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BrutulTM said:
Yeah exactly. I don't think it actually still has the smell because my garden hoses are direct from the well and I don't smell anything from them but it definitely did back then.
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Yeah some places around my state are exactly like this. Bad sulfur smell thats almost gag worthy. Shit, just driving and stopping at rest stops, some of them just stink of that smell. I mean I guess you get used to it eventually but damn.
 
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mkopec said:
Yeah some places around my state are exactly like this. Bad sulfur smell thats almost gag worthy. Shit, just driving and stopping at rest stops, some of them just stink of that smell. I mean I guess you get used to it eventually but damn.
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Me & the then girlfriend drove to Disney world and stopped somewhere in south GA overnight. The water at the hotel stank of sulfur so bad. I would hate living somewhere like that. Parts of NC/SC have arsenic levels that are naturally occurring in water.
 
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when i was growing up a very small community maybe a few dozen homes had a dam and a pond that covered many acres. don't remember what happened but the whole pond turned a yellow-green color from sulfur. the smell was so bad.
 
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when i was growing up a very small community maybe a few dozen homes had a dam and a pond that covered many acres. don't remember what happened but the whole pond turned a yellow-green color from sulfur. the smell was so bad.
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Ducks?
 
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Plumbers Rejoice!

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It's funny, that Craftsman ratchet in his demo appears to work and then he starts half-assing it. Now I want that Craftsman ratchet. The YouTube comments have a bunch of people saying the same thing. He should have just done the demo with a 100 tooth Snap-On Cynergy ratchet or something with a swing arc guaranteed to fail.
 
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got the 1/2 overdrive ratchet from craftsman as a replacement for a broken one got from my neighbor. it seems pretty good, but not done anything demanding yet.

basic gearless tech has been around for very long time. have never used any, but seems like with most designs back drag is an issue and very annoying in situations where access is limited.
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Wow... so I got my "Shit costs more now.. YO!" moment today.

There's a long dormant/dead sprinkler system under my lawn at Chez Haus. It hasn't been turned on and run in over 15 years. (had some issues, and rather than fix those I decided to just start using one of those tractor sprinklers manually.)

Now I decided I want to have a sprinkler system I can run late at night on a timer again. There's a good, highly recommended company in the area so I called them out to quote the job. In my head my dream was they re-use the existing pipes, replace heads and ends, replace the controller, replace the valves.

The guy comes out, only way they can put their warranty on it and feel confident putting their name on the job will essentially be a ground up new build. Coming in at right around $6k. I have the cash for it, I know I want to do this, but still.... damn....
 
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Wow... so I got my "Shit costs more now.. YO!" moment today.

There's a long dormant/dead sprinkler system under my lawn at Chez Haus. It hasn't been turned on and run in over 15 years. (had some issues, and rather than fix those I decided to just start using one of those tractor sprinklers manually.)

Now I decided I want to have a sprinkler system I can run late at night on a timer again. There's a good, highly recommended company in the area so I called them out to quote the job. In my head my dream was they re-use the existing pipes, replace heads and ends, replace the controller, replace the valves.

The guy comes out, only way they can put their warranty on it and feel confident putting their name on the job will essentially be a ground up new build. Coming in at right around $6k. I have the cash for it, I know I want to do this, but still.... damn....
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Doesn’t seem like a lot. My friends and family price for new AC was $22,000. In my mind it’s a compressor and a coil. All the ducting is already there. Shit man, I don’t know anymore. Everything costs too much and still usually sucks.🤷‍♂️
 
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Burren said:
Doesn’t seem like a lot. My friends and family price for new AC was $22,000. In my mind it’s a compressor and a coil. All the ducting is already there. Shit man, I don’t know anymore. Everything costs too much and still usually sucks.🤷‍♂️
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Wow you sure it was a friend? WTF. Don't know what you do for a living but I always reached out to my sales guys and found someone who could get AC systems wholesale and bought it myself.
 
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BrutulTM said:
Or you could just do that yourself. It's not rocket science.
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No, it's not. But I'd like to get it done soon, and right now "soon" in Texas would mean doing this on days where the high temp is hitting 105. I thought about firing up the old system and just troubleshooting it too...
 
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OK. Tiny home project for the weekend time.

I realized a few years back that there is some honest truth in "If you keep the outside portion of your central AC cooler, it's more efficient cooling the house". For the past few years I've accomplished this by jerry rigging a large shade umbrella on a post next to my AC unit out back. Problem with this solution was that due to wind/rain/etc each umbrella was lucky to last a whole "AC season" (in my part of Texas that's around April-November for Chez Haus). I've tested this theory by having my AC running unshaded on a full sun August day in Texas and measuring the temp of air coming out on the inside, then the next day shaded it in the morning so it didn't heat as much and lo and behold significantly cooler air was coming out of the vents in my house.

I was researching some stuff on the interwebs about better filters for my AC (Wife and I both have some level of pollen allergies, and we have multiple pets around the house) and the algo threw some videos at me about AC shading devices/techniques. As usual with the internet there were both "This is great" and "this is bullshit!" videos. To be honest, the "this is bullshit" videos seemed to directly contradict what I had personally measured and experienced. So I am still a believer in it because I've experienced the benefits.

One of the videos pointed me at this site :
https://www.cooleriscooler.com/

They actually build a basic PCV frame out of UV resistant PVC alone with a C shaped shade. Everything they showed mapped to my tests. My one problem with my umbrella solution was the durability issue, this looked to go at that issue. My inner DIY guy confidently said "I can build this myself", my "how much do my pet projects end up costing" guy quickly said "Sure, but you'll spend more than the $125 they want, PLUS it will be a time sink and you don't really enjoy it". And since I have more money than sense (obviously, I just dropped another yearly donation to this place! ;) ) I picked one up.

It arrived, and soup to nuts took me around 15 minutes to assemble and install. Here it is after, going through final inspection by my very meticulous "back yard" expert :
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And yes, I know I need to do some better trimming and maintenance on the side where the mint/blackberry shrub is invading...

Already looks much better than my old "big ass umbrella" approach, now to see how it holds up through an August (looking like high temps in Dallas won't go under 100 until September at this rate, with no rain in sight)
 
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