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Better Luck Next Time

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michika
, 08-29-2010 at 10:08 AM (1644 Views)
The leg tank came in earlier this week, but when we went to pick it up, they couldn't find it. They were really nice about the whole thing, they offered us a couple of fittings/valves/etc. for free as an apology. Friday they said they found it, so Kevin made the trip up to the opposite end of the city, when they were loading the tank they dropped it and won't sell it to us. They are concerned the fall could have damaged the tank. A new tank has been reordered, with a discount, and the aforementioned free parts.

I made a bunch of trips to the dump last week, it made a huge difference in our working space in the basement. We've now decided to pull out the remaining walls on the display side of the tank. We want to include whole home sound in our renovation and we need to access portions of the currently drywalled basement. Our eventual intention is to make that room our television/games/media area.

I also found a good solution to our humidity concerns from now until when snow starts falling, or the temperature is consistently below 17. We ended up just plugging in a regular house fan and directing the flow towards one of the windows. So far its been a great cheap and easy fix. I'm still waiting to be paid so we can purchase proper long-term fans for the window, and fish room.

I'm trying to find one of those bins you rent that a company comes and drops off, you fill, and they take it to the dump. Its taking a really long time, and costing me a lot of gas to keep making trips in our truck. Reno debris and cash flow are holding us up right now.

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Updated 08-29-2010 at 10:09 AM by michika (forgot to categorize and tag this post.)

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  1. NightShade's Avatar
    Well it bites that things are getting messed up on your plans but at least it is giving you time to work towards some other things, and you have some stuff that can be done as well.

    Your setup sounds really nice I have always enjoyed being in the basement when I have had one, always quieter, cooler in the summer and my type of place, LOL.

    I may have a kind of ghetto suggestion for your fan solution. Talk to a local HVAC business and see if they may have some old central heat/air fans that they have replaced with a newer model or replaced the whole unit. They move a ton of air and most of the time they are squirrel fans so they take up very little space. It may be a good solution for your situation and if you need to move a lot of air it will definitely do it.

    As far as the bins and stuff, I don't know exactly where you live but I know that in the US Waste Management has a deal with the Home Depot where you can get a heavy duty bag that can be filled and then hauled off when you are done with it or it is full. May be a good alternative to a steel dumpster if it is available.
  2. melev's Avatar
    What tank did they break? Is that a typo in the first sentence?

    A huge steel dumpster is one method. Another option you may be offered is bulk pickup. You create a pile that doesn't exceed the one specified by your city's code. Once a month, they come through with trucks bearing cranes that hoist it into the giant bed to be hauled away.
  3. michika's Avatar
    I did send a message to my buddy at an HVAC company and he's going to stop by next weekend to take a look what he can do for us. In exchange I have to do some baking; ginger snaps and red velvet cupcakes, and for desert he's requested BBQed shrimp on my crazy caesar salad.

    The leg tank is the water tank we ordered for the water change system. I'm glad we didn't take it because I would have worried endlessly about it randomly giving way in the basement one night or one day while we are out of the house.

    I found a company that does drop offs for only a few days at a time for those big garbage bins. The cost for our ENTIRE reno debris is looking to be somewhere in the $350-$450 range, which is very reasonable when I compare it against us filling up our truck and making multiple trips to the dump. I think we're going to go with this option in the next month or so when we have some cash available to do this.