New England B.S. Thread

good to know! there's one not far from me in smithfield or lincoln i think

 

That's awesome. I usually just let others play there radios, but good to know they have a jumper available. I cant see them trying to enforce the no outside food thing

 

Nice. Two wheels are fun, and the Ultra Classics are decent touring bikes with that big fairing.

I'd never want one, personally, but that's because I'm not a Harley guy, lol.

 

No, just run the key on the ACC position. Only if your battery is real weak or if you have an aftermarket stereo would you have to worry about it. You should go. The one in Mendon $27 per car load and I believe is always a double feature, 2 movies played back to back

 

And yes I did see them running around with jump packs after the 1st movie. We didn't stay for the entire 2nd movie. The kids fell asleep and we weren't really into the movie (Tarzan). The 1st movie (Secret Life of Pets) was very cute though

 

Oh jeez, I just figured you were the original owner

I'm debating throwing him an offer, but he's way the F out there. It'd be a 2 hour trip to get it which isn't appealing at all. It's tough to justify $170 for the Weber vs. $30 for a Charbroil basic camping BBQ. My dad has the Weber, it's nice, just not sure I'd use it enough to justify the cost.

The Ferd has a 'safety' feature so when ACC mode, it requires you to start the truck every 30 minutes or so. I had to be 'that guy' at the drive in.

 

for reals? that sounds extreme

 

Second owner, probably. Bought it 3 years old with low mileage from the original owner, who only used it for church on Sundays and groceries on Tuesdays

 

Anyone done the epoxy coating on their garage floor?

 

Did it on my cellar floor at the old house. Stay away from the Quickrete. Went on well, looked great for about a month. Then it started peeling/flaking all over the place. We followed the prep instructions to the letter. After a year of it peeling I took a scraper to it and dug as much of it as I could off of the floor, then prepped it all over again and reapplied. Same results, looked good for about a month. Wrote Quickcrete a letter with photos complaining, including photos detailing the prep process the second time around. Got my $$ back and put laminate down instead, but it was a major hassle and two+ years of a pain in the butt.

And that was with low-level foot traffic. Wouldn't want it in my garage, that's for sure.

 

Thanks, was reading bad reviews on that and the Rustoleum one, I guess they are 50% water based.
There are a few that are supposedly good for $200 -$300. going to do some more research.

 

I was going to say the exact same thing about Rustoleum which I did in my semi-finished basement. Looked good at first (good, not great) then started going to crap. Not durable. If I were to do it again I would have an actual epoxy coating company come in and do it. Worth it.

 

Went to grab something from the basement last night and discovered there was an inch + of water on the floor. Furnace/tankless hot water heater was leaking pretty steadily from the relief valve. Tried to purge it but that didn't solve it. Shut it off and cleaned the water up/moved a bunch of shit out of the basement into the garage.

Grabbed a new relief valve, 5ft of copper tubing, and a new diaphragm style expansion tank from Lowes this morning. Word of caution, expansion tanks with a failed diaphragm fill with water and are heavy. I knew this...yet still manged to drop the Damn thing when unscrewing it from the air scoop and crushing a finger between it and the top of the furnace. But, I've got a non leaking furnace now so that's a plus.

 

You alright?

 

Ya, just pretty sore and all black and blue under one of my finger nails. ~60lb of water in a metal cylinder will do that to a finger. The joys of home ownership

 

I would be willing to bet that most of the products readily available to home owners isn't going to be worth a damn. Most of the stuff they sell is all low-VOC and water based, you could probably drink it and not get much more than a stomach ache (not like the stuff 20 years ago that would put you on your ass with one whiff). Even the commercially available products are getting weaker and require all sorts of bonding agents. I would look into performing a relative humidity test on your concrete (google calcium chloride RH test), that will tell you if the concrete itself is even a good candidate for epoxy.

 

That guy with his headlights on when he starts the vehicle?

I had to rewire one of my cars because the day time lights and auto headlights had no off switch.

 

well be glad it's not February or you were away for a week... Because I am 100% electric I turn the water main off when we go away

 

No, I had them off, I'm not THAT bad.