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StormDrain posted:Dandelions are early sources of pollen for bees. They're good! I pull the biggest ones and don't worry about smaller ones. If there's more than I like I'll use a few targeted shots of broadleaf weed killer, but overall I don't worry too much. We were traveling + it's been hot did not mow the back yard for the entire month of July. There were approximately 1000x more bugs (ton of grasshoppers, jumpy small things, some beetles) when I mowed yesterday than in previous weeks in the spring Of note, mosquitoes are also pollinators I am also pro dandelions. Not sure if your watering schedule matters in this heat, everything goes dormant eventually, but of note, the dandelions, at least in the two comparison photos, seem to make your neighbor's yard look greener Anything that has thorns on it, or makes a big flat mat (like a dinner plate) gets pulled, everything else is mostly fine IMO. There's a growing "no mow may" movement to improve biodiversity in suburbia which has got to be the lowest effort form of functional environmentalism
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Zarin posted:Do you purposely not mow that 8' wide strip to let it run wild like that? Correct. I mowed it on the lowest setting, tossed seed, and haven't mowed since. I'll probably give it a mow at the end of the season.
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A thing you can do in a wildflower meadow, if you aren't a purist, is to sow scylla and crocus and other short bulbs in it. In my parents' house, we sowed some of the toughest small bulbs in the lawn, and delayed the first mow of the year until their leaves were withering.
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Why bulb flowers
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Hadlock posted:Why bulb flowers they're a great store of value, better than NFTs
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Tunicate posted:they're a great store of value, better than NFTs 
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Tunicate posted:they're a great store of value, better than NFTs Non-Floral Tokens are always inferior
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Just make sure if you're storing them in a warehouse, you get fire insurance
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Hadlock posted:Why bulb flowers
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Hadlock posted:Why bulb flowers Because they start being beautiful in the early early spring or late winter. Crocuses often bloom above the snow.
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Crocuses rule. Digging though the turf and clay soil at my house does not rule.
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Officially no longer a landlord hurray
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Because they start being beautiful in the early early spring or late winter. Crocuses often bloom above the snow. Snowdrops are great for that. They're the first things that come up in our yard. I'm nearly sure they're not actually a type of crocus, but they might be. The crocuses we have come up just bit later, but sometimes with snow still on the ground.
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StormDrain posted:Crocuses rule. Digging though the turf and clay soil at my house does not rule. Yeah, snowdrops are awesome. Gophers got mine last year. 
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Gophers or squirrels? Squirrels will dig up any area that smells like freshly-turned earth and/or is otherwise soft. The little fuckers also love to eat tulip bulbs.
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What's the magic incantation for an LG dryer to do ""1970s style bone dry clothes" instead of "EPA tree hugger damp but mostly dry"? (we're on nuclear power here)Arsenic Lupin posted:This is why you bring out the cordless drill. You can buy special drill bits for planting bulbs. You mean planting flowers is an excuse to buy power tools now? This is an underrated perk of flowers I was not aware of
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Hadlock posted:What's the magic incantation for an LG dryer to do ""1970s style bone dry clothes" instead of "EPA tree hugger damp but mostly dry"? (we're on nuclear power here) Timed dry.
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My wife thanks you
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clean out your dryer vent from connection to exterior?
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PainterofCrap posted:Gophers or squirrels? Death to all rodents, say I. And Bambi, too.
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BTW, snowdrops are Galanthus nivalis, while all crocuses are subspecies of, you guessed it, Crocus. Scilla are also beautiful and very early bloomers.
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pmchem posted:clean out your dryer vent from connection to exterior? That's not how high efficiency driers work
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Hadlock posted:What's the magic incantation for an LG dryer to do ""1970s style bone dry clothes" instead of "EPA tree hugger damp but mostly dry"? (we're on nuclear power here) I have an LG and it definitely leaves clothes still damp even though the vent is clear and clean. I think the moisture sensor is too sensitive and shuts off the cycle early. We usually just let it go, then clean whatever lint off the filter, and then set a second cycle for timed dry for another 20 on medium to finish. That's usually ends up with less overkill than just starting with timed dry and guessing. esquilax fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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esquilax posted:I have an LG and it definitely leaves clothes still damp even though the vent is clear and clean. I think the moisture sensor is too sensitive and shuts off the cycle early. It’s this, kinda. Most of it has to do with the type of clothes, and the amount of clothes. If there’s not enough clothes, the sensor doesn’t fire right and shuts off early. If you get a ball of clothes where the stuff on the outside of the ball never is rotated to the inside it happens too. Timed dry is the override where it ignores the sensor.
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Unrelated to dryer chat our master bedroom door had squeaky hinges for years. I decided to regrease them today and now they are silent and it is incredibly weird.
