Guy is an idiot. If you’re his friend, you need to think seriously about having a frank conversation with him about this versus allowing him to embarrass himself by broadcasting this to everyone in the neighborhood.
the attic in my 100 year old house is very large and open. there is a vent in the front that bugs and pollen get into quite easily. it's very difficult to keep the whole upstairs cool in the summer and i mainly blame the attic. there is not much insulation at all. i've thought about looking into getting it foam sprayed or even just an insulation pro come take a look at it. My power bill in the warmer months is ridiculous so i assume it would pay for itself within a few years.
See Birmingham thread for the electrician I rec'd. Quote was ~$600 to wire + install, but that was last year.
ideally i'd like for someone to snoop around up there and tell me what i need. quote it and install it.
Well, yeah, that's wire and install. Or maybe $100 more to come out and look? IDK. FWIW they invoiced me for $50 less than the quote for other work b/c it took less time. They're good dudes.
Also, speaking of attic fans, anyone got a rec? I have a 2'x2' opening. The Broan one that always comes up is substantially smaller at 14". Thoughts? We have a big ol 1910 house with a very tall attic. Gets hot upstairs; the only real "opening" to the real second floor is the drop down stairs, so I'm not super worried about pulling conditioned air out, but happy to hear word to the contrary. No soffit vents bc too old for that and no where to put them.
I mean...sure... The big issue with our house is it's hipped on three sides and then gable in the front. Weird as hell, never seen anything else like it. I can lay more batts, but just want to get the one (ugly) vent on the one gable side to work as best as possible.
Walk downstairs to my wife telling me that the fridge is leaking something, but it isn’t water. I investigate and see that it’s an oily substance. About twelve years ago, I had a refrigerator leak freon and it was oily, so I started trying to find the leak (freon is no longer used in modern refrigerators, by the way). There was nothing obvious, so I was readying myself to move everything from the main fridge to the garage fridge. Just as I begin to do that, my hand touched the outside of the fridge and came away extremely oily. It turns out that a novelty beach magnet with tiny shells, starfish, and fish floating around in it had cracked, and the oily substance inside of it had leaked into my kids’ artwork and made the puddle we found on the floor. TL;DR…Don’t buy stupid novelty magnets
Here is a project I've been working on over the past couple weeks. Converted our existing hall closet with folding doors, to this open concept closet. Never really tackled anything like this before, but turned out good in my opinion and wife is happy. Still need to touch up a few spots with paint and clean it up a tad.
I have a 6mo Bosch also, the thing isn't great with drying but overall I'm okay with it. I have a water softener bc our hardness is terrible but the washer still leaves water marks in all of our baby cups.
Do you like laying on your back in a very confined space while manipulating hoses and nuts by reaching above your head and holding your arms up for an extended period of time?
Not particularly… Seeing as how I already have my handyman coming to do a couple other things will probably just add it to the list.
I’ve done this. Add an hour to however long you think it’s going to take. Also make sure the base fitting is at least the same size as your old one (larger is fine). I definitely didn’t make that mistake.
And use pumbers tape on all threaded connections and triple check for leaks prior to calling it a day. Nothing is a swifter kick in the nuts than a $2 part causing $50,000 in damage to your kitchen.
By easy I thought it would like a 20/30 min job. Thanks to everyone, but definitely no thanks on doing it myself.
It’s definitely doable it’s just incredibly uncomfortable Edit add on: I was like you and thought it would only be a 30 minute job. Went by Home Depot after work and grabbed the hardware and thought I’d have it done well before dinner. I remember taking a step back after messing with it for 45 minutes, seeing the contents of the cabinets under the sink spread out all over the floor and the empty spot where the old unit was and thinking “look what you’ve gotten yourself into.”
The sprayer is broken, and the wife just generally doesn’t like it. Don’t think there’s any structural issues with anything I’d be dealing with.
Also, just for the record: buy something nice and don't worry about the $$. In our old house, I did the bathroom sink and it was so shitty that I ended up just disconnecting everything to make it easier to get to. The cheapo stuff had rusted out, etc. Even in our remodeled kitchen, the contractor didn't tighten down the mounting washer enough, so every once and a while, I had to get in there to do that bastard. Our new house has some no-name kitchen sink faucet that's shit (no control over flow, bad mixing of hot and cold), and I've been ready to change it since we moved in two years ago...but I'm still scarred. Grrrrr.
What kind of grass do I have here, double RL ? Cabs said centipede, AKA "the lazy man's turf" but I want to get a second opinion to confirm that. Follow up question -- what should I do to ensure it's thriving this summer? Throw some more seed down now? Aerate first?
i installed this recently: https://www.homedepot.com/p/QuietCo...-Electric-Attic-Fan-AFG-SMT-PRO-2-0/312960272 also had soffit vent baffles and r44 installed and sealed up at least some of the wire holes etc with foam. Even if your only “hole “ is the attic stairs there are likely other leaks into the attic. It depends on how crazy you want to go with things but you can seal them with foam. It isn’t summer obviously, but we had a sunny 80 degree day and the fan kept the attic to a peak of about 105, which I was happy with. Need to make sure there is enough ventilation for the fan to suck air from outside and not from the house. They give you guidelines in the manual if you wanted to check.
Currently replacing the master bathroom faucets and stoppers for my new house. Was draining slow and the faucets had calcified. The stuff inside was horrifying.
If it’s centipede it’ll just need a little fertilizer and water when it’s dry. It can handle heat and drought pretty well, and will fill in nice with sun and a little water.