Justin Hernandez
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9 hours ago, WigWagWorkshop said:
This is the main reason I learned to cook for myself. We rarely go out to eat, we have a nice Mexican Restaurant, that I know is clean, and a local pizza joint, that's in a house converted in to a small restaurant. Restaurant inspections are public, and you can find them online. That's how I know the 2 places I do eat are clean.
I'm the same way, for fast food lunch I always go to a major franchise. You can usually see what the kitchen looks because its right it front of you and they make your food where you can see them. A buddy of mines wife got food poisoning a few weeks ago he said dinner for the two of them was almost a hundred bucks. Talk about getting ripped off
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On 3/20/2016 at 11:22 PM, Fletcher94 said:
There was a greek restaurant in my area that just got shutdown cause no hot water heater.
about a year ago there was a McDonald's with mold in there ice machines.
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On 3/20/2016 at 11:57 PM, BMack37 said:I've seen some pretty gross studies about what's inside of ice machines when they do cultures. Just be glad our immune system is pretty stout.
Ice machines have tons of mold, carry all kinds of bacteria and diseases. Its hard to get them completely clean and its expensive labor wise and so is the cleaner that is use. So most places don't even bother to clean them its nasty
On 3/20/2016 at 3:12 AM, PROTOOLNUT said:I like when you find died dogs inside the wall in freezers, true story.
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On 3/18/2016 at 8:34 PM, PROTOOLNUT said:
30 amps sounds like a lot, I don't even know if the original wiring to the hot water tank is rated for 30 amps, but you would probably know more then I. And a smaller size tank would be better, it was a real bi** to get the 50 gallon in there and it will be again getting it back out ugg. So 40 gallons is really more then enough to take a shower on, thats what important lol.
So what makes it a hybrid, what does the thing do? Oh please tell me it makes coffee too
Most likely it is 30 amps unless a monkey wired it up..lol The smallest a Hybrid comes in is 50 gallons :/ but the crazy thing is the bigger the Hybrid tank the more energy efficient it is. If you want it to make coffee it will, you just have to believe it can.
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On 3/22/2016 at 11:51 AM, RickyMcGrath said:
Sharkbite is for a quick TEMPORARY repair as far as I am concerned. THAT'S IT. I would NEVER put them inside a wall. They're sealed by an o-ring. Why would anyone ever put them in as a permanent joint, is beyond me.
I agree, I do have some out there that have become permanent because they never called back to fix it right. I guess they just don't want to pay any more money. I use them when the shut off at the street leaks by, you tell the owner he needs to have the city come out and change the shut off. But the owner doesn't care. I have some inside slabs and you tell them its just a temp until house gets repiped, but the house never gets repiped and they just cement back over it. I wish some people will just listen
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What's wrong here??
This unit has no ground what so ever not even a mechanical ground. If this unit would have a short and you touched the cabinet you can become the grounding point of the unit and be electrocuted. I rewired this unit all the way back to the panel and got rid of the seal tight that was just shoved into the emt. It was wired with #8 wire and the heater required #6. So I pulled 6's and a #10 ground wire and used greenfield flex. Now unit is ground mechanically and has a ground wire.
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Are logs the new chicks now??
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Like in between a hammer and nail. OOOUchhh!!
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14 hours ago, PROTOOLNUT said:
Beware the crimping jaws of life, they do not recognize friend or foe, and they will crimp the shit out of that shit! HAHA
I get my fingers pinched all the time on tools, it sucks
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Your a great writer Carl!! Me on the other hand not so much as you can tell, but I know what I'm trying to say..lol I've been busy too, I feel like I abounded this place for the last two months. Trying to play catch up when I can, I'm so backed logged on topics to post. That 24' of 1/2 gas would help some people out but I see houses with only 1/2 mains a lot, they only have a stove and water heater. I don't believe there is any tax credits for gas heaters in my area but that would help with the cost if your town does. Yes savings does depend on your hot water usage. Yea I'am talking about the Hybrid electric heat pump. I realize that climate does matter for maximum savings on this type of heater but during the winter months it can be used on electric mode (heating elements). A.O. Smith has a ten year parts and tank warranty with one year labor. Cost to run depending on model $163-$194 a year with an energy factor of 3.24-2.74. Standard tank is almost $500 a year with a power factor of 0.95 which is better than older models do to the NAECA 3 standards which changed last year. Any water heater should be flushed yearly and tankless with vinegar every year. You do only get one year labor warranty on almost all heaters after that your on your own. What do you offer people who's only option is electric? I try to push Heat pumps because they can be used in heat pump mode year round here in Florida. I think that's the best and only option for an electric unit. What do you think?
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4 hours ago, Glasseyi said:
I would love to switch to tankless, but everyone I know keeps saying waste of money. I think it's more a waste of energy keeping that 50 gallons hot all the time. I have natural gas and no good way to direct vent it outside. Currently y connected to the house boiler. I was even thinking of upgrading that to do both. Both think it would cost more then what I spend now.
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5 hours ago, PROTOOLNUT said:Well shit, looks like I will be back to square 1 replacing hot water tank with a new one.
