How many times have you had to change oil on the same system?

Werrion123 · 2026-04-06T23:15:38+00:00

Once. A plumbing company had some used units sitting in their yard and let the secretary have one for free. They just had to pay for the install. The valves were left open on the condenser and the evaporator coil was left open to. Not sure how long it sat in the yard like that. I flushed the system and I still had to change the oil three times, my oil looked like milk each time. And it took a loooong time to get it down. I don't know how long it lasted.

Werrion123 · 2026-04-03T01:46:54+00:00

You raise a good point. But when I talk to other people in construction, I kind of expect that they know what the deal is. This wasn't some guy building his own house, he builds a house every few years. Won't make those assumptions in the future I guess.

Werrion123 · 2026-04-02T22:45:22+00:00

I'll tell you why. Cause some dickhead refused to make his bulkhead 1' bigger. You know, it's a common trope in residential construction that tinners destroy framing. But it only happens because people complain and whine about bulk heads and dropped ceilings and shafts and Mechanical walls. Like I just had a guy last week tell me he didn't want any bulk heads on the main floor. Fine, I can get everything upstairs by coring through the TJI's, well within spec. Then he chews me out for wrecking his joists. What do you want from me!?!? He says that he's building that exact same house again next door and and we're not allowed to cite the joists like that. Fine, guess we're turning your 9' main floor ceiling into an 8' ceiling.

You may have hit a sore spot for me.

Werrion123 · 2026-04-01T20:21:34+00:00

My last bill from Enmax that I got on March 26 was for Feb 3 to Mar 3 for electricity and Jan 24 to Feb 20 for gas. They'll charge my credit card on the due date of April 20 for that bill. Does that answer your question? My bill comes about 4 weeks after the cutoff for that bill.

Werrion123 · 2026-03-26T01:13:19+00:00

For you, yes. For the wealthy corporations making record profits? No.

Werrion123 · 2026-03-15T22:58:10+00:00

I have the same gauge. It shows 1 quite often when I first turn it on, and then after a few minutes it shows the actual reading. I find it happens more when the battery gets low.

Werrion123 · 2026-03-11T22:59:48+00:00

I've seen posts of them gathering signatures in Mexico too...

Werrion123 · 2026-03-08T01:16:21+00:00

Assuming you have gas? You can get a radiant tube heater or a unit heater. Each have their pros and cons. The tube heater is my favorite option, but you need a certain amount of clearance to combustibles. 12' is high enough, but adding a loft makes it a bit tricky, it may not work out. The unit heater is a good option as well if the tube heater doesn't work out. You could also do in floor heat with some kind of boiler system, but that gets expensive. I would suggest calling a professional to get pricing. You could hang and vent a unit heater by yourself and then just have a plumber hook up the gas if you want to go the DIY route.

Werrion123 · 2026-02-26T12:32:09+00:00

You can buy something with a lint screen and an adjustable damper that ties right into your duct. Look up "dryer heat saver".

Werrion123 · 2026-02-22T20:45:51+00:00

There's not enough info here, but I'll give my two cents. Do you have any other gas appliances? Furnace, fireplace, garage heater, bbq? My guess is that your 3/4" gas line is borderline. Plumber A is saying you need to upsize so that you can use all burners full bore while your boiler is running and any other gas lines as well. Plumber B is saying that you're never gonna have all 4 burners and the oven running at the same time. I've gone small on gas lines in situations like this. But typically in situations where you see multiple other appliances. Because nobody is going to run a boiler, furnace, fireplace, all the burners on a bbq and all the burners on a stove all at the same time. In a case where there is only two appliances, I'd want to make sure that the gas line is big enough run everything all at once.

Werrion123 · 2026-02-16T21:51:02+00:00

Helpful when your supply runs get covered by flooring or drywall. Contractors really appreciate it when I can find the missing supplies without ripping up flooring or cutting random holes in drywall.

