I'm finishing two "bonus" rooms now. One is 33' by 12'. Putting in 6" can recessed lights and most likely lifx bulbs. How many do you put in a room that size? I can't find anything reliable on the internet.
I just installed a range hood and while it wasn't the easiest project in the world it wasn't too bad. My only concern would be getting the vent out of the house. I worked with an exisiting vent that went through the roof. I wouldn't want to cut into a roof. If you have a good plan for getting the vent outside you should be good. Only other concern would be any piping or electrical that was running through the floor joist that would block the path of the vent. Actually had the outside sewer line back up earlier this week. The plumber put one of those in the clean out to clear it and it worked great.
There should be a fairly simple equation you can use, I had to do like one lumen/lighting question on the PE and it was pretty simple.
10 lights look good. Anyone know of a good wifi dimmer switch? I'd like to put the lifx lights here but can't spend $500 on them at the moment.
My outdoor water pressure is terrible. Using a splitter to two small sprinklers leads to the water not even spraying 5 ft instead of 75. My neighbor said he had the same thing and removed this from his outdoor faucet. Google says it may be required to prevent back siphoning contamination. Anybody know if that's valid?
If that's preventing proper pressure, it's either dysfunctional or spec'd wrong. That being said, I thought they were primarily used in bathrooms, so I think it's ok to take it off.
10 will be an odd look. Unless you have an odd-shaped room, the can light setup will almost always be in a square/rectangle so the only reasonable combination for 10 lights will be 2 x 5. Thus I'd go with 9 or 12 lights (3 x 3 or 3 x4 arrangement).
Went with 2 rows of 4 lights in the main area. There is a dormer to the right where I centered 1. At the far end by the door there is a small area to the left where I put another. Haven't nailed them in the final position yet but most likely where they will stay. Spoiler
The other trick was the beams in the main area in line with the former are too wide. Plus at the other end they put the ceiling mounted HVAC which I had to work around.
Just added this dimmer switch from Amazon. Works great. Decent iOS interface and is my first HomeKit accessory. Would recommend. Leviton DH6HD-1BZ 600W Decora Smart Dimmer for iOS
Soooo I have torpedo grass in my yard (pretty much all sodded areas). About to roundup the yard and resod.........
Brick wall #2 update. Apparently some asshole placed an order for 170,000 of the used antique Chicago thin bricks (cost was north of $250,000) creating a 6 month backorder. They had 10 cases on hand so I immediately purchased them but of course I need 12. These bricks come from old torn down buildings in Chicago so they can't just make more of them. I'm going to shop around to see if I can find some facsimile but I'm likely going to be forced to get creative with my joint spacing.
not a homeowner but rent a home and have an issue that figure some of you have come across. Older house, has a basement. We had a bit of a humidity problem throughout the house, but have seemingly fixed it by constantly running a humidifier (hooked it up to a hose, pumping it outside). Recently had some drips and leaks fixed in basement as well. Anywho, it seems like anytime I go down to the basement (which attracts flies when the humidifier IS NOT running) I get bit up. I don't really feel it then, but I do when I get into bed a few hours later. Mostly a bunch in a row on my lower legs, some on my left tricep near my elbow. I don't really see any bugs while I am down there. Previous renters of four years had dogs. TLDR: wet/humid basement, improving, but get tiny red bites on lower legs and some other places when I go down there, don't see flying bugs/mosquitoes in house. No bed bugs. Obviously, probably gonna call landlord to call in a bug guy, but just wondering if it rung any bells.
could be but I've had chiggers before and it was much more intense. Might have sitting water in my pump or something that is attracting mosquitoes or some bug
Finished dining room brick wall: Ran out of brick as expected so I spaced the joints much larger in the top half than the bottom. Not a chance I was waiting 6-8 months for a few bricks. I liked the wooden shelf inlay idea but decided it would be a little cramped with the kitchen entrance right up against the wall and also I have no idea how close the dining room table will be to the wall. Need to get some furniture and maybe more art to fill out the room.
Just closed on a new construction. Not a huge yard but watering the sod is going to be the death of me. Told my wife we are selling it and moving to a town house.
anyone ever had foundation problems? the brick/foundation is pulling away from the house. also, anyone ever have luck with insurance covering anything like that (GoodForAnother)? I have something on my policy called "Land Stabilization"? Spoiler: Pics
Good luck with that, Baron. Whether insurance covers that or not will probably depend on whether some covered form of loss is causing that issue. So if the soil erosion is caused by something covered under your policy, then you may be good. If its just the product of a shifting foundation or something that may be specifically excluded under the policy, you may have a problem. I wouldn't get my hopes up about that. Regardless, I'd get a structural engineer out ASAP.
Before you burn it to the ground and collect on your Homeowners, how about posting a pic from a little further back where we can see more of the structure? Edit: Also, a profile pic looking down the structure to view alignment of masonry veneer and adjacent wall section.
I am meeting an engineer at 12:30 today, will take more pics then. But without giving you a picture, the outside wall has shifted outwards slightly and is bowing the bottom piece of vinyl siding out (it's a bi-level if that helps paint the picture). This really fucking sucks as the wife wants to sell the house soon and now I have this headache to deal with. Do we have any realtors on TMB?
Seriously use this stuff: Home inspectors go on what they can see. They can't get under paint or brick. So you have to mask the exterior. I'd rip out that one white vertical board next to the brick, place mortar to the left of the brick (work hard to match the color and make it thick since it will need to adhere to a vertical surface). Replace the white board with a new piece and then caulk with big stretch in between the new mortar and the new white board. Check for any other nearby signs of foundation issues, for example good chance the concrete below that area has small cracks. If so, use some concrete filler and maybe a quick facade of concrete if you can't get it to matchup. List the house immediately. It's the housing equivalent of an ugly girl putting on makeup.
If a buyer purchases a house and there are obvious foundation issues that were covered up, isn't there a grace period that the buyer is allowed to sue/recoup losses from the previous owner? I always assumed there was, especially if it wasn't documented in the disclosure.
No worries guys, it's too fucked up to do what our buddy lechnerd suggested anyways. Not sure on that, but I do believe it's law to disclose any foundation repairs to seller. Don't know exact details though.