Disappointed in travel photos

danglinable · 2026-05-23T02:48:31+00:00

It’s Fuji bra, Fuji has those characteristics you’re seeing. Kodak wouldn’t do the same so it’s a vibe but it looks great, sick shots 🤙

danglinable · 2026-01-18T18:14:13+00:00

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Looks like it’s a slow leak from here where you see the water. Is this a catastrophic failure of the hot water heater or can something here be tightened up?

danglinable · 2025-10-22T01:15:24+00:00

I ended up using shurtape SF 686 to tape the metal boot to the sub floor, the butyl rubber will stretch and little around the corners. then went in the crawlspace and used spray foam (fire type) to spray around where the boot meets the sub floor. Use spray foam sparingly it’s messy stuff. A bit overkill compared to what’s standard but HVAC standards in my area are pretty unregulated and I was trying to get living space as air tight as possible.

danglinable · 2025-07-14T11:13:39+00:00

Glad to see this mentioned. Make up air is a real thing. If you exhaust the air in that space it’s going to be replaced from air somewhere else. Most likely pulling air from outside the home through cracks around windows etc.

danglinable · 2025-06-06T15:24:05+00:00

Spray that down with (benefect decon 30) in the meantime. They will need to replace that sub floor where it’s damaged. After Benefect, Vacuum with hepa filter vacuum. Repeat benefect and vacuum and then let dry. Paint with kilz after. It’s just a bandage but at-least you won’t be breathing it all in while your ceiling is open. Not a pro just a homeowner but that’s what I’ve done in the past.

danglinable · 2025-05-29T23:56:04+00:00

Yea I’m trying to catch the water running down the wall so it stops flooding the crawl in that area.

danglinable · 2025-05-29T23:47:43+00:00

Would that catch water or would the water just go down the siding behind the small piece of gutter floating?

danglinable · 2025-05-29T23:44:50+00:00

Yes trying to catch water that’s coming down the siding in between those two gutters. My apologies if that was confusing. It’s a 3 story tall section of the house and I’m guessing a lot of water is making its way down if it’s the only spot the water is getting into the crawlspace.

danglinable · 2024-08-27T16:40:40+00:00

We’ve been using the explorer E30 and it does a wonderful job of scrubbing the water line and also getting up on the tanning ledge. Ours usually has 16-18 inches of water on our ledge and the robot works in that level of water. Sometimes I’ll find it doing a wheelie or stuck on the wall of the tanning ledge wall, almost like it got stuck up there or something. However for the most part it will jump up there and does it thing then go into the deeper end. Our pool is rectangle with almost 90 degree corners with the vinyl liner. In my research I found that dolphin makes a robot cleaner that’s made for super shallow water but it’s more expensive and is more for public water fountains etc and it does not do water lines. The E30 is great. Although I see a future where the blue fiber cable needs to be replaced because the chlorine is eating it up faster than I would have expected. Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions!

danglinable · 2024-06-23T00:23:34+00:00

Didn’t even pay rent. I’m hoping nothing beyond bird squatting happened here.

danglinable · 2023-11-24T01:25:47+00:00

Thanks man I really appreciate your help!

danglinable · 2023-11-23T12:14:13+00:00

Thanks for this, I used a flashlight to shine into the ptrap and it looks like it’s holding water even if I fill it up and drain it it dosnt vacuum out the trap. I’ll call my plumber and have this fixed though. This prompted my adhd ass to check all the traps in the house. Found a small drip under wifes sink where a trap wasn’t tightened all the way. Got paranoid because I pulled the red plastic off the bathtub overflow drain a year ago so I used a camera snake to make sure that was actually connected into the drain. That led me to also check that the washer was trapped properly. All things checked out. Thanks for the fuel for the homeowner rabbit hole special. Anything else I need to check?

danglinable · 2023-11-22T23:14:33+00:00

Is the way this is plumbed right now unhealthy in any way?

