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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I mean thats totally valid.

    This was an easy one to diagnose. We hit a pot hole and then heard clunking right after, especially when turning one direction and not the orher. (As the body rolls and sway bar wants to hit axle) No noise when driving a steady rate and straight.

    So a quick visual inspection showed the problem. And I’m glad it was that and not a CV joint acting up :)






  • We bought a house that had the kitchen drain pipes like that.

    Previous owner poured tons of chicken fat and bacon grease down the sink. The 1 1/2 pipe was down to a 1/2 hole. The fat seemed to have trapped every fiber that came down the pipe so the texture looked like your picture.

    I though, meh, easy fix I’ll replace the pipe. But then noticed the galvanized pipe went behind a block wall and was resting on an electrical cable. So I had to pull it all out.

    Then noticed (while opening the wall) that it had no insulation in the cavity. So I tore it all down to the studs and started over.

    Clogged pipe became a $5000 kitchen reno.

    But in the end we had new wiring, new plumbing, double sink, new cupboards, new counter top, and the closed in kitchen wall was opened up to make a breakfast bar with a supporting beam across the ceiling.

    Looking back $5000 is cheap, today that would be a $20-30k reno if pros came in.




  • We got flooded a bunch of times when the power got knocked out, because the town allowed development onto old swamp land that became a flood plain when the lake level was high and heavy rains came.

    My dad installed a water based pump, it had a turbo type spool. City water pressure coming in on one side spun the pump shaft to pump out the sump. You are dumping city water into the sump too, but at a small volume x high pressure vs pumping out at low pressure x high volume.

    So all was fine, just had to hope the town didn’t lose water pressure at same time as power outage.








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