| 6ixStringJack: If you need a headboard, those frames are basically a standard size at this point. I'm not sure if they're one-sized fits all, and a twin frame might not also be extendable to a king-sized bed, but if you wanted a headboard you can probably find one that the end of the frame could bolt into if you got the right size headboard for your frame. I've seen plenty of decent headboards for sale pretty cheap at Goodwill over the years, so you may want to try looking there or at any similar places you have up there. |
| 6ixStringJack: A lot of beds just don't have them anymore and just send you with the frame you've probably got. You should just be able to put the boxspring on the frame and the mattress on top of that. They should have given you instructions to put that frame together, but they're really all the same so if you don't have instructions you could probably easily find that online. The frame will support the weight of the bed and anyone sleeping on it without a headboard once it's put together correctly. |
6ixStringJack: The first question would be, do you need a headboard?  |
| 6ixStringJack: The day had its moments, but was already derailed because in the last 48 hours almost everyone I know decided at the same time to make their problems my problems, so it only started out with about 4 hours of sleep after yesterday's drama. Thought I was turning in pretty early for me when a friend of mine decided to make more of his problems my own, and I was sitting around here about 2 hours waiting for him to come over without being able to reach him before his phone died. Finally got a call from him letting me know he was okay after he got home and charged his phone enough to call me. I was just trying to go to bed hoping that's where he was going because either he was lying in a ditch, he got himself arrested or dead otherwise. |
| Brenda: Hey, Jack. I got a new bed but it didn't come with a headboard. You got any ideas on what I can use? The space it has to fill is 13inches wide and not sure how many inches high. |
| Brenda: Hope it was a good day. |
| 6ixStringJack: Looooong daaaaaaaaay...... glad to be home. |
| Brenda: Bugs, I can do with out. I don't see many if any flies in this building or spiders even in my place. Thank goodness. That other crappy place I was seeing spiders the size of a loonie. Gave me the willies for sure. |
| Brenda: Yeah, mice are no fun for sure. One got into the apartment I was living in with my mum as I was looking after her. Had the balcony door open and the drain pipe wasn't covered, so it scrambled up the pipe and in one time. Took a poison trap to get it. It came out while we were out, still alive but almost dead. I took a broom to it to finish it off. Manager came up and collected it and put some chicken wire over the drain hole. |
| Brenda: Well, if you have to do something, you have to no matter the time. |
| Brenda: I've seen those ads on tv for those DIY shows and such. There's a few of them made up here in the east. Mostly Ontario in the cottage country. And I often wonder just how good they are. That is terrible. |
Brenda: Couldn't tell you how electrical is handled for houses and such in Canada. I would have to be an electrician for that.  And most I know about breakers is turning off the switches and turning them back on. |
| Brenda: Yeah, there is. Apartments that aren't designed for seniors here don't have any, that I know of. There's been a couple since I've moved in but they didn't last long. |
| Brenda: Yeah, I've heard that clogged gutters can do a lot of damage to a house. It was a couple of years ago that a little place up the Sunshine Coast had have heavy water restrictions because their reservoir was just about dry. Nothing that bad has happened were I am but warnings are usually about watering lawns and flowers. |
| 6ixStringJack: But they are monsters and I'm happy I don't have to look at whatever it was they're eating to get that big. I hardly ever see a bug in my house besides them, and I haven't sprayed for bugs ever since I fixed up that back porch. |
| 6ixStringJack: No critters down there except for bugs though. If I had critters down there, they're already in my house then. I haven't had a single mouse in the house since we fixed up that porch and put a proper back door on it. I still haven't replaced the door seal at the threshold of the kitchen door into that porch though, and that's where they were getting through before. I didn't have a fully sealed porch with a proper door on the back before, so they just came into the porch and got in the kitchen door if I left any food out to attract them. But the bugs are why I don't kill or even remove any wolf spiders I see when they come out of hiding and are on the prowl. They won't bother humans and they don't hide in things like clothing or shoes. And even if you do get bit by one it's just an irritation for a few weeks and nothing serious. |
| 6ixStringJack: No critters down there except for bugs though. If I had critters down there, they're already in my house then. I haven't had a single mouse in the house since we fixed up that porch and put a proper back door on it. I still haven't replaced the door seal at the threshold of the kitchen door into that porch though, and that's where they were getting through before. I didn't have a fully sealed porch with a proper door on the back before, so they just came into the porch and got in the kitchen door if I left any food out to attract them. But the bugs are why I don't kill or even remove any wolf spiders I see when they come out of hiding and are on the prowl. They won't bother humans and they don't hide in things like clothing or shoes. And even if you do get bit by one it's just an irritation for a few weeks and nothing serious. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. I didn't have light when I was bailing out the basement. It was Halloween evening when it happened, and I had about 30 minutes of sunlight left. Once it was too dark to even see what I was doing anymore down there I got as many LED flashlights as I could find in the house and made a runway from the sump pit to my toilet so I could see and I said to myself well I guess we're doing this until the batteries die or my heart explodes. |
| 6ixStringJack: DIY in the wrong hands can be bad news. A lot of these "Home Flippers" are DIY guys and they mess these houses up so bad and hide things they don't know about behind the walls. I was talking to the code enforcement guy a few years ago and he told me about an old couple who had recently died in a house fire because the "Gypsies" (his term for house flippers) who flipped the house to them had electric code violations everywhere. |
| 6ixStringJack: Truth be told though, part of my hesitancy in doing what I need to do with this plug is because I WILL be interfacing directly with that breaker box. Now that thing IS pretty terrifying to me. I will make sure before I work on this that I brush up on all my electric know-how and I don't do anything that can put me in harm's way. Yeah on the city workers. Not only do I not want to hurt anybody by doing something stupid, but if I were to install what I'm installing and that kit wasn't installed on my breaker first, that is HIGHLY illegal if you're caught with the setup. I don't think anybody would purposefully do that for any reason, and anybody who's got into trouble for it was because they didn't know better and they actually did end up hurting or killing somebody without even realizing that was a possibility. |