We recently installed slate tile in our renovated bathroom. We have sealed it with a penetrating water-based sealant. Water still seams to soak in to the tile and little water spots on the tile are appearing (and staying) after two coats of sealer. My wife is not pleased. I am worried about the s...
We have a pair of sliding / pocket doors where one side is painted and the other side is mostly taken up with a mirror.
Well, the color was atrocious so we painted one side, but didn't get to painting the mirrored side yet (have to remove the mirror, paint, reinstall...). This means the doors ha...
I currently have a forced hot water heating system with 3 zones, all of which have the circulator pump on the supply side of the line. I need to install a 4th zone and am being told that putting the circulator on the return side is more efficient.
What are the pros and cons of the circulator's ...
Well it's also one of our lofty goals to have an answer to every question. So those edits bring them back to the attention of people who missed them the first time.
@TheEvilGreebo I understand the frustration though, especially if you're looking for clarification in a comment. Who knows if the asker will ever come back?
@SteveJackson if it's unanswerable, possibly because we're waiting for clarification, then we've been given the green light to flag and close them as too localized.
Should old questions where the original asker is not responding to questions in the comments section be closed or deleted? If so, what's the appropriate response for the non-moderators, vote to close or raise a flag?
Here's an example. It's a good question, but without more details, or at least ...
Good info. It's kind of an interesting problem for us because we're not swimming under too many unanswerable questions. I think we could focus on whipping the question into something that could be answered. Of course then you get the retorts like this where someone is offended you changed their question.
I received notice that two of my previous questions were edited. Obviously, if those edits improved the question somehow, that's a good thing. So I went to check them out, also wanting to verify that the meaning of the question had not been altered.
When I loaded them and reviewed the revision h...
@AarthiDevanathanΨ Absolutely. But if I were to change the Slate tile question so that the text matched the question title then I'd be changing the Asker's meaning. I could answer the question with the steps to seal slate tile - but he did the steps it didn't work. I don't know why they didn't work so I'm left with leaving it alone.
Clean up edits are a "good thing", as are edits to bump unanswered questions. However, we have to make sure that we don't cause an "edit flood" where all questions at the top of the home page have the same "last modified by" user.
@ChrisF Good point. And I can always expand the answer to make it useful in the general case, rather than modifying the existing question to match the question title.
I agree. The reason for the pre-grout coats is twofold - 1) Because unless you've handled a lot of slate tile you don't know the difference between highly-porous and top-grade. 2) It helps with cleaning up the grout if you're sloppy.
@AarthiDevanathanΨ Hats? Do we get hats in the swag pack?
Jeff has said that he's not happy with people under 1000 rep getting top user swag. I guess the 950 cut off is a buffer assuming no one with less than 950 will hit 1000 before the swag arrives.
So much mis-information, so little time :)
With regards to the OP's primary question, yes, radiant (be it electric or hydronic) can be the primary heat for a room. The only way to know for sure is to perform a heat loss calculation for the space, then match the heating capacity of the system to...
I am working with ASP.NET and StoredProcedure. I change the stored procedure so now it returns 10 field rather than 9. I have added corresponding textbox in asp.net which gets the 10th field.
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Zeno's paradoxes are a set of problems generally thought to have been devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides's doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on Plato's Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradoxes because other philosophers had created paradoxes against Parmenides's view. Thus Zeno can be interpreted as saying that to assume there is plurality is even more absurd than ...
@TheEvilGreebo For every good user on SO there are 10 difficult ones.
Moderation must be a nightmare
Though I did get a nice fuzzy yesterday. I stumbled upon a question with non-answers awhile back, actually found the answer on my own and updated the question that day, and got a thanks for it yesterday. System works. Sorta.
You likely need more coats of sealer. Depending on the porousness of the tile and the quality of the sealer you may just need more to get the job done.
When you do the shower walls, I would follow these steps:
Make sure your wall is waterproof - good suggestions from @Shimon Rura.
Install you...
