I'm somewhat sympathetic to this mistake but thought it was interesting. Client had their copper water service replaced with PEX after it broke. The stranded wires are the original electric service ground, which probably became ineffective with the pipe upgrade. Moderately

I don't even know if the insurance would pay out. My wife would say something like "I thought he was covered for death by electrocution?" And they'd be like "actually ma'am, he died of being a sissy, which actually isn't included in your policy"

One of my daughter's friends is currently live snapping her fleeing the scene of an accident ("yo I just hit and run! How fucked am I?") and subsequent arrest

Incredible and baffling update. The other driver has been ticketed for running a red light and striking her and she has not been ticketed. Everyone is very confused by her having fled and a satisfactory answer hasn't been provided ("idk guys I was scared")

People often believe this, so let's explore all the ways in which it's false. Comments are specific to single family homes within the US. 1) I'm not aware of any state that requires a permit for simple device replacement regardless of whether you perform the work or hire

Guys you have a limited window to curate a perfect block/mute list and it's anyone qt'ing Scott Alexander to hector him about his parenting

I missed some texts on logistics but still managed to get my son to his haircut on time. As we were walking in I saw this pretty blonde woman in the window and was like "damn, I'm about to meet my 2nd wife" but it turned out it was my first (current) wife

Giving a client my unvarnished assessment of house flippers for a place he's considering buying

New version of 'plumbers and truckers make $200k/yr' just dropped

Building trades compensation discourse is silly, but there are ways to shorten the pathway to lucrative work. One is to choose narrow specialty within a subtrade. Drain clearing requires an understanding of plumbing layout but not broad skills, and the startup costs are low

Every video I've watched on high performance homes confirms my suspicion that either GCs learn HVAC to an extremely high level or they get crappy HVAC systems. This isn't the case for any other subtrade and it doesn't seem very correlated with budget

A trade-adjacent friend's boiler went down last night so over the phone I diagnosed the section of the board that failed (thermostat to circulator) and he wired the circulator from another power source across a manual switch Owing to the risk of water boiling I told him he could

In repairing many things I've noticed that people often live with broken things for quite a while

Update: he installed a new board. No one died

Performing maintenance both averts and induces mechanical failures and this is central to offering competent maintenance services

Architects make great contributions to the aesthetics and functionality of buildings but often seem to use design as a tool for social transformation in ways that appear naive and incapable of weighing trade-offs I recently watched a clip where the dean of the Yale School of

9 degrees colder than our 1% heating design temperature. In theory houses with properly designed heating systems may lose a few degrees with sustained temperatures in this range. In practice under capacity failures are rare

Setting up the parts for our latest kiln!