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McTinkerson posted:Tremek, glad everyone is Okay. You let us know if there's anyway we can help! I've never considered putting one out there but I probably should. My current detectors are all hard-wired in the laziest way possible. Does any sort of 'wireless bridge' exist to make a battery-only detector also set off the ones in the house?
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These are quite a bit cheaper than i expected. https://www.safelincs.co.uk/large-automatic-powder-fire-extinguisher/ e: I cleaned off all the porch goo   Turns out there was wood underneath. Now what do i slather on to replace the goo? Powershift fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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Powershift posted:These are quite a bit cheaper than i expected. That is neat, though I legit wonder if the air next to the ceiling in my garage might get within spitting distance of that temperature during the summer.
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IOwnCalculus posted:That is neat, though I legit wonder if the air next to the ceiling in my garage might get within spitting distance of that temperature during the summer. one way to find out 
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My Jack Russell got bit on the fuckin TONGUE by a copperhead last night. She's on pain meds, antibiotics, steroids, and fluids. Swelling has gone down some but tissue is already sloughing. Rough place to have tissue death.. 
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Ouch, dude. Poor doggie Fender Anarchist posted:I'd be lying if I said I didn't immediately have the same thought. Same here
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Dagen H posted:Ouch, dude. Poor doggie Yeah, I said the same to STR. I am 95% sure he's in CA though
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my first thought was insurance not wanting to cover the cost of the modifications to the car, and blaming the car mods for burning down the garage.
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I made a cash offer on a used 2016 NX200T at noon today. I made the offer and had to leave, since I had a 15 week old puppy at home, and a 10 year old girl watching said puppy. Dealership hasn't even had the courtesy to reply. So, gently caress it, nastygram straight to the general manager that's been there for 34 years. We'll see how that goes.  Couldn't have been an easier sale. I showed up, looked the car over (they just got it, cosmetic and body damage I was accepting as-is), and offered cash. How loving hard is it to email a "yes" or "no" ?
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Jul 1, 2019 20:37
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Gettin' real excited for some grillin' action for Independence Day this week. I'm practically drooling on my keyboard while I search through recipes I wanna do.
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Jesus Tremek, glad everyone is okay. Yell if you need anything.
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slidebite posted:Saw this in the Walmart parking lot of a small town last week '40 Ford COE? 
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Ether Frenzy posted:drat Tremek. Glad everyone made it out okay, sorry to hear about your house and things. This. My jaw dropped when I saw the merc.
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Dagen H posted:'40 Ford COE? Looks like a winner to me. He had the motor in the back. It's what underneath the "step" on the flat deck and the air intake is under that cover on the right next to the exhaust.
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Dagen H posted:Oh hey just finished the June thread FAT32 SHAMER posted:Glad you and yours are safe tremek Both of those sum up all I can say here. Oof - I know I would be shaken. slidebite posted:Looks like a winner to me. He had the motor in the back. It's what underneath the "step" on the flat deck and the air intake is under that cover on the right next to the exhaust. Yeah, if you don't move the motor back, you're pretty much stuck with it being as tall as stock, possibly taller given that OHV engines tend to be taller than the flatties it would have come with.
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Powershift posted:How much are they giving you to take it? Don't need to be pretty when it gets my wife a heated steering wheel and ventilated seats in an appliance.  slidebite posted:Saw this in the Walmart parking lot of a small town last week Looks like a Powershift 'shop.
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meatpimp posted:Don't need to be pretty when it gets my wife a heated steering wheel and ventilated seats in an appliance. Go full-meatpimp-circle and 'shop a Juke nose onto it.
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Normally the Doncaster classic car show has a very low idiot quotient, but this year a guy in a supercharged Chevelle decided to monster it out the showground exit, and lived his live a quarter mile at a time straight into a brick wall.  When a Mustang owner calls you a stupid twat for doing that, you know it's a good 'un. And apparently it wasn't his car. That's going to be an interesting "look mate, I was just driving along..." phone call for him.
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I'm about $5000 away from paying off my F150. I'm gettin' the itch to buy a new truck real bad. What do you guys think? Do I flip the bitch while It still runs or do I just drive it until the springs rip and the tires, you can't put 'em on anymore? 2011 F150 Ecoboost 107000miles.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Do I flip the bitch while It still runs?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm about $5000 away from paying off my F150. I say pay it off then use the payment money to buy a project but I'm Mr boring and sensible.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I say pay it off then use the payment money to buy a project but I'm Mr boring and sensible. Same but instead of a project buy a kei truck and a diesel manual transmission Land Cruiser instead 
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Powershift posted:These are quite a bit cheaper than i expected. I've always gone with Thompson's Water Seal or similar. Powershift posted:one way to find out https://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Lasergrip-774-Non-contact-Thermometer/dp/B00837ZGRY
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poo poo Tremek! Thats awful! And a good reminder for me to sort out getting that empty fire extinguisher in the workshop refilled! At least as a silver lining you might be able to rebuild it big and tall enough to slip a lift in there and park all the vehicles inside when the golfballs fall from the sky again!
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Thanks for all the good vibes guys. It’s been a weird few days and it’s going to be a weird few months. A little singed but not too worse for wear. If I had left it another minute in front of the garage I’m confident it would be gone.  I came back in the morning yesterday to find the Mercedes had been dragged out of the garage, and that the structure of the front of the garage had been cut down overnight by the fire department. They had left some volunteer search-and-rescue kids sitting in a truck watching the wreckage in case something flared up, and apparently the Mercedes started smoking again so they called a wrecker to pull it out and then the FD cut down the unsafe front part of the garage. You can also see in that picture all the exposed gypsum used as a fire break between the garage and the house that I didn’t know was there. I was told by half a dozen disbelieving people over the past 24 hours that the “house must have been built right” to survive the fire, and I guess I’m not going to argue with them at this point.          You can see there’s unspent ammo, bullets, and shell casings all the way out at the front of the garage from where it cooked off. I had to break down the fence with my hands while the fire was raging to get my dogs out and all the while I could hear rounds cooking off. Thought to myself I was going to get injured/shot by my own drat ammo while it was happening, but luckily didn’t.  Maybe that cheesy license plate surround was really CF after all...  My tractor is a bit scorched. So are the trash cans.  We’re so lucky we didn’t lose the entire house. You can see where it had penetrated the eaves and was headed into the attic. There’s a pic of the FD hanging out of my kids’ window with a hose, spraying up in there. TLDR, total forking shirtshow. We’re not harmed (aside from one of our dogs who I’m taking to the vet in a few hours, might have sprained his leg hopping through the fence I pulled down but I think he will be ok.) Just displaced. My kids are all weirded out but we’re at my in-laws (again ... we were here for 6 weeks at the end of 2017 when we began this stupid adventure of starting to remodel this dumb house, so it’s a bit of deja vu.) Going to try to select a remediation contractor today and get the process underway. Nobody knows how it started, and I think that bothers me more than anything. Makes me feel uncontrollably unsafe. Tremek fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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Tremek posted:Going to try to select a remediation contractor today and get the process underway. Nobody knows how it started, and I think that bothers me more than anything. Makes me feel uncontrollably unsafe. You've just gone through another trauma. That unsafe feeling is perfectly normal, although I'm sure it just sucks. You're okay, your people and animals are okay, that's the main thing. Your house performed and protected you as designed, that's the next thing. It's all just sticks and nails and can be rebuilt. Are there going to be any more investigations as to the cause? I can see how it can be a sticking point in your internal processing, but ultimately, it was a one-off, and you'll be able to find peace in time. The smoke detector thing is interesting. I converted a loft to a bedroom last year and, since I did it by the book, I had to install additional smoke detectors. The way the laws are set here, there must be a smoke detector near the door of every bedroom and in the hallway outside the bedrooms. The upstairs bedrooms are at the end of a hall, and the new addition resulted in having three doors all together with frames almost touching... and smoke detectors right inside the doors (and in the hall). So there are FOUR smoke detectors, all interconnected, within about 15 square feet of ceiling space. But NONE in the garage, where all the burny stuff lives. Weird now that I think about it, and I've never thought about it before. Take some space for yourself. You're in protect mode, which is awesome for your family, but it's over and everyone is okay. Make sure you protect yourself, too.
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Good luck with the insurance Tremak! I would be really interested in the report on fire source, but take your time and remember that everything with a heartbeat survived. Onto fun poo poo at work! The day the office grumpy cat bitch was goning to be let go, she passed over paperwork for workers compensation for 'workplace bullying'. This also coincided with her using exactally all of her sick leave (in Australia - you don't get paid that out when you quit). Funnily enough her new boyfriend is also on workers compo so is most likely taught how to manipulate the system. The office discussion is 'who is the bully?' I instantly say it's me because I don't take her lovely attitude and ignore her. Next thing everyone else in the office is saying they also thought they might me. Proper case of "When you think everyone around you is an rear end in a top hat, you are the rear end in a top hat" which is true considering how much more joyful work has been the last few days.
