Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

[Amstel]

Also next time you take a shower, insert the drain plug in your bathtub before you start. Look how far up you legs the water is when you're done. Then sometime fill your bathtub by hand using 1 or 2 or 5 gallon buckets until it reaches that level. It's eye opening.

I read about this a while back.
http://www.businessinsider.com/wate...y-and-water-than-a-conventional-shower-2012-8

very cool idea.

 

[fly]

its equally bad to pour olive oil, or bacon fat, or motor oil down your drain

Again, why is it bad to pour vegetable oil down the drain?

I have ZERO to get rid of. I was thinking yesterday and trying to figure out why it would be bad. I couldn't come up with an answer, couldn't find a specific answer on Google that didn't actually refer to fats, and have yet to see one here.

 

[Jehannum]

My hydroponic grow operation uses only 8 gals of water per week, maybe 10 in the warmer months.

I dump the used nutrient solution on my blueberry bush. Makes for outstandingly plump and sweet berries.

It drives me crazy when I see idiots watching their cars and letting the water run in street as the suds their car. I wanna hycolonic them.

I always bring this along to car shows to help evangelize both the product (which is fabulous) and its water savings.

I can wash all 4 of my cars with one 2 gallon bucket of this stuff (plus some that's less dilute in a spray bottle, for wheels).

 

[Jehannum]

Again, why is it bad to pour vegetable oil down the drain?

I have ZERO to get rid of. I was thinking yesterday and trying to figure out why it would be bad. I couldn't come up with an answer, couldn't find a specific answer on Google that didn't actually refer to fats, and have yet to see one here.

Oils and fats are the same thing.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Also, don't confuse "government standards" with "what happens every day".

 

[Jehannum]

Also, don't confuse "government standards" with "what happens every day".

JET FUEL CAN'T MELT IRON SIGHTS

 

[Immigrant]

I always bring this along to car shows to help evangelize both the product (which is fabulous) and its water savings.

I can wash all 4 of my cars with one 2 gallon bucket of this stuff (plus some that's less dilute in a spray bottle, for wheels).

Better life through chemistry!

I used to use this stuff called S-100 on my motorcycles. Stuff was amazing.

 

[Floptical]

JET FUEL CAN'T MELT IRON SIGHTS

 

[Jehannum]

Better life through chemistry!

I used to use this stuff called S-100 on my motorcycles. Stuff was amazing.

It's awesome. I put a cap full of the blue stuff into a 2 gallon bucket, fill with water, and I'm good to go. I just started on the second gallon I ordered like 3 years ago.

 

[fly]

Oils and fats are the same thing.

Rather than admit you don't have a good answer, back to minutiae! Not at room temperature they aren't.

 

[Floptical]

Rather than admit you don't have a good answer, back to minutiae! Not at room temperature they aren't.

You still never answered the catalyst for the original question.

 

[fly]

You still never answered the catalyst for the original question.

https://uselessforums.com/threads/the-home-improvement-automation-thread.14476/page-290#post-1640299

 

[Floptical]

https://uselessforums.com/threads/the-home-improvement-automation-thread.14476/page-290#post-1640299

Sorry the posts are running slower than they should. I think someone poured vegetable oil into the the network.

 

[Jehannum]

Rather than admit you don't have a good answer, back to minutiae! Not at room temperature they aren't.

Oils and fats are the same thing.

It's also problematic if your drain pipes are ABS or cement, as they both act like big sponges for hydrocarbons.

 

[fly]

Sorry the posts are running slower than they should. I think someone poured vegetable oil into the the network.

It's cause I'm oil cooling the server.

 

[Duke]

Sorry the posts are running slower than they should. I think someone poured vegetable oil into the the network.

Fats and FAT32 are the same thing.

 

[fly]

Oils and fats are the same thing.

It's also problematic if your drain pipes are ABS or cement, as they both act like big sponges for hydrocarbons.

Not at room temperature they aren't.

 

[Jehannum]

It's cause I'm oil cooling the server.

@Valve1138 has a urine-based cooling system you should look into.

 

[Floptical]

Fats and FAT32 are the same thing.

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[fly]

Fats and FAT32 are the same thing.

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