Things built, torn down and other projects.(Pictures)

[malinoisvol]

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That is nice! I wish I had an designers touch.

 

[Orangeslice13]

That is nice! I wish I had a designers touch.

Thanks.
The last picture is a 9 foot retaining made completely out of foundation concrete. It’s got fencing on it to support the honeysuckle and ivy

 

[Tin Man]

In the coastal estuaries, we use that for riprap.

 

[Tin Man]

I was in my fifties the last time I laid 5 tons of granite rip rap in a dry creek bed that was part of the storm water management system. The city declared that storm water management on private property was the landowner’s responsibility. A sympathetic city engineer delivered 5 tons of rip rap at the edge of my property. Then, code enforcement gave me until the following Monday to move it from the curb. I used a wheel barrow to port the rip rap to the back edge of the property where I placed it against the embankment on my side. The opposite neighbor was content to allow his property to continue to erode with each big storm.

 

[superdave1984]

So the last thing the outside of this house needs is for this section of conduit to be painted. And I would rather not die in the process. My initial thought is to put my ladder in the bed of the truck and go for it. But it is aluminum. But I have a half inch rubber mat in the bed. It may just stay red.

 

[Behr]

My first thought was Joe is light enough you could let him stand on your shoulders to reac....thats when I realized that was a bad idea.

Good luck.

 

[Orangeslice13]

So the last thing the outside of this house needs is for this section of conduit to be painted. And I would rather not die in the process. My initial thought is to put my ladder in the bed of the truck and go for it. But it is aluminum. But I have a half inch rubber mat in the bed. It may just stay red.

Ya know a local handyman would probably do that for around 250$

 

[superdave1984]

Ya know a local handyman would probably do that for around 250$

Seems extravagant for painting about 6 feet of conduit, but cheap if you factor in the you could die factor. I could set up the ladder to the side and try the airless sprayer, but then I would get paint all over the new siding. Wifey no happy.

 

[JustFunnN'Orange]

@Orangeslice13 ! Help!!!!!

I've got a 240V baseboard heater. It has and ancient, circa 1974, thermostat. I want to replace the thermostat with a new one that has a digital display so us old folks can see it. Trouble is, the old thermostat only has two (2) 18 ga wires, one white and one red. There are no other wires available in the electrical box containing the old thermostat. When I check the voltage across the two (2) wires there's about 24V. There is no central heat/AC controller in the house, just individual baseboard heaters, each with its own thermostat.
So I bought a Honeywell TL7235A and attempted to wire that unit across the two (2) wires and got nothing. No display, no smoke, nada. Called Honeywell and they confirmed this unit needs line voltage (120V) to work.

Question: How does an old 24V thermostat control the 240V heater? There must be some kind of controller somewhere between the thermostat and the heater, but it must be hidden in the wall??????? I've confirmed that there is one (1) 12/2 cable feeding into the baseboard heater. No little 18ga wire, no other controls at that end. I'm stumped, but that ain't hard......

Any ideas or recommendations????

TIA for any and all help!

My best advice....they bring a fair amount of $$ as scrap!
I went thru the same thing that Slice did on Inlaws house!!

 

[JustFunnN'Orange]

I was in my fifties the last time I laid 5 tons of granite rip rap in a dry creek bed that was part of the storm water management system. The city declared that storm water management on private property was the landowner’s responsibility. A sympathetic city engineer delivered 5 tons of rip rap at the edge of my property. Then, code enforcement gave me until the following Monday to move it from the curb. I used a wheel barrow to port the rip rap to the back edge of the property where I placed it against the embankment on my side. The opposite neighbor was content to allow his property to continue to erode with each big storm.

Daym Tin............that wuz a lot of wheelbarrown!!!!

 

[Tin Man]

Daym Tin............that wuz a lot of wheelbarrown!!!!

Weird thing is, at the previous property I owned, stormwater was channeled into a creek at the boarder of my property. Water swirling at the culvert beneath the roadway was eroding my land. It took the county four years to act on my request. By then, I’d lost 600 cubic yards of embankment. The county solution was to clear a wider, deeper channel to the culvert, reinforce the retaining wall at the mouth of the pipe, and deliver 10.25 tons of granite rip rap that I had to place.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Seems extravagant for painting about 6 feet of conduit, but cheap if you factor in the you could die factor. I could set up the ladder to the side and try the airless sprayer, but then I would get paint all over the new siding. Wifey no happy.

There are things I used to do that I now pay people to do. Lol

 

[Orangeslice13]

So the last thing the outside of this house needs is for this section of conduit to be painted. And I would rather not die in the process. My initial thought is to put my ladder in the bed of the truck and go for it. But it is aluminum. But I have a half inch rubber mat in the bed. It may just stay red.

I am curious as to why the siding guys didn’t box the conduit like they did the main and the mini split line?

 

[superdave1984]

I am curious as to why the siding guys didn’t box the conduit like they did the main and the mini split line?

The HVAC guys boxed the mini split lines when they were installed. I have nonidea why the siding guys did not box that. Whatever. I may just get a really long wooden pole and stab a small paint roller on there and see what happens.

