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Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for a rant with a capital R, this is gonna be a long one.

Our story begins well over a year ago while I was still in university and things such as "professionalism" and "doing your job" are suggestions and not something you do to not get fired. We had multiple courses with large group projects that semester and the amount of reliable people I knew that weren't behind a year and in different courses was getting dangerously low. There were three of us who are friends (the other two henceforth known as Ms Reliable and the Enabler) and these projects were for five people minimum. The Enabler knew a couple of people who we could include, so we trusted her and we let them onto the multiple projects we had.

Oh boy, what a mistake that was. They were friends, a guy and a girl. The girl was a good dev, not someone I'd want to interact with out of work but she was fine, and a literal angel compared to the guy. Holy shit this guy. This guy, henceforth referred to as Mr DDTW, is a motherfucking embarrassment to devs everywhere. Lazy. Arrogant. Standards so low they're six feet under. Just to show you the sheer depth of this man's lack of fucks given, he would later reveal that he picked his thesis topic "because it's easy and I don't want to work too hard". I haven't even gotten into the meat of the rant yet and this dude is already raising my blood pressure.

I'll be focusing on one project in particular, a flying vehicle simulator, as this was the one that I was the most involved in and also the one where shit hit the fan hardest. It was a relatively simple-in-concept development project, but the workload was far too much for one person, meaning that we had to apply some rudimentary project management and coordination skills that we had learned to keep the project on track. I quickly became the de-facto PM as I had the best grasp on the project and was doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

The first incident happened while developing a navigation feature. Another teammate had done the basics, all he had to do was use the already-defined interfaces to check where the best place to land would be, taking into account if we had enough power to do so. Mr DDTW's code:
-Wasn't actually an algorithm, just 90 lines of if statements sandwiched between the other teammate's code.
-The if statements were so long that I had to horizontal scroll to see the end, approx 200 characters long per line.
-Could've probably been 20 normal-length lines MAX if he knew what a fucking for loop was.
-Checked about a third of the tiles that it should have because, once again, it's a series of concatenated if statements instead of an actual goddamn algorithm.
-IT DIDN'T FUCKING WORK!

My response was along the lines of "what the fuck is this?". This dipshit is in his final year and I've seen people write better code in their second semester. The rest of the team, his friend included, agreed that this was bad code and that it should be redone properly. The plan was for Mr DDTW to move his code into a new function and then fix it in another branch. Then we could merge it back when it was done. Well, he kept on saying it was done but:
-It still wasn't an algorithm.
-It was still 90 lines.
-They were still 200 characters wide.
-It still only checked a third of the tiles.
-IT STILL DIDN'T FUCKING WORK!

He also had one more task, an infinite loop detection system. He watched while Ms Reliable did the fucking work.

We hit our first of two deadlines successfully. We still didn't have a decent landing function but everything else was nice and polished, and we got graded incredibly well. The other projects had been going alright although the same issue of him not doing shit applied. Ms Reliable and I, seeing the shitstorm that would come if this dude didn't get his act together, lodged a complaint with the professor as a precautionary measure. Little did I know how much that advanced warning would save my ass later on.

Second sprint begins and I'm voted in as the actual PM this time. We have four main tasks, so we assign one person to each and me as a generalist who would take care of the minor tasks as well as help out whoever needed it. This ended up being a lot of reworking and re-abstracting, a lot of helping and, for reasons that nobody ever could have predicted, one of the main tasks.

These main tasks were new features that would need to be integrated, most of which had at least some mutual dependencies. Part of this project involved running our code, which would connect to the professor's test server and solve a server-side navigation problem. The more of these we solved, the better the grade, so understandably we needed an MVP to see if our shit worked on the basic problems and then fix whatever was causing the more advanced ones to fail. We decided to set an internal deadline for this MVP. Guess who didn't reach it?

Hitting the character limit, expect part 2 SOON

Buckle up kids, this one gets saucy.

At work, we have a stress test machine that trests tensile, puncture and breaking strength for different materials used (wood construction). It had a controller software update that was supposed to be installed. I was called into the office because the folks there were unable to install it, they told me the executable just crashed, and wanted me to take a look as I am the most tech-savvy person there.

I go to the computer and open up the firmware download folder. I see a couple folders, some random VBScript file, and Installation.txt. I open the TXT, and find the first round of bullshit.

"Do not run the installer executable directly as it will not work. Run install.vbs instead."

Now, excuse me for a moment, but what kind of dick-cheese-sniffing cockmonger has end users run VBScript files to install something in 2018?! Shame I didn't think of opening it up and examining it for myself to find out what that piece of boiled dogshit did.

I suspend my cringe and run it, and lo and behold, it installs. I open the program and am faced with entering a license key. I'm given the key by the folks at the office, but quickly conclude no ways of entering it work. I reboot the program and there is an autofilled key I didn't notice previously. Whatever, I think, and hit OK.

The program starts fine, and I try with the login they had previously used. Now it doesn't work for some reason. I try it several times to no avail. Then I check the network inspector and notice that when I hit login, no network activity happens in the program, so I conclude the check must be local against some database.

I browse to the program installation directory for clues. Then I see a folder called "Databases".

"This can't be this easy", I think to myself, expecting to find some kind of JSON or something inside that I can crawl for clues. I open the folder and find something much worse. Oh, so much worse.

I find <SOFTWARE NAME>.accdb in the folder. At this point cold sweat is already running down my back at the sheer thought of using Microsoft Access for any program, but curiosity takes over and I open it anyway.

I find the database for the entire program inside. I also notice at this point that I have read/write access to the database, another thing that sent my alarm bells ringing like St. Pauls cathedral. Then I notice a table called "tUser" in the left panel.

Fearing the worst, I click over and find... And you knew it was coming...

Usernames and passwords in plain text.

Not only that, they're all in the format "admin - admin", "user - user", "tester - tester".

I suspend my will to die, login to the program and re-add the account they used previously. I leave the office and inform the peeps that the program works as intended again.

I wish I was making this shit up, but I really am not. What is the fucking point of having a login system at all when your users can just open the database with a program that nowadays comes bundled with every Windows install and easily read the logins? It's not even like the data structure is confusing like minified JSON or something, it's literally a spreadsheet in a program that a trained monkey could read.

God bless them and Satan condemn the developers of this fuckawful program.

Whatever the fuck Python's ternary operator syntax is supposed to be.

(Not dev, not rant, although it might become one later on)

So as some of you may know, I am colorblind. I always avoid working with colors because of it. Yesterday I decided to do something I've always wanted, painting. And no I don't mean painting on a canvas but miniatures and other 3D models.

I love catan, I love 3D printing and I thought let's print a catan set and paint it myself, without depending on family to ask for colors.
I've got this German paint tubes and used the wikipedia color descriptions to decide what to paint which color.

The following is the result, its a wheat tile (and in the background a wood tile).
Feel free to give tips and suggestions. If I picked a wrong color please tell me so I can update my tactics.

Finally took this step. Yay

Good morning, mornin wood.
Good morning, chirping birds outside the window.
Good morning, handsome guy in the mirror.
Good morning, beautiful machine of mine.
Now where were we last night.
Hmpph
😒😒😒 morning segfault

Server died again today because a fellow housemate decided to plug a 1200W wood saw into the same power network.

I don't know how stupid one has to be to think that is a good idea.

!rant

I got hired!!

It's been a long month of jobhunting, interviews, and paperwork, but I finally got a job. Real world dev life here I come.

Today I got kicked out of a sports store in a city that I'm not from on Black Friday for *allegedly* walking onto the putting green and teeing off a little foamy practice ball with a 3 wood.

There were a lot of accusations(which was pretty ironic considering I *may* have).

My main defense is that I honestly didn't think I was talented enough for it to end up in hunting & fishing on the other side of the store.
On the plus side I may have found a new hobby outside of developing

My non-programming project: the first 10.000 decimals of pi, in small wood sticks. 9.974 to go ...

Somebody put milk in the tea kettle.

To be entirely fair, I'm sure nobody from here has ever seen a kettle, let alone used one.

I broke the toilet seat on day 2 at the office and have been watching it get worse and worse until it silently got replaced two weeks later.

Oops.

A glass of cognac, a blotter of LSD, go to the spa for a massage, turn on some Sibelius, Mahler or Tchaikovsky, and play Factorio all night.

Sometimes I also just work on my forever unfinished SciFi novel.

Or I install FL studio to realize 30 minutes later that I'm about as musically gifted as a pile of bricks.

Recently I was fed up with work and made a nice new bed for my daughter out of cherry & oak wood. Carpentry is a nice distraction from coding.

One of our dev teams has a tradition: after each post-sprint review one of the devs tells a wood joke. The lamer, the better.

So far the winner is:

Q: What did Batman say to Robin before Robin got in the car?
A: Robin, get in the car

It's so dumb it's actually somehow even funny :)

I was about 17 years old had tried wood & metal craftsmanship but never liked it, so I spoke with a counsellor and mentioned I like computers as I play a lot of games.

That counsellor laughed at me ( a shut in that rarely says anything ) and told me I'm too stupid..

Since then, I have scored almost pure top grades without any particular job goal.
But eventually met a good friend who wanted to be a Web developer, so I simply followed the same path and kept on reaping top grades lol.. :)

As Ana says in overwatch, "Never stop fighting for what you believe in."

My little brother started learning coding AND design ar 12 years old and my only influence on this was telling him about it like two times.
Although he is, also, building a gun of wood so I really don't know what path he's taking there.

Here's my current setup. Needs a bit of improvement still.

A few years back I thought getting two big touchscreens would be amazing to use for making music. I rarely touch them. They get dusty all the time. They are too reflective. The border around them is way too thick. They are too big to be useful in this configuration. I'll be replacing them with normal screens and probably go for a vertical arrangement instead.

As you can see, there's a fair bit of stuff on my desk. There's a USB sound interface that could be rack mounted but I've been too lazy to buy or make anything to house it. I have a pair of headphones, a wireless headset and a Rift hanging off of the microphone stand. I rarely use the microphone and guitar at the moment (considered trying some voice acting, not particularly good at guitar!)

The desk was originally 2 desks from an Internet cafe that was being refurbished. I cut the ends off them and joined them together to make a desk to fit the space I had and stuck some metal legs onto it (used to have a big ugly brown metal frame). Oh and made some holes to add cable grommets and it has an IKEA cable tray underneath.

There's also a slide out music keyboard underneath (made from some bits of wood and a drawer runner, it's quite clunky and I'm tempted to use some rack rails instead).

The drawers were to store stuff from my desk in but I just replaced that stuff with other stuff...

Just realized that this app and community is the perfect example of a rule-less functional online community, it has everything that people would mostly believe drama occurs but no drama
Anonymity, relaxed rules, huge base, long reaching form of social media, yet it's possibly the most Las online community I've ever seen *knock on wood*

Oh boy.

I've been partially on-loan to another team that's relatively new at the company for a couple of weeks now, mostly to help them get some testing sorted out, and had scheduled a call with their lead the other day. The call basically started like this:

Lead: Hi
sudo-woodo: Hey
Lead: Okay, so let's talk about <subject>, but I guess you've been told the news
sudo-woodo: What news
Lead: I'm putting in my notice

I love listening to seniors because they always drop some wisdom, but this was some serious wisdom. Guy sounded exhausted at everything, talking mad shit about the company and certain people and I'm just here like 🍿. Seems understandable, a lot of butting heads with the higher-ups and not being able to do his job properly.

Unfortunately we all kinda needed him to do his job because his job involved juggling fifteen different things that the project (and like 90% of my backlog to be honest) depends on.

shit's fucked 🙃

Six hours of meetings in one day.

I really like retro games and there is this thing called retropie which turns your raspberry pi into an arcade machine. Since I have way too much time, I decided to built an arcade machine case out of wood with an old TV and analog sticks from Amazon. So yeah, I wired everything together and wanted to share it with you guys. I'm still searching for stickers to put on the top and on the joystick panel, but for now I really like the result. Tell me what you think!

After a nightmare weekend where moving my 80 year old desk caused the wood to completely split and almost broke my computer and screens in the process..... I felt physically sick.....

Somehow I became a carpenter for the day and rebuilt and resized my desk to make it better then ever.....

Couldn't be happier with the final result tbh!

Life Before the Computer

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano!

Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3-inch floppy
You hoped nobody found out!

Compress was something you did to garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for awhile!

Log on was adding wood to a fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode!

Cut - you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu!

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!

So I just received this second DSP5005 DC-DC programmable power supply. Time to make an enclosure for the thing!! 3 power supplies totaling at around 1kW, and 2 variables connected to the 50V 10A one, through external banana wires (I want all of this to be modular). No biggie, take measurements for the AC-DC supplies, add in the variables on the front, and cut it out.

So, I went and did just that. Now my 500W (50V 10A) supply is a bit larger than the others, and it's got a fan. So I figured, well then probably my 24V 8.3A (200W) and 12V 15A (180W) supplies could use some cooling as well. But how am I going to achieve passive cooling without a spacing between the supplies?! So I thought of some spacer design. It had to be out of wood, and I had some 4mm MDF and some IKEA parts around. So, 4mm MDF for the plate and 8mm wood spacers from IKEA for the spacing. And some super glue to hold it all together.

Weighing my power supplies against a 1l bottle of milk, it seems like my power supplies are ~500g. Great, so the top spacer would take 500g and the bottom one 1kg + the weight of the top spacer.

I ended up building one plate with 6 spacers in it yesterday, until I got too tired. Then I placed my entire weight against it, 20kg at least. It didn't budge. Pretty good for something that's only designed to withstand a 1kg load!!

So, I made something good with only a 10x18cm piece of MDF, some garbage from IKEA, and most importantly a bit of a brain. Something that can handle 20x its designed load no problem. Manufacturers, is it really right to produce shit when I can beat your manufacturing processes big time without an assembly line?!

SuperCell is hiring.. Here is their job description:

Description

We need a new Builder. Are you an independent and passionate maker? Do you love spending 24 hours a day turning wood and gold into walls and defensive buildings? Do you answer the call to build even if that call comes at 4:00 a.m. and you haven’t had a day off in literally five years? If the answer to these questions is “Yes! Yes! A million times yes!” then we have a hammer with your name on it!

The Role

The focus of the Builder is to, uh, build.

You will be responsible for taking instructions from the player and building whenever and wherever they see fit. They say build and you say...well, you don’t say anything, you just build.

The world of Clash of Clans can get intense. Our Builder is expected to build quickly and expertly at all times, even while under great amounts of stress and/or attacks from Barbarians, Archers, Goblins, Giants, Wall Breakers, Wizards, and P.E.K.K.A.s.

Equally as important as building is rebuilding. All of the things you build will inevitably be destroyed, if not immediately, then soon after you just finished building or rebuilding everything. You can’t let it get you down. You must maintain your resolve and rebuild. Fast!

Responsibilities

Must be willing to relocate to the World of Clash
Must build and maintain a wide-range of buildings, statues, and war machines.
Must be on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
Must have up-to-date Level 9 Tesla Tower maintenance certification 
Must have proficiency with building materials both common (wood, stone, etc.) and uncommon (lightning, lava, etc.)

Requirements

Must provide own leather helmet
Must possess a passion for building
Must be comfortable working hands-on with molten lava.
Must adhere to strict dress code (orange sleeveless shirt, brown canvas pants, and boots).
Must speak fluent Barbarian

How to Apply

Send us your qualifications via e-mail to bethebuilder@supercell.com or write out your qualifications and send them to us via Baby Dragon. Either format is accepted. 

Customer call.

Customer: what's the status of the software?
Me: it's a bit of wood work.
Customer: wood work?!
Me: yes, I think it would work.
Customer: ...
Me: ...

So, now that companies are used to "WFH", maybe we can agree upon a better office for tech companies?

