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hailthefish posted:Depends. Would the temporary porch actually be temporary or are you like me and 'temporary' actually means 'never got around to finishing it so it's effectively permanent'? Untrustable posted:Ah. I see we are the same person. Weird, I don't remember making either of these posts...
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was just watching some diy videos on youtube and the guy went on a whole rant about how 2x4's aren't actually 2x4. I had a hearty 
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Ghostnuke posted:was just watching some diy videos on youtube and the guy went on a whole rant about how 2x4's aren't actually 2x4. I had a hearty He better not measure how much actual beer is served in a US 'pint' glass.
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Hey guys, I heard that they fill chip bags with air
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Ghostnuke posted:was just watching some diy videos on youtube and the guy went on a whole rant about how 2x4's aren't actually 2x4. I had a hearty Home Depot, Menards face lawsuits over lumber size description
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It’s been two years. Did they lose? I’m sure they lost, right?
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These things don't actually go to court, right? HD & Menards just cuts them a $10,000 check (most of which goes to the lawyers) without admitting fault and then the news outlets don't follow up since there's no attention grabbing headline.
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Is there a thread for DIY solar panel and battery systems? There's a guy on CL locally selling a few panels leftover from a pro install that add up to 1 kWh, which i am certain i can mount on my garage roof relatively easily and should get about 5-7 hours a day of direct sunlight. According to all the free calculations i can find, it should defray about 40% of my power bill on average and pay for itself in 7 years at most. I mainly have questions related to output voltages and possibly getting a used Nissan Leaf electric car for 'free' short range driving.
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red19fire posted:Is there a thread for DIY solar panel and battery systems? There's a guy on CL locally selling a few panels leftover from a pro install that add up to 1 kWh, which i am certain i can mount on my garage roof relatively easily and should get about 5-7 hours a day of direct sunlight. According to all the free calculations i can find, it should defray about 40% of my power bill on average and pay for itself in 7 years at most. I have some co-workers who DIYd a solar install on two of their homes. I'm definitely curious to read more about how to do it and what the costs are.
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Nevets posted:These things don't actually go to court, right? HD & Menards just cuts them a $10,000 check (most of which goes to the lawyers) without admitting fault and then the news outlets don't follow up since there's no attention grabbing headline. Yeah, it was dismissed by a judge very promptly. "Nominal" dimensions being a US Department of Commerce recognized term (complete with a standard of a "2x4" measuring at least 1-1/2in x 3-1/2in) kind of put the nail in the coffin there.
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We've got a wood deck off the back of the house that's about 2 feet off the ground. The kids got a new soccer ball so guess where it ends up every 15 minutes. My wife wants me to put up something to keep the balls (as well as squirrels, rabbits, and birds) out of there. I want to put up lattice between the support posts, but is it going to be a problem if I'm using wood lattice and it's touching dirt? There's also a drop off to the rest of the backyard that i'd like to put some stairs in using those stringers you can get at home depot. I've done this before but not onto dirt, so same question.
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It's (to my knowledge) fine, just make sure the wood is pressure treated.
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Yeah it'll last 5-10 years, not the 15-20 the rest of the wood will, otherwise fine.
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they also make vinyl (I guess? pvc maybe?) lattice. that's what I've got.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Tempermanent please don’t doxx my lifestyle
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Came home today and found a weird smell, eventually figured out that the trap in a basement floor drain was dry and letting in sewer gas. So i guess dumping some water down it every few months is A Thing I Do Now
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esquilax posted:Came home today and found a weird smell, eventually figured out that the trap in a basement floor drain was dry and letting in sewer gas. You can pour a little mineral oil in after the water and it’ll sit on top to stop evaporation.
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So instead of using the cinder blocks I have to build a tempermanent porch, I went and bought hundreds of dollars worth of lumber to build a deck. In for a penny, etc..
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That's a lot of effort when a picnic table and a bench would do.
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Hubis posted:Bingo I've found that quite a few Europeans don't realize what a variation in temperatures the US gets even in the same region over a year. In my area (northeast) the summers can be up in the 90s F (30s C) and the winters can get down to below 0f (-17 C) and that's not counting the highs and lows I've seen in my area. There have been over 100F (38C) for highs and I've seen -20F (-29C) for lows. That doesn't even begin to account for humidity. Summers in the northeast are humid.
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beep-beep car is go posted:I've found that quite a few Europeans don't realize what a variation in temperatures the US gets even in the same region over a year. In my area (northeast) the summers can be up in the 90s F (30s C) and the winters can get down to below 0f (-17 C) and that's not counting the highs and lows I've seen in my area. There have been over 100F (38C) for highs and I've seen -20F (-29C) for lows. That doesn't even begin to account for humidity. Summers in the northeast are humid. Yeah. Something I was taught long ago is that if global warming (we still called it that back then) melted the northern ice cap enough the meltwater could push the gulf stream away, which is a major thing that keeps the UK from turning into NYC, climate-wise.
