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Jiggy-Z

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  1. Water is always set to drain away from the house. The issue is what to do with the water that pools around the outside of the wall in the soil. There needs to be a way to remove it. Even on a plateau or a hill water will find its way to the lowest point, sometimes even traveling against gravity and uphill through pressure applied in seams and voids. Here in central Texas most houses that have split levels have a French Drain at the perimeter which is day lighted downhill, which eliminates the need for a sump pump set up. However when you have a true basement, there is usually a sub slab French drain and a perimeter French drain which are routed to an interior sump pit/pump. In 26 years in Central Texas I have never installed a residential sump set up in a split level "hillside" house as there has always been a means to remove water through gravity. We install sump pits in elevator pits all the time, although those are too small to warrant any type of individual drainage system. In the example I gave with the Hilton, the sub floor French Drain was installed with gravel but it was mixed with wet limestone fill creating an almost concrete like encapsulation of the drain pipe which did not allow the sub slab drain system to work. On top of that, the wall waterproofing failed due to poor install and improper exterior wall drainage system installation. The amount of water infiltrating was too great for the sump pit/pump set up they had. The solution was to cut into the floor and install an entirely new sub floor French drain system, an additional sump pit/pump, and enlargement of the existing sump pit/pump set up. The basement walls had to be treated from the inside with a crystallizing waterproofing element to keep them from weeping. Additionally, the walls received over 800 core holes which were fitted with an interior pvc manifold system that fed down into the sub slab drain.
  2. Concrete contractor here. Back in 2003 we were working on the convention center Hilton in Austin adding some curb on the 6th, 7th and 12th floor. We had to dowel into the slab to affix the curb and the the scanner guys fucked up and didn't mark all of the pt cables and sure enough we hit about 5 of them. Sounded like a gun going off and a couple of them shot out the side of the building. They were about $3,500.00 each to fix. That building was plagued with bad design and execution. We got to fix the 5th level of the below ground parking garage too. The wall waterproofing failed and th French drain system was shit. During the rainy season that lowest level had a bout 3 feet of water in it.
  3. "Shanks of Glory"?
  4. Jim Spencer going commando.
  5. Hit the Oak Hill HEB at 7 this am. It was a breeze. They were out if a lot of stuff, but I think they weren't done doing their restock. Plenty of water and ass wipes, though.
  6. No dice. I even tried to get him going. Stupid dog.
  7. "Off the grid Alaska thread of dominance and pot"
  8. Patriots Eagles too.
  9. you left out spiritual black guy helps main protagonist somehow.
  10. I thought it a necessary detail to bring home the glare issue and balance the other surly poor issues like my old tv, my fretting over a couple of hundred dollar price difference, and general bewilderment over all things audio tech.
  11. ..thread finally gets back to Rudy.
  12. Started last night. I was tempted to read all of the episode summaries on the Wiki and just be done with it. Been sitting around too much lately.
  13. ...except against the Cowboys. Which is another thing to add to the list. Despite being a Cowboys fan, a UT graduate, strongly pro vax, and anti dewsh, for some reason I have a hard time routing against him and Green Bay in General. I enjoy watching him play and at his best he has a unique command of the game which is all the more baffling given his struggles in the playoffs. In the playoffs, I end up routing for Green Bay sometimes by default just based on hate I have for other NFC teams. I mean am I going to route for the Giants, 49ers, Eagles, Rams etc. Plus there are other QBs for one reason or another that I would like to see fail more than him either because of team affiliation or overall demeanor: Brady (has enough already-no hate), Murray (OU sucks), Big Ben (Steelers and rapey), Mayfield (Ou sucks and dewsh), Newton (batshit), Tannyhill (aggy and sucks).
  14. Disney. Always on the cutting edge.
  15. Disney+ has a documentary buried way down the page on the celebration of 10 years of Disneyland (1966) and the celebratory creation of "It's a small World" ride that same year. There is a strongly worded disclaimer/apology at the beginning about the racists/sexist images etc. I didn't make it quite to the end of the show because they were hammering home the "It's a Small World" theme and I couldn't take it anymore, but I didn't see anything that was overly offensive except for maybe the lily white park visitors. The caricatures in some of the animatronics could be considered offensive but the offense seemed pretty equal opportunity. I made it to Disneyland as an 8 year old in 1975 and Disneyworld as a 10 year old in '77. Took my oldest son in '95 and vowed never to go back. Two youngest are out of luck.
