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President Beep posted:why does the ground in texas gently caress up basements? Growing up in north Texas nobody had basements, and my understanding was that high clay content in the ground pushes things past the point of being worth it.
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Fortaleza posted:Growing up in north Texas nobody had basements, and my understanding was that high clay content in the ground pushes things past the point of being worth it. My foundation is all sandstone in a high flood environment and I've got a french drain system + tarred canvas walls. The system in my basement cost around $12K in 1993. They're just cheap. When you live in an area where land is inexpensive and readily available, it's easier to knock your old hovel down and move than it is to maintain your home.
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Feb 5, 2021 04:25
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I sincerely miss boiler + radiator systems I had a boiler system in Toronto and one year into my tenancy they replaced our windows with more efficient ones and after that the radiators made it so hot we had to keep the windows open all winter, lol. They couldn't turn down the boiler because it served the entire building so south side was too hot and north side was too cold. Original designers hosed up and should have installed two boilers imo. That was a nice place otherwise because it still had a really good cooling system so the apartments were perfectly nice in the summer when the heat and humidity hit "old people literally dying wtf" levels.
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Feb 5, 2021 04:29
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"you can't just call everything an air conditioner!!!" *points to thermostat* air conditioner
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My foundation is all sandstone in a high flood environment and I've got a french drain system + tarred canvas walls. The system in my basement cost around $12K in 1993. Was curious and looked it up and ya, it’s a bIt more expensive in Texas but it’s mostly because land is cheap as poo poo and nobody wants to pay for underground space when there’s already plenty. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/curious-texas/2018/11/16/why-don-t-dallas-area-homes-have-basements-curious-texas-investigates/
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Feb 5, 2021 05:23
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I fuckin’ love my bigass basement. Clearing out the woodshop to redo the walls finally and my new home brew stuff starts showing up tomorrow to go in the cellar.
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Feb 5, 2021 05:27
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President Beep posted:why does the ground in texas gently caress up basements? lots of reasons. the frost line is one. it’s like a foot down so you don’t have to bury pipes 10 feet underground to avoid freezing, which reduces cost. but other places with similar weather do have basements. texas also has clay soil in the eastern half of the state that used to be under the gulf of mexico. clay can expand by like 20-30% when it is wet and then contract back again. you can cart in some non clay stuff and put a slab on top of it, but that expansion and contraction tends to crack basement walls and moisture barriers. it can be done but it’s expensive. office buildings usually have underground areas and underground parking is pretty common, but for a single family home not really. a lot of the state is near sea level and has high water tables too. like 10-12 feet down near houston, and those come up when it rains and flood your already crushed basement.
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Feb 5, 2021 05:34
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Incorrect, the purpose of an air conditioner is the make the air cold. How it's delivered is irrelevant. actually everything in the outside unit is really hot. it’s only the expansion device and the evaporator coil, both inside your house, near the blower, that make the air cool. you don’t send any air to the outside half of the system, it can’t cool air on its own. you don’t have cold air without both halves of the system. 
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Feb 5, 2021 05:59
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yospos coronavirus hvac day crew
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i watched some hvac videos on youtube and as far as i can tell it's like 70% being a janitor, 20% a sparky and only 10% actually involving refrigerant
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Feb 5, 2021 06:05
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i had to learn about all this poo poo when replacing the compressor on my car ac and re charging it. your expansion device for a home ac is usually a thermal expansion valve, which uses weird fluid filled temperature sensing bulbs and diaphragms and springs for feedback from the temperature on the output of your evaporator coil, so it is usually inside the attic or basement with your blower and evaporator coil.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLOHCOw3yg only after passing through the expansion valve and seeing that pressure drop does any of the refrigerant get cold. it’s hot coming out of the compressor and still pretty hot (but now a liquid) coming out of the condensor. it’s still pretty cool going back into the compressor, which compresses it and heats it right back up.
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Feb 5, 2021 06:17
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While you were all arguing about this I hosed up a hair trim and just cut all my hair off. Good times 
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Feb 5, 2021 06:37
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lol toris got a shaved butt now
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Feb 5, 2021 06:59
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decent amount of grey, could be greyer. 4/5
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Feb 5, 2021 07:02
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I've shaved my rear end and seen a bigger pile of hair
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Feb 5, 2021 07:03
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shamefully small pile for twelve months growth
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my dumbass curly hair is just all split ends now so i look like dr emmett brown (the 1955 version when he's not completely grey and isn't balding yet) also doc brown is fat in this timeline
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Feb 5, 2021 07:10
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Cold on a Cob posted:you're not wrong tori reported for telling porkies
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Feb 5, 2021 07:24
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Cold on a Cob posted:also evaporative air conditioners don't even have a compressor/condenser so i guess i'm wrong but i'm talking about refrigerant based ac you mean swamp coolers? they're not air-conditioners.
