I don't always agree with his remedies but most of his videos are useful.
Ok, one more question. I am down at the other property for sale. And there are bumps in the carpet. Any ideas on how to fix it?
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Good place to set your Lady Godiva statue.
Ok, one more question. I am down at the other property for sale. And there are bumps in the carpet. Any ideas on how to fix it?
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I just went through that about a year ago. Only solution is a carpet stretcher. One of them things on rails that telescops out across the room. I rented it from a Home Depot. Not expensive.
Carpet Power Stretcher & Case
Carpet Power Stretcher & Case
New files for the win! I got that whole thing cut up in two days, that baby cut. Today I load the P/U and distribute the wood. This wood is not fit for burning, rotten to the core. So, in the spirit of Bronze's thread of fixing stuff I am going to try using the wood to fix stuff. We live in a valley. When it rains heavy as it has this spring and summer the run off from the mountain (in Kansas but a high hill in Kentucky) the run off has created a ditch in the middle of what passes for a yard here. We christened it the "The River Runs Through".
I have cut this wood into good sized chunks. I am putting these chunks in the ditch as high up on the hill as I can get the truck. My thinking (always dangerous according to Mrs CMD) is the chunks will work similar to the large rocks other people, not as cheap as I am, use to slow the water down and reduce the erosion from the run off. In preparation I boned up on Newton's Third Law. Today will be almost my final chunk distribution.
I have one final fallen tree to cut up. It is suspended between the two sides of the ditch with about a four foot drop in the center. I have to give a lot of thought to this one so that it is not a "widow maker"; though Mrs CMD would be a rather well off good looker, she prefers my presence to getting her hands on the savings or so she says.
Angles and levers, angles and levers.
I have cut this wood into good sized chunks. I am putting these chunks in the ditch as high up on the hill as I can get the truck. My thinking (always dangerous according to Mrs CMD) is the chunks will work similar to the large rocks other people, not as cheap as I am, use to slow the water down and reduce the erosion from the run off. In preparation I boned up on Newton's Third Law. Today will be almost my final chunk distribution.
I have one final fallen tree to cut up. It is suspended between the two sides of the ditch with about a four foot drop in the center. I have to give a lot of thought to this one so that it is not a "widow maker"; though Mrs CMD would be a rather well off good looker, she prefers my presence to getting her hands on the savings or so she says.
Angles and levers, angles and levers.
My wife bought that. Everything that I am, is her fault.[emoji23]
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and too cheap to buy rock, I hope it works. I'll be a hero in my own home and then think I am in the wrong house.
FLUSH WATER HEATER
The other day I was getting dirty water from my water heater (cold side was good for some reason). Somehow some of our famous Carolina red clay made its way into my water heater (musta been filling just as a clump of that crap came thru the pipeline). Knowing I hadn't drained it in awhile I decided to do it. This is something that should probably be done annually to flush out any sediment. It could add years of life to your water heater. Flushing it annually is usually pretty easy. If sediment builds up then it is slightly more tricky. Here are the general steps. A video follows.
1) Turn off power or gas to the water heater.
2) Turn off water supply to the water heater.
3) Turn on a water faucet near the heater (hot side).
4) Hook up a hose to the spigot on the lower part of the water heater. Run hose outside or to a drain.
5) Open water spigot and let the tank drain out. When empty, shut off spigot and remove hose.
6) Turn water supply back on. Allow air to be pushed out thru open faucet. Once the water runs steady then turn off faucet. This could take a couple/few minutes.
7) Turn gas/power back on and read the lighting instructions on your water heater.
8) In the event it does not drain, you have sediment blocking the flow. Remove the hose. Using compressed air, shove the air nozzle up the spigot and let her rip for a couple seconds. That will blow the sediment away and allow the water to flow out. You might have to do this several times if not for the entire tank. Have a bucket under the spigot to capture water and be prepared to turn off the spigot when it is full of water.
The other day I was getting dirty water from my water heater (cold side was good for some reason). Somehow some of our famous Carolina red clay made its way into my water heater (musta been filling just as a clump of that crap came thru the pipeline). Knowing I hadn't drained it in awhile I decided to do it. This is something that should probably be done annually to flush out any sediment. It could add years of life to your water heater. Flushing it annually is usually pretty easy. If sediment builds up then it is slightly more tricky. Here are the general steps. A video follows.
1) Turn off power or gas to the water heater.
2) Turn off water supply to the water heater.
