>be home owner>slowly find issues with home that weren't disclosed by seller or inspector >leaking sewer pipes>mold in wall>mold in floor>efflorescense abounds>HVAC isn't engineered correctly>siding isn't sealed>can't install solar because neighbors have 100ft tall trees surrounding my west and south sides>foundation wasn't poured correctly >two of my cats died from exposure to something in the house>my health is declining I could go on and on>try to fix things and end up finding more things>can't sell because of the market right nowComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2958362>I've looked at all possibilitiesFrom your first post, I assume you can pass as a women to someone with bad eyesight. So...get yourself a skimpy dress and go volunteer at the old folks home. Latch onto some old rich guy who's about to die and get him to leave you all his wealth. Once its in your bank, pay someone to some fix up the house that you (for reasons we wont get in to) can't fix yourself.How is this a bad plan I ask? Its not
>>2958353Im in a similar situation, not as bad, but it's pretty bad>sewer gasis it constant or just every so often? For me it's intermittent and I can air it out... actually just got up to check and sure enough, I had to open the window.>foundationhuge problem here, the whole complex is built on terrible fill dirt, clay heavy and expands and contracts with the seasons, doors don't latch, cracks in all the walls.>molddunno about mold, but it's a flat roof and there's been leaks during heavy rains. Ive had to poke 2 holes in the ceiling over the years I've been here>housing marketI'm hyper gambling hoping to win and then be able to move. Today is not working out there either :(I used a family member real estate agent to move here and I regret it. Under-priced the house I moved out of and I think the inspector was bought off for this place.I actually bought a CJ-100 tent last year when my gambling was going well (and a heater buddy, starlink etc) so I could escape to living in a tent if needed. Not sure what to do, but you're not alone
Just fix the house you faggot. I've been flooded with 5 ft. of water and hit by tornados and still rebuilt.
>>2958353While I can't help you, OP, I can understand what you're going through, and I'm sending you my support over the ether.I bought a garage with a mold problem, and have been struggling with it since.
>>2958353sell house here, its a 5 year warranty. everything has to be listed, all leaks all craks in the flooring. if you know it your price has to be set equally low. bought a house for 50k this way.
I need someone to redpill me on paint. I have several interior walls I'd like painted so that they don't look like shit anymore. I hear that modern Dulux is terrible and that you should really be buying paint from specialty stores, but they're very expensive. I don't need anything too fancy and solid colors are fine as long as they look good. Durability isn't my main concern but it would be nice not to have to repaint for at least a couple years. Where am I supposed to get this stuff?
Just go to Lowe's or home depot. Don't get the cheapest shit they have and you'll be fine.
>>2961807Agreed. The super cheap shit doesn't hold up to even a wet paper towel if you need to clean it. Behr or Valspar or whatever the next step up is is fine for most walls unless they're going to see a lot of abuse.
>>2961806remember to ask for a shot of black.
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>>2964196went to buy 1 gallon of that stuff at sherwin williams. get to the counter and the guy say $75.75 FUCKING DOLLARS for a gallon of paint.then when I balked he said $25.what the hell!
Youtube's algorithm just saved me some money. Does this ever happen to you?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DCSRbgZ5I
>>2963748There are three things every person needs to own before they need it, because by the time you need it, it's far too late to go buy one — a plunger, a fire extinguisher, and a gun.
>>2963814I own a plunger. I have a bucket and access to water.Here in the very safe and effective UK, we are issued with tea bags and mugs, so that of a burgler does strike, you can distract them by offering them a cup of tea until the very busy police can find time between arresting white folk for saying mean things on Twitter about the PM, trannies or Muslims to come and arrest the jogger who broke in to your house, whilst probably giving you a lecture about how its really your fault and you were probably asking for it in the first place. You are also legally required to offer them a cup of tea too.
>>2963814wrong on two counts. I don't own and have never needed a plunger or firearm.
>>2963942>I don't own and have never needed a plunger or firearm.Yet.
I can hear the wife breathing fatly
Anyone do septic?I do general private contract work and wtf is this?Why is there a GFCI inside a septic lid?Is this code or something?Was this guy new and "wet=GFCI"?Was he retarded.Can someone elaborate on why a licensed professional would do this? I'm willing to accept I don't know something. But this seems retarded.I hard wired it and put a GFCI plug inside and have that into the breaker.
>>2963804Yea. Gfcis need to be accessible. An in a tank under a lid that will probably be covered in shit is just barely accessible. Fuck it all
>>2963809I found a better way.
