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gettoasty

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Garages are nice
I was able to work on my car and have the lift gate button replaced as it melted away. Plus, new gas struts for the hatchback. Feels good man
 

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all of ours are functioning . we have a great hood vent , roasting a chicken is just about the only thing that would set them off and we switched to the sittin' method . no more smoke .

we have a couple close to the oven , one around the corner that is really very close but never went off and another about ~20 feet away but in direct line of vision and would alert after about an hour of dry roasting a bird
If you roast your chicken on some form of rack and throw some chopped up veggies under it, the veggies will soak up the fat and not smoke.
 

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Since you guys are talking about it, I just looked- our house has detectors in every bedroom and two in the main hallway, but none in the kitchen/dining/living room. So the closest one to the stove is probably 20 feet away in the hall. That seems unusual.

How long ago was it built, and how the **** did it pass code?
 

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That pic of @Texasmade's ceiling is a good argument against DEI. I mean, blind people need to work too, but they probably should not do plastering and drywalling.
 

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If you roast your chicken on some form of rack and throw some chopped up veggies under it, the veggies will soak up the fat and not smoke.

awesome ! we've used pile of veggies as a rack in the past . still , i'm infatuated with the sitting method , gives a really nice succulent breast
 

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As for passing code, you do know I live in Texas, right?

When we renovated, we removed a couple of columns which required a new cross laminated beam (annoyingly we had a 5 ply and needed a 7 ply to span the width without needing beams, so if they had just spent probably $100 more they could have avoided the columns originally).

Anyway, the moral of the story is that the existing cross-laminated beam was, uh, not exactly sitting center on one of the columns. I have no idea how that didn't get caught.

I understand on houses 100 years old why things are janky or odd, but I don't understand how a house built in the late 90s (like our house) or early 00s are so badly built. A great example of that is electrical: wire running through this house is not color coded and it is only two wires (no ground).

Cost differences are negligible to add a ground and color code the wire insulation.
 

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A great example of that is electrical: wire running through this house is not color coded and it is only two wires (no ground).
What?? That can't be right.
 

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