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I haven't found anyone that sells this style yet. I'm not clear how that style is able to handle hard rain? Seems it would just fly off the front and not go down into the gutter. So far, every gutter company has a completely different opinion on which style works best and worst. I never imagined this would be such a difficult choice.

@Garufa 2 of the companies that were supposed to show up last week to give me a quote never showed up, and never called me. I did get a 2nd quote of $3,900, more than double the first guy. I have one more guy I'm waiting to get a quote from.

I'll keep you updated. First quote I got was $1,800 for a house that's probably similar in size to yours. I'm getting 3 more quotes. Probably going to pass on the gun show gutter salesman.

@i1afli @peejman This is the product the first guy uses. Any idea if this is what you or your parents went with? I brought up the concern about high velocity areas and water missing the gutter. He said they could install something there that would sort of divert the water back into the gutter.

Yes please. I'm in West Knox.

I know this is random but I want to replace the gutters on the house we bought. Someone installed the real cheap gutter guards pictured below. As you can imagine, they don't work. All the gutters were full. Also, even when clean, the water pools on one end, and doesn't want to flow to the downspout. That's why I'm leaning towards total replacment. Has anyone found gutter guards that actually work? There are parts of my roof I'll never reach with a ladder so I need something that works. Also, if anyone has a Knoxville company they recommend, let me know.

While I appreciate your responses in this thread, I think we're wasting our time. It's the same folks saying the same things and asking the same questions since last year. We've answered the same questions multiple times and they come back the next week to ask it again as if they really want to know the answer. I've only seen a few people who I thought were willing to look at it objectively and came to ask questions with any sincerity.

My wife's p238 has been extremely reliable. We even took a defensive pistol class with it once and it took the abuse just fine.

How do we know they do? How long are the antibodies good for? I don't really care at this point what people do but the reality is that the fastest way of getting back to normal is if we vaccinate most of the country. I've already decided it's going to be a normal summer for me. My gym dropped the mask requirement this week so that's a win.

Yeah but my wife isn't sure what to make of my 3rd nipple I grew. If I look close enough it seems to resemble Bill Gates eye.

That's going to be the case now that half the country has had the vaccine. We'd probably wind it down even faster if 30% wouldn't refuse to get the shot.

I've never heard any liberal say this. If anything, they would say they opposite.

This is probably true, but I tend to believe the fact that our infrastructure is in need of massive upgrading. I'm sure this group has their own agenda, but there is some good info here. https://infrastructurereportcard.org/

I'm completely fine with their decision. I'm sure it was the right call. I'm just saying that now that we have more info, I wonder if it's as bad as it seems. But you guys know a lot more about this than me so I'll take your word for it.

I guess my question is, if this crack has been there since 2019 and nothing has happened, is it really as dangerous as they claim? I get that it's bad, but I'm wondering if a temporary fix might be ok. I understand they have to be overly cautious at this point. We probably drive over other damaged bridges every day considering out horrible our infrastructure is right now.

Anyone I've ever known that has worked for city, state or federal government describes a job with a lot of downtime. I watched 6 city of Knoxville employees plant a tiny tree on my street. 4 stood there while two worked. They took multiple breaks over the course of a few hours to plant it. I have a friend that works for the City of Knoxville. She sayd she actually works only a few hours a day and watches Netflix the remainder. Another friend works at ORNL as a "laborer". They intentionally sandbag during the week so that they have work left over for overtime on Saturday. The supervisors encourage this. If they don't spend that money, it's not in the budget next year.

I think you touched on something here. I bet there is a lot of middle management around the country feeling concerned about their jobs because they can no longer manage their team in person. As soon as my manager got the vaccine she started pushing for us to get back into the office. Thankfully, that hasn't happened yet. No one on my team wants to go back into the office.

:raises hand:. I was thinking that earlier.

I wonder what most of those people were already making. $30,000 is a lot of money for me but I bet it isn't for a lot of Microsoft and Google workers. I've been working from home since last March and I'm really dreading going back but if they offered me $30,000 I'd gladly take it.

You are the reason we need medical marijuana. Can't imagine being this wound up.

Wouldn't even come close. When you really look at where our money is going you realize how screwed we are. They are never going to cut SS, Medicare or Defense and that's where most of it goes.

They built the Hoover dam in 5 years. I don't think they could do it in 15 today. Of course, 112 people died during the construction. We wouldn't allow that today.

I agree, but that guy was also talking so fast I was having a hard time understanding him. He wasn't being very clear.

On the phone no less.

Infrastructure is one of the few things that everyone agrees we desperately need to address but no one can agree how to pay for it. How do you find the money when we're already running a deficit like this? What are we even up to this year, $4 Trillion? More?