The Home Improvement Thread

[tx_shooter]

Sounds like I need to come down and help work in the garage.

 

[Oswego]

Glass breaks. This is rule #1 with it.

So if you put it in areas that could harm you - you can get harmed.

Own this IKEA table? It exploded and cut a man in the foot

I personally have no glass table tops except for a coffee table that's glass framed in wood and no one puts their legs under.

 

[Taco Loco]

PSA

If you haven’t taken the exhaust foil hose off from your clothes dryer and the wall in the past year, I recommend that you do, and use a shop vac to clean, I was amazed that a couple dryer sheets made it past the lent trap, not to mention the rat sized lent ball that I pulled out of the wall.

The build up of lent and debris can cause a fire from your dryer.

 

[Anathollo]

PSA

If you haven’t taken the exhaust foil hose off from your clothes dryer and the wall in the past year, I recommend that you do, and use a shop vac to clean, I was amazed that a couple dryer sheets made it past the lent trap, not to mention the rat sized lent ball that I pulled out of the wall.

The build up of lent and debris can cause a fire from your dryer.

Yep! I did this a few months back. The easiest way to tell is if your clothes are taking longer to dry than they normally do or they don't dry at all. My dryer vent run is literally straight from the back of the unit to the outside and that still managed to get clogged up somehow.

 

[Silverback]

Replaced two toilet seats today after work. Last night around 2AM I went in to take a piss in the master bath, when done I closed the slow close toilet seat.. about 3 seconds after it was closing it slammed shut. I figured it had lost some of its "slow close" capabilities. Well that woke up the wife so she went in to use the restroom and she about fell on the floor. Seems one side of the hinge broke. LOL. So I put one in our bathroom and one in the kids. Now they are all slow close.

 

[Taco Loco]

Covered all the valve/hose spigots with covers, plugged in a small heater out in the RV.

Replaced the laundry room 4’ T8 fluorescent light with a Home Depot Lithonia LED 4’ fixture with 3,100 lumens.

This old fixture was the 2nd fire hazard discovered in the laundry room today. I’m really glad I replaced it this evening.


old with ballast that has been leaking and extremely hot.

New Fixture installed.

 

[Silverback]

Man you dodged a bullet with that light!!

 

[Oswego]

Was yesterday national laundry safety day or something? I replaced my lint/vent line last night and shop vac'ed the heck out of my dryer. Took my dry times for a FULL load from over an hr done to 40 minutes so it was WAY past due.

Got rid of the crappy foil lined vent hose that was a fire hazard and replaced it with a maytag line kit that's not made from paper. Much better than what I had, but still not as good as a custom made rigid line. The time I saved by buying the kit was used up + some by me needing to seal it all up with duct caulk and foil tape. I also didn't trust their clamps or locks so I added my own sheet metal screws after install. Thing had leaks everywhere, but I really liked that both heads rotate/spin and the metal is metal not paper so thats a plus

So if your lazy and want a cheap quick fix over the paper/foil ones - it's a great upgrade.

If safety and air efficiency are #1 priority - just make up a rigid vent by yourself.

 

[AlienXtx]

 

[Anathollo]

Was yesterday national laundry safety day or something? I replaced my lint/vent line last night and shop vac'ed the heck out of my dryer. Took my dry times for a FULL load from over an hr done to 40 minutes so it was WAY past due.

Got rid of the crappy foil lined vent hose that was a fire hazard and replaced it with a maytag line kit that's not made from paper. Much better than what I had, but still not as good as a custom made rigid line. The time I saved by buying the kit was used up + some by me needing to seal it all up with duct caulk and foil tape. I also didn't trust their clamps or locks so I added my own sheet metal screws after install. Thing had leaks everywhere, but I really liked that both heads rotate/spin and the metal is metal not paper so thats a plus

So if your lazy and want a cheap quick fix over the paper/foil ones - it's a great upgrade.

If safety and air efficiency are #1 priority - just make up a rigid vent by yourself.