I do actually think the more "ideal" tech company office wouldn't have to be expensive.

It can be smaller. Any tech company worth it's salt should have discovered in the last few months that it's not just devs who can work from home. Sales, support, management — you really don't need to fight your way through highway traffic or cram yourself into a sweaty subway every day.

There's value in having an office. Not everyone can fit a good workspace in their apartment.

But we could at least center it around:

1. A bunch of small, completely soundproof isolation booths, for those who need a focus space, and can't find a silent spot at home.

2. A social lounge space, a communal living room with couches, a bar, creative relaxing stuff, whiteboards, etc. WFH can become depressing even for the most antisocial employees, chilling on a couch with some coworkers to brainstorm ideas or chat about random tech is valuable for building good relationships with your team.

The "open plan office" with rows of desks and monitors, no matter how luxuriously decorated with vertical gardens and hipster desks from reclaimed wood, can go die a fiery painful death.

I either want to work, or socialize.

Open plan offices (and it's even more dystopian suicide-inducing cousin, the cubicle) are like being unable to choose between fucking and a blowjob, so you end up humping a navel.

Oh, and conference rooms, go fuck yourself as well. I want to be able to minimize your ugly face if you plan to talk about company financial reports for 2 hours.

Yesterday I experienced a developer related situation in a completely different scenario. Let me explain:

A friend asked me if he can borrow my angle-grinder. As I was curious, I asked what he needs it for. As he is not that experienced in woodworking he wanted to cut small piece of wood with it. Of course I told him, that this tool is a complete overkill and recommend him to use a small saw.

Now what makes this programmingrelated:

I believe that often unexperienced programmers tend to use to heavy tools for small tasks. His lack of experience let him choose the most powerful tool, but made him blind for analysis of the actual problem.

"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through." - Steve Jobs

A box with 20 blotters of LSD, a bottle of Tawny Port, some rock climber's hand strength training clay which is great against RSI, a very undomesticated purring feline, some leatherworking tools (making a new folding case for my phone), 2 sesame bagels with cream cheese, a piece of cherry wood, two routers (one woodworking, one internet), one Ducky Horizon and one ErgoDox keyboard, two boxes of baby wipes and a bottle of formula, an expired ticket to a corona-cancelled concert, my sleeping newborn daughter wrapped in a black hoodie, a bottle of cognac, 3x 1440p displays, a chunk of chocolate, one freshly brewed cortado, a bottle of dimethylsulfoxide, 3 laptops, a TV remote, a glass of water, and one bolt which was left over from an IKEA box but I'm unsure which furniture item it belongs to.

It came to me, a brilliant idea, a simple solution to an everyday problem and easy route to market. Great, starts looking for domains and writes down idea in full in case i forget. Later that day, picks up 12 year old son from school, tells him my great idea. He told me how shit it was and why straight away.

While this wasn't technically a real client, it's still one of the most insane requests I've ever had.

I chose to specialize in software engineering for the last year and a half of my degree, which meant a lot of subjects were based around teamwork, proper engineering practises, accessibility, agile methods, basically a lot of stuff to get us ready to work in a proper corporate dev environment. One of our subjects was all about project management, and the semester-long coursework project (that was in lieu of a final exam) was to develop a real project for a real client. And, very very smartly, the professors set up a meeting with the clients so that the clients could tell us what they wanted with sixty-odd students providing enough questions. They basically wanted a management service for their day-center along with an app for the people there. One of the optional requirements was a text chat. Personally not something I'm super interested in doing but whatever, it's a group project, I'll do my part.

The actual development of the project was an absolute nightmare, but that's a story for another day. All I'll say is that seven juniors with zero experience in the framework we chose does not make a balanced dev team.

Anyway, like three months into the four-month project we've got a somewhat functional program, we just need to get the server side part running and are working our asses off (some more than others) when the client comes in and says that 'hey, nice app, nobody else has added the chat yet, but could you do voice recognition okay thanks?'.

Fucking.
Voice.
Recognition.

This was a fucking basic-ass management app with the most complicated task being 'make it look pretty' and 'hook up a DB to an API' and they want us to add voice recognition after sitting on their ass for three months??? The entire team collectively flipped its shit the second they were out of earshot. The client would not take no for an answer, the professor simply told us that they asked for it and it was up to us whether we delivered or not. Someone working on the frontend had the genius idea of 'just get them to use google voice recognition' so we added the how-to in the manual and ticked the requirement box.

What amazes me about all that is how the client probably had no idea that their new last-minute request was even a problem for us, let alone it being in a completely different ballpark in terms of implementing from scratch.

Most hobbies need funding to get started and to continue. Wood to carve, cables and electronics to solder. Programmers need only their time (as long as they have a computer). It is the most cheap thing to pick up and learn.

Well here's my new setup.

My desk wasn't big enough width wise, so instead of buying another one, I just cut some wood to be longer. Gotta improvise 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Just got the monitor today. Next item is a mechanical keyboard.

I'll post one with the lights off so the RGB LEDs are a bit more visible.

Team meetings on the toilet

English is weird.
Take the double oo for example.
There are so many different pronunciations for it and there seems to be no rules whatsoever.

mood
wood
blood
door

All different

So building a game engine and everything's internal name is wood/axe/lumberjack themed...

Started work on the scripting language and gave it the code name faggot script... Took me 48 hours to realise I should probably change that...

Adult site..

you will have contract length free premium membership
and contract length wood.

Matryoshkas are better companions than Ducks, and here's why:

-Made with wood. The material of Men! No industrialized rubber to spread Capitalist propaganda

-Multi-layer. Explain your code with different levels of complexity. Babushka Matryoshka is keen on C!

-Never feel alone. Maybe you want some intimate one on one, maybe you want a whole party of helpers, all thanks to pocket dimensions (included with the Matryoshkas).

So what's your excuse for not having a Matryoshka Comrade cyka!

Friends of mine have a new flat.

It's a nice flat. Cheap. Noone wanted it. 100 square meters.

Reason noone wanted it...

Previous owners were bastards from hell.

Really. Every motherfucking room needed to be completely renovated by the owner.

Door frames were made of wood, nice and old - at least the part that was left of them. Splinters, scratch marks, partially broken out of the wall.

2 windows needed to be fully replaced. Rest of the windows needed to be bleached, PET abrasive cleaning solution and the frames needed repair with resin as they drilled into the frames. Then treatment with sealant of course.

Yes. There was no other solution. After bleaching you recognized the windows were white. Before... Let's not talk about it.

The previous owners even managed to destroy the bathtub.

The kitchen tiles... Fat cleaner. Bleaching. Abrasion. Polishing.

Soooo.

Day of moving.

The apartment is in the 6th floor / level.

Cran / lift was ordered.

16 people wanted to come.

7 people came.

2 including myself couldn't lift heavy stuff nor walk the stairs due to health issues.

Crane broke after first try.

Today. I want to murder the previous owners. After torture and crucification.

I'm feeling levels of pain I couldn't Imagine before.

Only hate and beer let's me keep my shit together.

I REALLY didn't think after renovating and cleaning the flat for my friends in the last several weeks that it could get worse.

Boy. I was wrong.

Thanks for letting me vent here. I really feel devastated currently -.-

And I need to help them tomorrow, too.

Bikini Atoll, tchernobyl and every other atom bomb desaster Zone combined looks better than the chaos in their flat.

Everyone who could lift shoved everything inside.

I solo carried everything that wasn't too large in the room and then, as every room looked like desaster, completely managed the kitchen (cleaning, unpacking, trash, placing everything where it belongs and so on) :( :(

Leslie is a crazy beatch, no wood can't resist her.

! Rant
Today's project...
Target for airsoft.
The prototype bullseye didn't survive the trials but it works. Just need to upgrade to wood.

For the Nth time in a row now, the team has met...

...with no agenda...
...with no note-taking...
...with no off-topic course correction...

...and has gone almost an hour over time.

Please stop doing this oh my god, we're wasting time and nobody has a fucking source when two months later somebody asks when/why this was decided and our only answer is "uh we agreed at some point" and we do this all over again.

Hey! First post on rant by saying merry Xmass!
This is my Christmas tree made from JavaScript ! I can change the height of the foliage and the wood part follow !
For those like me who live in a country where you only have the cold but not the snow 😅❄️

Finished my internship today, turns out I won't be getting hired because upper management is cutting back due to COVID.

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck, compared to the horror stories I've read here, it was beautiful. The work experience was super worth it though, despite the intern pay. Time to start looking for a real job I guess.

That one time a Brazilian got into ny GitHub account.

Don't reuse passwords kids!

Day 2 of having to use linux at work and I almost nuked the /etc folder.

what a good start

3 store types I require supervision in: shoe store, technology store, and hardware store...

Started to clean up my projects and delete all my deprecated things and starting to shift focus to one - three projects at max...

Buying my first car (2005 VW golf 2L diesel)

Got a new job interview that they seem eager to meet me about...

Getting money under my belt and closer to buying a house....

Everythings coming up Alex :-D

(Knock on wood)

Welcome to this week's episode of "sudo-woodo tries to get a single Python script merged", starring...

•The software architect so senior they were working here while I was still in pre-school. Wasn't added as a reviewer and was completely absent on this project for two months but came in on this PR with a few questions, including questioning design decisions they agreed on the last time they saw the project.
•The QA lead with ten years of experience... in Java. Has never even touched Python and asked to review, only for every issue raised but one stemming from not knowing the language.
•The CI guy. A script guru who will find a problem with literally anything. Honestly the most helpful person of the bunch.
•My coworker. Hasn't said anything yet.

please send help

I own my grandfather's Victorinox Swiss Army Knife, probably from the eighties. I absolutely love it — it's just like the standard Unix toolkit. Minimalist, multi-purpose, efficient. This is what I have in my knife:
1. Two blades. I call them master (yes) and slave
2. Corkscrew. I call it "ed".
3. Hole puncher, but not just any hole puncher. Mine has an angular sharp edge to carve holes instead of just punching them. Super efficient for wood, plastic and thick fabric. It also has a hole so it can be used as a needle. I call it "vi".
4. Bottle opener which is also a screwdriver. I call it "more".
5. Can opener. This is my favorite one.

It can help you open just about anything. Any type of cans, closed pistachio nuts, oysters, your barely legal girlfriend's virginity — anything. When I eat pistachios, I'm holding my Victorinox in my hand opening tough ones with the speed of rm -rf ripping through your files. Oh, and it's also another screwdriver. I call it "cat".

But let's take a look at modern Victorinox. Maybe it's better? No, not at all. It's totally metrosexual featuring nail files, nail clippers, nail scissors and a flash drive (not even a good one).

Newer doesn't always mean cooler.

(I have the exact same one, photo from the internet because I'm too lazy)

Yay! Finally got my first job in IT.

They call it just "IT admin/sysadmin", but it's... eh..
What I do is make sure the servers work (sysadmin part) and make desktop/mobile apps. So far, the company seems to be quite nice, there are already 4 devs who are friendly. *knocks on wood*

Will see how it goes, and I'd like to thank you for sharing your stories. Learned quite a lot from them!

Of course I can code with vi. I can also cook by burning wood. It might taste better, but it doesn't cook faster.

Literally painful dev learning experience: Do your damn stretches and invest in a good chair.

Spent a couple of months of WFH working eight hours a day in an awful chair and started getting back pain out of the blue. Part of my first paycheck after that went into a decent office chair, in hindsight I should've spent more on it but goddamn what a relief it was not having to spend an entire day in the tiny, back-breaking piece of shit my landlord calls a desk chair.

Hey guys, I have a serious question for you: How do you define science?

And yes this is going to be a long Rant. This topic really pisses me off.

A bit of context first. I come from a "humanities" background. I study history and dude, I love it. The problem is that even though we fucking pull our brains out studying historical phenomena with a fucking ton of conceptual tools, our work is mostly seen as literature to entertain the elderly during their lonely evenings. But that's not really the point of this rant.

My fucking problem is that while we try to do some serious work; actual work that could help society for real, it all goes into that magical fucking kingdom called "humanities". HOW THE FUCK DO THEY DARE TO CALL SOMETHING "HUMANITIES". IT'S A FUCKING HISTORICAL TERM THAT MEANS "TO FULFILL MEN IN ALL IT'S ASPECTS", AND NOW THEY'VE REPURPOSED IT, MAKING IT CONTAIN ANY STUDY THAT ISN'T "EMPIRICAL", "OBJECTIVE", ADD ANY FUCKING SCIENTIFIC DELUSIONARY TERM YOU CAN THINK OF.

And don't get me started on "objectivity". Oh boy, your fucking objectivity is hollow as a kid's balloon. There is no such thing as a objective study, even when it applies your "rational" "godly" scientific method. Some guys follow that shit as if it was a fucking religion. I do understand it's useful and all that, but in the end it's just a tool, you can't fucking define "science" by it's tools.

"""Q: What is carpintery?
A: Well, it's hammers, nails and wood. Yep. Hammers, nails and wood."""

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD WAS FUCKING INVENTED DURING THE XVIII CENTURY, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK WAS GALLILEI BEFORE THAT? "HUMANITIES"?

Why do I say objectivity isn't posible? Well, guess what? YOU ARE FUCKING HUMAN. Every thing you know is full of preconceptions and fucking cultural subjectivities invented to understand the world. And it's ok, becouse if you understand your own subjectivity, at least you can see yourself in a critical sense, and at least "tend" to objectivity, in the same way functions tend to infinity.

And here comes the best part: people studying "cs" in my university pass most of the time studying a ton of shit that isn't really science, but is taken as scientific becouse it is related to "science". These guys spend entire semesters just learning programming fundational stuff that in my opinion isn't really science, it's just subjective conceptual constructs built to make the coding process better. They only have TWO fucking classes on discrete mathematics and another 3 or 4 in actual scientific fields related to computing. THESE GUYS AREN'T FUCKING BEING TAUGHT TO BE COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; THEY ARE TEACHING THEM TO BE PROGRAMMERS. THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CS AND PROGRAMMING AND THAT IS THE WORD SCIENCE. And yes, I'm being drastic on the definition of science on purpose becouse guess fucking what? I'M PISSED OFF.

"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Just doing science with scrum and agile development."

I understand most of you guys would think of science as "the application of the scientific method", "Knowledge by experimentation and peer-review", "anything techy". Guys, science is a lot broather than that. I define it as "the search for truth", mainly becouse that's what we are all doing, and what humans have been doing to gain knowledge through the ages. It doesn't matter what field of truth you are seeking as long as you do it seriously and with fundaments. I don't fucking care if you can't be objective: that's impossible. Just acknowledge it and continue investigating accordingly.

I believe during the last centuries the concept of science has been deformed by the popular rise of both natural and applied sciences. And I love the fact that these science fields have been growing so much all this time, but for fucks sake don't leave every other science (science as I define it) behind. Governments and corporations make huge mistakes becouse they don't treat history, politics and other sciences seriously. Yes, I called history a "science", fuck you.

And yes, by my definition programming is not a science. I don't know what most of you think programming is, but for me it's a discipline that builds stuff, similar to carpintery or blacksmithing. Now if you are pushing the limits, seeking ways to make computing go further, then that's science. The guys that are figuring out AI are scientists, the guys that are using it to detect hotdogs aren't - unless they are the same person- deal with it. I guess a lot of you guys are with me on this point.

In the end, we are all artisans building abstract tools by giving orders to a machine.

I still have some characters left, so I want to thank the community as a whole for letting me vent my inner rage. I don't have much ways to express myself on these matters, so for me DevRant is a bless.

Missed some of you. A lot of you really.

Anything exciting happen while I was gone?

I heard some of you formed a mob, dragged a spammer out behind the wood shed and beat em bloody.

Sad to say I missed that.

I'm currently eeking by financially, but got my plans for the fall winter and spring. Gym membership, rock climbing, prepping for a 5k. Weathers perfect for all of it.

