ASK This Old House | Flood Prevention, Deck Hangers (S19 E24) FULL EPISODE
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Richard installs a shutoff valve for washing machine supply hoses; Ross and Heath discuss the progression of EV chargers; Jenn discusses ornamental grasses; Nathan helps a homeowner repair her deck.
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Richard Trethewey explains why installing an automatic shutoff valve for washing machine supply hoses prevents flooding; Ross Trethewey and Heath Eastman discuss electric vehicle chargers and the role EV chargers will play in the future; Jenn Nawada discusses a variety of ornamental grasses; Nathan Gilbert helps a homeowner repair her deck by replacing rotted hangers and re-securing the joist.
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All About Ornamental Grasses
Jenn discussed a variety of ornamental grasses, including miscanthus “morning light,” miscanthus “adagio”, panium vergatum “purple tears,” and hakonechloa “Japanese forest grass.” These can be found at some home centers and most nurseries.
Expert assistance with this segment was provided by Stonegate Gardens [www.stonegateg...].
What's New with EV Chargers
Working with the electric panel and high voltage wiring associated with electric vehicles can be dangerous, so Heath recommends that EV chargers [amzn.to/3v3NgvH] should only be installed by licensed professionals.
Heath and Ross discussed a variety of topics related to electric vehicle chargers. In general, Level 1 EV Chargers will come with the purchase of an electric vehicle. Level 2 chargers, and the variety of materials associated with an installation, can be found at home centers and electric supply stores.
How to Prevent Flooding in an Upstairs Laundry Room
Richard replaced the standard hot and cold washing machine shutoff valves with an Automatic Washing Machine Shut Off [amzn.to/3uZ3s18], which is manufactured by Watts [www.watts.com/].
The other tools and materials Richard needed to remove the valves and make the new connections, including the braided, stainless steel hoses, the PEX piping and connections, and the PVC glue, can all be found at home centers.
How to Replace a Deck Joist Hanger
Nathan replaced the rotted joist hangers with 2x8” Face-Mount Galvanized Joist Hangers [amzn.to/3fut7YZ], which are manufactured by Simpson Strong-Tie [www.strongtie....] and can be found at most home centers.
To resecure the deck boards to the joist, Nathan used a drill driver and 2” Deckmate star drive coated deck screws [amzn.to/3hE0Ba5], which can also be found at home centers.
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ASK This Old House | Flood Prevention, Deck Hangers (S19 E24) FULL EPISODE
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17:36 -- Just the tip in the hole!
love the content, keep it coming. More full episodes please, I love this old house!
(edit) Tommy is the real mvp cleaning up those loose ends. Ugh such a great opportunity to explain why and in detail how you can only use structural screws on joists. Smh the way you glossed over it dooms me to continue taking out drywall and deck screws because no diyer understands
13:45 LOL they even make the homeowner don their sponsored carhartt clothes!
Induction charging for phones is ~85% as efficient as just plugging it in. Unless the car can stance itself to lay on the floor, how much worse would it be for a car when it has a lot more distance between the pad and battery?
With limited self driving it seems like there would be some fairly easy fixes though, a car that can park constantly and some kind of lifting charger would be just one fairly simple way to address that.
Wouldn’t be a proper episode if Richard doesn’t say “full city water pressure”
and at least two cut-away-s.
I do turn off my water to my washer when we don't use it. Just to hopefully prevent a leak. I finally changed my hoses, as a preventative measure, after about 11 yrs. They still looked great, just didn't want to chance it when I was washing and water was on.
The outside usually looks great until it doesn't it's the inner rubber
@@stich1960 yeah, it will looked good from the ends inside that I could see. But you are right
It's unfortunately ironic that in a search for efficiency we're moving to behemoth electric vehicles with batteries that, on their own, are nearly the weight of entire sub compact cars. And while we do that, those sub compacts are disappearing from the market. It has gotten to the point that the US NTSB is now making cautionary statements about the risks associated with these gargantuan vehicles due to their enormous mass.
and we will dig out all lithium from our earth .... really ecologic solution ....
Lithium mining is terrible for the world and the poor people who dig it out by hand too.
It's true that the best solution to cars is **to stop using cars**, and that the weight of batteries is a modest issue. But weaning the American public off of cars is likely to take a very long time. In the meantime, EVs are in fact a significant improvement over fossil fuel-powered vehicles, even when the electricity is generated by fossil fuel-powered plants, and of course get even better as we transition to clean energy.
