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So, i live with a family member and her 2 kids, we are renting a duplex, 3 bed 2 bathrooms, full kitchen 1 living space and 1 multi purpose. We moved in about July 2023, and for most of this year we have only had 1 bathroom due to terrible plumbing in the area, the property manager sucks at communication and isnt telling us anything!
My grandpa who is a realtor, so is my aunt (she is who im living with) are affraid the property manager and the owners have run out of money to afford repairs. The guys that where hired to dig havent even come back to fill in the hole they dug and its been about a month since they "finished" work and due to the property manager not telling us anything and just over all not being pleasent to work with im looking for any advice or tips.
We barely had the money to move last year! We deffinetly dont have money this year even with my aunt working 4 jobs, and from what it sounds like is either the landlord / property manager will either not renew our lease, jack up the rent, or sell the property.
(For added info on the plumbing) The pipes are cast iron and the house is 30 years old give or take, it was un-occupied for about 2 years and all they did was re-do the kitchen. There was terrible timing on rain so we hadnt had time to mow the lawn, and the property manager had been furious with us, no previous warns or anything and he hired his own guys to do it, and in the process bought mulch to put out front (this is about 2 weeks after they started partially replacing pipes) and the mulch put weight on the soil damaging / making the plumbing worse, the bathtub leaks, toilet doesnt flush, that bathroom is un-useable, we are still paying for 2 thats what is in the contract! The lawn guys and pumbers confirmed that the weight of the mulch, dense soil and under ground work was the cause and it was no fault to me and my family! We can't afford to move, we can't afford to fix it our selves!
Sorry for the long ramble, but I really need advice before where homeless!
We live in United States of America, Texas.
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My grandpa who is a realtor, so is my aunt (she is who im living with) are affraid the property manager and the owners have run out of money to afford repairs. The guys that where hired to dig havent even come back to fill in the hole they dug and its been about a month since they "finished" work and due to the property manager not telling us anything and just over all not being pleasent to work with im looking for any advice or tips.
We barely had the money to move last year! We deffinetly dont have money this year even with my aunt working 4 jobs, and from what it sounds like is either the landlord / property manager will either not renew our lease, jack up the rent, or sell the property.
(For added info on the plumbing) The pipes are cast iron and the house is 30 years old give or take, it was un-occupied for about 2 years and all they did was re-do the kitchen. There was terrible timing on rain so we hadnt had time to mow the lawn, and the property manager had been furious with us, no previous warns or anything and he hired his own guys to do it, and in the process bought mulch to put out front (this is about 2 weeks after they started partially replacing pipes) and the mulch put weight on the soil damaging / making the plumbing worse, the bathtub leaks, toilet doesnt flush, that bathroom is un-useable, we are still paying for 2 thats what is in the contract! The lawn guys and pumbers confirmed that the weight of the mulch, dense soil and under ground work was the cause and it was no fault to me and my family! We can't afford to move, we can't afford to fix it our selves!
Sorry for the long ramble, but I really need advice before where homeless!
We live in United States of America, Texas.
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2024.05.19 04:34 75976345 Apparently I organised a student protest against a teacher.
I say "apparently" because... well... you'll see.
This happened decades ago now, back in primary school. I only remembered it because I was recently catching up with old friends from back then, and we got to laughing over old stories and then someone mentioned, "The wildest was when you organised that whole protest against our teacher."
"The time I did what?"
The consensus was I did, indeed, organise the entire class to rebel against our teacher that resulted in her being deposed and our class getting a "substitute" for the rest of the year. I almost fell out of my chair hearing this story from their mouths. It wasn't that I didn't remember it, of course I did--that year was awful. It was just that it existed very differently in my memory.
Two important pieces of background knowledge to understand here:
So when the school said, "Okay, when this bell rings during recess/lunch, that means you have to leave the playground and go back to class", I was a confused child already struggling with all these completely nonsensical limitations and guidelines imposed on me. So when that bell rang, I got that calm little voice in my head that said, "Hmm, no, I'm good out here actually. I don't think I will go back into class." So I would just continue to sit out on the playground, playing with my plastic spider toys or sitting on the swing. Teachers would realise what was going on and come out to get me and tell me I have to go back to class, and I would just very calmly hear them out and then smile at them and politely as possible tell them, "No thank you, I want to stay out here."
They really didn't know what to do with me. I wasn't getting upset, I wasn't throwing a tantrum, I wasn't yelling, I wasn't being rude in any way. I was incredibly docile and would let them explain things to me with endless patience and then just politely refute them and go back to what I was doing, like this was just a very normal and reasonable negotiation between two equal parties. I have memories of sitting on the swing while three very confused and flustered adult staff huddled around me trying to bribe me with candy to go back to class. It would take a whole lesson block to lure me back to the classroom, and then at lunch the whole thing would start over again. It took me three years at school to finally accept the status quo thanks to a religious nutter I got for a teacher, and finally went back to class when the bell rang (was never happy about it though).
I eventually settled into school life. Excelled at subjects I liked, at least passed subjects I didn't, followed the rules, was seen as intelligent and obedient and was often liked by my teachers. Until my final year, when we got the teacher I can only rudely monniker Mrs Bigmouth.
Mrs Bigmouth should not have been a teacher. She had a trigger temper and would explode into long, verbally abusive tirades against us if we ever did anything she felt was disrespectful behaviour. What was disrespectful behaviour? Damned if I know. It changed day by day, depending on mood. You could disrespect her to her face one day and she'd laugh and say you have such razor wit, and politely ask a question the next and she'd scream at you for ten nonstop minutes then give you a week of DT for talking back. The absolute peak moment of her boiling temper came when she threw a dictionary at a girl's head because she was whispering to me in class. When I tell you it missed her by half an inch...
But believe it or not, this wasn't what made her such an awful teacher. It was so hard to get teachers at rural schools back then, there was almost nothing you could do to get fired, so we had experience with teachers with nightmare tempers. What made her such an issue was her big mouth. She used us, her trapped audience, as free therapy. She would infodump, traumadump, about her very personal, very private life to us. All day. She'd be two words into a spelling list and launch into an extended story session about her marital issues with her husband. We'd be heads down doing fractions and, unprompted, she'd declare to the class that her adult daughter no longer talks to her and then diatribe to us about it until the bell rang. She had money issues, a contentious relationship with her parents, her marriage was on the rocks. She once pulled me aside after school and spoke with me, at length, about how she was thinking of having another child to try to repair her marriage. I was like, okay lady, I'm 11, about to miss my bus, and my house is a 4 hour walk on foot from here.
We weren't learning. We'd hadn't had a complete lesson since the first week of the school year. We were behind on the cirriculum and frustrated. One kid had brought a stopwatch into school and would time lessons vs her monologues and kept detailed lists, and we would come to school each morning and do betting pools on them. What subject would she interrupt, what would she talk about, and how long would it go.
But all that still wasn't the breaking point if you can believe it. No! Still not! The problem was it wasn't just her own private life she couldn't keep her mouth shut about. It was everyone else's. Because parents would make the reasonable assumption that she should be told things as our class teacher that would be important to know, and that she would understand these things were said in confidence. Instead she would veer randomly off in the middle of talking to us about her horrible weekend to let us know whatever private or traumatic thing was going on in a classmate's life that she had been made aware of. That was awful. That was what made that year hell. It wasn't even about when my secrets were shared with the entire class against my consent. It was watching the faces of my small, lovely, supportive class of 11 year old children go pale and scrunch up with held-back tears as things they never wanted to share were announced like morning news. God we hated her.
Then one day that voice came. The one I hadn't heard in years. The bell ring to go back into class and that voice said, "But I don't want to be in that classroom. I'm not even being taught there." So I just... didn't. I didn't go back to class. I just sat in the playground in a daze eating grass (don't eat grass, it's not good for your teeth). Despite how small my class was, I don't think Mrs Bigmouth even noticed I wasn't there. Others did though. Come lunch and everyone came out, my friends asked me where I was and I said, "Oh, I didn't go back to class."
"Why didn't you go back to class?"
"Why would I go back to class?"
Lightbulb moment for my schoolmates. Yeah, why would they go back to class? What was the point? From a practical standpoint, they weren't learning. From an emotional standpoint, it was horrible to be there. A friend who had had her family's dirty laundry aired to the entire class just last week, things even she didn't know because her parents tried to keep it from her, asked if she could sit with me rather than go back to class. I just stared at her, vacant and confused.
"Sure? I mean, I'm just eating grass though."
Over the next few days, two kids turned into four, turned into ten, turned into the whole class. The whole class was doing a sit-out protest on the field rather than go back to class. Of course Mrs Bigmouth tried to do something about it. She'd come out, screaming at us and threatening us with DT and internal suspension, but six months of that behaviour had totally vaccinated us against her. I'd become the de facto leader and spokesperson of the protest by merit of being the first to sit out and also because I was well known to not give a shit (autistic brain: I actually just frequently had trouble reading and reacting with the correct social behaviour but it gave me a cool and aloof bad boy mystique I guess). I gave her the exact same treatment from back in grade one. I would let her scream, let her holler, let her threaten, let her spittle rain down on me, and then I would give her a sweet and innocent smile and nod in acknowledgement and say, "No thank you, we're going to remain out here." And thirteen pairs of eyes would stare at her in total silence. No one, not even the most gobbermouthed little shite in the class, would volunteer a word. The unspoken agreement was all negotiations were my responsibility.
