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life is killing me posted:Not sure if this belongs here or not, but seems better here than the DIY thread: I would call a plumber. Best guess is that a pump or fan on the water heater is in a failed state and trips the breaker by pulling too much power when the shower demands hot water.
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EricBauman posted:... said it'd be best to put a slit either in the top or directly underneath, for air flow. That seems like another great idea that the previous guy didn't have.
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Radiator covers are the dumbest poo poo, they stop the room heating properly, don't counteract cold air effect from the windows (which is why radiators are positioned under Windows in the first place) so make the room feel draughty, and if you have the trv inside the cover the radiator will be closed nearly all the time. And they look poo poo. If you hate the radiator that much buy a nicer radiator. I've never seen a radiator cover where the rest of the room has been interior design perfection...
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SpeedFreek posted:Wait, was the radiator effectively just buried in the wall with no airflow from the room to it? Not quite. This is more or less a before and after (of the wider unit I'm taking out today):  At the top, there is a 20cm tall empty chamber, behind the top slat. The top of the radiator is over 30cm below the windowsill. That space and especially that top 20cm is where a lot of heat pools up. The underside of my windowsill is basically the part of my entire living room with the best heating. The wall color behind this thing is also striking.  The guy who redid the apartment in 2015 must have been living with this 70s pink beige wall paint for a long time. And the wall texture itself is insanely ugly and old fashioned too, of course. The problem is that I can't just remove the radiators and have the walls smoothed. Because of the shared heating, the radiators need to be replaced immediately, or a quarter of the building doesn't get heat. I still need to decide on how to sequence the different parts of the renovation, which is made harder by the fact that I also need to live and work in this place.
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EricBauman posted:The problem is that I can't just remove the radiators and have the walls smoothed. Because of the shared heating, the radiators need to be replaced immediately, or a quarter of the building doesn't get heat. The pipe needs to be plugged at these two locations:  Or bypassed like this:  (probably with some overly long pex so you can get it out of the way when working on the wall) If the system is vented properly (so it self bleeds) this would be merely a quick shutdown to put in the bypass and another one to put the radiator back in the loop. I get coordinating that with the building might be difficult depending on management, but there's no reason 1/4 of the building would be without heat.
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Yeah, the coordination is the issue. With the buiding AND with the install company. The install company that does the radiators is the only company allowed to do ANYTHING with the heating in our building. They're incredibly bad at planning and admin and I've had to chase them for everything. It's taken me three months to even get a quote for four new radiators plus install and I won't even get a delivery date until a week before they come. If I tell them to seal it off and then have to get back to them once the wall is done, I think that's going to take the better part of a year. At least the new radiators will be smaller than the old ones, so there'll be plenty of room to work around them with the plaster and paint job.
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EricBauman posted:At least the new radiators will be smaller than the old ones, so there'll be plenty of room to work around them with the plaster and paint job. That's not too bad then. There are also some solutions with heat reflective backer boards you could slide behind the radiator and mount to the wall that will also cover the area you may not have been able to access for repair/paint.
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CancerCakes posted:Radiator covers are the dumbest poo poo, they stop the room heating properly, don't counteract cold air effect from the windows (which is why radiators are positioned under Windows in the first place) so make the room feel draughty, and if you have the trv inside the cover the radiator will be closed nearly all the time. Visit somewhere like a Frank Lloyd Wright house and you will! e: the radiators in this room are beneath the windows 
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Our radiator covers are a fairly thin, perforated metal and the radiators still do a good job heating the house. They look nice and also keep the toddlers from jamming stuff into the radiator nooks which is a big QOL improvement.
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In case you thought you had it bad, my friend bought a house last year, the finished basement flooded a few weeks ago when we got snow melt, and she's been ripping up tile and replacing drywall all over the place. She opened up a wall in the room the PO had used as a master bedroom that had gotten wet, only to find they had drilled in to run EMT for a baseboard heater -- straight through a water supply pipe. So every time they ran the sink, the wall flooded, and they risked killing themselves or lighting the whole house on fire.
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BadSamaritan posted:Our radiator covers are a fairly thin, perforated metal and the radiators still do a good job heating the house. They look nice and also keep the toddlers from jamming stuff into the radiator nooks which is a big QOL improvement. I never knew people covered their radiators.
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brugroffil posted:Visit somewhere like a Frank Lloyd Wright house and you will! this looks... awful though?
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more falafel please posted:In case you thought you had it bad, my friend bought a house last year, the finished basement flooded a few weeks ago when we got snow melt, and she's been ripping up tile and replacing drywall all over the place. She opened up a wall in the room the PO had used as a master bedroom that had gotten wet, only to find they had drilled in to run EMT for a baseboard heater -- straight through a water supply pipe. So every time they ran the sink, the wall flooded, and they risked killing themselves or lighting the whole house on fire. I doubt it was a water supply pipe because it would not wait for them to turn on their sink to ruin their house. It was probably through a waste stack which is also not great but significantly less bad than a water pipe. Glad she caught it and is presumably fixing it though!
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DELETE CASCADE posted:this looks... awful though? You're supposed to like it or you aren't cultured. (yes, a lot of his stuff is just awful. He went through a phase where he seemed to be in love with finished sheet stock/plywood, and a lot of his stuff like many other famous architects are just on this side of the line of completely unmaintainable. Falling Water is ready to fall into the creek, the synagogue that looks like a party hat near me has been filthy for decades (exterior). They tried to clean it once and it looked great....then was filthy again a year later.)
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Motronic posted:the synagogue that looks like a party hat  lol
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DELETE CASCADE posted:this looks... awful though? You can not be into it but calling it awful is kinda strong.
