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Bought a top-of-the-line Shark for the wife 2 years ago for V-day, we're still happy with it. Came with a 'free' steam mop that we can't use anymore since we changed flooring, I need to get around to selling that..
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Bag vacuums are nice if you have allergies. I have a Miele Olympus and it’s a champ. All the dust and dirt is sealed in the bag so it doesn’t float all over when I empty it.
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We have a Dyson Fluffy (smaller, lighter Japan edition) for carpets and portability. It's too powerful for mats and gets hard to steer so I still keep a compact canister vacuum for general cleaning. Every house I visit in California uses upright vacuums and they're so heavy x____x
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Feb 8, 2020 23:48
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Always. Check. The. Open. Box. Section. I've been looking for a drawer microwave for my kitchen remodel. The Sharp 24 and 30" versions seemed to have the best or highest reviews. (All drawer microwaves are made by Sharp, just with different branding/facades). So, periodically when walking through Best Buy I'd check them out and then look through the open box appliances to see if there happened to be one there. But they're all very expensive. I was planning to just buy the Ikea cabinet microwave for about $750. Today I struck gold. Retail for the 24" model with 30" trim kit is $1399. The open-box price was $760. I was ready to buy it at that price. Then the salesman told me they had a hold on it; his manager said the guy with the hold never came to pick it up, so they marked it down to $489. I bought it for $530 after taxes.  I got a similar deal on my Samsung gas dryer from the same store a few years ago. Open box price was $500 instead of $800 retail, and my city natural gas service had a $250 rebate for gas dryers with moisture sensors.
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peanut posted:Every house I visit in California uses upright vacuums and they're so heavy x____x Absolutely true but I love having the weight over the head. Plus not having a wand/hose is good. My kids will just have to get out of vacuuming until they're older... Unfortunately nobody really makes uprights anymore.
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~Coxy posted:Unfortunately nobody really makes uprights anymore. https://www.dyson.co.uk/vacuum-cleaners/uprights.html https://www.hoover.co.uk/en_GB/uprights https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/upright-vacuum-cleaners/floorcare/vacuum-cleaners/337_3169_30257_xx_ba00011174-bv00309152/xx-criteria.html
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Feb 9, 2020 18:44
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Isn’t nearly every vacuum on the market an upright? It’s the canister vacuums that are the odd ones out.
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Feb 9, 2020 18:57
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Fallom posted:Isn’t nearly every vacuum on the market an upright? I’m confused The other common type is a base unit with a hose/wand attached, like a shop vac.
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Feb 9, 2020 18:59
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canisters are terrible, I hate mine, i bough a stick vac to avoid having to drag it out
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Feb 9, 2020 19:24
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tater_salad posted:canisters are terrible, I hate mine, i bough a stick vac to avoid having to drag it out Counterpoint: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/proteam-107461-provac-fs6-6-qt-backpack-vacuum-with-103224-tool-kit-120v/196107461.html Good enough for the people who clean my office, good enough for me. If only I wanted to spend that much on a vaccuum.
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tater_salad posted:canisters are terrible, I hate mine, i bough a stick vac to avoid having to drag it out Canisters are good for vacuuming the stairs, because gently caress trying to drag and balance an upright. That's about it, though. A mini shop vac is better for most other uses.
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Feb 9, 2020 21:44
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The Milwaukee M18 battery shop-vac owns stairs.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:50
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Nevets posted:Are you sure that's a stone slab and not just painted concrete? Pretty sure? The texture and rough facade screams stone. If it's concrete, they went through a great deal of effort to make it look like stone.  Motronic posted:You're a monster.
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I'm in the process of whitewashing some ugly smeared brick elements outside our house currently, don't listen to the angry brick people and do what ya gotta do.
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Jaded Burnout posted:https://www.dyson.co.uk/vacuum-cleaners/uprights.html Yeah, I have a dyson. It's flawed and overpriced. Not sure what the Sebo is like, but everything else listed looks like trash.
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mutata posted:I'm in the process of whitewashing some ugly smeared brick elements outside our house currently, don't listen to the angry brick people and do what ya gotta do. Did you by chance try actually limewashing said brick using lime and water? I've thought about eventually trying this on my exterior brick facade, but I've got a lot of other work on my plate on the interior-- and doing exterior work and landscaping is just a lot more back breaking. When you google "limewashing" you get a lot of people who are just diluting white latex paint in water and painting it onto their brick, but as I understand it, actual limewashing should be just powdered lime and water mixed and then brushed onto the brick-- and it will remain permeable. MetaJew fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Feb 10, 2020 04:03
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Yep! I'm using hydrated lime, water, and table salt. It goes on the consistency of pancake batter and dries a nice clean white. I didn't want to fiddle with water and paint and stuff, especially in the mountain west where we have dry summer days of 100+ degrees and wet winter days below freezing.
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Feb 10, 2020 04:13
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Please post some pictures of the process or results, if you can. I want to do this one day.
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Just wanna say, central vacuum rocks.
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Do I post here in how to get stains off the carpet and things like that?
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Sure friend, what happened???
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His Divine Shadow posted:Just wanna say, central vacuum rocks. Curious about this. Each room has a hole for a hose and you walk room to room disconnecting and reconnecting it?
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No we have one long hose and with 1-2 outlets that reaches the whole house comfortably. The thing that really rocks with a central vacuum though is that it doesn't use bags, it doesn't use filters because it vents the air out of the house.
