Looks like I'll miss tomorrow's PUT while I drive down the NJ turnpike. I'll be sure to wave in @Aarthi's direction on my way out of town. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
@Aaron Was reading about your washer shutoff questions from before. My two cents... Put a shut off on hot and cold where they enter the space, this allows you to shut off both washer and sink. Then install shutoffs near the end of the lines to the washer, this will allow you to shut off the washer but still let you use the sink.
That way if you ever move (and take the washer) or disconnect the washer for any reason, you'll still be able to use the sink.
@Aaron Well It's defiantly good to have shutoffs right near the end of laundry hookups, and shutoffs for the sink might come in handy if you ever have to change the faucet. So I'd do 2 sets. If you only want 1 set, I'd put it at the end of the washer feed. It's more likely you'll want to shut off water to just the washer than just the sink.
If you're using SharkBite valves; they run ~$10-$15 a valve, I understand why you'd want to use fewer.
Convenience sometimes overshadows cost though.
You could always add valves where the supply enters the space now, then add valves at the washer later.
In aviation (I fly recreationally) to deal with the monetary cost, people just talk of spending AMUS = Aviation Monetary Units = $1000, so anything under that 'doesn't count'. A HMU is similar, but $100 might be a better guideline
Grab a scrap piece of pipe, and an extra fitting. Clamp the pipe in a vise, and solder on the fitting. When you're done, heat the fitting back up, remove it, clean the pipe and fitting, and repeat.
You'll be a pro in no time.
For some real practice. Place some scrap wood near the pipe, then try to solder the joint without burning the wood.
@ChrisCudmore On the left? That's the electrics - consumer unit and meter. There's some custom boxing that fits over it but the tiles needed to be laid to the wall.
@ChrisCudmore Yeah - with the house pre-dating domestic electricity when they installed it the fuse box was put anywhere convenient. These days they're put in better places.
The most annoying wiring I've seen is when the 12/2 comes in from the bottom of the j-box in which there is a switch, and then the 12/2 exits at the top to the fixture
Instead of doing a wire nut with 3 wires (in, out, receptacle for the hot), they do a wire nut for the in and the out, and then just remove a bit of wire to wrap it around the receptacle's hot side
His baby is finally getting out of the hospital next week, and we wanted to get any drywall breaking done before he got home. (3-months premature, and his lungs don't need any dust)
Or actually, it was a switch, but it had 12/2 exiting up to other receptacles, and 12/2 exiting to the right for the outlet controlled by this switch only
Anyways, it was anoying and stupid and I didn't have just wire spools, only 12/2 spool and I didn't feel like ripping lengths of it apart just to get a couple feet of black wire
Squirrels have a 2 second memory, so they don't remember they don't like grapes until they bite one. "Mmm that looks good." "Eww this is gross." "Mmm that looks good."...
I was doing what I could to insulate a single skin brick wall between the garage and dining room at my mothers - but couldn't finish it as the flat roof is leaking. Directly over where I need to put up plasterboard.
How come when I get to work on site, it's some industrial estate in the middle of nowhere? People don't believe me when I say that my travel for work isn't glamorous.
That sounds tempting. However, with two of the kids still at school it's not feasible for us to be that nomadic. Plus, there's not the equivalent of Florida here in the UK.
My son is graduating from RIT in May. yahoo!!!!!! Electrical enginnering/Computer engineering. getting his Masters and BS at same time. Now we can Semi retire.
No more tuition bills...Yaaaaa
BTW Chris, my profile pic is me on the flybridge on the "Black Pearl". My summer retreat
