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GlyphGryph posted:They sent a picture and it says "Honda FI EU 7000is" on the side, so its probably a screaming good deal, then. The magic of google says that's a $6800 generator.
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GlyphGryph posted:Unfortunately, I forgot they moved two states over, which wouldnt be so bad if I hadnt moved two states in the opposite direction. Ugh. I was willing to make a day trip of it (especially since they are also offering a two story inflatable slide for practically nothing, as well as a trailer to carry it all on) but that's too drat far. Frankly I'd probably be willing to stay a couple nights in a hotel to pick it up, since the alternative (buying a generator yourself) is still going to be way more expensive than trip + time off + hotel.
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Motronic posted:Dunno how old you are or where, but the type of unkilled no-experience labor around here is being satisfied largely by illegals hired for the day in the home depot parking lot every morning at 6 AM. Doesn't seem like the kind of business someone with a social security number would want to persue. It's also very, very physically intensive labor of the kind best left to 18-22 year olds or people who have been doing it their whole lives and are used to it. I can totally understand why a bunch of people who do that for a living laugh a bit at a mid-30s office worker saying he's going to pull an Office Space and do a mid-career jump to construction. I'll also add that a lot of the work done by people first starting out is the really backbreaking crap that the older guys either don't want to do any more or find too physically taxing to do if they can avoid it. I know my early 40s rear end certainly wouldn't do well having to do the kind of grunt work you throw an apprentice in their first year.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:2 minutes to hot water still sounds insanely high It can be that long if you have copper pipes and a long run of them between your water heater and the faucet. Not only do you have to clear out all the cold water between the heater and you, but if the pipes are cold they're cooling that nice hot water until they get up to temp too. We've got a bathroom that's right near the heater where it's near instantaneous and you get it max temp right away. We've got a utility sink that's stealing water from a kitchen sink three rooms over, and the kitchen stuff is near the end of the original run of pipe to begin with, so it takes loving forever to get hot. Thankfully we almost never need hot on that one.
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Apr 17, 2024 22:11
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:They save water by reducing the amount of water while still getting full pressure and coverage of your hands, dishes, etc. Makes sense for washing, doesn't make sense for filling containers. It also helps with people who stand there counting to 60 while they brush their teeth and leave the faucet running. I'm not going to get on a high horse about that because I also leave the tap going while I do poo poo, but I also live in a state that has more water than it can deal with.
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How big are they? I'm not saying this is what they are - emphatically saying this because i'm not a bug doctor or anything - but they kinda look like termite mud tubes. Can you get a good pic of any of the dead ones? edit: little winged guy in the lower right of that formation kinda looks like a termite swarmer to me, but again not an expert.
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MarcusSA posted:Going on a trip tomorrow for a week. I’m sure you can guess where this is going. Get a couple of quotes. When you say "re-pipe" what are you talking about? Replacing all the pipes inside the house, replacing pipes in the slab, etc? The location of the pipes is going to matter a lot. I'd also consider asking for quotes where you don't require them to repair the walls when they're done, assuming that's part of your current 18k quote. If you're comfortable patching dry wall and don't mind living with open walls for a bit and dealing with a kinda lovely job, it can save some bucks. Earlier this year we had a somewhat similar issue, only in our case all our pipes were located in the slab (thanks, 1950s!). There were a few options, some of them eye wateringly expensive, but the one we went with was to re-pipe the house with PEX but route it all through the attic. The existing copper line was capped and abandoned in the slab and the PEX run through the walls. Since it was flexible they had to do a lot less dry wall tearing up than I feared, it was kind of like running electrical in that regard. Since I was also asking just for the plumbing work and didn't make them fix the walls I was able to get a bit off as well. The quote we went with was a bit less than half of what you're talking. Hopefully something similar can be worked out for you, and you're not living in some area where trades are expensive as gently caress.
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Sirotan posted:Expanding foam is probably the better product but you are gonna need multiple cans for that space and that stuff isn't cheap. If you're pulling trim and insulating multiple windows, I'd probably just buy a roll of fiberglass insulation and stuff it in the really big gaps in lieu of foam. But still do foam in the smaller spaces. You can also get the (solid, not in a can) sheet foam insulation. It's not s good as fiberglass but it's less of a pain in the rear end to deal with and easy to cut to shape. I wouldn't do a whole wall in it, but it's great for filling annoying gaps like that that are too big to really want to throw cans at it but small enough you'd have to cut up a batt.
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Are those battery powered chainsaws good enough to take down and break up a small tree? Figure ~15 feet tall with a trunk that's ~8-10 inches at the base and branches out into a broad crown about 3.5 feet off the ground. Average branch width is probably 2-3 inches with two big branch/trunk forks that are about 4 inches where I"d need to cut them. The thing is dead as poo poo, I can pull huge branches off by hand, and really I just need to get it down and broken up so I can do something else with that patch of yard. I want to emphasize that it's physically impossible for this tree to hit any structure.
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Motronic posted:If you have a sufficient sized one, sure. They work great just not long - that's the battery trade off. Your brances are no problem and what I would use my little one for (8" bar?). The actual trunk is pushing it and would require knowing how to safely cut a trunk larger than your bar. It's do-able but I'd take out a larger (gas) saw simply because I have one available. A larger battery of plug in electric would take it down no problem. Cool, thanks. I'll look into a larger battery one. Frankly I might just leave the stump 3 feet above ground for now and/or hire someone to pull it. It's more or less in an impossible position to get a vehicle so it will need to be done by hand, and I don't look forward to hacking at roots enough to get it to tip. I'm trying to avoid gas just because I don't have any other gas appliances and don't want to gently caress with storing it. The last gas thing was a hedge trimmer that I gave away a few years ago, and I really don't miss any of that.
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Duckman2008 posted:We just bought our house Dec 15. This is normal mortgage poo poo, but as someone who's mortgage is owned by Mr Cooper, gently caress Mr. Cooper. Good god they're worthless. This isn't a new thing either. They used to be Nationstar and re-branded in part because everyone hated them. Pay attention them and brace yourself to sit on the phone for a few hours if they gently caress something up. Their CS is god awful. My tip is when you get into their phone tree and can't find the option you want, go to "mortgages" and keep buttons until you get a salesperson, then tell them the phone tree brought you here and could you please give me the correct number for someone to help with my issue with an existing mortgage? Literally the only way I've found to resolve crap with them. The thing they gently caress up with me annually involves a check box on their end they should be able to check off but can't because of some software problem. At least that's what the clearly ill trained lady who was working the system that day told me. She straight up said I'd probably have to call every year because she couldn't check the greyed out box that she needed to check off to prevent me from getting nasty grams about my insurance. In summation: gently caress Mr. Cooper.
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