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Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:52 pm**

Z-Corn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:08 pmSo I've got that expense to deal with THEN I get to clean feces from my entire garage floor. Probably just going to burn it all down and fake my own death.

There's lots of good info online but depending on the garage (what's inside - sheet rock, studs, etc...) it might make sense to hire a company - only because they'll have fans and industrial strength cleaners. Cleaning it out is one thing. Making sure you don't get insane mold next month is another.

And when it's all said and done, speak with a plumber about installing a back flow prevention device on the line.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:38 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 12:21 pm When you call the plumber, ask about a backflow preventer.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:40 pm**

Cannot be repeated enough! The should be mandatory installs for all homes connect to a public sewer line!

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:49 pm**

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:40 pm Cannot be repeated enough! The should be mandatory installs for all homes connect to a public sewer line!

Isn't that code everywhere?

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:54 pm**

Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:49 pm
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:40 pm Cannot be repeated enough! The should be mandatory installs for all homes connect to a public sewer line!
Isn't that code everywhere?

Probably wasn't code when my house was built ~100 years ago. Last time I had it priced out it was over $10K, I think.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:57 pm**

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:54 pm
Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:49 pm
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:40 pm Cannot be repeated enough! The should be mandatory installs for all homes connect to a public sewer line!
Isn't that code everywhere?
Probably wasn't code when my house was built ~100 years ago. Last time I had it priced out it was over $10K, I think.

I am sure 100 year old homes were built under a different set of codes. Although any kind of large remodel would probably require one. I can't imagine anything built in the last 30 years not requiring a back flow device. I know around here commercial back flows require testing at least once a year.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:59 pm**

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:32 am
Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:13 am Well. You know what they say: They come in 3s.

So it looks like you still have 2 more coming.
Once you pass three, you have to have three threes. Otherwise they'd be coming in twos. So you have five more coming.

Yes, I think this is correct.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:01 pm**

I am sure 100 year old homes were built under a different set of codes. Although any kind of large remodel would probably require one. I can't imagine anything built in the last 30 years not requiring a back flow device. I know around here commercial back flows require testing at least once a year.

I think in NJ they're only required in residential units if there's a sprinkler system - to prevent cross contimination of potable and non-potable water. I don't think they're mandatory for new residential construction, but I'll fully admit I'm not current on my NJ plumbing code. They would be required for large buildings or facilities, but historically speaking in NJ there's been broad resistance to passing state-wide legislation that would impact individual home owners - particularly something that would add cost to building a new home.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:02 pm**

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:06 am Well, that was a fun morning. Went to put a load of wet clothes in the dryer, and it started making a nasty buzzing sound and wouldn't spin. A little internet research and a call to my handyman friend, and we're out $300 for a new motor.

I am not at all handy, but when our dryer stopped drying (burned out the electric heating element), I was shocked at how little there is to a dryer and how easy it is to repair. Just a thought if something like that happens again.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:06 pm**

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:01 pm
I am sure 100 year old homes were built under a different set of codes. Although any kind of large remodel would probably require one. I can't imagine anything built in the last 30 years not requiring a back flow device. I know around here commercial back flows require testing at least once a year.
I think in NJ they're only required in residential units if there's a sprinkler system - to prevent cross contimination of potable and non-potable water. I don't think they're mandatory for new residential construction, but I'll fully admit I'm not current on my NJ plumbing code. They would be required for large buildings or facilities, but historically speaking in NJ there's been broad resistance to passing state-wide legislation that would impact individual home owners - particularly something that would add cost to building a new home.

I think California now requires sprinkler systems in some if not all new residential development. Same with solar panels. Not sure that sprinkler systems in residential development is a good idea as systems are known to leak. But things like that are cheaper in new construction.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:11 pm**

Sorry, *lawn* sprinklers, not fire suppression.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:40 pm**

Oh what a mess. 2020 must be the year of house curses for us all. My home insurer just got out of the business of home insurance. Weeee. So my agent is working to get me a different one. The new one is under the same big company as the old one. Somehow the amount per year is more but the payments are smaller. Were $88 a month and now will be like $71 a month for home insurance. She said its probably due to some financing or something. Even she wasn't sure. If it wasn't for the mortgage Id probably drop it lol. SIGH.

I remember my wife worrying and fretting about someone coming out. The house is not in good shape. Since last time a tornado hit it so it has a new roof in 2011 and was full painted in I think 2015. Maybe 2013. But theres some bad siding and a couple holes and the front porch tiles has come apart. Ive patched what I can. Also there some green mildew on it Ill try to clean with some bleach water and a broom. (Other than that not much I can do. The squirrels have chewed a large gap between the wall and the chimney and I tried to get to it but cant reach it. Planned to expand foam it then paint it. Maybe I can get a board on it instead. But if not thats a big bad thing. Im not sure if the house is better or worse than before. If they wont insure me Im in trouble.