I'm in a competition right now for some serious prize money and in the lead.

Enough to start that AI lab and finish my game.

Also, not everything is sunshine and roses. I sleep 3-6 hours a night average, (5-6 if I'm lucky), and horrible mood swings, with or without sleep. And isolation, damn the isolation is terrible, but my schedule is so hectic I basically have no room for any real-world contacts. I can barely make time for myself, let alone my family.

But I'm still writing poetry and music at least, and got my eye on some land for a cabin or other uses like for an office.

Whats going good/bad in your life?

I haven't heard from so many of you for so long.

Fun stuff from the few most recent pages in Dwarf Fortress bug tracker:

Human civilization's soldier is an Alligator Recruit.

Dead suspects confess to crimes

Crash due to zero-size weasel

Pets and other animals from retired fortresses appear as selectable 'workers' in request screen, die of old age on arrival

Some animal people have extra fingers

People dying twice?
Most confusingly, one necromancer shows as having died from old age twice, despite this not being possible.

My Nature Hating Adventurer Who Lacks Altruism And Is Very Cruel Isn't Happy After Butchering Animals

bat man males don't have geldables

Reanimated severed werebeast necromancer hand has a full body

Dwarf likes "cacao wood wood"

Dwarves turn hostile againt the player and defend their prison from raid sent to free them

Visitors giving birth during visit leave their baby behind

a water buffalo got stuck inside a rough tetrahedrite wall

Animals which retract into body parts forget to come out

Herbalist stuck on stepladder, starving to death.

Artifact has an image of nothing

Cave Dragons are sometimes intelligent, and sometimes join human civilizations

A goblin knocked over a workshop and now my dwarves are killing each other

Ambusher elves are being spotted, but the giant monsters they're riding on aren't.

runs with food from table to table. Can't eat

Intelligent Undead Sent on Mission Return as Ghosts

Horrified merchants immediately destroy their wagons, pack their goods and leave the depot

Dwarf king abdictates to become commoner necromancer apprentice

Internal body parts with certain tags can still wear clothing & armor, without being otherwise accessible

Necromancer marries zombie

Single dad dwarf with buggy dead wife leaves kid behind when he takes over holding

Large quantities of adamantine coins causes trade depot to burst into flame

I worked on a game jam last year, and for the first time I managed to finish a full software project that wasn't for a job or university. It was really fun to work on, and seeing my vision come to life, even if compromises had to be made, as well as applying all the programming and project management knowledge I'd picked up until then was an experience unlike anything I'd had before.

The community aspect was great too, everybody shared and discussed each other's games and were super friendly and encouraging.

"Turning away bad clients can leave you feeling oddly guilty. They’re sort of like alcoholic or meth head cousins who force you, by their own bad behavior into denying them things you wouldn’t deny other people. You’re left feeling not quite yourself." - Carolyn Wood

Every task is for fucking yesterday

Desk build in progress, love the reclaimed wood look so thought I'd make my own!

Whenever Facebook decides to do one of its fancy animations about all the things you've posted pictures of in the past month etc. I'm sure they expected people to be posting pictures of parties, holidays etc.

I only post either pictures of my pets or something I'm working on (running cables in walls, cutting up bits of wood, decorating etc.) So it looks utterly ridiculous when one of those animations plays.

I have had it with this wack-ass code, with its spaghetti-looking call tree, nonsensical variable naming, comments a screen-height long and as clear as mud mixed with diarrhea, conditions incomprehensible enough to make kafka depressed, and condtions nested deeper than a goddamn ant colony.

In fact, it has more levels of indentation than one of those stupid iceberg memes - the top is pretty and barely afloat while the rest of it is a fat mess all the way down that only serves to sink your motherfucking hopes and dreams.

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Managers at my jobs for the most part leave me be. Though I often have no clue whether I'm doing OK. I guess no news is good news right?

My worst experience isn't that bad. At one place, I was the only tester working on things coming from 20-30 devs. After about a year+, the company finally hired more testers, but it was still only 3 of us.

We were in the final stages of releasing a build to prod. It was going smoothly, or so we thought. At the last minute, I found a buried bug that was a showstopper.

A lot of hatred on me that day, that once it was fixed, and the release was finally deployed, I just shut off my laptop and left. I took all the blame because I was the one who found it rather than blaming the team as a whole for not finding it earlier. Oh well. Stuff happens.

Let's knock on wood that I don't run into worse higher up stories.

The more I use LinkedIn the more I hate it. I know I shouldn't be a nosy fuck but sometimes I've got nothing better to do for a couple of minutes on my work OS and the tab's right there. Every time I open it up it reminds me of why I'm not on Facebook. My coworkers are probably the most benign people to follow, all they do is repost company videos and blogposts. Basically advertizing, whatever.

It's the other people who get to me, the ones who are advertizing themselves. The soapboxing, the 'look at all the cool shit im doing', the reposting shit from people who I have no clue about. It's literally a window into just the good parts of peoples lives, like any other shitty social media site, but put through the filter of corporate PR bullshit. At least you can be yourself somewhat anywhere else, everything on LinkedIn needs to conform to what's acceptable to the sterile corporate environment, which amounts to showing off your certs or marketable products and the most surface-level 'progressive' social politics.

Fuck LinkedIn and fuck my curious ass for opening it like a dumbass kid who doesn't understand why you shouldn't touch a hot stove.

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Is it normal for productivity to wildly fluctuate from one week, or even one day, to the next? There are days where I hardly get a couple of hours of real work in and others where it's eight hours straight, and I find it hard to "justify" to myself why the former happens if I'm capable of the latter.

Shitty meme I made when talking to a friend about how much I hate dealing with UX and people problems:

How ignorant we all are about the world. It's not necessarily a bad thing, just a fact. After a four year degree I've learnt so much, how a computer works from the physical phenomena on the hardware level to the inner workings of an OS to the highest level abstractions of modern web development, a wide array of programming languages covering several different paradigms, mathematics from calculus to statistics to algebra, how to work with databases, how to administrate a server, how to build a website, and much more.

And that's just in a degree. I have knowledge in one domain and I wouldn't even call myself an expert in it. Medicine, physics, biology, the hundreds of branches of engineering from civil to nautical to aerospace to automobile, to geology to meteorology to astronomy, to the practical application of this knowledge in hundreds of trades. There's so much more to know in so much depth and only recently have I realized how little we all know on an individual level.

Finding this out has been a mixed bag, on the one hand it's made me value what I know and what others can teach me a hell of a lot more, on the other, knowing that people haven't realized this and adamantly discuss and impose from a position of ignorance isn't very nice.

tl;dr I know that I know nothing

Holy shit, my first freelance project will be field-tested for the first time tomorrow!

After a few more rounds of fixing bugs, some serious improvements, and some new features additions, I can actually say that I'm proud of the code I've written! It's not perfect, but I definitely like the way it works - AND IT ACTUALLY WORKS!

Knock on wood, hopefully it won't shit the bed tomorrow.

Followup to my wk200 rant.

I'm like 90% sure I wasn't muted when I flushed last meeting

Carving wood is more interesting than engaging in meaningless conversations with selfish women and drinking wine.

Why would companies ever hire a manager from a non-tech background, at least for managing engineers? After reading @IAmNotARobot's latest rant I just have to ask because it makes absolutely no sense to me. Surely non-tech people should be reserved for managing non-tech roles like sales, HR, and maaaaybe team leads, right? How can you manage someone if you don't understand anything of what they do?

It's so nice when kindness is retributed...
When on a flash shopping for wood, to fix my chair. Found out that the shop was way cheaper than a big chain I went a few days ago... Like up to 2/3 and 3/4 cheaper... Well, spent 1-hour shopping in such a small shop.
Meanwhile, started talking, telling what I'm doing with the wood and the tools... and eventually asked if she had any leftovers because I would use them.
A little more shopping, a little more talk and she asked, what will you do with the leftovers??
I've started talking about my new hobby, then the why I started this hobby (burn out), and that I'm making machines and tools with the stuff I'm buying...
Left with a big box full of leftovers, even a catalog with fine wood, all the same size...
It's nice when people reward kindness with kindness.
Also, gained a new costumer, never shopping anywhere else again if they have it.

Woodworking.
Making furniture or flooring.
Making music instruments with wood. Wood is life. I’ll probably switch to wood next decade so I don’t have to debug stupid bugs but kill them while renovating furniture.

Docker broke, swarm was a bloddy house of cards, from the first days of swarm, consul was somewhat bent around that crap
No docs, no one has a clue, no support and got somewhat backstabbed

Well... Maybe i should do something with wood or orchids ...

That moment when you get your first job after getting your degree and one of your co-workers with about 5 years of experience asks you what is a static class because he never used one...

I mean come on... You have 5 years of xp and never used a static before? x)

This project is going places...

I've just bought a new table, I think that's the best thing anyone without a proper table can do.

25 € and solid wood, I hope it lasts forever.

Salesforce is like a great bridge with awesome design... But made of wood and aluminum, it tends to fail and doesn't present any good improve... Fuck you Salesforce and your fucking communities profiles and permissions!!!

Interview question : How far can you walk into the wood?
#no cheating # no googling

!rant

Gonna make like Robotnik because I just got a prrrrrrrrromotion!!!!

Some times I like to think what would I do with my life if suddenly all electronics stopped working...

It's scary as shit, but I think I would survive. I have some other skills (wood working and construction).

Would you?

Ok so first off i cant get my damn mic working, despite every setting change i can find and every driver update i can do and every damn mic i've used. Then i try updating windows ten because maybe thats the problem, sure enough after i've done that my whole damn computer is messed up. Even opening folders or applications take between five and ten minutes. Not to mention i can't open my windows settings to rollback. I literally build and fix computers for a living and yet i have not clue what else i can do at this point. Think i might renounce technology and float off into the Atlantic on a plank of wood :/

Notepad++

don't @ me

nice

In other news, I am upset that there is no way to make my avatar look like a tree.

Our git subtree completely stop working somehow. No one can get latest.
Now we are playing wood sword and pretend nothing happened.

I have too many geeky non-dev activities. I don't know which is the geekiest...

Built a server rack out of bits of spare wood (going to rebuild and improve it in future). Wired up the entire house with network cabling. Didn't need to, just prefer not to use WiFi for things where possible. Also ceiling mounted a PoE WiFi AP for things that have to use WiFi (e.g. smartphones).
DIY built a rack mountable Pi shelf with faceplate.
Configured a dedicated TV tuner/PVR PC used by Kodi running on Raspberry Pi for a couple of TVs (all diskless/network boot).
Got a colocated server running in a data centre for running various VMs on for different things. Run my own email, webserver, DNS, VPN, voice chat server, various other stuff.
Gradually getting into electronics, which overlaps with dev a bit.
Sometimes I play games. I built a dedicated VR PC which occupies the smallest room of the house.

Unsure which is the geekiest thing!

I have already started the process of a side project by desiging the software, the architecture, the 3d model, ordered all the electronics of a pet 'smart' stable for my guinea pigs.

Which would automatically feed them and refill their water tanks silently but for me the point on playing around with dozens of sensors for like different water levels, water quality, hay, temperature, water quality (you get the point) ... Building a nice looking web interface or an App to control everything and get a live feed from different angles ( sounds a bit crazy altogether but it looked like a cool project )

I even started a instructable and had a github repo for sharing the source of the app/web interface and the whole micro service based server

I'm still at it and hopefully will start to build the ***ing wood and acrylic parts in the next month's but currently and for the last month's free time ist my archenemy

Keep you posted if you are interested 😀

Fuck Google! I'm trying to write a fucking parential app that I can install on my little sisters phone, because I won't download something that is meant to monitor activity on a child's phone when I am capable of writing one. Problem is, I test it on my phone which has Android 10, because I am not keen on testing with a slowpoke out of wood brick that the target phone is. Android 10 does not let you do a single shit that is needed for a parential software. You try to turn on airplane mode to prevent messages from arriving and such? Well.... nope, you can't. Okay... airplane mode is too drastic. Let's try turning off WiFi and Data. Fuck me, you can't do that either. I gave the app fucking system permissions and It laughs in my face when I try to access some simple shit like... WiFi state. Miserable. I wonder if it will let me mute the fucking volume on the phone. I guess It won't, because "You shouldn't set these things on a user's phone.". Well, fuck that. That's exactly what I need. That old brick does not have built in parental settings. Jesus.

Oh my fucking god, we're doing SCRUM, why does every task get stuck in review limbo and take a sprint and a half minimum because of it.

!!rant life toptags bottags
My tags seem to be okay. Let's go.
I'm 14. I live in a place where nobody smart lives, and the school I go to has no coders.
Last year, all my friends moved. The only friend I had left now hates me, simply because they yelled at me everyday and I yelled at them once.
I am in the middle of my exams. I also have the flu, but thankfully it's not the e-flu, otherwise you guys should prepare for 24/7 headaches.
Due to the medications I am taking, I'm half-asleep all the time, and I probably am messing up all of my grades.
My entire extended family is in India, and I go there 2 times a year. I miss them so much right now :(.
At the same as doing exams, I am trying to keep my laptop (primary) and PC (secondary, desk) configuration and setup approximately synchronized. In order to do that, I am setting up my dotfiles repository.
Except that all my laptop config (which works) is written horribly, and I need to rewrite it all.
At the same time, I have 3 other projects going on: An OS written in D, a source-based package management system written in D, a small website (not online), and a whatever's cooking in my mind at this moment.
Right now, I'm supposed to be studying for my French exam.
Instead, I'm here, typing this out on my phone.
I have a classmate in school who can type QWERTY at 80WPM. I'm learning Dvorak (Programmer's!) and my current speed is 33WPM, after about 2 months of half-hearted practise during work time and at school.
Sometimes, I look at the world we have here, and what we're doing to it, and I wish that sometimes we could simply be content with life. Let's just live, for once.
I find ~60 random songs in one go, simply by finding a song I know on YouTube and going to the 'Mix - <song>' playlist. I download them all (youtube-dl), and I listen to them. Sometimes, I find this little part in a song (Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us beginning instrumentals, or Safe and Sound chorus instrumentals) that make me feel so happy I feel like all's good in the world. Then the song moves on and with it, my happiness.
I look at Wayland, and X, and I think - Why can't we have one way of doing things - a fixed interface to express anything, so that one common API exists for everything of that type? And I realise it's because they feel that they're missing something from the others. Perhaps it's a bug nobody's solved or functionality that's missing, and they think that they can do better than that. And I think - Well, that's stupid. Submit a fucking bug report or pull request instead of reinventing the wheel. And then I realise that all the programming I've ever done in my life IS simply reinventing the wheel. And some might say, "Well, that guy designed it with spokes and wood. I designed it with rubber and steel," but that doesn't work, because no matter what how you make it, it's just a wheel. They both do the same thing. Both have advantages and disadvantages, because nothing's perfect. We're not perfect because we all have agendas and wants and likes and dislikes and hates and disgusts and all kinds of other crap, and our DNA's not perfect because it manages to corrupt copy operations (which is basically why we die of old age, I think).
And now I've lost my train of thought and this is too large to scroll over so I'm just going to move on to the next topic. At this point (.), I have 1633 letters left.
I hate the fact that the world's become so used to QWERTY because of stuff that happened 100 years ago that Dvorak is enough of a security to stop most people from being able to physically use my laptop.
I don't understand why huge companies like Google want to know about me. What would you do with this information? Know how to take over my stuff when the corporation-opocalypse comes around? Why can't they leave me alone? Why do I have to flash a ROM onto my phone so that Google cannot track me? What do you want, Google?
I don't give a shit any more, so there's my megarant.
Before anybody else (aside from myself) tells me that this is too big, all these topics are related simply because my train of thought went this way. There's a connection between each of these things, but I just don't know what it is.
Goodnight, world. 666 is the number of characters I have left. So is 42, for that matter (thanks, Douglas Adams!). Goodbye.

