The Home Ownership Thread - Page 13

Originally Posted by Douglas 

I can't imagine a little Japanese maple that's going to max out at about 12 feet is going to create foundation issues, but what do I know.
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Originally Posted by newyork20 

Stereotyping people, very nice. 


You guys may say that now, but I believe that the tallest person on earth right now is actually from Japan (I'm not too sure).

Originally Posted by eg1 

Ewww -- at least our flood was clean water.
I was surprised too -- guess city water pressure is high enough to pump a lot of water in a short time (we might have been gone 2.5 hours, but I could not say when the pressure fitting popped). When I came in the front door I could see water running along the kitchen floor (kitchen is at the back of the house); once in the kitchen I could see it pouring out of the cupboards under the sink like a waterfall. I sloshed down the stairs to the basement furnace room where the water shut-off was located and turned it off. The drywall-popcorn ceiling of the basement had already collapsed in several places and was distended like a balloon in others -- it was "raining" in the basement. The only room unaffected on the main floor was the garage-reno family room.
The good news was that the previous owners of the house had installed some retardedly expensive hardwood flooring in the kitchen and hallways, so the replacement value on the insurance claim gave us the money to go door-to-door-to-door (front, back patio, side) with a nice Italian tile all through the kitchen, powder room and all hallways. I could never figure out why anybody would put hardwood flooring in a room with a door to a pool? We went with engineered hardwood in the dining room and living room. We also replaced the basement wall-to-wall carpet with laminate. The whole process was a damned nuisance (we spent a week in a hotel while the tile was installed) but everything is actually better now than it was before.
The insurance adjuster said he sees a lot of these sorts of floods from those fancy fridges with the water dispensers -- if you have one of those, I recommend you have a plumber check the integrity of the fittings.

Originally Posted by newyork20 

Stereotyping people, very nice. 


You guys may say that now, but I believe that the tallest person on earth right now is actually from Japan (I'm not too sure).

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba 

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My requests for recommendations usually fall on deaf ears, but if anyone has a suggestion for a nice hardy small tree that can be planted in a pot and survive year round outside in the northeast I'm all ears.

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba 

Japanese maples have no-intrusive root systems...as I gather from my short internet education on them. Did a bunch of planting this week, and now looking for small trees to put in planters. I have a mini-backyard so I like the look of how trees are kept in Japanese gardens, but don't care much for the running water.
My requests for recommendations usually fall on deaf ears, but if anyone has a suggestion for a nice hardy small tree that can be planted in a pot and survive year round outside in the northeast I'm all ears.

Originally Posted by Thomas 

snap judgments based on one post on a message board, very nice. Since we're already judgmental, I'm not stereotyping people, just their plants and genitalia.
I got nothing for ya mang.

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba 

Thanks Bro

Originally Posted by Thomas 


I'm in Texas - we don't have a winter, and we don't do trees in pots - therefore no direct relevant experience. Sorry, but I also didn't want your request to fall on deaf ears, either.

Originally Posted by Thomas 

Out of curiosity, if the trees stay close to the house, is Douglas looking at foundation issues down the road?

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba 

My parents have had a japanese maple very close to their house for about 15 years without issue.

Originally Posted by CalTex 

whoah whoah whoah, it snowed last December, and that was one cold winter...
.....well until noon when it became summer again.

Originally Posted by patrickBOOTH 

The biggest issue would be the dripline. If the roof overhang goes much past the centerline of the maple it could suffer from not getting enough water when it rains. Ask me how I know.