what did you do around the house today?

[sabad66]

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You must be in Alaska or something as my gladiolus are still blooming - would seem very stupid to pull them out of the ground and put them into cold storage if they're still blooming.

Also, why would you remove the needles on your spruce trees? You've pretty much granted those spruce trees a death sentence by removing all of their needles - dumbest advice I've ever seen. Ugh.

I have to assume they meant removing them from the ground because who in the hell would remove them from a live tree?

[firebane]

So the shower in our main bath quit working lately and what I found was this little piece in thr shower head would stop the water flow.

Anyone know what its purpose is? Two different shower heads in our house has them. Looks like a filter or restrictor?

[killramos]

Aerator for a low flow shower head?

Makes the low flow less apparent.

[mr2mike]

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Woke up this morning and noticed my main floor thermostat had a black screen. The fan had been making weird noises the past week, so I was expecting it to bite the dust at some point. Went into the utility room to take a look and sure enough, I had a really hot furnace with a fan that would not start up after turning on the manual run switch.

Luckily I went thru this exact same thing about a year ago with my upstairs furnace so I knew exactly what to do.

Popped out the entire blower assembly and took it down to Soper’s for them to give me a replacement motor. Luckily they had a direct replacement for my 1970 motor. $174 and about 4 hours of time end to end and I’m back in business!

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After:
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Best part of these old furnace. Easy and cheap to fix.
The high efficiency ones you're in for a G minimum for a fix.

[firebane]

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Aerator for a low flow shower head?

Makes the low flow less apparent.

Well whatever it is its been taken out and tossed lol. Not sure why it just stopped making things work but it did.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Well whatever it is its been taken out and tossed lol. Not sure why it just stopped making things work but it did.

You are now showering in the tears of Swedish teenage girls. How dare you.

[ExtraSlow]

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You are more showering in the tears of Swedish teenage girls. How dare you.

[killramos]

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[ThePenIsMightier]

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Is it a requirement to have Cromagnon mutant bone structure to truly be an authority figure?

[speedog]

Says volumes about you in that you actually consider Greta to be an authority figure.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Says volumes about you in that you actually consider Greta to be an authority figure.

Are you the character from Momento?
It is unfathomable to me that the words written by me translate to that in your perspective. It's so odd to occasionally be 540° out of sync with each other.

[speedog]

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Are you the character from Momento?
It is unfathomable to me that the words written by me translate to that in your perspective. It's so odd to occasionally be 540° out of sync with each other.

Aaw, your feelings were hurt.

[suntan]

Turns out my phone lines were all wired with CAT5, so when the Telus tech was over yesterday I asked if he could trace the bonus room line. Converted the wall port to CAT5e, couldn't find any connectors so will have to finish the basement termination tonight. This means I can get rid of the MOCA converters I was using. Also potentially might just forgo the Orbi and use the Telus wifi instead.

[B.Spilner]

7 months later got the wheel rack up.

[spikerS]

Had a few spare mins last night. Decided to make a headphone and controller stand for me gaming setup. Took about an hour and some scrap plywood.

[killramos]

Put in a utility sink in the mud room. I’ve never attempted “plumbing” before, went reasonably well.

Got a bit of a hack job on the drain line that I might post in its own thread for advice, but functional.

Don’t even get me started on the washer dryer install, fucking installers. I’m probably going to unhook everything and redo it all to clean it up a bit. But that’s an easy evening job when I get around to it.

[ExtraSlow]

Sink by laundry is awesome. I have a counter instead. It's stupid.

[The_Rural_Juror]

I concur. Although my preference is sink beside, rather than between, laundry. Sexy sink though.

[killramos]

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Sink by laundry is awesome. I have a counter instead. It's stupid.

I’ve wanted one for years, and the new place just so happened to have a rough in for one by the laundry. EZ choice.

Needed to be stainless though so I could use abrasive cleaners if I got it really dirty.

[tonytiger55]

I installed a front and rear dashcam on my girlfriends car.
She had a two near misses a couple of weeks ago and I was not a happy bunny. I bought a $25 front and rear cam. I was going to pay to have it mounted and hard wired. But I decided to give it a go myself.
$14 hardwire kit, $14 mounting clips, a heat gun from Home depot and fuses from Canadian Tire.

It was a bit finikey figuring out the fuse part and where to connect the negative terminal. Nothing complicated though, just took a bit of time and a couple of youtube vids.
For a cleaner route. I had to drill a hole in a small side panel for the wiring to come out from the fuse box. Mounting clips on the dash. Then feed it between the glass and blind spot panel, then under the ceiling cover to the cam.
Then it was the issue doing the wiring for the rear cam. It took three attempts to figure out a correct route for the wire and hiding it in the plastic panels. I made the mistake of not feeding the wriring around the seat belts.
Mounting clips worked great in the open. That was a good buy.
Overall, a much cleaner look than my vehicle which has wires everywhere. It took about five hours in my first attempt, that included stopping and running round hardware stores, figuring out fuses etc. But if I was doing it again with all the parts. I would only say it would take me less than two hours.