Storing and organizing your DIY supplies?

Yep, the two girls love doing stuff like that. Their father was a contractor and taught them lots of stuff. They both own tons of tools and enjoy fixing things. In addition, the sister is an RN so she could patch you up when you screw up.

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she can do roofing, concrete, AND has money ! iā€™l be right over !!!

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That my friend is amazing ā€¦I am jealous

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What I did was picked up a large wardrobe cabinet from a thrift shop and added a shelf and some Nail polish racks / led lights. Have about 400 flavors now just in the upper section;


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Very nice Rock!

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I would love something like that but wouldnā€™t get it pass the wife!
I have a tool caddy with mainly tobacco flavours in with the rest stored in the laundry cupboard in pvc clip top containers with dividers separating the different manufacturers. I have two shelves for all my vape gear which Iā€™ve tried to separate and label as best I can.Iā€™ve put abbreviations on each bottle lid so that itā€™s little easier to find the concentrate Iā€™m after. Iā€™ve also created a folder with every item listed according to the labeled drawers etc.

As an Australian I watch American tv shows and notice that a lot of your houses seem to have basements. My immediate thoughts are that could be the ā€œvape caveā€ with everything properly stored and accessible.
Iā€™d setup a permanent build and mixing area etc,etcā€¦

Never going to happen so Iā€™ve stopped myself from dreaming,

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Heheheā€¦ the basement: LONG been a space in the house we wish we had :smirk:

But look under every Australian house and you ever see is a two foot gap between the dirt and floorboards with weeds, rusted crap and cobwebs ;(

Donā€™t know WHY nobody here ever seemed to bother building basements yknowā€¦ especially with the heat we getā€¦

Like, builders here just were too lazy and thick to know or care about taking the time to build an underground CAVE that spans the whole of the houseā€¦ man, such a useful extra space to have

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i have a basement, when looking for a house i never thought i could afford one. but this is a cheap old house in a kinda cheap neighborhood. anyway, some parts of the states canā€™t reasonably have them, the ground is rocky and hard, if not almost impossible to dig.

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My house is built on a concrete slab with I believe the ant colony from hell underneath that.
Iā€™ve tried all Bunnings have to offer with the next step being a professional pest controller, but that will take some saving for.

Iā€™ve even stopped killing redbacks in the hope they can assist in eradicating the little barstools.

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Yeah nnot theyā€™re at least generally standard in hots that CAN have them.

Here, builders just pour fn concrete all over the ground, smooth that out and start nailgunning a house on that.

Like covering dirt with concrete is the only way the ground can possibly be prepared for a house, ā€¦to our builders.

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where i am, Shitcago, slabs are all but unheard of. because a slab will get so cold that whatever flooring there is will freeze and frost up. plus heating cost is a lot more. just not a good idea around here.

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@Gazza7 @Guido_Possum

Iā€™m a Sandgroper and lots of houses had basements back in the day. Well at least in Freo, Beaconsfield, South Freo, East Freo and Bicton. A mate of mine who lived in Beaconsfield had a gigantic toy train setup in his basement and weā€™d play with it once a week or so. A lot of Italian and Greek migrants who came over used to store their homemade grappa ā€œdownstairsā€ as well. Most of those old houses are most probably gone now I would imagine. Gotta love progress eh?

I remember we had an infestation of Argentine ants in our backyard and the old man just poured petrol down the nests and surrounding areas and set it alight. Lots of fun watching that as a 5 year old. Problem solved :laughing:.

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around here ants and bugs are easy to deal with. a good bug killer spread around the house. the next rain would wet it. it would then soak into the bugs = dead. another trick that i invented = a garden sprayer with soapy water. spray that on the bugs and watch them die.

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I live in Georgia and itā€™s very wet. The soil is mainly clay. A major problem is mold in the basements. We are in the process of stripping all the exterior walls, killing the mold, waterproofing, then putting up insulation and drywall. I should say Iā€™m doing it all. Itā€™s a lot of work and Iā€™ve never done any of this stuff before.

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Up in Delaware we all have basements, BUT, some of us, have WAAAY too many drumsets down there, plus a wife that has more hobbies than should be allowed by law. Basement = off limits !!!

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i know a bit abbout rehaab worrk. you haave to be carefull with the insulaation in that situation, unless you would like to cause yourself a lot of problems.

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Have you tried Orange Oil to exterminate the ants ?
I believe thats what the Commercial Exterminatorā€™s are using nowadays for ants and termites

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Have you tried using Borax dissolved in sugar water? Antā€™s are attracted to the sugar water and bring Borax back to the nest.
Got rid of those flying ants a couple of times around the yard with the mixture.

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No,I havenā€™t but will look into that.

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Another one I havenā€™t tried so thanks for the suggestions.

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