The thing about angry people is that they feed off conflict. They get you angry so they can respond with even more anger and it nourishes them. She had no absolutely no plan of action on how to deal with me patiently hearing her out then refuting her in the gentlest of terms.
Another thing that ended up helping down the line is that we made an attempt to conduct our own classes. I mean, they sucked and we didn't learn much because we were kids with no supervision, but it was really cute in retrospect. We'd have groups of people assigned to subjects, with some people bringing in words they found in a dictionary for spelling lists and others bringing in old 6th grade homework from older siblings. The heart was there and it served a purpose, if not educational.
"Okay, but how did no one else notice this was happening? Surely people would notice 14 kids sitting on the lawn, not in class?"
Rural school. Big. Empty. Fields. Even screaming at us, the most other classrooms would hear would be muffled voices, and everyone was used to hearing her yelling at us or taking us out onto the field abruptly to make us do laps as group punishment. Plus the way the school buildings were arranged was that it was actually all in one straight line of adjacent rooms, and ours happened to be at the very end of the building. No windows faced the field we all sat in except that of our own classroom. It was just a very lucky arrangement of coincidences and preconceived notions, at least for a couple weeks. I couldn't tell you the exact number, this was so long ago and as a kid I definitely had a more stretched idea of time. Minutes felt like hours, especially during that year. But there was definitely at least two weekends that passed by since the "sit-out protest" started.
Eventually someone cottoned on to what was happening, or maybe Mrs Bigmouth humbled herself and finally confessed to her boss that she had lost control of a bunch of 11-year-olds, so we were called into the principal's office to sort this out. As the representative of our class, I was of course chosen to attend the meeting, flanked by the girl who'd had the dictionary thrown at her head and my friend who was the first to sit out with me. Since I understood that this meeting was one where we were probably going to be yelled at for doing the wrong thing, a thing I had ample experience of, I felt like the easiest way to mitigate things (especially since I felt guilty for being the instigator) was to explain in a very rational and logical way the series of events that led up to our bad behaviour. As well, for my entire life my mother had always taught me that it was no good complaining about things unless you were also willing to think of solutions. "I'm hungry!" - "Well, what's a solution to that problem?" - "Uh, make myself a sandwich?" - "Great! Let's do that together!"
So what did I do? Of course, to make things as clean and concise as possible, I interviewed my class one by one to hear each individual story of why they didn't feel comfortable going to class anymore, itemised them under categories (Verbal Aggression; Interruptions of Lessons; Oversharing Student Life) for easier discussion because my little quirky brain loved itemising things, and then as a kind of olive branch came up with solutions (we wanted to finish lessons unhindered, we wanted our personal privacy to be respected, we wanted to be able to catch our bus on time rather than being held back with unfair DT or long "chats"). So many things sort of came together in this beautiful, wholly accidental way. We had months of records of timed rants and monologues, noted down to the millisecond thanks to that kid's stopwatch. We had records of us trying to teach ourselves during the protests, showing this wasn't us just not wanting to go to class but due to us feeling as though we did not have a class to go to. When the principal heard all this, her jaw it the floor. A lot of it was stuff she knew, peripherally, but things had just never been laid out so neatly before. Some of it was stuff we'd complained to parents about, but it was one kid coming home and telling one parent one time, weeks ago. There was no real sense, up until now, the sheer scope of her behaviour. She didn't even answer us. She just said, "Okay, I need to call your parents."
We got the rest of the week off school. That weekend, every parent of every student came to a meeting between them, Mrs Bigmouth, and the principal. Stories were swapped. My exercise book with my tidy little lists and the records of the betting pool and monologue times were confiscated and brought into the meeting. I don't know what went down, but when my mother came home she just told me that Mrs Bigmouth would not be our problem for the rest of the school year, and more importantly, that she was incredibly proud of me and that I did the right thing. Rarely in my childhood had my inability to integrate into normal society led me to doing the right thing, so I just remember crying and hugging and feeling vindicated about, I don't know, just existing or something.
So yeah. From the outside perspective here is what it looked like: I, the ringleader with a history of dismissing school rules, organised a sit-out strike amongst my class. I kept the protest peaceful and non-disruptive to other classes. When negotiations with the principal were finally arranged, as the representative I compiled a clear list of greivances, with evidence, and a list of reasonable demands. I mean, holy crap, yes, yes I clearly organised a student protest.
The actual results of it are mixed. We got a revolving door of substitute teachers of varying quality for the rest of the school year, occasionally being bundled into other classrooms entirely when they couldn't find someone. It wasn't a great learning environment and we continued to struggle a lot, but it was better than before. Mrs Bigmouth was not actually fired but put on leave for the rest of the school year, then returned and was put in charge of a different year level (which happened to be the class of the younger sister of a guy in my class: according to him, she was quiet as a church mouse that entire year so I hope at least she learned her lesson, or at least finally got divorced and went to actual therapy). The entire ordeal caused our already small and close class to become really really supportive and like family to each other and we all remain in touch until this day. And we became fierce about standing up for ourselves.
I kind of learned to parse the difference between when it was appropriate to go along with set societal rules even if I don't understand them, and when those rules were just straight up unreasonable and nobody should be required to follow them. I did, years alter, lead an actual (very small) strike at work but intentionally that time. My mother was proud of me then too. :)
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This happened decades ago now, back in primary school. I only remembered it because I was recently catching up with old friends from back then, and we got to laughing over old stories and then someone mentioned, "The wildest was when you organised that whole protest against our teacher."
"The time I did what?"
The consensus was I did, indeed, organise the entire class to rebel against our teacher that resulted in her being deposed and our class getting a "substitute" for the rest of the year. I almost fell out of my chair hearing this story from their mouths. It wasn't that I didn't remember it, of course I did--that year was awful. It was just that it existed very differently in my memory.
Two important pieces of background knowledge to understand here:
- I went to a very very small, very very rural school. How small? Each classroom was composed of the entire year level, and the largest had at most 30 kids in them. My class/year level was on the smallest in the entire school, with a piddling 14 kids in it altogether. While we still had our cliques and factions, our small size caused our class to be very tight knit and protective of each other. How rural? The school building itself was incredibly small, but one thing we were not short on was gigantic empty fields surrounding us on all sides. Great for sports, great for (it turns out) student protests.
- I was, at the time, undiagnosed autistic. I mean I still am autistic, I'm just formally diagnosed now. But back then I was just seen as being a very quirky kid. One of the ways this quirkiness manifested was that I really had trouble adapting to the rules and structure of grade school and how it differed from what I was used to. At home if I wanted to pee, I just went to the toilet. Now I have to put my hand up? Now I have to ask permission to piss? Then I went home and put my hand up to ask my mom for permission to pee and she told me I didn't need to! Madness! Chaos! I don't care what the rules are, please just be consistent!
So when the school said, "Okay, when this bell rings during recess/lunch, that means you have to leave the playground and go back to class", I was a confused child already struggling with all these completely nonsensical limitations and guidelines imposed on me. So when that bell rang, I got that calm little voice in my head that said, "Hmm, no, I'm good out here actually. I don't think I will go back into class." So I would just continue to sit out on the playground, playing with my plastic spider toys or sitting on the swing. Teachers would realise what was going on and come out to get me and tell me I have to go back to class, and I would just very calmly hear them out and then smile at them and politely as possible tell them, "No thank you, I want to stay out here."
They really didn't know what to do with me. I wasn't getting upset, I wasn't throwing a tantrum, I wasn't yelling, I wasn't being rude in any way. I was incredibly docile and would let them explain things to me with endless patience and then just politely refute them and go back to what I was doing, like this was just a very normal and reasonable negotiation between two equal parties. I have memories of sitting on the swing while three very confused and flustered adult staff huddled around me trying to bribe me with candy to go back to class. It would take a whole lesson block to lure me back to the classroom, and then at lunch the whole thing would start over again. It took me three years at school to finally accept the status quo thanks to a religious nutter I got for a teacher, and finally went back to class when the bell rang (was never happy about it though).
I eventually settled into school life. Excelled at subjects I liked, at least passed subjects I didn't, followed the rules, was seen as intelligent and obedient and was often liked by my teachers. Until my final year, when we got the teacher I can only rudely monniker Mrs Bigmouth.
Mrs Bigmouth should not have been a teacher. She had a trigger temper and would explode into long, verbally abusive tirades against us if we ever did anything she felt was disrespectful behaviour. What was disrespectful behaviour? Damned if I know. It changed day by day, depending on mood. You could disrespect her to her face one day and she'd laugh and say you have such razor wit, and politely ask a question the next and she'd scream at you for ten nonstop minutes then give you a week of DT for talking back. The absolute peak moment of her boiling temper came when she threw a dictionary at a girl's head because she was whispering to me in class. When I tell you it missed her by half an inch...
But believe it or not, this wasn't what made her such an awful teacher. It was so hard to get teachers at rural schools back then, there was almost nothing you could do to get fired, so we had experience with teachers with nightmare tempers. What made her such an issue was her big mouth. She used us, her trapped audience, as free therapy. She would infodump, traumadump, about her very personal, very private life to us. All day. She'd be two words into a spelling list and launch into an extended story session about her marital issues with her husband. We'd be heads down doing fractions and, unprompted, she'd declare to the class that her adult daughter no longer talks to her and then diatribe to us about it until the bell rang. She had money issues, a contentious relationship with her parents, her marriage was on the rocks. She once pulled me aside after school and spoke with me, at length, about how she was thinking of having another child to try to repair her marriage. I was like, okay lady, I'm 11, about to miss my bus, and my house is a 4 hour walk on foot from here.
