@KarlKatzke ? I think they are soil stacks? not completely sure, they are pipes coming up out of a roof located near the bathroom and kitchen of the old house (didn't realize there was a difference between vent and soil...not sure which kind these are, but I'm assuming from discussion they are soil)...
Wikipedia makes me laugh sometimes. "stack vent, which is sometimes called a stink pipe." The source was from a lady interviewed about a cat burglar who attached a garden hose to the vent stack to gain access to the building. So it is sometimes called a Stink pipe by a lady (who is not a plumber), when describing how a burglar broke in.
I kinda like the distinction from a fan vent, but then a bathroom fan is a "stink fan/fart fan" too, so it would logically be connected to the stink pipe.
@Doresoom Doesn't always work. Most of the profiles you buy are cut with knives (like a staggered dado saw) and the contours are impossible to get with a router bit.
My latest code changes are checked in, no pressing email message, 65°F outside... I'm outta here. You guys can turn the disco ball on now. I'll be back to close up shop in an hour or so.
Attic insulating and flooring is all I have on the horizon. Not exciting, and I'm only doing it in bits as there is so much junk up there, but it needs doing
Like finding the aluminum 220 for the furnace at my sister's house mated to copper without any anticorrosion goo and just wrapped in tape, in a box in the basement with the back open to the OUTSIDE ... in San Fran CA, where there's no salt to corrode anything.
Steve: Yeah, I just did that myself at my house. I hate myself for it, but there was no way to jack the counters up to tile under the dishwasher and no way to remove the cabinets without destroying them. I will end up lifting the countertop if I ever need to remove the dishwasher.
@Karl My counter is a pretty nice tile job - I think I'm stuck. I can probably chip up two floor tiles, but matching them will likely be an adventure. Hopefully I can just keep the dishwasher fixed for awhile.
I keep eyeing it as well, I might just get lucky. There's a little gap between the top of the dishwasher and the counter. Cross that bridge when I get there I guess.
@SteveJackson You don't think the counter could lift as one piece? I guess that's why I stick to formica countertops ... that, and I'm cheap. I suppose it wouldn't work in a house that has an L-shaped counter, but mine's a galley kitchen.
On the bright side, I bought a new dishwasher before I tiled the old one in. :D
Hey, anyone have advice on how to get the significant other to stop spending money? ;) I told her not to buy curtain rods, because I can make some out of closet rod and we just have to buy the finials, and total cost was going to be something like $50 for two huge sets of windows. What does she do? Buys Pottery Barn curtain rods with all the accessories, total bill something like $250 and they sag.
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in reference to my question from earlier in the week about the slipped staircase, they put a brick course around the top stair, and there's a tiny 1" pipe maybe at the "low point" of that step
The problem is they didn't put a screen on it (it's horizontal (but sloped down, so it does drain), so there is the possibility for stuff that falls to block this little pipe
and I think some dirt has gotten in there, and typically the flow rate on this little pipe isn't enough to really push stuff out of the way
So, question: fire up the pressure washer to blast the stuff "in" the pipe into the larger pipes downstream of it (that tie into the sump pump/gutters/etc), or just pull all the leaves away once in a while
@KarlKatzke A little bit of french drain, but mostly running the drains underground with a slope so the water goes away from the house rather than towards the house
Well, they're supporting things that definitely need support, and they look a lot better, but sheesh. And yes, they don't get thrown in with the normal laundry, since I'm a GUY, and don't separate things as I dump the entire hamper into the washer. Everything gets pre-sorted and we're a lot happier.
I will have lots of updates next week from the work we're doing this coming weekend. Packing up my saw and stuff tonight .... why is it that I sort of get excited when I get to bust out the wet saw?
There's a joke in there somewhere about making sure to use the approriate header or king stud when engineering to carry the load, but I'm too lazy to actually find it
except how much everything costs when I'm trying to finish a renovation so I can sell the house and we can buy the next one where things will cost even more
@Aarthi To an extent. I'm still working on that project -- things will light back up here in about another two months when we get the $100k of equipment ordered and shipped, and I have to fly up to put it all together. There's a bit about the hardware testing I've been doing on my blog, not that anyone's actually interested in that.
@Aaron Yeah, and it usually sets up pretty fast to a smooth surface that's good for tile adhesion. If you've got a dip in your floor that would normally show through tile, SLC is a good way to remove it, but it takes a lot of skill to pour.
@KarlKatzke At my rehearsal dinner I had flown into town without a jacket and it was a little cool. My future uncle-in-law let me borrow his jacket. Strangest service I'd ever had, but I figured it was because I was the groom, there was a lot going on, whatever. Realized later, I was wearing a CBP jacket at a tex-mex restaurant.
@Aarthi By the way, the reason I've been hanging around again is the gift package that I got with the T-shirt, hat, pen, stickers, etc. I had kind of forgotten about hanging around online a bit since I was so busy with projects at work last winter, but the package reminded me of what I was missing. Just an idea if you need to re-attract some of the better contributors. :)
... not that I'm one of the better contributors, just that it brought me back from semi-retired. :-P
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I wouldn't mind picking up a couple rental units, but I have to be careful around here, lots of cheaply built places and lots of "group houses" with a half dozen college kids crammed in
Maine's one of the places I'd like to live ... Along with NH and VT. But my girlfriend can't really find work there. :( We're stuck with bigger cities where her company has offices.
Yeah, @BMitch, that's part of the problem down here. The construction is so shoddy in the first place, and so many houses have been 'flipped'...
Only way I'd consider it in the DC area is to get a small 2 level town house near a business park and rent it as a furnished place to a business traveler
Well, she's in a specialized field relating to floodplain drainage, so we can only move where the work is. I'm employable anywhere, like most IT guys. DC or Denver are probably our next two possibilities if we don't get stuck in Austin.
my family has a vacation cottage on the NC outer banks, and the wear and tear those places get from the crazy rental seasons and year round weather is nuts
I can't live in the PNW again, unfortunately, or we would've already moved there. I get seasonal depression and no amount of special light bulbs or vitamin D can help it.
Cost of living isn't that big of an issue. Beside being the brains of the outfit, she'll also be the moneymaker. I've sort of topped out the pay scale for what I do, +/- $20k... she's not even really started yet.
@BMitch Oh I rented a condo like that once in Virginia Beach, everyone was obsessed about parking spaces and they insisted that puny garage counted as two - maybe with a crowbar.
I have a dear friend of mine that moves often. I've moved her piano six times over a dozen flights of stairs. I was out of town when she moved this summer, but even if I wasn't I'd probably make something up at this point - that thing gives me nightmares.
ugh, that's one thing I've gotten spoiled with in texas. Everything's pretty much 1 story. I remember coming home from the gym in Portland after having my ass kicked by a trainer and having to walk up four flights of stairs ... ended up going up on my butt the last two flights.
I was looking at possible area rugs for my apartment and found that the cheapest one was something called an "unbound remnant." However, a little googling revealed that unbound remnants shed their edges like crazy! I don't want that to happen, but I don't know if I can afford to bind it.
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