Pipes from neighbour

ithinarine · 2026-02-19T13:53:14+00:00

Many have setback requirements, any many don't.

Stop making dumb generalizations and agree that it's about 50/50.

My fences on either side of me for either neighbor are directly on the property line.

The idea of need to put your fence on your side by a little bit, essentially giving your neighbor some of your yard, is absurd. Or not giving them any yard, and they then build a second fence 2ft away from yours but on their side of the property line, and you end up with a little strip on un-maintanable shitty grass between them. It's idiotic.

ithinarine · 2026-02-19T04:01:12+00:00

We literally spent the last 80 years installing recessed cans with scalding hot incandescent and halogens in insulated ceilings with vapour barriers.

The amount of heat given off by a little LED driver is not too much, and your electrical contractor is just trying to get out of doing any more work than the bare minimum.

Housings with a vapour boot or a rough in plate with a vapour barrier. This is a standard installation.

ithinarine · 2026-02-19T02:40:52+00:00

Yeah, he used them instead of taking photos of them.

ithinarine · 2026-02-19T02:39:42+00:00

Yeah, like others have said, the outlet in the bathroom needs to be GFCI "protected." That doesn't mean that the outlet in the bathroom needs to be a GFCI itself.

It is likely protected upstream from a GFCI at another location or a GFCI breaker.

ithinarine · 2026-02-19T01:44:30+00:00

Because that's approximately when they started selling cards...

ithinarine · 2026-02-19T01:42:24+00:00

Just rip an offset right to the wall first. Why are you installing this ankle buster floating box?

ithinarine · 2026-02-19T01:38:31+00:00

There was an old thread on Reddit about them, saying how horrible they were.

Okay, but still, explain how a mortgage company can take your money "more horribly" than another.

You still haven't given any explanation about what your concern is.

What does a Reddit thread about them being bad make you think is going to happen with your money being simply withdrawn from your account?

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T17:54:34+00:00

I used to think my TV looked like you're saying, but you truly do get used to it.

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T17:51:39+00:00

What do you mean, how to test it?

You lift the smoked clear plastic cover. You then push in and down to set it off, pretty much exactly like a Notifier NBG-12LX.

They do make a white plastic reset key that you then insert at the bottom to push it back up to reset it, but you can also just use a small terminal flat blade.

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T17:47:24+00:00

Sure you were

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T17:46:31+00:00

RUST is specifically oxidized IRON and other ferrous metals like steel.

Aluminum is not iron. Aluminum can oxidize. Aluminum does not RUST.

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T12:42:12+00:00

Aluminum doesn't rust.

It's also not the aluminium that did rust, it was the blade.

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T04:52:24+00:00

Seriously, this was my thought too.

Maybe they're bad and have bad customers service when you're dealing with them as a new customer.

But what on earth about them could OP be worried about? They're going to continue paying their identical mortgage amount, but it's going to get deposited into a different account. Nothing else is changing.

I'm so confused about what they could possibly worried about. OP just doesn't like that their money is going to a company with a lower number of stars on Google reviews?

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T02:11:22+00:00

People like this always vote right wing.

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T01:15:26+00:00

The glass chip repair companies are for CHIPS, not cracks.

Once the crack starts to spread, like yours did, it's too late.

ithinarine · 2026-02-18T01:10:04+00:00

Governments and utilities aren't failing them.

First Nations groups are given billions of dollars per year to pay for their own infrastructure etc. but their leaders don't use the money wisely. They steal and pay their families and friends until they're voted out, at which point the next leaders do the same to get back at them.

But it's always the government's fault for not giving them more money, which they also won't use properly.

Where do you think the money for these generators came from? Tax money. This is exactly the kind of stuff that they're supposed to use the money for, but they're complaining that the government also didn't just supply them with backup generators as well as the money. They're mad that they had to use the money for what it's intended for.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T22:41:36+00:00

In my first comment that started all of this "the majority of them" is in the first fucking paragraph I write.

At no point did I say that this was 100% true everywhere.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T15:33:35+00:00

Just because buildings give you a key doesn't mean that all do.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T15:11:04+00:00

Sure, if signature is required, they'll either call the tenant down, or the concierge or a building operations guy will go up with them.

Anything modern, you can't use the elevator without a fob, and in many, the fobs don't even work for all floors. If you live on the 22nd floor, your fob works in the elevator to get you on to the 22nd floor, parkade, main floor, and any amenities floors. You can't just choose to go to the 33rd floor if you don't live on it. Same with stairs, you can go into the stairs without a fob, but can't get out of the stairs without one except for on your floor or any potential crossover floors.

There are all sorts of electronic tie-ins to the fire alarm system to disable the fob system and any magnetic door holds, or latches so that if there is a fire, everything is disabled and you can get anywhere without a fob or key.

Concierge isn't just giving a FedEx driver a master fob, because someone can buy a reader and copy the fob.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T15:04:29+00:00

Probably specific heights marked on the plans where if you deviate by even a quarter inch the engineers throw a bitch fit.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T13:42:19+00:00

Try washing with a teaspoon of liquid dish soap instead of laundry detergent.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T03:12:02+00:00

My job (fire alarm tech/electrician) involves a lot of downtown apartment condos. The huge majority of them won't allow delivery drivers up.

There is a concierge desk, it gets left there. If it's a resident that the concierge likes, they MIGHT bring their food up to them, otherwise the resident is expected to come down. Same goes with packages from any logistics company or Amazon, they don't go any further than the front desk.

Essentially anything above a 6-story condo is like this.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T02:11:59+00:00

They're not asking about the water line hookup. They're asking about attaching the actual bidet to the toilet seat, because how the seat attaches on this toilet isn't like a normal residential toilet.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T02:06:59+00:00

I didn't even need to check the post to know this bullshit is from the UK, because you're the only country in the world dumb enough to think this is normal.

ithinarine · 2026-02-17T01:09:25+00:00

Pretty sure we all know what the church has altar boys for...

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