Pretty common, but not necessarily something you want to see either.

This looks like my basement

I mean thanks for the advice, but I’d like to learn. Not just “stay away”. If I never attend I can never become knowledgeable.

Drylok should be your last step, not your first. Downspouts, french drains, foundation coating, grading, dehumidifier. And then you probably still need drylok.

Yes I noticed that as well. Boooo.

The artist known as Wanksy.

You are more than welcome to design the deck and price/procure the materials (and even build it). It's not rocket science but it does take time and effort, and experience helps. Figure out how much wood you need and call up a lumber yard, they'll happily give you a price on it.

We barely had any winter and you can watch the streets get worse every day.

>Labor 15-35 plus material 15-30 = 30-65

Your link said materials are only about a third of the cost (correct), so you have to add that 15-30 again. $90/sf is not a fuck you price. Not sure why you think you know what the "real cost" should be.

I wager this project would take about a month for a two person crew. That's about $10k in labor at the very least. The materials are at least that much, between lumber, decking, concrete, fasteners, etc. Nobody is walking away with a huge profit on a deck job at that price.

>Most people could build a deck themselves in a month just working weekends. These prices have gone bananas bc people are stupid enough to pay them.

No they could not. Most people don't have the first clue about how to approach a project like this on their own. These are the prices because this is what it costs to build such a thing.

Needs more "Pittsburgh potty"

Is that water coming down the back wall?

This is normal and if you live in a house like this you’d just make sure everything drained and run a dehumidifier.

A heat pump, forced air furnace or AC unit running would suck this up in no time. I don’t treat most Pittsburgh basements as living space - you’d have to excavate and waterproof from the exterior to really solve the problem - Drylock on the interior is rarely a good idea.

That being said, lots of homes here have clogged/no gutters and no drainage plan. I kept my basement dry by improving the downspout layout.

Idk how they do it, but primantis is almost a bargain compared to all the other brick and mortar sandwich shops around the east end. I think it’s like $9 for a regular compared to everyone else’s $12-15

UPMC is responsible for so much medical tyranny. I myself had an experience where they wanted to use my sick, delirious father as a science experiment.

What people forget is that these are. Corporations motivated by profit. That’s it. Anybody who would try and have you believe that’s just some “conspiracy” is either on their payroll or is willfully ignorant.

Just remember why this country is plagued by an opioid epidemic to begin with. These corporations are working against the better good of people.

Home runs gonna bust out a windshield on the Birmingham Bridge

Welcome to Pittsburgh.

this is like, 75% of rentable pittsburgh homes

Houses all over the area can and often do get basement flooding if they're not waterproofed but it's waaaay worse in some areas than others. I like to use this tool to see if a house is in a flood zone: https://pafloodrisk.psu.edu . In addition to waterproofing, a French drain and/or sump pump in a basement can help, particularly with groundwater.

The shitty housing up for sale right now, and the shitty prices at the current high rates, has made me feel really thankful for the place I already own.
 
The entire thing with low interest rates over the past decade was that once rates went back up, housing prices would go back down (because people look at a monthly payment, not a total price). That hasn't happened at all.

what if... we kissed at the Pittsburgh pothole ?? 😳

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On our final walk through for the home we were purchasing we found the entire basement flooded. Luckily we quickly figured out the issue was the drain in the driveway. It the low point of the front yard and during heavy rains would back up into the basement via the drains. Raised the driveway drain and haven't had an issue since. Honestly don't even know why they put a drain there in the first place.

When you're on Negley Run Boulevard promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless.

>9 members

>one post from 3 years ago

Where did you get this

Ya the area itself is a good neighborhood, and I've never heard a bad word about the place. It always just struck me as a stereotypical sketchy roadside motel. I did see on Google Maps that the place has been updated, so they must be doing OK to afford that, and I'm glad to see a small business doing well.