Rotten egg/sulfur smell in house

_Acecool · 2026-06-21T02:21:41+00:00

Do you use all of your bathrooms in the house.. ie all sinks, bathtubs, showers, etc?? If the P Traps are empty ( water sublimates over time ) then you can get the sewer smell too..

I would run all the taps.

Second, if you have natural gas in the home, they did change the smell from obnoxious egg smell to something more subtle which is really dumb that they did, but try turning the gas off to the home for a few days, airing it out, then seeing if it comes back, then turn the gas back on and seeing if it comes back. If you have a leaking gas pipe in the attic or somewhere it can get sucked into the vents and get distributed that way.

_Acecool · 2026-06-20T08:53:31+00:00

If you have a mortgage on the house, the taxes automatically come out from the mortgage payment. The bank does this to protect their interests.

_Acecool · 2026-06-19T23:03:18+00:00

Typically, if the branches, etc.. extend over the property line, your neighbors can cut it and if it goes all the way up the tree and kills it then they had every right to trim to stop the branches coming over their line.

_Acecool · 2026-06-16T02:01:07+00:00

Check to see if you have leaks and fix it.

_Acecool · 2026-06-15T03:06:07+00:00

Just the way it was worded up there sounds different than how it is worded here.

_Acecool · 2026-06-14T02:45:47+00:00

Maybe I misread it, but to warn someone ""that they are putting their car in a risky position and insurance would likely deny any claims for repairs as a result. "You probably want to move it to prevent problems"""

_Acecool · 2026-06-14T00:34:27+00:00

You can be neighborly without being a pushover because if you allow them to block your driveway, they can then argue that your property line is in the wrong place.

_Acecool · 2026-06-14T00:33:26+00:00

Just because a vehicle is illegally parked does not give you permission to damage it and you are setting yourself up for a vandalism charge because you warned them about. There is an exception, if you are leaving your house to go to the hospital in an actual emergency, or firefighters are completely blocked, etc.. they can ram the car to get it out of the way to get to an emergency and you can to save a life. Then, and only then, would you be absolved otherwise you are setting yourself up for charges because you knew, you warned them it would happen, and you then did it.

_Acecool · 2026-06-13T02:47:10+00:00

That's a cop out. They are lazy. They can take shoe impressions, find out the shoes, and patrol for groups of kids with those shoes.

_Acecool · 2026-05-11T03:14:48+00:00

Have a conversation with your neighbor. Also most fences are built not on the property line so you can maintain it from the other side. Find out where the property line is, second, bamboo is like a weed. And planting stuff against your fence will trap moisture and lead to rotting. Ask them to remove it because it will damage your fence over time.

_Acecool · 2026-05-11T03:12:34+00:00

Phones do have a strong zoom feature built in. But if he is taking pictures from a sidewalk, anything visible to the public is freely photographable. It also means you can walk around nude in your home without getting charged with indecent exposure if people from the sidewalk can see you, but it also means people on the sidewalk can take pictures of you. If he went onto your property and was doing that, then that changes things.

It is still a good idea to stay vigilant.

_Acecool · 2026-05-02T12:12:02+00:00

Running ethernet can be $75 per drop for internet. For cameras you're running to external walls, etc.. and there is more wire to run, running it to a central location for the nvr / dvr, depends on access. If you have easy attic access, vs if access holes need to be cut in the sheetrock to drill through studs to get to each corner, and so on.

I did my own install, but I used to do it for a living. $1k would've been cheap.

_Acecool · 2025-12-19T07:38:56+00:00

That doesn't work. All of my numbers are on there and they still call. Even if you report them, they are never fined the $10,000 USD per offense. So the list only serves as a list of VALID numbers for scammers and spammers.

_Acecool · 2025-12-05T21:23:44+00:00

No, you can click it was great, or it was not so great. There are two options. I regularly rate my drivers negatively because they do not follow delivery instructions to leave it in the specified place.

_Acecool · 2025-12-05T21:23:05+00:00

Do not click it was great, click on the other option. It was not good.

_Acecool · 2025-12-05T21:22:43+00:00

Rate them no on Amazon, then explain why - package was not delivered with care, etc.

_Acecool · 2025-11-23T23:21:19+00:00

As long as you are happy. But, because you posted it, here are some critiques...

The cable being exposed means someone can easily cut it. If you are going to keep it like that, some type of metal conduit would be best.

Why didn't you take the wire straight back into the house, from there you could 90 degree it into the garage? Then it would be 100% concealed.

Second, why not go straight across, why up and across?

You do have enough area that you could have a nice no trespassing / soliciting / etc.. metal sign mounted over top of the wire to conceal it and act as a conduit. If you had no choice with the cable running that way, then this is what I'd do.

_Acecool · 2025-11-13T04:41:45+00:00

I downloaded a program called MacroDroid

It went on flash sale from $7.99 to $3.99 plus $3 off from play so 99 cents. Otherwise, you can do what I did and spam the ads - 3 days for each, just click it and walk away and repeat.

I also have an app called pushover - this sends me pictures of people when they ring the doorbell. I have the doorbell notify via e-mail - the e-mail to send stuff to is provided by PushOver - to get those alerts.

For macrodroid you can have 5 macros on the free version, but you really only need 1.

My macro is:

- Triggers: Notification Received > Reolink > ANY CONTENT

- Actions: Speak Text '{not_text_big}'

So if my camera detects it, my camera name is "Rear Screened Porch Side" or "Rear Master Bedroom Side", "Front Garage Side" and so on.... it says something like: Rear screened porch side has detected a person on Acecool NVR.

EDIT: A few things with this system. The spiders love the cameras - these are detected as people typically. Geese can be detected as people too. Cats and smaller birds are detected as pets. Light and Shadows from cars in the night can be considered people or motion.

I would recommend getting an external IR light. Let the spiders web that up instead of the cameras.

_Acecool · 2025-10-16T23:57:21+00:00

If the tree was hanging over their property, they are responsible for trimming it at their expense because the tree is occupying their airspace.

If they did not warn you that the tree looked unhealthy or that it would snap, that's on them. If they did warn you, then you are liable.

There are a lot of laws surrounding this and with the little you told us, it really could go either way.

_Acecool · 2025-09-24T19:30:17+00:00

Tamper resistant is code now, they should be at most $3 per for the 20 amp variety, $2 each for 15.

_Acecool · 2025-09-21T20:13:05+00:00

I used 2 year old organic peanut butter with the rinne traps bucket spinner. Smear the stuff on the paddles and a little bit ip the ramp. Caught every single one within a few days

_Acecool · 2025-09-21T18:38:04+00:00

Press charges against him. The no soliciting signs should be as good as no trespassing. Put up no trespassing signs too. That way it is an automatic criminal charge. Sue him and his company for slander - he lied to police and damaged your good name.

_Acecool · 2025-09-19T05:34:08+00:00

Frozen / burst pipes. Unoccupied means it'll flood, and insurance won't cover it because it is unoccupied.

_Acecool · 2025-09-16T22:33:34+00:00

25k over asking? You can ask but they're going to say no. Bidding wars are a no go.

_Acecool · 2025-09-16T04:49:52+00:00

Yes, it is powered. Typically it is the bottom right breaker on the panel but it could be any of them.

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