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Roosevelt posted:lol toris got a shaved butt now There's an epigram by Martialis where the gist of it is: "we know you have your junk hair plucked for the ladies, as you say. but tell me, for who do you have your arse hair plucked? huh? HUH!?!?" because they considered dudes who took things in their bum unmanly.
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Feb 5, 2021 07:31
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yes, at that time the distinction was penetrator/penetrated. if you put your dick in things you were manly, no matter what those things were, while if you let things be put in you that was feminine, no matter what people or objects were involved.
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Feb 5, 2021 07:57
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Sagebrush posted:yes, at that time the distinction was penetrator/penetrated. if you put your dick in things you were manly, no matter what those things were, while if you let things be put in you that was feminine, no matter what people or objects were involved. which one were you back then?
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I poured some vinegar in the egg-cooker to clean it. I was supposed to let it sit for ½ an hour, but of course I fell asleep and it was 12 hours. Well let me tell you it's very clean now, but also whatever surfacing was on the water pan is mostly gone. Then again it being bare metal shouldn't make any difference, should it? I mean the one I have at home doesn't even have any coating, just bare stainless steel. (I think this one might be aluminium.)
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Feb 5, 2021 08:23
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3D Megadoodoo posted:you mean swamp coolers? they're not air-conditioners. they are also known as evaporative air conditioners
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Feb 5, 2021 12:35
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:i had to learn about all this poo poo when replacing the compressor on my car ac and re charging it. vapor compression refrigeration is really neat
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Cold on a Cob posted:they are also known as evaporative air conditioners Yes I know marketing exists. You can call them evaporative coolers if you wish. e: Of course they don't cool jack poo poo if the air is already humid, unlike air conditioners. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:I've shaved my rear end and seen a bigger pile of hair This isn’t a bragging point
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Feb 5, 2021 13:19
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yospos wfh day crew: byob (be your own barber)
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Feb 5, 2021 13:26
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I'm sure as gently caress not going anywhere to get my hair cut when 3-4K people a day are dying from the plague
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i got one haircut during covid at a barber shop when our numbers were almost zero here and it was the worst cut i got in years. i'll stick to shaving it off every few months.
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Feb 5, 2021 14:12
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My wife scheduled a haircut for late March, she's had three haircuts at the same salon in the past year and she trusts the place but the idea of getting my hair cut right now by other people makes me cringe.
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Feb 5, 2021 14:16
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i shave my head so pandemic hasn't changed my haircut at all i even trimmed my beard once in like august (and will again when it starts warming up), but it pretty much gets as long as it's going to get after a few months
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I wish I could post all the salacious details of this layoff situation at my job, because it's hilarious in a gallows humor sort of way, but it will have to wait until I'm able to get out of this place. I will say they seem to be caught extremely flat footed with the negative press they are getting. Apparently the announcement your laying off a chunk of your workforce to out source, during a pandemic, while you're making record profits doesn't go over well. Who knew?
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I'm sure as gently caress not going anywhere to get my hair cut when 3-4K people a day are dying from the plague hoverwife just got her first haircut in a year because she got her second shot and scheduled it accordingly
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Feb 5, 2021 16:56
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I got a hair cut a few weeks ago after not getting for a year. It was good because I was starting to look like a brown beardless young charles manson.
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7550 dead people in the last two days from Coronavirus and no one cares anymore lmao
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3D Megadoodoo posted:you mean swamp coolers? they're not air-conditioners. there are also rv refrigerator systems that use a propane flame instead of a compressor like a normal fridge in your house. it uses absorption refrigeration that also uses evaporative cooling by mixing ammonia refrigerant with water inside the closed system to make the correct partial pressures. you use a propane flame to boil the water/ammonia mixture instead of a compressor.:  the evaporator is where you get the cold air, and then the absorber and that gravity driven liquid ammonia separator at the top left of the diagram do basically the same thing as the expansion device, they divide high pressure in the condenser from low pressure in the evaporator. i don’t think anyone scales that up to an air conditioner tho.
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ingot two haircuts during the pandemic but they were done in a chair outside by my mom (who is a licensed barber who owned a salon but is now retired) so my hair is still beautiful and long and pretty like a pony but does not have split ends
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if you're going to split hairs like that its a furnace with an air handler fan backing it unless your system somehow runs on natural convection
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