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CarForumPoster posted:I am not sure what it is. DIY radon mitigation?
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Jenkl posted:Fresh air intake? Except the exterior vent cap closes.... Hmm A/C system is on opposite side of the house. Florida so no furnace...but I think you nailed it. Apparently some fireplaces can have fresh air intakes. Mine has a grating around the front of it. I can't see what it is hooked up to but I bet it is a fresh air intake to ensure the fireplace gets enough air. Mystery solved, I think.
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Harriet Carker posted:Speaking of dryers, when I moved into this house I basically took apart the dryer and cleaner out all the lint. I also replaced the exhaust hose. After running a load, there are always tufts of lint outside on the ground under the exhaust opening. Is this normal? I always clean the lint trap after every load. Internet tells me this is a sign of blockage in the exhaust hose but it’s brand new. It doesn't matter if the hose is unblocked if the duct from it to the outside is clogged. Clean your dryer duct.
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Oct 1, 2022 18:09
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What's a good way, tool, system etc for cleaning the duct, anyway? Mine is 14 feet off the ground on the side of my house, so I can just barely climb a ladder and graze the duct with my finger tips, but I'm assuming I need to get in there pretty deep, potentially
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Oct 1, 2022 18:11
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https://www.amazon.com/Holikme-Clea...ps%2C908&sr=8-2
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$3 coupon and same day delivery? Oh baby Thanks!
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Motronic posted:It doesn't matter if the hose is unblocked if the duct from it to the outside is clogged. Clean your dryer duct. Sorry I’m maybe using the wrong terminology. I replaced the entire thing from the back of my dryer to the outside and cleaned the entire inside of the dryer. There should be no lint whatsoever anywhere in the dryer or duct.
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My condo association requires a professional dryer duct cleaning every two years. Good to know my neighbors won't be burning the building down, but I hate paying so much for something I could do myself. Also, my vent run is 20 feet or so, it seems to be hindering performance even when freshly cleaned. I keep considering a ventless heat pump dryer. I wouldn't have to clean the vent and the stupid long duct wouldn't matter. Are they any good, would I hate it just as much?
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Oct 1, 2022 18:27
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the fun of home ownership: last night during the hurricane i noticed a little water seeping under our back door. checked this morning and there's a small split at a seam where the caulk has worn away. easy fix! hm, while i'm here let's patch up the paint. oh whats this small interior trim piece, you're totally rotten? fun!
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we've also officially owned our house for a year! I was bored last night and added up all the "unexpected" maintenance/repair tasks from the last year (not including cosmetic changes or standard, yearly service tasks): - repointing 6 chimneys ($1,500) - brick repointing around two windows to fix a leak ($3,600) - hot water heater replacement ($1,700) - fridge repair ($125) - toilet repair ($50) - sink fixture replacement ($225) - garage door repair, including replacing all the rollers and locking bar ($350) - next weekend we're having all of our exterior windows stripped, repainted and caulked ($1400) and to come in the near future: - resealing our garage roof ($500 - $2,500 depending on what we end up getting done) - repairing the plaster damaged when we had our leak once it sufficiently dries out (which could be 3-6 months from now) ($2,000 - $4,000) home ownership is fun! Upgrade fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Home Ownership: It may be a money put, but its my money pit
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Harriet Carker posted:Sorry I’m maybe using the wrong terminology. I replaced the entire thing from the back of my dryer to the outside and cleaned the entire inside of the dryer. There should be no lint whatsoever anywhere in the dryer or duct. Well, your dryer is broken/assembled wrong or there's a restriction somewhere along the ductwork. Somebody who knows what they are looking at should be looking at those things.
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one of the first things i did after moving in was clean out the dryer vent and replace the flexible ducting, because why not? the ducting was like $7 and now i won't die in a fire!
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Guy Axlerod posted:My condo association requires a professional dryer duct cleaning every two years. Good to know my neighbors won't be burning the building down, but I hate paying so much for something I could do myself. Also, my vent run is 20 feet or so, it seems to be hindering performance even when freshly cleaned. We've had our Samsung for 3 or 4 years and it's been fine. It destroys clothes over time, partially because of all the buttons on my kids' clothes, I think, but it's not different from any other dryer I'd assume. Takes 3 hours and 15 mins to dry a load of laundry, about as long as it takes to do the same load of laundry.