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Tremek, do you have Servpro in your neck of the woods? They did a great job at my old church. Or Rainbow International? My parents used to own a franchise with them, and the parent company had a high standard (though it's since changed hands since the founder died, so I have no idea about their work today). They're both big enough that they should know the ins and outs of working with your insurance. They'll both be able to handle the interior restoration. I figured the front of the Toyota would be a bit more charred. Guessing the clearcoat took the brunt of the damage? And take a week or two off of work. It'll be good for your mental health. meatpimp posted:But NONE in the garage, where all the burny stuff lives. Weird now that I think about it, and I've never thought about it before. They're sensitive to heat and cold (especially the ionization type), and can be set off by car exhaust. That's why you never see them out there. You're better off with a heat detector, but the bulk of those require an alarm system of some sort. Kidde makes one that looks like it can be wired in to the rest of the smoke detectors, if the existing ones are interconnected, but you'll need all of them to be the same brand to prevent falses. What I'm not liking is the Kidde goes off at 135 degrees, which a garage can reach easily if you park a car in there after a spirited drive in the summer (specified operating range is up to 100 degrees, I know drat well my garage regularly gets over that even before I put a car in there). Tremek, do you have a burglar alarm? If so, when the garage gets rebuilt, get in touch with your alarm company (if it's monitored) to get a quote to add a fire zone with heat detectors in the garage. Most alarms made in the past ~30 years will support that; if it's too old for that or for an alarm company to deal with, it's 30 minutes to change out the main panel and keypads to something more modern, then probably another hour to program if it's a complicated setup. If you don't have one, it may be worth adding one just to add heat detectors in the garage and attic (don't go with ADT no matter what, they're the most expensive and make their contacts drat near impossible to cancel if you want to switch monitoring companies).
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STR posted:They're sensitive to heat and cold (especially the ionization type), and can be set off by car exhaust. That's why you never see them out there. Good point. Seems like there should be something that can work and that would be mandated by the nanny state by now, though.  Certainly makes me more cognizant about minding the garage. Also, someone track these guys down and give them accounts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgh450XIgw
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Tremek posted:TLDR, total forking shirtshow. We’re not harmed (aside from one of our dogs who I’m taking to the vet in a few hours, might have sprained his leg hopping through the fence I pulled down but I think he will be ok.) Just displaced. My kids are all weirded out but we’re at my in-laws (again ... we were here for 6 weeks at the end of 2017 when we began this stupid adventure of starting to remodel this dumb house, so it’s a bit of deja vu.) Holy poo poo, I jumped ship as soon as the July thread came up and I guess I missed this, that's awful, I'm sorry, but I'm glad everyone was safe. How bad was the damage to the interior of the house? Have they brought in inspectors yet?
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Tremek posted:You can see there’s unspent ammo, bullets, and shell casings all the way out at the front of the garage from where it cooked off. I had to break down the fence with my hands while the fire was raging to get my dogs out and all the while I could hear rounds cooking off. Thought to myself I was going to get injured/shot by my own drat ammo while it was happening, but luckily didn’t. Just a little FYI. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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ilkhan posted:Ammo that isn't in a barrel just makes a little pop. Bullets for because there isn't anywhere else for the gas to go but to push the bullet. If it cooks off without that support around it the brass expands and the bullet doesn't go anywhere. Thats not what the box of .22LR rounds my fuckwit ex friend threw into a camp fire did. We heard things ricocheting off EVERYTHING as we hid our arses behind the biggest tree we could find while trying to push the dickhead out into the open to catch his own prize.
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To be honest that sounds like something that would greatly amuse me after several drinks around a fire Okay, maybe a handful, not a box Also also, I wouldn't throw live rounds into a fire pit, but if someone else did I'd take cover and giggle
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ilkhan posted:Ammo that isn't in a barrel just makes a little pop. Bullets fire because there isn't anywhere else for the gas to go but to push the bullet. If it cooks off without that support around it the brass expands and the bullet doesn't go anywhere. But that's not what happens in the movies 
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T-Square posted:To be honest that sounds like something that would greatly amuse me after several drinks around a fire A pro dad prank my father taught me on a hunting trip is to take an empty box of rifle ammo and fill it with fireworks, fuzes sticking out. Later on in the night after a few drinks while everyone is relaxing around the fire, your accomplice casually asks you to toss him that ammo box so he can see how many rounds he has left. Your goal is to very artfully fumble it into the fire and then scream "OH gently caress!!" as urgently as you can. Watching an entire campsite of sleepy guys instantly flipping over backwards in their camp chairs and crawling around like Rambo is truly incredible. The Royal Nonesuch fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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