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thank you for providing this thread with wonderful content, I hope your new main lasts forever and never leaks
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Jul 2, 2023 15:41
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Your very own arc de triomphe. Congrats!
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Jul 2, 2023 15:49
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 (I also thought it was a katana from the thumbnail)
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Excellent.
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Jul 2, 2023 16:10
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Make it a god drat example to the other pieces!!! Hell yeah!!!
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spf3million The Four Month Geyser, 2023 Mixed media Reclaimed section of pipe from minor water leak causing emotional damage, physical exhaustion, and a modest profit for a local plumber. On loan from the national gallery of homeowner folly
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Holy poo poo. This post's thumbnail combined with the full res realization, combined with the backstory?!? Triple crown. 6 out of 5 stars.
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Jul 2, 2023 17:01
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In a self-inflicted trauma, I manages to order a way-underspeced start capacitor kit. Hopefully fixing A/C tomorrow. Friend loaned me a window unit tho so thats nice.
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So it turns out that we do in fact live in a bay area home built in the 1970s, i.e. has basically no insulation, and/or the cellulose has broken down sufficiently that it's useless. AC was added sometime near the year 2000. https://a-1totalserviceplumbing.com/air-duct-re-lining/ I also suspect that we have at least a few duct leaks. I found this service (wrong end of california).   Looks like some kind of polyurathane closed cell foam. I won't fix large leaks but seems like a good way to seal up a bad install? Thoughts? Haven't done the math yet but I think this will save about $1000/year on AC Hadlock fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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Jul 2, 2023 19:27
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Having solid, steady rain for the first time in ages. After years of dealing with water in the basement, suddenly we're having a drip from a recessed light in my kid's bedroom. I went up into the unfinished attic to glance around and couldn't see anything obvious. However, not far from that light fixture, it looks like there's a small gap between the chimney that goes there and the wooden wall, enough to let in daylight. Should I be calling tuckpointers immediately? Our roof got replaced by a semi-shady guy 3 years ago after a hail storm, so I'm hoping it's not that. This is Chicagoland for whatever that's worth on insulation/roof issues.
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Jul 2, 2023 19:40
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spf3million sighed as he drew his water pipe
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Jul 2, 2023 19:53
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A triumph.
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trevorreznik posted:Having solid, steady rain for the first time in ages. After years of dealing with water in the basement, suddenly we're having a drip from a recessed light in my kid's bedroom. I went up into the unfinished attic to glance around and couldn't see anything obvious. However, not far from that light fixture, it looks like there's a small gap between the chimney that goes there and the wooden wall, enough to let in daylight. Yes, it's that. Your shady roofer should have re-flashed the chimney and it sounds like they didn't. It needs to be addressed ASAP to limit damage.
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Hadlock posted:So it turns out that we do in fact live in a bay area home built in the 1970s, i.e. has basically no insulation, and/or the cellulose has broken down sufficiently that it's useless. AC was added sometime near the year 2000. Are your ducts in a concrete slab? I had the duct armor stuff done for my in-slab ducts to mitigate moisture and air leakage. It definitely helped, but I don't have good numbers. This stuff is sprayed on through a hose, so coverage definitely depends on the skill of your installer. (There's only one guy near me that does it, so I didn't have a ton of options) If your ducts aren't in the slab, the better option would be https://aeroseal.com/residential/ . It's blown into the ducts under pressure, so it naturally finds all the holes and gaps. It's not rated to work on in-slab ducts though.
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Jul 2, 2023 20:39
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Eason the Fifth posted:spf3million sighed as he drew his water pipe  done
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Jul 2, 2023 20:43
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smh the silly things we do for internet points
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Jul 2, 2023 21:09
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Water main is fixed, it's nice not having your tap water taste like garden hose anymore. But now my fridge ice maker stopped working 
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Jul 2, 2023 21:16
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spf3million posted:Water main is fixed, it's nice not having your tap water taste like garden hose anymore. But now my fridge ice maker stopped working Hang the pipe across from the fridge so it knows what's in its future if it doesn't shape up.
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Jul 2, 2023 21:23
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Cyrano4747 posted:Hang the pipe across from the fridge so it knows what's in its future if it doesn't shape up. 
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spf3million posted:Water main is fixed, it's nice not having your tap water taste like garden hose anymore. But now my fridge ice maker stopped working Show it pictures of the concrete you cut up. It'll get the message.