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Hadlock posted:That's not how high efficiency driers work https://www.lg.com/us/support/video-tutorials/maintenance-laundry-dryer-CT10000011-1428690638456 “Get your dryer ducts cleaned annual to help maximize your dryer's performance”
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pmchem posted:https://www.lg.com/us/support/video-tutorials/maintenance-laundry-dryer-CT10000011-1428690638456 My dryer duct is completely clean and I have the same issues he mentioned with my new LG dryer. The moisture sensors and everything just kind of suck on the new units.
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nwin posted:My dryer duct is completely clean and I have the same issues he mentioned with my new LG dryer. The moisture sensors and everything just kind of suck on the new units. that's fair, but lol at the concept of high efficiency dryers somehow removing the need to clean dryer ducts
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pmchem posted:that's fair, but lol at the concept of high efficiency dryers somehow removing the need to clean dryer ducts ventless dryer not that this is the style hadlock has but they exist now
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nwin posted:My dryer duct is completely clean and I have the same issues he mentioned with my new LG dryer. The moisture sensors and everything just kind of suck on the new units. I'm thinking that excess dust can hurt the functioning of the moisture sensor (it probably measures air resistance) but since my manual doesn't say what the moisture sensor looks like or where it is to wipe it down - and I'm not going to do exploratory surgery on my gas appliances - it may as well just be a crappy sensor from the factory.
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esquilax posted:I'm thinking that excess dust can hurt the functioning of the moisture sensor (it probably measures air resistance) but since my manual doesn't say what the moisture sensor looks like or where it is to wipe it down - and I'm not going to do exploratory surgery on my gas appliances - it may as well just be a crappy sensor from the factory. It's in the tub. It gets wiped down every time you put a load of wet laundry in it and turn the dryer on. Trust the people telling you that these moisture sensors all just suck. When brand new with the "perfect" load of laundry they only occasionally leave it dry. It only gets worse from there. I'm 99.9% sure that they are actually configured this way because it gives them better numbers on the energy star sticker, just like how the new speedqueen washers have a "normal" setting that uses less water but doesn't actually clean clothes so you just have to use the "heavy" setting all the time.
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Motronic posted:just like how the new speedqueen washers have a "normal" setting that uses less water but doesn't actually clean clothes so you just have to use the "heavy" setting all the time. this is so incredibly garbage about newer appliances
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hypnophant posted:ventless dryer These suck - we used one in an airbnb once and needed to run a full cycle like 4 times to get the clothes actually dry.
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an iksar marauder posted:this is so incredibly garbage about newer appliances “Donald Trump was right about one thing” I tell myself as I’m punching out flow restrictors in my shower heads
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devicenull posted:These suck - we used one in an airbnb once and needed to run a full cycle like 4 times to get the clothes actually dry. the heat pump technology supposedly works much better than the old condensers, but i only used one briefly in kuwait where your clothes will dry out in a few minutes indoors on their own so i can’t really speak to it
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If I set my LG dry level to “very dry” or whatever the max is, the sensor driven cycle sometimes is actually completely dry but yeah often I need to run some timed dry after that.
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in the same boat for dryer sensor stuff. I always set it to Very Dry and depending on the size of the load, 20 min timed dry afterwards is needed. I've had to do it with the LG dryer at my old house and my new Samsung now
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Some days I hate being a loving homeowner: 1. Horrible storm last night, neighbors loving tree dumps a huge limb in my yard. 15 foot long, 4 inches thick. It bounced off her roof and just fell into our side yard, and I let her know because she should check her roof for damage. She thanks me and then starts talking about how the old owner of our house would help her pay for tree maintenance, and its like, gently caress that, your tree, I'm not paying poo poo - that loving tree has already cost me $3800 in water damage from clogging my gutters. Spend two hours using a handsaw to trim this out so I can haul this away. 2. Garage door lock is mysteriously broken. 3. Go to grab paint in the basement, hot water heater is leaking. 4. Tenants left a bunch of poo poo on the sidewalk and I guess we now need to haul it away?
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We actually did not bring our ventless combo washer/dryer with us to our new house so we're using a 240v electric unit. It just so happens our house came with almost identical generation LG washer/dryer That said, our ventless washer/dryer was amazing and had no issues drying This is the model we had, would buy again in a second if we had to move back into an apartment/condo without washer/dryer hookups: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LIAP2ZY Being able to put in dirty clothes and 4 hours later, pull out clean, dry clothes is amazing. Just throw clothes in at bedtime, wake up to clean dry clothes as god intended
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nwin posted:My dryer duct is completely clean and I have the same issues he mentioned with my new LG dryer. The moisture sensors and everything just kind of suck on the new units. Well, boo.
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