Let me explain about this blind weekend stuff for those who don't know nor
understand.
Twice a year my wife, princess Luan Luan repairs to Los-Vegas for a long
weekend with Her college friend and mostly to get away from Me I suspect. While
the cat is absent I likewise have some guise in
If he could run a power auger or snake for 8 feet and then it stopped there is
a real problem. Especially if he was able to clear roots along the main drain
line.
Has this become an issue over time or was it a sudden stop. By the sounds of
things if roots and such had to be cleared you
Yes, it's a rare opportunity for some lucky someone.
Since we are all gathered here at my house thought we would go ahead and
record the show for next week at three P M tomorrow. Problem is we don't have a
guest. Thought maybe someone who works during the week and wanted to do the
show
I suspect why most people won't do this is they like their clocks etc.
all connected and keeping time and add that to the fact they'd have to
turn the strip on or plug the device back in, its a bother. I imagine
then if your hvac system is off, and will be for a while, maybe throw
the
The washing machine while standing idle isn't using electricity unless it is
keeping a clock alive. Same with a dryer. Your kitchen range will use some
power for the timer or if you have a light on. Many fridges have an internal
timer and the new ones also have a computer albeit a small one.
I hate to be a barer of bad news, but your friend sounds as he is telling you
the way it is. You might want to run a manual snake through the pipe and see if
you can dislodge the optical by banging on it. But there is that possibility
that it could cause more problems by moving it into the
Off the top of my head there isn't much involved with maintenance of a hot
water system. Every other year, or every year depending on how obsessive
you might be, you should have a cleaning done, vacuum out the flew and
heat exchanger. Other than that, get yourself a bleeder key, so that you
Okay,
I'll admit that I have no ideas about plumbing. We've owned this house, for 5
years now, and we did have to have our drain rooted out, a couple of years ago!
The problem with the drain in the laundry room didn't start all of a sudden.
It'd been going on for some time, but when we
Hi,
How would you even go about running a new floor drain, and where would it empty
out into, the main drain of the house?
Truly, this is all new to me, so I'm trying to understand things, as best I can.
Claudia
- Original Message -
From: RJ
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
There is very little maintenance on a hot water system. It all depends on the
type of pump that is on the system. Some you should put a few drops of oil in
the oil caps, I used to do this twice a years and never lost a pump. The ones
that are sealed and don't have the places to oil, on the
Hi Claudia,
You said that you were emptying out the contents of the bucket into the
basin or sink.
Is that basin or sink close enough that you can run the hose directly into
it, and if it is, is it large enough to hold the water that will be
generated by a large load?
If it isn't large
Yes Dale,
It is washer water. Yesterday, we tried to wash, and all the water came up, so
we were mopping it up, ringing the mop out with a mop bucket and emptying the
water back into the sinks that the washing machine drains into.
Of course, that water that had already been mopped up off the
Hi Claudia,
Are you saying that when you pump water into the laundry sink it doesn't go
down? Does it eventually go down?
Is the drain below the sink where you are dumping washer water?
We'll start there.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada
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Hi Bill,
Well, that is probably the most important function of this list and the main
reason I stay with it. A couple of years ago Tom and I had the privilege of
helping a teaching assistant with a student who wanted to take a
plumbing/refrigeration course or something like that. I don't know
I've always wondered if a pipe needs to be repaired after roots have
breached it's integrity.
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Brice Mijares wrote:
Do you know if he ran a snake down it with a spinning blade that would
cut through roots?
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From: Claudia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Claudia
If your plumber could not get his machine through that blockage then his
suggestion might be the only answer.
It might mean that the foundations have collapsed the drainage pipe.
If it was tree roots then his machine would clear that.
However below is what causes blockagesI have posted
Claudia,
Did your friend try a conventional snake through that line? Occasionally
those snakes with the driven power heads on them will not negotiate sharp
turns in the suer line.
Secondly is there any way you can force compressed air down that drain to
see if it escapes through other drains in
If you're trying to decide whether to invest in a more energy-efficient
appliance or you'd like to determine your electricity loads, you may want to
estimate
appliance energy consumption.
Formula for Estimating Energy Consumption
You can use this formula to estimate an appliance's energy use:
I might have the chance to buy a duplex that is heated with hot water.
Has anyone here done maintenance on these heating systems? Any tips and
tricks?
Regards
Guy Castonguay
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Hello,
I am a new poster, and I have the following problem and sure could use any
ideas, on the subject!
Thanks.
However, we have a major problem on our hands! We've been having
difficulty, when washing clothes lately. When we wash, there is a drain
underneath the basins, where the hose from
I experienced the same problem with air moving out of the house while the HVAC
was not running. It stopped after I sealed every duct joint that I could get
to and sealed up the gaps between vent outlets and the walls/floors/ceilings.
I used water clean-up mastic on the duct joints and
Claudia! Give a solution of baking soda and white vinegar a try.
