It never occurred to me before that all my table lamps are circumcised.
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“could”
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Be a good way to teach kids how not to put on a condom.
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Just threw one of these into the oven for our breakfast.
I always add garlic & onion powder, and healthy shakes of basil.
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Uh huh. Says the guy who turned himself into a fly.
/extravagantly rolls eyes at such hypocrisy
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Some advice for anyone who’s not used to subzero temps, and whose houses are not insulated for those conditions;
Open the cupboard doors under the kitchen and bathroom sinks, especially overnight, and leave the taps on a slow drip. The will help prevent frozen pipes, which can burst.
If they do freeze, and you have a blow dryer, you can thaw the frozen water with that.
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I had to install a recirculating pump under our sink. When the cold water temp is too low, it cycles warm water back through. This keeps water moving in both lines (hot water pipes can freeze too if they don’t have freshly heated water flowing through them).
Easy to install (as long as you have an electrical socket nearby), and much cheaper than paying a plumber for emergency supply line repairs.
It also takes less time for hot water to get hot when you run it.
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That’s something to keep in mind. I’m hoping to do kitchen and bath renos at some point, and that might be something to add in.
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Interesting. Never heard of this before.
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Love 'em. 1001 uses. Well, almost.
One of the key features of a decent hotel or motel: the hot water comes hot from the faucet, the shower head, almost instantly. Usually operated on a timer.
Also responsible for making hydronically heated floors warm.
Also great for saving water. In dry places where every drop of water is precious, a recirc pump means not having to run the hot tap for minutes, letting the cold water just go down the drain, before washing dishes or taking a shower.
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One bad winter, mom called me from the basement. She was on a ladder, using a (hair) blowdryer on a pipe who was trying to freeze. It lives near a basement window that lets in a lot of air. She looked pretty freaked.
I examined the problem and thought for a few seconds, and told her, “I can fix this. Just gimme a couple minutes.”
I ran upstairs and grabbed a vellux blanket (lightweight, velvety polyester; thin but V V warm) fragment - we’d cut 'em into big pieces for the pet beds when they died - then ran up to my room and grabbed a couple big safety pins.
When I ran back to the basement, she looked quite surprised. I put the safety pins thru two corners of the vellux fragment, and we shifted the ladder over to the window. There were thingies of some kind sticking out at each top corner of the window, so I slipped the safety pins over 'em, and the piece of blanket easily covered the whole window, w/o even sagging much at the top.
I got rare maternal-wise praise for that one.
If it ever gets really, truly bad, I’ll add a second one.
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You can also put bubble wrap over the windows; it’s apparently more effective than the insulating window film is. Big bubbles work best; measure to fit the window, spray the window lightly with water and put the bubble wrap across the window, bubble side on the glass.
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Never heard of that! It’s brilliant!
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Looks like hell, but you can put it over basement and back windows, if you don’t want people to see it. It will let light in, but I doubt that you’ll be able to see out, at least not clearly.
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Better and better!
One of the two windows in our now-long-gone steel back door was pushed inwards, which made for mighty cold breezes. Mom wouldn’t do anything about it, and wouldn’t let me do anything about it, either. She’d yell at me whenever I came up with ideas. Dunno WTF that was about; maybe she was upset that she couldn’t afford a new door.
I finally got really mad about it one day, and grabbed some plastic wrap and duct tape. I dragged a chair over, put the plastic wrap over each window, and duct taped it in place. Swear to God, it was around 20℉ warmer in the kitchen when I finished.
Mom was amazed. I pointed out that while it looked like shit, no one could see it from outside, and it was certainly a fuckload warmer. She did not complain.
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Yeah, pretty much.
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I did something similar during the awful freeze in Texas. No power, temps under 10 degrees farenheit, in an area where homes are just not made for cold temps. Put plastic sheeting, for painting, over each window and used painter’s tape to seal all the way around. Did the same for the back door. Quilt rolled up and pressed against bottom of the front door.
We managed to keep the temperature in the house around 50 for two days with no power and no added heat besides a few candles.
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