Home Depot called about the WeedWacker, this asshole actually said to me, “I dont want to call you an idiot or anything, but you have to charge the battery”, I told him I charged the battery twice and it still died after 5 minutes of runtime.  He said he would zip tie it and call me back.  Maybe 3-4 minutes later, he calls back and says, it’s smoking from both ends.  He asked if I had the receipt (who keeps everything??  of course I have the receipt)…back to home depot I go…

I walk in, wait, wait, wait…then 100 year old man comes in and says he’ll take care of me…he had trouble finding if it were under warranty because he didn’t know if it was motor or battery related (both of these would still be under warranty and once I told him that, he hung up the phone with Ryobi)..he rung me up for $18.95 for diagnostic…I was so fed up and wanting to get out of there, I was willing to pay.  Well, the dumbass had problems the computer and had to call in Laura, the manager…I could tell that she has dealt with 100 year old man before so she fixed me up, then said, what was the $18.95 for?  So I told her and she said that she will get me my money back, as well as a new weedwacker or my money back.  10 minutes later, I have a store credit for the weedwacker and the $18.95 returned to my card.  If it were not for Laura stepping in, I may have never returned to another Home Depot again…and I would have voiced that everywhere!  between the weedwacker and the bathroom sink…

At the end of last summer, I got fed up with my gas weed wacker not starting and getting blisters trying to start it.  So I decided to go with a cordless weedwacker.  I had heard good things about the WORX brand, but found out that Home Depot didnt carry the brand anymore, so I went with the Ryobi, and considering that I have additional batteries, it made sense to buy it.

That was end of Sept 2013, I used it 1, maybe 2 times, and liked it. I was sold and happy with my purchase….until 10 minutes into the first use of this Spring…it died, just stopped working, so I brought the battery in, put it on the charger, and hour later, fully charged, I went back out to finish the back yard…20 feet later, it died again.

I called Ryobi, they told me to take it down to the “tool rental” dept at Home Depot…at this point, I think they’ll figure out what’s wrong with it and fix/replace whatever the issue is…what happens with this is why I started this blog…un-fucking believable!

The 100 year old man that is working the shop didnt really like his job, that’s all I can figure…hates the technology, hates that everything is new-fangled and battery operated, hates that a woman walked into his man-shop…

Wanted me to sign a “pre-authorization” for $100 of work…what?? no fucking way did I sign that…1) warranty 2) I only paid $100ish for it 3) I’ve only used this thing maybe 3 times

they wont even look at it until Tuesday

needless to say, I left there feeling a little postal!

time to go home and during my next work break…get the lawnmower out….

I really need to pressure wash the front porch, back deck and the shed this year. I will also need to de-clutter the shed enough to get the washer out.

Got gas, got deck wash, got a deck brush…let’s get started.

The pressure washer doesn’t seem happy…oil leaking, rough running, less pressure than normal.

Front porch is looking better…on to the back deck.

DEAD…the pressure washer started spewing gas and oil out of every opening…carburetor, muffler, bottom….stalled, caput, dead!

The guys started early today!

There were a couple repairs to do.  On the front near the chimney, part of the plywood needed to be replaced and in the back, where the “addition” meets the house, there was no support, nothing connecting the roof to the house.

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Yesterday, Kevin got the permit for the roof and the screened in porch…today, they started

I found out that it’s 3 shingles deep!  The original color was green.

They pulled the gutters down..so I plan on going out there and cleaning them…so much easier when they are on the ground.