First or second week of my first job (internship) and my manager mentions that upper management has decided that a couple of engineers are being reassigned to the new technical writing team, myself included, effective tomorrow with no prior warning, before dragging us into a tech-writing standup.

A couple of hours later my manager apologizes to me for forgetting to tell me about this and asked how I felt about this. I basically answered "not well, this isn't what I signed up for", and credit to him, he pulled enough strings to get me out of that team and back to my actual job. In hindsight I suspect that it was more due to the fact that this internship was a three-way contract with the university and that if I complained they might get their intern supply cut off.

! Rant
Social life.
Can anyone explain to me what's happening to the world?
Earthquakes... Hurricanes... Looks like the beginning of the end of the world...
We just didn't had any big tsunami this year (knocks on wood)

I just watched a video where a guy used a homemade band saw made of wood to make another homemade band saw made of wood. This is the very definition of recursion, amirite?

All hail, king of the losers!
Ah, being rushed!
Don't point that thing at me!
Yes. No. Yes. I mean so. Commandament?
Start the game already!
It is good to be the king.
Hahaha..ha...ha!
Gold, please.
Wood, please.
Food, please.
Stone, please.

My boss has been pretty insistent on us writing good tests (which I wholeheartedly agree with) for our new project, and being the less-experienced junior that I am, asked if we could get some guidance or a demonstration.

Took two weeks, but I finally got it said guidance... by opening a pull request with tests that weren't absolutely perfect.

So here I am coming to the end of the week after getting The Porcupines big web project into production. Pulled a 38 hour straight from Sunday to Monday chopping wood to make the thing fly. Pulled in other programmers and content creators to get the site full of something we did not have a week before. The fun part was having the account manager right there for 30 plus hours and actually seeing what it take to save a project when the client just thinks "it's just code". Now the boss has is asking for a list of all the work out of spec as they are bitching about the extra cost. These were the clients who did not read the functional spec and raked me over the coals after release that the home page did not match the design (the home page matched the design). I warned my team this would happen. They get all swept up in the hype and We can win! frame of mind and you can bet when the bitching starts it will come back to the paperwork you did at the beginning and the change requests and productions systems reports so you can wave it in front of ungrateful clients and not end up sad. Make sure you keep notes and document all of the requests and changes from internal and external even if you do not have to. one day it will save your ass and you will be able to whip it out and be a smiling motherfucker.

On This Episode of Ghetto Medium..

Posted after midnight for extra spooky effects. Read in the dark at your own risk. You've been warned.

So my mother has been on a binge watching shows like long island medium (apparently the taller your hair the closer you are to god or something), and every time we talk she begins at length to talk about, you guessed it.. 'ghosts.'

Now don't get me wrong, I've had some 'spooby' shit occur in my lifetime, the sort that will tighten your sphincter faster than bill cosby asking you if you want some koolaid or grape drank, but I digress.

The ghost talk is tiring. Lately theres been a *flood* of these new shows, purportedly showing mediums and people who can 'look into the other side' and I realize just how vapid and ridiculous it's all become, as if they all are being personally haunted by the ghost of John Edwards burnt out husk of a career. Theres long island beehive big-hair medium, celebrity medium, allison DuBois (the inspiration for that one sappy show *medium*) whos red hair and vacant stare speak of glimpses into centuries past like an intimate unseen horizon. or maybe she forgot to unplug her curling iron in a hotel one time and has been rendered permanently catatonic. And who can forget *Beyond With James Van Praagh* (everyone) whos face, as measured by the width of his mustache, appears to be expanding at a constant rate like a bad image macro edit thats been memed and repasted a thousand times. Then theres Chip Coffee, whos name is about as believable as his teaching degree on the show *Psychic Kids* where he mentored, again, you guessed it, *psychic kids*. Of course theres Tyler Henry, a youthful, uh, "flamboyant" medium for celebrities with ghost problems. Never trust a man with two names, this ones no exception, he looks so clean cut hes either secretly mormon, or secretly gay, maybe both. I'm not judging, but I am saying if I ever saw his clean cut, smooth, wrinkless (seriously, how tyler? how?), all american face, say smiling that subtle smile outside my kitchen sliding glass door at 3 am, his face watching me from the pitch dark outside, I wouldn't at all be surprised, except for the hospital bill I'd have to pay after shitting a brick and needing anal surgery.

At this rate we have mediums popping out left and right, like clowns at one of them R.L Stein nightmare carnivals, or beggers outside a methodone clinic. Geez, they're coming out the wood work, like those painting you see with hidden faces in them, or wheres-waldo posters, only you're trying to find the non-waldo guy amongst all the characters because they're ALL waldo: goofy acting, goofy dressing, and just all around goofy looking.

At this rate I'm fully expecting "pet medium" (starring a character named Stephen King and his marital problems, played by johnny depp eating way to much corn), and "haunted objects medium", and "car medium" (it's just seinfeld in a car, talking to psychics instead of other people), and "ghetto medium."

Today on this episode of "Ghetto Medium"..

Medium: Teneesha, aw yeah girl, u *definitely* ded gurl, uh huh! You WAY to white too be alive, you done passed over gurl!

And in the next episode of Ghetto Medium, one man claims "every time I bend over I can hear "wOoOoOoOoO!, Is my asshole possessed? Find out is it real or fake, and what our verdict is in Ghost Medium, episode 3: A Haunting In My Nether-regions."

Cut commercial break.

"Jerry Springer: One women asks, 'jerry, is my unborn child's foreskin haunted? And later today we ask the crowd, would you have sex with a ghost?"

Welcome to American television 'programming' in 2019.

Yes, it's all brainwashing.

!rant

Finally (kinda) done with the nicknames addon. I wanted to hook into the sites actual modal menus for the UI, but I don't know JQuery and I somehow doubt modifying the existing javascript of a site from a plugin is possible, so we're stuck with knockoffs for now. But it works, it saves and loads nicknames correctly and displays them everywhere except on the notifications because I didn't add an onload listener to them.

!rant

I've never given much thought to coffee and brushed off anybody saying it's deep as a hipster, but I'm a simple man who's only ever had instant coffee, basic cafeteria stuff and 50c vending machine trash. Well there's a coffee machine at work and there's actually a decent variety of capsules. All I have to say is holy shit, the hipsters were right. The flavours, the aroma, the strength, they're all so different and all so good, goddamn!

Can these requirements stop having issues...

FOR FIVE MINUTES?!

Is it just me or have the spammers come out of the wood works today?

I was always into computers, ever since I was a kid. Played a lot of videogames on Windows 98 and XP, and a lot of my earliest drawings were level ideas for those games. My first encounters with code were with game creation software like GameMaker, but I barely touched the code proper outside of editing a few variables from other people's code. After that I basically forgot all about it and spent most of my teen years being a shutin.

Skip ahead to my last year of high school without much idea on what to do. I was good at math when I wasn't being a lazy shit, so between that and what my parents expected of me, I was prepared to go to university for civil engineering. However, two things changed that decision, the first being a great IT professor, when me and a friend were so far ahead, he started assigning us some harder work, and suggested we study computer science at university. The second was a super jank and obscure open-source early 2000's game that somehow still has a thriving community and is actively being developed. I stumbled upon it by chance, and after playing for a while, I submitted a balance change on the GitHub repo. Even though it was just a single variable change, that time I got it. That time I saw how powerful programming could be and what could be done with it. I submitted PR after PR of new features, changes and bugfixes, by the time I left there I had a somewhat solid grasp of the fundamentals of programming, and decided to enrol in the computer science degree.

Enrolling was possibly the best decision I ever made (not america; debt isn't an issue), as well as giving me actual social skills, every course I took just clicked. The knowledge I already somewhat intuitively had a vague grasp on from videogames, general computer use and collaborating with russian coders who produced the jankiest shit that was still somehow functional was expanded upon and consolidated with a high-quality formal education. Four years later and I'm fresh out of uni, it was a long road between when the seed was first planted in my mind and now, but I've finally found out what I want to do with my life.

won't know for sure until i find a job though ffs

Before I went to school I was copying game code from book to atari computer cause it was faster than waiting for game to load from tape recorder ( especially when people are walking around on wood floor and you have constant read errors).

I probably wrote some magic spell that cursed me on my lifetime cause this shitty programming happened to chase me everywhere I go.

Damn you software you’re everywhere I go, why you’re haunting me all the time. It’s hard to find some quiet place without you watching.

So remember kids don’t write code you don’t understand cause it may fuck your life.

This 2018 order students 👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓 lab. From painting walls, logistics, etc to statistic per user usage. Last admin in 2 years in a dark-age. Like these wood for students Id computer assignments. Hate it.

Automatization please.

Question: How was you registration Computer lab? Recommend

Learning how to make browser plugins by shamelessly ripping off my favourite dumb Reddit Enhancement Suite feature. DevRant Nicknames, coming Soon™️.

Day one of the sprint and my coworker has already found some fucked up requirements.

Goddamn do I hate this shit sometimes.

Dealing with government bureaucracy today. Prepare for pure anger.

First of all, what fucking dipshit site does testing and maintenance in production without letting users know? Bitch I'm getting an invalid date error when I use your own stupid date selector and I had to waste the office lady's time asking about it because you couldn't be arsed to either test your shit properly or actually take it down if it's broken. Who made that stupid ass decision and why the fuck did nobody question it. Fuck you.

Watching "Shaft" with Mr. Jackson as Shaft. Gotta say I like how he quit the job. Flings his badge like a ninja star and it sticks into the wood panel near the judge in the courtroom.

Gonna have to come up with something dramatic like that.

...and not get arrested. Lol.

So today a file my PHP application made went through to a machine (50x50 meters) and out came the finished product exactly as it should have.

Sidenote; fuck you haters

Best documentation have probably been most language docs and references I've worked with, official or otherwise, especially C++. Completeness, consistency, tidiness and examples really help a lot, since I know I can rely on the docs for basically any problem and makes work so much easier since I'll be guaranteed to leave understanding what's up.

Worst documentation has got to be the internal docs we had to create for a seven-man uni project, you couldn't find shit in the sea of docs that were out of date or just plain wrong. It was so much easier to ask whoever was working on that part about the intricacies of the cobbled-together mess than to either read the code or the docs. One absolute mouthbreather was working on the database docs and put in that it stored ArrayLists. Fucking Java ArrayLists in a motherfucking database. One day I am going to rant so hard about this dumbass and it's gonna be a spectacle.

Bonus points goes to the company's public documentation at my internship. It was good and pretty complete, but sometimes there was a document from 2 years ago that had been written by a non-english speaker that was absolutely awful. Some of them were so bad that as soon as I'd finished learning what I needed to, my mentor told me to go and fix the docs, I don't blame him.

!rant && offline
I just finished one of my house projects this weekend, I had the initial "concept" more than a year ago, then had to look around for wood that could actually be used, as many projects it also stayed dormant for weeks, so when I had the will and time I'll would go back to it. Yeah I know it could have been done in 2 or 3 weeks probably, but I like to do those things nice and slow, as someone in a movie said: - Slow, long moves. :)
In the next days I'll write an instructable with all the steps, if anyone is interested.

Now that the weather is nice, I've started doing some landscaping in my back yard. I thought I'd start easy with taking down a shed that was starting to lean that I inherited when I moved in.

In the process of taking it down, I discovered a wire that went from the house to the shed. The wire in the shed wasn't live but I had no idea where it terminated and I didn't want that sickle of death hanging over my neck.

After I finished taking down the shed, I started working on the wire. This wire was buried about 18 inches deep and was about 25 feet from where it was supposed to attach, which was another 25 feet from the house.

I finally got the first section dug up only to discover that the second section was attached to my retaining wall and traveled under a rotting wood patio also built directly on top of dirt. I needed to take it down regardless, but I wanted to wait until I was ready.

Protip: don't build anything made of wood directly on the ground. Given time, even treated wood will rot.

This second section was live and exposed to air. It's truly a wonder nothing bad happened with it. And most of it was only an inch under the dirt. Also, no conduit. Just a wire.

So now, several days into a simple teardown, my back yard has a deep trench dug into it going from one corner of the yard to the house. I have a huge patch of muddy dirt where I had to tear down a patio to fix an actual threat to life and limb.

I also discovered my retaining wall was built directly on top of dirt, no gravel in sight, which explains why it is leaning. Fortunately, I've built retaining walls before, so I know how to fix it.

It's a good thing I like landscaping because it's going to be an expensive and messy summer.

!rant "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

I'm learning Java/Android Development with the Udacity Nanodegree (hey we all gotta start somewhere). Got to one project that was intended just to demonstrate use of basic form elements in a static quiz. Predicted time was about 20m I think.

Three days, much hair pulling, and many SO pages later I've built a little app that displays any number and type of question, dynamically generating the views.

I may do things the hard way, but I learn a heck of a lot more for doing so.

Who doesn't love customer support?

So anyway, I'm the point-of-contact at our company for a specific tool we use, sold by an external vendor, whose yearly licenses cost five-digits per user. I've been the point of contact for around three years now, and most of the time it's people way more senior than me asking for help with [specific edge case] and I send them on their way with the solution. Sometimes that isn't the case though, and I need to send an email off to [vendor]'s support team.

Good support is lovely. Our go-to guy on their support team was great. Timely responses, thorough, and always willing to dig to the bottom of the case. Sometimes it's us being stupid and not knowing what the [obscure feature] toggle does, sometimes it's just a mis-match between what we're trying to do and how the tool was designed, and sometimes it's a sneaky, devious bug in their product. I still remember the pride I felt when we got an email notification for the latest release of the tool that contained a bugfix that I had gone over with their dev team on call to figure out how to reproduce.

However, just over a year ago they changed our go-to guy. It started off small. The new guy was more terse in his responses. Less attentive to the little details in the message. Gather as much information as possible first, deal with the actual problem we were having second. He'd fix the immediate problem, but more open-ended questions about best practices to avoid another mess in the future would be ignored.

But slowly it got worse. Less responsive. Entire paragraphs of context would be ignored and had to be repeated to him. More generic responses. The odd case got dropped entirely. Last time I opened a support ticket, when I asked for additional clarification I got a ChatGPT-ass response only tangentially related to the actual context of my question (you could tell it was copy-pasted because he didn't even bother to paste without formatting).

Now upper management is unhappy with [tool] and are on my ass to get them to solve all our problems with it. What does new support guy reply with to my ticket with clearly bulleted questions, written in bold to separate them for clarity from the surrounding context? A two-line, nonspecific request for information entirely unrelated to the issue at hand, to the point that me and everybody from my company in cc privately went "why the fuck would we even send that??".

These next few weeks are going to be fucking rough, dear god may this be over soon.

Is the devRant website not feature complete or am I just stupid? Liked rants and comment history only go like 30-40 entries back unless you use the app.

I'm tired. Guess I'd better give up on this marriage shit, take my tax money and hide in the wood. Fuck society.

1. Speaking strictly physiologically, masturbation and intercourse orgasms aren't that different in what it feels like down there. The only difference is what it feels like in your mind, but that depends on your partner and your compatibility.
2. Fleshlight Stoya edition obliterates everything that breathes in terms of orgasm power, except for one single blowjob I received from an autistic mind-reading trans boy. But he's rare.
3. If you wonder whether no-fap or no-orgasm lifestyle has benefits, it doesn't. My high score is three months without orgasm. After two weeks, you stop thinking about sex. Morning wood disappears completely. You have considerably less energy, and every time you ask yourself why, you remember: “ah, it's that no orgasm thing.” Then, it's quite hard to go back to having sex — your penis just won't go up.
4. Sucking your own dick feels weird, just like tickling yourself. It's hard to focus, and the pleasure is next to none. If you always wanted to do that, you can forget about it — it's not worth it.
5. If you're a penis person, high quality anal orgasm is THE best physiological feeling you can get without drugs. Totally blows anything penis-related out of the water, including edging and other advanced techniques. If you chase self-exploration and wonder what your mind/body are capable of, definitely try it, though you have to find an experienced partner & be patient with your body.
Pro tip: if you're a man in a traditional monogamous relationship (if so, what are you even doing with your life?…), it might be easier to convince your female partner to allow you having affairs with penis people than to go full polyamorous mode.