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beep-beep car is go posted:I've found that quite a few Europeans don't realize what a variation in temperatures the US gets even in the same region over a year. In my area (northeast) the summers can be up in the 90s F (30s C) and the winters can get down to below 0f (-17 C) and that's not counting the highs and lows I've seen in my area. There have been over 100F (38C) for highs and I've seen -20F (-29C) for lows. That doesn't even begin to account for humidity. Summers in the northeast are humid. Yep. I bought this house in Nov of last year and we've already been down to around -8F and up to 101F since we've moved in.
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beep-beep car is go posted:I've found that quite a few Europeans don't realize what a variation in temperatures the US gets even in the same region over a year. In my area (northeast) the summers can be up in the 90s F (30s C) and the winters can get down to below 0f (-17 C) and that's not counting the highs and lows I've seen in my area. There have been over 100F (38C) for highs and I've seen -20F (-29C) for lows. That doesn't even begin to account for humidity. Summers in the northeast are humid. I get it. I’ve long understood that 90% of the country is basically unliveable without air con and/or serious infrastructure to deal with snow and ice. Unfortunately the insistence on people living in those places means that you’re burning 5-10x the amount of energy per household compared to Europeans.
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wooger posted:Unfortunately the insistence on people living in those places means that you’re burning 5-10x the amount of energy per household compared to Europeans. Well, we've been running the experiment where everybody buys houses in Northern California (with a no-heat/no-AC Mediterranean climate), and that doesn't seem to be working out all that well.
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B-Nasty posted:Well, we've been running the experiment where everybody buys houses in Northern California (with a no-heat/no-AC Mediterranean climate), and that doesn't seem to be working out all that well. I think the answer is abandoning the whole county and giving it back to the indigenous peoples.
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wooger posted:I get it. I’ve long understood that 90% of the country is basically unliveable without air con and/or serious infrastructure to deal with snow and ice. Look, it was Europeans that thought living in these places was a good idea to begin with!
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beep-beep car is go posted:I've found that quite a few Europeans don't realize what a variation in temperatures the US gets even in the same region over a year. In my area (northeast) the summers can be up in the 90s F (30s C) and the winters can get down to below 0f (-17 C) and that's not counting the highs and lows I've seen in my area. There have been over 100F (38C) for highs and I've seen -20F (-29C) for lows. That doesn't even begin to account for humidity. Summers in the northeast are humid. Well we're getting more extreme weather recently too. In the recent few years, I've had -30 to +34 celcius. But the average temp in summer here is below 20C.
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Hubis posted:Look, it was Europeans that thought living in these places was a good idea to begin with! The Dutch are a strange people.
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Jaded Burnout posted:The Dutch are a strange people. Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch.
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 How dumb would it be to do this with my double door driveway gate? I figure I could put the actual center of the gate (and the latch) where the red line is, and then extend the planks various lengths into the other gate. It would mean that you'd need to open and close them in a specific order, but other than that, would it be a terribly bad idea? In the interest in sharing, here's my mid-process driveway gate beams. 6x6, each about 4' deep with a load of gravel underneath. Please do not tell me there's anything wrong with what I've done because they are now encased in 1,000 lbs of concrete each and there is absolutely no way either of them is moving a hair's breadth. 
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The Wonder Weapon posted:
Those posts are pressure treated right?
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H110Hawk posted:Those posts are pressure treated right? what did I jUST SAY
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You can actually see they are PT vs the plain naked wood bracing them while the concrete dries. But perhaps this was a joke all along.
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The Wonder Weapon posted:
You've put them in upside down
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I bought the lumber for the deck/porch thing. I dug a five foot hole to sink a high line pole in. Now my great grandpa is trying to convince me that I should wall over the front door and CUT A BRAND NEW FRONT DOOR closer to the middle of the trailer. He's...he's not wrong. It would look better. I'm considering making a thread to chronicle my dumb rear end renovating this $3,000 trailer into a liveable home in the quest to be willed the untouched (other than where the trailer is) 80 acres of land. It's a long story but the gist is if I get this place fixed and powered and plumbed I will get 80 acres of pristine land. Current issues include: everything all the time forever.
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Untrustable posted:I bought the lumber for the deck/porch thing. I dug a five foot hole to sink a high line pole in. Now my great grandpa is trying to convince me that I should wall over the front door and CUT A BRAND NEW FRONT DOOR closer to the middle of the trailer. He's...he's not wrong. It would look better. I'm considering making a thread to chronicle my dumb rear end renovating this $3,000 trailer into a liveable home in the quest to be willed the untouched (other than where the trailer is) 80 acres of land. It's a long story but the gist is if I get this place fixed and powered and plumbed I will get 80 acres of pristine land. Where are the 80 acres
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git that land, boy
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