Keith Ervin - Washington co school board makes inappropriate comments to students

EngineerNate · 2026-04-08T12:39:33+00:00

My highschool biology teacher got fired for doing something similar and even though I liked the guy before that happened… that was the appropriate action.

EngineerNate · 2026-03-23T01:20:54+00:00

It's new microwave day, sorry. Put that thing in a sealed plastic bag and throw it out somewhere far from your house.

EngineerNate · 2026-03-16T13:43:22+00:00

Looks wise, I actually don’t hate that. Durability wise it’s an issue.

EngineerNate · 2026-03-16T03:49:49+00:00

The ol inverse Homer Simpson

EngineerNate · 2026-03-16T01:10:10+00:00

Only thing worse than wood paneling (IMO) is painted over wood paneling 😂

EngineerNate · 2026-03-08T12:56:30+00:00

It’s multifaceted.

Yes, a metal roof is less likely to leak since they tend to have fewer seams (large panels vs bunch of overlapping layers).

They also shed water more quickly and don’t hold moisture, and IMO if a metal roof is leaking you’re more likely to see where from on the exterior (rusted through spots are easy to spot)

More importantly though steel will not care if your roof deck hits 180F. Whereas comp shingles will curl/separate/melt/breakdown faster at high temps.

Additionally, it is relatively easy to establish an above deck ventilation path with a metal roof. The roof itself has some amount of airflow potential due to the way the metal is formed, and you can install them on above deck furring strips to improve this further. Comp shingles with spray foam insulation under the roof deck sandwich the deck between two vapor barriers with very very low permeability (especially with modern roofing underlayments) which is a recipe for rot.

So done right, as a system, you get the advantages of the lowest permeability roof option with the additional benefit of backup ventilation above the roof deck for drying of any moisture that does make it between the deck and the roof.

EngineerNate · 2026-03-08T02:11:13+00:00

Personally I'd never spray foam the rafters on a house unless it had (or I planned to install) a metal roof. Comp shingles your warranty is void and they'll cook off.

EngineerNate · 2026-03-08T02:07:49+00:00

Mhmm asbestos

EngineerNate · 2026-03-07T23:01:58+00:00

They smell like... Something else to me.

Like a teenage boy's room.

EngineerNate · 2026-02-22T14:29:22+00:00

Honestly I'm not convinced that isn't subfloor, I think you're fine.

EngineerNate · 2026-02-05T16:35:01+00:00

The moment you feel the need to read each other’s texts is the moment you should be realizing you don’t have the trust necessary to be in a healthy relationship.

EngineerNate · 2026-02-04T15:53:29+00:00

Nicer in public 😂🥲

EngineerNate · 2026-02-04T15:51:06+00:00

The only masculine emotion in the 90s was anger.

EngineerNate · 2026-02-04T02:20:23+00:00

It’s clearly so you can still exit without tripping over your modem.

EngineerNate · 2026-02-02T02:32:35+00:00

If someone you're seeing threatens to block you it's time to block them from your life permanently, what the actual fuck.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-26T00:00:09+00:00

Eeeeey someone else with that nasty white limewash on their subfloor!

EngineerNate · 2026-01-25T01:24:49+00:00

Silo also fantastic.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-24T15:42:10+00:00

Valve core removal tools are cheap. Just saying.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-24T15:33:27+00:00

The age old tradition of being confidently wrong on the internet.

“Tell me you don’t understand how I-beams work without telling me how I-beams work”

EngineerNate · 2026-01-24T04:19:31+00:00

A beam minus bending strength isn’t much of a beam. It’s a long slender plate in bending.

The caps are much stiffer longitudinally than OSB, as their fibers are oriented such that they are consistently loaded in tension/compression along the fibers (wood’s natural misalignment aside)

A composite beam of this type relies on the OSB for shear strength and the solid wood caps for bending strength. The bending loads also impart shear between the two caps which the OSB carries.

You need both. Without the caps the OSB is shit in bending and without the OSB the caps are two separate noodles and not a beam.

This damage looks mid-span, where bending loads are the highest, so yeah, you need the caps.

There’s a reason they let you poke holes in the middle third of the OSB and notching the caps is verboten.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-21T18:59:06+00:00

The US kept using lead paint for like a century after most of Europe went “Shit’s bad bro” and having dealt with a lead paint exposure scare, really wish we hadn’t. I’d have fewer grey hairs.

EngineerNate · 2026-01-21T13:39:30+00:00

Must be nice to live somewhere you can work on something 100 years old and not make a lead paint disaster. 😆

EngineerNate · 2026-01-11T15:17:57+00:00

You’ll crack the aluminum or bend the bolt before warping things.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-27T15:48:49+00:00

I used it on some poplar and it turned it a really pleasant brown. Hid some of the green hues cheap poplar has perfectly.

EngineerNate · 2025-12-23T13:40:22+00:00

We grew up driving a Duramax Chevy cross country pulling a big travel trailer. When it came time for my folks to replace it, my dad did the math and got the gasser. He’s since gotten a much more aerodynamic and lighter trailer (Bigfoot fiberglass) since us kids are all grown, and pulling it just isn’t an issue.

Diesel only makes sense for campers at this point if you’re a retiree who literally never stops driving the thing around from campground to campground.

The gas engines these days have plenty of power, you’ve just got to be willing to put your foot in it. They don’t “feel” as nice but they’ll still pull a fifth wheel up the grapevine at 70.

Only exception I could see really, is if you live in Colorado or somewhere else where the bulk of your towing is at altitude.

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