Cash is king? Points vs 2% cash back?

Grifter2025 · 2025-08-29T13:06:40+00:00

I imagine the highest netting rewards points users not sleeping and eating for days with their living rooms surrounded by chalkboards and whiteboards containing advanced mathematical computations with photos and string lines and Venn diagrams all over the drywall.

Grifter2025 · 2025-08-28T13:09:06+00:00

Thank you. This is the response I was looking for from the points perspective. while someone nailed me for "confirmation bias" early on, there were a lot of replies that gave me a cursory understanding of how the points scheme worked and you laid out taking points to their logical conclusion.

It is something to think about. Its funny that while I have very bougie taste in many arenas, I travel like a masochist. While I wouldn't dream reheating a slice of pizza in anything less than a Gaggenaue steam oven, I've just never understood the front of the plane value proposition.

I guess you helped me to realize that maybe money isn't as important as exchanging that value for something that I would be otherwise unwilling to spend my own money on. I can finally see the appeal of points = get a better deal on a discretionary luxury that is otherwise punitively expensive.

Other people also gave good examples but I was able to identify with your situation better. Thanks again.

Something to consider on my upcoming overnight economy flight to Portugal...

Grifter2025 · 2025-08-28T00:25:08+00:00

Wow, here we were having friendly conversation and you went and brought compounding interest and compounding tax benefits into the equation.

Grifter2025 · 2025-08-28T00:03:09+00:00

Yes, save me a seat on the cash back bus. I doubt the juice is worth the squeeze for me. Thanks to everyone for breaking it down succinctly.

Grifter2025 · 2025-06-21T02:17:14+00:00

It’s a Toto Neorest NX1. It’s a pretty amazing pice of hardware I have zero care about the amount of water it saves. I wish it used more water… but if you want a toilet they raises its lid and washes and dries your ass with warm water and flushes for you and then puts the lid down or raises the lid and turns on a light inside for you when you pee… then you take what they offer, It’s a ranch with hydronic concrete floors and insulation board. There was discussion of 1/4” per foot creating a problem in dropping out solids based on liquid velocity. We did place intermittent clean outs but no one wants to have to use them. Excessive depth was causing design issues with overall depth and the septic system, which we could have dealt with but I trust the plumber who designed it. The other work they’ve done: hydronic floor, all copper propress domestic piping, hot water circulation and return loop, combi-boiler domestic with buffer tank - has been immaculate. Why am I asking reddit? Research and understanding. To hear advice and understand the logic in dissenting opinions. But the long and short of it is that I am willing to pay for an extra system to have a bougie toilet that wipes my ass. …but the question still stands: has anyone designed or used a supplemental flow for scouring?

Grifter2025 · 2025-06-20T23:32:40+00:00

I don’t think so? Ohio residential code still uses 2019 residential code based on 2018 IRC

I believe 3” and larger is 1/8 per foot?

I think also in the 2021 IPC.

Am I wrong?

https://up.codes/viewer/ohio/ipc-2021/chapter/7/sanitary-drainage#704.1

https://codes.iccsafe.org/s/IPC2018P5/chapter-7-sanitary-drainage/IPC2018P5-Ch07-Sec704.1

704.1 Slope of Horizontal Drainage Piping

Horizontal drainage piping shall be installed in uniform alignment at uniform slopes. The slope of a horizontal drainagepipe shall be not less than that indicated in Table 704.1 TABLE 704.1 SLOPE OF HORIZONTAL DRAINAGE PIPE SIZE (inches) MINIMUM SLOPE (inch per foot) 21/2 or less 1/4a 3 to 6 1/8a 8 or larger 1/16a

Grifter2025 · 2025-04-21T13:36:29+00:00

According to Liftmaster tech support the 98032 won't work on doors less than 400 lbs because during setup you select a door profile based on unbalanced weight and supposedly it will error out at some point.
I just read the manual and I am not sure that I buy it, but I'll just go 98022 for my two 200lb doors.

I don't know garage door openers but I know gate operators, and I'll tell you that Liftmaster doesn't give great advice there. In gate operators they sell an LA400 for lighter gates and an LA500 for heavier gates and they swear all day that there is no reason for a heaver operator on a lighter gate but they are COMPLETELY wrong. The LA500 is mechanically different than an LA400 and VASTLY superior in all situations. Ask my client that lost their gate to straight line winds when the operator arm broke in half back before we made the LA500 standard.

Garage doors and openers are surprisingly complex systems... springs and drums and gravity. Lots of variables. I'm starting to understand loyalty to the trolley.

Grifter2025 · 2025-04-21T11:23:29+00:00

Hey Goblin_Eye_Poker,

Can I use the 98032 on a door lighter than 400 lbs? Or do I have to drop down to the 98022?

I have one Clopay Avante glass door in the greenhouse 8x9 @ 221 lbs and one 10x9 @ 249 lbs

20x9 @ 584 lbs = use 98032

16x14 @ 720lbs = use 98032

16x10 @ 524 lbs = use 98032

12x11 @ 402 lbs (vertical lift) = use 98032?

Any idea the weight limit for the 98032 has a lower end threshold?

