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Maybe you should vote to move the condo complex to an area where someone won't steal a loving dog park
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Sep 22, 2022 03:06
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Is the dog park not next to a condo? How the hell does this happen? Lol.
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Sep 22, 2022 03:22
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I live in a big city and I would probably vote no on paying more for 24/7 security too. A security camera accomplishes pretty much the same thing. I wouldn't like paying for a door person either. Any scenario in which you are paying for someone's payroll time is gonna be real expensive, obviously. But other folks seek that out and really want the door person at their building  It maybe would have saved your dog park, though.
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Sep 22, 2022 03:25
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24/7 security is pretty good if you live anywhere near a downtown area in California, unless you like stepping over people literally camping on the sidewalk 365 Our building had 24/7 security + door person and the property managers office on site, that kind of street level presence helps keep things from turning into an unlivable hell
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Sep 22, 2022 03:37
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Tiny Timbs posted:Maybe you should vote to move the condo complex to an area where someone won't steal a loving dog park Never in my life has it occurred to me that a dog park can be stolen. It's like stealing a lake.
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Sep 22, 2022 04:49
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gp2k posted:Never in my life has it occurred to me that a dog park can be stolen. It's like stealing a lake. Was a woman in a red trenchcoat and big floppy hat spotted in the vicinity?
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Sep 22, 2022 06:12
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Hadlock posted:24/7 security is pretty good if you live anywhere near a downtown area in California, unless you like stepping over people literally camping on the sidewalk 365 I am guessing you mean the front entrance walkway and places like that, I get what you mean. On the actual sidewalk, it's city property here and in the Midwest (Chicago) we have people living on the sidewalks 24/7. They choose to get sheltered in the very worst depths of winter but come right back out when it warms up.
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Sep 22, 2022 06:33
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Does anyone have recommendations on outdoor fabric brand? It’s for furniture on a covered, but not screened, porch. I read about Sunbrella but it’s expensive and may be overkill
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Sep 22, 2022 14:19
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House Ownership: Someone stole the dog park again.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:23
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Upgrade posted:Does anyone have recommendations on outdoor fabric brand? It’s for furniture on a covered, but not screened, porch. I read about Sunbrella but it’s expensive and may be overkill Heh I was going to recommend sunbrella. I recovered some chairs with it and they live out in the Arizona sun and get soaked when it rains and seems to be holding up well.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:36
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Qwijib0 posted:Heh I was going to recommend sunbrella. I recovered some chairs with it and they live out in the Arizona sun and get soaked when it rains and seems to be holding up well. Is there a cheaper brand that’s less hardcore? Covered porch means it’ll occasionally get wet from heavy storms but that’s about it
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Sep 22, 2022 14:46
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Anza Borrego posted:Landscape Architect working in commercial/institutional/civic space here, hard disagree. They do, however, look really lovely inside if you don’t live in an industrial loft and aren’t a great fit for most residential styles. ok that's a fair point, i will concede that they would look ok on projects like the highline in nyc or race st pier in philly (those projects may or may not have actually incorporated cable railings).
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Sep 22, 2022 15:33
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Upgrade posted:Is there a cheaper brand that’s less hardcore? Covered porch means it’ll occasionally get wet from heavy storms but that’s about it Originally engineered for aerospace and aviation applications, 303® Protectant provides superior protection against harmful UV rays that can cause discoloration, fading, and cracking of vinyl, rubber and plastic surfaces. 303 Protectant also helps repel dust, dirt, lint and staining. The stuff is expensive so I'm only going to apply it maybe 2-3 times a year on my stuff, it recommends quarterly or more. I can't personally vouch for it (yet, I've only done one application) but I learned about it from canoe people and synthetic leather seat car detailer people who swear by it.
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Sep 22, 2022 16:02
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Sundae posted:I posted this in the SFBA thread in LAN, but home ownership and all that, it belongs here too. sounds like an inside job in an attempt to get 24/7 security for the complex. someone's condo is filled with rolls of fencing that smells like dog pee
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Sep 22, 2022 16:37
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Poopelyse posted:sounds like an inside job in an attempt to get 24/7 security for the complex. someone's condo is filled with rolls of fencing that smells like dog pee 
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Sep 22, 2022 16:47
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This was my first instinct. Are there not cameras that caught this unusual act in the first place? I cant begin to fathom who would "steal" a dog park and its amenities in the middle of the night. It sounds like a fishy board to me. SO OUR DOG PARK WAS STOLEN LAST NIGHT WE NEED TO HIRE SECURITY!!!!!!
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Sep 22, 2022 17:13
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Turn on the shower this morning and water starts spraying from the flexible arm in multiple places. Guess I get to problem solve my shower head/arm tonight.