We weren't learning. We'd hadn't had a complete lesson since the first week of the school year. We were behind on the cirriculum and frustrated. One kid had brought a stopwatch into school and would time lessons vs her monologues and kept detailed lists, and we would come to school each morning and do betting pools on them. What subject would she interrupt, what would she talk about, and how long would it go.
But all that still wasn't the breaking point if you can believe it. No! Still not! The problem was it wasn't just her own private life she couldn't keep her mouth shut about. It was everyone else's. Because parents would make the reasonable assumption that she should be told things as our class teacher that would be important to know, and that she would understand these things were said in confidence. Instead she would veer randomly off in the middle of talking to us about her horrible weekend to let us know whatever private or traumatic thing was going on in a classmate's life that she had been made aware of. That was awful. That was what made that year hell. It wasn't even about when my secrets were shared with the entire class against my consent. It was watching the faces of my small, lovely, supportive class of 11 year old children go pale and scrunch up with held-back tears as things they never wanted to share were announced like morning news. God we hated her.
Then one day that voice came. The one I hadn't heard in years. The bell ring to go back into class and that voice said, "But I don't want to be in that classroom. I'm not even being taught there." So I just... didn't. I didn't go back to class. I just sat in the playground in a daze eating grass (don't eat grass, it's not good for your teeth). Despite how small my class was, I don't think Mrs Bigmouth even noticed I wasn't there. Others did though. Come lunch and everyone came out, my friends asked me where I was and I said, "Oh, I didn't go back to class."
"Why didn't you go back to class?"
"Why would I go back to class?"
Lightbulb moment for my schoolmates. Yeah, why would they go back to class? What was the point? From a practical standpoint, they weren't learning. From an emotional standpoint, it was horrible to be there. A friend who had had her family's dirty laundry aired to the entire class just last week, things even she didn't know because her parents tried to keep it from her, asked if she could sit with me rather than go back to class. I just stared at her, vacant and confused.
"Sure? I mean, I'm just eating grass though."
Over the next few days, two kids turned into four, turned into ten, turned into the whole class. The whole class was doing a sit-out protest on the field rather than go back to class. Of course Mrs Bigmouth tried to do something about it. She'd come out, screaming at us and threatening us with DT and internal suspension, but six months of that behaviour had totally vaccinated us against her. I'd become the de facto leader and spokesperson of the protest by merit of being the first to sit out and also because I was well known to not give a shit (autistic brain: I actually just frequently had trouble reading and reacting with the correct social behaviour but it gave me a cool and aloof bad boy mystique I guess). I gave her the exact same treatment from back in grade one. I would let her scream, let her holler, let her threaten, let her spittle rain down on me, and then I would give her a sweet and innocent smile and nod in acknowledgement and say, "No thank you, we're going to remain out here." And thirteen pairs of eyes would stare at her in total silence. No one, not even the most gobbermouthed little shite in the class, would volunteer a word. The unspoken agreement was all negotiations were my responsibility.
The thing about angry people is that they feed off conflict. They get you angry so they can respond with even more anger and it nourishes them. She had no absolutely no plan of action on how to deal with me patiently hearing her out then refuting her in the gentlest of terms.
Another thing that ended up helping down the line is that we made an attempt to conduct our own classes. I mean, they sucked and we didn't learn much because we were kids with no supervision, but it was really cute in retrospect. We'd have groups of people assigned to subjects, with some people bringing in words they found in a dictionary for spelling lists and others bringing in old 6th grade homework from older siblings. The heart was there and it served a purpose, if not educational.
"Okay, but how did no one else notice this was happening? Surely people would notice 14 kids sitting on the lawn, not in class?"
Rural school. Big. Empty. Fields. Even screaming at us, the most other classrooms would hear would be muffled voices, and everyone was used to hearing her yelling at us or taking us out onto the field abruptly to make us do laps as group punishment. Plus the way the school buildings were arranged was that it was actually all in one straight line of adjacent rooms, and ours happened to be at the very end of the building. No windows faced the field we all sat in except that of our own classroom. It was just a very lucky arrangement of coincidences and preconceived notions, at least for a couple weeks. I couldn't tell you the exact number, this was so long ago and as a kid I definitely had a more stretched idea of time. Minutes felt like hours, especially during that year. But there was definitely at least two weekends that passed by since the "sit-out protest" started.
Eventually someone cottoned on to what was happening, or maybe Mrs Bigmouth humbled herself and finally confessed to her boss that she had lost control of a bunch of 11-year-olds, so we were called into the principal's office to sort this out. As the representative of our class, I was of course chosen to attend the meeting, flanked by the girl who'd had the dictionary thrown at her head and my friend who was the first to sit out with me. Since I understood that this meeting was one where we were probably going to be yelled at for doing the wrong thing, a thing I had ample experience of, I felt like the easiest way to mitigate things (especially since I felt guilty for being the instigator) was to explain in a very rational and logical way the series of events that led up to our bad behaviour. As well, for my entire life my mother had always taught me that it was no good complaining about things unless you were also willing to think of solutions. "I'm hungry!" - "Well, what's a solution to that problem?" - "Uh, make myself a sandwich?" - "Great! Let's do that together!"
So what did I do? Of course, to make things as clean and concise as possible, I interviewed my class one by one to hear each individual story of why they didn't feel comfortable going to class anymore, itemised them under categories (Verbal Aggression; Interruptions of Lessons; Oversharing Student Life) for easier discussion because my little quirky brain loved itemising things, and then as a kind of olive branch came up with solutions (we wanted to finish lessons unhindered, we wanted our personal privacy to be respected, we wanted to be able to catch our bus on time rather than being held back with unfair DT or long "chats"). So many things sort of came together in this beautiful, wholly accidental way. We had months of records of timed rants and monologues, noted down to the millisecond thanks to that kid's stopwatch. We had records of us trying to teach ourselves during the protests, showing this wasn't us just not wanting to go to class but due to us feeling as though we did not have a class to go to. When the principal heard all this, her jaw it the floor. A lot of it was stuff she knew, peripherally, but things had just never been laid out so neatly before. Some of it was stuff we'd complained to parents about, but it was one kid coming home and telling one parent one time, weeks ago. There was no real sense, up until now, the sheer scope of her behaviour. She didn't even answer us. She just said, "Okay, I need to call your parents."
We got the rest of the week off school. That weekend, every parent of every student came to a meeting between them, Mrs Bigmouth, and the principal. Stories were swapped. My exercise book with my tidy little lists and the records of the betting pool and monologue times were confiscated and brought into the meeting. I don't know what went down, but when my mother came home she just told me that Mrs Bigmouth would not be our problem for the rest of the school year, and more importantly, that she was incredibly proud of me and that I did the right thing. Rarely in my childhood had my inability to integrate into normal society led me to doing the right thing, so I just remember crying and hugging and feeling vindicated about, I don't know, just existing or something.
So yeah. From the outside perspective here is what it looked like: I, the ringleader with a history of dismissing school rules, organised a sit-out strike amongst my class. I kept the protest peaceful and non-disruptive to other classes. When negotiations with the principal were finally arranged, as the representative I compiled a clear list of greivances, with evidence, and a list of reasonable demands. I mean, holy crap, yes, yes I clearly organised a student protest.
The actual results of it are mixed. We got a revolving door of substitute teachers of varying quality for the rest of the school year, occasionally being bundled into other classrooms entirely when they couldn't find someone. It wasn't a great learning environment and we continued to struggle a lot, but it was better than before. Mrs Bigmouth was not actually fired but put on leave for the rest of the school year, then returned and was put in charge of a different year level (which happened to be the class of the younger sister of a guy in my class: according to him, she was quiet as a church mouse that entire year so I hope at least she learned her lesson, or at least finally got divorced and went to actual therapy). The entire ordeal caused our already small and close class to become really really supportive and like family to each other and we all remain in touch until this day. And we became fierce about standing up for ourselves.
I kind of learned to parse the difference between when it was appropriate to go along with set societal rules even if I don't understand them, and when those rules were just straight up unreasonable and nobody should be required to follow them. I did, years alter, lead an actual (very small) strike at work but intentionally that time. My mother was proud of me then too. :)
2024.05.19 00:48 pen15horny69 Double knocking sound after any faucet is shut off in a specific bathroom/room/wall
Still hadn't solved after 3 days so trying this sub
Need some insights here:
I recently had to replace a saddle valve, in the basement of my house, so I turned off the main valve and only drained the sink in the basement. After repair I turned the main back on.
Now without draining the 2nd floor valves, everything is usually fine from previous times I had to shut off the main valve, but this time there was a lot of air I'm guessing? 2 toilets had a loud boom, that air actually shifted the top lid of the toilet a bit (As I heard it). A bit of sputtering from the faucets, but are fine now.
The issue I have now is in the bathrooms with the loud boom, every time the sink, shower, or toilet stops refilling or turning off the valve, in a specific room I can hear a knocking noise, sort of like dun-dun dun-dun pattern. It ranges from one dun-dun to two dun-duns.
Searched what it was and found out about water hammer, but I already tried draining and filling, still hear it, although it has gone down from three dun-duns to two. I think it's coming from the walls, but I can't isolate it exactly where it's from. I just know it happens on a specific side of the house.
Thanks in advance
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Need some insights here:
I recently had to replace a saddle valve, in the basement of my house, so I turned off the main valve and only drained the sink in the basement. After repair I turned the main back on.