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I'd totally go for a central vac, but sadly I have 2 floors.. I guess I could um.. snake it up the laundry chute and get some long rear end hoses. Maybe this is a call for the electric thread but is there a big no-no for disabling a laundry chute and using it for a power run. I think it'd be an ideal location to box out and stick a wifi mesh / zwave extender. This would not meet code requirements of stapling the wire as I couldn't really acess it to support it. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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tater_salad posted:I'd totally go for a central vac, but sadly I have 2 floors.. I guess I could um.. snake it up the laundry chute and get some long rear end hoses. Power over ethernet is your friend. You wouldn't even lose your chute. 100meter run length at gig speeds. Low voltage so nothing matters. Measure the distance with a string and weight. Go to monoprice and buy a preterminated cable of the length you need. Et voilà: wifi where you want it. Or just do regular ethernet, egress the chute and mount a switch somewhere, and then either use POE from the switch or injectors. Also central vac is so awesome kastein made us stop talking about it in his thread. 2 story makes it better not worse. Installation is another story.
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Is Ethernet going to be able to Power a WiFi AP?
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tater_salad posted:Is Ethernet going to be able to Power a WiFi AP? Yes, if your switch is PoE (power over ethernet), or you have a PoE adapter (usually you have to buy them separately from the AP). Edit: Like this one- https://smile.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-PoE150S-Injector-Adapter-Compliant/dp/B001PS9E5I/ Sirotan fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Aren’t laundry chutes already a no-no because they’re basically a shortcut for fire to travel between floors?
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H110Hawk posted:Power over ethernet is your friend. Sirotan posted:Yes, if your switch is PoE (power over ethernet), or you have a PoE adapter (usually you have to buy them separately from the AP). Seconded. It's how I'm planning on powering my wifi units.
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tater_salad posted:Is Ethernet going to be able to Power a WiFi AP? It's how all commercial wifi is powered. Just make sure everything supports it. There is a home networking thread that can give you more opinions than you need. A unifi nanohd is what I use.
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Cool once I"m in the house and get some minor repairs done I'll look into doing some networking. Since it's a 2 story I'm going to imagine I need a mesh or something of the like to make my life not stupid. I have a net-gear wall wart wifi repeater but it's stupid and loses connection quite often which in turn makes my google need to be reset.
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Ok so I still need to sand and paint baseboard trim holes, touch up some of the wall paint, install picture rail, sand and paint door trim, patch and paint doors, install some wood blocks where the registers go since the plaster is too far gone, and install window shades when they arrive....but I finally got to move my bed out of the dang living room on Sunday:      I've had ram board down throughout the entire house for the last 3+ months and it has taken abuse, drops, dragging furniture, paint spills, liquid, etc and the floors underneath were loving pristine. After all the hard work of refinishing the floors, I am so happy to finally be able to see them, even if it's just one room right now.
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Fallom posted:Aren’t laundry chutes already a no-no because they’re basically a shortcut for fire to travel between floors? That's my assumption as well, but I don't know residential code. But in any case, Plenum rated cable is likely what you'd want if it's even allowed in the first place. The outer jacket material is designed to burn slower to prevent the spread of fire. edit: H110Hawk posted:Power over ethernet is your friend. You wouldn't even lose your chute. 100meter run length at gig speeds. Low voltage so nothing matters. Check local laws. Some states require permits even for low voltage work. My state has exceptions for when work is done by licensed electricians, but without a license you need a permit. DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Sirotan posted:Ok so I still need to sand and paint baseboard trim holes, touch up some of the wall paint, install picture rail, sand and paint door trim, patch and paint doors, install some wood blocks where the registers go since the plaster is too far gone, and install window shades when they arrive....but I finally got to move my bed out of the dang living room on Sunday: Looks good!
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heckin fresh and I like the dark walls
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DaveSauce posted:That's my assumption as well, but I don't know residential code. This is more of a temporary extension cord than an installation. (It's pre-terminated on both ends.) Plenum cable is a good idea though.  I think even if it was required I would still never in my life pull a permit for running an ethernet cable in my own residence. You consider your own personal lawlessness risk factor though.
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I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a permit for the Ethernet and coax I ran through the walls of my house last summer. Which reminds me, I still need to go around and put in fire block... edit: I can see the desire to require permits on account of this very discussion. If Joe Homeowner is blowing holes between floors and installing cable that has a jacket made out of matchsticks, then that's kind of a problem. It's not that the wiring itself is a hazard, it's that creating air flow paths and filling a small fraction of it with flammable plastic is bad news. DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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I gotta have a bunch of electrical work done so thanks thread for telling me I should get that all finished and inspected before I start running my own ethernet.  Edit: Ok, I found the actual residential code and looks like if you are in Michigan you're fine: quote:Services within the scope of the code shall be limited to 120/240 volt, 0- to 400-ampere, single-phase systems. Sirotan fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Sirotan posted:I gotta have a bunch of electrical work done so thanks thread for telling me I should get that all finished and inspected before I start running my own ethernet. You might find it pretty marginally more expensive to just have your electrician do it if you are having extensive work done.
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peanut posted:Sure friend, what happened??? Okay. I got one stain from spilling water with Mio (that flavor extract) on the carpet floor so there is a reddish purple spot on it. The carpet is above average thick and is tan. There is also dried piss on the outside of the toilet that I can't get out with a scrubber and bleach. (Feel free to ridicule my lack of cleasiness). How do I get these two things off?
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