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SpartanIvy posted:I doubt it was a water supply pipe because it would not wait for them to turn on their sink to ruin their house. It was probably through a waste stack which is also not great but significantly less bad than a water pipe. Glad she caught it and is presumably fixing it though! In the video she sent me it was a regular 1/2" or maybe 3/4" copper pipe, which doesn't seem like a drain pipe to me, not a plumber. The good news is the fix is simple and relatively cheap, fix the pipe and bend the conduit out of the way. The joy of living in the only place in the country that doesn't let you run Romex.
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DELETE CASCADE posted:this looks... awful though? It's a UNESCO world heritage site
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Motronic posted:You're supposed to like it or you aren't cultured. I grew up less than two miles from that synagogue. It's a bitch to clean. Man-lifts everywhere.
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it looks like an unpopular Pokemon
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So I'm about to order this tile for small bathroom floor reno (floor not shower base). "The internet" says dark tile gets dirty af, I'm fine with cleaning regularly as I like the look. Do y'all agree with "The internet"? https://www.wayfair.com/home-improvement/pdp/ivy-hill-tile-langston-10-x-11-porcelain-concrete-look-wall-floor-tile-sost3058.html?st=1 
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falz posted:So I'm about to order this tile for small bathroom floor reno (floor not shower base). I had dark gray slate tile in a bathroom in my last house and it didn’t get any dirtier than light tile. Im not sure why anyone would think that really
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Glad to hear. My very light vinyl floor currently always shows everything, and I have a black dog. I mainly heard that on hauzz or whatever, and a few reviews on Wayfair.
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My dark shower tile would show a lot of hard water spots and streaking before we got our water softener but it doesn't seem to be a problem for regular dirt/grime/etc
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I think dark tile can show sheen from water spots more, so can appear dirty even if it isn't really dirt. Edit-yes what the poster above me said. Anything that is solid colour will be at more risk of looking dirty than a pattern I think. Personally I prefer LVT to tile for hard floors, because it doesn't need ufh to feel comfortable and you can get any pattern, and you don't have grout to maintain. Also doesn't have a crack risk if you drop something on it.
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Well you can't get hex pattern can you  well maybe they exist but they'd be the wrong shape and show seams.Also you can get every pattern if you want a wood look and a few stone like options? I've never seen anything solid ish or geometric.
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My current house has very dark hardwood floors and I have two dogs with blonde fur. Every little dust bunny or scratch is very noticeable and it feels like despite vacuuming a few times/day, it never looks clean. Probably not as big a deal for a bathroom though, aside from water streaks mentioned above. It's not a priority, but one day I'd love to refinish them into something that's lower maintenance.
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That’s the situation where I found a roomba absolutely excels. It doesn’t replace proper manual vacuuming, but it can drastically cuts down on the number of times you need to do it to stay sane. …Just don’t set it to automatic and leave the house…
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MrYenko posted:That’s the situation where I found a roomba absolutely excels. It doesn’t replace proper manual vacuuming, but it can drastically cuts down on the number of times you need to do it to stay sane.  Not to mention all of the scratches from when this 100+ pound floof ball gets the evening zoomies.  Much happier with the lighter LVP and penny tile we chose for finishing our basement. Been renovating since September with a GC and looks like after many delays, we might actually wrap construction up this month. Run free, giant doofus dog. 
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Any asbestos experts here? I was operating under the assumption that this was cellulose... it looks like the google results for blown in cellulose.  
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Ja, that's recycled newspaper & flyers, etc. poo poo looks like a giant hairball. I blew several bales of that into my walls a few years back.
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Not asbestos
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PainterofCrap posted:Ja, that's recycled newspaper & flyers, etc. poo poo looks like a giant hairball. BigFactory posted:Not asbestos 
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The dishwasher continued to leak after replacing the gasket. And as such, then Bosch was gone, with $1400 of my dollars!
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Ah, the hydronic heating system. Something failed on it two days before I was going out of town for a week, which caused it to emit an ominous whistling noise and constantly spray water out of a drain pipe. The heating company says it is likely the T&P (Temperature and Pressure) valve, but may be something else. The first step is to swap out the valve, then see if that fixed it. The diagnosis visit was over two weeks ago. The heating company claims the T&P valve is on backorder. So in the meantime I have to manually use the shut off valve to turn off the incoming cold water line to the hydronic system and turn it on when we do things that use hot water. I am kind of fed up with it! I usually make a point of not working on the hydronic system because I don't want to break anything connected to the radiator lines, but I'm considering undertaking this repair myself. Because manually switched hot water with a constant leak is a real pain. But also if something goes wrong, or I get the wrong part, I could potentially leave the household without hot water and/or heat. Which would not be a popular move. 
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So, Lowes hosed me on my Bosch order and I gotta wait longer. In the meantime, I replaced the door bottom seal on my GE unit, and i'm still getting a slow leak during the wash cycle. Is anything to be done about this? Or is it more likely that the tub/door have warped over time and it's just a sad, 15 year old dishwasher? While googling just now i found a listing on GE's site that says a "New dishwasher" needs several cycles for the seal to fully seat, but that sounds sketchy. Edit: 2/3rd through a cycle, no leaks yet. Maybe there is something to it. Deviant fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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My Weekend, a photo essay.        
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Any good outdoor/weatherproof sensors for a greenhouse? Looking for humidity, temp, light level etc. Soil stuff would be cool too, but I imagine it's probably a pretty specific solution. Edit: whoops, meant to put this in the home automation thread, point still stands. This is the summer of building a garden in my new huge backyard and I'm going hard! w00tmonger fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Is there any truth to the complaints about bosch dishwashers not drying well? Also gently caress me, yall was right, no one can even get one to my house. Wouldn't be such an issue if my current dishwasher sealed right
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