Now without draining the 2nd floor valves, everything is usually fine from previous times I had to shut off the main valve, but this time there was a lot of air I'm guessing? 2 toilets had a loud boom, that air actually shifted the top lid of the toilet a bit (As I heard it). A bit of sputtering from the faucets, but are fine now.
The issue I have now is in the bathrooms with the loud boom, every time the sink, shower, or toilet stops refilling or turning off the valve, in a specific room I can hear a knocking noise, sort of like dun-dun dun-dun pattern. It ranges from one dun-dun to two dun-duns.
Searched what it was and found out about water hammer, but I already tried draining and filling, still hear it, although it has gone down from three dun-duns to two. I think it's coming from the walls, but I can't isolate it exactly where it's from. I just know it happens on a specific side of the house.
Thanks in advance
2024.05.18 20:24 kappakingtut2 I keep dreaming about abandoning my family and just renting a small apartment somewhere.
Okay first of all, even if I had the courage to go through with it I couldn't afford it. I don't have any savings. Live in paycheck to paycheck without any money to use as a security deposit.
I'm so exhausted. The reason why I don't have any money is cuz I keep putting it back into the family. For as long as I've been working I haven't been able to save anything. There's always been some problem or some emergency, and most of the time it's somebody else's problem that I'm trying to fix for them. I owe 10,000 between two different credit cards because every time I start to pay it off, there's another big expense that goes towards the family. Just paying off the interest, The absolute minimum monthly payment to avoid late fees, is about 300 a month.
I moved out of my parents' place in my early twenties. I was only gone for about a year and then my dad had his first heart attack. He survived. But he couldn't work after that. He got on social security disability, which was great, but it was less than half of what he used to make when he was working as a mechanic. This happened around the same time that my lease was up at the apartment, so instead of renewing it I decided to go back home for a little while and help them out until things stabilized again.
But then there was just one problem after another. Emergency after emergency. I've been stuck ever since. Sure there was a few short years somewhere in there that I possibly could have gotten out again, but then my mom got injured at work, I would have come back home anyway to help her. I spent a couple years driving her to doctor's appointments and physical therapy every single day. She's better now but never made a full recovery. And my dad's health got worse and worse. Now he's living with Alzheimer's dementia. Like a big stupid toddler.
We need to get my dad into a home. But we can't afford it. Those places are crazy expensive. I've been getting advice on various subreddits for this. I've been making calls for people that are supposed to help. We're waiting on some people to call us back. But so far we're mostly hitting dead ends. Medicaid would help pay for a home. But Medicaid would want to take his assets to pay for it. Including the house that we're living in. There are some rules and stipulations that would allow us to stay in the home, but they would put a lien on it and take it once we're gone. I would absolutely love to just sell the house, and use that money to get something new somewhere else. Start over or something smaller and more manageable. But our state has a 5-year look back.. so if I sell the house today, and put my dad into a home tomorrow, Medicaid would want to take some of the proceeds of the house sale to pay for the home. Even if We could keep the house completely and totally, we still owe a mortgage on it. And Medicaid would take my dad's disability checks to pay for the home, which we need to help towards the mortgage. And even if we did sell the house and start over somewhere else, rent is crazy high these days and it's more than what we're currently paying on our monthly mortgage. The mortgage rates at a new house would possibly be significantly higher than what we're currently paying. Our first and second mortgages combined add up to just about a thousand a month.
Because of my dad's dementia it's a full-time job looking after him. On top of my 40 hours a week full-time job. On top of doing what I can to look after my mom. And what's made it all worse is about 6 months ago my sister and her two kids move back in with us. Her kids are fucking wild. One of them's autistic. The other ones just an asshole. Incredibly loud. Trash demons who throw food wrappers all over the place. One of the last times she stayed with us for a while she gave us mice and bed bugs. Thankfully we were able to get rid of the mice. Bed bugs look like a lifelong struggle but I'm at a point now where I go months without seeing any of them, and want to do it's only one or two. And now that she's come back with us again, I saw roaches in our kitchen last week. I feel disgusting in my own home. Because of her and her kids, and my dad's bad hygiene.
Everybody's loud all the time care there's constant screaming. Everybody's breaking things. Everything sticky all the time for some reason. Toilets are constantly clogged and backed up. Sister's oldest kid, the 10-year-old, spends literally hours in the bathroom. The floor is usually flooded afterwards, things are thrown around like he got into a fight in there. I woke up this morning at this faucet sink was spraying outside ways, and here was crumbled up soap all over the place? It looked like he tried to reshape the soap and then jam it into the faucet to clog it.
Nobody takes out the trash except me. Nobody does the dishes except me. I'm the only one physically capable of mowing the lawn. Despite that I have a pinched nerve in the back and can barely stand up. And the mower is not working.
Can't afford to hire anybody for repairs or lawn care. With four adults and two kids, we currently only have about 40 bucks between us. We're all paycheck to paycheck. My sister hasn't had a job in like 13 years.
So I feel trapped taking care of this abusive piece of shit in a disgusting bug infested house that I don't want.
I'm so tired. I am so fucking tired. I just want to run away. I don't care about my sister or her kids. I don't care about my dad. He's been a piece of shit my entire life. But if I leave, my mom can't handle any of this alone. She can't handle any of it as it is. She has so many health issues that some days she can't even stand up or walk. She struggles to breathe a lot. But then on the good days, she's not doing enough to help me. I don't blame her for that, but it's hard to deal with the fact that I'm trying so hard and she's giving up. Some conversations it's like she's encouraging me to leave because she sees how hard it is on me, but I also know that she'll be dead within a month. Most likely from the stress. But it's also common for her to threaten suicide. And I know that that's not on me, if a person chooses to cross that line, then there's nothing I could have done to change that. But it's my mom.
I'm just rambling and venting. My issue is probably seems small compared to what a lot of other people post on here. I'm not looking for answers or advice. I don't think there are any. The only thing that would help me is if I literally did just run away and change my phone number. But I don't know how to abandon my mom. So I'm stuck. 40 years old and I barely lived my life. Never really had a chance to date. Never had a chance to build anything. Always chose the types of jobs that gave me a flexible schedule instead of the types of jobs that pay better. I can't take up a second job or pick up overtime because I need as much free time as possible to take care of my parents health issues.
The worst part about all this really is my sister and her two fucking kids. The worst my dad's dementia gets, the easier he is to deal with. He spends most of his days just sitting at the kitchen table slumped over looking stupid. So a lot of the anger and aggression have faded. If it wasn't dealing with her kids, possibly be able to manage this life. But the amount of stress they're bringing in is killing me.she always said that coming back to us was temporary. But she doesn't have a plan. She doesn't have any money. She gets social security checks for her kids. Something about their dad being dead. I don't know what the program's called or know any of the details about how it works.
The way I said the best solution would be if my sister and her two kids just ran away. Like if she just got fed up and took off somewhere. We're doing everything we can to help her and she's just fighting with my mom everyday about every little thing. Then, it would be amazing if my dad would just fucking die. Not just because I don't like him or I don't want to deal with it, but also because I know the person he used to be would hate what he's become. It really would be the best thing for him to just Go to bed one day and just not get back up. Then, once they're all gone, convince my mom to sell the house and get some small one story place and start over.
I would still have to deal with the irrational mood swings and stress of my mom. But I think I can handle that alone
Update: a couple hours after I made this post, while sitting at work, I got a text from someone at home saying that the second floor bathroom is now leaking into the living room. We can't afford a plumber. Even if I knew what I was doing, I can't afford the materials it would cost to do any kind of repair myself. I'm so fucking tired. I am seriously debating on just living in my car and running away with no money and no plan
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I'm so exhausted. The reason why I don't have any money is cuz I keep putting it back into the family. For as long as I've been working I haven't been able to save anything. There's always been some problem or some emergency, and most of the time it's somebody else's problem that I'm trying to fix for them. I owe 10,000 between two different credit cards because every time I start to pay it off, there's another big expense that goes towards the family. Just paying off the interest, The absolute minimum monthly payment to avoid late fees, is about 300 a month.
I moved out of my parents' place in my early twenties. I was only gone for about a year and then my dad had his first heart attack. He survived. But he couldn't work after that. He got on social security disability, which was great, but it was less than half of what he used to make when he was working as a mechanic. This happened around the same time that my lease was up at the apartment, so instead of renewing it I decided to go back home for a little while and help them out until things stabilized again.
But then there was just one problem after another. Emergency after emergency. I've been stuck ever since. Sure there was a few short years somewhere in there that I possibly could have gotten out again, but then my mom got injured at work, I would have come back home anyway to help her. I spent a couple years driving her to doctor's appointments and physical therapy every single day. She's better now but never made a full recovery. And my dad's health got worse and worse. Now he's living with Alzheimer's dementia. Like a big stupid toddler.
We need to get my dad into a home. But we can't afford it. Those places are crazy expensive. I've been getting advice on various subreddits for this. I've been making calls for people that are supposed to help. We're waiting on some people to call us back. But so far we're mostly hitting dead ends. Medicaid would help pay for a home. But Medicaid would want to take his assets to pay for it. Including the house that we're living in. There are some rules and stipulations that would allow us to stay in the home, but they would put a lien on it and take it once we're gone. I would absolutely love to just sell the house, and use that money to get something new somewhere else. Start over or something smaller and more manageable. But our state has a 5-year look back.. so if I sell the house today, and put my dad into a home tomorrow, Medicaid would want to take some of the proceeds of the house sale to pay for the home. Even if We could keep the house completely and totally, we still owe a mortgage on it. And Medicaid would take my dad's disability checks to pay for the home, which we need to help towards the mortgage. And even if we did sell the house and start over somewhere else, rent is crazy high these days and it's more than what we're currently paying on our monthly mortgage. The mortgage rates at a new house would possibly be significantly higher than what we're currently paying. Our first and second mortgages combined add up to just about a thousand a month.
