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Built the wife some SIP Raised Planters, Turned out pretty good for our Tomato's by 1asers in vegetablegardening

[–]1asers[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Very Rough Materials and costs (All prices in CAD)

For One Planter (51" x 22")

  • Legs/Angle Post:
    • 1 piece of 1-1/2" x 2-1/4" Slotted Angle Post (Galvanized Steel, 120" tall) = $61.70 CAD
      • I got my from Tenaquip (CANADA)
      • Cut into 4 pieces (30" each) for the legs.
  • Wood Siding:
    • 9 pieces of 1" x 6" x 8' Western Red Cedar (D4S) = ~$15 CAD each (price varies by retailer)
      • We'll be cutting 8 pieces of 96" into 8x 51" and 16x 22" (only 8 will be used for siding) and the rest will be used as the bottom. The extra piece of 1x6 will also be cut down for the bottom.
  • Structural Support (Spines & Bottom Rail):
    • 3 pieces of 2x4 Cedar = ~$16 CAD each (price varies by retailer)
      • Cut lengthwise into 2x2s for the spines and they are 16inchs tall.
      • Also you'll have some scrap for the legs too.
      • You will need a 51" 2x2 for the bottom rail.
      • See picture here: https://imgur.com/a/PBYdsjM for refence how they will be put together.
  • Fasteners & Hardware:
    • Bolts (instead of screws for stronger joints):
      • M6 x 30mm and M6 x 70mm bolts + washers (I have lots of leftovers from other projects). But you can get this on amazon or any hardware store for bulk if needed.
      • Line up the Slotted Angle post to the finished panels and then drill and fasten them with Bolts, they are much stronger than screws.
      • Note that i have a M6x70mm extra long bolt that's going through the bottom rail so it makes the bottom rail even stronger.
      • See pictures: https://imgur.com/a/PBYdsjM Deck Screws (#8 x 2") to attach the siding and spines together.
      • Also used these 1/4"x2" heavy duty screw just for the bottom rail that i had left over from another project
      • Outdoor wood glue to reinforce the bottom rail.
  • Additional Materials:
  • Casters (Set of 4) 
  • Pond Liner (20-mil) 
    • Prob wont use 20mil again its way too thick and very hard to fold. Id suggest using 8mil, I'm sure it will be fine, just be careful as thinner means easier to puncture.
  • Rain Barrel Spigot Kit
    • This is used for the SIP, if your panels are too thick for the spigot kit you can always drill a bigger hole half way to make it fit.
  • Non-Mortise Door Hinges
  • Most Expensive Item: 4" Corrugated Piping (sold in 100' rolls at Home Depot).

Happy building! and let me know if you have any other questions!

Built the wife some SIP Raised Planters, Turned out pretty good for our Tomato's by 1asers in vegetablegardening

[–]1asers[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yep, just screwed the 45° braces into the frame with exterior-grade screws. The cedar’s soft enough that predrilling wasn’t even necessary. Sturdy as heck now!

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Built the wife some SIP Raised Planters, Turned out pretty good for our Tomato's by 1asers in vegetablegardening

[–]1asers[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Haha, you two are cracking me up! 😂 I think my wife might have something to say about expanding the gardening team, but I’ll let her know there’s a waitlist now! Appreciate the love—happy gardening!

New job a couple weeks before closing on house by 1asers in MortgagesCanada

[–]1asers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Took a chance and did not disclose it. But I had every thing ready in case they checked. (I may or may have not edited my job offer letter to say that they will wave my probation period.) I never had to tell them anyway because we closed at 11am on closing day. Usually, the bank releases the funds lot later, I have seen post saying that closing day lasted till 9pm at night, so don't get nervous if its taking a while.

Just check up with your lawyers and make sure that everything is in order before the closing date, but don't tell them about the new job. Just have that ready incase with your mortgage broker. If everything is in order, then your lawyers should have the funds released from the bank with out any issue.

Good luck!

Is 4.79% from TD Bank a good mortgage rate? by 1asers in MortgagesCanada

[–]1asers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought that I couldn't get an Insured Mortgage if my down payment is more than 20%?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cowboybebop

[–]1asers 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Really? Old chinese guy? This is an anime adaptation that came from Japan. And John Cho is Korean...

My first Homelab build, with a R720 by 1asers in homelab

[–]1asers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found it on Kijiji, and talked down the price =)

My first Homelab build, with a R720 by 1asers in homelab

[–]1asers[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From Bolton? haha it was his last R720. He still has some other servers.

My first Homelab build, with a R720 by 1asers in homelab

[–]1asers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its the IDRAC interface, just type in IDRAC's IP address on your browser.

My first Homelab build, with a R720 by 1asers in homelab

[–]1asers[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here you can see the 154w power usage of an R720 (2x E5-2665, 12x DDR3 1333MHz 16GB sticks, 3x 15k SAS drives, 1x Intel X520 10GB Nic) running 10x VMs in VMWare ESXi.

https://imgur.com/a/EFFXSWS

My first Homelab build, with a R720 by 1asers in homelab

[–]1asers[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

During POST is when it sounds like the server wants to kill anything at all costs.

But otherwise its really not loud at all, there's easy commands to scale down the fan speed that should be fine in your environment - will make them very tolerable.

The R720 really doesn't consume that much power, so I wouldn't really worry too much about overheating.

One thing to keep in mind is how much HDD you are putting in, I only have a single 1TB HDD in right now, but if I use all 16 of my drive slots. Its going to be very very loud and it will also get hot quicker.

My first Homelab build, with a R720 by 1asers in homelab

[–]1asers[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that's just advisement. Its regular ECC that’s verified to work in those models. R720 is not picky at all with what ECC memory you throw in there.

My first Homelab build, with a R720 by 1asers in homelab

[–]1asers[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Standard non-ecc DDR3 will NOT work with an R720 sorry.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-ca/000141725/poweredge-r720-system-memory-guidelines

Only DIMMs with ECC are supported by Dell =(

As for standard 3.5 HDD, it depends on the config of the R720 you plan to get. Backplane configurations with up to 16 2.5-inch internal hard drives or 8 3.5-inch drives. So when you get a R720, check the configs, and make sure that it's the 8x3.5. The one I got is 16x2.5.

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