I have 4 big ass ugly coral rocks in my front yard. I want to get rid of them and sod over there area. I tried for a year to try and get someone to take them for free and people bit, but no one actually came. I bought a feather and wedge set and I drilled a couple 9/16” holes in the rock w a masonry bit. First two holes were easy. Now I’m not getting anywhere. Is it the bit or do you think I need a hammer drill to get through? Here’s my progress so far. I realize I shouldn’t have hammered in the wedges so far already, but I got excited.
I’ve been MIA from this thread for a while. Mostly bc I have nothing of value to add. I did meet with the plumber commissioner(if that’s a thing) for the state of Florida a couple weeks ago and asked him about tankless. He said it’s a complete joke and waste of money. Your power bill goes up and you run out of hot water fast. Basically he hated it. he said it was Initially designed to go into tall building that needed small amounts of hot water, like a kitchen area in an office. He said it’s not worth getting for a home. Made me feel really stupid for asking about it.
It was this morning when I realized I never turned the a/c fan back to auto, shit has been running non stop for 2 weeks :/
Have you tried just using a sledge hammer? Not trying to sound like meat head but if it’s coral I imagine it wouldn’t be too tough to break up
This is complete horseshit in my experience. Is he thinking of an electric tankless water heater (which I’ve never heard of)?
We have a family of five and while it takes a bit to get hot water to some parts of house it's never quit being hot (gas ftr)
Our heater is on wall of master bath so its instant hot af for me, upstairs bathroom & kitchen not so much but dgaf tbh
Right. They aren’t designed to be instant hot, they’re designed to not have a finite amount of hot water
Jax I don't know if this has been answered yet but if you want more pressure from the shower head, just remove the small plastic governor inside the shower head with a flathead screwdriver. Takes two seconds and the pressure difference is amazing. You won't see any difference in your bill either, remarkably enough. I've removed every one of them in my showers.
Something I learned with our tankless electric water heater, the GPM is based on a 40 degree temp increase...so the unit that was in our house when we moved in was 5.5 GPM, or more than a bath spigot. Well, in Michigan, in the spring the water coming into the house needs to be raised way more than 40 degrees, so to do that your GPM goes way down and the bath won’t get hot. From what I gathered, they do well in warm climates but if you need a bigger than 40 degree temp increase, it may be problematic with high GPM things, like baths. We replaced it with a tank.
So we're taking advantage of the time we have and fixing up inside and outside. With the kids moving back to school, we're giving them our furniture and redesigning some rooms. Our "basement" has been used as a game room with a pool table, foosball, etc...we kept only the pool table and are starting to transform it into an English pub-style room. Went to a huge antique place in Mt. Dora and found an incredible bar to start the transformation. While they did have wrap around bars that would really have been amazing, they were just too big for the room, unfortunately. Plan on putting wood beams on the ceiling, wood floors, etc.
that’s probably what he was thinking of. They make small under the cabinet sink ones. I know a co-worker put one in a small office renovation he did last year.
I just emailed him asking why he said they were so bad. I need to get a new water heater in the next year or so, which is why I asked him about them in the past. I found his business card, he's a Commissioner on the Florida Building Commission.
I tried in the past and it didn't really make a dent other than chipping off the thinner edges. I broke my wrist/arm/elbow in January so I don't feel too comfortable swinging a sledge hammer atm. Do you think my drill bit is worn out (brand new), or do I just need a better drill?
alright so i have 5 days to figure out my Yale/Nest lock before I close on the house. Right now I can't hook it up to the app at all. So that's a problem because the new owners aren't going to be able to program it and change the code. My Nest thermostat works great with the app and everything, but I have never been able to hook up the front door since the second day I've had it. Even better Nest doesn't have a customer support line because of Covid.
