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So I got home like an hour ago and there's a huge hole in the roof. I think I can climb out onto it if I wanted. My house it's like 200 years old and has the original roof still, but previous owners (and me) failed to do the proper maintenance. I'm worried if I call someone to fix it it will: Reveal my... creative... attachment of utilities Cost more money to fix than I can obtain easily Get me somehow condemned The roof pitch is like 1:1, drat close to a 45 degree angle. It's slates that are apparently far more hosed up than I realized. My job, that I quit because I hated it, took all my energy and now I think I'm turbo hosed. I was planning on living like an ascetic on savings for a couple years. That's probably out. I have no safe way to access the roof, but I have a little bit of money saved (roughly the cost of the house [don't get ideas I paid in cash]). How am I gonna fix this? Also the power's out again and I'm on low battery so I'm gonna throw this out and hope for the best. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Op sent me a pm with the hole  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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take a picture of it
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Apr 7, 2018 02:35
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VikingSkull posted:take a picture of it
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Apr 7, 2018 02:36
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Build a smaller house inside your current house by repurposing the bricks you're making
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Apr 7, 2018 02:37
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Battery is too low to activate the camera, but imagine like a piece of single is gone and if you wanna throw punches you can reach the sky. But it's a big segment of singles now, not one. I can't use the bricks I've been making because they're the wrong kind.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:38
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Duct tape a tarp over it, it sounds like you live like a animal anyway
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Apr 7, 2018 02:39
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VikingSkull posted:take a picture of it This. Buy the largest case of beer you can afford. Drink all of the cans. Now that you are drunk, go to the store and steal some tin snips, a big bag of chips and a bunch of caulk. Fashion new roof tiles by cutting up the beer cans and gluing them together with the caulk. Open the bag of chips and throw chips through your roof hole until the birds accept your bribe and lift your new roof section into place.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:40
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Just select the bit of roof next to it, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and drag the pasted bit of roof over the hole.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:41
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Alternatively just dig a big hole directly below t he roof hole, that way if poo poo comes through the roof hole, it just goes into the ground hole.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:43
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gently caress the poo poo outta dat hole
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Apr 7, 2018 02:43
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I'm thinking if I can get a tarp I can tie a rope to it, throw the rope outside the hole across to the other part of the house, and then pull it thru from the ground But this might dislodge basically all the other singles then I'm gonna be really screwed. Alternately I could bust the hole open, attach some kind of platform somehow, and then just walk over and fix the hosed up parts. Main problem is the loose roof tiles
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Apr 7, 2018 02:45
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Sounds like your grow house is ripe for an electrical fire. Good luck!
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Apr 7, 2018 02:45
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Edit: ^^^ same time ^^^  Take all your loving weed and grow lights out of the attic and call a roofing company.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:45
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:gently caress the poo poo outta dat hole What he means is you gotta caulk the poo poo out of that hole. Get that caulk deep in the hole, OP. Post pictures too.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:45
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SniperWoreConverse posted:So I got home like an hour ago and there's a huge hole in the roof. I think I can climb out onto it if I wanted. do you own this house?
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Apr 7, 2018 02:46
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:gently caress the poo poo outta dat hole It this op
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Apr 7, 2018 02:46
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VikingSkull posted:take a picture of it And post it. Put on an army helmet and poke your head through it and watch your neighbors with binoculars like you're in a tank, maybe yell some poo poo about 9/11 when people get close
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Apr 7, 2018 02:46
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Who wants some caulk
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Apr 7, 2018 02:47
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Leave the roof as is and start a mushroom farm in your living room.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:48
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Flambeau posted:Sounds like your grow house is ripe for an electrical fire. Good luck! No I disabled the terrible original wiring and have a really lovely alternate system. Mumpy Puffinz posted:do you own this house? Yes Vakal posted:Leave the roof as is and start a mushroom farm in your living room. No cause it'll ruin my precious heirloom books Also caulk will not work guys I can fit my head outside the hole as is
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Apr 7, 2018 02:52
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You don't want water pooling inside your living space so be sure to make a hole in the floor directly underneath your roof hole.
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Apr 7, 2018 02:54
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1) buy a tarp and a staple gun. 2) staple the tarp to your (remaining) roof
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Apr 7, 2018 02:56
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did you inherit it?
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Apr 7, 2018 02:58
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SniperWoreConverse posted:No I disabled the terrible original wiring and have a really lovely alternate system. This really fascinates me and I would like to hear more (and see) your creative self home wiring. Like, is it just a bunch of spliced in extension cords or wiring laying throughout your hallways and stairs? Does your basement look like this? 
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Apr 7, 2018 02:58
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Rutibex posted:1) buy a tarp and a staple gun. The roof is tile Mumpy Puffinz posted:did you inherit it? No, it was cheap and nice. Good buy at the time, and if I had not hosed up and had avoided this I would be extraordinarily pleased with it.
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Apr 7, 2018 03:00
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SniperWoreConverse posted:The roof is tile You should get a better realtor and home inspector. Why the gently caress did you buy a 200 year old house that just has tar on the roof you loving idiot?
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Apr 7, 2018 03:01
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Stick an umbrella out through the hole then open it. Goddam son bugs bunny is so shook right now
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Apr 7, 2018 03:04
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Mental Hospitality posted:This really fascinates me and I would like to hear more (and see) your creative self home wiring. Jfc no. I have some solar panels that work for my immediate needs. As far as I know this house has never had anything more advanced than old time radios or tvs, and I'm content to keep it that way. No washing machine or any of that. There's laundromats, not a total animal. The existing situation prevented me from putting panels on the roof itself, but poo poo, I guess I can now
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Apr 7, 2018 03:05
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:You should get a better realtor and home inspector. gently caress you you're not my dad
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Apr 7, 2018 03:05
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Stick an umbrella out through the hole then open it. Goddam son bugs bunny is so shook right now cartoons have better sense than you op
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Apr 7, 2018 03:05
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That's retarded, it wouldn't work because of how half the water would flow to the upper part of the roof and then go under the umbrella, c'mon
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Apr 7, 2018 03:07
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how long have you lived there?
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Apr 7, 2018 03:07
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Get a circus tent that's bigger than your house, and put it up around your house.
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Apr 7, 2018 03:07
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post a picture of your goddamn hole
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Apr 7, 2018 03:09
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My landlord once fixed my leaky roof. he laid a shower curtain over the spot then sealed edges with hot tar And now I pass this wisdom down to you
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Apr 7, 2018 03:11
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I've been trick once before by that ghost thread, and I'm not going to be tricked again until I see a picture or a detailed mspaint diagram of what we are dealing with here.
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Apr 7, 2018 03:12
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Buy a Giraffe.
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Apr 7, 2018 03:12
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weg posted:This.
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Apr 7, 2018 03:12
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Buy a zoo
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Dumb question....but why the piss would you spend any amount of money on buying a house and not insuring it? Or did you literally spend like a grand on a shack?
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