purely on adrenaline and cortisol. The amount of sleep required is different for different people, no matter what PrepHole tells you. Same for one meal a day.
Go ahead and punish yourself your whole life long bud. Think about what I said when you have a heart attack in your 40s
But I'm already in my mid 50's, and in great shape... Basically I'm proud of what I just posted: not everyone needs the same amount of sleep.
Not here to taunt you, I'm also a OMAD guy, but I don't frick with sleep. You do need less when you are older, BUT, not getting enough sleep = increased rates of dementia, alzheimer's and memory loss. We need 7 hours of quality sleep. Only (anecdotal) evidence I've seen for needling less sleep is with very experienced meditators.
kek, people like you (who you claim to be at least) are the ones who suddenly drop dead. And everyone goes on about how unexpected it was.
Sleep seethers like you are incredible.
Imagine thinking sleeping 6.5 hours instead of 7 shaves off 20 years off your life.
Total moronation
Holy shit, *proof of what I posted.
Wow dude you are a sassy badass! I love the attitude!! Cheers.
>my parents didn't have time to do in 40 years
Normal people don't let the house get so messed up. Then again boomers aren't normal people.
>Holding a job
Means you have money right?
>Too many things to do
So you hire someone for less than you make
Beginning of winter my furnace motor seized. I tore the motor out, saw the shaft was totally fricked on the blower fan and called an HVAC guy while I went to work. He came by, had it fixed in two hours and it cost me 1/4 of what I made that day at work. This doesn't mean to be useless, just realistic.
Also reminder that many furnace related tasks may be legally required to only be fixed by a licenced technician. So check your local codes before doing hvac yourself
>check your local codes
>frick up the install
>burn your house down
>insurance won't pay
How dumb can you be?
dont frick up idiot. Or do you think some moronic blue collar worker can do better than you? Then go ahead and waste your money.
Yeah lol just don't do mistakes, ever in any place. Problem solved. Why did we even invent insurance? This anon never makes mistakes. I sure don't expect everything to go as planned.
It's not even about skill it's about having the license. You do you though.
Insurance can't deny a claim because you fricked it up. They could possibly sue you (unlikely) but they would still pay for a new house. The only owner-related behavior that can cause a claim to be denied, other than a delinquent account, is if they were aware of an issue with your house, informed you and asked you to correct it, but you neglected to do so. Usually it will be put in writing before your policy is cancelled, so you won't even get the chance to put a claim in.
I've seen licensed contractors do absolute shit, downright dangerous work.
>Insurance can't deny a claim because you fricked it up.
Of course they can and they will. People who break their stuff while breaking the law is an easy win. You'll have a hell of a time convincing a kudge your botchjob should be covered under warranty when there's a law saying you can't.
I won't play with gas but I do my own electrical and plumbing. Changing a motor in a furnace isn't all that complicated as long as you take note/understand how it's wired. In my case...
>Evaporation drain tube plugged
>Leaked on the shaft ton the blower fan at some point
>Fixed leak
>Motor shaft now rusted to shit and stuck to the fan
It was monkey work to hammer it for an hour and would have taken me much longer than an experienced HVAC guy who has done this 50 times. At least he was nice and didn't insist I needed a new fan etc. he even kept the motor mounting bracket, swapped my old one and refunded me. Left him a big tip and told him to take his apprentice to lunch.
Weekends are dead time. Your parents chose not to make time. Over four decades that's just lack of planning and sloth.
Assuming there is any way to tell work was even done let alone who did it.
Warranty and insurance are not the same thing, and there is no need to leave pecker tracks on a job. If you're helpless, hopeless and moronic DIY is not for you. Many DIYers at home have complementary skills. I'm a former jet mech etc with decades of relevant experience and when I replace HVAC parts the work isn't shit and is not visibly questionable.
Why is diy filled with so much cope? This had to be typed by woman hands.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
You must be a licensed gay
after work and on weekeds, like normal people do.
Just let it go in disrepair and do only the bare minimum. It worked for my parents and it works for me.
You can annoy your neighbors by being obsessed with home improvement after you retire just like my boomer neighbors.
You aren't supposed to own where you live so that you can focus on working.
>Man, how do people manage to have jobs and keep maintenance of their home?
You want the real truth?
People who make a decent wage hire plumbers, they hire mechanics, they hire anyone for shit they cant be assed to do.
Thats literally the whole point of making good money. It buys convenience and allows for relaxation.
Sure I CAN do a lot of this stuff, but why the frick would I?
I and many others happen to enjoy things. Sunday im going to swap a bunch of receptacles around my house and then rip apart my trucks rear view camera and replace it.
Part of my reasoning to diy is that I don't trust people will do a good job, my foundations had a leak, no way was I letting a random guy cut the crack open and inject it, or properly prep the surface for blue skin. Many such cases. If I know the tradie that's different, it's nice to give people work.
>I and many others happen to enjoy things.
I enjoy building things when I want, how I want.
I dont enjoy house maintenance or larping as a plumber/HVAC guy.
If people enjoy that, more power to them. For me, its just taking away the actual free time I have to actually make something I want.
OP asked when people are supposed to have time to do that shitty maintenance work?