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Guy Axlerod posted:My condo association requires a professional dryer duct cleaning every two years. Good to know my neighbors won't be burning the building down, but I hate paying so much for something I could do myself. Also, my vent run is 20 feet or so, it seems to be hindering performance even when freshly cleaned. We had a washer/ventless dryer combo when we were overseas (so some of this may not apply to North American machines) and I liked it a lot because I could just put certain of my clothes in before bed and have them washed and dried when I got up. They take a really long time to dry clothes though, and the one we had would not clear lint off the clothes. We bought new towels and they kept that new towel fuzz for several washes which was pretty annoying. With ours, you couldn't really dry on low heat the way you can with a vented dryer, you were basically just choosing how wet you wanted your clothes at the end of the cycle. For a lot of my clothes that meant line drying because they couldn't take higher heat.
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Arkanomen posted:Home Ownership: It may be a money put, but its my money pit All the stuff that would not be fixed at all if I was renting. Struensee posted:We've had our Samsung for 3 or 4 years and it's been fine. It destroys clothes over time, partially because of all the buttons on my kids' clothes, I think, but it's not different from any other dryer I'd assume. Takes 3 hours and 15 mins to dry a load of laundry, about as long as it takes to do the same load of laundry. I'm guessing you have a front-loading washer? I think that might be a necessary upgrade for me as well, I think they tend to extract more water from the clothes than a top loader. BonerGhost posted:We had a washer/ventless dryer combo when we were overseas (so some of this may not apply to North American machines) and I liked it a lot because I could just put certain of my clothes in before bed and have them washed and dried when I got up. I think the control on my current dryer is busted, the "low" heat seems to be the same as the "high" heat. So I wouldn't be losing anything, but good to know about.
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Yeah I like choosing what to fix and more importantly how to fix it, as a renter you'd just get stopgaps or no fix at all. It'd end up worse in the long term but landlords were rarely interested in preventing that
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Guy Axlerod posted:I'm guessing you have a front-loading washer? I think that might be a necessary upgrade for me as well, I think they tend to extract more water from the clothes than a top loader. Top loading isn't really a thing here in Denmark.
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Guy Axlerod posted:I keep considering a ventless heat pump dryer. I wouldn't have to clean the vent and the stupid long duct wouldn't matter. Are they any good, would I hate it just as much? I bought this heat pump dryer and really like it. I bought it so I could relocate the dryer to a place that didn't have a gas line and also so I didn't need to cut another hole in my house for the vent. Bonus that I have excess solar capacity and net metering so I dry clothes for free now. It takes 1:40 on the longest setting which gets clothes mostly dry even with a full load. This model is one of if not the biggest HP options, it's basically a regular sized dryer. Most on the market are roughly half this size. Also all of the combo washer/dryers I've used internationally were terrible. I did like the convenience of not having to move the load over but they did an overall bad job at both cleaning and drying. Plus everything always came out extremely wrinkled.
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Upgrade posted:- repointing 6 chimneys ($1,500) Your house has 6 chimneys?
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Muir posted:Your house has 6 chimneys? I know it might seem odd that we let folks with only 6 chimneys participate in the thread with the rest of us. But it's good to hear the perspective of the common man from time to time. Keeps us grounded.
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CarForumPoster posted:A/C system is on opposite side of the house. Florida so no furnace...but I think you nailed it. Apparently some fireplaces can have fresh air intakes. Mine has a grating around the front of it. I can't see what it is hooked up to but I bet it is a fresh air intake to ensure the fireplace gets enough air. To be sure: get a fan, fire up some patchouli incense & blow it down the flex pipe from the roof or attic. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 2, 2022 |
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Muir posted:Your house has 6 chimneys? Only six chimneys? 
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Muir posted:Your house has 6 chimneys? Old house, fire place in every room  it’s actually 5, that was a typo
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Upgrade posted:one of the first things i did after moving in was clean out the dryer vent and replace the flexible ducting, because why not? the ducting was like $7 and now i won't die in a fire! You won’t die in a dryer fire. There are many other types.
