sliders ya say? ok, got it… here ya go
https://www.olidesmart.com/products/...FJuUYUqgM_5sGR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeGlObpxFt8
residential sliding glass door fact.
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sliders ya say? ok, got it… here ya go
https://www.olidesmart.com/products/...FJuUYUqgM_5sGR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeGlObpxFt8
residential sliding glass door fact.
Local FB "Buy nothing" group, someone offers up some skis with the following info: "Full disclosure: ski shops won’t adjust these bindings anymore, but say you can look up how to adjust yourself(this is out of our wheelhouse). They were hand me downs to us, but we aren’t skilled in binding adjustments."
I commented to explain what it actually means when a shop will no longer adjust a binding, and that encouraging people to just "look up" how to adjust bindings that are no longer indemnified without understanding what that means is not a great idea, and my post got deleted by the admin because I offered unsolicited advice.
That annoys me.
Mods everywhere but here annoy the fuck out of me.
Jeebus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Unsolicited = life-saving?!?!
On a similar note, I got kicked off Next Door when someone asked for painting contractor recommendations and I replied with a link to Oregon's lead safe painter list and suggested they should check there before hiring anyone. I had been using Dan PDX as my name and apparently that post prompted someone to rat me out for not using my real name. Given the nature of Next Door, maybe they did me a favor.Quote:
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I always thought they were pretty cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...a_2909328a.jpg
Smoke and CO alarms annoy me--specifically that when they time out or fail prematurely I can never find the same models or models compatible with the same base, so new holes and drywall anchors.
This. There ought to be a law dictating mounting compatibility. I'm serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
My smokes all mount on the 4" box providing AC power
So you live in a warehouse?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel
Wheels! They're fucking wheels not rims unless it's just the part that touches the tire. All of these ads for rims and tires make searching for wheels way harder than it should be.
Also every 10 years or so the companies change the wiring harnesses (sometimes called whips) for their hard wired smoke detectors. There are adapters but good luck finding the right ones without a bunch of trial and error. I believe Kidde bought first alert off the top of my head. Smoke detectors are more annoying than they should be in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
High school wrestling tournaments. Good lord these are just miserable.
Kids on a skiing road trip. Oncoming driver in Spanish Fork Canyon lost control on ice and collided with their vehicle. Sounds like the Xterra may be totaled. Youngest is getting stitches at hospital while his brother waits for him.
This is super-annoying. :mad:
Fortunately nobody hurt badly from the sounds of it...
Sucks dude . good luck.
Glad no one is seriously injured. That road gets pretty bad, add in the Utah driver going too fast on bald tires factor and you have the recipe for mayhem.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Outside a restaurant, looking at the menu. Lady crashes her stroller into me and looks at me like I jumped in front of her. Jeezuz, her poor husband.
Swing and a missQuote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
Pretty much every project I've worked on the last 15 years has hardwired smoke/co alarms that are linked with a 14/3 circuit. The alarms can be programmed for location and when one senses trouble they all go off and the voice calls out where the issue is.
Older version of this.
Rather than replacing the unit just put a new battery in ftmfw
I've been playing the usual musical fire detector game lately and replacing batteries as each one starts chirping. But a few of them seem to be failing as I put new batteries in, and they just continue chirping. So I bought new batteries and tried those, with the same result. So I'm thinking the detectors just need to be replaced. I've been in my place 10 years now so it's probably time. Was thinking of getting them hard-wired or getting ones with an internal 10-year battery. How nice would it be to not have to deal with these things every year when it gets cold?Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
6 in the snow is terrifying.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
The 10-year battery ones were on sale a few years ago for like $15 so I just did the whole house. Highly recommend.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
I trust a 10 year old battery as much as a trust a 10 year old water heater. I use the First Alert linked system. AA batteries get replaced when the clocks get rolled forward and back, gives me the piece of mind that they're still working. Don't forget one in the garage, by the time fire out there has triggered one inside, it's likely too late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Good idea. Thx.Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
Altho where I live, most have converted garages to living space.
That’s scary shit. Glad they’re okay.Quote:
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Being sick as fuck on holiday. Just shoot me please
Buy me a first class ticket to get there. I'll take care of my own living expenses. And by the time I get there you'll be better, I won't have to dispatch you, which I couldn't do anyway, and we can go party if your wife is driving you crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
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Originally Posted by liv2ski
Most of the ones I've been replacing don't have replaceable batteries--they started chirping. Smoke alarms are only good for 10 years, max. The 10 year battery ones supposedly start chirping at 10 years, or sooner if they're failing. How reliable that feature is I don't know. Hard wired alarms still have to be replaced every 10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog
When we did an addition 30 years ago we were required to install a hard wired alarm, in addition to battery models. The hard wired one is still up there, as a decorative cover for the hole in the ceiling after I silenced it with extreme prejudice. The last addition we did didn't require a wired alarm, different jurisdiction but aren't the fire codes pretty universal?
They don’t need to be hardwired, just interconnected. It reads the same in the IFC/IBC/IRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Last year I replaced all my batteries at once, and a couple detectors kept chirping. I didn’t know detectors went bad, and these were probably all [emoji637][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] yo.
Then I bought a contractor pack at HD with [emoji637][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] year batteries to replace all [emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]] in the house including the CO unit. If they last >[emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] years it’ll be money well spent to avoid the annual song and dance.
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I checked all the smoke and CO alarms but one kept chirping and I couldn't tell which one. Every time I went to one the sound was coming from somewhere else. I spent at least two hours before my wife said check the burglar alarm. One of the leads on the backup battery was disconnected and the control panel was letting me know. Who knew.
Here in Massachusetts homes are ok with battery smokes in pre 1975 construction unless there has been a ‘’significant renovation’’ which appears loosely defined as whether or not an architect would need to be involved. Then you need to bring the smoke detectors to current code which are hard wired units that speak to each other with 10 year sealed battery (no battery replacement).Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
And as of a few years ago the battery ones need to be sealed in order to pass a fire inspection. In most towns most of the time or something.
Since we're talking about monitors...
If you have a second home/ski house etc you go to...
make sure you have a hardwired CO monitor and not just a battery one.
Plenty of people die each year showing up at a house where the CO monitor might have been going to warn them of a CO problem, until the battery died days or weeks before they got there.
Good reason to visit your ski house often.
Might be able to move this to Things That Amuse You. Well, more amusing to us I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
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Boy, you guys go through some shit with smoke detectors and rules and shit. Hardwired CO2 detectors? As big a pita as some shit is here there's none of that I'm aware of.
Speaking of shit that annoys me.....Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
The fucking server is taking 15 seconds to load a thread
Can't stand it when you open a car door after a snowfall and no matter how carefully you clean the upper sill of door, somehow someway some niggly little snowflakes and crystals fall down on the the drivers seat area where you park your ass, you sit on it in the dark and you get a wet cold spot on your pants.
So, I fixed it. Wide strip of 5 dollar crazy carpet double sided carpet taped to the underhang of car frame and sandwhiched in place by door gasket.
Unintended collateral benefit? I'm a smoker and drive with the window open a crack. Eliminates rain from soaking my smoke. 10/10.
Works like a charm.
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I have a better idea--a garage.
Anyway, if there's fresh snow the only place I'm going is the ski area and my ski pants don't mind a little snow on the seat.
What an out-of-touch Bougie take. :tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat