H110Hawk posted:

For some reason the Amazon link is freezing up on my phone, but if it's the strainer I think they all have them. If you are literally washing your dishes with soap and water the place to put them is the cabinet not the dishwasher. Otherwise whatever lipids and other crud are always going to get caught up in the strainer and requiring periodic cleaning. It should be easy to do, is there more disassembly than what amounts to a quarter turn in the basin?

Elviscat posted:

Fuel tank vent valve, or some permutation of that.

OSU_Matthew posted:

I just had some new concrete poured, but I guess there was a miscommunication and now there’s a bowl shaped depression around my curb water shutoff. Now every time it rains, water fills the bowl where it can’t drain.

I’d like to pour in something that would create a removable plug for the indent, roughly 1’ square and 3-4” deep. Something that can be lifted up to access the shutoff, but otherwise something durable and UV resistant.

One thought I had was just to put down some thick plastic and pour some quikrete over top, and embed an anchor I can use to lift it out. Another thought was to lube up the base and pour some sort of heavy duty rubberized compound, but I don’t know what would be optimal for this.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

OSU_Matthew posted:

Enough that I what I’d picked up a plate compactor instead of doing it by hand all summer long


No idea how to help you, but this is pretty drat cool! Is there any kind of heat exchanger involved?

tangy yet delightful posted:

Any goons recs on a nylon(?) brush to chuck into a power drill to clean shower tile/grout lines? And also what cleaning liquid to use, just tilex?

Big Dick Cheney posted:

Just got a kerosene heater for my wood shop. Is there anyway to avoid spending $10 a gallon on K-1 kerosene? Is gas station kerosene really not an option? Any other way to lower the cost to run this thing?

life is killing me posted:

I’ve never been to a gas station that sold kerosene, or I had no idea that any gas stations sold kerosene, can pick which I guess.

We talking like one of those big heavy heaters that look like jet engines?

wesleywillis posted:

Diesel and Kerosene are very similar.
You might be able to use diesel in place of Kerosene. Bonus points if you go to a place that has coloured diesel and then its cheaper because you don't have to pay road taxes.

LLSix posted:

I have an odd question, but I figure if anyone knows the answer, it'll be one of you goons. Are there good shows or youtube channels for DIY/gardening/outdoor survival?

My wife and I really enjoyed watching Survivorman when it came out several years ago. Recently we've tried watching shows like Alone and The Repair Shop, but they both focus too much on the human element. What we really want is something more focused on skills and techniques. Maybe something like How It's Made, but at a level that's at least theoretically possible for one or two people to do without needing a whole factory. Or maybe something like a cooking show, but for other household tasks. Good cooking show suggestions are also welcome, but I will be surprised if you can recommend something we haven't already watched.

AFewBricksShy posted:

Replace it with caulk to match your grout.

floWenoL posted:

Nope, no lever! I took off the tub overflow plate a while ago and didn't see anything a lever would attach to, but I'll double-check.

Where are you seeing a plate? It looks [edit: and feels] to me that the drain pipe just makes a sharp bend right below the hole...

Edit: double-checked, there's nothing behind the overflow plate except the pipe.

floWenoL posted:

floWenoL posted:

That's not a plate, that's a sharp bend in the drain pipe itself (AFAICT). I'm guessing it's a fairly old pipe, which is why the texture is so rough and the color is so dark. I've verified that it's not raw sewage. :P

For comparison, here's a pic of the overflow pipe:

GD_American posted:

Question- I have an undercabinet microwave above my range that has a lovely recirc blower. If I wanted to rip this microwave out (we're fine with a small countertop one instead) and put in an actual ducted hood, I'm running into a couple of issues:

1. Do they make ducted undercabinet hoods, or just recirc ones?
2. If so, there's about three feet of open wall on top of the cabinets (vaulted ceiling in the kitchen), do they just run a box duct up along side the wall, or is there a way to run ducting inside of the (normal-sized) wall?
3. Would it be HVAC people that I'd call to do this if I wanted to?

fankey posted:

I have plain rectangular painted molding over hardwood. There is a gap that varies from about 1/16” to 1/8”. Previously I filled the gap using DAP painters latex caulk masking with blue tape. The results were so so - over a couple of years it started to crack and separate and looked messy.

Is there a better way to accomplish this without resorting to quarter round or some other additional material? Different caulk or technique? Or is this just what will happen and I should expect to redo it every 3 years?

Less Fat Luke posted:

Is there any trick to getting this drain cap off? I removed the two screws but every attempt with pliers just warps and scratches the metal.

SouthShoreSamurai posted:

There was one of these in my yard when I bought the house. I think it's going on about year 7 now, and it's completely falling apart. Not from the ground up, surprisingly. Just in general, these are just so cheaply made that they disintegrate. I think mine was from Lowes, but same thing I'm sure.

I'm ripping it out this spring and building a completely over-engineered fortress.

Wasabi the J posted:

If it's a wood playset, I would think applying deck sealer it would extend the life of the wood.

Also wood expands and contracts with the weather, and I KNOW there's a detrimental effect when you try to constrain it too much, but a concrete post hole on the corners would keep it from tipping for sure.

SouthShoreSamurai posted:

There was one of these in my yard when I bought the house. I think it's going on about year 7 now, and it's completely falling apart. Not from the ground up, surprisingly. Just in general, these are just so cheaply made that they disintegrate. I think mine was from Lowes, but same thing I'm sure.

I'm ripping it out this spring and building a completely over-engineered fortress.

Paul MaudDib posted:

I'm in the process of waging war on cable clutter in my home office. I'm planning to mount my monitor on a gas arm and then I was thinking of running cables from the basement. So to do it right I need some kind of "cable gland" for the drywall I think.

https://smile.amazon.com/Buyers-Point-Through-Theater-Systems/dp/B075343YSZ

these look like they need to be mounted to an in-wall receptacle box? how do you get the wires into the junction box from inside the wall/etc? or do I just cut a hole and then drill the screws right into the drywall?

or is there a version of these that don't need the receptacle box?

I'd rather do this than an actual keystone plate, there's too many signal integrity problems with displayport/etc already.

Charles Ingalls posted:

other ideas?

Jerk McJerkface posted:

In my experience they are supposed to but the workers typical won't do it for some reason.

DrBouvenstein posted:

I'd like to have it right now as just regular grass. I might put some raised beds for fruits/veggies in there next year, but right now I've got enough space for my garden plans in my beds in the backyard.

It's specifically one of those "won't kill grass, kills other things" type of herbicides.

Right now it is a giant mix of things:


That's technically a pic from last spring, but basically looks the same this year. Dead areas, crab grass, some good grass, low areas, high areas, clover (which I'm ok with, if it was mostly all clover I'd let it be.)

zenintrude posted:

So I just decided to rip of my back “lawn” that was dead grass and weeds and this is where I’m at now:



I’m going to attempt to level it out as much as I can before I lay down sod (about 750 sqft of St Augustine) but what else should I do to prepare the ground? My father says that St Augustine is “basically a weed” and doesn’t even require the amount of prep I’ve already done to grow, but I was hoping for a second opinion/confirmation of this.