TM3 Home Owners Association

[loki]

Just wait till you step on Lego.... Dont buy them Lego

You don't think I've never stepped on lego?

You want pain? Drop to your knees to catch your baby from falling and have one of your knees land on the corner of that wooden train track


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[loki]

Ordered this mini Bluetooth amp for shits and giggles for our office. Had a pair of Polk Audio bookshelf speakers doing nothing so this gets some music into that room

Not bad for $35 and ordered this morning...








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[SilentJay]

Not a home improvement picture, but home-related and interesting none-the-less. Thoughts?

[Jackal]

Not a home improvement picture, but home-related and interesting none-the-less. Thoughts?

Try this site for mortgages.
https://www.ratehub.ca



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[SilentJay]

Try this site for mortgages.
https://www.ratehub.ca

Thanks - That's one of the places I've been looking but nobody seems to be able to touch 2.35% 5yr fixed, regardless of bank or credit union.

[m_bisson]

Thanks - That's one of the places I've been looking but nobody seems to be able to touch 2.35% 5yr fixed, regardless of bank or credit union.

I did mine back in the fall and got 2.39 from BMO... I doubt you're going to see much lower.

[loki]

Working up the courage to tell mrs. loki that I want to purchase the SVS PB-2000 subwoofer


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[loki]

I'll propose this, then say just kidding and propose the subwoofer




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[Thrizzl3]

I'll propose this, then say just kidding and propose the subwoofer

I thought you were a man...thinking that you would make decisions on your own..I thought wrong...






Just Kidding....

[matty3]

Being a man and being a married man, are two completely different things.

Whoever said "Better to ask for forgiveness then ask for permission" obviously hadn't tried it.

[SilentJay]

Sigh. Wife now wants kitchen cabinets to extend into breakfast area. Anyone have a good referral for this? Not looking for super-high end custom stuff, just something that'll match the builder cabinets.

[shift8]

Finally making progress!

[m_bisson]

Be careful taking pictures around the playground, you perv.

[loki]

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[shift8]

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Liking the painted brick.

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[Jeff-TheBiz]

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At first glance I thought this was a stock photo from Ethan Allen.

Looks cozy.

[SomeGuy]

Almost done with my deck plans. Pretty cool what you can do in sketchup once you get the hang of it...





The left side has doors from my dining room and the right side is windows from my living room, basement is a walkout underneath on the right.

Any suggestions?

[shift8]

Almost done with my deck plans. Pretty cool what you can do in sketchup once you get the hang of it...





The left side has doors from my dining room and the right side is windows from my living room, basement is a walkout underneath on the right.

Any suggestions?

Oooooh nice! I gotta do similar. Have you considered dropping on of the flanks to another level? (Only a step, maybe two at most.)

Have you also tried laying out some furniture on the plan to see how you might use it? Assume one side might hold a BBQ?

I'm a big fan of multi tiered decks.

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[shift8]

Almost done with my deck plans. Pretty cool what you can do in sketchup once you get the hang of it...





The left side has doors from my dining room and the right side is windows from my living room, basement is a walkout underneath on the right.

Any suggestions?

Here is a similar design with multi tiered areas and a step down.

[SomeGuy]

Oooooh nice! I gotta do similar. Have you considered dropping on of the flanks to another level? (Only a step, maybe two at most.)

Have you also tried laying out some furniture on the plan to see how you might use it? Assume one side might hold a BBQ?

I'm a big fan of multi tiered decks.

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I should draw it in, but top left is sliding doors from the dining room and bottom right under the deck is sliding doors from the basement. So I can't drop the left side because of the step out the doors and can't drop the right side because of the headroom below at the sliders. So single level it is.

Left side area is going to be a dining table (probably 6 person rectangular). Right side area is going to be seating area with sofa/loveseat/sectional sort of thing with a possible fire table long term. Center towards the house is going to be BBQ area (the BBQ will back onto the pergola posts). Center out from the house is the "look out" (our house backs greenspace) and will have two comfy lounge chairs.

Pic of back of house while is was being built showing layout of doors/windows:



This is the view out the back right:



This is the view out the back left:

[shift8]

Re-read what you wrote and understand now. You have a walk out opposite of your upper level entrance.

What about doing a walk down from the upper walk out to the lower walk out to combine the entrances. Then you'll get more light into the basement walk out instead of shading it. You can also have separate seating / prep areas too.

[SomeGuy]

It would be tight to do stairs down and would cut into my useful deck space. I would lose almost all the grass in my backyard, we have a fairly deep back yard (over 50 feet), but it's got a large slope down. It goes only about 14-15 feet on the left side before falling off, 25ish on the right side though. Long term I'm going to likely put a shed under the left side of the deck and might do a small patio out the sliders from the basement.

I'm standing on that slope in this pic, you can see how close it is:

[shift8]

It would be tight to do stairs down and would cut into my useful deck space. I would lose almost all the grass in my backyard, we have a fairly deep back yard (over 50 feet), but it's got a large slope down. It goes only about 14-15 feet on the left side before falling off, 25ish on the right side though. Long term I'm going to likely put a shed under the left side of the deck and might do a small patio out the sliders from the basement.

I'm standing on that slope in this pic, you can see how close it is:

Eep!

I guess you'll have to address the possible erosion issues longer term.

Understand about the usable deck space. I guess if you kind of did an L shaped stairway you could make up in deck space by going deeper on the lower deck.

Anyways your plan sounds good to me lay out wise. I plan to put a shed in the back against my house as well to store tools etc to free up space in garage for working on the car.

In the basement I have a low headroom area that will be my server room and some prep space for drones, etc.

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[Thrizzl3]

Does anyone know a good home inspector? Need a good one who does very thorough inspections. Price is not an issue

[shift8]

Does anyone know a good home inspector? Need a good one who does very thorough inspections. Price is not an issue

I need one too, same thing. Alliston here. Not sure if it'll be same area.