OK, only progress for me to report is that I finally got the hole in my slab filled...
And I still haven't gotten that !@#$ing truck I bought titled because our DMV is a bunch of idiots, although I did manage to extract a temp tag from them and have made a few dump runs which have made me very happy.
Oh, here, that's what people use their garages for. They put things that are worth absolutely nothing in the garage, and park the vehicle worth tens of thousands of dollars in the driveway.
@ChrisCudmore Oh, sorry, misunderstood. People down here have been known to panic and do that when it freezes down here, especially if they own a diesel.
Admittedly, most of our power plants that use a water/steam cycle as opposed to direct-drive gas turbines did blow up down here when it got below 10 degrees last year.
after we fix my shitty plaster job on the joints and wire the lights, i'll make brick oven pizza and we'll have beer (or you have beer and i'll have wine - get drunker that way)
I'm just finishing up the interior remodel on the Forbes lane house, last fiberglass floor goes down Sat morn... got the little 12X12 deck decked over yesterday. Railings in a couple of days
I have to say that as a homeowner and a DIYer I hate seeing that thing, especially if I talk to the people who did the flipping (FSBO or similar) and they're expecting way over market value and I have to tell them that I wouldn't even pay appraisal value because it's gonna gut ...
@Tester101 It's possible to use the larger yellow flexline for that application and it'll pass down here ... I have about 15' of it my wall. They're doing entire houses with larger diameter flex line. Now, if you mean they daisy-chained supply lines...
@shirlockhomes No ... www.dropbox.com ... download and install the software, drag the pictures into the 'public' folder that you want to be public, and after it's done uploading then right click on them and get the 'copy link' and just paste it in here and we'll all be able to see it.
Gotta tell you guys, I went with a Viesman on wall boiler with a separate zone hot water on demand...... Incredible 97% eff and costs a fraction of what oil used to cost in this house
largest bill last winter for heat, hot water, cooking and the fireplace logset was $130
We need to get a new boiler - we have a "combi" boiler (instant hot water) but it's thermostat has gone so the water alternates between almost scalding hot and cold. Luckily we've got a thermostatic mixer shower that evens out most of the variation.
@Tester101 Interesting ... They ran it from about ten feet from the fixture horizontally (so that they didn't have to retap the black line) and another ten feet vertically. And it passed inspection. Possibly because it was in the attic and ventilated rather than in the basement or under the house?
@shirlockhomes Yeah, and then there's Indianapolis recently... that looks to have been a malfunctioning heater.
Per this meta.so post, if we want to migrate old questions to gardening now, we need to build a list and coordinate with the Gardening site to get some agreement on a mass-migration. If you're wondering why, we can't migrate questions older than 60 days anymore.
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It works very much the same - you generally will need to cut it yourself for the HD stuff though, and you won't get a planner helping you out saying 'you really don't want 16" wide shelves here because this closet is too shallow for them'
Peacefully grant the people of the United States of America to have Grover Norquist be brought forth in chains and put in a public pillory. Once Grover Norquist has been secured, anyone who wishes will be allowed to punch him once, and only once, square in the dick.
Okay you guys I have next question. And like all good questions this one begins with a story.
I was reading the post about a nick in a wire and read a couple of you mention that light switch in a closet is not to code. What's up with that? Why not? When I open a closet and it seems dark, I...
@NiallC.keep in mind that you may want to put things above your head, so a very deep shelf will inhibit you from putting large things on the top shelves because you can't manuver them around that deep shelf
Okay you guys I have next question. And like all good questions this one begins with a story.
I was reading the post about a nick in a wire and read a couple of you mention that light switch in a closet is not to code. What's up with that? Why not? When I open a closet and it seems dark, I...
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