Bourbonbowel87

re: Saying goodbye

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 11/17/23 at 9:17 pm

We just buried my grandfather today. He was my last grandparent. I was very fortunate to spend a lot of time with both sets of grandparents growing up. They all taught me different life lessons that I will never forget. Treasure them while they are here and try to keep their memory alive when they a...

re: UPDATE: Difficult news regarding unborn child

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 8/3/23 at 5:02 pm

We had to do IVF for our children. So they do an ultrasound every week up to 10weeks. Everything was fine until our 10 week ultrasound. They saw fluid on her back. We had to go to maternal fetal. Doctor said it looked like she could have all these different horrible things. We did a genetic test. Ca...

re: New Bermuda yard help

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 10/3/22 at 1:41 pm

We went with Hancock seed company. It’s was a common Bermuda seed. It was coated and unhulled. Now if you got a good seed bed you could probably just go with a hulled coated seed....

New Bermuda yard help

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 10/3/22 at 5:55 am

So I planted about 3 acres of common Bermuda around late June this year in south LA. My question is it to soon for weed control are a pre emergent? I didn’t know if I needed to wait a whole year to give the roots better establishment or if it was ok to put something down. The grass is still somewhat...

re: Ian Observation Thread (Storm Track and Radar inside)

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 9/23/22 at 10:01 am

We are headed to Disney Saturday and supposed to come home next Thursday. Looks like we will have to leave a day early....

re: Large privacy trees or shrubs help

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 3/15/22 at 8:38 pm

Thanks for all the great ideas. I live north of I-12. I looked at a lot of different options, just didn’t know what would grow good here....

Large privacy trees or shrubs help

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 3/15/22 at 9:40 am

A couple years ago I bought a little over 5 acres to build my family’s forever home on. The land is all cleared and behind it was all woods. Well Mr. D R Horton has come along and built a huge neighborhood behind me. I need something that has coverage from the ground up to about 8-10 ft and grows q...

re: Lumber prices….here we go again.

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 12/21/21 at 7:13 am

We are about five weeks from being done building our house. We got lucky and started building in July when lumber was around 550 per thousand board feet. We saved almost $25,000 in lumber cost compared to our quote from May when lumber was at its peak. That’s on 2,400sf living. We also have a 600sf...

re: Large outdoor ceiling fan recommendation

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 12/1/21 at 7:39 am

Just the way the layout is I think one big one would work. We have a big farmhouse swing going up so we have a corner fan for that. My lights are about 52 inches from the fan mounting plate. I also like the look of them....

re: Large outdoor ceiling fan recommendation

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 11/29/21 at 9:28 am

I have to room. I was hoping to keep the price under $750. I just wanted something that’s going to move a lot of air, especially with our heat and humidity during the summer....

Large outdoor ceiling fan recommendation

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 11/29/21 at 7:40 am

We are about 5 weeks out from finishing up on our new house. I have a 600 sqft screened in outdoor kitchen that I want to put one large fan. What brands and models to y’all recommended. I don’t want to spend money on something that’s only going to last a couple years...

re: Need advice, adopted daughter, what to tell her?

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 9/2/21 at 3:23 pm

My wife and sister-in-law where both adopted. She didn’t find out until a month before we got married. She was upset for a few days and had a lot of questions, but realized that her parents biological or not where her parents. We honestly haven’t brought it up since that day and half the time forge...

re: Best Kitchen Countertop Material?

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 8/7/21 at 7:21 pm

We are using B’s in denham as well. What was your cost per sq/ft with install?...

re: What Hospitals are in the LDH region 2-Baton Rouge-LDH may be over reporting

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 8/5/21 at 3:30 pm

Wife works at lane in the ER. They are full of covid. 37 sounds about right. ER is holding a lot of patients at well. They just don’t have the room, being such a small hospital....

re: Structural Fill / Pad Foundation- Dirt Work for New House

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 8/1/21 at 8:20 am

We just got done with our pad last month. 6500sqft with 2ft of elevation and three compaction test. We dug a pond so we had dirt but it was still almost $20,000. ...

re: Running power underground cost?

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 7/31/21 at 9:13 pm

That’s not terrible. Someone told me they thought it was upwards of 80 a ft which sounds absurd. That would be $24,000 for the distance I need to run....

re: Running power underground cost?

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 7/31/21 at 8:05 am

We will have to have a transformer box. My parents are building next door and are going to tie in to the same run....

re: Running power underground cost?

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 7/31/21 at 8:03 am

I don’t mind doing that. I just know if that had to do it....

Running power underground cost?

Posted by Bourbonbowel87 on 7/30/21 at 9:22 pm

We just formed up our house. I have meeting with Demco next week to plan out how we are going to run electricity to the house. Our house is 300ft from the nearest pole. Running it under ground is mostly likely the only option with all the trees we have where they are going to have to run it. What ki...