The Home Improvement Thread

[Bammer]

Does anyone have the tankless water heater?

I do, but I don't think I'll be particularly helpful.

We probably should get around to de-scaling it.

We’re having trouble with our shower water being hot. The temp in the heater is set at 120F (and I haven’t figured out how to adjust that) and for all the faucets it services, the water is piping hot. But when we take a shower, the water is lukewarm, at best. Any ideas?

First place I’d look is the mix/blend valve at the shower fixture. This is what regulates the ratio of hot & cold as you turn the dial(s).

This sounds like you may be on to something.

It’s not too early to start mentally preparing your short list of candidates for 2021 RMOTY

I already won that.

Ah that’s right. Like Bama football. Happens so much each year just kinda jumbles together.

You may have actually been the one to declare it so.

That was 2020. See, it happened to you, too.

I made the adjustment to the valve. If it worked, I will nominate you and be the first one to vote for you.

That did the trick. Stately Wease Manor thanks you. I thank you, my friend.

I am starting to question the integrity of home inspectors being hired by RMers purchasing homes.

[Bammer]

PS - I love that you came here rather than google “lukewarm shower”

[wease]

I did google it to find out how to adjust it. But only after your recommendation.

[E.H. Ruddock]

You mean after he googled what to tell you. Bammer can’t even post a picture on RM.

[wease]

Well, yes of course. I was under no illusions there.

[Bammer]

Get the fuck out, Ruddo.

This one was all me.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Get the fuck out, Ruddo.

This one was all me.

Please post a pic of what your face looked like when you read my post

[Bammer]

Get the fuck out, Ruddo.

This one was all me.

Please post a pic of what your face looked like when you read my post

[96583UP]

what’s that white stuff

[B]

Our HOA is actually making us vote on whether or not to force a family to repaint their house because the color is too loud. Fuck these people.

Holy shit! Now we have to vote on ANOTHER house! What the living fuck is going on here.

It's time to destroy my HOA's covenants!

[B]

One of my neighbors called me opinions on the matter inconsiderate and condescending to the neighbors who have to look at the house and are truly upset by the colors.

That's OK. I find HOAs to be condescending, racist holdovers from the red-line era, and the two families that we're attacking are both immigrant families who don't speak English as a first language. My inconsiderate ass will sleep just fine tonight.

[96583UP]

time to paint your house rainbow in solidarity

[B]

time to paint your house rainbow in solidarity

A paint job costs 400 rainbow, black power fist flags.

[Bammer]

B, get a fucking grip.

I have dealt with countless HOA’s and not a single interaction could be described as racist.

Maybe North Carolina is different, that’s the only potential leeway I give you here. I agree HOA’s are total pains in the ass, and especially unnecessary for single-family neighborhoods. But honestly man get a fucking grip.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

my bathroom door is shut, but there's smoke billowing out...not sure what i should do

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[B]

I doubt this is racially driven, but when you make a committee to punish families with different tastes than the majority, whitey's always gonna win.

[96583UP]

In my vision of B's HOA conundrum, he is torn between his being accepted by the alpha HOA members, who are genteel but yet tightly-wound paula deen types - and his white guilt fueled compassion for the latinos that live across the street from him, who quietly make fun of him constantly because he works really hard to be nice and say 'hi', but they could not care less about him. The tension builds as the Paula Deen contingent begins the HOA meeting with comments about the house 'colors', and then at one point a member deliberately mis-pronounces the issue as about 'the coloreds' - to which the entire HOA erupts in laughter - except B. He stands there, tight fisted - having flashbacks of his civil disobedience training days with Mr. Miyagi - but is snapped out of his daydreams by the resolution being passed around to be signed. The HOA member to his left nudges him - B looks down and it's a voting tally - one more vote left in order to pass the resolution to force a change in the color of the house - and only one person left in the room to vote: B. At that point he hears the cry of a baby in the distance - it's followed by the sound of a young boy 'mama, mama -donde esta papa?!' he asks, but mama does not know. Papa left long ago. The boy returns to playing alone, but not before he peers across the street and makes eye contact with B - who has been staring at the boy the whole time. Just as B prepares to turn to the HOA to announce his decision,

Spoiler: show

the police slam him to the ground and arrest him because he was oggling the boy for 15 minutes from afar and his abuelita got uncomfortable and called 911

[lennytheweedwhacker]

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.