3) Turn on a water faucet near the heater (hot side).
4) Hook up a hose to the spigot on the lower part of the water heater. Run hose outside or to a drain.
5) Open water spigot and let the tank drain out. When empty, shut off spigot and remove hose.
6) Turn water supply back on. Allow air to be pushed out thru open faucet. Once the water runs steady then turn off faucet. This could take a couple/few minutes.
7) Turn gas/power back on and read the lighting instructions on your water heater.
8) In the event it does not drain, you have sediment blocking the flow. Remove the hose. Using compressed air, shove the air nozzle up the spigot and let her rip for a couple seconds. That will blow the sediment away and allow the water to flow out. You might have to do this several times if not for the entire tank. Have a bucket under the spigot to capture water and be prepared to turn off the spigot when it is full of water.
Ok, one more question. I am down at the other property for sale. And there are bumps in the carpet. Any ideas on how to fix it?
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Oh dear, I have THAT too!Ok, one more question. I am down at the other property for sale. And there are bumps in the carpet. Any ideas on how to fix it?
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This is kind of off track but some may recall that I had a Surface Pro die. I used a refurbished Dell for a while but recently bought an Acer which has a small solid state drive and a large second hard drive. I have read that the SSD's have a rather limited number of read/write cycles.
I moved my Firefox cache to the HHD, it saves a lot of space on the smaller SSD drive and reduces its R/W cycles. I dug around and learned how to also move the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys to the fixed drive for the same reasons.
I installed Mozilla Thunderbird Portable on the HDD, that way the cache and profiles are not on the SSD - same reasons.
Side note, I am using Easus ToDo back up on a daily basis, both system and files ("full" for the system, "differential" for the files) . It has been flawless, well worth considering. For the heck of it, I tried the restore function for the SSD, the restore was fast and the machine functioned just fine afterwards.
My Dell is now a dedicated Linux unit. Man, I really wish my research software was open source and Linux friendly. Lack of specialized software support is all that keeps it from running Microsoft Windows out of business.
I moved my Firefox cache to the HHD, it saves a lot of space on the smaller SSD drive and reduces its R/W cycles. I dug around and learned how to also move the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys to the fixed drive for the same reasons.
I installed Mozilla Thunderbird Portable on the HDD, that way the cache and profiles are not on the SSD - same reasons.
Side note, I am using Easus ToDo back up on a daily basis, both system and files ("full" for the system, "differential" for the files) . It has been flawless, well worth considering. For the heck of it, I tried the restore function for the SSD, the restore was fast and the machine functioned just fine afterwards.
My Dell is now a dedicated Linux unit. Man, I really wish my research software was open source and Linux friendly. Lack of specialized software support is all that keeps it from running Microsoft Windows out of business.
If the price is right, old tire casings are often used for the same purpose.
One caution; someone once got caught by the EPA or something. It had to do with something about wetlands.
It has been rightly said that the average citizen unknowingly violates at least two regulations every day. In the increasingly expansive way that "wetlands" are now defined one best not urinate in the woods, I do believe.
Been cleaning a toilet bowl today. Get those black moldy spots showing up around the rim jets on an old toilet? Bought me a little fountain pump and I'm circulating bleach in the inner bowl ring to kill the mold. Getting mixed results. The pump isn't pumping strong enough to reach the front half of the rim. Doing fine on the back half. Killing the mold alright. But it leaves all the hard water mineral scale which is a pain in the ..... I'll try duct taping those back half jets to force the bleach to go to the front. If that works then I will try doing the same process with a de-scaler. Those are loaded with acid so I'm thinking it might wreck that little fountain pump. But it cost only $7 or something so no big loss. I'm not gonna spend 10 hours grinding away on that scale. I tried a pumice stick and the scale laughed at it. I'll get a new throne before I put that kind of work into it. Too old for that all day elbow grease crap.
You can buy a small jar of chlorine tablet for swimming pools put 1 OR LESSSSSS in the tank,, these are very concentrate,,, too much can eat plastic parts. I use 'crumbles' every few weeks,, they don't disolve as fast as you might think
Ps, try apple cider vinegar for hard calcium stains/build up,, i brush my teeth once a week with it,, its like just after having the dentist clean your teeth,,
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Also, there is a Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner. It's fabulous, just don't let it come in contact with any kind of metal. Also, no contact with skin. It goes in the bowl, of course. Not the tank.
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