At Home In The Woods

Obed · Dec 9, 2010

ruralruss said:
... 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 · Dec 9, 2010

Great progress Obed. Its looking like a beautiful home.

Chris

WBWI · Dec 9, 2010

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 · Dec 9, 2010

Obed said:
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 · Dec 9, 2010

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

MarkV

Obed · Dec 10, 2010

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 · Dec 10, 2010

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 · Dec 10, 2010

dstig1 said:
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 · Dec 10, 2010

Obed said:
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.

View attachment untitled.bmp

shane · Dec 10, 2010

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.