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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm a little upset at Delta...they lied about the compatibility of their bath faucet...sort of. I have nothing to add to your question.  Sorry. Edit: What an awful snipe, I'm sorry.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I have nothing to add to your question. lol
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Enos Cabell posted:Laying the tile is probably the easy part of that job if you're skilled enough to do all the prep and build out the enclosure. I have no worries about the prep work and the enclosure. I've only done tile twice before and while it came out looking good enough I found it to be a hassle. I tend to leave a bit more lipping than I'd like. Also I have not done vertical tile, but I suppose it's not that different from horizontal.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I have nothing to add to your question. Home Zone: Homer Improvement
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I'm getting three more quotes. If those are all over $10,000 then I'll decide if that's worth it to pay or if this should be a DIY endeavor. I really, really don't want to do that much tiling.
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Update on the PEX w/SharkBite stuff. I called one Plumber who ghosted me. A second who asked for pics of the issue then ghosted me. A third came out and said "nah that's what we would have done... just install an access panel and monitor it. Copper will just eventually deteriorate too much." These are all three companies from around here. Not just, like, randos from Nextdoor. Yeesh.
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BonoMan posted:Update on the PEX w/SharkBite stuff. I mean, I'm not surprised at all. This is why I've been beating the drum for people to not buy these lovely houses they were overpaying for in the last couple of years. There are very few people available to do work, and the ones that will actually do small jobs just don't give a poo poo. The ones you want are making bank on big jobs and won't pull their truck/tools off of those sites for a $150 job. I just don't know what to tell people anymore other than "start learning how to do poo poo yourself."
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Motronic posted:I mean, I'm not surprised at all. This is why I've been beating the drum for people to not buy these lovely houses they were overpaying for in the last couple of years. There are very few people available to do work, and the ones that will actually do small jobs just don't give a poo poo. The ones you want are making bank on big jobs and won't pull their truck/tools off of those sites for a $150 job. I mean honestly I'm fine learning to do it myself and am going to do it for the rest of the poo poo around here. The only thing that gave me a little pause was bringing a flame in there to sweat the copper, but gently caress it I'll practice on something first. (also of lol I noticed a nice char mark on a nearby stud where someone had soldered some copper elbow that ran nearby it.) And tangent to this, there's a few great tiktock/instas to follow that are inspectors showing just brain dead poo poo in various houses they inspect. The older stuff is to be expected, but the poo poo they show on brand new $1M+ houses is insane.
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BonoMan posted:I mean honestly I'm fine learning to do it myself and am going to do it for the rest of the poo poo around here. The only thing that gave me a little pause was bringing a flame in there to sweat the copper, but gently caress it I'll practice on something first. (also of lol I noticed a nice char mark on a nearby stud where someone had soldered some copper elbow that ran nearby it.) Just pick up one of these. It'll prevent you from immediately catching stuff on fire with the torch. Keep some water in the immediate area (on top of a fire extinguisher). Edit: updated link to one that probably won't immediately catch fire devicenull fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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devicenull posted:Just pick up one of these. It'll prevent you from immediately catching stuff on fire with the torch. ...that would have been handing when I was running a water line in my back yard. I just used a fence board that I soaked in water as my backer, which worked but was kind of awkward.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:...that would have been handing when I was running a water line in my back yard. I just used a fence board that I soaked in water as my backer, which worked but was kind of awkward. I mean maybe don't buy that exact one because the only amazon review is "IT CAUGHT FIRE"... but the idea is solid. I have one I got from Lowes which doesn't have the hole and stuff but I can point the torch at and it doesn't ignite.
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devicenull posted:Just pick up one of these. It'll prevent you from immediately catching stuff on fire with the torch. Thanks! I'll grab this. Also just for funsies, here's the current scorch mark from who knows when: 
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BonoMan posted:I mean honestly I'm fine learning to do it myself and am going to do it for the rest of the poo poo around here. The only thing that gave me a little pause was bringing a flame in there to sweat the copper, but gently caress it I'll practice on something first. (also of lol I noticed a nice char mark on a nearby stud where someone had soldered some copper elbow that ran nearby it.) Not that you want to spend this kind of money for a single repair, but it's a good excuse to post it: https://remstoolsusa.com/rems-163020-hot-dog-2-electric-soldering-unit/
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BonoMan posted:Thanks! I'll grab this. Since you're going to have to open the wall more to solder that - I'd consider checking out that pipe with the green corrosion in the background. It might be old, but since you're already there....
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devicenull posted:Since you're going to have to open the wall more to solder that - I'd consider checking out that pipe with the green corrosion in the background. It might be old, but since you're already there.... Word, I'll check that tomorrow. Here's some other fun pics just because. The OG Leak:  The leak effect (this is me looking down to where the steady drip eroded that piece of dry wall and into the baseboard).  Emerald City (this is actually just LEFT of the bracket in the first pic... basically the side of the stud with the scorch marks on it) 
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BonoMan posted:Word, I'll check that tomorrow. It looks a lot less bad there - I'd suck out all the crap on the ground if you can, and see if anything looks wet.