@AarthiDevanathanΨ Well Joel's the one who signs the letters and he is in the same building as you. I was just going for the path of least resistance ;)
My only update this week is that we updated our project budget last week and concluded that the temporary counter replacement ended up costing us $800 , 1/4 of which was replacing the dang stupid disposal, so we're set that much back in preparing for the electrical panel upgrade muttermutter
on an unrelated note, my construction neighbors seem to be installing a retaining wall on their side of the fence they are building... I'm not sure I count it as an 8' fence if they put it in a 4' deep ditch
Almost electrocuted myself last night. I was adding a new receptacle in the garage. Started to open up the junction box I was going to tap, and thought hmmm maybe I should test for voltage just in case. Good thing I did, the receptacle I was going to tap was on a different circuit and still LIVE!
@TheEvilGreebo it's slightly tapered along the side from the front to the back, so right next to the tab it's against the framing but the back is ~1/4" away.
So it pivots on the tab.
@SteveJackson Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, have multiple pairs of goggles!
@Tester101 Yeah not sure how the painting will go. We're pretty sure that it was originally white (you can see where the light was and we didn't patch) and accumulated that lovely color over 30 years.
They probably don't move once you put drywall up, but this is a garage so no chance of that happening. I'll probably just go pick up a metal box, and replace it.
Just today I went to the tile store to try and find some accent/mosaic tiles to run in a strip around the tub. But I was turned off by how crazy expensive they are. I am also worried about putting in a glass tile (which 90% of the accent tiles at the store are) as I think it is really trendy right now but I can see it dating the bathroom in 5-10 years.
I may just go with a simple 2x2 tile "grid mosaic" in a contrasting color instead
The tile colors we picked are very neutral (for that very reason). The granite vanity top and shower shelves is a little trickier because it has a variety of colors in it that some people just may not like.
We've got to make significant progress on the windows. It's a big bay with three sash windows - one large, two small. We have one small one completely stripped, but managed to break the glass in both panes - so that's another job. The other small window is half stripped and the big one about 1/4.
We need to get the small window reglazed tomorrow (which involved an out of town trip to get restoration glass) as well as the other windows fully stripped.
As it's a Victorian house we need to get the ripply effect of old glass but with new glass. Unfortunately it's 4x the price of regular float glass
If we can do that and get the windows primed by the end of the weekend I'll be happy. My wife's not working at the moment so she'll be able to finish off the painting next week and then we can re-hang the windows on new sash cords. Then we'll have fully working windows again. Just in time to close up for winter
We've got secondary glazing (well perspex sheets with magnetic strips) that keep us a bit warmer and less draughty in the winter
It works reasonably well. The only downside is that our windows are quite large - 5' - 6' high and they're a little too big for the gauge of perspex we got so they can flex and bow leaving gaps. We've had to resort to using cleats to keep them flat.
They now do edging profiles - see the bottom of this page - 365plastics.com/Secondary-Glazing-FAQ.html - which weren't available when we bought. I think they'd help stiffen the perspex.
Though looking at the pics we might be able to retrofit. Hmm, will have to think about this
@Tester101 Yes. It's white so it's not too noticeable. Less so if you're window frames are white and possibly even paintable - though we've not tried that.
Is this functionality available? If not, has it been considered already?
So much mis-information, so little time :)
With regards to the OP's primary question, yes, radiant (be it electric or hydronic) can be the primary heat for a room. The only way to know for sure is to perform a heat loss calculation for the space, then match the heating capacity of the system to...
I am working with ASP.NET and StoredProcedure. I change the stored procedure so now it returns 10 field rather than 9. I have added corresponding textbox in asp.net which gets the 10th field.
<asp:TextBox ID="ID" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("ID") %>' Width="80px" ReadOnly="true">&l...
You likely need more coats of sealer. Depending on the porousness of the tile and the quality of the sealer you may just need more to get the job done.
When you do the shower walls, I would follow these steps:
Make sure your wall is waterproof - good suggestions from @Shimon Rura.
Install you...