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Sep 22, 2022 17:33
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Small update on the well thing. Talked to an actual well person who I had reached out to before posting here. They had me do some of the same things y'all mentioned here to get some idea on how the system is currently operating without sending someone out (which they said they could, but also said for a rough idea this is fine). Their opinion was basically: - It appears our well system is functioning correctly, if we're having any pressure problems from 1-2 taps turning on it's likely an internal plumbing problem. - Our pressure tank is nearing the end of it's expected service life, so it could be starting to fail which could also be causing intermittent pressure problems, but they'd have to come out to know for sure. - Based on what I told him, his guess is that our well pump is undersized for the amount of demand we're trying to put on the system, that the 1/2 HP pump we have is only capable of producing 10-12 GPM under perfect conditions, and getting into 4-5 fixtures running can easily out pace it even under perfect conditions. - Switching to a constant pressure system likely wouldn't affect the pressure of running multiple fixtures at once, unless we installed a system that was capable of producing more than our current system is-- and then the fix would be coming from the larger system, not from the constant pressure system. He did say that they do install them, and they sometimes recommend them for larger systems not because the constant part is needed, but because a larger system ends up needing a larger pressure tank where the constant pressure tank only need a small surge tank so they take up less room and sometimes end up being cheaper to install in those systems due to saving money on the larger pressure tank. My contractor was out today so I talked to him in person, and he said that he wasn't saying that we needed to change anything in the well for him to move forward. He was just warning us that with our shower having 4 fixtures, we might need to upgrade the well pump for QOL because the shower by itself will likely easily meet or exceed the system we currently have, and mentioned the constant pressure system because in his experience people often installed those rather than larger traditional system. But he's happy to move ahead without touching the well, and just waiting and see if our pressure becomes a problem, and if so have me call a well guy out to evaluate.
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Sep 22, 2022 17:44
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It's good you got some of that sorted out, but your contractor needs to be a lot more sure that he's not putting 4 fixtures on a 1/2" line to you bathroom that is also shared with the kitchen and your garden sprinklers. That's on HIM to sort out the interior plumbing. The problem with oversizing well pumps is that they short cycle. I have a large home with crazy shower/multiple bathrooms/multiple people living here and I can take a shower with the dishwasher and clothes washer running and can't tell if someone flushed a toilet. All on a 1/2 HP pump 65 down the bore hole. Because everything else is in good order, done correctly. Verman posted:This was my first instinct. Are there not cameras that caught this unusual act in the first place? I cant begin to fathom who would "steal" a dog park and its amenities in the middle of the night. It sounds like a fishy board to me. Sounds a whole lot more like someone who lives close enough to the dog park who doesn't want a loving dog park there. Likely do to the regular reasons like the behavior of the people there or on their way to and from the park. Motronic fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sep 22, 2022 17:58
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Motronic posted:Sounds a whole lot more like someone who lives close enough to the dog park who doesn't want a loving dog park there. Likely do to the regular reasons like the behavior of the people there or on their way to and from the park. Right? No one is stealing this dog park. They are destroying it because they don't like it, but are somehow civil enough to clean up after themselves.
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Sep 22, 2022 18:06
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Jenkl posted:Right? No one is stealing this dog park. They are destroying it because they don't like it, but are somehow civil enough to clean up after themselves. Psssst - it' because they live literally within view of the park.
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Sep 22, 2022 18:13
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Verman posted:This was my first instinct. Are there not cameras that caught this unusual act in the first place? I cant begin to fathom who would "steal" a dog park and its amenities in the middle of the night. It sounds like a fishy board to me. We have no security cameras except for individual unit cameras if the residents themselves bought them. CA privacy laws prohibit filming any private property without the owner's consent, so most of the complex goes un-monitored to avoid accidentally filming someone's porch or garage door (which are both considered places where a person can expect personal privacy). It's about 350 units, maybe 1/4-square-mile complex. Honestly, all you'd need to do to get the average person to ignore someone stealing your dog park is put up a halogen light and put on a reflective vest. Be blatant, and you're probably a city worker or something.
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Sep 22, 2022 18:15
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city dog parks can be loud as gently caress so that's my guess. living adjacent to one would be my own personal hell.
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Sep 22, 2022 18:17
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Oh, another fun thing I realized while doing pest control stuff: I can get into all my neighbors' units through their attics. All I'd need is a pair of wire cutters to go through the chicken-wire separating our attic units, and I could just drop down into their bedroom closets. 
