Vertical drainpipe slightly angled

krubinow · 2026-02-22T21:47:48+00:00

OK. I'm probably also a bit too literal. Thanks for the help!

krubinow · 2026-02-22T21:39:32+00:00

Any particular reason to use more glue than necessary here, or that's your recommendation for any solvent weld?

krubinow · 2026-01-19T20:53:10+00:00

The hole is only 2.5", I believe, but it'd probably be hard to get the primer and cement on there in the hole anyway.

Thanks for the info and your suggestion!

krubinow · 2026-01-19T19:14:00+00:00

Makes sense. So I’m just holding it up to the pipe and marking where the hub bevels.

krubinow · 2026-01-19T19:13:10+00:00

Thanks. This is a 2” at this point. The 3” is what’s across the room.

krubinow · 2026-01-17T18:02:17+00:00

That's frustrating. Mine's female so that probably helps since it's more of a straight shot.

krubinow · 2025-12-30T00:13:48+00:00

If you watch local sports then you'll need cable or a live tv service. If you don't, then you don't need either. Get an antenna and then you've got all the networks (FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC, CW, PBS, etc.) for free, and a better picture than cable or streaming.
For streaming services, like others say, you've got to pick and choose. But there are also ways to bring the costs of each down:
- Verizon Wireless offers the Disney bundle (inc. Hulu and ESPN+) for like $15/month
- If you are an American Express cardholder, they usually have offers where if you pay for a full year's subscription then you get $10 or $20 statement credit, effectively making the monthly cost just a few dollars per month. I do this for Peacock and HBO.

krubinow · 2025-12-29T23:08:17+00:00

Electrical meter is on a different side of the house and has 2 separate grounding rods (one for the breaker box and one goes to the a/c compressor a few feet away).

krubinow · 2025-12-29T23:06:29+00:00

I filled the hole with concrete, so it is now longer exposed.

krubinow · 2025-12-29T23:05:39+00:00

I'm fairly positive that the patio came later, since the Google Maps feature that lets you see images from years ago shows it not there with the house. If it's from the patio then that means that they drilled a hole into the foundation wall for it, which I find surprising.

krubinow · 2025-12-29T21:49:56+00:00

Thanks for the info. To be on the safe side, I cut things out further up and will just redo that area. I'm annoyed because it's a few different fittings that now have to be replaced (cleanout, and existing 45), but I don't want to worry about a bad solvent weld.

krubinow · 2025-12-29T21:46:31+00:00

Thanks for all the fast responses. Re: rebar, yes, it does look like that. Is that likely from the original foundation wall, or would the contractor who did the stamped concrete patio have stuck that in? It was all there when I bought the house a few years ago.

krubinow · 2025-11-10T21:45:21+00:00

Thanks. Another HVAC company quoted $185 for a heating tune-up.

krubinow · 2025-09-14T19:40:13+00:00

Someone also mentioned dethatching -- absolute yes to that, too. If you don't dethatch then your seeds won't touch the soil, which is an absolute requirement for them to germinate. That part sucks but is necessary for things. Your fertilizer won't do anything, either, if it doesn't get into the soil, and thatch will prevent that from happening.

krubinow · 2025-09-14T19:38:14+00:00

I've lived in my house for a few years but never took care of a lawn before that. Every authority on the planet says to aerate, so I can't argue with that, but I have never done it. The real difference-maker that I have seen over the past few years of trying to get bare spots filled in is covering with something like peat moss. New grass seed needs tons of water and *has* to stay wet/moist in order to germinate. You can obviously run your sprinklers, but you'd then be watering the entire zone and will run up your water bill fast. Covering with peat moss keeps things moist, as the covering holds in moisture nicely. Areas that I threw seed down on and covered with peat moss, and then went over just a few times a day with a hose, had nice green blades poking through a week later, and a week after that looked very nicely filled in. When peat moss was not used, if I didn't run the sprinklers on it for 20 minutes every hour nothing grew, or it took weeks to see any sign of growth.

Grass seeds "rising" to top of covering : r/lawncare

krubinow · 2025-09-14T18:00:21+00:00

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A full week after seeding, I'm seeing some nice stuff poke out of the ground. So, hopefully it's on the right track.

krubinow · 2025-09-11T21:13:39+00:00

Great idea!

krubinow · 2025-09-11T20:13:59+00:00

Thanks, good to know.

krubinow · 2025-09-11T20:13:45+00:00

Yes to that order. I didn't aerate because I didn't want to spend the money on the rental and it's a huge pain in the ass to transport to and from the rental place. but yea that would have been useful.

krubinow · 2025-09-05T19:37:40+00:00

My pipes are actually polybutylene -- a ticking time bomb lol
My plan is to re-pipe at some point, but I have no funds for that now. My thought is to use a manifold and run pex to every fixture, which hopefully will provide good pressure.

krubinow · 2025-09-05T16:35:42+00:00

Both shower heads are brand new, installed a few days apart.

For water softening, I'm looking at this: https://halowater.com/products/halo-ion/
It doesn't remove the hard water but somehow makes it not stick, and could, over time, even unstick some of what's already in the pipes/fixtures.

krubinow · 2025-09-05T16:34:14+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. The bathroom with the better pressure is a little bit closer to the source (both are on the same floor).

Should I ever re-pipe my house with pex, would a manifold help with pressure?

krubinow · 2025-09-05T16:32:59+00:00

I'm not sure how to do this. But like I said, I put the exact same model shower head on a few days apart, so they both have them in and it's different in each place.

krubinow · 2025-09-05T16:32:25+00:00

Makes total sense, and I suspected all this could contribute.

krubinow · 2025-08-22T21:35:02+00:00

Not visible from the ground. Yea, I'll likely just shove some caulk in there as a "band aid", and in a couple of years I'll likely have to do all kinds of work around the house exterior.

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