Because of my dad's dementia it's a full-time job looking after him. On top of my 40 hours a week full-time job. On top of doing what I can to look after my mom. And what's made it all worse is about 6 months ago my sister and her two kids move back in with us. Her kids are fucking wild. One of them's autistic. The other ones just an asshole. Incredibly loud. Trash demons who throw food wrappers all over the place. One of the last times she stayed with us for a while she gave us mice and bed bugs. Thankfully we were able to get rid of the mice. Bed bugs look like a lifelong struggle but I'm at a point now where I go months without seeing any of them, and want to do it's only one or two. And now that she's come back with us again, I saw roaches in our kitchen last week. I feel disgusting in my own home. Because of her and her kids, and my dad's bad hygiene.
Everybody's loud all the time care there's constant screaming. Everybody's breaking things. Everything sticky all the time for some reason. Toilets are constantly clogged and backed up. Sister's oldest kid, the 10-year-old, spends literally hours in the bathroom. The floor is usually flooded afterwards, things are thrown around like he got into a fight in there. I woke up this morning at this faucet sink was spraying outside ways, and here was crumbled up soap all over the place? It looked like he tried to reshape the soap and then jam it into the faucet to clog it.
Nobody takes out the trash except me. Nobody does the dishes except me. I'm the only one physically capable of mowing the lawn. Despite that I have a pinched nerve in the back and can barely stand up. And the mower is not working.
Can't afford to hire anybody for repairs or lawn care. With four adults and two kids, we currently only have about 40 bucks between us. We're all paycheck to paycheck. My sister hasn't had a job in like 13 years.
So I feel trapped taking care of this abusive piece of shit in a disgusting bug infested house that I don't want.
I'm so tired. I am so fucking tired. I just want to run away. I don't care about my sister or her kids. I don't care about my dad. He's been a piece of shit my entire life. But if I leave, my mom can't handle any of this alone. She can't handle any of it as it is. She has so many health issues that some days she can't even stand up or walk. She struggles to breathe a lot. But then on the good days, she's not doing enough to help me. I don't blame her for that, but it's hard to deal with the fact that I'm trying so hard and she's giving up. Some conversations it's like she's encouraging me to leave because she sees how hard it is on me, but I also know that she'll be dead within a month. Most likely from the stress. But it's also common for her to threaten suicide. And I know that that's not on me, if a person chooses to cross that line, then there's nothing I could have done to change that. But it's my mom.
I'm just rambling and venting. My issue is probably seems small compared to what a lot of other people post on here. I'm not looking for answers or advice. I don't think there are any. The only thing that would help me is if I literally did just run away and change my phone number. But I don't know how to abandon my mom. So I'm stuck. 40 years old and I barely lived my life. Never really had a chance to date. Never had a chance to build anything. Always chose the types of jobs that gave me a flexible schedule instead of the types of jobs that pay better. I can't take up a second job or pick up overtime because I need as much free time as possible to take care of my parents health issues.
The worst part about all this really is my sister and her two fucking kids. The worst my dad's dementia gets, the easier he is to deal with. He spends most of his days just sitting at the kitchen table slumped over looking stupid. So a lot of the anger and aggression have faded. If it wasn't dealing with her kids, possibly be able to manage this life. But the amount of stress they're bringing in is killing me.she always said that coming back to us was temporary. But she doesn't have a plan. She doesn't have any money. She gets social security checks for her kids. Something about their dad being dead. I don't know what the program's called or know any of the details about how it works.
The way I said the best solution would be if my sister and her two kids just ran away. Like if she just got fed up and took off somewhere. We're doing everything we can to help her and she's just fighting with my mom everyday about every little thing. Then, it would be amazing if my dad would just fucking die. Not just because I don't like him or I don't want to deal with it, but also because I know the person he used to be would hate what he's become. It really would be the best thing for him to just Go to bed one day and just not get back up. Then, once they're all gone, convince my mom to sell the house and get some small one story place and start over.
I would still have to deal with the irrational mood swings and stress of my mom. But I think I can handle that alone
Update: a couple hours after I made this post, while sitting at work, I got a text from someone at home saying that the second floor bathroom is now leaking into the living room. We can't afford a plumber. Even if I knew what I was doing, I can't afford the materials it would cost to do any kind of repair myself. I'm so fucking tired. I am seriously debating on just living in my car and running away with no money and no plan
2024.05.18 19:27 Suiken01 Fluidmaster 400CRP14 vs 400ARHRKP10
Before I used fluidmaster 400CRP14 and it works good for my toilet, but I can't find it in my store, will 400ARHRK work ok? what specs do I need to look for? thanks guys
400CRP14 : https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fluidmaster-400CRP14-Universal-Toilet-Fill-Valve-and-Flapper-Repair-Kit-for-2-Inch-Flush-Valve-Toilets/369277368?from=/search
400ARHRKP10 : https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fluidmaster-PerforMAX-High-Performance-All-In-One-Toilet-Repair-Kit/333918658?from=/search
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400CRP14 : https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fluidmaster-400CRP14-Universal-Toilet-Fill-Valve-and-Flapper-Repair-Kit-for-2-Inch-Flush-Valve-Toilets/369277368?from=/search
400ARHRKP10 : https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fluidmaster-PerforMAX-High-Performance-All-In-One-Toilet-Repair-Kit/333918658?from=/search
2024.05.18 18:56 pen15horny69 Knocking sounds after turning off main valve and not draining water
Need some insights here:
I recently had to replace a saddle valve, in the basement of my house, so I turned off the main valve and only drained the sink in the basement. After repair I turned the main back on.
Now without draining the 2nd floor valves, everything is usually fine from previous times I had to shut off the main valve, but this time there was a lot of air I'm guessing? 2 toilets had a loud boom, that air actually shifted the top lid of the toilet a bit (As I heard it). A bit of sputtering from the faucets, but are fine now.
The issue I have now is in the bathrooms with the loud boom, every time the sink, shower, or toilet stops refilling or turning off the valve, in a specific room I can hear a knocking noise, sort of like dun-dun dun-dun pattern. It ranges from one dun-dun to two dun-duns.
Searched what it was and found out about water hammer, but I already tried draining and filling, still hear it, although it has gone down from three dun-duns to two. I think it's coming from the walls, but I can't isolate it exactly where it's from. I just know it happens on a specific side of the house.
Thanks in advance
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I recently had to replace a saddle valve, in the basement of my house, so I turned off the main valve and only drained the sink in the basement. After repair I turned the main back on.
Now without draining the 2nd floor valves, everything is usually fine from previous times I had to shut off the main valve, but this time there was a lot of air I'm guessing? 2 toilets had a loud boom, that air actually shifted the top lid of the toilet a bit (As I heard it). A bit of sputtering from the faucets, but are fine now.
The issue I have now is in the bathrooms with the loud boom, every time the sink, shower, or toilet stops refilling or turning off the valve, in a specific room I can hear a knocking noise, sort of like dun-dun dun-dun pattern. It ranges from one dun-dun to two dun-duns.
Searched what it was and found out about water hammer, but I already tried draining and filling, still hear it, although it has gone down from three dun-duns to two. I think it's coming from the walls, but I can't isolate it exactly where it's from. I just know it happens on a specific side of the house.
Thanks in advance
2024.05.18 17:50 ftp67 Lykens Property Management. Holy shit.
I moved here a few months ago near downtown. Friends had warned me about Lykens but we were already in negotiations when we found out.
Now we're in the process three months later of finding a new place and carefully breaking the lease.
-Nothing was cleaned or repaired as discussed before moving in. Maintenance had to come in to fix light bulbs, fans, the sink, and replace a hot water heater and we had NO HOT WATER for three days
-Trash had piled several feet high behind the property, had to make a week of calls, and then had to call the City who issued a citation before they cleared it. What was their next solution? They removed our trash cans and asked us to use ones from another one of their properties several buildings down
-They "accidentally" failed to disclose a fucking AirBnB beneath us with a rotation of some of the loudest human beings imaginable including ones that almost got into a physical altercation with us, and had the cops called on both sides. They also don't place a sign on our parking lot so AirBnB folks illegally take residents spots.
-Broken toilet for weeks. We've done everything to fix it but it backs up every other day. We called maintenance in, they 'declogged it', broken the next day. Now I can't get ahold of anyone
-Half of the oven doesn't work. Like the whole top half of coils
Every time we call the guy there is bored, bitter, and disrespectful. Shockingly not so much when you go there in person. We had to get the contact info of the people who run the AirBnB and contact them for help direct since they won't do shit.
Fuck these people. Such a disgusting situation landlord/rental relations have become in this country, but Ohio seems to be even worse. Fortunately their rep is so bad other property management companies understand when I say 'Hey, full disclosure, I have a rental but I'm trying to bail'.
My attorney friend basically said yea they can be terrible and you can have essentially no option other than leave.
Just a heads up to those who didn't heed the warnings I was given.