I've had this kit for years and they're worked pretty well for me when cordless was best. It has an impact driver that's worked for drilling into masonry. They also have hammer drills available for $60-$100.
if you have a decent drill at home, I would think you could get an appropriate bit (of that, I have little to suggest) and that would work. A $19.99 drill from Ikea wouldn't qualify. If you don't, any drill from HD/Lowes (coupled with the right bit) will work.
This is your best shot. I hope you get someone that's not a moron. https://nest.secure.force.com/prechatform/apex/PreChatForm?language=en_US&caseNumber=&endpoint=https://nest.secure.force.com/prechatform/apex/ChatView?language=en_US#deployment_id=572400000004CuZ&org_id=00D40000000Mlt9&button_id=573400000004Cva&sessionId=11839034-25a7-4506-92d9-004637035f14 And some light reading when you have a minute, might be a good read before you talk to support so you have an idea what they are trying to tell you to attempt. All they are going to be doing is reading off a sheet so I'f give these a go first. https://support.google.com/googlenest/thread/16732706?hl=en
Posted this in the woodworking thread figured I might as well share my wainscoting project in our new house here also:
Heading back down to my property in Mt Rainier tomorrow to hopefully finish some construction projects. Building a few more planters, and also building a "shoe bench" to put outside -- want to make it a shoes-off inside, but have an accessible bench for people to put their shoes. Thinking of something simple like this: Spoiler Question: if you just put those 1x4s on the top super close to each other, will that prevent rain from reaching the shoes? If not, what are some suggestions as to making the bottom shelf waterproof? I eventually want to put an awning or something to cover the entryway, but that is probably going to have to wait until later.
I would just use a 1/4" piece of pressure treated plywood under those top boards. You could add trim along the entire side of everything to cover up the end cuts of the ply
Looks really good, nice work! Is the entire vertical portion of your tray filled with trim? We used a similar color in our bedroom in the house we're selling, and put some of that color in the tray, and it really popped. Maybe personal preference, but I think it really highlights the tray.
Thanks. It almost killed me. Yes it is, it matched the original base molding in the room. She wanted everything white on the ceiling. The contrast between the flat white ceiling paint and the semi gloss trim paint really pops on its own though.
Yeah it definitely looks great. I love building and working with my hands, but I really struggle to keep the patience for finish carpentry.
Tell me about it. I have 125 - 7’ casing and another 500ish feet of baseboard to sand, fill, paint, miter, and install.
We're building our hopeful "forever home" right now and we were going to leave some trim for later and make sure we got all the structural upgrades since that's so much more complicated to change later, but instead my wife said "budget? we don't need no stinking budget" so we're doing it all. However, I am thankful for not having to do more trim work. It all looks so easy until you do it, and then you realize you never want to do it again. I watched a video of a guy making his own outdoor cooking area with stone along the walls, and I was like man I can do that some day. I literally watched about a half inch of mortar fall off his brick and had PTSD remembering how much I hate tiling walls, and realized I'll be contracting that out to someone else.
The base up these stairs took 3 hours. None of the angles are what they should be. There’s another section on the flight above that was just as bad.
after a 45 minute chat....they have deducted that the wifi chip was fried and they are sending me a new one. So i'm just shipping it to this house and the new owner can deal with it. I will let my realtor know about this so there's no confusion, but this is the best i can do. I'll just lie and say the problem with the door didn't begin until this week. Basically the nest/yale door knob lost it's ability to connect to my phone after the first day of it being installed. I kept it and dealt with it for a few months since the door code still works, but now that i'm moving it needs to be addressed so this new buyer doesn't call me all pissed off.
Great outcome. Just make sure they don't pre-add it to your account. I don't think they will, but sometimes they do this on tech hardware. I had to replace my Nest Hello video doorbell due to frying internals as well, so I dealt with their customer service extensively on that. Thankfully the replacement was free and their support (once escalated) knew how to help.
Guys. I may have over done it with the shower. Added body sprayers And went fully digital. “Alexa. Turn on CF3234’s spa mode. “