Loser Araysar
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
Go here to check out his podcast thread for info on topics and links!Go into the FoH discord and find the Happy Time Fun Hour channel and give it a listen!
Loser Araysar
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Yah its a ceiling fan with light. Its a like a buzzing click noise. I just went and played with it again and heard a crackle or pop in the light switch too one time, after flicking the switch on/off about 20x
One thing I forgot to mention is when I was flipping the switch back and forth earlier today, the fan started moving once but I couldnt replicate that again.
Erronius
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Crackle/pop in switches can be arcing across the contacts, especially in old ones that have arced a lot.
You're probably going to have to turn off the breaker and open up the switch box as well as taking the fan down to look in the ceiling box, because:
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Loser Araysar
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Crackle/pop in switches can be arcing across the contacts, especially in old ones that have arced a lot.
You're probably going to have to turn off the breaker and open up the switch box as well as taking the fan down to look in the ceiling box, because:
Thats a little above my paygrade
Theres like at least a 10% chance I'll kill myself
Hateyou
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Dying while fixing a ceiling fan is an honorable death.
Seriously though it sounds like you have zero electrical experience. Any of the neighbors know basic electric? You turn the breaker off and start tearing shit apart to see if anything is loose. I’m guessing you don’t have a meter to verify if you flipped the right breaker?
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Buddy, Ive changed light bulbs before. I wouldnt call it zero. Seriously though, the little electrical work Ive done was only on cars and motorcycles.
Im just gonna call an electrician. I got a light fixture in downstairs bathroom thats fucky too
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so this rm43 is garbage, it just makes the weeds look like theyre wilting
whatever the fuck all this is, is what i'm fighting
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time to get some tenacity
jesus christ, amazon will deliver it in 1hr, this is better than dominos
RM43 shouldn't be sprayed on your lawn unless you want to kill everything that's green down to the dirt for about 6 months. If you sprayed your lawn and it didn't completely die then you're very lucky that you either mixed it wrong or you got lots of rain after you sprayed. That stuff is for use along fence lines where you want to kill everything and don't want it to grow back for the whole season. I use it in parking lots, especially gravel lots. Never in a lawn or in landscape beds because it basically sterilizes the soil for months....it says that right on the label sir.
The weed in your photo is called plantain and is fairly easy to kill with just your typical Ortho Weed B Gon products. There are better commercial products out there but it will do the job. It takes more than a week to kill it. I hope the original stuff you sprayed on your lawn didn't kill everything.
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BrutulTM
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Roundup takes quite a while to kill things. I haven't used it in a while but it was always frustrating to me to spray a field full of weeds and a week later it was still green and healthy. In 10 days or so though, everything dies and you can see the spots you missed because they're still growing.
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I need help. Bathroom has 2 seperate things, 1 is outlet and light switch, other is 2 light switches. Wanting to change them out, but apparently this old as fuck house things have changed since then. There was 1 white wire and all the rest black, and a single ground. The double light switch didn't use to have a ground, but does now. Do I need to make sure that's grounded?
Have what goes where on switches changed? Also one wire just goes between the 2. If I just disconnect all the wires and attach them to the same spots on the new ones, things don't work. It's a little more complicated than that. The shit is on the circuit break panel on 2 different circuits. If I turn the breaker back on for what seems to be all the lights, the lights all seem to work. If I turn on the breaker (it's one of those ones that has a push to test thing?) that has the plug the circuit breaker panel starts making a buzzing noise and the breaker doesn't actually turn on all the way.
Have what goes where on switches changed? Also one wire just goes between the 2. If I just disconnect all the wires and attach them to the same spots on the new ones, things don't work. It's a little more complicated than that. The shit is on the circuit break panel on 2 different circuits. If I turn the breaker back on for what seems to be all the lights, the lights all seem to work. If I turn on the breaker (it's one of those ones that has a push to test thing?) that has the plug the circuit breaker panel starts making a buzzing noise and the breaker doesn't actually turn on all the way.
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The receptacle with the buttons and plugs on it is called a GFI. When you say circuit breaker panel are you actually talking about the panel for the house that has a bunch of circuit breakers in it?
So when you try to turn your GFI on you’re hearing buzzing in the panel?
Kind of hard to understand some of the stuff people describe in here with the terminology so off.
People that are electrical newbs in this thread need to buy a meter and watch this video I think. If you’re interested. Otherwise I’d say hire an electrician like
Araysar
did before you hurt yourself or start a fire. I’m not trying to be a dick, just be careful.If you go the hire route, there’s an app called Thumbtack that is good for small odd jobs like you’re doing. You describe what you’re doing then contractors bid on it. Only you can see the bids and you can their reviews/rating on the app.