Edit: Also upon reviewing the contract I see nothing about a fine for breaking a lease, but a passage about if a tenant defaults, they have to pay until they find a new tenant??? What the fuck is this? I've had to leave early before and I just let them take another months rent. How is this even enforceable?
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Now we're in the process three months later of finding a new place and carefully breaking the lease.
-Nothing was cleaned or repaired as discussed before moving in. Maintenance had to come in to fix light bulbs, fans, the sink, and replace a hot water heater and we had NO HOT WATER for three days
-Trash had piled several feet high behind the property, had to make a week of calls, and then had to call the City who issued a citation before they cleared it. What was their next solution? They removed our trash cans and asked us to use ones from another one of their properties several buildings down
-They "accidentally" failed to disclose a fucking AirBnB beneath us with a rotation of some of the loudest human beings imaginable including ones that almost got into a physical altercation with us, and had the cops called on both sides. They also don't place a sign on our parking lot so AirBnB folks illegally take residents spots.
-Broken toilet for weeks. We've done everything to fix it but it backs up every other day. We called maintenance in, they 'declogged it', broken the next day. Now I can't get ahold of anyone
-Half of the oven doesn't work. Like the whole top half of coils
Every time we call the guy there is bored, bitter, and disrespectful. Shockingly not so much when you go there in person. We had to get the contact info of the people who run the AirBnB and contact them for help direct since they won't do shit.
Fuck these people. Such a disgusting situation landlord/rental relations have become in this country, but Ohio seems to be even worse. Fortunately their rep is so bad other property management companies understand when I say 'Hey, full disclosure, I have a rental but I'm trying to bail'.
My attorney friend basically said yea they can be terrible and you can have essentially no option other than leave.
Just a heads up to those who didn't heed the warnings I was given.
Edit: Also upon reviewing the contract I see nothing about a fine for breaking a lease, but a passage about if a tenant defaults, they have to pay until they find a new tenant??? What the fuck is this? I've had to leave early before and I just let them take another months rent. How is this even enforceable?
2024.05.18 17:32 damurphy72 Discussion: Gameplay Conceits vs. In-Game Lore
Everybody who plays video games regularly knows that games frequently ignore reality in the name of fun. Why are there health packs and ammo lying around for the Doom marine to find? How can Mario jump so high? Why does floor chicken heal my vampire hunter, and why is it there? More realistic games, and games that edge into "survival" game territory, give more and more nods to realism but still abstract a bunch of stuff like the need to regularly visit a toilet. (Yes, I've heard of Death Stranding and I'm sure there are other games that involve toilets that you're only going to see reviews of on Patreon.)
Starfield is interesting in how many of these things are actually justified in lore.
Space Travel: In-game you can find characters who talk about how space travel is made as idiot-proof as possible thanks to sophisticated control software. Space suits are also pretty idiot-proof. You start the game watching Lin and Heller put on their suits and it is trivially easy. You can lookup videos online of actual astronauts demonstrating the process in today's tech and it is a lot more involved. Add in the fact that the suits in game obviously can repair themselves from punctures and erosion of environmental protections. For that matter, ships have self-repair routines. The ubiquitous vacuum tape is a nod to the fact that slapping some tape on something to hold it together long enough for the self-repair to work is all that's necessary.
What's interesting is that as you explore, you will find LOTS AND LOTS OF DEAD PEOPLE. Derelict spaceships, crashes, survivalists and scientists dead on the ground are all in abundance. Space is still massively dangerous...just like driving a car is one of the most dangerous things you can do today. It's still something tons of folks do, including casual tourists and school field trips.
Of course, they could have just hand-waved all of that like Star Wars, but they didn't and I think it makes for a better game.
Medicine: One of the things I love about the Fallout TV show is that they play the medical care completely straight with the games. A stimpak can heal you up and limbs can be reattached and be fully functional. Starfield has 24th century medicine and it is pretty much magical. What's not necessarily obvious at first glance, though, is that there are indications that when humanity fled Earth, a lot of effort went into making humanity capable of surviving in a variety of alien environments. The diaspora through the Settled Systems had to have focused a lot of attention on biology and medicine.
I find this completely believable. I'm old enough that I've had invasive abdominal surgery more than once. A difference of just thirty years between instances was enough to massively alter the experience. The first time, I got scars and a long recovery period. The second time I went home right afterward. I have no doubt that in 300 years I can just walk into an Enhance! and look however I want.
Firearms: This is an area where they massively ignore reality in favor of gameplay convenience. While firearms (with some exceptions) tend to be reasonably robust devices, they aren't designed to work outside of an Earth-standard environment (because they don't need to be). Most of the "Old Earth" firearms should fail to fire in most of the hostile environments in the game. Vacuum welding is a thing...and who here thinks a gun would fire on the surface of Venus?
Let's assume Combatech, Alliance, and Laredo ballistic weapons are designed to operate in vacuum with the right alloys and polymers, plus caseless ammo that might be triggered via electrical currents instead of mechanical parts. It would make sense that the great power arms suppliers would meet the needs of space and hostile environmental combat. Even with that, ballistic trajectories would vary dramatically in different atmospheres and gravity fields, and there is only so much on-board electronics could offset. Energy weapons would also behave differently in different environments. You can find papers online describing the effect atmosphere has on lasers.
I don't know that a completely realistic portrayal could be fun. It might be interesting, though, if different types of weapons had advantages and disadvantages based upon the environment. We get a tiny view of that with lasers not suffering recoil in zero-G.
Survival: So, this isn't going to be a completely fair conversation because survival mode is a work in progress in the game. We've already stated that starships and suits are self-repairing and idiot-proof. Here are some of the nods to survival that I really like in the game:
Communications tech complicates things for scriptwriters, but I'm surprised at how hard it is for me to find examples of that being a problem in game. It is a little weird that your parents just drop you messages at the Lodge rather than just sending you an e-mail, but you could argue that your "job" takes you out of the system regularly and they know you'll return to the Lodge eventually. Most of the fetch quests involve physical goods or sensitive materials.
So, what categories am I missing? Do you disagree with my thoughts in these areas?
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Starfield is interesting in how many of these things are actually justified in lore.
Space Travel: In-game you can find characters who talk about how space travel is made as idiot-proof as possible thanks to sophisticated control software. Space suits are also pretty idiot-proof. You start the game watching Lin and Heller put on their suits and it is trivially easy. You can lookup videos online of actual astronauts demonstrating the process in today's tech and it is a lot more involved. Add in the fact that the suits in game obviously can repair themselves from punctures and erosion of environmental protections. For that matter, ships have self-repair routines. The ubiquitous vacuum tape is a nod to the fact that slapping some tape on something to hold it together long enough for the self-repair to work is all that's necessary.
What's interesting is that as you explore, you will find LOTS AND LOTS OF DEAD PEOPLE. Derelict spaceships, crashes, survivalists and scientists dead on the ground are all in abundance. Space is still massively dangerous...just like driving a car is one of the most dangerous things you can do today. It's still something tons of folks do, including casual tourists and school field trips.
Of course, they could have just hand-waved all of that like Star Wars, but they didn't and I think it makes for a better game.
Medicine: One of the things I love about the Fallout TV show is that they play the medical care completely straight with the games. A stimpak can heal you up and limbs can be reattached and be fully functional. Starfield has 24th century medicine and it is pretty much magical. What's not necessarily obvious at first glance, though, is that there are indications that when humanity fled Earth, a lot of effort went into making humanity capable of surviving in a variety of alien environments. The diaspora through the Settled Systems had to have focused a lot of attention on biology and medicine.
I find this completely believable. I'm old enough that I've had invasive abdominal surgery more than once. A difference of just thirty years between instances was enough to massively alter the experience. The first time, I got scars and a long recovery period. The second time I went home right afterward. I have no doubt that in 300 years I can just walk into an Enhance! and look however I want.
Firearms: This is an area where they massively ignore reality in favor of gameplay convenience. While firearms (with some exceptions) tend to be reasonably robust devices, they aren't designed to work outside of an Earth-standard environment (because they don't need to be). Most of the "Old Earth" firearms should fail to fire in most of the hostile environments in the game. Vacuum welding is a thing...and who here thinks a gun would fire on the surface of Venus?
Let's assume Combatech, Alliance, and Laredo ballistic weapons are designed to operate in vacuum with the right alloys and polymers, plus caseless ammo that might be triggered via electrical currents instead of mechanical parts. It would make sense that the great power arms suppliers would meet the needs of space and hostile environmental combat. Even with that, ballistic trajectories would vary dramatically in different atmospheres and gravity fields, and there is only so much on-board electronics could offset. Energy weapons would also behave differently in different environments. You can find papers online describing the effect atmosphere has on lasers.
I don't know that a completely realistic portrayal could be fun. It might be interesting, though, if different types of weapons had advantages and disadvantages based upon the environment. We get a tiny view of that with lasers not suffering recoil in zero-G.
Survival: So, this isn't going to be a completely fair conversation because survival mode is a work in progress in the game. We've already stated that starships and suits are self-repairing and idiot-proof. Here are some of the nods to survival that I really like in the game:
- Chunks make perfect sense. Ignoring all the jokes about how it is made, you absolutely want a source of nutrition that is easy to store, lasts forever, and is palatable enough that folks will actually consume it as a type of fast food. The Earth sources of protein seem to all be vat grown, possibly with the exception of legumes, so Chunks is probably the convenience-oriented version of that. For that matter, it's likely that many packaged goods are nutritionally fortified in ways that make "junk" food a lot healthier than today. Many of the drawbacks to it may be psychological instead of physiological.