Subcompacts were disappearing long before EVs showed up, replaced by SUVs that auto manufacturers push on the consumer because they have much higher profit margins, mainly due to them being exempt from a variety of safety regulations that apply to regular cars. And in fact, while a given EV is unquestionably heavier than the equivalent gas-powered car, the current EV market has shown a shift back to the smaller, lighter-weight cars relatively speaking. EVs provide much more direct feedback on and consequences for driving style and vehicle size and weight, which helps push consumers back to more sensible cars.
Nice Spinal Tap reference Kevin lol
"Vehicle to grid": no, what you describe in the video is "vehicle to load". V2G sends the electricity back to the utility, and is useful to the utility, who in some cases will pay a premium to the homeowner for the electricity, to help smooth out supply and demand during periods of peak demand. V2L is useful to use the power directly, either for when the grid is just not available, or to shift consumption patterns to take advantage of peak pricing (i.e. use the power directly when power is expensive, charge the battery back up later when it's cheaper).
Level 1 charging: it's true that level 1 charging is slower. But for the vast majority of people, it's perfectly sufficient for most days. The typical American driver drives somewhere between 30 and 40 miles per day, easily recouped overnight. Never mind that many people have charging available at their workplace, or can easily stop at a faster charger somewhere along their commute. Don't get me wrong: a level 2 charger is _way_ more convenient, and I'd recommend it to anyone with an EV. But it's hardly the case that level 1 is unusable for most people.
Ice melt: it's true that NaCl is about as bad as it gets, for corrosion and for environmental concerns. It's also true that MgCl is much better, but it's not a panacea, as it's still somewhat corrosive (to concrete as well as metal hangers, screws, nails, etc.). Pity that the discussion here didn't mention calcium magnesium acetate, which _is_ 100% non-corrosive and minimally impactful to the environment. Granted, it's a lot more expensive, but then you don't have to pay someone to replace all your joist hangers every few years either, nor replace the eroded concrete, so there's that. It should've at least been mentioned as an option.
The exterior deck hanger story induces me to mention an improvement for such hangers. The industry should pressure the manufacturers to ceramic coat hangers and other exterior type hardware.this is one thing that already exists in the screws, so it can be expanded for such purposes. Mainly as people have a tendency not always follow directions especially if a property changes ownership. This story shows how despite being galvanized, such hangers can be deteriorated. While there would be an increase of cost,it is comparable to that of clay coated deck screws. Galvanized joist hangers were originally conceived for interior use so the galvanization was never built up as it is for metal garbage cans.
@@Kevin-mp5of By giving your customers the best repairs and materials that last longer, you actually increase the number of times the will call you for other repairs. Having customers call back for the same thing fosters distrust in you abilities and products.
@@Kevin-mp5of unfortunately, I agree. There are too many.
Curious what size/type nail for the joist hanger?
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It goes to elEven! LOL Kevin!
You say no one ever turns off the water to the washer. Well you can’t say that any more. You see we had Two Major washer happening one it just kept filling and one a hose broke. I installed a single lever shut off and both the wife and I use it religiously EVERY TIME we use the washer. It took us twice to get the message I guess I should have went for the PHD like my mom wanted me to.😂
We have wireless charing of cars in Norway! Norway is most decently the Electric Car leader of the world. 8/10 new cars in Norway is an electric one.
Umm, you can get 7 MPH on a 20 amp circuit with a mobile charger.
That's true. But I have not seen many Level 1 chargers that will take advantage of a 20A circuit. Most are designed with a regular 15A circuit in mind, so 4-5 miles/hour remains typical.
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Like my gas powered car it recharges in 5 mins. I can drive 600 plus miles on one tank. Hybrid really should be the focus we are trying to jump before we hop.
Exactly.
I said that to an environmentalist in a job interview and the dude claimed that I was less concerned about the environment than he was.
The way I figure it; a plan that ends in success shows more concern for the environment than a plan that is dead on arrival due to it's unreasonable demands and impending failure.
Going hybrid first also allows the electric companies the time necessary to build up the grid so that it can handle the demands of a fleet of EVs. Right now, when too many EVs are put on the grid, there is not enough power to provide for EV charging and heat.
In one community in Tennessee, all it would take is 700 EVs to cause the electric shortage.
so true
That just means you may not be the right person for electric or maybe one of the types that likes to drive a pickup around all year for the one time they use it. Yeah the way they are today is very niche but someone that drives in the city a hundred mile commute or less every day it can make a lot of sense.