Forcing all your package dependencies to one specific version because you are afraid of incompatibilities is like building a scyscraper from pure concrete because wood isn't strong enough. Sounds like a decent idea at first but leads to a brittle, fragile structure that won't last very long.

!dev

Fuck, I hate moving. All the tearing down and subsequent assembly takes sooo bloody long. And you have to be extra careful not to destroy all your (no so) cheap IKEA furniture when taking off the screws and nails. ~Lê stupid me didn't think he'd have to disassemble this stuff, so I actually used nails. D'oh. So now I have some splintered wood. Congrats, you cockwomble. Good luck repairing that.
I'll use screws (torx head, of course) when reassembling though, not making the same mistake again.

Oh, and then there's all the dust and cobwebs and fucking spiders living under the furniture, because I can't tilt my wardrobe to vacuum underneath it. Just. Fucking. Lovely.

On the upside, I get to do an early spring cleaning on all my accumulated trash. New apartment is gonna be so clean and minimal, you'd mistake it for a monastic meditation room. With a pair of monitors and my beautiful desktop to the side. Meditation is lovely, but I also pray to the silicon and transistor gods. Need mah tech shrine.

The best part about professors is that they ask you to come on a specific day for the recommendation but when you reach there you’re in for a surprise. Suddenly the WiFi goes away and there are departmental reviews. Wtf. This they can’t tell the day before... bloody hell knowing that you’re coming from far... away ... they’ll test you that you your patience so much that you keep wishing they die a very bad death or say under a bridge! Man o man such is life !

Just got back to a solo project I hadn't touched in 5 months due to having other priorities. The whole thing is probably less than 1k LOC split over a half-dozen files and I'm not sure whether I should be angry at my past self for leaving the most recent part untested and insanely bug-ridden, taking almost an hour a fix, or be happy that past me organized and documented everything well enough for it to only take almost an hour to fix.

Emotionally painful dev learning experience: My laptop (and only computer I had in the area) broke at the worst possible time during university and the guy fixing it fucked it up meaning it took even longer. Combine this with:

*Stuck having to learn Android Studio in two weeks to make a whole-ass app with a professor who didn't know how to make a Hello World and gave us no resources. Pair project so I had someone depending on me to do my part, meaning a lot of sharing their computer just to be able to use Android Studio.
*Having to work on another solo project by using various public and awfully specced university computers. Said project involved real-time 3D graphics and was running at about a third of the speed it should on every machine.
*Realizing how much I depended on my laptop for entertainment and that I basically had nothing that could help me de-stress and relax at home.
*Not knowing when the laptop's spare parts would arrive or if the repair man would give me bad news and even more delays.
*A very poorly timed issue in my relationship.

I know university can be stressful even though it never really affected me before or since but man, those couple of weeks broke me.

My homies really out here giving me three units to test spread out across two + four thirds of a file and expect me not to raise an eyebrow.

No, that is not three + one third. That would imply that the thirds all belong to one unit, or one file for that matter.

Today I finally smashed/carefully took apart an old piece of furniture.
Kept all the big pieces of wood, because I'm gonna turn them into cutting boards.
The furniture has been with my scout group for 15 years, so it has some sentimental value to some people, but to most it was just a useless piece of shit.

Reduce-reuse-recycle I guess.

I've been looking for an internship for the past couple of weeks and just had another interview today. I was given a simple code test that involved changing some of the features in a small program, nothing too challenging except that the program was insanely buggy and had a tendency to spit out the wrong result if you looked at it funny, and that was before I started touching it. I don't even want to know what production code looks like...

!rant
Ya boy is now officially an intern! I'm starting next week, everything is sorted except one thing: we have to bring our own computers and basically get to use whatever software we want. I've got a fresh install of Mint and was wondering what IDEs or editors everybody here uses (and recommends), since I only really have a bit of experience with Atom and Netbeans, and I don't think I'll be able to get away with coding in Notepad++ or Gedit here.

mushrooms time

No matter how hard you try to stick magnet with a wood it just won’t work out in any way.

i hope its possible to change the wood into metal just like as easy as type-casting an integer into string, but it just won’t happen anyway~~

I'm done with the black market. Now i'm ordering my weed from silk road

Bonus I can get some 2cb and have a psychedelic trip in the wood. My shitty weed deala dont even have 2cb. It's a connoisseur drug. Nobody knows about it. One time I got caught at the airport in the chemical detector and I'm pretty sure the border patrol agent knew what it was but he still let me go.

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Is LinkedIn actually any good?

Never used it and now that I'm a few months away from graduation I might just start. devRant is usually straight to the point about these things, what do I get out of bothering to use it?

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To improve indoor air quality, we use high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration systems to remove airborne mold spores. This step is crucial in preventing further mold growth and ensuring a healthy environment.

5. Drying and Moisture Control
Since mold thrives in moist conditions, we use industrial-grade dehumidifiers and air movers to dry out the affected areas completely. Controlling moisture levels is key to preventing mold from returning.

6. Restoration
After successful mold removal, we offer repair and restoration services to return your property to its original condition. This includes repairing drywall, repainting, and reinstalling flooring if necessary.

Why Choose Water Damage Restoration Atlanta for Mold Removal?
At Water Damage Restoration Atlanta, we take pride in delivering high-quality mold remediation services to the residents and businesses of Atlanta. Here’s what sets us apart:

Experienced Team: Our highly trained and certified technicians have years of experience in mold removal and water damage restoration.
Advanced Technology: We use state-of-the-art equipment and proven techniques to ensure effective mold remediation.
Fast Response Time: We understand that mold issues require immediate attention. That’s why we offer 24/7 emergency services. Call us at +1 (678) 203-6216, and our team will be on-site promptly.
Comprehensive Services: From mold removal to water damage restoration and structural repairs, we handle every aspect of the remediation process.
Insurance Assistance: We work with your insurance provider to help you navigate the claims process, ensuring that you get the coverage you deserve.
Common Causes of Mold Growth in Atlanta
Understanding the common causes of mold can help you prevent future infestations. In Atlanta, the most frequent causes of mold include:

High Humidity Levels: Atlanta’s humid climate provides ideal conditions for mold growth, especially in poorly ventilated areas.
Water Damage: Leaking pipes, roof leaks, or flooding can introduce excess moisture, leading to mold problems if not properly addressed.
Poor Ventilation: Inadequate ventilation in bathrooms, kitchens, and basements can create moisture buildup, encouraging mold growth.
HVAC Issues: Faulty HVAC systems can trap moisture inside ducts, allowing mold to develop and spread through the air.

Transform Your Kitchen with JR Stone Design Inc: Leading Kitchen Contractors in Palm Beach County and Boca Raton

Your kitchen is the heart of your home, and when it’s time to update or remodel, you want to ensure you’re working with a reliable, skilled team of professionals. That’s where JR Stone Design Inc comes in. As trusted kitchen contractors serving Palm Beach County and Boca Raton, we specialize in transforming kitchens into beautiful, functional spaces. With years of experience, a commitment to quality, and an eye for detail, we are your go-to team for all things kitchen remodeling.

Why Choose JR Stone Design Inc as Your Kitchen Contractors?
At JR Stone Design Inc, we know that every kitchen is unique. Whether you're planning a small upgrade or a complete kitchen remodel, we provide personalized solutions to meet your needs and vision. We proudly serve Palm Beach County and Boca Raton, offering expert kitchen design, high-quality materials, and craftsmanship you can trust.

Here’s why homeowners choose us as their kitchen contractors:

1. Customized Kitchen Design
We believe that your kitchen should reflect your personal style and work seamlessly with your home’s layout. Our expert designers work with you to create a kitchen that fits your vision, functional needs, and lifestyle. Whether you’re looking for a modern, sleek design or a more traditional, cozy feel, we bring your ideas to life with customized design solutions.

2. Top-Quality Materials
At JR Stone Design Inc, we prioritize quality. We use only the best materials for your remodel, ensuring that your kitchen not only looks stunning but is also durable and built to last. From premium countertops, cabinetry, and backsplashes to flooring and lighting, we source high-quality materials to bring your kitchen dreams to life.

3. Experienced Kitchen Contractors
Our team consists of experienced kitchen contractors who bring their extensive expertise to every project. With years of experience in the industry, we understand what it takes to create a kitchen that is both beautiful and functional. Our skilled contractors ensure that every detail is executed with precision, and we handle all aspects of the remodel from start to finish.

4. Comprehensive Kitchen Remodeling Services
We offer a full range of kitchen remodeling services for homeowners in Palm Beach County and Boca Raton, including:

Custom Cabinet Design and Installation
Our team designs and installs custom cabinetry that fits your space and maximizes storage. Whether you prefer classic wood cabinetry or modern sleek designs, we tailor the cabinetry to suit your style.

Countertop Installation
Choose from an array of countertop options, including granite, quartz, marble, and more. Our team ensures flawless installation and provides expert guidance in selecting the best material for your needs.

Backsplash Design and Installation
A backsplash can instantly transform the look of your kitchen. We offer a wide selection of tiles, patterns, and designs to create a backsplash that complements your kitchen’s style and enhances its aesthetic.

Flooring Solutions
We install a variety of durable and stylish flooring options, including hardwood, tile, and stone, to create a kitchen floor that perfectly matches your design and functionality needs.

Lighting and Fixtures
Lighting plays a critical role in creating ambiance and functionality in your kitchen. From task lighting to accent lighting, we help you choose and install the perfect lighting and fixtures to elevate your space.

5. On-Time and On-Budget Remodeling
We understand that kitchen remodels can be a big undertaking, and we’re committed to completing your project on time and within budget. Our team works efficiently, staying on schedule and providing transparent pricing so you can plan accordingly. We don’t believe in hidden fees, and we keep you informed throughout every stage of the process.

6. Personalized Customer Service
At JR Stone Design Inc, customer satisfaction is our top priority. We take the time to understand your specific needs and work closely with you to ensure that every detail of your kitchen remodel is executed to perfection. From the initial consultation to the final walkthrough, we provide exceptional customer service every step of the way.

Why Homeowners in Palm Beach County and Boca Raton Choose Us
Here’s why homeowners in Palm Beach County and Boca Raton trust JR Stone Design Inc for their kitchen remodeling projects:

Locally Owned and Operated: As a local business, we understand the specific needs and preferences of homeowners in Palm Beach County and Boca Raton.
Comprehensive Kitchen Services: We handle every aspect of kitchen remodeling, from custom cabinetry to lighting and flooring installation.

Window Replacement Columbus, Ohio: The Ultimate Guide
When it comes to enhancing the energy efficiency, aesthetics, and value of your home, window replacement in Columbus, Ohio
is a smart investment. Whether your windows are outdated, damaged, or simply not performing as they should, replacing them with high-quality, energy-efficient options can make a significant difference. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about window replacement in Columbus, Ohio.
Why Replace Your Windows?
There are several reasons why homeowners in Columbus choose to replace their windows:
1. Improve Energy Efficiency
Ohio experiences a range of temperatures throughout the year. Energy-efficient windows help maintain indoor comfort by reducing heat loss in winter and keeping cool air inside during summer. Look for ENERGY STAR-rated windows for optimal efficiency.
2. Enhance Curb Appeal
New windows can drastically improve your home's exterior appearance. With various styles, materials, and finishes available, you can customize the look to match your aesthetic preferences.
3. Increase Home Value
According to industry reports, window replacement can offer a high return on investment (ROI). If you plan to sell your home in Columbus, new windows can attract buyers and increase your property's resale value.
4. Reduce Noise Pollution
Living in urban areas or near busy streets? Modern windows with double or triple-pane glass help reduce outside noise, making your home quieter and more peaceful.
5. Enhance Security & Safety
Older windows with weak locks and outdated materials can be a security risk. Newer models offer advanced locking mechanisms and shatter-resistant glass for added protection.
Types of Windows for Columbus Homes
When choosing replacement windows, consider the various styles available:
Double-Hung Windows – A popular choice with two sashes that move up and down, allowing for better ventilation.
Casement Windows – Hinged on one side and open outward, offering excellent airflow and an unobstructed view.
Sliding Windows – Move horizontally along a track, perfect for contemporary homes.
Bay & Bow Windows – Extend outward, adding space and natural light.
Picture Windows – Fixed and designed to provide a clear, expansive view.
Choosing the Right Window Material
Vinyl Windows – Affordable, durable, and low-maintenance.
Wood Windows – Classic and aesthetically pleasing but require regular upkeep.
Fiberglass Windows – Highly durable and energy-efficient.
Aluminum Windows – Strong and lightweight but less insulating than other materials.
Finding the Best Window Replacement Company in Columbus, Ohio
To ensure quality installation and customer satisfaction, consider the following when choosing a window replacement company:
Reputation & Reviews – Check online reviews and ratings on platforms like Google and Yelp.
Experience & Certifications – Look for companies with certifications from leading manufacturers or the National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC).
Warranty & Guarantees – Choose a provider that offers warranties on both materials and labor.
Free Estimates – Get quotes from multiple companies to compare pricing and services.
Cost of Window Replacement in Columbus, Ohio
The cost of replacing windows varies based on factors such as:
Window size and style
Frame material
Glass type (double-pane, triple-pane, low-E coatings)
Installation complexity
On average, Columbus homeowners can expect to pay between $300 to $1,200 per window, including installation.
Conclusion
Investing in window replacement in Columbus, Ohio can significantly improve your home's comfort, efficiency, and value. By selecting high-quality windows and hiring a trusted contractor, you can enjoy long-term benefits and a great return on investment. Start your search today and find the perfect windows for your Columbus home!

Your Crawlspace Solution: Expert Vapor Barrier Installation, Crawl Space Moisture Control, and Crawl Space Cleaning Services

At Your Crawlspace Solution, located at 369 W Elm Rd Suite 18, Radcliff, KY 40160, we specialize in offering top-tier crawl space services designed to improve your home's health and energy efficiency. From vapor barrier installation and crawl space moisture control to crawl space cleaning, our experienced team is dedicated to keeping your crawlspace in optimal condition. We know that an often-overlooked part of your home, the crawlspace, can be a source of significant issues if not properly maintained. That’s where we come in to help you protect your investment and improve your home’s overall quality.

Vapor Barrier Installation: Protecting Your Home from Moisture Damage
A vapor barrier installation is one of the most effective methods to prevent excess moisture from infiltrating your crawlspace, which can lead to structural damage, mold, and other serious issues. The vapor barrier acts as a protective layer, sealing off your crawlspace from the outside elements and moisture in the soil beneath your home.

At Your Crawlspace Solution, we offer expert vapor barrier installation to ensure your crawlspace stays dry and moisture-free. We use durable, high-quality materials to create a complete seal, preventing water vapor from seeping into your crawlspace and protecting your foundation and insulation. Our vapor barriers also improve the overall air quality inside your home by reducing humidity levels and preventing the growth of mold and mildew.

Crawl Space Moisture Control: Keeping Your Home Safe and Dry
Excess moisture in your crawlspace can cause a variety of problems, including mold growth, wood rot, and even compromised structural integrity. Without proper crawl space moisture control, your home is at risk of experiencing these issues, which can be costly and dangerous.