Your free time, you axe all your valuable free time doing it. If you are poor you dont have a choice
I hear you, but some things are dumb to spend money on. Eg. If a switch fries (I have those lutron ones) it's $80 for the parts and $350 for an electrician to pop in and swap it. I'd don't enjoy doing the work, but giving away $350 for thirty mins of work seems silly to me. If I was swapping a gas line then sure, not risking my family, but a light switch ... Diy that shit. Simultaneously I needed to paint my stairwell, I did the main floor really well then work picked up. I prepped a few things and hired the cheapest painter I could find and went to work.
OP i'm in your exact same situation, family died, I have this huge house all to myself. No matter how in control you think you have things, something new is going to happen. I work 40+ hours a week at my wage slave job. Shit sucks.
>huge house
>wage slave
jesus christ man sell that shit and do something with the the money so you stop being a fricking cuck the rest of your life.
Why do you wage slave for 40 hours when you already have a free house
I've spent the last 20 years fixing my home to save money. You don't pay taxes on what you don't earn and while I didn't do it to sell, I did at a nice profit and I've started on the next one. I don't know how people have time to have a job frankly.
Got to multitask, do your drinking and repairs at the same time.
the only maintenance my home requires is using the sink every few weeks so the p-trap doesnt dry out
how ignorant of you
The fordian work week in which you work 8 hours a day 5 days a week was a godsend to many people who had been working many times 12 to 16 hour days of very demanding labor so by comparison putting the same nut on the same screw in the same place in the same assembly line for 40 years and then collecting a pension was not a bad trade.
It's important to remember that when this was planned there was a wife at home who saw to the children and household chores cleaning shopping dinner Etc. All the worker had to do was show up then go home and maybe a couple of physical maintenance tasks around the home on the weekends.
I have full time job. I maintain and repair my home and yard. i have a large garden. I maintain my own cars, lawn equipment, garden equipment and generator. I also maintain my own sail boat.
I also have an infant child I care for when Mom is at work full time.
Basically, stop being weak.
Fricking this. For being a board with a higher average age than most of this site, there sure are a lot of whiny, b***hy little shits here with 48 reasons they can't do something, with CITATIONS, and no reasons to ever even attempt to get anything done.
Inb4 blah blah boomer juuus
I work 30 hours per week and still can't be fricked to do a lot of things, even less so when I'm on vacation. Still never moving to an apartment tho
So you, uh, "quit your job" and have no income, but you can afford repair materials, a mortgage and food, huh? It's funny - even in your little fantasy-troll, you don't have the energy to survive.
Bruh my parents never worked fulltime in their lives and never did any house maintenance at all. They even paid a private contractor-handyman to change their lightbulbs.
They bought a house 10 years ago and to this day the basement still floods when it rains a bit heavily (was obviously flood-prone if you saw the grade of the property and total lack of drainage/sequestration measures). I know because I am told each time it happens and get to hear a rant about how "I'M NOT PUTTING ANOTHER DOLLAR INTO THIS" (you never did, homosexual) boomer insanity.
PS: Yes I fricking told them how to correclty remedy the flood issue, even a child could figure this one out. Yes I offered to do it if they provide the tools (demo hammer and such) and materials. They balked at the mere suggestion. Frick em. They don't even clean the walls when the dog pisses on them.
I hope you are not counting on inheriting the house when they die, as they will probably reverse mortgage it.
I agree it's really hard to maintain my house while keeping enough time for my after work 5 hour goon sesh every day
It's very hard for me given I work compressed 12 hour nights but can only do house work during the day when the HOA allows (they came with the plot of land), plus setup and take down time and a long commute as building my house in a different county so I can move out of my parents house. The fight has been dragging on for 2 years now, I got about half the stuff done myself and ended up paying someone to do the other half as my lost time was adding up to more then the cost of hiring someone. It was a pain managing them so they didn't cut corners and fixing the parts they didn't do right, but it did go much faster given the manpower and proper gear.
As to how I manage well I've lived through far worse so I can tough it out. Long term the solution I have is the house is designed to be ultra low maintenance. Once the core parts come online this week I can move in if nothing else goes wrong, not pretty but livable. That will eliminate my long commute as my job is down the street and I'll no long have to pay may parents half my income as rent. So several hours and several hundred dollars will be freed up, making everything else easier. It is all part of my plan, it's been slow with some setbacks but I keep moving forward and as I do I free up more time and money which lets me then free up more time and money. The saying it's expensive being poor is very true, thankfully I know how the things work so I found a way to dig myself out.
Why the frick would you get a property with an HOA? HOGAY.
Search county tax roles and pick something up for back taxes. Somewhere with no codes preferably.
Ever seen It's A Wonderful Life where Mary was the one who fixed up their home while George worked at the mortgage firm?
my mother has lightbulbs that have burnt out and havent been replaced in years
So for 40 years your parents were fine, you were also fine for however long you had a job but now that you're unemployed you can't just sit down and relax and need to find *something* to do.
I'm thinking masochism
>Paint the roof
What?
>paint everything else,
Once a decade is fine
>wash rainwater barrels full of algae which I need to wash again
Unironically paint them black, thick coats
No light, no algae. Also bleach in first to kill algae most will just float up or down.
>repair cabinets
Do this as they break, hinge gets loose, tighten it,takes 30s
>sort out hoards of papers, books, files, etc.
Literary just throw away. If it's been a hoard for 40years, it's not useful or important. You won't find a secret million.