TLDude876

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Haha taking your advice. Throwing the kid off in the deep end and let him suffer a little then pull him out. That will teach him to stay away

rockstar143

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LOL...
lil Z is already learning how to kick kick kick and blow bubbles when I put her under...she's not afraid, which is the biggest thing.

00TL-P3.2

A 2nd shed (have 1 in the back for the pool stuff) is definitely going to happen eventually.

Our pool is chlorine. It's a pebble type 'decking' around the pool (similar-ish to the actual pool lining), with stone bordering the pool edges. It can be pretty rough on bare feet, but not terrible.

TLDude876

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Thanks. I'm going to give the salt cell a shot. I have 2 sheds myself

TLDude876

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Haha. Going to enroll Derek in ISR swimming. Apparently it is more effective than regular swim lessons.
https://www.infantswim.com/

00TL-P3.2

From what I've read, chlorine to salt conversion is only around $1k.
Most people I've talked to with salt say it's a lot lower maintenance. But, our pool has been pretty low maintenance as well.

rockstar143

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I maintain a pool!
Isn't pebble style called chattahoochie or something like that?

Good plan, Dennis!

TLDude876

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If you both aren't a member as yet be sure to join Pool School - TFP Home Page. Tonnes of great information on there. I like to think of it as the acurazine of pools.

00TL-P3.2

^ Thanks, will look into that.

rockstar143

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I may take a gander myself!
I was certified as a swim instructor in HS...might have to dust off those skills.

Flipster23

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Did you wear a speedo too?

rockstar143

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hmmm...no.
but water polo team did. they won nationals i think...

CCColtsicehockey

What about getting one larger shed and posting the existing one on craigslist to be halled away by someone?

00TL-P3.2

Size constraints.
Have a Rubbermaid shed right now, has a ~3ft shelf in it & has all the pool chemicals & tools. It's got the pool pumps/filter on one side & a large window on the other, so a larger shed wouldn't fit there.
I've got room on the back wall of the garage where I could put one for my lawn equipment, which would free up some space in the 3rd garage bay.
The red square is the shed I have now, blue square is where I'd likely put a 2nd. Black is the kid's swingset/play structure we put up in Dec.

Flipster23

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Sometimes, I wish I had a pool for the family. I don't swim. We have the community clubhouse pool, but it's only open from Memorial Day to Labor Day and I have to deal with other people while there.

00TL-P3.2

My Saturday

gatrhumpy

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That's a porn pool right there! Nice house!

00TL-P3.2

Didn't check the strand before hanging it...

imj0257

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Still waiting for a party invite

00TL-P3.2

One of these days...

00TL-P3.2

Posted in SWIEDT & forgot to here as well.

Finished up the lights on the house
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/66Vr9k9r/20181216-174731.jpg[/img]

00TL-P3.2

Wrapped up a project I'd been putting off for a while.
Took down this valence (?) that the prior owners had built/hung months ago with the intent of re-doing it.


Picked up a ton of old wood & recovered and extended it.


Also hung a gift my parents got us for Christmas. A friend of my dad's makes these (assuming with a wood CNC or something similar). Measures roughly 34" W/T.

svtmike

Nice!

Guessing the Texas is laser cut from the singing of the edges.

rockstar143

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that's fucking cool

SamDoe1

This.

Also the tightness of the radii.

I plan on starting to make state shapes as soon as I can get back out in my garage. I've been itching to get the CNC up and running finally. That TX one looks awesome, especially in cedar...and I just so happen to have some cedar looking for a home this spring so I may try this out.

rockstar143

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make a penis shape, Sam.

1StGenCL

Looking good and for whomever was asking about the pool, TFP pool school is awesome and get salt, your life will be so easy.

rockstar143

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Salt is the bomb, for sure...

SamDoe1

I think I have some african ebony wood to make one for you!

00TL-P3.2

Threw together a couple more window valences yesterday, nearly free, with wood I had around the house/garage.



Will probably do 1 more over the door to the back yard, which is just to the left off the edge of the photo.

00TL-P3.2

Woke up this morning to a chilly room.

Downstairs furnace isn't igniting. Throwing an error code of "Burner not igniting"

Googleing the model # returns nothing, and there's no mfg labels on the unit. What I have been able to find so far, is to pull the igniter & clean it with some fine sandpaper. But, without a diagram, I don't want to just start disassembling the furnace....

SamDoe1

It's probably not the igniter, it's likely the flame sensor. Does your furnace have a little viewing window into the firebox? If yes, reset power to the furnace and turn the temp up. You should see the burners fire and, if the sensor is bad, they'll go out because the furnace thinks the fire didn't light and will cut gas to prevent it from blowing up. The flame sensor looks like a little stick that goes in the path of one of the burners. Just trace that up and you should be able to find out where to pull it out to clean it off. It's typically a one wire crimp connector and the sensor itself is held in with one screw. Need some fine steel wool or 400 grit paper, give it a quick wipe, clean off any dust/residue, and put it back in. Should be good as new.

Post a pic of your panel and I might be able to help.

Also, shouldn't you be running the AC? It can't be cold enough for heat down there...

00TL-P3.2

I'll have to check when I get home. Downstairs was 67* this morning, so chilly, but not unbearable.

Luckily, the upstairs unit is still working, so the kid's rooms are fine.

It's 51* right now & supposed to drop to 44* overnight. May as well cancel work tomorrow

svtmike

SamDoe1

It's 51 right now? Crack the damn window, no need for a furnace lol. It's 68 in my house while I'm home all the time, 62 at night.

Flipster23

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CCColtsicehockey

This is our temps too.

Definitely test the furnace reset like Sam said. Odly gas pool heaters work the same way and I have had to do this exact test procedure to figure out the flame sensor on my parents pool heater went bad.

SamDoe1

When it's -30F outside, 62F doesn't seem so bad.

00TL-P3.2

Checked when I got home last night.

Cleaned the flame sensor, seemed ok & had no buildup on it. Pulled the igniter & it had some buildup between the elements (shorting itself out?), cleaned it up & we were back in business.

Woke up this morning to a 67* downstairs again, so I guess it was a temp fix.

Now to locate a replacement.

00TL-P3.2

Forgot to come back to this. Was talking to my dad about it & the guy cuts it all by hand with a jigsaw
He recently got a band saw, that'll help with some cuts, but he does the intricate stuff by hand...