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devicenull posted:It looks a lot less bad there - I'd suck out all the crap on the ground if you can, and see if anything looks wet. Yeah the wet areas are almost completely dry at this point.... just gonna give it to the end of the weekend vac out the crap
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We have an over-range microwave left behind by the previous owners of our house, and it broke a few days ago. Shopping for one is whatever, but how much effort would it take to install one myself? I can see where the current one is plugged in as well as some screws holding into the cabinet above it. Is there more to it than that? E: Although, how closely should I try to match the height and depth of the current unit? C-Euro fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Can anyone recommend a good snake to keep at home for random drain issues? The PO of our house had long flowing black hair and we found it all over the place, to include the master bathroom sink drain. I used a cheap plastic zip from Home Depot on it and  so figured maybe I should get something else and snake more gunk out when I get a chance. We’re on septic and have put draino down drains, but we’ve still got a few slow drains.
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C-Euro posted:We have an over-range microwave left behind by the previous owners of our house, and it broke a few days ago. Shopping for one is whatever, but how much effort would it take to install one myself? I can see where the current one is plugged in as well as some screws holding into the cabinet above it. Is there more to it than that?
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BonoMan posted:Thanks! I'll grab this. Is that dust or corrosion? If it's corrosion I'd wonder about the cause
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BonoMan posted:Thanks! I'll grab this. The scorch mark is pretty normal for sweating adjacent to lumber. What concerns me is the corrosion on every single pipe in this image. Seems whoever piped this house when built couldn't keep their hands free of flux paste. You can address most of it by shining it up with emory paper. It'll protect itself when it oxidizes to dark brown. FYI it is not that easy to light up even older framing lumber. It'll scorch; it'll smoke. Keep a big rag in a bucket of water and hit your work & the framing with it when you're done sweating in the joint. I've re-plumbed at least half of my 1930 bungalow supplies since 1992, all copper/sweat. I have sharkbites, but only as a temporary emergency repair. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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Vim Fuego posted:Is that dust or corrosion? If it's corrosion I'd wonder about the cause A lot of the white stuff is just dust from cutting the drywall. I'll take a closer analysis this weekend to be sure We're definitely in a humid house and we're trying to figure out best way to remedy it Currently, according to my air quality meter, it's at 65%. That's the highest it's been. It generally is within 50-60 which is still pretty high. It rained a few days ago but hasn't rained much the past few weeks otherwise. We're in a little tuck of trees that doesn't get tons of direct sunlight but it's not buried. We live in a city technically just a very tree dense city (Cary, NC). Currently leaves are falling rapidly and I have to keep emptying the gutters. BonoMan fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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C-Euro posted:We have an over-range microwave left behind by the previous owners of our house, and it broke a few days ago. Shopping for one is whatever, but how much effort would it take to install one myself? I can see where the current one is plugged in as well as some screws holding into the cabinet above it. Is there more to it than that? If you’re handy with a drill then it’s pretty easy as long as they didn’t gently caress update the vent stack discharge the microwave connects to for external fan exhaust. Don’t ask me how I know…
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C-Euro posted:We have an over-range microwave left behind by the previous owners of our house, and it broke a few days ago. Shopping for one is whatever, but how much effort would it take to install one myself? I can see where the current one is plugged in as well as some screws holding into the cabinet above it. Is there more to it than that? Done this a few years ago. It's easy in theory. Basically they hang from the cabinets above them, and there's also a special bracket attached to the wall that supports the back end. Kinda levers in place (hook the back side to the bracket, rotate the front up, and attach to upper cabinets). Measure twice, drill once... the instructions should tell you where to mount the bracket relative to the cabinets. Things to watch out for are any tile/beadboard/etc. backsplash that is matched to the microwave's height. We have beadboard and it was cut to be flush with the microwave, however the new one we bought was like half an inch bigger, so I had to some unexpected surgery with a dremel to make it fit. Wasn't exactly a clean line... Theoretically if you have a gas range below it, you have minimum clearances you have to meet. Can't remember what they are, but as long as you're in the ballpark of the same size as the old microwave this shouldn't be a problem. They're heavy and awkward, so it's best to have a 2nd set of hands when it comes time to mount it.
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This is a great chance to put an actual vent hood in. We did that a few years back when our over-range microwave died and it's been a huge QOL improvement. Microwave vent combos are pretty terrible comparatively.
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BonoMan posted:Thanks! I'll grab this. Yeah,, that's very typical and basically to be expected. But somebody didn't wipe the flux off those pipes. Also, forget fancy heatproof mats that catch on fire. A bucket of water and some rags work great. With that added bonus that you can wrap rags around things (like valves) to keep them cool when soldering to them.
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DaveSauce posted:Done this a few years ago. It's easy in theory. Makes sense, thanks. There's backsplash underneath it but the previous owner left an inch or two of bare wall between it and the current microwave. Found a couple of units with the same height and depth as our current one so I'll probably just pick up one of those so the fit is as simple as possible. Enos Cabell posted:This is a great chance to put an actual vent hood in. We did that a few years back when our over-range microwave died and it's been a huge QOL improvement. Microwave vent combos are pretty terrible comparatively. I would looooooove to do this but my home reno budget is diverted in a half-dozen other directions right now. C-Euro fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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nwin posted:Can anyone recommend a good snake to keep at home for random drain issues? something like this will work just fine with a drill. A little annoying to use, but sooo much cheaper then calling a plumber. Wear eye protection, and don't snake poo poo where you just put draino!
