The answer that I have in a book called Plumbing a House is four wraps. I have seen this rule applied in real life by real people and their work has not leaked. So all is cool right?
Well, the issue is more complicated than that. Some people argue that for the bigger diameter pipes you Click Here to continue reading.
This is only for those who have a little bit of computer geek hidden deep inside themselves.
ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer and it was, “was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some of […]
Do you hound over this site endlessly, day after day, hoping I’ll have written something new or spending time reading archives?!
Me, either. Actually, I never even look at my site if at all possible. I try to write a new post about once a week, and I get all the comments emailed to me. But Click Here to continue reading.
From Bob Vila’s blog….
That said, I CAN appreciate a roofing product that claims to last up to 100 years without needing significant maintenance. Such is the case with the steel roofing that Follansbee markets. The secret to their roof’s longevity is a ZT alloy plating over steel. It’s a combination of zinc and tin, and
According an article called Bigger isn’t Better in the July 04 issue of Fine Homebuilding (which sadly, you can’t read unless you pay good money), more than 70% of newly installed central air installations are either improperly sized or installed. And 95% of all new air conditioning installations fail in regards to energy efficiency.
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Let’s face it, very few men in the trades can speak intelligently even when the subject is something that interests them. And don’t even get me started on the average tradesmen’s writing ability.
Good thing that are people out there who can speak for them. Otherwise, the views and the feelings of tradesmen would never Click Here to continue reading.
Want to read about a poor little rich boy who lost his grandmother?
No?
How about if the poor little rich boy belongs to the corrupt upper crust of Egyptian society and was sent off to collage in the US? How about if he does not really believe in anything but loves his grandmother and so goes through with a traditional Muslim funeral?
As you might gather, I don’t really like the Sandmonkey. There is something about his personality that comes through his blog that I don’t like. But I found his essay to be a fascinating window into a world that I don’t really know much about. As the essay went on, I even found that my cruel hard heart managed to feel some sympathy for him.
Spiders are generally solitary creatures and in the northern hemisphere they generally don’t get together and cover the trees with their webs. But rules are meant to be broken.
This New York Times story tells of spiders who are covering acres of Texas forest with their webs.
The BBC, reporting on a meeting at the Royal Geographical Society, says that 140 million people in developing countries are drinking water with such high concentrations of arsenic as to constitute poisoning. Experts estimate that one out of ten people living in these areas will die of aresenic-induced ailments, particularly cancer.
The problem resulted from the well-intentioned efforts of aid agencies to steer communities in poor areas away from using surface water, which is often badly contaminated by bacteria, towards well-digging, not realizing the well water could have high levels of arsenic.