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Is there a thread or go-to resource for sealing/flooring over asbestos tiles?
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Wood glue with sawdust
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Rent a sawzall and saw the gap between the board and the posts, keeping the blade angled upward
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May 26, 2023 15:58
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I will always evangelize the Sawzall, and it’s smaller brother the Hackzall. Pray with us at the Brushless Church, children. Come hear the word of M18.
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May 26, 2023 20:04
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You can varnish it. Or clear sealant. Basically anything that stops air exposure will stop oxidation.
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Jun 16, 2023 03:38
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Recommendations on how to de-stink a fridge?
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kid sinister posted:Stick an open box of baking soda in there. When was the last time you cleaned it? New house, new (to us) fridge. Someone else’s stink. I’ve gutted it down to the coils, washed with bleach, 30% acetic acid, and baking soda solution. The stink is embedded in all lubricants, the plastic, and the styrofoam air channels. Right now I’ve got stuff sitting in sunlight covered with baking soda. I’ve tried to remove all silicone grease, and I’ve sprayed the coils multiple times. If I can’t get this out I might have to sell this fridge. It’s only like two or three years old at most, but the previous owners apparently had a power outage and just let poo poo rot in there. e: for clarity, I did not bleach then vinegar and inhale deeply.. Thorough soakings in between, each an unsuccessful attempt at removing stink.
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It’s like a $2500 fridge.  Why don’t people clean their stuff? It just takes a few minutes…
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Jun 26, 2023 00:11
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PainterofCrap posted:My house was built in 1930, and we bought it from the son of the original owner. In the basement, it had several carbon tetrachloride globes mounted in wire frames screwed into the floor joists. drat, you have fire grenades? That’s pretty neat. I’m currently renting (and moving out of in a month, thank god) a 130 year old house and this place is a Frankenstein of cheap fixes and lovely half assery
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Jun 28, 2023 03:29
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H110Hawk posted:Hrm. I think I have citric acid powder actually. This is what jet dry claims to be but I'm no chemist. Really it would be nice to not have everything take 20 minutes longer and in theory more electricity. I should climb under the sink and hook up my kill-a-watt. I am a chemist (though I’ve got no experience with sodium xylenesulfonate) but the aforementioned is mainly a coupling agent and viscosity modifier. It can be used to thicken or emulsify solutions, or as a wetting agent. Basically it’s used to help spread the soap and change the foaming characteristics. It looks like it costs about $100/kg from whoever AK Scientific is, but you can also get it for $139/kg from Sigma Aldrich. The SDSs I’ve seen make it seem pretty benign if you can find a way to buy it.
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Jul 19, 2023 19:49
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Soap Scum posted:hello all, i'm back with some more stupid newbie first time actually having a house questions =) Dunno if it’s possible given the mounting, but maybe look into spring isolators. They’re made for stuff like this, but usually on a much larger scale.
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Jul 21, 2023 18:46
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ExecuDork posted:Done. No visible corrosion, and the fuse tests intact on my multimeter (unless I'm using my multimeter wrong, but I think it's showing very low resistance when I touch the probes to the fuse). Is there a way to use a multimeter on the device itself, like by removing the fuse and making the connection across the fuse holder sockets through the multimeter? I mean, multimeters can measure voltage and amperage across a circuit. Plug it into a calculator to see if it should pop that circuit
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Anytime someone asks “is this asbestos?” the answer is either “yes” or “no but it’s covered with asbestos” People loving loved asbestos back in the day.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This one's going to wind up being Fix It Slow, I think. I have a 1931 double-hung sash window in my living room. The idiot before me cut the cords and just left it there, unopenable. As far as I can tell, there is nobody remaining in my low-population area who repairs sash windows, so I'm going to have to do it myself. When I google for instructions, at least half the results are for fixing modern sash windows, which operate on a completely different system. I did a quick google and this is a decent starting point based on the other YouTube recommendations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LHj6AdIzveU e: also this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=no7BjntkFsk Dr. Lunchables fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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Jul 24, 2023 20:03
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Cut the breaker, shear off what you can, stick half a potato in the socket and unscrew.