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The receptacle with the buttons and plugs on it is called a GFI. When you say circuit breaker panel are you actually talking about the panel for the house that has a bunch of circuit breakers in it?
So when you try to turn your GFI on you’re hearing buzzing in the panel?
Kind of hard to understand some of the stuff people describe in here with the terminology so off.
People that are electrical newbs in this thread need to buy a meter and watch this video I think. If you’re interested. Otherwise I’d say hire an electrician like
If you go the hire route, there’s an app called Thumbtack that is good for small odd jobs like you’re doing. You describe what you’re doing then contractors bid on it. Only you can see the bids and you can their reviews/rating on the app.
Sorry, I'm sure I'm terrible at terminology.
Yeah, I meant the circuit breaker panel that has all the different breakers for the house. With everything hooked up turn on breaker for lights, lights work fine, turn on breaker for plug, circuit breaker panel makes a buzzing noise. Across the double light switch, and switch + plug I guess things are on cross circuits. I figured it out. The Plug + Switch had one of those pull tab things, when I broke that off everything works fine.
I have a feeling it could have been hilariously bad? I'm guessing it was completing a circuit between the 2 different breakers and shit goes terrible? The one wouldn't actually turn all the way on though, so I guess safety things kept me from fucking shit up to bad?
This is just one of those things where it's like I've changed light switches before how bad could it be. Then you look at it and all the wires are black, yet the screws on the switches are varying colors and you're like ????
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I recently bought a house. Most I've ever done is change light bulbs so I'm clueless, but learning. Anyway, during the inspection, the inspector noticed backdrafting on the water heater. He said it was likely the result of the perpendicular connection between where the water heater (exhaust?) pipe runs into the main pipe going up and out. He said it should be a Y connection, but the lack of space probably made that difficult.
We put it on our punch list and the sellers had a plumber look at it, but the report was that there was no evidence of any current issue and nothing was changed.
We're going to have our own person come and take a look at the water heater and the connection. Does this connection look like something that would cause backdrafting? How much is a reasonable amount to expect to fix this?
See pictures in spoiler.
We put it on our punch list and the sellers had a plumber look at it, but the report was that there was no evidence of any current issue and nothing was changed.
We're going to have our own person come and take a look at the water heater and the connection. Does this connection look like something that would cause backdrafting? How much is a reasonable amount to expect to fix this?
See pictures in spoiler.
Top of the water heater with melted plastic, which is what inspector said shows backdrafting.
From the other side/under, you can see the perpendicular connection between the pipe coming from the water heater and the main pipe.
From the other side/under, you can see the perpendicular connection between the pipe coming from the water heater and the main pipe.
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i'm a noob but a telltale sign of backdrafting is the plastic gromets are melt, and yours are a tiny bit
from the second pic i think he's trying to say that your exhaust ties into the main exhaust with a "t" fitting
where it should be a "y" fitting
idk the fix, but when your guy comes in point out the melted grommets and he'll see thats where backdrafting happened, he'll probably want you to get more air
since it's in the basement, buy one of these plug in monoxide detectors so you'll at least feel safe that youre not killing the fam
Kidde KN-COB-DP2 10-Year Carbon Monoxide Detector, White
fris
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Just had my roof replaced, thanks central Texas hail storms.
Typically, this part of texas has a 1% deductible through home owners insurance. It's 2% in Houston due to the area having more claims due to hurricane.
I found a roofer, who did my roof, work ed with my insurance company to increase the cost estimate, and actuality charge me less than the estimate less deductible. I'm pocketing a few thousand.
Typically, this part of texas has a 1% deductible through home owners insurance. It's 2% in Houston due to the area having more claims due to hurricane.
I found a roofer, who did my roof, work ed with my insurance company to increase the cost estimate, and actuality charge me less than the estimate less deductible. I'm pocketing a few thousand.
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The_Black_Log Foler
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Fuck chainsaws. Can’t get my brand new Stihl ms250 to start. Yes I’ve read the manual and watched YouTube videos. Pulled the spark plug and it looked fine. Tried to clear out the engine in case it was flooded. Put new fuel in it. Jfhslfifbsh
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Safe to assume you’re familiar with priming and using the choke?
Edit: I’ve got an ms260. My startup procedure is full choke, 5-6 pulls (or until it sounds like it’s trying to start), then half choke and it almost always starts on the first pull but sometimes 2nd or third if I ran completely out of fuel before refueling.
I’ve bought a used chainsaw before and it had trouble starting. I took a look at the fuel filter and took apart the carb to check the jet. Turned out to be a pin prick hole in the fuel line between the filter and carb. Once I replaced that fuel line, it started and stayed running just fine.
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