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"That just means you may not be the right person for electric or maybe one of the types that likes to drive a pickup around all year for the one time they use it. Yeah the way they are today is very niche but someone that drives in the city a hundred mile commute or less every day it can make a lot of sense."
As long as electrics are sold with that understanding but they aren't.
Under the push to go fake green, you don't get to choose which energy you want to use, you are required to use electric and which has no other purpose than to diminish your freedom of movement.
On top of that, they keep reducing how much electricity is produced to the point that on high demand days they tell you not to charge your EV.
Then there's the time of day rates that they implement in order to force shut ins and people on fixed incomes that can't go anywhere, to subsidize the lower cost of energy for the rich that have EVs.
In some areas, they won't let you use wood burning stoves now even though some of them burn as clean as natural gas.
@@stich1960 there are some inherent flaws they have also. Like the production. My gas powered vehicle doesn’t go on run away when the battery gets damaged. They are hackable and can be controlled remotely due to the drive by wire systems. Some gas powered vehicles also have this flaw. So the more computerized the more issues. Are there people who buy a vehicle just to buy it. Of course that’s their choice! Just like you may choose to buy an electric vehicle. I can buy a pickup truck drive it for its whole life and still spend less than the overall cost of eclectic. I am sticking with recycled dinosaur power.
A Level 1, 110v, 16A EV charging cable will only provide about 2 miles/hour of charging, not 4-5 miles/hour.
Depends on your car. If you're driving an electric Hummer, you're right.
But most of the cars sold are getting at least 3-4 miles per kWh, and a 120V Level 1 station can provide over 1 kW of charging, so 4 miles/hour is well within the typical range, and 2 miles/hour is _far_ too pessimistic.
Great Carhartt sponsorship. Not subtle at all
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Remember it’s induction so anything magnetic can also heat (like a inductive stove). I’d never charge in the garage while sleeping🔥
batteries get hot for sure.
Old soup cans in the nearby garbage can turning red hot.....
@@Kevin-mp5of How does it work?
I'd hate to see the electric bill at the end of the month when my car is charging drawing 240 volts all night, every night.
It costs me $4 for a full charge at home ($10c/kWh)
Spoiler, it's a lot less than the cost of the gasoline you won't have to be buying anymore.
@@HermanVonPetri until the govt tells you to turn down your hvac because the grid cant handle it
@@Kevin-mp5of Spoiler, the petro industry _already_ gouges gasoline prices by taking refineries offline to artificially keep gas prices high and profitable.
You know how America gains energy independence? By switching to energy sources that _don't require us to buy anymore fuel from a worldwide energy market that is manipulated by oppressive petrostates who we have to bow down to politically for fear that they might throw the world's energy supply into chaos._
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Please, oh please, stop with the music. It is extremely distracting and it overwhelms the speakers (ie, Richard, et al).
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More like a UPS, than a generator. The car is not generating anything.
At 10:47 he goes to shut-off the hot water for the washing machine. Look at it close as the entire valve assembly turns and not just the handle lol. These guys and their eyebrows.
And he's wrong, because any time I leave my house overnight, I ALWAYS shut the valves off.
Old episode, repeat.
Then unsubscribe or don’t watch it. Goof.
Problem with Electric Cars at least Right now is Just the Range. Some People just want to be able to go that Distance quickly IE like 600+ miles per day IE 12 hours of driving for those that end up doing that long type driving at 60 MPHs. before stopping for the day. Some people do not want to wait 10+ mins to get back on the road waiting for car to charge up.
So they will stick with Gas/ Diesel cars more often. so only takes a couple mins to fuel up and go saving time.
Then there is the Price of the EV cars. with 95% of them being over $50,000 they are out of the Price Range for about 90% of people could afford or would want to spend. So Until the Mileage can be approved to be over 600 miles per charge, and the price of them down to $15,000 to $25,000 for some of them. Gas/ Diesel cars/trucks will still be what 90% of the Population are going to stick with... For NOW.
Don’t like electric cars and will never buy one they will not hold up .
Actually powered by coal, gas, hydro dam and lobstahs running on hamster wheels
Thanks for your input, you’ve changed so many minds.
I'd buy an electric car, but only if I could charge it with a coal fired generator.