Just more to worry with. 2020 is SO fun...NOT!

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:57 pm**

Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:57 pm
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:54 pm
Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:49 pm
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:40 pm Cannot be repeated enough! The should be mandatory installs for all homes connect to a public sewer line!
Isn't that code everywhere?
Probably wasn't code when my house was built ~100 years ago. Last time I had it priced out it was over $10K, I think.
I am sure 100 year old homes were built under a different set of codes. Although any kind of large remodel would probably require one. I can't imagine anything built in the last 30 years not requiring a back flow device. I know around here commercial back flows require testing at least once a year.

The house was gut rehabbed just before I bought it, but by an independent flipper. Turns out he got a permit to redo the detached garage and then just stuck it in the front window when he did the rest of the house thus skipping pesky things like "code" and "quality".

My house has problems.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:02 pm**

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:52 pm
Z-Corn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:08 pmSo I've got that expense to deal with THEN I get to clean feces from my entire garage floor. Probably just going to burn it all down and fake my own death.

You complete me Uncle Smoove!

I sat and watched the dudes root the drain for a while. I'm the curious type.

Pretty sure it was a father and son team since the business has been around since 1965 and the website mentions "Third generation business". They spoke in reallly quiet voices so I had no idea what was going on. They balked at wearing masks in the house. Since they rooted from the garage I cut them some slack and let them go without but told them, "You have to put them on if you go inside."

The whole time I was watching them all I could think about is how they are just covered in shit all day. Not judging, you can do that safely...it's just all I could think about.

Soon as they left I bleach wiped EVERYTHING and used a about a half gallon diluted on the floor. It wasn't that bad really, other than being poop and all. No worries about permanent damage, it wasn't much liquid really. Just poop. Like identifiable turds.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:48 pm**

Tesla bombs out of JD Powers

Tesla, meanwhile, did absolutely terribly in its first time out. JD Power did not officially rank them because the company said Tesla wouldn’t let it survey its owners in 15 states, but based on surveys of owners in 35 states Tesla’s score was ... bad.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:52 pm**

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:30 pm Hopefully its your own poop. Someone else had this exact problem on here as I recall.

Me! It was me!

Our basement backed up with shitwater and forced us out of our home for a week and a half.

In the end the city tried to claim is was a problem with our house line, but we sued and were able to prove that it was actually a blockage in the city line under the street. Our costs were recovered, but not our time.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:58 pm**

Z-Corn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:02 pm It wasn't that bad really, other than being poop and all. No worries about permanent damage, it wasn't much liquid really. Just poop. Like identifiable turds.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:45 pm**

My uncle Ralph Dunagin passed away yesterday. He was a newspaper cartoonist successful enough to be twice a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

He doesn't have a Wikipedia entry, but he was a busy guy. His one-panel strip was "Dunagin's People," and he also did the inoffensive "Grin and Bear It" and "The Middletons."

He and my mother's older sister married 20+ years ago after both had lost their first spouses. I'm sending condolences to my aunt, and I fondly remember talking to Ralph at my wedding.

I really hope there's a chance to have a record or memoirs from him, as he was an editorial cartoonist from the late 60s/70s until recently.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:32 pm**

I remember "Grin and Bear It." Sorry for your loss; he had a good life, making people smile.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:41 pm**

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:45 pm My uncle Ralph Dunagin passed away yesterday. He was a newspaper cartoonist successful enough to be twice a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

... His one-panel strip was "Dunagin's People," ...

i remember this!!!

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:00 pm**

Local movie theater is opening up tomorrow and they’ve got:

Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
ET
Back to the Future
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Tempting, they just renovated the place before Covid hit....

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:03 am**

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:57 pm
Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:57 pm
ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:54 pm
Scuzz wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:49 pm
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:40 pm Cannot be repeated enough! The should be mandatory installs for all homes connect to a public sewer line!
Isn't that code everywhere?
Probably wasn't code when my house was built ~100 years ago. Last time I had it priced out it was over $10K, I think.
I am sure 100 year old homes were built under a different set of codes. Although any kind of large remodel would probably require one. I can't imagine anything built in the last 30 years not requiring a back flow device. I know around here commercial back flows require testing at least once a year.
The house was gut rehabbed just before I bought it, but by an independent flipper. Turns out he got a permit to redo the detached garage and then just stuck it in the front window when he did the rest of the house thus skipping pesky things like "code" and "quality".

My house has problems.

If you were to remodel again and get a permit you would have to fix everything he didn't fix. Assuming the inspector did his homework.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:04 am**

xwraith wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:00 pm Local movie theater is opening up tomorrow and they’ve got:

Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
ET
Back to the Future
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Tempting, they just renovated the place before Covid hit....

