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kid sinister posted:Also, this one is kind of scary: At least that's what I'm telling myself.
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Meh, it probably only weighs like three hundred pounds, not even worth worrying about.
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at least if there is a fire they can crack the door open and get a breath of fresh air before they go to an actual working emergency exit.
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kid sinister posted:Most indoor fan blades are made from fiberboard, a wood product.  Please tell me someone at least got fined there I so desperately want to believe there is still good left in this world
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Jerry Cotton posted:What the heck are the blades made of that they grow mold like that? Mostly fiberboard. Combine that with 8' of water in a basement and the humidity in the house will allow so many wonderous things to grow!
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At least they upgraded to CFLs. Their energy bills must have plummeted!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Turn it on! It's snowing! Catch a flake with your tongue!
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Jerry Cotton posted:What the heck are the blades made of that they grow mold like that? I thing the danglies on the fan are ice, from water leakage that caused the mold on the ceiling dripping off. Either that, or they've rediscovered penicillin.
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No, definitely mold. Standard water damage there. I don't see any signs of fire or smoke stains, so I'm assuming flood damage. If you see the same thing but with black streaks, it's a house after firefighters put it out, but they wrote it off anyway. Houses + Water = crazy
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What do you all keep your house at humidity wise during the summer anyways? I have one of those Aprilaire whole home dehumidifers and try to keep it at 45% but it's basically running 24/7.
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GreenNight posted:What do you all keep your house at humidity wise during the summer anyways? I have one of those Aprilaire whole home dehumidifers and try to keep it at 45% but it's basically running 24/7. I don't worry about it in the summer since my A/C keeps the humidity down (and it can get pretty humid outside). I'm usually more concerned with winter since it gets so dry, but 45% is about what I have my humidifier set to.
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We've been popping breakers recently as the A/C went out in half the building and now there are fans plugged in EVERYWHERE. While resetting a breaker, I decided to look at the main to see what our service was. I was greeted with this:  Butchered used toner cartridge box held on with silver tape as guards for the main feed from the transformer outside. I didn't complain too much. I just sat in the electric room enjoying the only conditioned space on our end of the building, waiting for another breaker to pop, and possibly a firey death.
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GreenNight posted:What do you all keep your house at humidity wise during the summer anyways? I have one of those Aprilaire whole home dehumidifers and try to keep it at 45% but it's basically running 24/7. As far as mold is concerned, 60% is generally the magic number you're supposed to stay below, and I think the 50-60 range is generally comfortable in the summer. Assuming the basic moisture control stuff is in place (like the basement has appropriate moisture barriers, no leaks, using bath fans when showering), what impacts how hard it to control the humidity in your home is the rate of exchange of indoor air with outdoor air. Air sealing can make it significantly easier/cheaper to maintain the humidity level you desire. flosofl posted:I don't worry about it in the summer since my A/C keeps the humidity down (and it can get pretty humid outside). I'm usually more concerned with winter since it gets so dry, but 45% is about what I have my humidifier set to. In a cold climate, keeping the humidity that high can be a fairly significant risk for mold growth.
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My house is 2 years old so that's probably part of it. Fresh wood giving off moisture.
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The lumber doesn't give off all that much moisture, on the order of hundreds of pints total. But poured concrete foundation walls in a basement can easily contain ten times that, so it certainly could be a factor.
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OSU_Matthew posted:
It's Hobby Lobby, so perhaps a total loss in a fire is doing the Lord's Work
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GreenNight posted:What do you all keep your house at humidity wise during the summer anyways? I have one of those Aprilaire whole home dehumidifers and try to keep it at 45% but it's basically running 24/7. People have control over the humidity in their homes?!
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The AC and the shower are the humidity controls.