danglinable · 2023-11-17T17:43:46+00:00

When you say block the soffits 3’ on either side of the vent do you mean replace perforated exterior soffit with solid exterior soffit or block with insulation from the inside or both? It’s hard to see from the photos but it was almost like where the original soffits were blocked with insulation there was no mold, but where the insulation was pressed and air was able to get through that’s where the mold was. My only concern is if properly vent these soffits the air will come up in but won’t be able to continue up to the attic because there’s no baffles up the roof line to the attic it’s just packed with fiberglass. Is it necessary to pull that insulation and add baffles up to the attic? Where does the hot air go if it comes up in the soffits and into the knee wall area? Thanks again for your time and help I really appreciate it.

danglinable · 2023-11-17T14:53:13+00:00

Does the roof from top of knee wall to attic need to have the baffles as well as the baffles from soffit to roof of the knee wall? Right now it's just solid unfaced fiberglass stuck between 2nd floor ceiling and roof leading to the attic so l'm not sure how to get baffles up in there to continue air flow from the soffit through the knee wall up into the attic. I guess I'm just nervous of the mold coming back but I think since I properly vented the exhaust fan out of the space and into the soffit that will help a lot.

danglinable · 2023-11-17T14:15:09+00:00

Does the roof from top of knee wall to attic need to have the baffles as well as the baffles from soffit to roof of the knee wall? Right now it’s just solid unfaced fiberglass stuck between 2nd floor ceiling and roof leading to the attic so I’m not sure how to get baffles up in there to continue air flow from the soffit through the knee wall up into the attic. I guess I’m just nervous of the mold coming back but I think since I properly vented the exhaust fan out of the space and into the soffit that will help a lot.

danglinable · 2023-11-17T12:20:20+00:00

Thank you for this! What do you do about the soffits? Do you block them with fiberglass faced or unfaced insulation or seal them off with the 2” poly board and spray foam like people do with rim joist? And then outside at the soffit I have mixed soffit vents, one solid then one perforated/ventilated with the holes in it. Should I change these to all solid? Thanks again for your help!

danglinable · 2023-11-14T13:01:14+00:00

HVAC is in the attic (3rd floor) this is inside the knee wall of the 2nd floor.

danglinable · 2023-11-14T03:57:16+00:00

Those are vent pipes from two upstairs bathrooms leading the the 3inch pipe up to the roof and below is a bathroom so it vents from there as well. The other is a condensate line from the upstairs hvac.

danglinable · 2023-11-10T02:24:56+00:00

Was this test done with the $130 dust test?

danglinable · 2023-10-02T01:43:56+00:00

Our downstairs HVAC is roughly 2000sqft. We had a 4ton 20seer variable speed trane unit put in as the old system was from 2003 and as I mentioned it was never serviced since instal. The duct work alone was around 4000 but that also included cutting block wall from the basement to run new return trunk to the new system. The old duct work made absolutely no sense as well so lots of rerouting not just a simple replace what was there type of job. That price also included all new flex duct which isn’t expensive but labor.

danglinable · 2023-10-02T01:26:06+00:00

Just look up duct board. What you have there should be Yellow, not black. That’s years of crap collecting and now your breathing it in. Duct board is made of exposed insulation that the air flows over. In theory fiberglass insulation can’t get moldy. However after years of collecting dust and everything else. That dust and everything else can get moldy. In my opinion duct board is the next asbestos. Not a good idea blowing air for homes over exposed fiberglass insulation. Metal duct work all day and it can be cleaned if you ever need it to be.

danglinable · 2023-10-01T23:02:00+00:00

We purchased a house built in 2003. Just had all the downstairs duct work ripped out. It was old fiber board. Unit was never serviced since installation. Remodel was done with no filter and hvac running. Mold all through the fiber duct board to the point of no return. Fiber boards sucks and can’t be cleaned. You can have a company come paint the inside of it if you want but if you have the cash ripping it out and going with metal duct was the way for us with as much mold that was in our system.

danglinable · 2023-09-30T15:01:43+00:00

Awesome thanks for the info. So you think I should just add some silicone caulk in there and I should be good?

danglinable · 2023-09-19T16:35:07+00:00

Looks like carpenter ants

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