>>2963604>everyone above me is retarded and ignorant and should have kept their ignorant retarded mouths shut. lmao
>>2963530I install septic systems and usually when we do a pump tank its in a water tight junction box. No outlets, pump and alarm go into junction box. 15 amp breaker for alarm, 20 amp for pump depending on sizing of pump and run of wire. Typically we use direct burial wire from house to tank with both 12-2 and 14-2 in same trench. some companies around us do as you have pictured and I have fixed a few of them over the years. Very easy fix and I can usually sell a pump out at the same time. EZIf you need I can post a pic of the box I use, let me know!
>>2963530Maybe it was for some tool specialized for some lost purpose?
how do you get a clean space in a small flat when cutting and sanding a lot? I looked for some solutions like a homemade plastic cabin but maybe there is a better solutionmaybe those homemade boxes like picrel but limited space and not relevant for painting
work in the shower cabin
Tiny home thread
>>2963607RV without a working engine means no heating, cooling or recharging the batteryso you would have to work around those issues RV also means no insulation so when you do have a heating/cooling set up it'll take more energy maintain a tempcould still be a cheaper option but it needs to be considered
>>2956070tiny home on 5+ acres of private land is cooltiny home in an RV park or your mom's backyard is gay
>>2956070Tiny homes are pure cope.
>>2956070i really don't understand this trend. i build houses and am a pretty good carpenter, i built my uncle a 26x28' pole barn for $8k in materials. that doesn't include doors and windows, but for $20k in materials you could have a 625 sqft house instead of whatever the fuck these tiny homes are. that's a 25x25 square, two 12.5x12.5 bedrooms, a 5x12.5 bath with a wardrobe in it, and then a 12.5x20 living room kitchen combo. if you are ambitious you can do a 6/12 or higher pitch roof and have a loft for either an office or a third bedroom.
>>2964095Some places it would cost 20K just in permits and inspections before you even buy materials.
So, together with a friend, we have decided to make our own console for fun and giggles. This surely is an undertaking but this is an idea we were considering for a long time and as we got more and more experienced with circuits, embedded programming, 3d printing and stuff like that, I feel like it would be finally in our reach.I never really looked at other people's similar projects, I have no idea what I'm doing honestly, but I can write code and I can use google so I think we will figure it out and get there eventually.I will post our progress in this thread.
I've finished all the graphical primitives, sprites and friend has finished text related functions. Which means all the graphical API got finished(except for one function). That is not all of the graphics related functionality though, there is still bunch of registers that can alter how things are drawn, but they can wait for later.With majority of pico8 api implemented I can start running games. Friend's game worked on first try and so does all the carts I wrote so far. However only in the emulator. If I try to run anything but basic carts on the esp I quickly run out of stack or heap or both. This calls for refactor and optimizations, and that's what I will focus on right now.>>2959096>>2959100Thanks. I will try to do something similar to include d-pad in final version too. It will be much better suited for pico8 games than an analog.
>>2961131lol rust
>>2961139Can't blame them, it's easier
Well, we got a problem. While I took some time to clean things up, refactor the code and fix some things that never worked before(eg backtraces) I figured out that the crashes I was getting on the real hardware were caused by strange psram corruption. Eventually I realised I configured it wrong, but even after changing it from quad to octal(which fixed size detection which was broken) more and more weird things started happening. Sometimes the probe couldn't connect to the board, even if I managed to flash it 90% of time it just gets stuck in rom bootloader, sometimes it just seemingly halts when I try to add the memory region to its dedicated allocator. I am suspecting some hardware issue since I did run it wrongly configured for a good while and fucked up connecting it some time ago drawing too much power through gpio. But I also don't see why would it manifest like that, it might as well be problem with probe software or compiler miscompilation or something with my code or even usb port. Either way I ordered another dev kit and will have to test various set ups in both Rust and maybe C++-IDF and try to nail down the actual cause.
>>2964080>Well, we got a problem.I think you need more breadboards and longer wires.
how do i get catfaggot smell out of my machine at work
Also are you sharing this loader with aforementioned catfaggot, or is he a previous occupant of the loader and you want to erase all history of him ever being there? If he is no longer going to be in the cab a good deep cleaning may be in order to remove all traces.
>>2962615>catfaggotis that someone who owns felines or someone who is a brand loyalist to Cat?
>>2963009>someone who is a brand loyalist to Cat?I wouldn't call myself a brand loyalist, but Cat makes some good shit. Their old stuff at least. I love this damn 920 like you wouldn't believe. Have a 613B scraper I need to get up and running again to do some dirt work projects, building levees and roads, and to help leveling off some fields. Recently picked up a 955L track loader that needs work for cheap. Parts may not be cheap, but they're always available.
