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baquerd posted:Depends on your perspective for impact. It'll run a good $20-50 a month depending on how you use it and the outside temps. True. It's a bedroom in a 1 bedroom apt, so I'm assuming most activity is in the main room. You could set a timer to kick off about an hour before you normally go to sleep to get the room comfortable and have it turn off after you wake.
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spog posted:a screw made of cheese I prefer the term "Chinesium".
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Seat Safety Switch posted:In my experience IKEA tends to be write-once furniture. It doesn't transport in any way whatsoever, but boy howdy you can put it up and leave it in one part of the house forever. Depends a lot on what you get. We have this island and it has handled moves just fine, including one across the country and three within the city. It's nothing special, but it's solid. A lot of people complain about IKEA instructions and assembly but it all seems fine to me.
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Run some large diameter hose (>150mm diameter) from the bedroom to the living room, stick a fan on the end in the bedroom, mount it up near the ceiling, and blow hot air from the bedroom to the living room.
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flosofl posted:True. It's a bedroom in a 1 bedroom apt, so I'm assuming most activity is in the main room. You could set a timer to kick off about an hour before you normally go to sleep to get the room comfortable and have it turn off after you wake. Not really. My bed and desk are in the bedroom, I'm barely ever in the living room. Bachelorhood  The other issue with a window unit is that they decided this place needed to be a cave and only put in three windows: north wall bedroom, north wall living room, south wall kitchen. There's basically no way to get natural light in here in any useful quantity. If it gets BAD (which it might; we're already getting streaks of days >105) rather than just mildly uncomfortable I'll consider it; I do have two window units in storage from my old place. I would turn down the big one if I put in a little one. Living room is set at 72 right now; 75-76 is fine, but I have to go to 72 in there to keep it under 80 in here. Deedle posted:Run some large diameter hose (>150mm diameter) from the bedroom to the living room, stick a fan on the end in the bedroom, mount it up near the ceiling, and blow hot air from the bedroom to the living room. Also been considered. That'd be a photo for this thread..
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Seat Safety Switch posted:In my experience IKEA tends to be write-once furniture. It doesn't transport in any way whatsoever, but boy howdy you can put it up and leave it in one part of the house forever. I just moved my Galant desk, 3 Billy shelves, 2 expedit bookcases last week, all of them survived shockingly. I've lost 1 expedit bookcase before in a previous move, though. I also took this desk apart that I made with 2 nightstands, a desktop, and a bunch of brackets/legs (from Ikea Hackers) and was able to put it back together in about 10 minutes without issue.  It's not the best stuff, but it looks decent enough and the price is good for stuff in danger of kid destruction. When the kids grow up we may upgrade stuff, but honestly everything I've bought from Ikea has held up pretty great to normal day to day torture.
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Javid posted:The a/c unit is one of the big heat/cool combos you see in hotels. Easily has the juice to keep the place cool. Those are called PTACs. And there's not really any way to increase the total amount of cooling in your apartment without also using more electricity to do so (short of installing more efficient equipment).
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Javid posted:Not really. My bed and desk are in the bedroom, I'm barely ever in the living room. Bachelorhood You could move your bed and desk into the living room (and couch into the bedroom) and switch the names.
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Zhentar posted:Those are called PTACs. Oh, I know. I don't need the place at 72. If they averaged out to 76 I'd be happy with that. But it just supercools the living room and doesn't really blow into the bedroom. :|
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Ashcans posted:A lot of people complain about IKEA instructions and assembly but it all seems fine to me. I've seen (and assembled ) furniture with far worse instructions than IKEA's. At least IKEA shows what the different screws and thingies really look like, instead of using the same lovely stock drawing for screws of any size and shape. 
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it's criminal that ikea still ships with phillips head fasteners
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Jul 3, 2015 18:13
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philips head screws should be illegal. edit: along with JIS and pozidriv.
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Jul 3, 2015 21:25
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Hex too. Torx for life.
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My gripe with ikea is when they suggest you should use a hand screwdriver to drive a screw into solid wood.
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Obviously swedes are all ripped.
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~Coxy posted:Hex too. hex is fine, and that second one's a funny way of spelling "robertson"
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Bring back whitworth
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Philips head screws are great for cheap furniture assembled by idiots because they will cam out once they are fully driven. With a better bit + power tools, it's super easy to overdrive screws and split the crappy material in your Malm dresser.
