Update, power went back on at 441pm. Generator might be on fumes. So 5gal was about seven hours.
Huh, you saying this suddenly makes the generator placement (near two bedrooms when there’s a perfectly good garage on the other side of the house where no one will be sleeping, ever) make so much more sense to me.
It’s on the south side of the house which is also where the solar panels are. That must be where the electricity comes in. I don’t think about these things.
And funny that we were talking about this earlier because my power went out maybe an hour ago and my generator is on at this very moment.
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Guessing the “gas on one side, electric on the other” is some safety/liability issue.
Looked at the hourly usage at the E-Company website while trying to find out when outage would stop.
The outside heat lamps i use are pretty powerful!!
I know ecactly when they were on over the past year.
I definitely have gas on both sides of the house because the natural gas generator is on the south side of the house but there’s a hookup for a natural gas grill on the north side.
I’m not sure where it comes off the street. Between the grill hookup, the gas stove, the gas fireplace, the hot water heater & furnace, and the generator, there’s gas running all over the place!
About the only place that doesn’t seem to have it is the laundry room, which is weird because it’s right by the grill hookup. But there was only a hookup for an electric dryer, so 
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JUST when I decided to stop spending Xma$ money you go along and do THIS!
I was referring to where it comes in from the street (or backyard border), so as to keep the gas co and the E-co from getting sued. Earthquakes, mainly.
I’m going to one of the best restaurants in the city tonight. No particular reason beyond having a holiday dinner with friends.
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Upscale restuarant???
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Olive Garden?
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He did say that.
He could mean the best Waffle House in driving range.
Related note, I too am going to what IMO is a great and grand restaurant in the SoCal area. Bro-in-law springs every year for this, for his birthday, though my sons and their gf’s are also attending, so I’ll pay partly for them (making them pay $100/couple out of about $200/couple).
And we split the bill for his mother and her husband, who also come.
Tangent: I started the tradition of paying for my own birthday dinners, because I didn’t want others to pay for me, as much as I hated paying someone else’s exorbitant birthday dinner. I had a friend who would have these kinds of birthday dinners, each one topping the next, all of them spending way too much just so they could get the others to pay too much for their dinner. Fun fact: these couples no longer socialize.
So, when I pay for my birthday dinner or my wife’s, it is nice, but it is small. Two or three other couples, max. That way, no one feels obligated to come pay for themselves AND a percentage of mine.
We used to do birthday dinners with one of the other couples coming to this dinner, but that fell by the wayside during COVID and never got restarted. We would always just split the bill rather than covering the bill for the birthday person.
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I do that a few times a month with another couple. Can’t be bothered with quibbling over a dollar (or even five of them). Mind you, one of them is my electrician friend, so I ask for and get a lot of free advice from him, while he never asks for the actuarial advice I keep trying to bring to the conversation.
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My family always had bulk nuts in shells (peanut, filbert, almond, walnut, pecan and Brazil nut) at Christmas time. I try to carry on the tradition. Last night I went to my regular go to nut shop and they no longer have them in bulk. They only had 1 pound bags of mixed nuts in the shell and since I don’t get walnuts or Brazil nuts because I don’t like them, I passed.
They did have raw pine nuts which I love. They are outrageously expensive at 29.99 per lbs. I limited myself to the 3 lbs bag.
I was able to find bags of the other in shell nuts at another place and got what I wanted.
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Remember the $100 tip
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:rimshot: & RN
Wrote a bunch of stuff about my garage in the “furnace” thread. But deleted, decided to post here.
Looking for advice on Garage cabinets. House came with some already installed, so at least 20 years old and looked old then (which is not saying much: they are particle board construction, designed to look old from the start). However several hinges are ripping the “wood” right off.
Looking at NewAge or Gladiator. Depends on if color is an issue for wife. Currently have 17 cabinets of various sizes. Would rather not have to build them myself, mainly because I want someone to take the current ones away. (Add that to the cost, I guess.)
Anyone buy new garage cabinets recently and what was your research (no reason for me to duplicate), did you build them yourself, and are you satisfied with the end result?
Thank you in advance.
Looked at this for my first research. They didn’t seem to be selling anything, but who knows.
I haven’t looked in a long time, I have a Craftsman work bench, a Mac tool chest, and the rest is just shelves. BUT some years ago Lowe’s was closing out the Gladiator stuff and I did a wall of it. It’s expensive but it was quality stuff, I even had the wall pieces you could hang all kinds of crap on. Loved it, probably wouldn’t pay full price but that is your call!
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Here is what I bought a couple years ago. Costco had $600 off (they will run this every other month or so). I ordered an additional corner cabinet from newage and installed them around the the front and side of my first garage bay.
They are nice, fairly lightweight which makes the install pretty easy, but won’t be terribly secure trying to lock them up - you can pretty much just pull them open when locked and the tab will bend (the big lockers have nicer locks).
I had poorly installed crappy 40 year old cabinets from the prior owner. Some guy bought them from me on facebook for $1. I am lucky the old ones did not fall off the wall.
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I also bought some of the 4x8 hanging racks from Costco a few years earlier. They hang above the hoods of the cars, and my ceilings were high enough that I have an easy 6’ of clearance under them. Great for large bulky items - coolers, chairs, some holiday decorations, the yard cart.
This all really helped get everything off the garage floor and out of the way for cars.
One note on the cabinets - the lowers and lockers are 18" deep rather than 24" for most kitchen cabinets - this was a good thing that made getting around my car a lot easier and actually getting into the cabinets while the car was parked in the garage possible. The old ones were just too deep to leave enough clearance.