>>2963749cute lil guy
>>2963960It's handier than a shirt on a pocket... Small enough to get into tight places and big enough to still throw it's weight around. I have some Michigan 35aws loaders that are even more nimble. They're like the fuckin' hotrods of the loader world when they have a well running 3-53 detroit screaming.
I want to upgrade my panel from 125 amps to 200 amps.We got a heat pump and the electricians connecting it knew I wanted a wood shop and they said that with their load calculations they said there was 93 of 125 accounted for.However when they got the panel off the eight blank circuits that I thought were there are just unfilled parts of the panel and there's no where to put them in behind so the whole panel needs upgrading.After working on my mom's house in my own house before I'm going to go for a Square D panel and breakers for a cohesive lookThe company doing the electrical work on the heat pump knew I wanted a woodworking shop and said that the service conductor is fine and the pole has enough capacity at the Transformer to make that change.So, I have to probably replace the conductor in the Mast down to the electrical panel through the meter, I have to do a new bit of construction for the new meter complete with larger capacity, and probably have to upgrade a ground rod for the larger panel. Have I missed anything?
Bump.Opie here, I've done a lot of electrical work, mostly smaller things don't like adding 220 outlets and running wire, digging in electrical services for the electrical company and being one of their grunts.
>>2961587Leave existing panel alone.Replace mast conductors and meter base with 200A unit with breakers. Feed existing panel from this. Install new shop panel from meter base panel.IMO, electricians should have offered this option when they did heat pump and you asked for future capacity.
>>2961587Sparky here: this plan will work, but beware of the coordination and effort involved-fuck up replacing the mast and you may be without power for some time if you can't finish the job/pass inspection the first day. It all depends on what your local utility is like. Even for pros this type of job can sometimes a full day for a crew of 2 if you run into something.If your wood shop is a detached building and you have the money, it may be worth considering having a separate mast and meter installed just for the shop. This is probably not economical unless you have massive amounts of equipment.>>2961787This isnt a bad idea, but you do want to replace the panel in your pic no matter what, as that brand, Federal Pacific, is notorious for causing fires.
>>2961795Yeah I like the Square D breakers I've never had a problem with them. The guys doing the replacement on here had to dig up an old breaker that would work in this old panel as they couldn't get any brand new ones for this type of panel.I do have a separate building on the property but it had electrical service delivered from a wire just buried a few inches under the ground that is not rated for that so I got rid of that entirely.There is also a separate building on the property called the park model with an attached garage. The park model is sort of a glorified trailer but it isn't rated for habitation year-rounded mostly used by Farm Workers doing the busy season. I don't want to put my woodworking shop over there as I might want to add a welder and an outlet over there so I can do that kind of stuff there
>>2961587I had a pole placed with an outdoor service panel and outdoor 240 and 120v outlets before erecting my shop. I gave that a subpanel later but immediate power beats the shit out of a service replacement there was no reason to do. The bill is trivial and having a full service lets me run whatever I want including welders and compressors. Zero disturbance to my home and not having to trench etc from my home service saved me a shitload of work for less return. Even if my service had capacity the work to connect a portion of that to my shop would have been more hassle than a fresh service. A major shop service bonus can be no total power interruption while OP upgrades the home panel. >>2961963>I might want to add a welder and an outlet over there so I can do that kind of stuff thereYou can also have an outdoor welder outlet anywhere you have a service so I do. I have a home service, another home service to my secondary house so I could rent it out, and of course the mentioned workshop service. For outdoor welding and (mechanical) cutting/grinding I use SOOW cable extension cords. That plus the dispersion of my outlets gives me considerable range when working on vehicles, trailers etc.
A few days ago i started hearing like a scratching noise just above the ceiling. Its made with drywall just like pricrel and there are like 8 inches of fiberglass blown in insulation. This is a single home, there is nothing up there that could make that noise.Idk what the fuck is that thing or how it got there, that space is literally a closed brick and cement box.How do you deal with a problem like this? Poison? Hacking a hole and try to let out whatever the fuck that is?
>>2963108a mouse or rat can fit through a hole the size of its head not a pencil.
>>2963116>inspection cameras have terrible field and depth of viewthis. you OP is wasting his time. if there is insulation it the walls or roof you won't see anything.
>>2963464You're still gay. You sound like you put the mice in the sandwich bag and jam it up your ass with your gay peanut butter.
