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drt

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  1. It’s expensive after the fact. Every utility is. Planned in advance it’s cheaper and safer. Unless someone can prove me wrong I’ll continue to believe this is a direct result of kicking the can down the road, and being unwilling to invest for the future.

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  2. Previous generations used existential threats as motivation for positive change. My hope is that current generations do too. 
     

    To you other point: I saw this quote in the home insurance thread in CYHMWT recently and it really hit home:

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    But these increases are not sustainable, not without a commensurate increase in wages, etc.

     

  3. Yep. I watch only in person, and half the games due to sharing seats. 
     

    When games were on over the air, I watched the vast majority. If it were ESPN or something easy, would be the same. Apple TV even with our subscription with season tickets sucks. It’s just a pita. 

  4. Anyone commented on the increased parking prices now that it is thru seatgeek? Fuck me they are trying to ruin this franchise. 

  5. 56 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Tangential to the opening of interior cabinets.

    Disclosure: Not a structural engineer.

    The wife filled the comically oversized tub in our second floor master bathroom for "emergency purposes" and left it full for over a week.  About day 2 I commented that I wasn't sure the structure of the house was engineered for that kind of constant loading.  In the ensuing argument I of course lost to her utter certainty that we couldn't flush the toilets/brush teeth/whatever with the 3 cases of Costco 33oz PH enhanced water that must be in the pantry at all times.

    Tub drained yesterday and this morning there is a noticeable squeak in the bathroom floor.  I will happily embrace death if I crash through the second floor Money Pit style in the not too distant future.

    Static load is static load. Whether it occurs over the course of one week, or 1/2 hour at a time once a day for the next however long makes no difference on the fatigue of the structural members. 
     

    but it won’t fatigue at all unless your house wasn’t built for the correct load anyway, in which case you were fucked regardless. 
     

    if the squeak truly is new my guess is a weeks worth of humidity made something swell. 

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  6. Had a tripping shirtless homeless dude jump in the back of my truck after shoulder checking my mirror while I pulled past him at 6th and 35 this afternoon. He used the time to try to negotiate something that I was not able to discern. That was a fun experience on the commute home. 

  7. 31 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I assume you have a big ass electric or gas water tank or two.  What if you installed an instant-on demand gas water heater? Maybe that would give you the opportunity to continuously drip hot water throughout your system. Or is the freeze prone line in question so far removed from that source so that heat will not get to it? 
    Also, is that freeze point in the copper pipe a short enough length where, after pipe replace but before dry wall repair, you can wrap that area in heat tape with a discrete on/off switch? 
     

    Heat tape inside a wall? Are you trying to burn down his house? Because this is how you burn down his house. 

  8. The problem was not the heat pump. The problem is how they sized it. They didn’t expect a load of that size. Read your contract with your HVAC company. They generally guarantee a 20 degree delta from the normal exterior temp. That’s it. In Texas they oversize ACs because they don’t want a callback cause your wife can’t see icicles on the countertop in July. The entire world uses heat pumps. The Pacific Northwest is not some special climate where the technology fails. 

    13 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

    You don't have to believe me.  The last place I lived in Seattle we had a brand new heat pump installed because govt incentives.  It worked great for Seattle weather, but when that heat dome hit. (Temps 99 and above for 8 days). That thing was pretty much useless.  The heat pumps are great for maintaining temperature but bringing temperature down was almost impossible.  Hit that 31 days of heat y'all had last year and you'll bitch about the heat pump just the same way people in Eastern Washington do.

     

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  9. Why did we extend that dude when he basically got no time this year when our defense barely had a pulse? I hear he’s a great locker room guy but we just need better players across the board. This makes no sense to me. 

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