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Bird in a Blender posted:Remote meaning you have an inline fan connected to the exhaust duct right? I would think you could get a replacement motor without having to change the whole fan or hood. Could you take a picture? Not any helpful ones, really. This is the enclosure:  That Romex terminates in a female four-pin connector, and on the inside of that sheet metal housing is MORE sheet metal, with the male four-pin connector sticking out of it. I would estimate approximately zero chance of this thing being legal, and I'd like a legitimate replacement instead of a fire hazard.
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Coasterphreak posted:Why would you call the property manager? If kids are throwing rocks in such a way that it might cause property damage, you call the cops to come scare the poo poo out of them. The cops do not give one single solitary gently caress. They respond to nuisance calls with a drive by and shrug.
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Liquid Communism posted:They respond to nuisance calls with a drive by
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glynnenstein posted:Duct tape on ducts is the first sign that someone doesn't know what they're doing.  tape
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HycoCam posted:Does the notarized letter specifically state the neighbor has limited use of the strip of land to prevent it being seized through adverse possession? Yeah, it's written specifically to prevent adverse possession and easement issues. The neighbor in question is given written permission to use that strip of land in its current state (i.e. as a driveway and only as a driveway--they can't expand it or build anything else) up to and until I decide they don't. Adverse possession in MT can take as little as 5 years so getting that encroachment agreement was part of my conditions for purchasing the house. Basically, I can do this at any time: The Twinkie Czar posted:gently caress it, it's time to get serious. And if they don't start picking up after their dog, I will. The dog's cute, but his massive loving dumps on my back lawn are not.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Hood vent question related to crappy construction: Our range hood is a remote unit, and never really worked -- just one more thing on the to-do list. As it turns out, the guy who renovated the place built an enclosure and wired up a motor in a totally non-standard fashion, which is likely why it failed. Are there remote hood motors that are not paired with specific hoods, or am I going to have to replace the entire range hood? The in-line fans are in no way part of the hood. They're a generic kinda thing where you just need to match duct sizing and fan capacity. You might even be able to just replace the motor. e: JFC, get that duct tape off of there and buy a roll of aluminum tape.
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Coasterphreak posted:Why would you call the property manager? If kids are throwing rocks in such a way that it might cause property damage, you call the cops to come scare the poo poo out of them. If kids are misbehaving the first instinct in a functioning society should be to go and tell the loving kids to knock it off. Like if that doesn't work or if you genuinely feel you'd be in danger doing so, OK, but we have this unfortunate tendency these days to resort to authority rather than do anything remotely resembling a confrontation and that's really unsustainable. It's the same deal with all these things about people's misbehaving neighbors. If you can get onto basic speaking terms with your neighbors from the get-go, then it's not a huge transgression or major imposition to ask them nicely to please stop [leaving their dog's poo poo on your yard/knocking into your fence post/trimming your tree without telling you/etc.] You resort to letters and cops and HOAs and poo poo as a last resort, not a first resort, and you'll find yourself living in a much happier neighborhood.
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Liquid Communism posted:The cops do not give one single solitary gently caress. They respond to nuisance calls with a drive by and shrug. What can a property manager do about kids throwing rocks? He'll call the cops.
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maybe ask them to stop, or talk to their parents if their parents live there and ask them to stop Like when I was a kid we threw rocks at each other from across the street as a game, until someone yelled at us to stop and then we stopped.
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:Slightly related to crappy construction and trying to save it: if you have a kidde fire extinguisher you may want to check out the recall of over 40 million of them: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/kidde-recalls-fire-extinguishers-with-plastic-handles-due-to-failure-to-discharge-and . Yea, I just finished filling that out.. getting 3 new ones shipped to me.
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Motronic posted:The in-line fans are in no way part of the hood. They're a generic kinda thing where you just need to match duct sizing and fan capacity. I ended up doing this with a bathroom fan. I just bought a model from the same manufacturer and took the old motor out and put the new motor in, worked fine. Way easier than having to cut the mounting rails due to the dumb rear end way it was mounted in the attic.
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Phanatic posted:What can a property manager do about kids throwing rocks? He'll call the cops. Call the cops with some idea of who the kids belong to, yeah.
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What state? In Texas that's probably grounds for a
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glynnenstein posted:Duct tape on ducts is the first sign that someone doesn't know what they're doing. I used some to cover a couple screw holes on my ducts. 
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Javid posted:What state? In Texas that's probably grounds for a don't skip step 1 which is throw rocks back
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/04/factory-owned-grenfell-cladding-manufacturer-catches-fire/ Remember the Grenfell apartment tower that burned in the UK? The factory that produces the cladding caught fire.
