The001Keymaster

The001Keymaster t1_j7baxgj wrote

If cabinets are in good shape you can do a little refresh yourself to get a little more time out of it. Just clean them. I'm honestly not joking. They get a film of grease and funk that doesn't really come off. You can use floor wax stripper. They aren't all equal so you need to test a spot that isn't in a spot you can see. Give it a couple days to make sure it doesn't hurt the finish. It kind of depends on the quality of cabinets to how well it works. Cheaper cabinets aren't as smooth of a finish so harder to get fully clean. Sometimes it makes them look like just installed. It could buy your kitchen a few more years to save up more money to change it how you like.

I've used. Trewax heavy duty floor stripper. It says it's step 1 -strip

Make sure you test like I said.

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The001Keymaster t1_j6n0s07 wrote

Not really a thing here. Even communitues that are set up like that with a gate and a gate house almost 100% of the time have no guard and gate is open.

Whatever that gate is keeping out in Texas isn't a problem here. The new construction here is mostly 25 miles from downtown. Comparably that's probably like being 500 miles from Dallas.

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The001Keymaster t1_j6d5ksx wrote

Way too much for Pittsburgh. That landlord is dreaming. We own but we have a MCM home designed by a famous architect, 4200 sqft, acre lot and mortgage is only like 2800. 4500 is the price of a penthouse apartment downtown. People in Lawrenceville are bat shit crazy.

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The001Keymaster t1_j65smeo wrote

Wyze cameras. They are cheap, resolution is plenty good enough, simple to set up, and secure enough for regular household. Easy to use app. You don't need to have a subscription fee if you don't want to. You can just add a memory card into the camera and it'll just record on the card in a loop. So if you get home and you see something happen pull the card and then it won't record over it and then you have basically a copy of what happened. A cheap 32 GB card will record a few days on a loop. That's usually plenty enough to catch anything unless you're on like a week long vacation. I have 128 gig card in the camera that faces our driveway and catches our front door. That way on the loop it records it records for about a week plus on that camera. That's kind of the main one.

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The001Keymaster t1_j3tcoym wrote

Scam. Even if it's a legit energy company what they do is bait and switch. They sign you up for say a year. They say if you don't like it you can cancel. The rate is low compared to your other supplier. Then surprise a couple months later the rate is double the original supplier. You can cancel but there's like a 400 cancel fee. So you either pay the fee or pay double electric bills for the rest of the contract.

So even if it's not an illegal scam, it's still a con to screw you out of money legally.

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The001Keymaster t1_j38bd0k wrote

That is true, but lines won't counter stupid people either. Sometimes that space that appears to be left is because a car left and a smaller car came. Sometimes it's because people are dumb and can't park.

Yes, sometimes without lines you get a strange half a space. Maybe a big truck left a spot and a mini Cooper parked there. There'd be extra space that's unusable.

Logistically without lines sometimes you lose space because cars vary in size. With lines you almost always lose space. It's the choice of always waste a little space or occasionally waste a bigger half space. They go with occasionally and no lines.

I'm certainly not trying to debate this. Just explaining the city's logic in why there isn't lines.

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The001Keymaster t1_j38a8yu wrote

Painting lines doesn't make more parking it makes less. That's why they don't paint lines. The lines need to be 24 feet apart by code. That number is off the top of my head without looking up the codes. I think it's correct. Most cars aren't that big. So with lines you end up with cars that have 2 feet in front and back of them wasting all that parking space. Without lines those gaps get filled in.

The illegal parking is a separate issue.

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The001Keymaster t1_j242l8a wrote

Reply to comment by ListofReddit in Gas bill doubled by ListofReddit

Get on the budget amounts. It won't go up or down as much. I don't know what to tell you as far as fair goes. You pay for the amount of gas you use not some price the gas company randomly decided to charge you.

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The001Keymaster t1_j241fcb wrote

How it works is when it's colder outside, you use more gas. There's a huge difference in the gas it takes to heat your apartment from 35 outside to 68 inside as opposed to 5 to 68.

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The001Keymaster t1_j1ieha0 wrote

If the faucets are in vanities or kitchen sink cabinets, leave the doors to the cabinets open all the way. It lets more heat from the room get to the pipes. With the doors closed all the cold coming off the wall is trapped inside the cabinet.

You can get those little electric heaters for like 15-20 bucks. You just need to be safe with them. Keep it far away from things that could catch fire and don't use extension cords. Also just buy the cheapest one they have because electric heat is 100% efficient. A $300 electric heater that is 500 watts will put out the exact same amount of heat that a $20 electric heater that is the same 500 watts does.

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