The Home Improvement Thread

[achirdo]

Bingo! My pool pumps are like an extra AC unit.

Variable speed pumps my friend. I've got mine running at 100watts

 

[Silverback]

Sadly mine are not.

 

[achirdo]

Sadly mine are not.

Worth the investment. They would pay themselves off within the first year or 2

 

[Silverback]

I'll look into it... I need two.

 

[Oswego]

Got a new ceiling fan for the saggy ass fucker in our living room. Best part... it was free!! I still need to install it... having 12' ceilings means I might pay someone to fall off a ladder and not be me.
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Any/all fans with real wood blades will sag and warp. Just the nature of wood. We swapped out all our blades to plastic "foe wood" blades years ago down the marina before my mom sold it. Exterior fans on a roofed porch 20 yards from the water took it's toll on fan blades over the years. Once we swapped to plastic - no more issues.

My houses probably uses that much in 2 days.

Bingo! My pool pumps are like an extra AC unit.

Your houses are also prob 2-4X larger than mine + I bet I use a bunch more natural gas in the winter then you folks do down there. Luckily NG is cheap compared to electric.

 

[Oswego]

if you are buying an old house - be careful. This has been an ongoing issue forever and in commercial construction it is even worse. I'd get testing kits and do my own testing - I would not trust a home inspector to test the right locations unless you know them and trust them.

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[Silverback]

New ceiling fan is up. I like this thing!

 

[Oswego]

looks great! you got some tall ceilings... like 10'?

 

[Silverback]

12’ ceilings. It’s a big room.

 

[Silverback]

All the doors are 8’ tall

 

[Oswego]

Dang.... Guess no ones messing around when they say everythings bigger in TX. Your doors are my ceiling height

 

[Silverback]

My front door is 42” wide and 8’ tall. When we bought new furniture several years ago the delivery guys were happy. Easy to get shit in the house.

 

[Oswego]

Always nice to not have to worry about measuring anything you wan to get in.

 

[balakay]

Yeah my front door is only 30" wide. Cant fit shit in. Have to take everything apart to fit it in the house. When I do the new windows (hopefully 2020), I'm going to get a new front door and see how much it'll cost to upgrade to a full 36" door. Think its gonna be more than it's worth though. Same thing with windows. The two I need to replace are an odd side I havent found anywhere. Dont know if its cheaper to have custom windows made or reframe for a standard size window. I'm guessing custom but we'll see. I'm wanting to do windows, siding, and front door next year. Hopefully things pick up at work so I can swing it.

 

[Anathollo]

Yeah my front door is only 30" wide. Cant fit shit in. Have to take everything apart to fit it in the house. When I do the new windows (hopefully 2020), I'm going to get a new front door and see how much it'll cost to upgrade to a full 36" door. Think its gonna be more than it's worth though. Same thing with windows. The two I need to replace are an odd side I havent found anywhere. Dont know if its cheaper to have custom windows made or reframe for a standard size window. I'm guessing custom but we'll see. I'm wanting to do windows, siding, and front door next year. Hopefully things pick up at work so I can swing it.

You'll have to order them then. A lot of goofy sizes from back in the day. One of the reasons I hate residential work. It's doesn't have as many standard sizes as commercial or industrial work (not talking about new residential builds now).

 

[Taco Loco]

Found a nice little antique table for the new printer.

Its a close match in color to the roll top desk that we already have.

 

[tex]

Clogged AC drain line. Discovered the drain does not tie in to the P trap under any sinks. It ties into kitchen sink drain vent in the attic. Thankfully the backup drain is working and started dripping on the back porch to alert me.

Waiting for some joints to dry on a section or pipe I cut out, cleaned and put back to see if this fixes it.

 

[tex]

Nope. Didnt fix it. Looks like the upstairs is also draining VERY slow and I know when I have reached my abilities. Calling an AC guy tomorrow.

 

[Taco Loco]

Nope. Didnt fix it. Looks like the upstairs is also draining VERY slow and I know when I have reached my abilities. Calling an AC guy tomorrow.

My Grandpa and uncle both owned HVAC companies, they use this along with hot water.

 

[tex]

I poured bleach down both AC drains so fingers crossed it helps over night. Either way I need it fixed soon so it doesn't leak water up stairs and cause a bigger issue.