At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

... it is just a standard 2 piece water softener with out the salt tank and instead of resin pellets in the cylinder he put in around 8 layers of specific shaped, decreasing size aggregate.

Thanks for the info Russ!

 

[Diamondpilot]

Great progress Obed. Its looking like a beautiful home.

Chris

 

[WBWI]

Obed, yes constrution dust can set off the detectors as well as spiderwebs and dust. My parents had a problem with dust and spiders years ago. Unfortunately the alarms were monitored by the local FD so they had to respond to the alarms. It happened about 3 nights straight before they found the source of the problem. Why do the alarms always seem to go off in the middle of the night.

 

[bdeboer]

Smoke Detectors

Also, is there a way we can prevent all 7 detectors from alarming? I' like only the alarm that senses a problem to sound the alarm so that we can quickly find the problem without having to wander all over the house.

Thanks in advance for your comments,
Obed

All 7 are tied together on a third wire on 120 Volt side. The idea behind that is if one goes off anyone in the house will hear it and get out. It is also a code requirement. Are the batteries in them, I have had them all start chirping when one battery is weak. The problem one did have a red LED vs. green.

 

[MarkV]

Be sure a bag the smoke detectors before the floor sanding. It WILL set them off.

MarkV

 

[Obed]

The doors got hung. I don't think I like these door hinge stops. I've always seen stops that have 2 stoppers. These things look to me like they will try to bend then hinges if then doors is opened too forcefully. Does anyone have anyone experience with stops like these? Are they ok?

Thanks,
Obed

 

[dstig1]

Best door stops are not on the hinges at all, IMHO. The type that you screw into the baseboard or floor are much sturdier and last a lot longer. I only use hinge mounted stops when there is no other choice, usually due to there being no good place to put a baseboard style stop or a floor mounted stop would be in the way.

One man's opinion...

 

[Obed]

Best door stops are not on the hinges at all, IMHO. The type that you screw into the baseboard or floor are much sturdier and last a lot longer. I only use hinge mounted stops when there is no other choice, usually due to there being no good place to put a baseboard style stop or a floor mounted stop would be in the way.

One man's opinion...

We have baseboard stops where they are possible.

 

[walleyed]

The doors got hung. I don't think I like these door hinge stops. I've always seen stops that have 2 stoppers. These things look to me like they will try to bend then hinges if then doors is opened too forcefully. Does anyone have anyone experience with stops like these? Are they ok?

Thanks,
Obed

We have had those stops and didn't like them at all. They are ok for a while but they all broke and damaged the doors. It may just be the ones I had are cheap. Don't know.. I had them on heavy exterior doors so on a light door they may work fine.

They were ok for normal use but if the wind was to catch a door they would bend and break. I replaced them with a magnetic stop/holder type. These worked great to hold the door in an open position as well.



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[shane]

I really do not care for any hinge stops, but sometimes they are a necessary evil. I've found that if they just have to be used, they perform better with one on the top hinge and one on the bottom. This helps distribute the weight and does less damage to the door. I would want rubber bumpers on anything that makes contact.

If I had floor drains in a basement or garage I would want them draining out as yours, but I am kinda surprised that you are getting away with the floor drains not going into the septic. My understanding of TN regs is that any drain under the roof of the dwelling has to run to the septic.

I knew of one guy who wanted drains in his garage so he could wash his cars inside during the winter. Codes said no can do unless ran to septic. He argued, "you mean I can wash my car just a few feet away in the drive and the wash run all over the ground but I can't do it in the garage and let it run out the drain onto the ground". Codes held their ground. He skirted the codes by installing the drains, covering with newspaper, pouring the concrete over, and chipping out the thin layer of concrete later.

 

[bdeboer]

The doors got hung. I don't think I like these door hinge stops. I've always seen stops that have 2 stoppers. These things look to me like they will try to bend then hinges if then doors is opened too forcefully. Does anyone have anyone experience with stops like these? Are they ok?

Thanks,
Obed

I can't tell if the are on the middle hinge or not, they do seem to work there. At the top or the bottom the doors will flex some.

I have also seen one of those turned the other way stuck through a hollow core door.

On edit, Shane suggests one at the top and one at the bottom that is probably the best way to use those.

 

[eepete]

We used the baseboard mounted when we could. For the few doors where that did not work, we used 3 of the hinge mounted door stops. The doors are solid (not hollow). I had to put a little RTC sealant on some of the stops to keep the screw part from slowing moving so that all three shared the load. If you really put them to the test, the door jam, trim, and hinges all flex in a most unpleasant way.

The rubber baby buggy bumper thingies [ <-- technical term :laughing:] on the end of the screw deteriorate with time, I suspect they've got a 5-10 year life and then they will have to be replaced.

Someone said "necessary evil", I agree!

Floor drain codes seem to vary widely by region, and sometimes even by inspector. All you can do is ask and adapt. I put in condensate drains for our heat pumps and they dump to the outside. This was OK since they were condensate drains. Around here, garages have to either have a slight slope to them or drain(s) to the outside. Mega YMMV area...

Pete

 

[radioman]

I hate those hinge door stops, they damage the doors easily and moulding it pushes on. I used to have one then later had 2 and it was better. damage to door is not as bad as just one, but better then nothing. I wish I could use floor stop but the door swings into a sloped ceiling and hits ceiling if it not for the door hinge stop.

 

[brin]

We've had the hinged door stops on our doors for 6 yrs. now and they work fine..the doors do not flex..they are solid doors though and there is no visible wear of tear on them...

How hard are you folks on your doors ?

 

[bdeboer]

How hard are you folks on your doors ?

Ask my renters or my middle child.

 

[Ranger Rick]

We have had a couple of the hinge door stop for almost 15 years now and you made me go look to see if I was having any problems that I did not know about. It looks like the only problem I have is the paint has worn on the door where the rubber bumper hits. Other then that I have not had any problems with them. I did have issues with a couple of the base board bumpers that stick out and get in the way when vacuuming the floor.

 

[mikefromnh]

Here is the sediment filter I use at my house. Instead of a filter element that needs to be replaced it has a screen that is back flushed. You can add a controller that does it however often you want or you can do it yourself. Costs about 250.

MountainView Supply: Honeywell F76S Water Filter, 3/4", List $454.76

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[shane]

How hard are you folks on your doors ?

Some folks are gentle enough that they could get by without any kind of stop. Others could have a freakin' rail road tie laying behind the door and still manage to bust up whatever is back there.

I am on the gentle side (patting self on back ). My wife is rough on stuff. She could tear up a steel ball with a rubber mallet.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have the door hinge stop at one location. Good idea to use more than one. I have broken one in 13 yrs.

 

[dcyrilc]

Some folks are gentle enough that they could get by without any kind of stop. Others could have a freakin' rail road tie laying behind the door and still manage to bust up whatever is back there.

I am on the gentle side (patting self on back ). My wife is rough on stuff. She could tear up a steel ball with a rubber mallet.

I'm right there with you on this one. It amazes me the things my wife has destroyed. I bought her a top end vaccume one year and she managed to destroyed it in about 9 months.:confused2: After that I got frustrated and bought her a shop vac. It's still alive 4 years later.:laughing: She gets frustrated at the kids for not picking up their toys and will just vaccume them up instead of taking the time to pick them up. That's how she usually destroys a vaccume. The shop vac is built for that type of vaccuming.:laughing: