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Unexpectedly busy day thus far. Early morning power walk for 3 miles; one hour conference call with a lawyer for a nonprofit. I foolishly volunteered Admin support and now I'm being asked to be the Secretary-Recorder and possibly a proxy for the org? No good deed goes unpunished. It's bad enough that I'm basically doing a great deal of the legwork on gathering data, completing a grant application and assisting with the Organizing Documents.

Went for another power walk during lunchtime: 2-1/2 miles.

Organizing digital strategy for the org: website, social media presence, etc. Vetting graphic designers/artists for stationery and such. I may regret it, but actually looking at getting another courtesy office in midtown come late spring or early summer as a reward for all this work. Kinda miss going into the City and meeting up occasionally with folk. It's been more than two years now since I last went into the City.
 
DT said:
Some may recall my main bedroom shower excitement, the final product was excellent, a buttery smooth faucet, brand new hardware all around - we also did a new stainless rod and hangers, a lovely new material inner liner, the shower is GLORIOUS.

... or so we thought.

The hot water has been running out pretty quickly, like ~10 minutes, it's intensely hot until it does (that's important for the diag ...), it also heats up again quickly.

So I have determined that it's the lower heat element and/or the lower thermostat (hot but low availability), so I tracked OEM part numbers, ordered at like a 30% discount from Amazon and they'll be here on Thursday, it's a reasonably new (~3-4 years) Rheem water heater, big, dual element, with like am 8 year warranty, but I'm not even sure how that worked for components and who/how they're installed, so I got both parts for ~$25 :)
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Well, replaced the lower T-stat, same behavior, flushed, pull the lower heating element, yikes, already tons of deposits, figured this is it, replaced.

Nope. Wrong diagnosis.

Same behavior, but I'm glad I replaced the lower element for $20, that's a good refresh.

Anyway, I read a little more, the top and bottom T-stats are linked and they don't run at the same time, there's some communication between the two, so I'm thinking maybe it's the top, so I order both a top element and top T-stat. I start with the top T-stat since that doesn't required a complete drain - and yes! That's it, lots of insanely hot water.

Like I said, the water was very hot, it was just low volume. The water cycle: comes in cold, heats, flows up, must have been out of whack with the top T-stat being janky, the bottom is probably fine, but it's not worth returning the part, I'll keep the original as a backup, and the lower element was in so-so shape (after only 3 years ...) so that was a good bit of maintenance.

Given the condition of the lower element, I may go ahead and replace the top, and I'm 98% sure there's some sediment at the bottom likely displacing a gallon or two of water, it's a 50g tank so very minor, but it's probably worth a better clean out (I'll make a nozzle extension for the shop vac :) )
 
Closed on the new house this afternoon. Had already loaded my car with boxes, so after closing I unloaded the car and started getting the kitchen set up. It will be so nice having all that space!!!! I’ll share pictures after everything has moved.
 
Alli said:
Closed on the new house this afternoon. Had already loaded my car with boxes, so after closing I unloaded the car and started getting the kitchen set up. It will be so nice having all that space!!!! I’ll share pictures after everything has moved.
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Good news. Hope the move goes smoothly. Enjoy your new home.
 
My wife is away in the Cotswolds with her friends living it up in a posh farmhouse and I’m off to a soft play this morning with my girls. I would imagine it’ll be full of lone parents trying to wear their kids out so they go to bed on time this evening. Not that this is my intention of course.
 
The-Real-Deal82 said:
My wife is away in the Cotswolds with her friends living it up in a posh farmhouse and I’m off to a soft play this morning with my girls. I would imagine it’ll be full of lone parents trying to wear their kids out so they go to bed on time this evening. Not that this is my intention of course.
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I used to loath those places.
Just watch out for all the single mums hitting on the dad with the Audi!

Here the sun is coming and going, but the cutting ice cold wind is pretty constant. Not feeling like gardening.
 
Apple fanboy said:
I used to loath those places.
Just watch out for all the single mums hitting on the dad with the Audi!

Here the sun is coming and going, but the cutting ice cold wind is pretty constant. Not feeling like gardening.
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Yeah I would imagine I’d be swamped with offers of adultery should they see that in the car park. Chatted to one lone mother already about the opening times not being correct on Google, it’s amazing how a small topic like that can be stretched out for a solid 5 minutes.

The one bonus of this visit is a coffee or two

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As the soft play is in Trago Mills, I am going to drag the kids around the car section and purchase some ceramic wax afterwards [emoji1305]
 
The-Real-Deal82 said:
Yeah I would imagine I’d be swamped with offers of adultery should they see that in the car park. Chatted to one lone mother already about the opening times not being correct on Google, it’s amazing how a small topic like that can be stretched out for a solid 5 minutes.

The one bonus of this visit is a coffee or two

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As the soft play is in Trago Mills, I am going to drag the kids around the car section and purchase some ceramic wax afterwards [emoji1305]
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Maybe the kids can help with the wax? Just get them some of these to wash it with first!
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Here we spent a good portion of the day sorting out paperwork. Firstly I got all the service history in order for the next car owner.
Then we sorted through some paperwork relating to our daughter. That just made us both sad.

Then I had a quick walk after lunch. Later I have our trip to Anfield to endure. Not hopeful.
 
Rearranged the fence pickets. Over time they had shrunk, so I took them off and moved them over until they were tight again.

And finished the inside of my new trailer. Will be putting the SXS in this evening after the stain on the door dries.
 
DT said:
Given the condition of the lower element, I may go ahead and replace the top, and I'm 98% sure there's some sediment at the bottom likely displacing a gallon or two of water, it's a 50g tank so very minor, but it's probably worth a better clean out (I'll make a nozzle extension for the shop vac :) )
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Yep, did this yesterday, ran a few 1/2 tanks through to flush ... until ...

F*** me, the water inlet valve broke. o_O

At least it only shut off water to the tank, the rest of the house had the cold water still on, though that was a quick and unpleasant shower yesterday :D

The old in/out lines were also the original PVC, janky, valve of course old (and now broken), so got brand new corrugated stainless SharkBite lines with a inlet valve this morning. The SharkBite product is slick, no need for glue for fittings, pushes on lock to bare PVC, done.

Working perfect, looks better, much easier to remove in the event of needing to service/replace things in the future.
 
We need to schedule an X night / Y time live chat (using the integrated chat system).
 
DT said:
We need to schedule an X night / Y time live chat (using the integrated chat system).
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I just noticed that when I opened the browser just now. How long has this been going on and why have I never noticed it before?!
 
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