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Sep 22, 2022 18:21
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Generators…I don’t think I want to mess with a whole-home generator at this point but I am concerned about losing power. Having little kids, I’m concerned about keeping the oil boiler running during the winter and the fridge/stove operational. Oh and my well pump for water. Would a portable generator be capable of doing this? I don’t know a thing about them and I’m not sure how I would realistically have it power the boiler/etc since they feed into the breaker panel. In all honesty, the house is almost 30 years old and has never had a whole home generator so I’m not too concerned, but my neighbors said they have gone without power for a few days during some of the winters here-they also have a wood stove in the basement so it’s possibly not as big a deal to them. nwin fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sep 22, 2022 18:56
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I re-caulked my bathtub/shower insert and found out my POs used some kind of hardened putty first to try to seal the thing, and when that absolutely failed they just absolutely SLATHERED caulk on. Outdoor caulk. And they didn't really caulk the top of the insert, they just sloppily dumped enough paint on it that it kind of sealed.  The caulking itself took maybe 45 minutes total. Removing the fuckshit took me 2.5 hours.
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Sep 22, 2022 18:57
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Motronic posted:It's good you got some of that sorted out, but your contractor needs to be a lot more sure that he's not putting 4 fixtures on a 1/2" line to you bathroom that is also shared with the kitchen and your garden sprinklers. That's on HIM to sort out the interior plumbing. The 4 fixtures the contractor is installing don't exist yet, construction doesn't start until Oct 31st, and that bathroom is about 10ft away from the pressure tank and the hot water heater and is spec'd for 3/4" lines running to the shower itself, which I assume will be coming off right near the source since that's the closest place for the water to come from anyways. The well guy's comment was about the pressure loses from existing fixtures when I was trying to simulate having a 4 fixture shower by turning on random fixtures in the house (Kitchen, Powder Room, and Laundry Room) was that if any of those are losing pressure while the pressure switch is keeping the line between 40-60, then those have internal plumbing problems, and it's not a well problem.
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Sep 22, 2022 19:03
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:Originally engineered for aerospace and aviation applications, 303® Protectant provides superior protection against harmful UV rays that can cause discoloration, fading, and cracking of vinyl, rubber and plastic surfaces. 303 Protectant also helps repel dust, dirt, lint and staining. Hope I'm not the only one who heard this in the Project Farm guy's voice.
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Sep 22, 2022 19:09
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nwin posted:Generators…I don’t think I want to mess with a whole-home generator at this point but I am concerned about losing power. Having little kids, I’m concerned about keeping the oil boiler running during the winter and the fridge/stove operational. Oh and my well pump for water. Because I looked this stuff up! Anything that you can plug into the wall, you can plug into a generator pretty much (sometimes electronics aren't super happy about it). Where it gets trickier is when stuff is hard wired like I assume your oil boiler and well pump almost certainly are. If you're handy and it's an emergency you can rig something up where you essentially unwire the well pump / hot water heater from the house and wire it into your generator but this is generally a bad idea because if you don't make sure that you full disconnect it from your houses wiring you can send electric back up the service. The correct answer is to install a transfer switch that you can plug your generator into, and the switch will switch between your generator that you plug into it and the main service, but you can't have both on. Depending on how big your house is you may need to shut off some breakers, or make a separate smaller breaker panel as a sub panel that just has the stuff you want to run off the generator and put the transfer switch on that instead of on the main panel. When I went through this same calculus I ended up just getting a whole home generator installed with an automated transfer switch, but that was definitely a QOL thing not a necessity.
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Sep 22, 2022 19:09
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Comrade Gritty posted:Because I looked this stuff up! Thanks I was just reading up on those. My breaker panel is in the basement whereas my generator would be outside somewhere. From what I can tell, my best option is to basically call an electrician and have them come out to review options (either a separate panel installed outside which would handle the load of a furnace/well pump/ a few outlets throughout the house, or a single plug where it would be on my to shut off the unsupported breakers on my basement panel prior to turning the generator on). If I’ve got that right then I’m curious on what an electrician would charge for those options.
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Sep 22, 2022 19:19
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nwin posted:Generators…I don’t think I want to mess with a whole-home generator at this point but I am concerned about losing power. Having little kids, I’m concerned about keeping the oil boiler running during the winter and the fridge/stove operational. Oh and my well pump for water. Gritty took are of the transfer switch/get a whole home generator, but if you go with a transfer switch and inlet I assure you you can run your well pump, oil furnace and all the lighting you could possible need on a 5k watt generator. 7500 even better. I'm running all of the above as well as two fridges, 4 or 5 mini fridges/white wine coolers, kegerator, chest freezer radon mitigation system, various other "always on" things on my Champion 7500 watt. It's really ridiculous how well it actually all works. It's a little rough if you don't get it turned on right away because all the fridges and freezer call for cooling at once and it's quite an inrush, but it still muddles through eventually. Obviously you're not running any real amount of electric resistance heating or heat pumps/ac units on something like this, but it totally works out for well/oil homes.
