BasicTraveler

@BasicTraveler@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New homeowner lots of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam cleaning urine is a bad idea. The heat will cause it to bind to the carpet even better and make it even harder to get rid of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New homeowner lots of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s obvious their pets handled the moving process poorly and have urinated in every room with carpet

  Cleaning up pet urine can be really expensive depending on how bad it is. If it's not just a few spots here and there, seriously consider ripping out all of the carpet and padding and living on the floor boards until you can get new flooring.

  You should buy a black light. Nothing expensive, $20 or so. And shine it on everything with the lights off, urine glows. As a side note, anyone looking to buy a house, or even get a new rental should get a black light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could fund the the education system to provide teachers with what they need to do their job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember it's not the school that won't pony up, it's your local and state government that aren't giving them an appropriate budget.

  Also keep in mind that most grant money comes with stipulations. I remember many years ago (late 90's or early 00's) we got a big grant for computers in the classroom. Good chunk of money. But it had to be spent on computers, and only computers. Would have been nice to get some furniture to put them on. We had some in the back of the classrooms next to the sink, some we put 2 desks set front to front (it was not level) It was janky, but the computers were nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saltless Water Softener?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's about $50 a month. Nothing gets released at my house, which is nice. I'm a little out of my depth with the chemical reaction, but the idea is inside the tank are a bunch of resin beads impregnated with stuff calcium and magnesium ions will bind to. So as water flows through the tank the calcium and magnesium is removed and stored in the beads. So the beads store it, but can't store an infinite amount. The tank gets switched out every 2 weeks and culligan takes the old tank back and reverse the process. I'm sure this involves nasty stuff, but hopefully economy of scale and regulations make it a cleaner process than just dumping the salt in the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saltless Water Softener?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Brine discharge can be pretty bad for the environment, so we do some tank exchange thing with Culligan. Every other week they install a new tank and remove the old one to be recharged. Working great so far.