- Titan Astrobase was used to develop a standard pattern for habitats for alien worlds, and those patterns are used over and over again. Even outposts on breathable worlds still have airlocks and given the risks of different types of contaminants, this is completely believable and sensible. Those habs would provide you with complete protection from environmental threats.
- Spacesuits are not magical forcefields that keep away everything. I've said this before -- a suit is intended to keep you alive in a hostile environment. It cannot make you immune to strong radiation sources, prevent microparticle contamination or gas leaching, resist strong acids, etc. There is clearly an active element to suit function and those mechanisms will work to offset things like heat in the hundreds of degrees Celsius, but eventually they get overwhelmed and you start taking damage. While the systems still need some balancing and elaboration, the basic premise is sound. People (even me) often overlook just how hostile some of these environments are.
- I've made comments that I felt like alcohol needed more negative side effects. Given the thought I've put into medicine in the 24th century, though...I may revise that sentiment. If you can get people to survive and thrive in different alien environments, how hard is it to believe that addiction mechanisms have been tweaked. It's possible that the reason addiction only matters for Aurora and the Frostwolf family of chems is because humans just aren't as prone to such things anymore. A genetically engineered liver that can neutralize ethanol may make whiskey a reasonable source of hydration after all.
Communications tech complicates things for scriptwriters, but I'm surprised at how hard it is for me to find examples of that being a problem in game. It is a little weird that your parents just drop you messages at the Lodge rather than just sending you an e-mail, but you could argue that your "job" takes you out of the system regularly and they know you'll return to the Lodge eventually. Most of the fetch quests involve physical goods or sensitive materials.
So, what categories am I missing? Do you disagree with my thoughts in these areas?
2024.05.18 17:22 dontyougiveuphope Technical inspection is useless
Hello everyone. Pardon for my English I am not a native speaker. One day ago I got the key of my newly bought apartment. It was built in 2009 so not a nieuwbouw but also not that old. I have hired the service of a technical inspection company beforehand nonetheless to avoid any unpleasant surprises. The report was out, everything was said to be in good condition, and only require maintenance/repair 5 years later. Sounds good. And before the key transfer I did a final inspection in person with the seller and the real estate agent. I have spotted several lights aren’t working and the seller agreed to fix them. We then check the toilet and the taps, all seems functioning properly (the toilet flushes and there is water running out from the taps). I didnt check detailedly because I was trusting the technical inspection. Except it is not the case at all. There are leakages under the kitchen sink and toilet sewer pipe (extremely disgusting)! But it was too late as I only found that after receiving the key. I feel so disappointed in myself for not checking the apartment throughly and also feel so cheated by the technical inspection company. That’s exactly the unpleasant surprises i wanted to avoid but it did happen anyway. Not sure if it is just my luck, or many of the technical inspection companies are doing their job really half-assed.
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2024.05.18 14:36 Boring-Agent910 Basic repair tips?
So, through a series of unfortunate events someone managed to flush a vape down my toilet.
Everything seemed OK, until this evening when the toilet has started bubbling and filling almost to the brim when flushed before draining very slowly. Also, the sink (different room, same line) has started slow draining as well.
I've done some diagnostics, had some small amout of bubbling noises in other sinks, but no slow draining. I think this tells me it is still isolated to the toilet that had the vape flushed.
I'm thinking that a plunger or snake will push things further down the line and cause more issues. My plan currently is to remove the toilet and see if I can remove the vape.
Please can someone 1. Either tell me my logic is sound or wrong, and 2. Give me some basics on repair beyond "remove the toilet and fix it"
Thanks
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Everything seemed OK, until this evening when the toilet has started bubbling and filling almost to the brim when flushed before draining very slowly. Also, the sink (different room, same line) has started slow draining as well.
I've done some diagnostics, had some small amout of bubbling noises in other sinks, but no slow draining. I think this tells me it is still isolated to the toilet that had the vape flushed.
I'm thinking that a plunger or snake will push things further down the line and cause more issues. My plan currently is to remove the toilet and see if I can remove the vape.
Please can someone 1. Either tell me my logic is sound or wrong, and 2. Give me some basics on repair beyond "remove the toilet and fix it"
Thanks
2024.05.18 13:54 Illustrious-Bug-3074 Toilet repair
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2024.05.18 11:59 Drogoththedragonlord Toilet is making a constant drip sound
I moved into this place about a week ago so I'm still getting familiar with everything, this is my first time living on my own. It's a supported accommodation so I have like a single room apartment with many others neighbouring me. There are rules I have to follow and most stuff is out of my jurisdiction, like if I have a problem I have to report it to the reception downstairs.
So yesterday my toilet started making this dripping sound all of a sudden. It had been fine up until that point (except for some really thick limescale built up in the bottom of the bowl. I don't know if the previous tenant was just lazy and filthy or if we have hardwater problems). The drip sound is constant, like every second it makes the noise. I haven't heard the toilet flush or refill by itself yet. I took a look around the sides and behind and I haven't noticed any water on the floor, or in the opening where the pipe leads back into the wall I don't think.
I reported it to the staff at the front desk yesterday and they said they'd raise it and that I'd probably get someone to fix it today but it doesn't look like that's actually gonna happen. Based off my Google searches I've seen that it's probably a flapper issue or something to do with the overflow tube. I haven't taken a look inside the tank because the lid is very heavy and I'm worried about dropping and breaking it or something. The flush system is also supposed to be the responsibility of the contractors or whoever and not me so I can't really attempt to repair it myself anyway otherwise I'd probably get in trouble.
Basically my main concerns are does it seem to be those issues that I've seen on Google, in which case it'd be a fairly easy fix right? And also how long can it stay this way before potentially causing other issues, since I don't know how long it'll take for a plumber to come? I've also been very scared about trying to flush the toilet in case it makes the problem worse or causes a leak or something. I've never dealt with anything like this before and I don't really know the first thing about plumbing or any DIY for that matter. This experience has been setting off my anxiety even though I'd like to think I'm just worrying over nothing.
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So yesterday my toilet started making this dripping sound all of a sudden. It had been fine up until that point (except for some really thick limescale built up in the bottom of the bowl. I don't know if the previous tenant was just lazy and filthy or if we have hardwater problems). The drip sound is constant, like every second it makes the noise. I haven't heard the toilet flush or refill by itself yet. I took a look around the sides and behind and I haven't noticed any water on the floor, or in the opening where the pipe leads back into the wall I don't think.
I reported it to the staff at the front desk yesterday and they said they'd raise it and that I'd probably get someone to fix it today but it doesn't look like that's actually gonna happen. Based off my Google searches I've seen that it's probably a flapper issue or something to do with the overflow tube. I haven't taken a look inside the tank because the lid is very heavy and I'm worried about dropping and breaking it or something. The flush system is also supposed to be the responsibility of the contractors or whoever and not me so I can't really attempt to repair it myself anyway otherwise I'd probably get in trouble.
Basically my main concerns are does it seem to be those issues that I've seen on Google, in which case it'd be a fairly easy fix right? And also how long can it stay this way before potentially causing other issues, since I don't know how long it'll take for a plumber to come? I've also been very scared about trying to flush the toilet in case it makes the problem worse or causes a leak or something. I've never dealt with anything like this before and I don't really know the first thing about plumbing or any DIY for that matter. This experience has been setting off my anxiety even though I'd like to think I'm just worrying over nothing.
