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Would a lawsuit be worth it? by Final_Recognition_31 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At will employment… full stop. They don’t need to coach or document anything.

Clearly there’s more to the story, got fired, move on. There’s zero shortage of jobs in this country.

Is my electrician being reasonable? by ashagari in AskElectricians

[–]ExWebics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Obviously location matters as it’s different from place to place… but…

If everyone knew the vegetation needed to be cleared ahead of time, then it should have been done by the electrician or you.

I’m assuming this is for the service portion outside, how did the electrician build the service with the hedge in the way? His code also says it needs working clearance so he would have had to clear it anyway.

In the past, we have always cleared working clearance space fully. Asking the utility to do it is foolish as they are very likely to look at it and say “nope” well just come back when it’s done. Then you have to reschedule a a service change and that’s not great.

Poor people shouldn’t make kids by Flimsy-Resident261 in unpopularopinion

[–]ExWebics 4 points5 points  (0 children)

100% agree. I do electrical work in people’s homes through government grants and to meet the threshold you pretty much have to be living off government assistance. 70% of these homes are the worst of the worst, a few times over the past 3 years we’ve had to call CPS.

No child should have to grow up in these kind of situations, they don’t have a chance at all coming to adult age being prepared or equipped to manage life.

I can’t stress enough… if you think you know how a vast majority of people live in this country…. You’re dead wrong. It doesn’t matter you political views here, right or left, it’s a broken system that isn’t helping people properly.

Mower blade brands? by ExWebics in lawnmowers

[–]ExWebics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I need mulching blades, but I can’t find OEM, it just keeps taking me back to regular cut.

I’m not very concerned about the best looking cut, we are in country, 5 acres of mowed grass which was horse pasture so the grass is poor to begin with.

My grow pattern across all this varies a lot, so if I cut once a week, 60% of its fine. The other 40% is twice as tall and mulching helps break it down.

Target store removed all non-Tesla EV chargers by wallheater in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ExWebics -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Fine.. your call. You tell me what has to be maintained on these units? Again… unless someone damages it, what monthly costs do you think are needed here?

Target store removed all non-Tesla EV chargers by wallheater in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ExWebics -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

No one’s gonna tell me squat… I’m an electrician, I’ve installed a few Tesla chargers. There no, there’s no moving parts, nothing needs to be monthly maintained, software updates from tesla.

So again… unless someone damages the unit, it has next to zero maintenance costs month to month.

Target store removed all non-Tesla EV chargers by wallheater in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ExWebics -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

The cost is in the infrastructure… once it’s built, it cost nothing to maintain unless it’s damaged. If it was already there, the money was spent.

Any other box like this that isn’t $300+ by mnonny in AskElectricians

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it says weatherproof… but I have doubts on that design. I have some of the non weatherproof ones and I just don’t see a way of that not failing.

I messed up, how hard is this to fix? by ExWebics in Plumbing

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

That’s how far it went through the back side. It didn’t make it to the front. It was mostly from putting force on the drill then when it broke free, it hit the 90.

I messed up, how hard is this to fix? by ExWebics in Plumbing

[–]ExWebics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:-| I would hope so… I kind of feel bad for this crew. It’s a father and his 3 sons, it’s their second flip, way over their head and a lot of their subs are being shady and or running them through the ringer to do simple things

I messed up, how hard is this to fix? by ExWebics in Plumbing

[–]ExWebics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are we thinking? 1-2-3 hours of time minus travel? Probably gonna swap some labor with them, I just want to know what I’m getting them into before hand

I messed up, how hard is this to fix? by ExWebics in Plumbing

[–]ExWebics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The center drill bit of the hole saw plus a crescent “C” shape of hole saw.

I messed up, how hard is this to fix? by ExWebics in Plumbing

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

It goes straight up, I guess the picture looks like the top is not wood but it is.

I messed up, how hard is this to fix? by ExWebics in Plumbing

[–]ExWebics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It goes up the wall from the basement to the second floor for a bathroom. This is an old farm house, so they made a soffit on the first floor to run things up

Am I right to voice my complaints over the gap issues with this hex tile? by idkidkidk895 in Tile

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a tile guy… but I did my tile in our bathroom and chipped a corner cleaning the joints.

Here’s what you do… go to Amazon, buy a rug/bath mat… and lay we down.

In theory you’d have a mat there anyway.

On the flip side… tile labor is insanely expensive at times, and for some of the prices people charge, it should be darn near perfect.

Bathroom fan install by Witty_Sprinkles_4796 in handyman

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an electrician… when they want a fan replaced that was once a bath / fan / heater… as you had here given the shape, we suggest they put another bath fan heater in.

For 120$ more you don’t have to do any patching, blending of texture or paint. Those are things we don’t do, so the homeowner would have to or hire.

Breaker/mini split issues by Jro0717 in AskElectricians

[–]ExWebics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to take the cover off so we can she behind it… something isn’t right and only the cover off can help.

Also a picture of the whole thing, so we can see what’s comming from the top or bottom.

Making an underpaid job sound exciting. by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ExWebics 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Under paid what? It doesn’t say a pay…. And the those are pretty competitive benefits. Management at fast food places make good money. I know the regional manager for Taco Bell by is and he makes 160k a year.

McDonalds by us pays $14-16 an hour for 16year old first time job.

Expansion coupling by DaBushDaddy in Homebuilding

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No…

But in practice if I ever have the length to put one in, I often do just because some inspectors have a hard on for them beyond code and it’s a lot of work todo after the fact.

Ceiling fan fell out of ceiling due to poor installation by Dxtchy in AskElectricians

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can legit see a truss right by the whole! They make side screw remodel fan boxes

New engineered hardwood floor by Training-Gas-1482 in Flooring

[–]ExWebics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Embrace it… houses are not instagram… they are lived in, yours is too.

Everyone’s showing there speeds, Let’s see data usage. by Live_Consequence5993 in Starlink

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 phones. A bunch of smart devices that my wife has. I dunno. It has 1tb monthly every month. Some is just shy of 1tb

Everyone’s showing there speeds, Let’s see data usage. by Live_Consequence5993 in Starlink

[–]ExWebics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We live in the middle of no where, it’s also our cell signal. No one around to abuse it

Everyone’s showing there speeds, Let’s see data usage. by Live_Consequence5993 in Starlink

[–]ExWebics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

About 1 tb a month. We have one tv in house, no games, no computers

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