At Your Crawlspace Solution, we offer effective crawl space moisture control strategies to keep your crawlspace dry and safe. Our team evaluates the moisture levels in your crawlspace and implements solutions such as vapor barriers, drainage systems, and sump pumps to manage and eliminate excess moisture. By controlling moisture at its source, we help protect your home from mold, rot, and other related issues, while improving air quality and energy efficiency.

Crawl Space Cleaning: A Clean Crawlspace for a Healthier Home
A dirty crawlspace can harbor a variety of problems, from pests and debris to mold and poor air circulation. Regular crawl space cleaning is essential to maintaining a healthy home and preventing these issues from escalating.

At Your Crawlspace Solution, our crawl space cleaning service includes removing any debris, dirt, and contaminants from your crawlspace. We also inspect the space for potential issues like mold, pests, and leaks, ensuring that your crawlspace is free from harmful substances. After the cleaning, we take additional steps to address moisture and improve ventilation, ensuring that your crawlspace remains dry, clean, and well-maintained.

Why Choose Your Crawlspace Solution?
When it comes to vapor barrier installation, crawl space moisture control, and crawl space cleaning, Your Crawlspace Solution is the name you can trust. Here’s why we stand out from the competition:

Expertise and Experience: Our team is highly skilled and experienced in all aspects of crawlspace services, offering tailored solutions to meet your home’s specific needs.

Comprehensive Services: We provide a full range of crawl space services, from moisture control and cleaning to vapor barrier installation, so you can count on us for all your crawlspace needs.

Top-Quality Materials: We only use the best materials for our services to ensure long-lasting results and reliable protection for your crawlspace.

Customer Satisfaction: We are committed to providing exceptional customer service, ensuring that you are fully satisfied with the results and the condition of your crawlspace.

Affordable Solutions: We offer competitive pricing, ensuring that you get high-quality services without breaking the bank.

Contact Us Today for Crawl Space Services
If you’re dealing with excess moisture, a dirty crawlspace, or the need for vapor barrier installation, Your Crawlspace Solution is here to help. Our expert team is ready to provide you with the best crawl space services, ensuring that your home stays dry, clean, and protected from damage.

Call us today at +1 (502) 415-4806 or visit us at 369 W Elm Rd Suite 18, Radcliff, KY 40160 to schedule your consultation. Let us help you keep your crawlspace in top condition for years to come!

Trident Pressure Washing: Your Trusted Exterior Cleaning and House Cleaning Experts in Melbourne, VIC

At Trident Pressure Washing, we specialize in offering professional exterior cleaning near me and exterior house cleaning near me services to homes and businesses throughout Melbourne, VIC. The exterior of your property is constantly exposed to harsh elements such as dirt, algae, mold, and weather damage, which can cause it to lose its curb appeal and even deteriorate over time. With our expert exterior cleaning services, we can restore your property’s beauty and protect it from long-term damage.

What is Exterior Cleaning?
Exterior cleaning refers to the process of cleaning and maintaining the exterior surfaces of your property to remove dirt, grime, mold, algae, and other environmental buildup. From your roof to your driveway, regular cleaning helps prevent damage and maintain the aesthetic appeal of your home or business. Exterior cleaning near me can include a variety of services such as pressure washing, soft washing, and general cleaning for different surfaces, including walls, patios, decks, and driveways.

At Trident Pressure Washing, we use high-quality equipment and eco-friendly cleaning solutions to deliver excellent results. Our team has the expertise to handle all types of exterior surfaces, ensuring that your property is cleaned thoroughly without causing any damage.

Why Choose Exterior Cleaning Near Me?
Enhance Curb Appeal: Your home or business's exterior is the first thing people see. Regular exterior cleaning near me helps keep your property looking fresh, well-maintained, and inviting.

Prevent Long-Term Damage: Mold, algae, and dirt buildup can cause significant damage to your surfaces if left unchecked. Regular exterior cleaning helps prevent this damage, preserving the integrity of your property.

Increase Property Value: Clean and well-maintained exteriors increase the value of your property. Whether you're selling, renting, or just want to maintain your investment, exterior cleaning is a great way to boost its value.

Healthier Environment: Mold and algae buildup can lead to health issues, particularly for individuals with respiratory conditions. Regular cleaning removes these harmful substances, creating a safer and healthier environment.

Cost-Effective Maintenance: Regular exterior cleaning prevents the buildup of dirt and contaminants that can lead to costly repairs. By maintaining the cleanliness of your exterior, you can avoid expensive future repairs and replacements.

What is Exterior House Cleaning Near Me?
Exterior house cleaning near me is a service that focuses on cleaning the outside of your home, including the walls, windows, roof, and other surfaces. Over time, the exterior of your home can accumulate dirt, algae, mold, and other debris that affect its appearance and potentially cause damage. Whether it's your vinyl siding, wooden trim, or brick walls, exterior house cleaning is essential to keep your home looking its best and protect it from environmental damage.

At Trident Pressure Washing, we offer customized exterior house cleaning near me services that are designed to meet the specific needs of your home. We use both pressure washing and soft washing techniques to ensure the best results for every surface.

Why Choose Exterior House Cleaning Near Me?
Thorough and Safe Cleaning: Exterior house cleaning near me ensures that your home's exterior is cleaned thoroughly without causing any damage. Whether it's soft washing for delicate surfaces or high-pressure washing for tougher areas, we use the right techniques for each job.

Prevents Deterioration: Regular cleaning helps remove contaminants like mold and algae that can cause long-term deterioration, such as wood rot, stained paint, and weakened siding. Protect your home’s exterior with regular cleaning.

Improves the Appearance of Your Home: A clean exterior dramatically improves the look of your home, making it appear well-maintained and inviting. This is especially important if you're planning to sell or rent your property.

Saves You Time and Effort: Cleaning the exterior of your house can be a time-consuming task. Hiring professionals like Trident Pressure Washing allows you to save time while ensuring the job is done right.

Safe and Eco-Friendly Cleaning: We use biodegradable, non-toxic cleaning products that are safe for your family, pets, and the environment. You can trust our exterior house cleaning services to deliver results while being gentle on your property.

Our Exterior Cleaning and House Cleaning Services
At Trident Pressure Washing, we offer a variety of exterior cleaning near me and exterior house cleaning near me services that are tailored to meet the unique needs of your property:

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Elevate Your Home with Reno Vibe – Premium Flooring and Tiling Solutions in Perth

At Reno Vibe, we are committed to transforming your home with high-quality flooring and tiling solutions. Whether you’re looking for subway tile near me, vinyl plank flooring near me, or the latest in hybrid flooring Perth, we have everything you need to create the perfect look for your home. Located at Unit 2/19 Faulkner Ave, Belmont WA 6104, our team is dedicated to providing the best products and expert advice to make your renovation project a success.

Subway Tile Near Me – A Timeless and Versatile Choice
Subway tiles have been a staple in home design for over a century, offering a timeless, versatile look that complements almost any style. Whether you're renovating your kitchen, bathroom, or even your hallway, subway tile near me is the ideal choice for those who want a classic, clean aesthetic.

At Reno Vibe, we offer a wide range of subway tiles in various colors, finishes, and sizes. From glossy white tiles that create a bright and airy feel to matte black tiles for a sleek, modern look, we have something to suit your taste. Our subway tiles are perfect for:

Kitchen Backsplashes: Create a stylish, easy-to-clean backdrop behind your countertops.

Bathroom Walls: Add texture and depth to your shower walls or bathroom accent walls.

Feature Walls: Use subway tiles to create a bold statement in any room.

No matter where you use them, subway tiles are a great way to add sophistication and elegance to your home. Visit Reno Vibe to find the perfect subway tile near me for your space.

Vinyl Plank Flooring Near Me – Affordable and Stylish Flooring Solutions
If you’re looking for flooring that combines the beauty of wood with the practicality of modern materials, vinyl plank flooring near me is the perfect option. Vinyl plank offers the aesthetic appeal of hardwood floors but is more affordable, durable, and easier to maintain. It’s also a great choice for homes with high-traffic areas, moisture-prone spaces, or families with children or pets.

At Reno Vibe, we offer a wide variety of vinyl plank flooring that mimics the look of real wood, available in multiple colors and textures. Benefits of vinyl plank flooring include:

Durability: Resistant to scratches, dents, and stains, making it perfect for busy households.

Water Resistance: Ideal for bathrooms, kitchens, and basements.

Easy Installation: Our vinyl plank flooring is simple to install, saving you time and money.

With a variety of styles, from traditional oak to modern grey tones, we offer something to suit every room in your home. If you're searching for vinyl plank flooring near me, Reno Vibe is your go-to destination for stylish and functional flooring solutions.

Hybrid Flooring Perth – The Best of Both Worlds
If you're looking for a flooring option that combines the best features of both laminate and vinyl, hybrid flooring Perth is the ideal choice. Hybrid flooring is a new, innovative product that offers the durability of vinyl with the appearance of hardwood, providing the perfect solution for any home renovation.

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Revive Pressure Wash Pro: The Best Pressure Washing Company in Upland, CA

At Revive Pressure Wash Pro, we take pride in being recognized as the best pressure washing company in Upland, CA. Whether you're a homeowner, business owner, or property manager, our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable, and eco-friendly cleaning services. From deionized water window cleaning to spot-free solar panel cleaning, we provide the most advanced cleaning solutions to meet your needs.

We specialize in full-service exterior cleaning, offering a comprehensive range of services that will leave your property looking pristine. At Revive Pressure Wash Pro, our team uses cutting-edge equipment and environmentally safe cleaning products to restore and maintain the beauty of your property, ensuring the best possible results.

Our Range of Expert Services
As a leading full-service exterior cleaning company, we offer a wide variety of specialized services to meet the needs of our residential and commercial clients:

Deionized Water Window Cleaning
For sparkling clean windows without streaks or residue, we offer deionized water window cleaning. This process uses purified water that is free of minerals and contaminants, ensuring that your windows are left spotless. By using this advanced cleaning technique, we provide a streak-free finish that enhances the clarity and appearance of your windows, improving both the aesthetic and energy efficiency of your home or business.

Spot-Free Solar Panel Cleaning
Solar panels can accumulate dirt, dust, and debris, which can significantly reduce their efficiency. Our spot-free solar panel cleaning service uses the same deionized water cleaning method to ensure that your panels are left spotless, maximizing their energy output. Our gentle, non-abrasive cleaning technique protects your investment while helping to boost the performance of your solar system.

Residential and Commercial Pressure Washing
Our residential and commercial pressure washing services are designed to remove dirt, grime, and contaminants from a variety of surfaces. Whether it's cleaning your driveway, siding, deck, or storefront, we use high-powered equipment and eco-friendly detergents to restore the beauty of your property.

Roof and Gutter Cleaning
Keeping your roof and gutters clean is essential for maintaining the integrity of your home or building. We specialize in removing debris, algae, and moss from roofs, as well as clearing gutters to ensure proper water flow and prevent damage. Our team uses the right tools and techniques to clean these areas safely without causing harm to your property.

Deck and Patio Cleaning
Decks and patios often take a beating from the elements. Our team can revitalize your outdoor spaces by removing dirt, mold, and stains from wood, concrete, and stone surfaces, restoring their original beauty and extending their lifespan.

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At ASA Construction Group, we are proud to offer exceptional construction and home improvement services to homeowners across Cotuit, MA, and the surrounding areas of Cape Cod. With years of experience and a dedicated team of professionals, we specialize in a wide range of services including roofing, siding installation, deck building, window and door replacement, and home remodeling. Whether you're searching for roofing Cotuit, MA, siding contractors near me, deck builders near me, or window installers near me, we are here to provide expert solutions that enhance the beauty, functionality, and value of your home.

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Your roof is one of the most important parts of your home, and it is essential to maintain its integrity to protect your home and loved ones. At ASA Construction Group, we are the go-to roofing experts in Cotuit, MA. Whether you need a roof inspection, minor repairs, or a full roof replacement, our skilled team is ready to provide the best solutions for your roofing needs. We work with high-quality materials such as asphalt shingles, metal roofing, and cedar shake, ensuring that your roof is not only durable but also complements your home's aesthetic. Trust us to deliver a roof that stands up to the elements and enhances your home's curb appeal.

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The siding of your home is crucial in protecting it from the elements while also contributing to its overall appearance. If you're searching for siding contractors near me, ASA Construction Group has you covered. We specialize in siding installation and replacement, offering a variety of materials including vinyl, fiber cement, and wood siding. Our team of experts ensures precise installation, helping to keep your home protected while boosting its curb appeal. Whether you need a complete siding overhaul or minor repairs, we work closely with you to choose the best option for your home’s style and budget.

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A deck is a perfect way to enjoy the outdoors, entertain guests, or simply relax. If you're looking for deck builders near me, ASA Construction Group is the trusted choice in Cotuit and the surrounding areas. Our team of deck builders specializes in creating custom decks that are designed to complement your home's layout and fit your specific needs. Whether you're interested in a traditional wooden deck, a low-maintenance composite deck, or a multi-level deck, we use only high-quality materials to ensure your deck is both beautiful and durable. Let us help you transform your outdoor living space into a perfect retreat.

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Windows play a significant role in the comfort, energy efficiency, and appearance of your home. If you're in need of window installers near me, ASA Construction Group provides professional installation services to homeowners across Cotuit and beyond. We specialize in installing energy-efficient windows that help to keep your home comfortable year-round while reducing energy costs. From double-hung windows to custom designs, we offer a wide range of window styles to fit your needs. Our team ensures a flawless installation process that improves your home’s insulation and enhances its natural light and ventilation.

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Your entry doors are the first impression visitors have of your home. Whether you're looking to upgrade for aesthetic reasons or need a more secure, energy-efficient door, ASA Construction Group offers door replacement near me for homeowners in Cotuit and the surrounding areas. Our team specializes in replacing doors with a variety of materials, including wood, fiberglass, and steel, ensuring a perfect match for your home's style and needs. We also offer patio doors, storm doors, and interior doors that enhance both the function and look of your home. Trust us to provide expert installation and door solutions that improve security and curb appeal.

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At Herman Renovations, we understand that choosing the right flooring for your home is essential to both its style and functionality. Vinyl installation is a popular choice for homeowners who want a durable, cost-effective, and stylish option that can withstand high traffic and everyday use. If you're considering updating your floors, our expert vinyl installation services in Florida are here to help you achieve a stunning, long-lasting result.

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Easy Maintenance: Vinyl is easy to clean and maintain. Simply sweep or mop the floors, and they’ll look great for years to come. This low-maintenance feature makes it perfect for busy homeowners.
Comfortable Underfoot: Unlike harder flooring materials like tile or stone, vinyl offers a softer, more comfortable surface to walk on. It’s an excellent option if you stand for long periods or want a cozy, warm floor for your living space.
Our Vinyl Installation Services
At Herman Renovations, we specialize in professional vinyl installation for residential and commercial properties in Florida. Whether you want to upgrade a single room or your entire home, our skilled team is here to provide high-quality installation with attention to detail. Here's what we offer:

Residential Vinyl Installation
From living rooms and bedrooms to kitchens and bathrooms, we install vinyl flooring throughout your home. Our team helps you choose the perfect style and finish that suits your space and ensures a flawless installation every time.

Commercial Vinyl Installation
We also provide vinyl installation services for businesses and commercial properties. Vinyl is an excellent choice for offices, retail spaces, and more, thanks to its durability and easy maintenance. Our team works around your schedule to minimize disruption to your business.

Custom Vinyl Flooring Designs
Looking for something unique? We can create custom vinyl flooring designs that match your aesthetic. Whether you're interested in a specific pattern or want a bold, eye-catching design, we can help bring your vision to life.

Vinyl Plank and Vinyl Sheet Installation
We offer both vinyl plank and vinyl sheet installation options to suit your preferences. Vinyl planks are ideal for creating a wood-look finish, while vinyl sheets are great for achieving seamless, water-resistant floors in bathrooms and kitchens.