 

[vol445]

I’ll add the final picture Thursday when they get the counter tops in. My wife and I completely gutted the kitchen. Ran new electrical, insulation, put up drywall, painted, floor, new cabinets, and appliances. It was all original 1948 minus the floor which had several layers. We did all of it in stages

 

[Tin Man]

I’ll add the final picture Thursday when they get the counter tops in. My wife and I completely gutted the kitchen. Ran new electrical, insulation, put up drywall, painted, floor, new cabinets, and appliances. It was all original 1948 minus the floor which had several layers. We did all of it in stages

The dog, “Is that still a door?”

 

[malinoisvol]

Currently, my septic vent is hidden with a structure that replicates a well cover. When it was new, I'm sure it looked appealing, but age has taken its toll and I'm looking into something to replace it. My only vision is a fake boulder that is vented.

Anyone have another suggestion?

 

[vol445]

The dog, “Is that still a door?”

Had to put my baby down last month.

 

[Tin Man]

Had to put my baby down last month.

Aw… Sympathies

 

[Tin Man]

Currently, my septic vent is hidden with a structure that replicates a well cover. When it was new, I'm sure it looked appealing, but age has taken its toll and I'm looking into something to replace it. My only vision is a fake boulder that is vented.

Anyone have another suggestion?

Paint your septic vent and decorate it to look like a hooka smoking caterpillar.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Currently, my septic vent is hidden with a structure that replicates a well cover. When it was new, I'm sure it looked appealing, but age has taken its toll and I'm looking into something to replace it. My only vision is a fake boulder that is vented.

Anyone have another suggestion?

Sell and move

 

[Go aeiou]

What years was that? City? Sounds like a situation that should never have existed.

 

[Tin Man]

What years was that? City? Sounds like a situation that should never have existed.

It shouldn’t have existed in 2007, and even today, there isn’t a map of stormwater management infrastructure and flows. There’s a hodgepodge of private and public stormwater management documented in thousands of examples of individual structures and permits, but no overall view or plan. Years ago, the then mayor directed the city attorney to declare that the city’s stormwater management responsibilities included only the infrastructure curbside and under the streets. The situation is decades old, extending from the late 19th century to the present, and no city administration has wanted to muster the resources to tackle it.

 

[LouderVol]

It shouldn’t have existed in 2007, and even today, there isn’t a map of stormwater management infrastructure and flows. There’s a hodgepodge of private and public stormwater management documented in thousands of examples of individual structures and permits, but no overall view or plan. Years ago, the then mayor directed the city attorney to declare that the city’s stormwater management responsibilities included only the infrastructure curbside and under the streets. The situation is decades old, extending from the late 19th century to the present, and no city administration has wanted to muster the resources to tackle it.

people would be shocked with how little is included in the city's/utility's master plans. there is vary rarely a professional working on those projects out in the field, and the city/utility isn't responsible to anyone but themselves, so it doesn't matter if they get it wrong.

its pretty much only stuff they installed. and its certainly not everything they installed. pretty much any big project is going to uncover something that shouldn't be there, or is in the completely wrong area.

here in atlanta they were boring and pushing thru some gas pipe. it went thru some old lady's basement. it wasn't discovered until the lady died and they were trying to sell the house. the pipe was supposed to be under the street like 30 feet from that location.

another time they cut the emergency line from a military base back to DC. when it went dark they scrambled jets ready for nuclear war.

there were issues up in knoxville with the baseball stadium because of unmarked utilities causing delays.

we had a project where there was 5 foot storm line running under our property. it was supposed to be the next lot over.

another one had a buried power line that no one claimed until it was cut.

another one had buried pipe big enough for someone to walk in that went more than 40 miles to a military airbase. airbase vehemently denied for months it was there at all, or if it was theirs. base didn't know it was there, and didn't believe us until the GC stuck a guy on an ATV up the pipe and had him pop out on the airbase. he had coordinated with the commander before hand to make sure his guy didn't get shot. less than a week later the airbase was filling those 40 miles with concrete and rubble. never did find out what it was for.

 

[malinoisvol]

people would be shocked with how little is included in the city's/utility's master plans. there is vary rarely a professional working on those projects out in the field, and the city/utility isn't responsible to anyone but themselves, so it doesn't matter if they get it wrong.

its pretty much only stuff they installed. and its certainly not everything they installed. pretty much any big project is going to uncover something that shouldn't be there, or is in the completely wrong area.

here in atlanta they were boring and pushing thru some gas pipe. it went thru some old lady's basement. it wasn't discovered until the lady died and they were trying to sell the house. the pipe was supposed to be under the street like 30 feet from that location.

another time they cut the emergency line from a military base back to DC. when it went dark they scrambled jets ready for nuclear war.

there were issues up in knoxville with the baseball stadium because of unmarked utilities causing delays.

we had a project where there was 5 foot storm line running under our property. it was supposed to be the next lot over.

another one had a buried power line that no one claimed until it was cut.

another one had buried pipe big enough for someone to walk in that went more than 40 miles to a military airbase. airbase vehemently denied for months it was there at all, or if it was theirs. base didn't know it was there, and didn't believe us until the GC stuck a guy on an ATV up the pipe and had him pop out on the airbase. he had coordinated with the commander before hand to make sure his guy didn't get shot. less than a week later the airbase was filling those 40 miles with concrete and rubble. never did find out what it was for.

On base is the same. The older underground utilities are only known of when hit while digging. Lol