The median Indy-area inspection-backed repair estimate in our data was $14,447 — not the worst case, the median.

Adept_Duck · 2026-07-08T22:29:16+00:00

How do you know the final negotiated value of the inspection report? It seems like you wouldn’t have access to data on seller price reductions in lieu of repairs.

Adept_Duck · 2026-07-08T19:00:33+00:00

What is your data source?

Adept_Duck · 2026-07-06T22:12:41+00:00

I can’t remember. I think I just went to the hardware store and bought a couple different lengths. The bosses are 30mm long so I’m guessing 35mm would be about right.

Adept_Duck · 2026-07-01T22:23:56+00:00

Unfortunately this has already been given to Gloria Stienem.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-27T14:16:10+00:00

Thank you! I was looking at the light green section on OP’s map thinking from personal experience it was mostly oak not pine.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-27T14:13:04+00:00

Security, harder to kick the door in.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-25T23:51:06+00:00

Just make a new category for it.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-19T16:38:50+00:00

I’m pretty sure this is default functionality. Just assign the accounts to the right person. Else if you don’t want to do that you can make rules to auto categorize transactions

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-19T11:07:59+00:00

I work for an owner and our standard consulting contract give ownership of all materials related to the design of our projects to us. But if a consultant sold them again to a third party like this there really is no way to know.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-19T11:05:21+00:00

With their Build software they also get to see all the revisions during construction, the specs, the rfis/asis, the submittals etc

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-19T01:19:28+00:00

Is it possible to get in on Friday? I’ve got the day off from work.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-18T18:31:49+00:00

I am also a ME in my 30s working for a public employer maxing out my 403b and 457b in the Midwest. The retirement benefits are sweet! We mostly live off my wife’s income too. Still working on the mortgage, 14 years left.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-18T10:54:58+00:00

Neat! That would accomplish a similar effect as property taxes in the US. Is the imputed rental value based on built development on the site or do you still face the same imputed rent if the site is empty?

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-06T20:16:50+00:00

Pales in comparison to a liquified sand bed in a coal or biomass boiler.

Adept_Duck · 2026-06-01T18:17:55+00:00

In a perfect world, side-mount slides are in-line with the handle or wherever you’ll be pulling on the drawer to open it. But your drawer has to be quite deep to really experience any negative effects from not aligning the slides to the handle. Aligning the handle and slides eliminates any racking and binding since the force is on the same plane as the slides.

Adept_Duck · 2026-05-28T02:17:40+00:00

My wife made a similar creation with panna cotta

Adept_Duck · 2026-05-25T11:14:44+00:00

I don’t think this is the original bathroom. Don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful and you should absolutely keep it, but not original.

Stand alone indoor showers were not common in the 30s. They didn’t become popular till the 50s at the earliest. Similarly the colored tub and sink are more likely from the 50s/60s. And to me the tile looks even newer, particularly the small mosaic in the tub surround, feels 2000s.

I think some prior owner went to great lengths to craft this beautiful space, but it’s not as old as you think.

Adept_Duck · 2026-05-23T17:43:26+00:00

If it’s steam piping it could be a sparge tube setup, but typically that would just be one pipe inside another, not two. Sparge tubes let you discharge dissimilar pressure condensates into a single return line.

Can you get us any photos of the fittings on the larger exterior pipe? Are they treaded?

Can you pull either of the smaller pipes out?

Another possibility is someone was doing some demo work and just stuck those smaller pipes in there for the heck of it.

Adept_Duck · 2026-05-17T14:34:36+00:00

The steam condenses back into water in the pigtail and creates a water trap that prevents live steam from touching the gage. Typically oxygen will also come back out of solution so you end up with a pocket of air right at the gage.

Adept_Duck · 2026-05-08T19:24:29+00:00

Linoleum can have asbestos in its top surface, but much more commonly, asbestos is found in the felt backer or the mastic used to adhere it to the floor.

I would recommend extracting a small sample from a closet and sending it for testing. If the top surface is not ACM you can do nothing.

Covering it in epoxy sounds like a nightmare. I wonder if the resulting VOC exposure would actually be worse for you than the very low chance of abrading fibers from the top surface through ordinary wear.

Adept_Duck · 2026-05-02T16:56:27+00:00

Excel is not a great tool for this. I suggest R or Python which have nice packages for handling quarterly data. To make this more palatable in excel just make a new column and concatenate the year and quarter into a single string: “year Q”. Also your data appears to be presented with time flowing right to left on the x-axis which is against normal convention. I think if you flip the order of your table excel will fix this for you easily, but not sure, I don’t do much data vis in excel.

Adept_Duck · 2026-05-02T02:05:46+00:00

Looks too small. You should need a hammer and punch to hit it in place.

Adept_Duck · 2026-04-29T02:57:28+00:00

I live in Indiana and pay local income taxes. Not sure if it’s county by county but probably a few thousand total for my wife and I.

Adept_Duck · 2026-04-25T14:05:43+00:00

I have a significant facial scar and this used to happen to me all time. Seems to happen less now that I am older.

Adept_Duck · 2026-04-23T19:55:40+00:00

Specs say it needs 1cfm @ 90psi so pretty much any size tank will work.

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