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relying on phillips bits to prevent damage from overtorquing is SO nineteen-thirty-LATE
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Enourmo posted:Wait, as in both faucets tied together into a single hose? No. Picture this:  But with your typical garden hose Y adapter on the end of it, the kind that includes its own valves. Since it's under constant pressure (due to the valves always being on, sometimes so long that they can't be turned back off without rebuilding the valve), the backflow prevention valve (whatever you call it) doesn't prevent water from moving between cold and hot.
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Ok, that's slightly less silly. Still, seems like the sort of thing that ought to just have separate taps, for that very reason.
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Robertson superiority
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smackfu posted:My gripe with ikea is when they suggest you should use a hand screwdriver to drive a screw into solid wood. You may be giving Ikea too much credit there.
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EssOEss posted:You may be giving Ikea too much credit there.
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Javid posted:Oh, I know. I don't need the place at 72. If they averaged out to 76 I'd be happy with that. But it just supercools the living room and doesn't really blow into the bedroom. :| Do you leave your pc on all the time? Do you also have a tv or consoles in your bedroom? Router? My suspicion is that you are generating all the heat in your bedroom and that without your electronics the temperature would equalize.
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Slugworth posted:I get the joke, but in fairness, a decent amount of their stuff is solid pine. Yeah, I think they usually give you a pilot hole if you have to start a screw in finished veneered.
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I got an inexpensive bookshelf and usually the back has 50 nails or so to pound in. This thing had 50 screws and they said specifically "MANUAL ONLY". gently caress that poo poo. Although I did split it in a few places.
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Don't feel bad, it'll split with a manual driver too most of the time.
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I was putting Ikea kitchen cabinets together with my dad, and he tried his finish nail gun (tiny nails) on its lowest setting and it still blew right through the back, so I had to nail all of those by hand.
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Can't you just set like a maximum on your screwdriver so you can't over-drive it, it just makes a clicking sound?
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Baronjutter posted:Can't you just set like a maximum on your screwdriver so you can't over-drive it, it just makes a clicking sound? I don't know what kind of bullshit magic screwdrivers you have, but down here, screwdrivers are just metal rods with handles and points shaped like the screws they'll be driving. How those can make a clicking sound, other than tapping them together like drumsticks, I haven't even the foggiest clue.
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I wouldn't try it... the price of failure is kinda steep. I would be willing to use an electric tool to set the screws most of the way, but I would only snug them by hand.
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`Nemesis posted:I wouldn't try it... the price of failure is kinda steep. I would be willing to use an electric tool to set the screws most of the way, but I would only snug them by hand. Do you use drills/impact drivers often? With a little bit of practice it's very easy to gently drive in a screw by not using the full power of the drill.
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Do you use drills/impact drivers often? With a little bit of practice it's very easy to gently drive in a screw by not using the full power of the drill. Familiar with the settings but not a frequent enough user to trust it. Maybe if I had a small handheld, the only thing I got is a dewalt drill and it wouldn't think twice about tearing apart some ikea furniture. The torque settings are a bit mysterious but you can eventually dial it in...
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Do you use drills/impact drivers often? With a little bit of practice it's very easy to gently drive in a screw by not using the full power of the drill. On the lowest setting, I can stop my Milwaukee M12 just by pinching the bit. It's more gentle than I could probably do by hand. 
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Deck collapse on rental house in Emerald Isle, NC during a family photo After reading this thread I don't ever want to be on a deck with more than 2 people on it for any reason, ever, unless I built and inspected the deck myself.
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I'm more impressed by the story following that one. 'Man Shoots Firework From Top of His Head, Dies'
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:Deck collapse on rental house in Emerald Isle, NC during a family photo I am a terrible person for hoping that the family photo captured them all at the moment of collapse.
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Ashcans posted:I am a terrible person for hoping that the family photo captured them all at the moment of collapse. Trust me, you're not the only one. I found an article on the collapse- it says that the deck was up to code when it was built 30 years ago but the nails used to hold the deck together had corroded due to exposure to salt water spray from the ocean. I'd link the article but I'm phone posting.
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