Nonsense Thread

[Ryan...]

Fuck, I've been staring at LR3/LR4 for the past year, but anything good sells super fast. So I saw this and ran out of work.


A the local LR/Jag dealer. great price for the facelift/SCV6/8speed.
Engine replaced, but needed tires (despite what the ad says) and a few small things.

While I was test driving it, some fucker called in and paid credit card over the phone sight unseen.

r3v keeps shrinking the screenshot so here's the link in case anyone else has the LR4 bug.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1DPn87q2jG/

My first post in probably 4 years here, just to give you this warning... Immediately buy a GAP IID tool and keep it in the vehicle at all times if you do buy one.

My '13 LR4 was one of my favorite vehicles I've ever owned, right behind the 07 RRS.

I put about 32k on mine in the 1.5 years I had it. The torque converter was starting to fail, it developed an oil leak from #somewhere, started misfiring, every single window/seal was leaking, etc...

10/10 recommend.

[McGyver]

Does anyone know someone who works at Subaru of North America, particularly at their headquarters in Camden, NJ?

I know it's a long shot, but I'd be interested in chatting about the company culture and any suggestions for getting an online application noticed. I got laid off a few months ago due to corporate restructuring and have been taking advantage of the time to work on a ton of projects around the house. It's time to get back to work again and I'd prefer to do something that I find fun/interesting, preferably in Operations Management or Operational Excellence around Philly.

[Northern]

Fuck, I've been staring at LR3/LR4 for the past year, but anything good sells super fast. So I saw this and ran out of work.



A the local LR/Jag dealer. great price for the facelift/SCV6/8speed.
Engine replaced, but needed tires (despite what the ad says) and a few small things.

While I was test driving it, some fucker called in and paid credit card over the phone sight unseen.

r3v keeps shrinking the screenshot so here's the link in case anyone else has the LR4 bug.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1DPn87q2jG/

[DEV0 E30]

I am thinking of a dual head for the main floor, but I'm trying to stay away from anything beyond that because I'm scared of the complexity of 3+ heads and how shitty it would be to replace the whole thing someday.

I don't think I have a way forward for my upstairs because there's 5 small rooms. I either go absolutely nuclear with cost and capacity and have a 9K BTU unit per room, or an 18k in the hallway, which will really only heat the hallway and probably just cause the tstat to not turn on the heat in the rooms lol.

varg yeah new homes are built like shit, but my old house is also built like shit, but the walls are a lot thinner and it's had 80 years of being hacked by whoever was hired to do this work.
I've found around a dozen buried electrical boxes, live wires snipped off in the walls/ceiling, floor joists cut completely through for plumbing, and exterior/load bearing walls without a single intact stud because someone couldn't decide where to put some windows. I could push the wall out like 3" at the middle before, and spliced in I think 6-7 studs floor to ceiling, tying into whatever I could lol.

I think building houses like shit is just NA tradition.

I'm with you, I don't want complexities. Muti heads/VRF have their place, but cost/efficiency comes into play. The smaller units have higher SEER ratings and better efficiency if you cool one room, but I do agree that use case is going to take advice and planning, best to get at least some advice from pros. Some may say minisplits are already complex enough for HVAC people, because if the board short circuits or something else, you're SOL. Hence why I think redundancy is paramount, at what level is a game of course. When the AC dies (for whatever reason) and it is the middle of the summer here, it becomes a safety concern. The reason I'm considering more than one unit is so if one of them dies, we don't have to pack up and head to a family member's house with a baby and dog. BTDT. Right now, the hypothesis I'm considering is if I can do a hybrid solar 24k in the living room/kitchen area that would cut down on how hard the central AC is working that is clearly running on borrowed time. I already have the Senville 12k for the garage, but if I ran a 12k solar for the garage (or turned the Senville into a hybrid) then I have two areas that are not at the mercy of the old AC. The old ducting could remain and help circulate the air at the start, then bring in a new separate ERV/HRV system that brings in fresh filtered air into the house. Other ideas are there, but again... don't get keys to the new house for a few more days, but I like to think through multiple plans.

This is why while wall units aren't the most aesthetically pleasing form of minisplit, it is the most simple - especially if you can install on an exterior wall and don't bury the lines in said wall. In ceiling / cassettes look better and can honestly look like AC registers, but I don't want to rely on a condensate pump to pump the water up through insulation (lots of it) then to a gravity fed condensate line. Just sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Do they work? Yes, until they don't. In a previous office, the minisplit in the server room had to pump up to the roof of a large office building. If that line was buried in insulation those rusty stains from hose clamps and that variable amount of water on the floor would ruin the ceiling drywall and insulation.

If you do a double wall system, you're entering into building science stuff and could do some really cool stuff to improve your house, but yeah it is a slippery slope and of course any project like that you're budget will balloon quick. Retrofits as shown time and time again are a major PITA and super costly. I dig the "Pretty Good House" standard that actually brings in building science and mimics passive haus/passive house without the expensive certification. The problem with most houses in the US is obviously they are built to a price, not to a true standard. This has been the case for decades. Our building codes across range from decent/ok to fucking pathetic and there isn't an agreement. Then, many builders don't even build to code or they barely do but hire shitty subcontractors who have zero pride of workmanship. It's all bad and just gets worse with massive builders. The ones that care and surpass code, are generally more expensive - sometimes by a lot, other times not. ... I type too much on these topics.

I am constantly amazed that many of the homes I work on are standing at all. No foundations, 5" out of plumb over 8', variable rafter spacing over 30" with dimensional 2x4s, no headers, floor joists running 90 degrees out of plane. Sometimes I feel somewhat sorry for myself that I chose to be a person who fixes those nightmares.

At least there are people out there like you who have the knowledge and commitment to do the fixes. We need more care and sharing of knowledge about the things that affect us day to day.

[roguetoaster]

I am constantly amazed that many of the homes I work on are standing at all. No foundations, 5" out of plumb over 8', variable rafter spacing over 30" with dimensional 2x4s, no headers, floor joists running 90 degrees out of plane. Sometimes I feel somewhat sorry for myself that I chose to be a person who fixes those nightmares.