>>2963510>>2963510No I do it straightly when I jam up my rotted wretched hole. No condom bag either. My peanut butter is also straight. /diy'd/ with free peanuts scavenged from the roadhouse grill that I convince a tinder girl to take me on a date to. Then I have her drive me back to my fucked up mouse infested barn and have her watch me cutely use my sweet little peanut butter piping bags like I use when I make cute little straight diy cakes then I tell her to fuck off and go and kiss my gay bitch wife goodnight and go and slide rotting crushed mouse skulls into my putrid (but straight) hole.Thanks.
>>2963479KekIt's skull* not headMost mice can squeeze through a 1/4" opening before they're fully grown
I have no fence on the yard border with my neighbour. It's 25m long, flat soil line where I would put a 1.8-2m tall fence. I want full privacy protection for a budget price (I don't live there). I would also like something I can diy as a non-diy guy (I work with electronics but no building experience). The cheapest option here is Europe is the thick wire panel fence, but I havent seen a way yet to make those completely private. I would dig holes and pour concrete into them to stabilize posts, as building a wall base is more expensive than the fence. What do? How difficult is pic related and what post distance for a windy area?
>>2963311You can buy prefabricated fence - segments come in 2.5m lenght. The posts need to be anchored into concrete and i'm guessing you don't want to spend money or time pouring a footing , so you would need to either pour small concrete blocks yourself, or buy bricks,fillem up with cement and burry them.
>>2963311Just get that thick, textured, coloured plastic slat fence stuff that slides into slotted concrete uprights. Doesn't cost that much and lasts for decades. Withstands wind. Worked for us, although we paid someone else to do it because that'd take me too long and its really a two man job.
>>2963311Why do you think that's the cheapest option? Like another Anon said, plant a bunch of tall bush treesOr build a fence out of limbs from a nearby forest (hopefully with permission)
>>2963434Maximum post spacing for something like that at that height is 8ft (2.4m)OC for that kind of fenceNote that you need to account for equal spacing so you don't have an awkward ass short panel at the end. If you have a 25m run, you need (11) line posts spaced at 7.5ft (2.28m) OC PLUS (2) end posts
>>2963437Wasn't it the French who came up with the metric system? Last time I was in the UK, bongs were still using lots of imperial units.
my knees feel like absolute trash from doing work, walking and standing on concrete will some expensive shoes help and which ones?
There is something wrong with the fundamentals if walking and standing causes you pain.Poor posture (not just in regards to spine), weak feet (be as close to barefoot as you can as often as you can to help remedy this), maybe poor diet.You can go doen the rabbit hole of specialty gear to correct for your deficiencies, or you can work on fixing your deficiencies.
just get inserts and make sure they work well with your arch. also make sure to replace those inserts when the foam compresses fully. foam cushioning (whether it be midsoles or insoles) will almost always wear out before the rest of the shoe/boot and its cheaper to buy new insoles every 4-6 months than new shoes
>>2960241Eat more fat, buy insoles and stretch touching your toes 20 minutes before bed every night
>>2960241how long days? 8h with a lunch break or 3 you should be able to take it, 12h non stop thats just your body saying nooo let me rest. it can still be done and you get used to it, shoes and that makes little difference for knees. if you are fresh in the game it does take a few years to harden up but also along the ride you learn that every sturdy object at the right height is a chair so you sit down if so for just 30 seconds every time you can.and lastly, how do you walk? do you stomp or float? stompers wear out their joints much faster than floaters. when you put your weight on the leading foot it shouldnt be a *stomp* but a floating motion. if you ever lived with a stomper you know these are the people who sound like an elephant when walking on the second floor. they stomp all their body weight on the heel of the leading foot for every step and it ruins their joints.
>>2960241Japanese bubble shoes
I keep buying camera lenses and it has gotten to the point I actually need a way to store them.All the commercial shit is soft cases or pelican cases, I just want to be able to store them in a small tote without them smashing into each other, I don't need to throw it out of a plane. Soft cases can work but if they are small enough they can slip between the dividers so it doesn't solve the problem. I was thinking maybe like an ornament box, but the dividers look cardboard and would need to be like twice as deep for longer lenses. Any ideas?I was thinking take 2 liter bottles and cut the tops off and try and pack as many in a tote or box to keep the bottles in place from moving around.
>>2963275all for diy ing this if you have materials lying around but if you plan on buying materials then consider just getting a tote for glasswear
>>2963524That's good, I'll look for a coffee mug size one. I'm not so committed to autism like some that I have to build everything, but in this case I just couldn't think of something off the top of my head that would fit. Though it's obvious in retrospect like if you show someone you can use a .22 ammo case for storing 1/4 bits.
