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the slight production value on this makes me think its gotta be the "what not to do" part of a training video
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Jul 21, 2023 00:42
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:This has to be a joke. For real
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Jul 21, 2023 00:45
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I think it is a theme park where you can go to lay bricks
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Jul 21, 2023 02:12
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Jaguars! posted:I think it is a theme park where you can go to lay bricks Like an "adventure playground" where kids can build forts with hammer and nail, but for grownups! https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/03/395797459/the-value-of-wild-risky-play-fire-mud-hammers-and-nails
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Jul 21, 2023 03:31
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:This has to be a joke. No, just a favela.
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Jul 21, 2023 04:01
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 Those are 2-6 headers!
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Jul 21, 2023 07:07
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VelociBacon posted:
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Flipperwaldt posted:I have no idea why anyone would still buy a vented dryer or build or renovate a house around one. I'm sure it somehow makes twisted sense in the USA. I don't even know where I could buy one. America, I guess. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Jul 21, 2023 10:43
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't even know where I could buy one. America, I guess. Yeah, same place you'd find anything else designed around having more space and energy than you know what to do with.
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Jul 21, 2023 11:16
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VelociBacon posted:
lmao that's perfect.
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Jul 21, 2023 11:23
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Platystemon posted:O.K. but imagine if instead of squeezing that little bit of moisture out of the recycled air by chilling and immediately heating it, you instead ran it on an open loop, heating room air, blowing it over the clothes, and exhausting this hot, moist air out of the building. Meanwhile, the evaporator exchanges heat with indoor air, cooling the air and yielding heat to dry the clothes. Dry air can take more water than moist which is what your room air will be, and if your room is cooled you're using energy to heat that air then immediately throwing it out . Thermodynamics for closed loop systems is cool (lol). With high enough efficiency in the heat exchanges you can lose very little energy in the process.
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Jul 21, 2023 11:34
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VelociBacon posted:
Lol
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Jul 21, 2023 11:58
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Dry air can take more water than moist which is what your room air will be, and if your room is cooled you're using energy to heat that air then immediately throwing it out . Also with the "portable AC" setup you have an appliance that kinda sucks for cooler weather. There are so many little ways that we could make each individual house more efficient which we don't bother with because they would require greater integration or specialization of appliances. For example in warm climates it would make sense to have the refrigerator set up like a mini-split (or ideally integrated into a building HVAC system equipped with a variable speed compressor) instead of dumping the waste heat into the house, but that would require cooperation between manufacturers and make them harder to swap out.
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Jul 21, 2023 13:00
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Shifty Pony posted:Also with the "portable AC" setup you have an appliance that kinda sucks for cooler weather. Take it a step further and make the fridge dump waste heat into the water heater! It looks like Hitachi makes a mini-split system that can use waste heat from cooling one room to heat another... https://www.hitachiaircon.com/au/news/what-is-a-heat-recovery-vrf-system
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Jul 21, 2023 15:18
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You can achieve a lot of energy efficience by just building buildings more buildingishly, instead of shedly.
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devicenull posted:Take it a step further and make the fridge dump waste heat into the water heater! Yeah this is used in industrial processes (e.g. refineries) where you've got lots of heated stuff and various temperatures so that you maximise your efficiency. Also yeah houses have dumbass things like putting the oven next to the fridge (not too bad but also not great) and putting the fridge in a wall so there's no air over the coils. I have both of those 
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Jul 21, 2023 15:25
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One of my friends used to live in a house that had a built-in fridge corner... and the compressor was located so that the hot air was vented into the laundry room. Brilliant for drying clothes, right? Yep. But he also put a chest freezer in the same room, so probably wasted a lot of power that way  Loved going to parties there though, always room for another case of beer in the fridge.
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Jul 21, 2023 15:36
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:putting the fridge in a wall so there's no air over the coils My favorite is gutting a pantry and shoving the fridge in there, even less airflow
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Jul 21, 2023 16:46
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You can buy a refrigerator that's designed to be installed inside a cabinet or alcove, they have very different ventilation layouts. Don't shove a freestanding fridge into an unventilated space, unless you really like replacing fridge parts
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Jul 21, 2023 17:14
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Nitrox posted:You can buy a refrigerator that's designed to be installed inside a cabinet or alcove, they have very different ventilation layouts. Don't shove a freestanding fridge into an unventilated space, unless you really like replacing fridge parts Nothing exists except things the poster has personally seen. Especially if you're American, and especially if you're European.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:40
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Last time our fridge broke we couldn't get a replacement that would fit in it's spot in the kitchen so for the past year we have had one sitting in the far side of dining room, it's actually been kind of convenient since the kitchen is poorly laid out and stiflingly hot outside of winter.
