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The Home Improvement Thread. Successes and Failures

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joecct said:
Have you tried the State Cooperative Extension Service for your county or at UND?
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Once they drop the leaves in July the foresters (city, county, NDSU Extension) all say they have to go. One was so bad the chain saw was spraying water cutting it up.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I will say this. Don't pressure wash it. The fins are the bible paper of the metal world
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Touch them at most angles, you've bent all of them over. Touch them at one specific angle, you've received at least 20 parallel cuts you didn't feel until you noticed blood all over the place.
 
This question does not fit this thread exactly, but here goes.

My laptop curser is misbehaving, both with the touchscreen and bluetooth mouse. burd is confused and thinking more and more about kicking the dog. This dog would kick my arse if I tried that, so help a guy out.
 
burd said:
This question does not fit this thread exactly, but here goes.

My laptop curser is misbehaving, both with the touchscreen and bluetooth mouse. burd is confused and thinking more and more about kicking the dog. This dog would kick my arse if I tried that, so help a guy out.
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Can you explain the symptoms a little more?
 
Latency? Test cable / change battery.

Disappearing? Reboot your machine too many processes.

Whispering to you to kill people? Listen.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Are we talking the condenser unit? Can't you just spray it with a hose? Cleans the bulk of the gunk off the condenser fins and coils. Just need to make sure you're not damaging the fins. I do it twice a year. Spring before the first hot days and in the fall after the leaves have dropped. You shouldn't need an aggressive cleaner.
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When you clean the condenser from the outside (the side you can see) you risk forcing the debris further into the fins. The purpose of the foaming cleaner is to pull that debris out.
 
If it's just the optical mouse failing, sometimes the surface needs better "texture" so the mouse can pick up movement.

if it's both the touchpad and the optical, then I would check your task manager to see if anything is maxing out your cpu.
 
MarkEagleUSA said:
When you clean the condenser from the outside (the side you can see) you risk forcing the debris further into the fins. The purpose of the foaming cleaner is to pull that debris out.
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You turn off the unit, then take the top off it. You can then run the hose from the inside, pushing the dirt out of the unit.
 
burd said:
This question does not fit this thread exactly, but here goes.

My laptop curser is misbehaving, both with the touchscreen and bluetooth mouse. burd is confused and thinking more and more about kicking the dog. This dog would kick my arse if I tried that, so help a guy out.
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How full is your hard drive? If it’s ~90% filled, then you start seeing some bad behavior. Just adding to the list to check.
 
Well foamed the coils and they were a "tad" dirty. When I rinsed them with water, the runoff was just a bit brown.

Will do another in the fall which will include a vacuum of the inside (it felt like 100+ outside today) when things get cooler.
 
Fucking quack grass. I don’t want to use round up so I need to dig it all out. 12 inches out from any, and six inches deep needs to be removed.

I don’t need to call 811 for that depth, do I? What would be buried less than 6 inches? Cable and telecom are above ground because that’s just the dumb fucking way this part of Edina is
 
> quack grass

TIL. Apparently you can eat it during famine, so let it grow. Lawns are so Boomer.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Fucking quack grass. I don’t want to use round up so I need to dig it all out. 12 inches out from any, and six inches deep needs to be removed.

I don’t need to call 811 for that depth, do I? What would be buried less than 6 inches? Cable and telecom are above ground because that’s just the dumb fucking way this part of Edina is
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If it your wired services - electric, etc. are all coming in from a pole, then you just have water and gas. Those should both be about 18” below ground when initial rough grade of your lot was set. Final grade would adjust both of those by a few inches either way, so a 6” dig should be safe. That said, look at where your gas meter is, and assume a relatively straight line to the street. You’d have to do a similar process for water and sewer, but trace them from their entry/exit to/from your house within your basement.
 
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