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I’m looking to bury some gutter downspouts in my yard and every article seems to recommend pop up emitters at the end. But they also recommend burying the pipe beneath the frost line, which means a foot of vertical travel at least (42” actually). This seems kinda at odds with the whole idea of an emitter. I want to run 10-15’ 4” PVC with a 1” drop per foot of distance onto about four inches of gravel at a 2’x2’ termination “box” (a big gravel hole), no emitter. We don’t have city sewer or street storm sewers, so sending it to a collection point doesn’t make sense. Our ground is very sandy, hence the gravel to stop it from forming sinkholes. Any thoughts or ideas about this plan?
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Would putting an access port near the top of the buried pipe make sense so I can snake it? I’m looking at four of these across a house plus one on an external garage, and I want em to be solid and easy maintenance for like twenty years. I figure I’d snake em once in the fall and once in the spring. e: oh yeah, I’m in MI. Forgot to mention that. Dr. Lunchables fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Aug 1, 2023 |
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Aug 1, 2023 00:46
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I’m just thinking of snaking more for root intrusion than leaf buildup. I’m gonna be drilling holes the last few feet, giving possible intrusion points.
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Clean that up with your solvent of choice and use felt pads
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Aug 3, 2023 15:25
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Electric dual element, if it were my mom
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Aug 4, 2023 02:24
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Fix It Fast: Try Searching for Sex Nuts
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Aug 10, 2023 02:46
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It’s always due to the airpath from the coil. Most fridges use a single coil to run the freezer and fridge, so start in the freezer and clear anything out of the path of the air vents, then stick some baking soda in the freezer near the vents.
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Aug 22, 2023 02:08
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Putting soap on a stain right away is always the answer. Now? Probably also soap. Soap is really good at cleaning stuff.
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Should I buy a generator right now and eat the cost? Michigan had seven tornadoes a week and a half ago and I’ve already booked an electrician to wire a switch in.
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Take it all out, scrub with 10% bleach, replace with new. You’re gonna want sunlight and time if it’s soaked into the wood or drywall. Hell. Might be time to replace the drywall.
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Sunlight and time. Maybe an ozone generator, but wood isn’t as absorptive to gases as it is to straight piss
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Sep 12, 2023 01:32
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Vapor seal it and forget about it (after doing what you can)
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Motronic posted:Bleach is not effective with this kind of thing. It's more hazardous to the people around it than it is to the potential pathogens. 10% bleach is pretty low on the list of hazards for me, but safety first!
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Sep 12, 2023 15:14
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Are they single piece? Sometimes folks add that quarter stripping for aesthetics, but it’s separate from the rest of the trim
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Battery powered lights are gonna be garbage, because they’re mean to be disposable
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I’d probably use a putty knife or similar to scrape paint off the flats and steel wool to take the paint off the hinges. You shouldn’t put thinner or stripper on the hinge while it’s in place.
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e: was not helpful
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You can do it.
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I’d go one further: if you know someone with a planer you probably wouldn’t need to buy new boards. Those don’t look like they’re in bad shape, and there’s minimal warping from my quick glances
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:My windows will be a separate post later, they already have UV coating on them and a space inside that I believe is supposed to be filled with argon that has vented on most of them and is now filled with stains and sometimes mildew. I don't expect to fix them but gosh if I could clean between the panes... Yeah I don’t think you can. I’ve never heard of being able to clean sealed pane windows, you just replace them when that happens
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Oct 11, 2023 14:40
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Also get aggressive screw anchors. But yeah, toothpicks and wood glue to tighten it up
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I may be wrong about costs here but given that your water heater tank is just a big rear end thermal battery, I doubt you’ll actually use more than $1-3 worth of gas maintaining the water heater. You’ll be gone for five days, I wouldn’t worry about turning off your water, your water heater, or anything else. Just set the thermostat to 55 and walk away.
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Ahh, carry on then
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Get your consoles down now cause it will eat every cable
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I got an m18 fuel torque wrench and holy poo poo I don’t know how I worked on cars without it. It’s easily the best tool I’ve bought ever, no questions asked. The only downside is how drat big the thing is. Guess I’m gonna have to get one of those stubby ones for the tighter jobs e: oh drat, this isn’t the tool thread Dr. Lunchables fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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