Vinyl Tile Installation
If you’re looking for the look of natural stone or ceramic tiles, vinyl tiles are a great option. Our team will install vinyl tiles with precision, ensuring an elegant and durable result.

Benefits of Choosing Herman Renovations for Vinyl Installation
When you choose Herman Renovations for your vinyl installation, you're partnering with experienced professionals who are committed to delivering excellent results. Here’s why our services stand out:

Expert Installation: Our skilled installers have years of experience with vinyl flooring, ensuring that your floors are installed correctly and last for years. We ensure every plank or tile is aligned perfectly, creating a flawless finish.
High-Quality Products: We work with top-quality vinyl flooring brands that are durable and designed to withstand everyday wear. Our team ensures that your floors not only look great but also stand up to the test of time.
Affordable Pricing: We understand the importance of staying within budget. Herman Renovations offers competitive pricing for vinyl flooring installation with no hidden fees, so you can transform your space without breaking the bank.
Personalized Service: We take the time to understand your specific needs and preferences. Whether you want a modern look or a more classic design, we help you choose the perfect vinyl flooring option that suits your home or business.

Arte Floors: Your Local Carpet Shop, Expert Carpet Fitters, and Wood Flooring Specialists in London

Welcome to Arte Floors, your trusted local carpet shop near me, offering a wide selection of high-quality carpets, expert carpet fitting services, and stunning wood flooring near me. Located at 380 Essex Rd, London N1 3PF, we are committed to providing London residents with top-notch flooring solutions for every room and space. Whether you're looking to enhance your home with a new carpet or transform your floors with beautiful wood options, we have everything you need.

Your Trusted Carpet Shop Near Me
At Arte Floors, we are proud to be your go-to carpet shop near me. We carry an extensive selection of carpets in various styles, colors, textures, and materials to suit your specific needs. From luxurious wool carpets to affordable synthetic options, our range offers something for everyone.

Why choose Arte Floors as your carpet shop near me?

Wide Selection: We offer a wide variety of carpets, including plush, textured, and patterned designs to complement any décor.

Expert Advice: Our knowledgeable team is here to help you find the perfect carpet for your space, providing advice on color, texture, and durability.

Quality Brands: We only stock carpets from trusted, high-quality brands, ensuring you get durable and stylish options that will last for years.

If you’re in the market for a new carpet, stop by Arte Floors, your local carpet shop near me, and discover the best flooring options for your home or business.

Professional Carpet Fitters Near Me
Once you've selected the perfect carpet, our team of professional carpet fitters near me will ensure a flawless installation. At Arte Floors, we understand that the quality of your carpet installation is just as important as the quality of the carpet itself. Our expert carpet fitters are trained to deliver precise and efficient installations, ensuring a smooth, seamless finish every time.

The benefits of choosing carpet fitters near me from Arte Floors include:

Expert Installation: Our carpet fitters have years of experience and use the latest techniques to ensure your carpet is installed correctly.

Minimal Disruption: We work quickly and efficiently, ensuring minimal disruption to your daily routine.

Attention to Detail: We take care of every detail, from proper measurements to perfect seams and edges, leaving you with a beautifully installed carpet that enhances your space.

Choose Arte Floors for professional carpet fitters near me and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with expert installation.

Stunning Wood Flooring Near Me
If you’re looking to elevate your space with natural beauty and elegance, wood flooring near me from Arte Floors is the perfect choice. We offer a wide selection of high-quality wood flooring options, including hardwood, engineered wood, and laminate, to suit every home and office.

The benefits of wood flooring near me from Arte Floors include:

Timeless Beauty: Wood flooring adds warmth and character to any room, creating a sophisticated and welcoming atmosphere.

Durability: Our wood flooring options are designed to withstand the wear and tear of daily life, making them perfect for high-traffic areas.

Eco-Friendly: Many of our wood flooring options are sustainably sourced, making them an environmentally conscious choice.

Whether you’re looking for classic hardwood, durable engineered wood, or affordable laminate, Arte Floors offers the best wood flooring near me to complement your space.

Why Choose Arte Floors?
Local Expertise: As your trusted carpet shop near me and wood flooring specialists, we offer expert advice and high-quality products.

End-to-End Service: From helping you choose the right carpet or wood flooring to providing expert installation services, we’re with you every step of the way.

Affordable Pricing: We offer competitive prices without compromising on quality, so you get great value for your investment.

Customer Satisfaction: Our top priority is ensuring that you are completely satisfied with your flooring purchase and installation.

Visit Arte Floors Today
For the best carpet shop near me, carpet fitters near me, and wood flooring near me, look no further than Arte Floors. Visit us at 380 Essex Rd, London N1 3PF, where our friendly team will assist you in choosing the perfect flooring solution for your home or business.

Call us at +44 20 7050 1155 for more information or to schedule an appointment. Let us help you transform your space with high-quality carpets and wood flooring that will last for years!

Hunter Kitchen & Bath, LLC

We are a boutique renovation firm that will custom design your kitchen, bath, library, outdoor kitchen or other home project. Come to our brand-new showroom in Bryn Mawr to select from cabinetry, countertops, tile, wood, hardware, & plumbing fixtures.

Address: 1042 W Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Phone: (484) 872-8801
Work Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:30AM-4:30PM-Sat:10AM-2PM

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Dallas Remodeling Group: Expert Flooring Finishes in Irving, TX

At Dallas Remodeling Group, we specialize in providing high-quality flooring installation and remodeling services for homes and businesses in Irving, TX and the surrounding areas. Our team is committed to offering flooring solutions that fit your unique style and needs. One of the key aspects of a beautiful floor is the finish, and we offer a range of finishes to help you achieve the perfect look for your space. Whether you prefer a satin finish, matte finish, glossy finish, semi-gloss finish, or high-gloss finish, we have the perfect solution for you. Let us help you find the right flooring finish to enhance the beauty of your home or business.

Satin Finish: A Balanced Look
A satin finish provides the perfect balance between a glossy shine and a matte appearance. With a soft, velvety look, satin finish floors have a subtle sheen that enhances the natural beauty of the material while hiding fingerprints and dust more effectively than high-gloss finishes. Satin finish flooring is ideal for spaces that see moderate foot traffic, such as living rooms, bedrooms, and hallways. This finish provides a sophisticated yet low-maintenance solution that works well with almost any décor. At Dallas Remodeling Group, we offer satin finishes for hardwood, tile, and engineered wood floors, ensuring a beautiful and functional finish that is easy to maintain.

Matte Finish: A Contemporary, Low-Key Look
For those who prefer a more understated and modern look, the matte finish is an excellent choice. Matte floors have no shine, giving them a sleek, minimalist appearance that suits contemporary and industrial-style interiors. This finish helps hide imperfections, such as scratches and dust, and is often favored in high-traffic areas like kitchens and entryways. Matte finish flooring is also perfect for rustic or natural looks, such as reclaimed wood or stone tiles. At Dallas Remodeling Group, we can install matte finish flooring to create a sophisticated, modern atmosphere in your home or business.

Glossy Finish: A Bright and Shiny Appearance
If you’re looking for a finish that makes a statement, a glossy finish might be just what you need. Glossy floors have a high-shine, reflective surface that catches and amplifies light, making your space feel brighter and more open. This finish works especially well in formal areas like dining rooms or living rooms, as it adds a touch of elegance and luxury. While it requires more maintenance to keep it looking pristine, a glossy finish brings out the beauty of materials like wood, stone, and tile. At Dallas Remodeling Group, we offer professional installation of glossy finishes that will help your floors shine in all the right ways.

Semi-Gloss Finish: The Best of Both Worlds
The semi-gloss finish offers the perfect middle ground between glossy and satin finishes. It provides a subtle shine that enhances the richness of your floors while still being practical and easy to maintain. Semi-gloss floors are durable and more resistant to stains and dirt than matte finishes, making them an ideal choice for high-traffic areas, such as kitchens, bathrooms, and entryways. This finish is especially popular for hardwood floors, as it allows the natural grain to show through while providing a polished, elegant look. With a semi-gloss finish from Dallas Remodeling Group, you can enjoy the beauty of your floors with a functional and low-maintenance solution.

High-Gloss Finish: Unmatched Shine and Elegance
For a truly stunning, high-end appearance, a high-gloss finish provides unmatched shine and elegance. High-gloss floors are highly reflective, giving them a mirror-like appearance that can make even the simplest room look grand. This finish is often used in luxury homes, offices, and showrooms, where aesthetics and style are paramount. High-gloss floors are also incredibly durable and easy to clean, as the glossy surface repels dirt and dust. However, they do require regular maintenance to keep them looking their best. At Dallas Remodeling Group, we offer high-gloss finishes for a range of flooring materials, from wood to tile, ensuring your space has a bold, sophisticated look that catches the eye.

Why Choose Dallas Remodeling Group?
At Dallas Remodeling Group, we understand that the right floor finish can dramatically change the look and feel of your space. Whether you prefer a satin finish, matte finish, glossy finish, semi-gloss finish, or high-gloss finish, our expert team will help you choose the perfect finish that complements your style, needs, and budget. We offer professional installation, ensuring your floors are finished to perfection.

Hardwood Flooring Installation Services by Palm Tile - Gardner Tile Installation

At Palm Tile, located in Gardner, MA, we specialize in high-quality hardwood flooring installation that enhances the beauty and value of your home or business. Hardwood floors are timeless, adding warmth, elegance, and durability to any space. Whether you're renovating a single room or upgrading your entire property, our expert team is here to ensure that your hardwood floors are installed with the highest level of precision and craftsmanship.

Why Choose Palm Tile for Your Hardwood Flooring Installation?

At Palm Tile, we are committed to providing superior hardwood flooring installation services that bring your vision to life. Hardwood floors offer a range of benefits, from timeless aesthetics to long-lasting durability, making them an excellent investment for any property. Here’s why you should choose Palm Tile for your next hardwood flooring project:

Expert Installation: Our team of skilled professionals has years of experience in installing hardwood flooring. We ensure that each plank is laid with precision, ensuring a seamless, beautiful finish. From leveling the subfloor to finishing the installation with the proper sealants, we guarantee that your hardwood floors will be installed to perfection.

Wide Selection of Hardwood Options: Whether you prefer classic oak, rich mahogany, or exotic woods like walnut or teak, Palm Tile offers a vast selection of hardwood flooring options. We help you select the best style, color, and finish to suit your design preferences and the overall aesthetic of your space.

Durability and Long-Lasting Quality: Hardwood flooring is known for its strength and durability. With proper care, hardwood floors can last for decades, even with heavy foot traffic. They are resistant to scratches and dents, making them ideal for both residential and commercial settings. Our expert installation ensures that your floors will stand the test of time.

Timeless Beauty: Hardwood floors are renowned for their natural beauty and timeless appeal. Whether you're going for a classic or modern look, hardwood flooring adds a touch of luxury to any space. The variety of wood types, finishes, and stains available ensures that your floors will match your unique style.

Enhanced Property Value: Installing hardwood floors is an investment that can increase the value of your property. Homes and businesses with hardwood flooring are often more desirable to potential buyers, making them a wise choice if you're considering selling in the future.

Professional Service: At Palm Tile, we are committed to providing exceptional customer service from start to finish. Our team will guide you through the entire process, from selecting the right hardwood to the final installation. We take the time to ensure that every detail is handled with care and attention, giving you the best possible experience.

Types of Hardwood Flooring We Install

Solid Hardwood: Solid hardwood flooring is made from a single piece of wood and is known for its durability and classic look. It can be sanded and refinished multiple times, which gives it a long lifespan. Solid hardwood floors are ideal for areas with low to moderate moisture levels.

Engineered Hardwood: Engineered hardwood is made from multiple layers of wood, with a hardwood veneer on top. It is more resistant to moisture than solid hardwood, making it a great option for areas like basements or kitchens. Engineered hardwood is also easier to install than solid wood.

Exotic Hardwood: If you're looking for something unique, exotic hardwoods like Brazilian cherry, teak, or bamboo provide a one-of-a-kind look. These types of hardwood flooring are often more durable and feature distinctive grains and colors.

Why Hardwood Flooring Is a Great Choice

Hardwood flooring adds character and beauty to any home or business. Its natural warmth makes a room feel inviting, and its aesthetic versatility means it can complement a wide variety of interior styles. Additionally, hardwood floors are easy to maintain and clean, making them a practical choice for both residential and commercial spaces. With proper care, hardwood floors can last a lifetime, providing an enduring and timeless investment.

Contact Palm Tile for Your Hardwood Flooring Installation

If you're looking for reliable and professional hardwood flooring installation services in Gardner, MA, Palm Tile is the company to trust. We offer expert installation, a wide variety of hardwood flooring options, and exceptional customer service to ensure your satisfaction.

Call us today at +1 (857) 990-8658 to schedule your consultation or visit us at 59 Foster Ct, Gardner, MA 01440, United States. Let Palm Tile help you create the elegant, durable, and beautiful hardwood floors you’ve always wanted!

HandyAndy: Your Trusted Staining Experts in Franklin, TN

When it comes to enhancing the beauty and longevity of wood surfaces, staining is one of the most effective methods. Whether you're looking to refresh your deck, add a beautiful finish to your furniture, or protect your wood features from the elements, HandyAndy is here to provide expert staining services for homes and businesses in Franklin, TN, and surrounding areas. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality results that not only enhance the appearance of your property but also ensure long-lasting protection.

Why Choose HandyAndy for Your Staining Needs?
Located at 4432 Pratt Ln, Franklin, TN 37064, HandyAndy is known for its commitment to excellence in staining services. We bring years of experience and professional expertise to every project, ensuring that your wood surfaces receive the care they need to look beautiful and stay protected. Whether it's a small furniture project or a large-scale deck, our staining services are designed to meet your specific needs.

Our Staining Services
At HandyAndy, we offer a full range of staining services that can be customized to fit your project’s requirements. Here are some of the staining services we provide:

Deck Staining: Decks are exposed to the elements year-round, making them vulnerable to weather damage. Staining not only enhances the natural beauty of your deck but also provides a protective layer that helps prevent fading, cracking, and splintering. HandyAndy offers expert deck staining services using high-quality stains and sealers that protect your deck from UV rays, moisture, and other environmental factors.

Fence Staining: Just like decks, fences can take a beating from the weather. Staining your fence helps protect it from rot, mold, and decay while also enhancing its appearance. Whether you have a wood, cedar, or pressure-treated fence, HandyAndy can apply the perfect stain to ensure long-lasting beauty and protection.

Cabinet Staining: If your kitchen or bathroom cabinets are looking worn out but you don't want to replace them, staining is a cost-effective option. HandyAndy provides professional cabinet staining services, breathing new life into your existing cabinets while offering a rich, beautiful finish that complements your space.

Wood Furniture Staining: Furniture made from wood can be given a renewed look with the right stain. Whether it’s a new piece or an older piece in need of a refresh, HandyAndy provides expert wood furniture staining that enhances the natural grain and beauty of the wood. We offer a variety of stain options to suit your taste and style.

Interior Wood Staining: Wood trim, baseboards, and doors are prominent features in many homes. A well-applied stain can enhance these details, making them stand out. HandyAndy offers interior wood staining services that add richness and elegance to your home’s interior features.

Exterior Wood Staining: Exterior wooden structures, like gazebos, pergolas, and siding, can be protected and beautified with the right stain. HandyAndy offers exterior wood staining that not only enhances the natural beauty of your outdoor structures but also protects them from moisture and wear.

Concrete Staining: Concrete surfaces, such as patios or driveways, can also benefit from staining. HandyAndy provides concrete staining services to enhance the appearance of your concrete surfaces, giving them a rich, polished look. Concrete staining is a great way to add color and texture to your outdoor spaces.