Perhaps you guys should look into a Hybrid electric tank heater. Depending on the model they are over twice as efficient vs a standard electric tank they only need a 30 amp circuit for a 50 gallon model. The GE Geosprings sale for a 1000 you do have to add a condensate drain line but the rest of the install is just like a standard tank. They have a ten year warranty on tank so even if it only last you ten years thats only like $8.50 a month over the units lifetime.
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6 hours ago, comp56 said:
what are the cost versus savings, with these tankless units is it worth it? I realize they don't take up much space but what if that is not a factor?
That's hard to say it depends on your usage more demand more money saved. If theres only two people living in a house than IMO the high up front cost is not worth it, it would take forever to get your money back. You can go with a hybrid electric tank which saves a lot of money vs a standard tank, I have a post on here about it. I didn't talk about the energy savings but it is over twice as efficient as a standard tank.
5 hours ago, KnarlyCarl said:Don't. Electric tankless are nothing but trouble, they take a ton of amp draw and burn out elements and are overall problematic.
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Damn right could not agree more Carl, did you see my post I put up on Monday about a tankless electric?? That's interesting that tankless only needs a 1/2 gas line most need 3/4 and its not there so its a big expense to make it 3/4. I can't read what it says next to the 1/2 gas on the picture, 24 feet is all I can read. About the 18'' cpvc thing that's a load of crap its rated up to 180 degrees when is an electric tank going to go past that. If they fear it would become brittle over time next to the heater than why does your city allow it for the rest of the system. I know every city and state is different but that doesn't make any sense to me. Only on gas heaters we have to have some copper it can't be cpvc because the flue melts the pipe and it sags, I have seen it..lol
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That was fast! Intermittent, they should have sad it broken no worky
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Protool for president 2020!!
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I will give you a gift card for three boxes of pizza, everyone loves pizza!!!..lol
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Your right Protool everything is junk these days nothing lasts anymore, they don't build them like they use too. Solar is great here in Florida it is fairly popular free hot water all year long. Its just the cost I did a solar set up a while back for a customer and it was over $6,000. I was on the low end price wise they had estimates for double my price and some even higher. There's guys out there low balling jobs doing an electric water heater for only $600, so its a huge price difference.
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1 hour ago, ChrisK said:
Don't worry guys. I'm still here
Hell Yea!! Together we will defeat the red, we will make them bleed yellow.
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Great review!! Is this Dewalt up for sale too?? lol jk
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The Jimbo channel is the poop!! Watch out Dan and Eric
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You know what lets make it easy for Dan and Eric, Dan needs to clean his garage right?? So the UTBG is to win Dan's garage full of tools!! The winner has to come pick everything up, clean and paint Dan's garage and do anything Dan asks for the whole weekend..lol
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Sad to see them go. Hope they get sold quick. Team DeWalt for me forever!!!!!!
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14 hours ago, DR99 said:
Is it just me or does CPVC look cheap as hell? Evey time its just looks so bad
Yes, yes and YES!! Cpvc is cheap to buy and install but that's how its done here even in big commercial buildings its used and of course homes. There is only like ten feet of copper in the houses here sometimes even less. This tankless does require 36" of copper on both hot and cold lines then you can transition to cpvc.
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23 hours ago, Bigmikez said:
Man! Really guys!! Lol A friend of our just invited out this coming weekend to go eat there wow LOL! Guess we gotta cancel
Just eat before you go there and then just say your not feeling good and don't want to eat..lol
16 hours ago, PROTOOLNUT said:Yup, and than she wonders why she's not making money like she use too.
9 hours ago, BMack37 said:Yea they don't really do that good of a job if you ask me. Its like doing something to code that's just the minimum you can do so much better to improve things.
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On 3/14/2016 at 7:36 PM, Kato said:
I've been inside a Golden Corral kitchen, it was a disaster. They were gonna hire me to maintain some of their restaurants...glad it didn't go through to be honest.
Its gross, one of the cooks spilled chicken broth all over me and my boots one time.
On 3/14/2016 at 7:43 PM, 99_XC600 said:We have one of them up in my area. I refuse to eat anything that came out of that crapwagon.
Its nasty, they have food all over the kitchen and stuff that needs to be refrigerated just sitting around uncovered.
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On 3/14/2016 at 7:30 PM, KnarlyCarl said:
Interesting. Yeah, we have to have either of the copper or braided lines 18" off the top of the water heater tank. Recently, a county we do a lot of work in passed a new thing where every water heater we swap out has to be inspected, it used to be just inside the city in that county. I put in a new water heater, but the old one had cpvc all the way to it, doesn't matter, I had to add copper to make the 18" work
That sucks, What is there reasoning that cpvc cannot be used for the first 18"??
What's wrong here??
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This unit has no ground what so ever not even a mechanical ground. If this unit would have a short and you touched the cabinet you can become the grounding point of the unit and be electrocuted. I rewired this unit all the way back to the panel and got rid of the seal tight that was just shoved into the emt. It was wired with #8 wire and the heater required #6. So I pulled 6's and a #10 ground wire and used greenfield flex. Now unit is ground mechanically and has a ground wire.