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devicenull posted:I mean maybe don't buy that exact one because the only amazon review is "IT CAUGHT FIRE"... but the idea is solid. I have one I got from Lowes which doesn't have the hole and stuff but I can point the torch at and it doesn't ignite. Now I'm reminded of a barbeque I went to in college, where we tested a square of cafeteria-provided "cheese" by hitting it with a butane torch dead-center. It scorched that side of the cheese and left the other side untouched. So maybe we should be using fake cheese to protect our houses while soldering pipe.
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peanut posted:Dang! That looks like a whole different house. Goongrats edit: oh my god I was trying to quote this in the OSHA thread and i posted here goddamnit.
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BonoMan posted:Are there any recommended (or even legitimate) home *air* mold testing kits? There's a lot of noise out there. I'd like to just check my general air to see. My understanding is that you simply can't test this "at home". The pros are using calibrated vacuum equipment for a specific amount of time to draw room air over a sterile pad which then goes to a lab to be analyzed. The specific characteristics of airflow and time are how the lab extrapolates what they analyze on that sample pad to that amounts in the air in general for the tested area. I don't see how one could cheap out on any of the equipment involved and still have an accurate test to send to the lab.
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Motronic posted:My understanding is that you simply can't test this "at home". The pros are using calibrated vacuum equipment for a specific amount of time to draw room air over a sterile pad which then goes to a lab to be analyzed. The specific characteristics of airflow and time are how the lab extrapolates what they analyze on that sample pad to that amounts in the air in general for the tested area. Yeah I was looking at this which I think would qualify as an "at home" kit but still does the above. It uses an electric pump to draw in air over the cassette sampler which you then send off. It def ain't cheap ($250 for a three room kit, but it does include the lab fees plus you can keep reusing the vacuum) but might be cheaper than calling in a pro service. https://www.gotmold.com/ 
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BonoMan posted:Are there any recommended (or even legitimate) home *air* mold testing kits? There's a lot of noise out there. I'd like to just check my general air to see. Motronic is correct, there is no home testing capable of doing this right. There are also no NIOSH guidelines or Federal standards about mold air levels. There is a definitive link to health issues however they tie it into the presence of dampness and use that as a driver for remediation.  https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2013-102/pdfs/2013-102.pdf Should you want to test it you'd need a calibrated air sampling pump and a teflon cartridge. Where it gets tricky is you will collect everything in the air, pollen, dust, cat dander, as well as mold spores. So you have to somehow separate everything else in the air from the mold spores. This is done easily enough with a lot of air sampling where you can just dissolve it in the proper solvent and evaporate it out onto a controlled surface. With mold you'd have to grow it and which spores take root may not be indicative of what spores are actually present. Even then you have information and the most critical air testing people (NIOSH) don't have a guideline for what is OK and what is not. So someone can say you have this crazy spore at a rate of 0.0005 ug/cubic meter, but that might be totally acceptable. Indoor air testing is hard when you're looking for dumb easy stuff, I can't imagine how difficult it would be to properly quantify mold.
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Yooper posted:Even then you have information and the most critical air testing people (NIOSH) don't have a guideline for what is OK and what is not. Mold is definitely a new-ish boogeyman. People have been going nuts over it for while now and it's getting to feel like a lot of it is nonsense spouted to sell tests and magical spray on products.
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Motronic posted:Mold is definitely a new-ish boogeyman. People have been going nuts over it for while now and it's getting to feel like a lot of it is nonsense spouted to sell tests and magical spray on products. Yeah this is my wife's view. She's just like "I dunno... I always grew up with it. I constantly had to bleach my mom's walls." And I'm not panicking or anything. Just with this new house with the old HVAC and my kids constantly all snotty... I just figured I'd give it a test if doable. If not it's no biggie either.
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BonoMan posted:Yeah I was looking at this which I think would qualify as an "at home" kit but still does the above. It uses an electric pump to draw in air over the cassette sampler which you then send off. That’s definitely a close approximation of a cassette you use for air sampling. It’s not a professional pump but if it’s calibrated it should work. I would question how re-usable it is, but since you’re not trying to meet worker protection standards maybe it’s ok if it’s out of calibration in 6 months. $250 for all the parts and 3 tests isn’t a bad price imo, unless the directions are bad or you don’t do it right. It would probably (almost certainly) be cheaper than calling someone in to sample your air. Do you have a reason to suspect that there are mold spores in your indoor air? So to compare, this: gillian BDX ii is the real kind of pump that you’d use, but it’s $300 by itself and you also need cassettes and a calibration tool and to pay to ship your tests to the lab and have them sampled. I wouldn’t recommend buying one unless you want to change careers. BigFactory fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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