That’s Good news with the house and leaving your folks soon!
As for the neighbors, people suck man…. Plain and simple….
Progress Thread Komo's 1990 GT - Parts Gathering Purgatory & Home Remodel
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As for the neighbors, people suck man…. Plain and simple….
Ok i guess i won't just leave it at that ha ha. Both concerns were privacy related. I guess that's the nature of living in a single-story home, then your neighbor builds a second story house. There's just really no way around it. We aren't going to not put a window(s) in a room because there's the perception someone could look into the others house? One neighbor was concerned about some of our windows being able to look into some of their windows. My wife sort of handled that one since the neighbor only messaged her but in my head i'm like... 1. we have no desire to look into your house and 2. the house isn't finished yet, we will have window coverings. They insinuated like maybe you can move the windows around? Umm no, plans are set and approved. GTFO with that nonsense.
The other one i thought was a little more dumb. We live on a hill and have a back neighbor that's higher up than us. They were concerned that our roof top deck has a railing instead of a wall facing their house. The deck is integrated into a V (or A?) shaped roof so the other three sides have walls for that reason, but the back is open to 'our' backyard, but apparently to their backyard too? So since they sit higher up on the hill they were wondering (or complaining) that they can see into our deck and we can see into their yard? Like ya, now our deck is level with the lowest tier of your backyard... so? If someone were standing (not sitting/laying out) on our deck... we'd see each other anyways. But also, if someone were standing on our deck they would be looking the opposite direction - toward the view it provides, not your backyard. We've never had privacy since they can literally look down into our yard so I kind of never even thought about it. But now its an issue when its the other way around. Its all good we are going to make the back railing solid-ish with a wooden design, which after more thought, my wife likes better anyways.
I think i was more irritated because the second story has now been roughly built for like a month and both neighbors messaged us within like two days of each other just recently. Maybe they are all talking amongst themselves.
On a brighter note, our lovely 80+ year old neighbor to the other side of us praises the house and says its gonna look fantastic and is all nice about everything. She sometimes walks around after the crews leave and checks things out.
The other one i thought was a little more dumb. We live on a hill and have a back neighbor that's higher up than us. They were concerned that our roof top deck has a railing instead of a wall facing their house. The deck is integrated into a V (or A?) shaped roof so the other three sides have walls for that reason, but the back is open to 'our' backyard, but apparently to their backyard too? So since they sit higher up on the hill they were wondering (or complaining) that they can see into our deck and we can see into their yard? Like ya, now our deck is level with the lowest tier of your backyard... so? If someone were standing (not sitting/laying out) on our deck... we'd see each other anyways. But also, if someone were standing on our deck they would be looking the opposite direction - toward the view it provides, not your backyard. We've never had privacy since they can literally look down into our yard so I kind of never even thought about it. But now its an issue when its the other way around. Its all good we are going to make the back railing solid-ish with a wooden design, which after more thought, my wife likes better anyways.
I think i was more irritated because the second story has now been roughly built for like a month and both neighbors messaged us within like two days of each other just recently. Maybe they are all talking amongst themselves.
On a brighter note, our lovely 80+ year old neighbor to the other side of us praises the house and says its gonna look fantastic and is all nice about everything. She sometimes walks around after the crews leave and checks things out.
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I'd buy a store mannequin and have it looking out the window with binoculars at all times.
For the deck just mount one of these
For the deck just mount one of these
A little ChatGPT rendering of a finished product. ChatGPT had to take some significant liberties with the front entry way and balcony as there is a giant construction fence blocking any views from this vantage point. Our front door doesn't even face forward like that, but in to the left and there is no window next to it. The balcony you see doesn't wrap around the side of the house like it shows nor is the door to the balcony where it shows, but it is pretty large. ChatGPT is great for visualizing different paint colors and all that, i'll give it that though:
Our landscaping looks nothing like this either. Its actually all dirt at the moment.
One more thing to add, with the house basically being brand new... my wife was like... we gotta get a new driveway (ours has a ton of cracks in it). Add $25k+ more to the home budget. Thankfully we don't need to do that now and can save up. Spending is getting out of control.
Our landscaping looks nothing like this either. Its actually all dirt at the moment.
One more thing to add, with the house basically being brand new... my wife was like... we gotta get a new driveway (ours has a ton of cracks in it). Add $25k+ more to the home budget. Thankfully we don't need to do that now and can save up. Spending is getting out of control.
So your wife now understands “while I’m in here I might as well put a stroker kit in and/or boost it” is what you are saying.
My Harland Sharp rockers came in as well as my Vortech FMU disk calibration kit.
Got lots of work to do once the garage is back in business.
Got lots of work to do once the garage is back in business.
Ok moved AGAIN... hopefully last time we have to move before moving back into the house.
We rented a condo/townhouse in downtown La Jolla sort of as a 'treat' to feel like we are on vacation. Best thing is, no one else living with us, no animals to take care of, just us... finally.
Stang is still just sitting on the street with a car cover over it collecting spider webs and bird poop.
We rented a condo/townhouse in downtown La Jolla sort of as a 'treat' to feel like we are on vacation. Best thing is, no one else living with us, no animals to take care of, just us... finally.
Stang is still just sitting on the street with a car cover over it collecting spider webs and bird poop.
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Ugh, sounds like construction will delay our move in date at least 2 weeks. If we could just extend our rental it wouldn't be a big deal (besides more $$$) but they already have a long term renter lined up as soon as we move out. SO, guess we'll have to move again. This year man, this year....
