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Mine was professionally installed. I don't really see anything about it that's that tricky though. The main consideration would be testing your water's hardness and getting the regeneration frequency set correctly.

It's pretty weird that they put it in in the first place. Do they have a lot of tornadoes in Nashville or something? I don't really think of that as a natural disaster type of place. Having a bomb/tornado shelter buried in the yard seems like a much better option than giving up half your...

A 4.5" will be considerably slower than the 6", but it will get the job done.

In addition to what they found, being able to cut that well with an acetylene torch takes a lot more skill than using the grinder. A DIYer is not going to be able to cut that well with a torch but they can with the grinder.

I have a plasma cutter and it is the coolest tool in my shop, so if you really want one, by all means get it. However, if you just want to cut some metal it would be way cheaper and easier to get one of these and a big box of cutoff wheels... It will take quite a few wheels but nothing made...

I talked to an Oakland DA once who said he hadn't been able to find a particular person he needed to talk to so he and another guy from the DA's office just decided to go drive around the hood and look for him. They hadn't been in the neighborhood 5 minutes when they stopped at a red light and...

Lanx I think it's time you fulfill your destiny and build a store on that lot selling 40oz bottles of Colt 45 and Olde English and loose cigarettes 24 hours a day with a machine gun turret on the roof.

There are usually roofing contractors that show up after hailstorms. They are usually really fucking fast but don't necessarily do bad work, they're just lean and mean because they do the same shit with the same crew every day and everyone knows their job and they do it fast and because of that...

Yeah I would have gotten the fuck out of there when I saw the husband. What if today is the day he finally cracks and goes on a stabbing spree?

Those tiny garages that the car can barely fit into are a huge pet peeve of mine. Anyone who builds a garage that you can't fit a regular sized car into or you can't open the door all the way if you're not perfectly centered deserves to have their nipples bitten off by rats while they sleep.

The closet Seahawks fan comes out again. 😉

If you watch FB/Craigslist you can get some amazing deals on furniture from people who are moving but you have to be fast. I bought a $6000 leather couch in perfect condition for $900 on FB and thought it was a great deal but since I've seen 2 or 3 like it go for $400-600. Got another couch...

You wont' regret it. Those things are really well built. I'll give my standard advice to people buying smokers... Go to www.amazingribs.com and read the articles on everything you want to cook and go from there.

He strikes me the same way. I'm biased because he's a seahawk so I'm required to hate him, but all the shit with him visiting the children's hospital with a news crew in tow and talking about being a virgin and whatnot just seemed like he was trying awfully hard to build up his nice guy image...

It's really hard to do with one income. If you had a wife making even half of what you did her income could cover the mortgage and you could both live on your income pretty easily. It's the way society is set up these days. People buying a house as a single person in a metropolitan area are...

Looks like I was wrong about the 25 foot thing. You can get them 16, 25, 50, or 75 feet long as long as you order them that way.

Did you use the MRCOOL DIY model? My understanding is that it's intended to be installed yourself. The downside is that you can only have 25 foot runs to your room units because everything is pre-connected.

My brother designed his own house and even though he had an architect draw it up, there are things that turned out just weird. For example the downstairs bedrooms are huge, which seems nice, but WTF are you going to do in there? They have a recliner next to the bed like you're going to hang...

Needs more green, or possibly more brown.

I think the local KFC has literally mentally disabled people working there, maybe exclusively. I was pretty stoked when the combination A&W/KFC came to town because we didn't have a fast food chicken place in town. I've had nothing but bad service, wrong orders, etc. at this place but the last...

The foam shortage is also why it's impossible to get motorcycles or ATVs right now. No foam for seats.

Anyone have experience with mini-split air conditioners? My house doesn't have forced air ducts and I don't want to put them in but I would like something better than window AC units that plug up the windows all summer. These MRCOOL DIY units seem to get good reviews and can be installed by...

Just eat bacon for breakfast every morning and your pan will be pre-greased for whatever you decide to have for dinner that night!

Hmm, I just took out the double vanity in my bathroom and replaced it with a single. Do people actually use them? Do husbands and wives really stand next to each other brushing their teeth every morning? When I'm in the bathroom I want the place to myself and I would happily go the the...

Fermented pickles have to be refrigerated or they will keep fermenting and get super sour. Quick pickles aren't fully pickled so they will rot/mold if not refrigerated. Vinegar pickles can be kept outside the fridge indefinitely if they are sealed and they won't change much and pretty damn...

All pickles are good. Don't be shitting on pickles. I like the fermented ones a lot, but vinegar ones are also great. Downside of fermented ones is you have to keep them in the fridge. All hail pickles.

I visited a friend's house a few years ago and wound up using the kid's bathroom. It was kind of disgusting.

If you want to spend $300 for whatever the fuck that ignition system is, then that's probably an option. Personally I'd buy a regular kettle and a chimney starter for $200 total.

Honda small engines deserve their reputation but we have a lot of small engines around the place, some Honda and some Briggs and Stratton and the B&S are just as reliable as the Hondas. We have a generator with a B&S engine and we use it about every other year and it sits out in a dirty...

So the transfer case in our 2013 F350 had a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" as Elon Musk would say, at 70mph yesterday. I was going downhill, no trailer, no load and all of a sudden it lost power and started fishtailing. I pulled over thinking I blew a tire and put it in park and to my...

I bet that's a similar markup to the other furniture in the store. Floor space in a store staffed by sales people, delivery guys, janitors, etc isn't cheap. You can always sell it yourself and keep all the money.

I agree with this 100%. Yuppie sushi snobs are always talking about how it's all about the fish but you certainly taste the rice more. On top of that most people put so much soy sauce and wasabi on it that you couldn't taste the fish if you tried.

I agree. It's very good but I don't think I would recommend it to people just because it's such a bummer.

Don't trust the marks on the miter saw. Use a speed square or similar and set it to exactly 45° yourself. Same for 90°. Then, as Captain Suave said, cut it so you leave your line on the board and sand or hand plane to fit. People who build "perfect" furniture do it very slowly and spend far...

This is total bullshit you know. Fish is frozen on the ship these days and it makes no difference how far you are from the ocean. All sushi fish is required to be frozen even on the coasts to kill parasites.

Seems like it should have some sort of steel reinforcement. Unreinforced concrete buildings seem to collapse during earthquakes. I know they said they were building the community in a "seismic zone" but that seems a little dicey to me. I'd guess most people would just frame traditional sheet...

i know quite a few people who live in them and they aren't what they used to be, basically glorified trailers. You can get them built more or less like a stick built house and like you said, way more convenient than building. Some people say that the perceived stigma of being a "manufactured...

Electricians don't use the quick connects. They always wrap the wire around the screws. Source: My brother is an electrician.

My drill press and horizontal/vertical band saw are Shop Fox, which is the same company that makes Grizzly and in some cases the machines are identical except for the paint and stickers. Shop Fox is painted to look like Jet tools, but if you compare them, everything about the Jet is better...