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Every time and I do mean every time I've been in a hot tub, I got a UTI they are bacteria factories.
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lurkingdirk so did you get to look at the mystery wheel?
I did.
Goatface
the wise nailed it. It was a manual storm surge valve. Apparently all the people in the neighbourhood had them at one point, many still work. It's in a flood plane, and when the houses were built the builders thought it prudent to put these in. A neighbour 2 houses over still shuts hers when there is a major storm coming. My friend's house was no longer functional. In the early 2000s the plumbing from the street to the house was full of roots, and was replaced and bypassed this with more modern check valves and the like. I'm going to end up cutting the whole thing out and overlay with cement. They want to make a family room in there, and that thing would just be a pain in the ass.- 2
BrutulTM
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I've never had a hot tub but they always struck me as something you would really like for the first month that you have it and then it just becomes something that takes up a bunch of space in the back yard and you never use it but you still have to do maintenance on it.
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We finally got one. And…it is fucking fabulous. I use it most everyday, especially in cold weather. There is something really wonderful about sitting in a hot tub with a glass of whiskey when everything is covered in snow. The hot tub really helps to keep my back and hips loose. We maintain it is just for immediate family, we don’t invite friends into it. We keep it very clean and drain it and refill it regularly. It’s in a spot you have to get to it through the master bedroom. We have had it nearly a year. I wish I got it sooner.
GuardianX
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Whelp, during the cloud flare outage I decided to take a break from work and move some stuff in the garage to prep for some drywall work I'll be doing. Didn't realize the weight of what I was messing with and was trying to move about 20 panels of drywall, vertically stacked, as well as 3 panels of Zip Board and 3 panels of 5/8th drywall.
Of course it fell on me, debated using my phone but left my phone on my desk while I was doing all this...
Struggled like an animal caught in a trap and finally freed a 2x4 that I used to lever all the panels in order to free my trapped leg that got caught between some boards and the drywall that fell.
Nothing seems broken, but holy shit that was more than I have ever struggled doing something insanely stupid in my life. Hopefully it only costs me in drywall because that was heavy as fuck. I couldn't move that pile off me more than like an inch at the top and with all the deflection that just meant I was wearing myself out trying to push it off me.
Of course it fell on me, debated using my phone but left my phone on my desk while I was doing all this...
Struggled like an animal caught in a trap and finally freed a 2x4 that I used to lever all the panels in order to free my trapped leg that got caught between some boards and the drywall that fell.
Nothing seems broken, but holy shit that was more than I have ever struggled doing something insanely stupid in my life. Hopefully it only costs me in drywall because that was heavy as fuck. I couldn't move that pile off me more than like an inch at the top and with all the deflection that just meant I was wearing myself out trying to push it off me.
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Control
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I noticed about a year or two ago, basically every time I would do something around the house, there'd be at least one thing that would make me stop for a sec and think, "man, if that had gone just a little worse, a little to the side or whatever, I'd have been seriously fucked". I'm not sure if I was just way more awesome before and did everything perfectly or if my slightly younger brain just never registered the thousands of times I must have been on the verge of catastrophe.
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Lanx
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tldrI noticed about a year or two ago, basically every time I would do something around the house, there'd be at least one thing that would make me stop for a sec and think, "man, if that had gone just a little worse, a little to the side or whatever, I'd have been seriously fucked". I'm not sure if I was just way more awesome before and did everything perfectly or if my slightly younger brain just never registered the thousands of times I must have been on the verge of catastrophe.
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you lucky sonoabitch
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Control
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Having never chainsawed (but may need to soon), aside from maybe not using a chainsaw inside your house, if you really wanted to do what he's doing, what should you do differently? Flip it so it would kick the other direction? Stab straight up?
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Siliconemelons
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9/10 just research and use the proper tool for the job and increase safety dramatically - yeah it sucks sometimes buying a tool for 1 thing...but
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Control
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Well yeah, I was just wondering how to less stupidly use a chainsaw, not how to less stupidly choose tools lol.
I have like a thousand chunks of tree in my backyard after having a couple taken down yesterday, so I was thinking of getting a chainsaw. So talk of disasterous home improvement via chainsaw was highly relevant.
Lanx
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get a nice electric saw, they are competitive now w/ the gas ones
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Lanx
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lulz you won't skip arm day w/ an ego saw w/ those fucking chonker batteries, maybe wait until black friday for an ego sale
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Siliconemelons
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I took down my dead tree in the front yard with the 16" Craftsman Electric (wired) Chainsaw - their battery one was 10" for like 20$ more or for 120$ more a 12"...that still was kinda small for the task - oh well, the wire was not that annoying and worked very well - didn't have any issues - got the whole thing down and on the curb in a evening.
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BrutulTM
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Mainly just don't be so limp wristed holding onto the saw but yeah chainsawing over your head on a ladder is just generally stupid. Falling off a ladder with a running chainsaw in your hand doesn't sound like it would be likely to end well.
Also you don't have to buy a jigsaw, something like this...
...costs $15 and would do that job in about 10 minutes.
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