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drgitlin posted:There are a bunch of barrel-roofed townhouses with floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floors (it’s a mid-century development designed by Charles Goodman). Some neighbors have just hung sheets across the lower halves of their windows, it looks absolutely loving hideous. Why would you live in an awesome architectural design if you’re only going to gently caress it up by draping a sheet across it? Just go live in a normal house at that point. I'm getting some real serial killer vibes from this guy who has stalked his neighbours enough to know the name of the guy who made their house, wtf.
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BattleMaster posted:I'm getting some real serial killer vibes from this guy who has stalked his neighbours enough to know the name of the guy who made their house, wtf. Hoping that's a joke, because not so much. Many developments were designed by a single architect/architectural group and share common themes and elements. I have forgotten the name, but my last house was one of those.
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BattleMaster posted:I'm getting some real serial killer vibes from this guy who has stalked his neighbours enough to know the name of the guy who made their house, wtf. It’s the same architect who made all the houses in this coop development. The houses are identical. Did you miss that bit? That’s kind of the point. (Yes, sometimes even normal people can live in houses designed by architects that people have actually heard of.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Goodman drgitlin fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Nov 5, 2017 |
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:But you still shouldn't be able to dictate your neighbor's curtains Could be leaks, could be intentional to rattle cages and get people to cooperate. Hard to say but the Mueller team's discipline has been good so far.
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:Slightly related to crappy construction and trying to save it: if you have a kidde fire extinguisher you may want to check out the recall of over 40 million of them: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/kidde-recalls-fire-extinguishers-with-plastic-handles-due-to-failure-to-discharge-and . Damnit. Both of mine are also part of that. Glad I saw this though, I would have had no clue otherwise.
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:Slightly related to crappy construction and trying to save it: if you have a kidde fire extinguisher you may want to check out the recall of over 40 million of them: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017/kidde-recalls-fire-extinguishers-with-plastic-handles-due-to-failure-to-discharge-and . drat, I got one, and I know we use Kiddes in a lot of our locations at work. Thanks for the heads up.
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:don't skip step 1 which is throw rocks back
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I think this is wrong guys, click for bigger.
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Lime Tonics posted:I think this is wrong guys, No it's fine. There's a second 2x4 for redundancy.
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Why do those roots look like they're made of plastic?
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Because they're plastic piping and not roots? 
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ugh I thought it was a simpsons joke but I guess it was family guy but at least it was the first season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc7wIgaZbio
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moist turtleneck posted:ugh I thought it was a simpsons joke but I guess it was family guy but at least it was the first season I don't understand this video.
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the yellow makes me wonder if it's a gas line
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Lime Tonics posted:I think this is wrong guys, No kidding, that lineset/wiring run to the condenser is awful! And there doesn't appear to be any pad under it either. Shameful.
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glynnenstein posted:Duct tape on ducts is the first sign that someone doesn't know what they're doing. Well, what's *duct tape* for, then, if not ducts? I mean, it's right there in the *name*, smarty pants. I'm being sarcastic, just for the record. `Nemesis posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/04/factory-owned-grenfell-cladding-manufacturer-catches-fire/ Karma is indeed a bitch.
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Darchangel posted:Karma is indeed a bitch. Is it, though? Aren't they the ones that said that product should never have been used with that building? Also, wasn't it a building supplier that sold them and not the factory itself? I got no dog in this race, but I would think if karma were to strike it should be the building supply company that actually sold the product knowing where it was going to be used just so they could low bid and win.
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brugroffil posted:the yellow makes me wonder if it's a gas line It most likely is. That should be supported.
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I'm in the process of redoing my basement, half of it was "finished", and the other half is a utility area. I'm just working on the finished side. It was old musty carpet, with wood paneling on two sides and drywall on the other. Always fun finding the crappy construction from previous owners. There's one part of my basement that has a small door in it that leads to a small crawl space, this part of the wall had some plywood on it with a 2'x2' door in the middle, if that makes any sense. The plywood was just screwed onto the framing, so I figured this will be no problem to remove. Well I take off one piece and find three other smaller pieces patched in behind it and that's nailed on. I start pulling that off and I find that they just shoved some random scrap behind that and nailed that to even more plywood. Best I can tell is that one side was not even, so they just kept shoving in "shims" of scrap behind the plywood to try and make everything flush. Not the worst thing in the world, but definitely evidence of the previous owner just getting lazy and or cheap and just doing something to make it work. I should have taken a picture.
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