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Jul 21, 2023 18:58
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Our fridge is showed up against the wall between another wall and a cupboard, and as far as we can tell that's nowhere near the the airflow it was designed for. We ended up putting it up on two blocks of wood just to get some airflow below it and up along the back, and that actually seems to have made it much happier. (And yes of course this was put in by a landlord who spent the absolute minimum of money and effort.)
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Jul 21, 2023 20:41
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Shifty Pony posted:Also with the "portable AC" setup you have an appliance that kinda sucks for cooler weather. It puts more load on the home heating system, but unless you have resistance electric heating, you’re still coming out ahead versus a conventional electric dryer, because now you’re using a natural gas furnace or a big heat pump to make the heat rather than the resistance heating elements of a conventional dryer. Winter air tends to be dry, too.
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Jul 21, 2023 23:44
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Nitrox posted:You can buy a refrigerator that's designed to be installed inside a cabinet or alcove, they have very different ventilation layouts. Don't shove a freestanding fridge into an unventilated space, unless you really like replacing fridge parts But they still need ventilation though. I think those are designed so that you have a space at the top (hidden by the top of the cabinet) to vent and mine just.....doesn't have that. This would also explain why it is running its compressor constantly. Anyway that's another frustration with what can be described as "a mediocre kitchen installed by part time clowns".
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It’s impossible to predict where the tiles will end up.
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Jul 22, 2023 02:24
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Interesting how we changed the thread title before this photo was posted
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Jul 22, 2023 02:25
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It's weird that the hot water turns into cold water at the ceiling and then turns back into hot water at the ground.
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Jul 22, 2023 02:30
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They weren’t kidding when they said pex was easy to install
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I was at someone's house yesterday and he told me it was an Airbnb before he owned it. In the back yard there is a flexible 12" NG hose sticking out of a bespoke wooden porthole in his siding at about 9' high. This is so you can hook up a grill with a length of hose (it drapes so wonderfully). He called a guy to ask if it was up to code and/or if he could fix it and the guy was like "It looks dumb as hell but it's fine and I'd have to tear out your ceilings to go to where it's tapped into the main and re-route it." So his house just has a tiny dong.
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Jul 22, 2023 04:07
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Uthor posted:It's weird that the hot water turns into cold water at the ceiling and then turns back into hot water at the ground. I don't mean to blow your mind here, but the color of the pipe does not necessarily indicate water temperature. It's more like a suggestion, and then you can connect whatever to whatever, quod erat demonstrandum
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Jul 22, 2023 04:09
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Nitrox posted:I don't mean to blow your mind here, but the color of the pipe does not necessarily indicate water temperature. It's more like a suggestion, and then you can connect whatever to whatever, quod erat demonstrandum That's why all my pipes are digital camouflage
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Nitrox posted:I don't mean to blow your mind here, but the color of the pipe does not necessarily indicate water temperature. It's more like a suggestion, and then you can connect whatever to whatever, quod erat demonstrandum If the water is hot enough the pipe will become red regardless.
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Jul 22, 2023 05:26
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The pipes screensaver has escaped containment into the real world! Someone call the SCP/Federal Bureau of Control
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I was at someone's house yesterday and he told me it was an Airbnb before he owned it. My parents got their last house custom built and since they went for gas for the water heater my dad had them run a line thru the concrete patio in the back with the intention of building a natural gas grill. He since changed his mind, so in the middle of the patio theres just a capped gas pipe donger sticker up waiting to be tripped over. A few months after installation I noticed I smelled gas by it and we did the bubble test and sure enough the gas line had been leaking into the backyard, probably after being kicked and tripped over multiple times. He said he regretted getting gas at all because they did literally everything else electric and then got solar. The house is designed for the climate with 6 inch thick walls, concrete floors, high ceilings, angled to keep the heat down in the summer but let more light in in winter, metal roof for fire protection, rainwater and greywater catchment, etc, and the lone trip hazard gas line is his sore spot
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My fridge has two stoppers on the back so you literally can't shove it too close to the wall. Unless you cut off the stoppers, which are plastic, so... E: lmao at leaving uncaged gas lines just standing there. Why is that even legal? Ee: it would even look nicer with some kind of cage: 
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titty_baby_ posted:My parents got their last house custom built and since they went for gas for the water heater my dad had them run a line thru the concrete patio in the back with the intention of building a natural gas grill. He since changed his mind, so in the middle of the patio theres just a capped gas pipe donger sticker up waiting to be tripped over.
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Nitrox posted:That gas pipe absolutely has a shut-off somewhere inside the house or wherever it tees off from the main gas pipe. The obvious solution is to actually just light it so it's burning like the top of the things on oil rigs constantly. A little bit of Dessert Storm in the comfort of your back garden.
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