  16. I am definitely gonna try and get my dog to do this. Although he is a Dachshund Chihuahua mix so he will need to sit on the bench. He howls when he hears sirens. We looked up why dogs do this and the answer was that it was sort of a call to see if you were in the same pack. So we tried howling and he will do it with us at the drop of a hat.
  17. Helobious is Colonel Klink (go to the :45 second mark if you hate baby Jesus and Hogan's Heros):
  18. I will bet money that mitch cumstein's wife has a 2,000 count bag of those things lying around somewhere. No worries, I'm sure she got a great deal on them.
  19. For the Surly 99% (the poors): Our 2009 Phillips 42" 1080 LCD Eco TV had been having some problems turning on the last few weeks. I would fart around with it and unplug a few things to get it going, but the problem just seemed to be getting worse. I finally got serious about getting to the bottom of the issue and worked on several recommended fixes which just seemed to make the problem worse. Sunday early afternoon, the condition finally got critical and I could not get the dammed thing to turn on. Went out yesterday and got a new TV. As you can probably tell from our previous purchase, high end TV picture and audio is just not a huge thing in our lives. We only have one TV in the house. However, it does get used a lot for kids gaming, streaming, terrestrial viewing, and breaking down of climbing video shot at competitions and on real rock. I can only say that the array of options is dizzying with almost every middle of the road to high end TV having reviews in the 4.2 -4.7 stars range with some truly deal breaking type of 1 star reviews for pretty much every model in that range. The reviews are often mixed and matched across sizes and model years and suffixes within the same model. To make matters even more confusing, it seems every TV maker has a bunch of minor differences within each type of picture and even more confusion when comparing with '20, '21, and '22 models being available. We went to Costco and I was just glad to get out of there by the time it was all over with. Ended up with a 65" LG Nano Cell (65NANO85 APA) with additional 3 year warranty included. Set up was a breeze and this thing kicks the crap out of the the old TV in every way imaginable. Got it set up in time to catch the end of the Bills/Chiefs game and I was entertained. I don't have the chops to get too technical with this stuff, but one of the main selling points for us was the picture quality in bright rooms. Our living room has two 30' long solid walls of floor to ceiling glass, so we thought that would be important. One of the supposed downsides is the edge lit LEDs, but I didn't really notice anything with the game or any of the streaming programs we watched, so whatever. In the end, I think we would have been just as happy with a lesser TV purchased as a "members only" deal. I think it is pretty hard to be disappointed with an upgrade these days unless you run into a problem right out of the box or have some kind of massive failure pretty early on.
  20. Crazy divisional round. 3 upsets and all four games with walkoff scores for the wins with none of the final drives in regulation being ho hum clock milking time killers. The only thing that could have made it more exiting is have those game winning field goals not be tie breakers.
  21. Wrong year, Joey Sweetwater. The answer you are looking for is 1986.
  22. ..and if I remember correctly, that was the one part of the book that was a descent read.
  23. I read LOTR back in college while I was procrastinating doing real work on my major. I tended to read really fast but without much comprehension other than the main plot line. For example, if somebody was going on about the history of this family or that, I would just breeze right over it, to say nothing of the pages and pages of song and poetry that I just skipped altogether. Somewhere during Book1, I must have skimmed a little too quickly when they were going over Sauruman's involvement and I got him and Sauron confused, so I had to go back and catch up. I never understood why Tolkien made their names so alike. Fast forward to when the first movie came out and all I could remember about the books was the ending. So I went to see it and enjoyed it and promptly went back and reread the trilogy. It was so much more clear the second time thanks to the movie. Every few years I end up reading the whole thing all over again. The Hobbit was a much easier read and not due strictly to volume, and it had a much warmer and homier feel to it. The Hobbit movies kind of sucked, but they did give a lot of clarity to the players and locations. The Silmarilion was a really tough read and I have no desire to go back and do it again until after watching some of this Amazon series.
  24. I'm sure they did. Just look under "Meat" or "Mr Loaf".
  25. Is there a box for moxie?
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