One of the big theaters here is in the middle of a remodel now. I think they even adding a bar, not that I would use it. Well, maybe.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:35 am**

I heard that a few drive-ins were (re)opening up.
I thought that was the perfect answer to this dilemma the theater industry has.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:51 am**

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:13 am Well. You know what they say: They come in 3s.

So it looks like you still have 2 more coming.

Aaaaaaaand, there goes the water heater this morning.

Goddammitsomuch.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:22 am**

xwraith wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 11:00 pm Local movie theater is opening up tomorrow and they’ve got:

Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
ET
Back to the Future
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Tempting, they just renovated the place before Covid hit....

So the theme is nostalgia for summer movie-going? That just might work.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:05 am**

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:35 am I heard that a few drive-ins were (re)opening up.
I thought that was the perfect answer to this dilemma the theater industry has.

The drive-in in Terre Haute reopened just last year. Four bucks a film, and it's easy to sneak in snacks! They're also doing nostalgia films.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:46 pm**

As I sit here for an online sexual harassment web presentation for our company, I'm continuously surprised that just as I think it can't get more awkward, it finds a new way to do so almost immediately. "Urinating in Carla's toolbox" is now my go to phrase for those moments when something exceeds your expectations...in a bad way.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:13 pm**

What kind of toolbox?

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:16 pm**

Is there a pic of Carla?

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:23 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:17 pm**

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:46 pm As I sit here for an online sexual harassment web presentation for our company, I'm continuously surprised that just as I think it can't get more awkward, it finds a new way to do so almost immediately. "Urinating in Carla's toolbox" is now my go to phrase for those moments when something exceeds your expectations...in a bad way.

Presentation 2023, episode 4: How Not to Hepcat

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:53 pm**

About once a month, Mrs Skinypupy is asked to make a wedding cake for family or friends. She’s incredibly talented at that sort of thing.

The latest trend is “naked” wedding cakes. Which all look to me like she bakes a full cake, then just randomly smears frosting in a few places and calls it good. It’s a weird, unfinished look, but the brides seems to absolutely LOVE them. I just don’t get it.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:00 pm**

Well that's just icing on the cake!

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:09 pm**

That was the most disappointing random Google image search I've done in a while.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:09 pm**

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:17 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:46 pm As I sit here for an online sexual harassment web presentation for our company, I'm continuously surprised that just as I think it can't get more awkward, it finds a new way to do so almost immediately. "Urinating in Carla's toolbox" is now my go to phrase for those moments when something exceeds your expectations...in a bad way.
Presentation 2023, episode 4: How Not to Hepcat

I wasn’t the only one watching the presentation, for God’s sake. Once again our California satellite office has forced us all to observe their own state mandated workplace rules. Which means I have to use a Texas Instrument calculator to figure out what my vacation and sick day accrual rates are, and listen to a warning that urinating in a female coworkers toolbox is wrong along with everyone else in our office here in Illinois.

Oh well, they haven’t said anything about a male coworkers toolbox, so at least I’ve still got that.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:14 pm**

Quick roof question. We have a good roof that was put on in 2011 and I really shouldn't be going up on it but Im going to have to in July. I need to trim a tree limb over it and clean the entire back part off where limbs and sticks and leaves have collected over the last 5 years or so. Its not as steep in that area..almost flat. I noticed what appear to be patches of moss growing. Small patches and short moss. Not many but the dampness sitting there with the debris has allowed them to stick it seems. I was going to clean the siding with some bleach water and a broom. So would some of that same bleach water in a spray bottle used on those spots work and be safe without damaging the roof? Its a shingle roof and I was thinking of simply spraying the patches and forgetting it thinking they will die. ive used it on the concrete well cap and it works. Never tried it on shingles though.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:15 pm**

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:09 pm Oh well, they haven’t said anything about a male coworkers toolbox, so at least I’ve still got that.

"Employees are reminded that references to coworkers' packages, funboxes, dirtsacks, crazydice, or toolboxes are to be avoided and reported."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:19 pm**

Quick roof question.

I've seen people comment various success/failures with using bleach to get rid of roof moss. I don't know if it's how they mix it (ratio to water) or the conditions it's applied. I was told about Wet and Forget and I can confirm it works like a charm. I not only used to to get rid of moss but it removed algae from both a deck and siding. I really like it because it's zero work - like the name suggests, you just apply it and let it dry. It absolutely works.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:24 pm**

Wow thank you. I didn't even know they made products like that. Hmm need to buy a hose. Also dont have a sprayer. I wonder if my battery powered grass killer jug sprayer would be ok. All the stuff Ive heard about Roundup I dont really want any on me lol.

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