i live in courtyard building that has substantial basement space -- one of the basements has been converted to a fitness room, but sits right below a residential unit
we're looking at mitigating the sound as it has been bothering the resident just above
anybody have any soundproofing solutions they love? cost is a concern, so hoping to sound proof a ~400 sf concrete box for $1,500 or less
Ok, farming ideas. I'm probably gonna call an electrician.
I moved into an old farm house about two years ago. I've been remodeling as I go. Good construction in the original job. All the wiring is romex twelve or fourteen.
In the last year, breaker have started going bad. I think. Garage recepticals, exterior recepticals, at least two other breakers.
The breaker box hadn't been mapped, but I've done what I can to map it. Unfortunately, due to the (presumably) blown breakers, I can't tell which goes where.
I could pull all the breakers and just replace them, but I hate to do that if I'm just missing where the breaker leads instead of it actually being bad.
Any thoughts or should I just suck it up and replace all the ones I can't map in hopes that will help me find out where they go?
The exterior outlets and garage receptacles comment raises the GFI outlet flag to me. GFI outlets go bad and won't reset. Breakers do go bad, but not that often. A bad GFI can kick out a breaker and not allow it to be reset.
That's a good idea. I've tried resetting the GFI's by pushing the button, but I didn't think about the actual GFI going back.
DC - any chance you bought the dishwasher on a credit card that extends the warranty 6/12/24 months beyond the original warranty provided by the manufacturer?
i live in courtyard building that has substantial basement space -- one of the basements has been converted to a fitness room, but sits right below a residential unit
we're looking at mitigating the sound as it has been bothering the resident just above
anybody have any soundproofing solutions they love? cost is a concern, so hoping to sound proof a ~400 sf concrete box for $1,500 or less
submitted first offer on first home - might have to skim through this thread in the future
Move in ready or fixer upper? If it's the latter, you'll spend hours on this thread (and Googling all sorts of house stuff) like I have.
Feel free to post stuff. I enjoy sharing what I've learned so you don't have to learn it the hard way.
Gotta love having a 1.5 year old dishwasher die. Started tripping the breaker every now and then, now it trips it for every run and can't make it through a cycle.
Took apart what I could but it's not readily apparent what the issue is. Going to need multiple hours of service work plus parts - probably 50% of the cost of a new one. Bite the bullet and replace it or go for the repair... Hate these decisions.
Appliances are complete fucking shit now.
I've bought top of the line Electrolux, and the cheapest Whirlpool I can find. In the past 10 years in two homes, I've gone through 5 clothes washing machines, 2 driers, 7 dishwashers, 3 microwaves and 4 refrigerators.
My strategy at this point: buy the cheapest thing on the shelf that suits your needs, then just fucking price in the longest warranty you can buy (typically 5 years).
If someone magically appeared before me right now and said, "I will sell you an appliance that has a 10 year shelf life" I would pay $2,000+ for it just to eliminate the fucking hassle.
seems like dishwashers are the real appliance headache?
i have a $2k undercounter fridge and i've had to have it repaired twice in less than 18 months
That's a pretty crappy run. We've been in this house for 8 years and although within the last 9 months we have replaced the fridge, dishwasher and range, none were replaced because they were broken, we just wanted something different/better. The washer and dryer are still going strong and seemingly work as well now as they did 8 years ago. For you to go through that many appliances is pretty crazy.