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Keep experimenting with your dryer time settings. I have been trying to see how long it actually takes to dry a load completely. I found out it only takes my dryer with regular clothes 30 mins to dry. My kiddo's clothes is 20 minutes. Towels and bed sheets are still about an hour.

 

[Anathollo]

I brought in the plants and disconnected the hose reel outside. We just hit 32° last night but it didn't stay there long.

 

[Taco Loco]

Man you dodged a bullet with that light!!

no kidding, I’m no longer buying those fluorescent tubes/bulbs, slowly changing them out to LED, almost everything inside the house is now LED, the garages and shop will be next on the ongoing to do list(s).

Was yesterday national laundry safety day or something? I replaced my lint/vent line last night and shop vac'ed the heck out of my dryer. Took my dry times for a FULL load from over an hr done to 40 minutes so it was WAY past due.

Got rid of the crappy foil lined vent hose that was a fire hazard and replaced it with a maytag line kit that's not made from paper. Much better than what I had, but still not as good as a custom made rigid line. The time I saved by buying the kit was used up + some by me needing to seal it all up with duct caulk and foil tape. I also didn't trust their clamps or locks so I added my own sheet metal screws after install. Thing had leaks everywhere, but I really liked that both heads rotate/spin and the metal is metal not paper so thats a plus

So if your lazy and want a cheap quick fix over the paper/foil ones - it's a great upgrade.

If safety and air efficiency are #1 priority - just make up a rigid vent by yourself.

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Those are nice, but the magical room where my Laundry Fairy turns dirty clothes into nice smelling clothes is a interior room. I highly doubt they used double wall fire rated exhaust pipe through the walls and attic to the outside vent.

The magical room does share a wall with the attached garage, and I have considered adding another port/vent on that shared wall, and dump the heat into the garage during the winter months was my thoughts.

Keep experimenting with your dryer time settings. I have been trying to see how long it actually takes to dry a load completely. I found out it only takes my dryer with regular clothes 30 mins to dry. My kiddo's clothes is 20 minutes. Towels and bed sheets are still about an hour.

The Laundry Fairy has LG machines, you can set the time for 90mins if you wanted and the dryer has sensors that detect when the clothes are dry, for the most part it works unless it’s a load of towels or jeans.

 

[Anathollo]

no kidding, I’m no longer buying those fluorescent tubes/bulbs, slowly changing them out to LED, almost everything inside the house is now LED, the garages and shop will be next on the ongoing to do list(s).




Those are nice, but the magical room where my Laundry Fairy turns dirty clothes into nice smelling clothes is a interior room. I highly doubt they used double wall fire rated exhaust pipe through the walls and attic to the outside vent.

The magical room does share a wall with the attached garage, and I have considered adding another port/vent on that shared wall, and dump the heat into the garage during the winter months was my thoughts.



The Laundry Fairy has LG machines, you can set the time for 90mins if you wanted and the dryer has sensors that detect when the clothes are dry, for the most part it works unless it’s a load of towels or jeans.

DO NOT vent the dryer into your garage. You will have lint covering everything forever.

The rent house I live in now that I remodeled had the dryer vented into the garage for 20+ years and I still have lint falling down on my tools and stuff years later despite cleaning up a lot of it.

And I've never been satisfied by the moisture detector in my dryer so I don't use that setting.

 

[Taco Loco]

My garage has four 2-bulb 4' halogen fixtures in the ceiling, I swapped out the bulbs for LED's several years ago and it was fine. But in the past 2 months 2 of the housings have gone out. So I decided my fall/winter project would be to install new lights. I decided to try these out. Bought one for S&G to see how it works. If I like I'll get 3 more. I can't wait to see it up there. Made in the USA!

Edit.. bought another one.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G7TLWDG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They quoted me $119 each, plus tax, free ship, and $45 for a clear cover or $57 for the frosted cover, I’d bet if you were to pick them up directly you could knock off the shipping cost of those lights. I’m waiting to hear back price and if they have a cover for the 6 LED Bulb fixtures.