Why Franklin Residents Choose HandyAndy for Staining Services
HandyAndy has earned a reputation as the go-to provider of professional staining services in Franklin, TN, and beyond. Here’s why our clients trust us:

Expert Craftsmanship: Our team of skilled professionals has years of experience in the staining process. We use the best techniques and high-quality products to ensure that your wood and surfaces receive a beautiful, even finish that lasts.

Personalized Approach: Every project is unique, and we take the time to understand your specific needs and preferences. Whether you’re looking for a particular shade, finish, or level of protection, HandyAndy works closely with you to achieve the desired results.

Advance Fenceworks: Expert Wooden Fence Building in Winnipeg, MB

When it comes to adding charm, privacy, and security to your property, wooden fence building is a timeless solution that offers both functionality and aesthetic appeal. At Advance Fenceworks, we specialize in providing top-tier wooden fence building services to homeowners and businesses in Winnipeg, MB. Whether you’re looking to create a private retreat in your backyard or add curb appeal to your property, our expert team is here to deliver the perfect wooden fence tailored to your needs.

Located at 182 El Tassi Dr, Winnipeg, MB R3W 0M4, Advance Fenceworks offers high-quality craftsmanship, durable materials, and exceptional customer service. If you’re considering a wooden fence for your home or business, read on to learn more about why we’re the best choice for wooden fence building in Winnipeg.

Why Choose Advance Fenceworks for Wooden Fence Building?
When you choose Advance Fenceworks, you're selecting a team of skilled professionals who are dedicated to delivering the highest standards in wooden fence building. Here’s why we stand out in Winnipeg:

1. Experienced Fence Builders
Our team consists of experienced fence builders with a deep understanding of the wooden fence building process. We take the time to carefully assess your needs and design a fence that fits perfectly with your property’s aesthetic and functionality. Whether you need a rustic wooden fence for a rural property or a sleek, modern design for an urban backyard, we’ve got you covered.

2. Custom Wooden Fence Solutions
We believe that every property is unique, and we offer custom wooden fence building services to match your specific vision. From choosing the right wood type to designing the perfect height and style, we’ll work with you every step of the way to ensure your fence enhances the beauty and security of your property.

3. High-Quality Materials
We use only the best quality wood for our wooden fence building projects. We understand that wooden fences need to withstand the elements, and that’s why we use durable, weather-resistant materials that will hold up against Winnipeg's harsh climate. Whether you choose cedar, pine, or another wood type, we ensure that your fence is built to last.

4. Affordable and Transparent Pricing
At Advance Fenceworks, we are committed to providing high-quality fencing solutions at affordable prices. We offer competitive rates for our wooden fence building services without compromising on quality. Our upfront estimates are transparent, with no hidden fees, so you can budget confidently for your project.

5. Commitment to Customer Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is our top priority. From the moment you contact us to the completion of your wooden fence building project, we focus on providing excellent service, ensuring that your fence is built to your exact specifications. We aim to exceed your expectations and deliver a fence that enhances the beauty, security, and value of your property.

Benefits of Wooden Fences
A wooden fence is more than just a boundary—it’s a functional and aesthetic addition to your property. Here are some of the top benefits of installing a wooden fence:

1. Privacy
Wooden fences provide excellent privacy for your home or business. Whether you’re relaxing in your backyard, hosting a gathering, or simply want to enjoy your outdoor space without prying eyes, a wooden fence creates a secure, private area for you and your family.

2. Aesthetic Appeal
Wooden fences are versatile and can complement a wide range of architectural styles. Whether you want a rustic, traditional look or a sleek, modern design, a wooden fence adds a natural, warm feel to your property. Additionally, wooden fences can be painted or stained to match your personal style and exterior decor.

3. Durability and Longevity
With proper care and maintenance, wooden fences can last for many years. The materials we use are designed to withstand Winnipeg's weather, and we take extra steps to treat and seal your fence to ensure it holds up against moisture, sunlight, and other environmental factors.

4. Increased Property Value
A professionally installed wooden fence enhances the curb appeal of your property, potentially increasing its value. If you're planning to sell your home, a beautiful wooden fence can make your property more attractive to prospective buyers.

5. Customization Options
Wooden fences offer a wide range of design possibilities. From classic picket fences to taller privacy fences, we can customize the design to suit your needs. You can choose the height, style, and finish to match your property’s character and meet your functional requirements.

Shady Business Cypress: Your Trusted Window Treatment Professionals in Cypress, TX

When it comes to enhancing the look and feel of your home, few things make a bigger impact than quality window treatments. At Shady Business Cypress, we specialize in providing top-tier solutions for all your window treatment needs. As window treatment professionals in Cypress, we offer a wide range of services, from expert design to flawless installation, ensuring that every window in your home is dressed to perfection. Our expertise in both window treatments and Cypress TX home improvement makes us the go-to choice for homeowners looking to upgrade their spaces.

Why Choose Shady Business Cypress as Your Window Treatment Professionals?
As trusted window treatment professionals in Cypress, our team at Shady Business Cypress is committed to providing personalized service that caters to your specific style and needs. Whether you're updating a single room or completing an entire home renovation, we are here to guide you through every step of the process.

Our Window Treatment Services Include:
Custom Window Blinds: From wood and faux wood to aluminum and vertical blinds, we offer a wide variety of options to fit any room’s style.
Drapery and Curtains: Add elegance and softness to your home with custom drapery solutions that elevate your space.
Shades and Shutters: We offer energy-efficient shades and custom shutters that provide both beauty and practicality.
Motorized Blinds: For ultimate convenience, our motorized window treatments allow you to control your blinds with a remote, smartphone, or even voice commands.
Consultation and Design: Our team of window treatment professionals in Cypress works closely with you to select the perfect window coverings based on your style preferences and functional needs.
With our extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of the latest trends in window treatments, we’re confident that we can create the perfect solutions to enhance the aesthetic and functionality of your home.

Cypress TX Home Improvement: Enhancing Your Space with Window Treatments
At Shady Business Cypress, we understand that home improvement is about more than just updating your kitchen or bathroom. Enhancing your windows is one of the easiest ways to elevate the style of your entire home, and our expert team is here to guide you through every step of the process. We provide high-quality window treatments that complement your home’s design and contribute to its overall functionality.

Why Window Treatments are Essential for Home Improvement:
Increased Curb Appeal: Custom window treatments instantly improve your home’s appearance, giving both the interior and exterior a polished, cohesive look.
Light Control and Privacy: Our window treatments are designed to give you complete control over the amount of natural light entering your home and to enhance your privacy.
Energy Efficiency: Many of our window treatments, such as cellular shades and energy-efficient blinds, help regulate the temperature inside your home, keeping it cooler in summer and warmer in winter, and ultimately saving you on energy bills.
Home Value: Quality window treatments can boost your home’s value, making them an investment in both style and functionality.
Transform Your Home with Shady Business Cypress
If you're ready to take your Cypress TX home improvement to the next level, Shady Business Cypress is here to help. Our team of window treatment professionals in Cypress is dedicated to offering high-quality, customized window coverings that perfectly suit your space and needs.

Why Work With Us?
Expert Consultation: Our experienced professionals guide you through the selection process, ensuring you choose the best window treatments for your home.
Customization: We offer custom window treatments tailored to your exact specifications, ensuring a perfect fit for every window in your home.
Professional Installation: Our team handles all aspects of installation, ensuring your window treatments are mounted securely and work flawlessly.
Long-Lasting Results: We use only the highest quality materials to ensure that your window treatments look beautiful and function perfectly for years to come.
Contact Shady Business Cypress Today!
Whether you're looking to update a single room or embark on a full Cypress TX home improvement project, Shady Business Cypress is the ideal partner for your window treatment needs. Our team of window treatment professionals in Cypress is here to help transform your space with custom-designed window coverings that suit your style and needs.

Call us today at +1 (346) 660-5424 or visit us at our Houston, Texas location to schedule a consultation. Let Shady Business Cypress help you bring your home improvement vision to life with the perfect window treatments!

Experience the Best of Amoretti’s Narellan: Home Delivery, Online Ordering, Loyalty Program, Gift Vouchers, and Cooking Classes

At Amoretti’s Narellan, we are always striving to offer the best dining experience for our valued customers. From enjoying the convenience of home delivery to taking part in exclusive cooking classes, we have a variety of ways to bring the authentic flavors of Italy to you. Whether you’re ordering online, using our loyalty program, or gifting someone a special gift voucher, Amoretti’s Narellan ensures that every moment with us is memorable.

Located at Shop 1/338 Camden Valley Way, Narellan NSW 2567, our goal is to make enjoying Amoretti’s Narellan more accessible and exciting for you. Read on to discover how we can bring Italy to your doorstep and offer fantastic experiences beyond just dining.

Enjoy the Convenience of Home Delivery
Craving your favorite Italian dish but don’t want to leave the house? With home delivery from Amoretti’s Narellan, you can enjoy our delicious Italian cuisine from the comfort of your own home. Whether you’re in the mood for wood-fired pizza, fresh pasta, or a mouth-watering Italian dessert, we’ve got you covered with our easy-to-use home delivery service. Simply place an order and we’ll bring the best of Italy straight to your doorstep.

Simplified Ordering with Online Ordering
For added convenience, we also offer online ordering, allowing you to browse our menu and place your order from anywhere at any time. No matter if you’re ordering for a cozy dinner at home or a big family gathering, our online ordering system is quick, simple, and secure. Choose from a wide selection of pizzas, pastas, appetizers, and more—then pay online for a fast, seamless experience.

With online ordering from Amoretti’s Narellan, you can enjoy your favorite Italian dishes with just a few clicks. It’s the easiest way to satisfy your cravings without leaving home!

Join Our Loyalty Program and Earn Rewards
At Amoretti’s Narellan, we value our loyal customers. That’s why we’ve created a loyalty program designed to reward you for every visit or order. When you dine with us or order online, you’ll earn points that can be redeemed for discounts, free dishes, and other exciting rewards. Whether you’re a regular guest at our restaurant or someone who prefers home delivery, our loyalty program ensures that you get rewarded for your love of Italian food.

Our loyalty program benefits include:

Earn points for every dollar you spend.

Exclusive discounts and special offers for loyalty members.

Free items and rewards as you accumulate points.

It's our way of saying "thank you" for choosing Amoretti’s Narellan!

Give the Gift of Amoretti’s Narellan with Gift Vouchers
Looking for the perfect gift for an Italian food lover? Our gift vouchers make for a thoughtful and delicious present. Whether it’s a birthday, anniversary, or any special occasion, a gift voucher to Amoretti’s Narellan allows your friends or family to enjoy a memorable dining experience or online ordering of their favorite Italian dishes.

Our gift vouchers are available in various denominations, and they can be used for both in-restaurant dining and home delivery. It’s the ideal way to share the joy of great food with someone special.

Learn the Art of Italian Cooking with Our Cooking Classes
Have you ever wanted to master the art of making authentic Italian pasta or wood-fired pizza? At Amoretti’s Narellan, we offer exciting cooking classes where you can learn the techniques and secrets behind creating delicious Italian dishes from scratch. Led by our expert chefs, these hands-on classes will teach you how to prepare traditional Italian meals in a fun and engaging environment.

Our cooking classes cover a range of topics, including:

Pasta making: Learn how to make fresh pasta, from fettuccine to ravioli.

Wood-fired pizza: Master the art of making the perfect pizza dough and top it with fresh ingredients.

Italian sauces: Discover the secret to creating flavorful, authentic Italian sauces to complement your dishes.

These classes are perfect for food enthusiasts or anyone looking to enhance their cooking skills. Plus, you’ll get to enjoy your creations at the end of each session!

Why Choose Amoretti’s Narellan?
Home Delivery: Enjoy our authentic Italian dishes delivered right to your door for a hassle-free dining experience.

Online Ordering: Convenient and fast online ordering makes it easier than ever to satisfy your Italian food cravings.

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Apex Exterior Solutions: Pool Deck Pressure Washing and Affordable Power Washing in Dayton, Ohio

At Apex Exterior Solutions, we specialize in providing top-notch pool deck pressure washing and affordable power washing services for both residential and commercial properties in Dayton, Ohio. With years of experience and a commitment to customer satisfaction, we are your go-to experts for all your exterior cleaning needs. From keeping your pool deck spotless to restoring the beauty of your home or business, our professional pressure washing services deliver exceptional results every time.

Whether you’re dealing with stubborn algae on your pool deck or need a complete power wash for your driveway or siding, we have the skills and equipment to tackle it all. Keep reading to learn more about how Apex Exterior Solutions can enhance the curb appeal and cleanliness of your property.

Why Pool Deck Pressure Washing is Important
Your pool deck is not only an area for relaxation and entertainment, but it also endures regular exposure to dirt, oils, leaves, mold, and algae. Over time, these elements can cause the surface to become slippery, unsafe, and unsightly. That’s where pool deck pressure washing in Dayton, Ohio comes in.

At Apex Exterior Solutions, we offer expert pool deck cleaning services that restore the appearance of your outdoor space and help keep it safe for family, friends, and guests.

Benefits of Pool Deck Pressure Washing:
Enhances Safety
Pool decks can quickly become slick with algae, mold, and mildew buildup, especially around the water. These substances not only make your deck look dirty but also increase the risk of slips and falls. Our pool deck pressure washing service removes these contaminants, making your pool area safer for everyone.

Restores Aesthetic Appeal
A clean pool deck enhances the overall look of your backyard and can significantly boost your home’s curb appeal. Whether your pool deck is made of concrete, wood, tile, or pavers, we have the right tools and techniques to bring it back to life.

Prevents Long-Term Damage
Regular pressure washing helps remove substances that can damage your pool deck’s surface. By addressing mold, algae, and dirt early, you prevent staining and wear that could lead to costly repairs down the road.

Improves Longevity
Pool decks that are regularly cleaned last longer. By removing harmful elements and ensuring proper maintenance, you extend the lifespan of your deck, saving you money on expensive repairs or replacements.

Affordable Power Washing in Dayton, Ohio
When it comes to maintaining the exterior of your home or business, affordable power washing in Dayton, Ohio is an excellent option to restore cleanliness and enhance the appearance of your property. Power washing, also known as pressure washing, is highly effective for removing dirt, grime, stains, and buildup from a variety of surfaces.

At Apex Exterior Solutions, we offer affordable power washing services that deliver exceptional results without breaking the bank. Our team uses state-of-the-art equipment and eco-friendly cleaning solutions to ensure your property looks its best, all while staying within your budget.

Our Affordable Power Washing Services Include:
House Washing
Over time, your home’s siding can collect dirt, mold, mildew, and algae, making it look dingy and worn. Our house washing service uses power washing techniques to clean and restore your siding, whether it’s vinyl, brick, stucco, or wood. The result is a bright, fresh exterior that boosts your home’s curb appeal.

Driveway and Sidewalk Cleaning
Concrete surfaces like driveways and sidewalks often accumulate oil stains, tire marks, and dirt. Our affordable power washing services are perfect for removing tough stains and grime from these hard surfaces, leaving your driveway and walkways looking clean and well-maintained.

Deck and Patio Pressure Washing
Outdoor spaces like decks and patios can quickly collect dirt, mold, and algae. Our professional power washing services will restore the look of your deck or patio, whether it’s made of wood, composite, or concrete, making it a more enjoyable space for outdoor activities.

Fence Cleaning
Fences can also show signs of wear from exposure to the elements. With our pressure washing expertise, we can restore your fence’s original beauty by removing dirt, mildew, and stains, extending its lifespan and keeping it looking great for years to come.

Commercial Power Washing
First impressions are important for businesses. If the exterior of your commercial property is looking dirty or run down, Apex Exterior Solutions offers affordable power washing for storefronts, parking lots, and exterior surfaces. A clean property not only attracts customers but also protects your investment.