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PainterofCrap posted:To be sure: get a fan, fire up some patchouli incense & blow it down the flex pipe from the roof or attic. Yes but where to buy patchouli? Perhaps if I had a time machine to a 1980s “tobacco” store
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an iksar marauder posted:Yeah I like choosing what to fix and more importantly how to fix it, as a renter you'd just get stopgaps or no fix at all. It'd end up worse in the long term but landlords were rarely interested in preventing that When I lived in Oakland in an apartment on the 3rd floor of a house, I had a landlord who, after an earthquake, simply painted over the new cracks in the foundation with grey paint and some indoor spackle that quickly broke down into gunk and washed away.
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Tempted to post this over in the parenting thread but I think I'll get better answers here Is there a Better Way to childproof an oven, specifically a Bosch range. You can always remove the knobs but looking for alternative solutions Kind of surprised you can't disable the switches on the front seeing as how it's an electric control board
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We used these for knob controls https://www.homedepot.com/p/Safety-...wE&gclsrc=aw.ds
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brugroffil posted:We used these for knob controls knob controls are only needed by people without knob control makes you think also i thought i was sick because my lungs got irritated doing home and lawn repairs from the hurricane. now im all hopped up on goofballs and flur de caña and my posting is extra bad turns out 8 hours of wet fiberglass exposure plus drywall work and mowing a wet rear end hurricane lawn is NOT good for you EDIT: and if motronic comes in here speculating that i actually have cellulosic and not fiberglass insulation in my ceiling im gonna buy him an EVEN LAMER AVATAR THAN NEUTERED RON CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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brugroffil posted:We used these for knob controls oh cool, finally I get to justify my 3d printer to my wife
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CarForumPoster posted:EDIT: and if motronic comes in here speculating that i actually have cellulosic and not fiberglass insulation in my ceiling im gonna buy him an EVEN LAMER AVATAR THAN NEUTERED RON Saw this over in the image generation thread and briefly considered buying him a new av: mcbexx posted:is a source of endless joy.
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CarForumPoster posted:knob controls are only needed by people without knob control Bro you need to don the P100 respirator. They're so much more comfortable than breathing dust.
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StormDrain posted:Bro you need to don the P100 respirator. They're so much more comfortable than breathing dust.
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StormDrain posted:Bro you need to don the P100 respirator. They're so much more comfortable than breathing dust. He’s just doing drywall, not going to Costco…
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Save you the trouble: $20 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IF7RBS4/ respirator $23 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KYX8JBU/ lifetime supply of P100 filters   Also edit: if you think you might need the large, definitely get the large, especially if you're taller than 5'6" Hadlock fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Any advice on how to diagnose a circuit breaker that keeps tripping? Here's a shortlist of things I know are on that circuit: * Microwave. * Stove (gas). * Small convection oven. * A couple of outlets with nothing in them. * An overhead light. Sometimes, when we were gone for an extended period of time, I'd come back to that breaker flipped. Now if I reset it it seems to flip back in a matter of minutes, even without running anything. Should I just call an electrician? The aforementioned devices/appliances have been working fine, so I'm unsure how best to debug the issue. Unplug each thing and reset the breaker and see if it flips? How can I test the outlets for a short?
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defmacro posted:Any advice on how to diagnose a circuit breaker that keeps tripping? Here's a shortlist of things I know are on that circuit: Definitely sounds like you've got a short somewhere. Try it first with everything unplugged. If that fixes it then it's obviously an applicatiance and test them one by one to figure out which. If it's not an appliance causing it, then if it were me I'd pull out every outlet/fixture on it and inspect for damage. Is it a 15 amp or 20 amp circuit? Microwaves are usually 15 amps by themselves so if it was a 15 amp circuit its probably been overloaded and the insulation broke down over time causing the short. If that's the case and there's wire damage I'd call in an electrician, but you can diagnose up to that point yourself.
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I have no question that a P100 is the right call for Costco but do you really need one for drywall and fiberglass? I always thought a N95 was fine for drywall/fiberglass sanding. There are significantly more comfortable N95 options like the Envo mask which I can’t say enough good things about.
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