@@krockpotbroccoli65 showrooms and dealerships are full of coal fired electric cars
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Thing that concerns me even though it shouldn't is when electric car catch on fire due to battery failure or any other reason. I have now heard from 3 sources, 1 being it actually happening in our town so from firefighters- That when electric car is on fire in garage, let's say, underneath apartment building, the fire can't be extuinghished ! They have to pull the car while still on fire out from the building and put it in a massive tank of water for a week or so. I heard this fire can be so strong to disrupt the construction of concrete in mentioned garage or place..... Did noone really thought about that? What if my car catches on fire on road and they can't extinguish the fire nor pull me out ? I would be left there as a way too well done steak !
The fire issue with EV's is that they require a massive amount of water to cool the damaged battery while it discharges or else the fire reignites. If the fire department can't get that water supply to the car then I suppose towing it to a safer location is an option. Gasoline fires are equally dangerous when they're active but lack the spontaneous reignition issue once they are extinguished. Personally, I think that sprinkler systems in indoor parking lots will have to be updated. Same with situations such as passenger ferries. Lots of issues that have not yet been faced.
Deck Repair: Why is she wearing safety glasses and not him. Looks like he is exposed to eye damage more than her? Sorry I see he was wearing them but not all the time.
I just had a 3 yr old braided washing machine hose leak. I am always checking them as it has happed before in another home and caused $$$ in damage. In short order it did a lot of damage to this laundry room. I shut the valves off when I leave the house. To add to the mess the valves won’t shut off all the way now. I would rather have laundry in the garage! If your going to have a laundry room in side the house it should be treated as a wet room with tile up the walls and a drain. That should be code across the country. Just my opinion. I will be getting this auto shut off box to replace the bad one thanks for the info.
What??
Suggestion for the deck: I forget the brand, but I ran across an ad for an electrified mat that can keep the ice/snow off the deck (120V). There are multiple variations including daisy-chainable mats that can be used on the steps. They even have driveway sized mats (240V).
What if the house loses power? How does that affect the electronic washer water valve?
@@Kevin-mp5of no lobstahs can escape?
I have one of those and have had several power failures. The valves are always closed and only work when the washer is turned on. As soon as the washer turns off, or loses power the unit defaults to close (at least the one I have does). I tested it when I first had it installed. Love it.
You won't be doing laundry if there's no power.
@@dalesworld1308 that's obvious but I wouldn't want the valve to open if power is lost.
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Too bad you had to do that deck job in the winter. I would have made it a spring project.
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Acutally I do not understand, why so much fear just about wash machine hoses, Same kind of connection is under each sink, in every bathroom or kitchen. And there is nobody, who will worry about these hoses. Just about wash machine hoses... Can somebody explain me why?
Also here in Europe nobody care about any kind of hoses in house. They serve generaly for 20-25 years and with no problems. No automatic shutt of valves, no lever valves... Typical water pressure is about 3 bar (45 psi)..
You are right, if these are the only hoses one worries about, that's short-sighted. Though, to some extent it may be because the washer is often located in a spot that is less observed. If a hose breaks in your bathroom or kitchen, you might notice it earlier.
All that said, in my opinion the biggest issue is that North American building code doesn't require drains in waterproof (e.g. tiled, concrete, etc.) floors in every room that has a water connection. Hoses are generally reliable, but once in a while, one _is_ going to break, and it's impossible to know for sure when or where. Why allow the entire building to be exposed to water damage when it'd be possible to keep water leaks contained?
I'd put a TV and fridge under that deck, plenty of room to relax
When I purchased our house there was 20 inches of water in the basement. The seller swore it had “never happened before”…I went down and saw the permanent water marks. I dug out a 4’x4’x4’ sump pit, lined it and put a 2hp pump at the bottom and a secondary fail safe at floor level. It turns out the house is built over an artesian spring. For 5 months of the year we pump an average of 72,000 gallons per 24 hour day from the basement. During the dry season we see significant slowdown. But the work we did makes the house salable. When we bought it had to be a cash deal because of the flooding…but what a great deal!
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Yes you should feel good about your EV that gets its electric from what? Fossil fuels.
Even if the electricity comes from fossil fuels, the EV is more efficient than a gas-powered car. And guess what? A lot of electricity doesn't come from fossil fuels, the proportion of clean energy is increasing at a rapid pace, and EVs only get better as more and more renewable energy comes online.
@harvey66616 yeah and if you believe that I've got a bridge in Arazona to sell you.
I can fill my car up in 5 minutes and travel 500 miles. If you want EV'S to be efficient, then solve the problem with perpetual motion.