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This might be one of my options F32T8 Tube Guard with End Caps - Clear - 4T8TG | 1000Bulbs.com

 

[Silverback]

We have the big Mega Load LG washer and dryer, the dryer is awesome, thing dries faster than the washer washes. The moisture sensor works awesome as well.

 

[Silverback]

They quoted me $119 each, plus tax, free ship, and $45 for a clear cover or $57 for the frosted cover, I’d bet if you were to pick them up directly you could knock off the shipping cost of those lights. I’m waiting to hear back price and if they have a cover for the 6 LED Bulb fixtures.

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This might be one of my options F32T8 Tube Guard with End Caps - Clear - 4T8TG | 1000Bulbs.com

By the time you add in tax you would save a few dollars, 3 maybe.. meanwhile I have them in hand. LOL Not gonna put that much effort into it as its already done.

Also, those covers may not work... I'll get a photo of the bulb but I don't think its perfectly round.. the backside is more of an oval.

 

[Taco Loco]

By the time you add in tax you would save a few dollars, 3 maybe.. meanwhile I have them in hand. LOL Not gonna put that much effort into it as its already done.

Also, those covers may not work... I'll get a photo of the bulb but I don't think its perfectly round.. the backside is more of an oval.

but it’s less dollars for the Liberal efforts of Jeff Boozo/Amadong, and I’m on a fixed budget

 

[Oswego]

Thats neat, but uses the crappy foil wrapped paper I wanted to avoid. The one I removed had it and after many years it had holes and the foil was falling off. They now scare me.

Keep experimenting with your dryer time settings. I have been trying to see how long it actually takes to dry a load completely. I found out it only takes my dryer with regular clothes 30 mins to dry. My kiddo's clothes is 20 minutes. Towels and bed sheets are still about an hour.

I just use the moisture censer. Never had an issue with it besides where it stopped working this summer. All I had to do was clean the censer with some alcohol.

Bachelor life...AKA lazy life means I can have a load thats 4 items or 40 so timing things is not something I trust myself remembering to check on. Set it and forget it is my laundry creed

DO NOT vent the dryer into your garage. You will have lint covering everything forever.

The rent house I live in now that I remodeled had the dryer vented into the garage for 20+ years and I still have lint falling down on my tools and stuff years later despite cleaning up a lot of it.

And I've never been satisfied by the moisture detector in my dryer so I don't use that setting.

They make filters for that application to stop the lint, but I'd still never dump that much moisture into anything I lived in and or wanted to keep. I laugh every time I see one of those internal filters. Houses aren't made to tackle all that moisture regardless of where it vents internally (garage/mud room/etc.).

 

[Oswego]

no kidding, I’m no longer buying those fluorescent tubes/bulbs, slowly changing them out to LED, almost everything inside the house is now LED, the garages and shop will be next on the ongoing to do list(s).




Those are nice, but the magical room where my Laundry Fairy turns dirty clothes into nice smelling clothes is a interior room. I highly doubt they used double wall fire rated exhaust pipe through the walls and attic to the outside vent.

The magical room does share a wall with the attached garage, and I have considered adding another port/vent on that shared wall, and dump the heat into the garage during the winter months was my thoughts.



The Laundry Fairy has LG machines, you can set the time for 90mins if you wanted and the dryer has sensors that detect when the clothes are dry, for the most part it works unless it’s a load of towels or jeans.

Think that kit was less than $30. No double walls - just pure exhaust. Pretty basic kit thus all the leaks

All my vent penetrations are through concrete block so I have zero heat issues to worry about.

Only real concern is what can climb into it from the outside.

 

[Taco Loco]

Think that kit was less than $30. No double walls - just pure exhaust. Pretty basic kit thus all the leaks

All my vent penetrations are through concrete block so I have zero heat issues to worry about.

Only real concern is what can climb into it from the outside.

Im gonna take a leaf blower later today and see what junk comes out of mine,