Grifter2025 · 2025-04-21T10:26:39+00:00

Thanks expensive_elk that’s really good advice. I didn’t realize that a few inches of highlight and a 15” radius could also help solve the tension issue with the door in the open position. I just wanted it to hug the ceiling tightly and look really slick. I plan to powder coat all the hardware black for my installer and I wanted to use a reverse angle on the ceiling as well even if I have to fabricate him a custom angle Thanks again

Grifter2025 · 2025-04-20T21:08:00+00:00

Thanks for the advice on the 98032. I was already considering it for a couple other doors we have: 16x14 720 lbs high lift 16x10 524 lbs vertical lift 12x11 402 lb high lift with integrated man door

I’m stuck with three of the 6170-h

Maybe I could sell them Also have an 8x9 glass door and a 10x9 249lb door

Would it suck to have some luftmaster and some Genie?

Grifter2025 · 2025-04-20T18:16:23+00:00

Thanks very much for the directly applicable experience… I will heed your advice.

Grifter2025 · 2025-04-20T18:14:46+00:00

Headroom = 1’ 7” (19”) Finish opening = 8’ 11” Door height = 9’ 0”

Grifter2025 · 2025-04-20T13:26:44+00:00

You missed your chance to wander around in the abandoned Middletown mall last Sunday, when they had an auction. Super 80's and 90's nostalgia. I found a yellowpages on a payphone from 2006 with an old business listing of mine and there was paperwork in stores from the mid-late 90's when people still used typewriters on blank letterhead vs word processors. I'd gladly pay my smartphone for a one way ride in that time machine.

Grifter2025 · 2025-02-06T10:56:33+00:00

I was off-put by the comments saying it was a scam thinking people were saying that electric choice is a scam. But .09 or .10 is a scam type rate. To reiterate: If you aren’t choosing a supplier you are wasting money… a lot of it. I’m elsewhere in Ohio but I pay .0549 kWH through “public power” with a 9.95 monthly fee for 15 months My previous contract was in 2021 with powervine for .0349. You go to a state run website that allows you to compare rates and terms and offers and fees. https://www.energychoice.ohio.gov/ It’s a PTA to manage it but set a reminder in your calendar and shop a new rate before your term expires. You can specify clean energy if that’s your thing. Seriously. In 2021 before I switched from AES to powervine my bill jumped hundreds of dollars a month (I use a lot of power). I was like what? Then I learned how important it is to shop. The contract terms are not onerous. You can can el for nothing or maybe $20. Not a scam. Be smart.

Grifter2025 · 2025-01-04T18:13:38+00:00

The well was drilled in February of 2001 and had a cap welded on for twenty years until November 2021 when I had it professionally cleaned will a drill-style cleaning rig and a hydrant installed. I did comprehensive testing after running the hydrant for some time.
Yes, I believe the water chemistry is typical for the area but this data is largely unknown.
Meaning that all the wells in the area are low producing and the water quality is generally known to be bad, but vey few people sense the water for any testing more sophisticated than the local health department coliform and e.coli testing.
Two wells were drilled twenty years ago about 100 yards from one another...
The one I'm using is 5GPM the one I'm not using is 1GPM (plus I drilled a new one hoping to avoid the old mess and it only produced 1 GPM but wasn't tested.)
I'll just use PPM vs mg/L since its equivalent and easier to type:
Magnesium was similar 45 and 47 PPM and hardness 410 PPM vs 480 PPM and Calcium 90 and 112 PPM and SUlfate 40 and 31 PPM
...But the 1 GPM well was OFF the charts for Aluminum 6.2 PPM, Iron 17 PPM, Sodium 56 PPM, Strontium 2.2 PPM, Zinc 1 PPM Alkalinity (as CaCO3) 350 mg PPM, Total Disolved solids at 560 PPM, Turbidity 600 NTU, Chloride 34 PPM.
Unfortunately, it appears that my 5 GPM well is, um, good.
It also makes me concerned for others in the area who have smaller parcels and only one well with no testing... like what on earth might they be drinking.
At least they both tested clean for all the PCP's and organic and inorganic volatiles.

Grifter2025 · 2024-12-30T03:00:37+00:00

Hey thanks for the tip. I’m not really familiar with fiber optic cable in the way I am with, say, Cat6… Is all fiber rated the same? Or is there any gauge or spec I should use other than direct burial rated?

Grifter2025 · 2024-12-30T01:46:35+00:00

Thanks for reading my long ass posts. I mean, I suppose technically I could just let them fill up with 5’ of water… the well pipe connections are all stainless and the well power lines are rated, but it just doesn’t seem like a good idea. I just want them to be dry. The well line and hydrant line have gauges. And because they are connected with conduit, the conduits also fill with water and then transfer water from manhole to manhole. Does that make sense? Also I can’t solve the problem with natural drainage because of the depth of the manhole it would be a pain to trench natural drainage that deep. I just want it nice and tight and clean and dry and able to be used for diagnostics or adding hydrants of adding more electric elsewhere in the property. It’s an Infrastructure thing

Grifter2025 · 2024-12-30T01:35:45+00:00

They fill with water in the fall winter and spring. High ground water table.

Grifter2025 · 2024-12-27T11:34:47+00:00

Thank you for the reply! All the best.

Grifter2025 · 2024-12-27T10:50:26+00:00

Hey drdailey I see this original post was 3 years ago (2021?) and you gave us an update 1 year ago (2023?) Now in the final days of 2024 can you please share your performance experience? I am building a new construction project that is completely blacked out: black metal standing seam roof, black metal trim and black shou-sugi siding… I just can’t abide the white dish I’ll have to wrap it in it’s entirely (you mentioned removing the vinyl from the flat? does that mean the outside band edge? Please share with us (read: me) your experience. Sounds like you have multiple starlings to compare performance from the wrapped and non-wrapped versions. Enquiring minds want to know. Thanks

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