I am developing the same issue. I was thinking of using this site (https://www.tooltrace.ai/) and then cutting some foam on my cheap CNC machine. I was also thinking of using some of those under bed storage bins and organizing everything by mount type. My logic for using this setup is that it would allow me to store shorter lenses vertically and macros, telephotos & zooms horizontally, while also having slots for the cameras & accessories plus another one that's for one of those damprid things to manage humidity.
>>2962690I used to be a professional photographer, huge piles of gear, 35 mm medium format and a view camera.I got one of those zero heldbron cases to store big pile of it when I'm not using it but I don't travel or work out of it because it's just a thief magnet. I also used to have a piece of custom leather caseware from some famous European maker but I ended up selling it cuz I didn't use it as much as I thought it would
>>2962690Just get a big bin or cardboard box and buy some foam sheets online. Cut them, glue them to the sides, and cut some sides to wedge between like an ornament box.Don't forget a silica pack or two so fungus doesn't rape your kit.
Chat I want to build a high pressure high temperature water sprayer to use for washing dishes in a way that uses as little water as possible.I have a cabin in the woods which has no sink or plumbing etc so I just haul in water and for a while I just use paper plates and stuff but generating so much trash is retarded.Does it sound like the best way? Like a 7 holed spray nozzle at 150psi and 70c water temp or so is what I was thinking, around the 6L/m mark but if only need a few seconds to spray off the debris and then scrub it and spray another couple seconds idk. Does that sound reasonable? For the hot water I was thinking about building my own instant hot water heating system or just buying one. Also how can I store some water without it going bad?
>>2953706>instant water heaters are terriblewhy?
Just let the food dry on the paper plates and burn them in your firepit you sperg. You're staying at a cabin in the woods don't even try to pretend you don't have a firepit, THAT would be retarded.
>>2963566You can even get wood utensils. I don't really camp but I keep a supply of those and paper plates/bowls.They're just handy to have beyond just dish convenience.
>>2953440Have you ever considered eating from a bread bowl OP?Medieval people did it all the time
>>2963566>somewhat reducesFulltime innawoods is dumb unless you're somewhere that can bore a well. Nobody wants to consider the fly population among their living areas>break down greaseBleach does nothing to grease. Maybe bleach means something different to you.? Regular household ~5% NaClO bleaches you can dilute 1:1000 (couple ml per L water) and have an effective disinfectant solution.
Does anyone know how to get rid of those nasty fuckers?
>>2956673Tonsillectomy. They used to be much more routine and there was no problem. No reason exists to want tonsils or adenoids. I'm delighted mine were removed in childhood.Remember to read the medical preconditions for tonsil removal so your insurance co can fund it. Gargle STRONG salt water solution while healing. That can also mitigate stones but just get rid of the tonsils and be done with it.
>>2961019I scrolled all the way down to finally see this. Get those fuckers out. I had those disgusting things from about 12 years old until I convinced a doctor to take them out at 21 years old. Best decision ever.
tonsil stones are the result of food particles entering the tonsil crypts. i daily rinse out my tonsil crypts. part of my oral hygiene regimen of brushing, flossing the teeth, scraping the tongue. all about getting the food particles out so you don't feed the oral bacteria that create their by-products biofilm and tonsil stones. if you remove stones you are already too late, you've allowed the bacteria to feast on food particles that got into the crypts. if you flush, you are not flushing stones, but the food particles that lead to the stones. when i do my daily flush of tonsil crypts nothing comes out but food particles and liquids from chewing. i haven't had stones in decades since having this insight and implementing this. over the years my methods have changed but the idea was always to daily flush out the crypts. it's nothing special to me, similar to rinsing my mouth with water after a meal, except i'm rinsing the tonsils out too. my latest method is to use an oral irrigator in one hand and a stainless steel chopstick in the other for prodding the tonsil crypt open to the water jet from the irrigator. of course i do it at a mirror with a small led spot light clamped beside it. you have to find a way to control the flow of the oral irrigator and my method is simply to kink/fold the hose in my grip to stop it and slightly loosen my grip to increase flow. good luck.
I had one two times in the same spot, used the blunt side of a long skewer toothpick to poke them out and never had them again
>>2956694>its overNah, I've had these regularly at one point now they've been gone for years. probably diet, chewing technique, staying hydrated matterYou can use waterpik spray to get them out bit more comfy than poking directlyConsider ur diet, stay hydrated sip water during meals and do proper dental hygeine w/ tongue scraper and floss. Maybe Xylitol gumChlorhexidine or alcohol mouthwash very infrequently as an oral biome nuke. Regular gargle/mouthwash should only be salt water>>2960571These little fuckers smell so bad it's a testament to the human olfactory system. maybe we're especially sensitive to basically rotting food. You could troll your pets with one