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This was the main water pipe going to our house right after being replaced. Note awesome repair job by our esteemed former owners. I think our water bill is about to go down. Not pictured: the DIY sewer drain pipes for the backyard guest house (that I also had to replace), and the backyard guest house itself, which I only discovered a few months ago was previously a chicken coop (!!!). Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Baronjutter posted:People have control over the humidity in their homes?! Adding humidity in the winter, yes. Removing it in the summer, not as easy.
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kid sinister posted:Adding humidity in the winter, yes. Removing it in the summer, not as easy. A/C does some dehumidifying. But it's pretty common here in Florida to have a small portable dehumidifier running if your home relies on window mounted A/C units, and copious vent fanning in bathrooms. This is also a world where A/C repair is considered an emergency service.
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I do commercial HVACR work here in Florida. You can put a gallon bucket under a condensate drain of an RTU here and watch in fill up in about 10 minutes. Humidity is crazy bad here.
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ExplodingSims posted:I do commercial HVACR work here in Florida. You do the lord's work goon sir.
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ExplodingSims posted:I do commercial HVACR work here in Florida. The air is literally made of hot soup and rear end funk. I have no doubt that you can fill a five gallon bucket in an hour without really trying too hard. Tell us stories! Every single commercial HVAC and especially the refrigeration installs I've seen in person have been janky as gently caress in some way. Massive corrosion and poo poo wiring jobs are the most common, but I've seen an ammonia based water chiller that made me glad I lived well upwind of it. Did you know that you can keep any breaker from tripping if you drive a screw in between the switch and the housing until it physically won't move anymore? Did you know that someone, somewhere was stupid enough to do this in the wiring cabinet of a loving ammonia based refrigeration plant?
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3761260 HVAC tales of woe.
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I'm sure I've had a little bit of life taken off of me due to ammonia refrigeration. Used to work in a meat market in high school that had a freezer that was well over 50+ years old. One day, the piping in the freezer had a leak. We probably hit one of the pipes too hard defrosting earlier that week. You have to run warmer gas through the pipes to loosen up the frost and then hit it with these poles. Until that freezer was completely aired out, you held your breath and made your trips in there very short.
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ExplodingSims posted:I do commercial HVACR work here in Florida. My experience in Florida is that's absolutely not true... the condensate line would never be sloped properly to drain.  Every time I speak to someone about their AC commercial or residential they flood the pans on a regular basis because the lines are not sloped and then lack of maintenance compounds it.
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ExplodingSims posted:I do commercial HVACR work here in Florida. My bedroom in central Florida flooded because of a backed up condensate drain. It was impressive to see it in action. Normally there was a steady trickle of water our of the hose when the unit was running.
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Wait, you guys mean there are places where the condensate line isn't like a slow garden hose? I'm in Nebraska and our last apartment had a problem where the unit above us would knock their line out of the drain and it just rained into our place. Next you guys are gonna tell me the tube is supposed to be fixed stationary or something.
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God I wish. The problem here in FL with condensate lines, at least on rooftop units, is that no one wants to spring for hard copper lines, so everything is made out of pvc. PVC + Hot Florida Sun = Melty saggy drain lines = indoor rainstorm.
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I'm in NY, so my condensate pump turns on for about 10 seconds at a time, usually right after the A/C cycles off. If they had laid out my basement a little better, they could have skipped the pump and just done a gravity feed.
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I found it interesting to learn that modern window AC units spray condensate over the condenser coils in order to benefit from evaporative cooling to the outside environment, which boosts the efficiency. The fan that blows over the condenser has little scoops on the blade tips that dip into the condensate pan to pick up water and hurl it over the coils. The area of the yard around my window AC stays very well watered from running it on humid days.
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Good morning (House on the corner with ugly everything) peanut fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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From beautiful Niihama (Monster addition and bonus looming windowless apartments) peanut fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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Welcome (So grounded) peanut fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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peanut posted:Good morning Someone please explain these windows to me. How?
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c0ldfuse posted:Someone please explain these windows to me. How? You cut a hole in the wall and put a glass in it, see?
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