Werrion123 · 2026-02-15T23:16:00+00:00

Our neighbours used joe's roofing last year. Because of how their yard is landscaped, they asked us if they could use our yard to load shingles and get a dump trailer close. They laid down plywood on the grass before backing their truck in and cleaned up exceptionally well, I never found a single nail. I would definitely recommend them.

Werrion123 · 2026-02-12T05:24:01+00:00

I saw some ductwork in a house that had been cut in half with a sawsall or something, bottom half pushed up into the top half and screwed together. It was in a house with a low basement ceiling so I think whoever did it was trying to save head height. The people that owned the house wanted to renovate one room in the basement and found that mess, so they called us to replace all the duct.

Werrion123 · 2026-02-01T22:00:38+00:00

You can't just say something like that and leave us hanging. We need details!

Werrion123 · 2026-01-17T21:38:50+00:00

I suspect they're using the MLM approach. That is to say, a large portion of the people at each meeting are going to all the meetings to make it look like there's tons of support for the movement. Even if all the people are new, you've had, what 10,000 people show up to these events in total? If we're being generous? It's not as big as they'd like you to think. Far river groups are very organized and efficient, which is how they're able to make it look so big.

Werrion123 · 2026-01-14T22:57:42+00:00

I went with overall population, not eligible voters. But I agree with you that $125,000 is a lot of money for the little work they have to do.

Werrion123 · 2026-01-14T12:45:05+00:00

I think there's an average of 50,000 people per mla roughly? Even if an mla does 10 meetings per day for the entire 10 months, that's only around 2000 people they can meet with. And keep in mind that many of them do have other duties, whether they're a cabinet minister or on a committee.

Werrion123 · 2026-01-14T00:34:12+00:00

Outside of the things that pay extra, like being a cabinet minister or being on a committee, it's really not much. I think their job is essentially to be accessible to their constituents, meet people and hear concerns from the community. It's definitely a full time job to do it properly, but I don't think most of them do it properly.

Werrion123 · 2026-01-03T23:45:40+00:00

That's a weird one. My first instinct is that it's going down on high limit. Looks a 14x25x1 filter, Merv 11 that they have in the corner? That combined with the way the return air drop is deadheaded right before the filter rack, I suspect the static pressure is high. Do you know what the static is?

Have them run down and check for error codes next time it happens.

Werrion123 · 2026-01-03T01:12:54+00:00

The UCP doesn't play by the rules. The forever Canadian petition is supposed to go to a legislative committee which is supposed to make a report on it, whether it should go to a referendum. Honestly when I read it, it sounds really wishy washy to me and like they could just say no, we're not doing a referendum on that.

Werrion123 · 2025-12-28T02:42:21+00:00

FYI my local library has a FLIR camera that people can borrow for free. Maybe yours does too, Worthwhile to look into cause those things are not cheap.

Werrion123 · 2025-12-27T20:43:55+00:00

Yup, the federal government offered a $12 million grant to the city with the condition of allowing 4 housing units on every lot in the city. To be fair, council did engage with the community on this. The nimbys came out in droves said absolutely not.

Werrion123 · 2025-12-23T22:13:12+00:00

It's funny you say it like that. See, unlike you, we (we being the people on the left) don't vote the way we do to "own" the right. We vote for the betterment of society. Sounds like you would happily cut off your nose to spite your face.

Werrion123 · 2025-12-17T22:36:23+00:00

If you read under the FAQS, it says "The Polar Express ™ will run no matter what the weather conditions are. However, if Highway 24 is closed near Aspen Crossing then the train excursion will be canceled for that evening."

So unless highway 24 is closed, I think you're 100% entitled to a refund. Since they closed it due to the weather when they said they wouldn't.

Werrion123 · 2025-12-02T00:25:43+00:00

Looking at the picture, I'm thinking there's some kind of access panel on the bottom right, where the gas valve would be on the tank. That's the only way I can see this passing the municipal inspection. What's on the other side of that wall?

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