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devicenull posted:Are your ducts in a concrete slab? I had the duct armor stuff done for my in-slab ducts to mitigate moisture and air leakage. It definitely helped, but I don't have good numbers. This stuff is sprayed on through a hose, so coverage definitely depends on the skill of your installer. (There's only one guy near me that does it, so I didn't have a ton of options) Sweet thanks. Yeah our ducts run between the ceiling/floor space in our two level, that other product sounds like a better solution
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I just want to say I love this thread already. Been down at my new place this weekend. Got a camping mat and wow is that more comfortable than sleeping on the floor. Am looking forward to getting my actual bed down next time I come. Apparently this is the yearly neighborhood party at our beach so my son got to meet a bunch of other neighborhood kids, swam out to the floating dock all on his own, and made friends with a guys parrot. I also made some friends, met a bunch of people and learned a lot about this neighborhood. Apparently everyone knows me house because "it's the one at the entrance to the ATV trails", I've been asked whether I plan on speccing into boat, ATV, or golf cart ownership since everyone in the neighbourhood has at least one, got invited to a magic the gathering night, met the fire marshall who will be a good friend to have because I plan on starting to light things on fire soon, as soon as the furniture is down. Since the furniture pile also includes all the fuel cans I was storing in the apartment closet. I am so excited though, this is exactly the sort of social experience I've been dreaming about having my whole life moving into a new place and it definitely never happened with any of my apartments, hah. Been cleaning the place and getting a sense for what is what. Definitely noticing some... Flaws. Like how the oven prevents every one of the three adjacent cabinets from opening unless their handles are removed. And how the toilets don't flush, and taking them apart that's apparently by design, as pouring some water in them works fine. And the garbage disposal smells like something died in it, although I'm pretty sure I shouldn't even have one with a septic system anyway.. Got all the three external door handles and deadlocks replaced, though! Plan on replacing the numerous door locks on the internal doors as well because I don't have keys and do have an eight year old. And maybe replacing some of the doors too... Thanks for the advice on the dehumidifier, will aim for an inversion one as suggested soon as I can. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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Jul 3, 2023 03:37
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GlyphGryph posted:I just want to say I love this thread already. Welcome to the club. Sounds like you've got some potential content down the road. I got my ice maker to work again. First I adjusted the new regulator to increase the house-side water pressure. No dice but it did improve flow to the bathroom that has an undersized supply branch. Then I started fiddling around behind the fridge. Messed with where the water enters the back and was able to get it to start leaking so I knew water was making it through that far. Then I cycled the ice tray dump mechanism a bunch of times and eventually an ice shard dislodged itself from the water dispenser hose inside the freezer and ricocheted around in there a few times. No one was injured and I also discovered the secret "Ultra Ice" button hidden inside the fridge. Looking forward to that!
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Be careful with Ultra Ice, that's how superheroes (and villains) get created. The powers are a gift... and a curse
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Minor A/C system update: Systems drew enough current through T1 to exceed what my fluke could read. Measured resistance of windings of compressor motor. 0.3 Ohm, 0.7 Ohm, 1.0 Ohm between them. This + 1 sec attempt at run before cutoff says thermal limit is in tact and functioning. Also implies that the connections are probably good, since I measured @ contactor and I checked them the best I could. Measuring the resistance to ground however I am getting readings in the megaohm region which is a bad sign. It should read in the megaohm region on a megger...that a multimeter can see a path to ground at any resistance is a bad OHMen This was measured at contactor, not at motor so could be humidity/bug in the connector or something. Im guessing the motor has been overheated one to many times and the insulation is starting to break down. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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absolutely goddamn INCREDIBLE
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Well in prep for $18k worth of tree removal in 2 weeks, they requested a few things on my end to make the process smoother on theirs, like removing two sections of fence and trimming some branches where their tracked hauling bucket will go. One of our fences had a bunch of large rocks stacked against it (thanks Gary). So in removing those, I ended up with a ton of rock. I found a ton of similar rock surrounding a planter so I grabbed those as well. With no plan to reuse these, I decided to build a tiny rock wall just off the street where we have an additional parking space. I pulled the largest rocks, which likely weighed about 100- 200+ lbs, with my 4runner because I don't feel like herniating a disc in my back again. I'm going to plant some grass or wild flowers in the upper section against the road.   
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Verman posted:
From Gary to gold!
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Amazon failed to deliver the hard start kit. I threw in the towel and called someone to come out tomo to get it running and quote a replacement.
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CarForumPoster posted:Amazon failed to deliver the hard start kit. I threw in the towel and called someone to come out tomo to get it running and quote a replacement. This is defeatism!
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skybolt_1 posted:This is defeatism! But tomorrow it will be comfortable defeatism
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I was in my basement and noticed some goopy brown oily discharge under a clean out from a pipe that comes from the sink - around the edge of the pipe itself is some dried yellow stuff No smell and not coming from a toilet Any ideas? Pipe is PVC, probably ten years old Clean out doesn’t seem loose
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Finally installed the magvent that had been sitting around since like thanksgiving: https://www.magvent-dryervent.com/ Didn't get a before picture, but I got rid of like 2-3 ft of flex dryer duct (compressed... like 4-5 ft uncompressed), but more importantly I got rid of several elbows that were required to fold it up behind the dryer. Which adds up since I have like 25' nearly of rigid vent behind the walls, so every elbow counts. A++ highly recommended. lmao the existing connection tho. Didn't get pictures but it looks like someone cut the hole in the drywall for the vent with a hammer. So of course this means it's all crumbly and I couldn't get more than 3 of the drywall anchors to stay, so hopefully that's enough. Also for some reason the vent connection was offset like 6-8 inches above the normal dryer-side connection, so no matter what I need to have elbows anyhow. Really stupid design, but at least I got rid of some elbows and made it easier to disconnect when I clean out the vent. That said, to install the magvent you need to take tin snips to the stub so it fits flush... good thing it's covered up, because I butchered the gently caress out of it. edit: So also got confirmation of my Bosch 800 delivery. Between 4-8pm tomorrow... On the plus side, it means I don't have to disconnect my old dishwasher tonight for haul-away. But it does mean that I get to spend tomorrow night installing the new one. So if something goes wrong I'm screwed for at least a day because I go back to work Wednesday. Got 2 small kids, we run that thing every day... not sure I'll be able to have time to install it if I'm busy handwashing the dishes that pile up. DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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skybolt_1 posted:This is defeatism! My house is 84*F and like 84% humidity, I am defeated
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skybolt_1 posted:This is defeatism! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XclDLIx8NQ4
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