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Kajiimagi said:
Ok the angle comment just gave me PTSD. A fucking engineer comment on some we put on a low income housing 'clubhouse' was that the angle was wrong, it was 4 degrees and needed to be 5.

Noodleface Noodleface sorry the original guys were such shit. Unfortunately it's hard to tell in small and middle sized companies which are legit and which are flakes.

@Intrinsic I'm guessing the pic was shot thru a window with a screen and it's picking that up.
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Correct on the pic haha.

Also you see 6 but he's got 6 on top of the shed too angled a bit better.
 
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theres a tree planted right under my house and the top reached the second floor roof, for a while it grew under the roof and was just like stuck and bowed and it got unstuck but now a big wind will brush the tree against the side of the house. anyway my wife freaks out when she hears it so i just go and trim and its good for a few months.

got tired of it so i was thinking how am i gonna get the top, i have a pole saw but even with me on a ladd it's not as high as i want (and it just gets more dangerous as i go up), so i remember i got this for my bugout bag in covid
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surprisingly just took 2 minutes and cut thru a 3in tree top
 
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Hey homies. So I've been working on my garage. I put in a sub floor and everything. I was scratching my chin on this part:

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Note: flooring is not installed. Just messing around

Base of my walls has a few inches of cement foundation. I was humming and hawing about what to do with it. Now I realize it really sucks the heat out on the outside facing walls.

I was thinking:
Sill gasket the exposed concrete.
Ramset plywood over the gasket into concrete
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PROFIT!

I'm not a pro so go easy on me
 
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I have an issue with a light fixture in my house. I can't tell if it is the cheap ass LED bulbs I'm buying or the light fixture itself but a bulb seems to last maybe a year in the fixture probably less before it starts to flicker quite a bit before ultimately staying on normally . Doesn't seem to happen in other fixtures that are the same type. Any idea if it is the bulb or the fixture?
 
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Arative said:
I have an issue with a light fixture in my house. I can't tell if it is the cheap ass LED bulbs I'm buying or the light fixture itself but a bulb seems to last maybe a year in the fixture probably less before it starts to flicker quite a bit before ultimately staying on normally . Doesn't seem to happen in other fixtures that are the same type. Any idea if it is the bulb or the fixture?
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Do you have a dimmer switch on the light circuit? If so, it might be an old one which does not do well with LED. Check into it, I had to replace a few of my old dimmer switches because they dont do well with LED.


Check Your Existing Dimmer

The type of dimmer switch and it's minimum/maximum load range will indicate the compatibility with LED light bulbs. Trailing edge dimmers work best with LED light bulbs and leading-edge dimmers work best with traditional incandescent and halogen light bulbs.
 
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mkopec said:
Do you have a dimmer switch on the light circuit? If so, it might be an old one which does not do well with LED. Check into it, I had to replace a few of my old dimmer switches because they dont do well with LED.


Check Your Existing Dimmer

The type of dimmer switch and it's minimum/maximum load range will indicate the compatibility with LED light bulbs. Trailing edge dimmers work best with LED light bulbs and leading-edge dimmers work best with traditional incandescent and halogen light bulbs.
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Not on this fixture, its in our pantry. As far as I can tell there are no dimmers on the circuit.
I did have a dimmer on some can lights I put LED's into and had to replace that, it just made the lights flicker a lot.
 
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mkopec said:
Do you have a dimmer switch on the light circuit? If so, it might be an old one which does not do well with LED. Check into it, I had to replace a few of my old dimmer switches because they dont do well with LED.


Check Your Existing Dimmer

The type of dimmer switch and it's minimum/maximum load range will indicate the compatibility with LED light bulbs. Trailing edge dimmers work best with LED light bulbs and leading-edge dimmers work best with traditional incandescent and halogen light bulbs.
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I have this problem, thanks for reminding me I need to replace basically all switches/dimmers in the house. Previous owners for some godforsaken reason installed giant dimmers with tiny, stiff horizontal on/off switches at the bottom that are impossible to find in the dark.

Edit: Kinda like this. Fuck these things.

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Captain Suave said:
I have this problem, thanks for reminding me I need to replace basically all switches/dimmers in the house. Previous owners for some godforsaken reason installed giant dimmers with tiny, stiff horizontal on/off switches at the bottom that are impossible to find in the dark.

Edit: Kinda like this. Fuck these things.

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Are you retarded those are the best kind of dimmers. You know exactly where the switch is and the slider controls the dimming level. Way better than Rheostat style or click on sliders.
 
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Palum said:
Are you retarded those are the best kind of dimmers. You know exactly where the switch is and the slider controls the dimming level. Way better than Rheostat style or click on sliders.
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I've been in this house for two years and have never interacted with the dimmers at all. I just want easy on/off that I can find in the dark without fucking up the dimmer level fumbling with it.
 
Kajiimagi

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Arative said:
I have an issue with a light fixture in my house. I can't tell if it is the cheap ass LED bulbs I'm buying or the light fixture itself but a bulb seems to last maybe a year in the fixture probably less before it starts to flicker quite a bit before ultimately staying on normally . Doesn't seem to happen in other fixtures that are the same type. Any idea if it is the bulb or the fixture?
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Oddly I have a ceiling fan in my living room that the wife said was acting 'weird'. I go in there and all the lights go off, then back on. Then off. I replaced the LED's (been in the house 10 years to ok maybe they went bad). Same damn thing. I have never seen the like. FYI I've been in the electrical field since I was 18.

Got the new ceiling fan on the kitchen table for when I can be bothered to replace it. 'Sometime' this week....maybe.

Also fuck a dimmer. Never liked them. First thing I do in any house I own is pull them out and throw them away, right with my arc fault breakers. Fuck them too!
 
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Kajiimagi said:
Oddly I have a ceiling fan in my living room that the wife said was acting 'weird'. I go in there and all the lights go off, then back on. Then off. I replaced the LED's (been in the house 10 years to ok maybe they went bad). Same damn thing. I have never seen the like. FYI I've been in the electrical field since I was 18.

Got the new ceiling fan on the kitchen table for when I can be bothered to replace it. 'Sometime' this week....maybe.

Also fuck a dimmer. Never liked them. First thing I do in any house I own is pull them out and throw them away, right with my arc fault breakers. Fuck them too!
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Toss the voltmeter on the sockets to see what it's doing first?
 
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Kajiimagi said:
Oddly I have a ceiling fan in my living room that the wife said was acting 'weird'. I go in there and all the lights go off, then back on. Then off. I replaced the LED's (been in the house 10 years to ok maybe they went bad). Same damn thing. I have never seen the like. FYI I've been in the electrical field since I was 18.
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The "electrical field"? Might just be a loose wire nut.
 
Kajiimagi

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I'm going to check all the joints but I did it myself and I don't do loose wire nuts bros. I put them on with line pliers after I twist the fuck out of the wires. When I first got in the trade , being a very left handed person, I could force a wire nut on counter clockwise as it feels normal to me but they are never ever ever coming off! Lol
First boss told me to learn to put them on correctly or get another job.
 
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Oh yeah, swapped the ceiling fan out yesterday morning. Everything in the light kit looked ok so I have no idea wtf. It's full of overload protections so I guess one of them was bad. Anyhow all good now. Wife didn't even pick the most expensive fan @ HD and it looks great.

My back really really thanked me for doing it. I mean really thanked me. Fuck I'm old.
 
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