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Sep 22, 2022 19:23
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Motronic posted:Gritty took are of the transfer switch/get a whole home generator, but if you go with a transfer switch and inlet I assure you you can run your well pump, oil furnace and all the lighting you could possible need on a 5k watt generator. 7500 even better. Is yours a whole home or portable? One reason I don’t want to deal with whole home is because then I’ll need to get a propane tank since natural gas isn’t offered here. I read that inverter generators are supposed to be better than normal portable generators, but I’m not sure the cost is worth it.
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Sep 22, 2022 19:37
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I want to know what shower system is being installed here because 3/4" is a LOT of water even at the reduced pressures you get inside. Do you need to wear a life vest or have a life ring mounted in this? Can your septic handle it?
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Sep 22, 2022 19:39
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nwin posted:Is yours a whole home or portable? One reason I don’t want to deal with whole home is because then I’ll need to get a propane tank since natural gas isn’t offered here. Just a gas portable jobbie. Not inverter. Standard $600 buy it at a box box store portable generator. Yes, inverter generators are great. More fuel efficient, quieter when they're not running at full load, etc. But all I care about is the few times a year I need power and I can live with this just fine. It runs on 5 gallons of fuel for.....hours and hours. Certainly not 300% or more better, which is how much more they cost.
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Sep 22, 2022 20:12
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nwin posted:Is yours a whole home or portable? One reason I don’t want to deal with whole home is because then I’ll need to get a propane tank since natural gas isn’t offered here. Motronic is better versed than I, but I'll second the fact that you can definitely run that stuff off of a portable. We lost power for ~5 days a few years ago and ended up with a portable thing running 3 fridges, computers, our well pump (that I hackishly disconnected and put a plug end on to save my life when my city water wife learned that no power = no water when you're on a well), and a few other bits and bobs. The reasons I went whole home: - I hate maintaining gas engines, and there's a 90% chance my generator would be non functional when I went to use it, just like my gas snowblower is now. - I already had a propane tank for our HVAC/hot water/dryer/etc. - Portable things don't run our A/C and I melt when the house gets above ~72. - I don't have to think about it, power goes out for about 20 seconds and boom I have power again, and all my lights, etc work. The price difference is drastic. I think we got a 24kw Generac installed for 11k? vs $600 + whatever the electrical work to get a transfer switch. H110Hawk posted:I want to know what shower system is being installed here because 3/4" is a LOT of water even at the reduced pressures you get inside. Do you need to wear a life vest or have a life ring mounted in this? Can your septic handle it? The 3/4" is what feed the thermostatic valve, which is then split 4 ways with 1/2" outlets. Fixtures are: - Shower Head @ 2.5GPM - Hand Held @ 1.75GPM - Rain Head @ 1.75GPM - 3x Body Jets @ ??? GPM Which will be plumbed into: - Digital Thermostatic Shower Valve - Digital Controller
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Sep 22, 2022 20:37
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Whole home, all the way, even though they're ridiculously expensive. It's hugely convenient to have all your appliances (and most importantly, AC) run normally with no sacrifices/corners cut. If you get natural gas to your home you can run them off that too I have a portable one for stupid reasons, and it drives a 14,000btu floor unit, again for stupid reasons Generators are on sale this year because we've had an exceptionally light hurricane season and everyone is sitting on tons of stock
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Sep 22, 2022 20:51
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I’m in Connecticut-if my power goes out during the summer, it’s not likely to be for that long to justify needing a whole home to run my AC. I’m only concerned with winter time.
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Sep 22, 2022 20:58
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Comrade Gritty posted:The 3/4" is what feed the thermostatic valve, which is then split 4 ways with 1/2" outlets. I gotta know how you're going to feed this super shower hot water? I have a 75 gallon water heater that can provide over 100 gallons before it starts dropping off, and even my monster water heater would get you maybe 20 minutes in that shower if you're running 3 out of 4 fixtures at a time. Unless you're running a pair of gas tankless water heaters in series I hope your showers are quick.
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Sep 22, 2022 21:28
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I know nothing about those showers but are you usually running all 4 at the same time? My shower has a wand at the shower head and it’s not like we use both at the same time. I’d imagine the same for the rainfall attachment.
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Sep 22, 2022 21:31
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lol I didn't think about HEATING all that water. Nah, you don't run them all at once but the ??? GPM body jets are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Those probably add up to near 10 GPM on their own, and yes.....every place I've seen with them around here (same general area as Gritty) have to run two tankless heaters to make enough hot water to feed them (location matters because of average groundwater temp). All this to say: make sure that contractor has triple checked their calculations. On all of this. In light of all of this I don't like that it sounds like they are trying to make pre-excuses for when you don't like the performance of this thing. E: skip all these body jets and get a steam generator Motronic fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sep 22, 2022 21:34
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