Jewel
- Original Message -
From: Claudia
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 3:15 PM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Question about Soot?
Hi Again,
Here is another
Do you know if he ran a snake down it with a spinning blade that would
cut through roots?
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From: Claudia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:46 AM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here!
Hello,
I am a new
This type of pan does come in various sizes and thickness.
The larger pans are also referred to as *sheet pans* and are used in
commercial food service establishments to bake bread, pies and lotws of
other things on.
For home use I would sugges what is called a *half sheet pan* it is more
like
Yes,
He sure did.
- Original Message -
From: Brice Mijares
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:25 PM
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here!
Do you know if he ran a snake down it with a spinning blade that would
cut through
Do you have any big trees around this area? Also, how far down below ground
level is this drain? You mentioned a basement, that's got to be at least 8
feet below ground level unless your foundation is really elevated. I'm
wondering if this area where the snake couldn't go any further is an
Hi guy
What type of hot water system is it, we need more information before we can
suggest anything.
For example is it powered by electricity gas or something else.
Is it tankless storage or instantaneous
Is the system in the basement roof or outside.
Does it have drainage plugs and a safety
That will work. But I believe I would put a anti siphon connection on the
existing waste pipe and see if that could be causing the problem.
RJ
- Original Message -
From: Claudia
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 21:13
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re:
Save Energy, Eliminate Phantom Loads
Many home electronics and appliances consume power anytime they're plugged
in, even when they're turned off.
Did you know that your TV is consuming energy even when you're not using it?
In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Energy,
75 percent
of the
All of your drains have been emptying into your main drain. I take it this
floor drain is in a basement. somewhere it runs under the floor and connects
to the main. I faced a similiar problem. The plumbers ran a camera down the
drain and deterimined the iron pipe had rusted through and
Hi Again,
Here is another question for you all? I light candles, and since my fiancé
and I are totally blind, I didn't know that there was soot on our ceiling
and wall, near where I always light my candle!
How can I clean soot because I'm told that the wall and ceiling, in this
particular
Scott wrote.
then what would be nice is if manufacturers would come up with
creative ways like having batteries that replace the standby power.
Since batteries aren't grown by little elves in hollow trees, the energy to
manufacture the batteries is much greater than the energy stored in them.
If you are having to do this again so soon, my bet is that you have a clay
line. If you are using the public sewer system it probably isn't making its
way to the larger line of the city. I would tend to think that running the
roto rooter probably dislodged something causing the new or more
Dale, I just asked the below question at work the other day.
I wonder how much electricity would be saved if there was a way to stop all
those AC to DC adapters from running when they are not needed. Yes many of
them we can unplug when they are not in use. But I guess there even are
devices
So Claudia, the washer drains into the sink and the laundry room drain is in
the laundry room floor?
Did the snake man run down the laundry room drain or the sink drain?
Now here is another thing you might try, tip a little water down the laundry
room drain to see if it runs away. It may run
My gut feeling is that the statement of standby power usage is over stated.
The people who write these things tend to sensationalize quite a bit.
Regards.
Max. K 4 O D S.
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Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net
Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net
I have a couple of radios up stairs which, if I listen really carefully have a
quiet hum when turned off. This is probably the power transformer or some part
of the power supply but if I can hear it then energy is being used to generate
the sound. Might be a very small amount but it is there.
Ron,
You read my mind; I'm desperate at this point and am willing to haul buckets of
water out, if necessary.
Not happy about it, but what can I do?
However, I should bring those buckets back up here and just dump them into the
toilet or whatever?
I have to dump it outside because there's no
What is an anticiphon connection, and how could or would that creat any
problems?
Claudia
- Original Message -
From: RJ
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:01 PM
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here!
That will
The hose that empties the washer into the ssink is exactly the one I'm talking
about!
When the water drains from the hose that's connected to the washing machine,
all that water comes back up through the drain in our laundry room!
Claudia
- Original Message -
From: Victor Gouveia
Victor,
Are you serious?
Believe it or not, I work for HUD, a local division of Housing Urban
Development, so I'll definitely have to check into that!I
'll also check with my city, to see if we would qualify for anything as you
described below!
Claudia
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Yes, our laundry room is in the basement; the washer and dryer sit on a
concrete platform, that's at least 5 to 6 inches thick.
I don't have any idea as to what a waste stack is, so I can't answer your
questions there.
ZClaudia
- Original Message -
From: RJ
To:
Yes Dale,
The sink empties into the laundry room floor drain.
And, yes, the plumber put the snake through the laundry room fllor drain!
And, we've tried what you suggested, letting a little water run from the taps
in the sink, since it drains into the floor drain, and it just sits there and
Aloha Ray,
I just have to ask. Is the rate in this email of
8.5 cents per kilowatt hour real somewhere? Our
rate is $.32. It is $.20 in Honolulu.
Betsy
At 05:37 PM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
If you're trying to decide whether to invest in a more energy-efficient
appliance or you'd like to determine
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