2024.05.18 10:14 Medical-Data-2030 Plumbing Tomball
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2024.05.18 08:58 Worst_Artist The Best SEO Plumber Guide From an Industry Expert
 | https://preview.redd.it/ad2tj4pku41d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff5c3973dcc6ebb929c8ec59b20b06815f3200fa submitted by Worst_Artist to PlumberSEO [link] [comments] Every month “plumbers near me” is searched up to 800,000 times globally (Google Keyword Planner. 2024). Is your plumbing company a top result in your target location? To thrive, your plumbing business needs to be visible where most potential customers are searching, Google. This guide will provide you with top Plumber SEO tips to enhance your plumbing business’s online visibility. First, what is Plumber SEO?Plumber SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the practice of affecting local search engine rankings for plumbers. Plumber SEO is a subspecialty of Local SEO, which is the practice of affecting local search engine rankings.Understanding Why You Should Do Plumber SEOPlumber SEO is crucial because it helps your plumbing service appear in search results when potential customers in your area look for the services you offer.A cool 68.7% of all clicks go to the top three organic search results. If you're not effective with SEO you're invisible (Unless you're paying to play). Can You Do Plumber SEO Yourself?Yes, you can certainly get started with the basics of Plumber SEO, but advanced SEO, like Technical SEO, will require a technical specialization.The most accessible way to learn is through reputable sources like Barry Schwartz's Search Engine Roundtable and experienced Local SEO professionals like Joy Hawkins. Let's get started with some basics. 1. Optimize Your Google Business Profilehttps://preview.redd.it/n7u78h3yu41d1.png?width=1277&format=png&auto=webp&s=91fb5b4a5ffa946d75c4f582ca43904ca5233c10To appear in Google’s local search results, including the Map Pack, start with your Google Business Profile (GBP). Here’s how to optimize it: Claim and Set Up Your Google Profile If you're not on the map already, add your business name and category. Choose a primary category such as "Plumber" and you can add more later for more specific services like Gas Installation Service, Drainage Service, or Bathroom Remodeler. Complete Your Profile Details Review Darren Shaw's Whitespark Local Search Ranking Factors to see how you should prioritize your time. If you're here doing pre-research before you even start a plumbing business take advantage of the knowledge that the keywords in your business name and the proximity to the location you want to rank in are top-ranking factors. Set up your service area and you can choose up to 20 locations, but the guideline is that it must be no longer than a 2-hour drive from where your business is based. 2. Local Citations and Reviewshttps://preview.redd.it/yaphjtwzu41d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a1368dfc95d8f370bd64adb18eb9de70fa43893Most business directories list your business name, address, and phone number. These listings are known as NAP citations. Consistent NAP citations across various directories improve your Local SEO. Here’s how to get started: Get Listed with Top Local Directories You can either use a data aggregator service to list you on multiple directories or take care of some of the free ones first. Once you're verified for Google Business Profile you can import your business onto Bing as well with a few clicks. Don't forget to get listed on Yelp as well since Apple Map searches rely on data from Yelp. Facebook and Instagram also allow you to put your address which helps your Local SEO. YellowPages, Better Business Bureau, and Manta are some free ones to get as well. 3. Boost Your ReviewsReviews not only enhance your credibility but also improve your SEO rankings. Here are some effective ways to gather more reviews:
4. Keyword Research for Targeted VisibilityUnderstanding what potential customers search for helps tailor your website content to meet their needs. Effective keyword research is the foundation of successful SEO.Identify Service-Related Keywords Identifying the right keywords is the first step in creating content that attracts potential customers. Here’s how to get started: List Your Services Start by making a comprehensive list of all the plumbing services you offer. Think about every specific service you provide, no matter how niche. A detailed list might include: Drain unblocking, Burst pipe repair, Drain Cleaning, Toilet installation, Water heater repair, Sewer line inspection and repair Listing these services helps you understand the scope of your business and provides a basis for keyword research. Make sure to include all services, even those you might consider minor, as they can attract targeted searches from potential customers looking for specific help. Use Keyword Tools Once you have your list of services, the next step is to use keyword research tools to find relevant keywords that potential customers are searching for. Here’s how to leverage these tools: Google Keyword Planner Google's Keyword Planner is a free tool that helps you find keywords related to your services. Here’s how to use it effectively: Enter Your Services Input the list of services you created into the tool. For example, if you offer "drain cleaning," enter this term into the Keyword Planner. Analyze Keyword Suggestions The tool will generate a list of related keywords, showing their search volumes and competition levels. Look for keywords with a high search volume and low to medium competition. These are the sweet spots that can drive significant traffic to your site. Include Local Modifiers Add local modifiers to your keywords to target searches in your service area. For example, “drain cleaning near me” or “emergency plumber in [your city].” This helps attract customers who are looking for services in specific locations. Develop individual pages for each service, optimized with relevant keywords. Each page should include the following elements: Create Service-Specific Pages By creating dedicated, optimized pages for each service, you can attract more targeted traffic and convert visitors into customers. These pages not only improve your SEO but also provide valuable information to potential clients, helping them choose your services with confidence. Once you have identified the right keywords, the next step is to create dedicated pages for each service you offer. Here’s how to optimize these pages: Service Areas Clearly list the areas you serve for each service. This helps with local SEO and lets potential customers know if you can assist them in their location. For example: "We proudly offer our drain cleaning services to residents in [Your City] and surrounding areas, including [Nearby City 1], [Nearby City 2], and [Nearby City 3]." Unique Selling Points Highlight what makes your service unique. This could be your experience, certifications, special equipment, or customer satisfaction guarantees. For example: "With over 20 years of experience and state-of-the-art equipment, we provide unparalleled drain cleaning services. Our certified technicians ensure the job is done right the first time, giving you peace of mind." Customer Reviews and Testimonials Include positive reviews and testimonials from satisfied customers. This builds trust and credibility with potential clients. For example: What Our Customers Have to Say "Professional and courteous. The best drain cleaning service I’ve used." -Mark S. Contact Information Make it easy for visitors to get in touch with you. Provide your phone number, email address, and a web form for inquiries. Including a call-to-action (CTA) encourages potential customers to take the next step. For example: "Contact us today for expert drain cleaning services. Call us at [Phone Number] or fill out our online form for a free quote. We’re here to help 24/7." 5. Website Content & Optimizationhttps://preview.redd.it/ytjgfll1v41d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=941a55816f174cf4162d7212be048011e2639fe0Craft Compelling Content Each service page should clearly describe the service, its benefits, and why customers should choose you. Include certifications, unique selling points, and customer testimonials to build trust. Additionally, create engaging and informative content such as blog posts, FAQs, and plumbing tips to attract and retain visitors. Optimize Title Tags and Meta Descriptions Ensure these elements are compelling and informative as they appear in search results and can influence click-through rates. Here are some tips: Title Tags Your title tag should accurately describe the content of your page. Include specific details that make your page stand out. For example, instead of a generic title like "Plumbing Services," use something more specific like "Expert Drain Cleaning Services in [City]." Meta Descriptions Clearly summarize what the page is about. Include the most important points that users should know before clicking. For example, for a drain cleaning service page, you might write: "Get expert drain cleaning services in [City]. Our plumbers are available 24/7 to handle any blockage. Call [number] for a free quote." Google typically displays the first 150-160 characters of a meta description. Aim to keep your meta descriptions concise and within this limit to ensure the full text is visible. Include your phone number in the meta description as this is clickable on mobile. Create Mobile-Friendly Pages With most local searches being conducted on smartphones, it’s essential to ensure your website is mobile-friendly. Here’s how: Responsive Design Responsive design refers to a web design approach that makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes. It ensures that your website looks and functions correctly on desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Optimize Images Large images can slow down your website, leading to a poor user experience, especially on mobile devices with slower internet connections. Optimizing images ensures faster loading times, which can improve both user experience and SEO. Use a site like TinyJPG to compress images for free. Simple Layout A simple, uncluttered layout improves user experience by making it easier for visitors to navigate your site and find the information they need. It also ensures that your site loads faster, as there are fewer elements to load. Click-to-Call Buttons Click-to-call buttons are crucial for mobile users, allowing them to contact your business with a single tap. This convenience can increase conversion rates and improve customer satisfaction. 6. Build a Strong Link ProfileBacklinks are one of Google’s strongest ranking factors. Here’s how to build a robust link profile for your plumbing business:Guest Blogging and Community Participation Guest blogging and engaging in community participation are effective ways to build high-quality backlinks and establish your authority in the plumbing industry. Identify Target Blogs Find blogs in the plumbing, home improvement, and DIY niches that accept guest posts. Look for blogs with a good reputation and engaged audiences. Use search queries like “plumbing blogs accepting guest posts” or “home improvement write for us.” Reach out to the blog owners with well-crafted pitches. Propose topics that are relevant to their audience and showcase your expertise. Ensure your pitch is concise and highlights the value you can provide to their readers. Write well-researched, informative, and engaging articles. Focus on providing valuable insights and practical advice. Include relevant keywords naturally and ensure the content aligns with the blog’s style and tone. In your author bio, include a brief description of yourself and your plumbing business, along with a link back to your website. Some blogs may also allow you to include a link within the content itself. Ensure these links are relevant and add value to the article. Join Relevant Communities Participate in forums and online communities related to plumbing, home improvement, and DIY. Websites like Reddit, Quora, and specialized plumbing forums are great places to start. Join groups where homeowners seek advice on plumbing issues. Offer helpful and knowledgeable answers to questions. Avoid blatant self-promotion; instead, focus on providing genuine value. Share your expertise and build a reputation as a helpful professional. When appropriate, include links to your blog posts or service pages that provide additional information. Make sure these links are relevant to the discussion and genuinely help the reader. HARO (Help A Reporter Out) HARO connects sources with journalists looking for expert quotes. This can lead to high-quality backlinks from reputable sites. Sign up for a free HARO account as a source. You will receive daily emails with journalist requests categorized by industry. Plumbing-related requests might fall under Home & Garden or Business & Finance. Monitor the HARO emails for requests related to plumbing, home maintenance, or small business operations. Respond promptly with concise, informative answers. Highlight your expertise and provide useful insights. When responding, be detailed and professional. Include your full name, title, business name, and a link to your website. Journalists are more likely to use your quotes if they are well-articulated and relevant to their article. Replicate Competitors’ Links Analyzing your competitors’ backlinks can help you discover new link-building opportunities. Identify your top competitors by searching for your target keywords in Google. Note the websites that consistently appear at the top of the search results. Use tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, or Moz to analyze your competitors’ backlink profiles. Enter their domain into the tool to see a list of websites linking to them. Assess the quality of these backlinks by looking at metrics like organic traffic. Focus on high-quality backlinks from reputable sites. Look for backlinks that you can replicate. These might include guest posts, directory listings, or mentions in articles. Reach out to these websites with a similar pitch to get your site linked as well. Reclaim Lost Links Reclaiming lost links involves identifying and fixing broken or redirected links pointing to your site. Use tools like Ahrefs or Google Search Console to identify broken links pointing to your website. These tools can help you find 404 errors and other issues. Identify links that are redirected to other pages or domains. Ensure that the redirects are still relevant and pointing to the correct pages. Reach out to the webmasters of the sites linking to your broken URLs. Politely ask them to update the link to the correct page. Provide the exact URL to make it easier for them. If you have moved content to a new URL, set up 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new ones. This ensures that any backlinks pointing to the old URL still pass on link equity to the new page. 7. Technical SEOTechnical SEO ensures that search engines can find and index your pages. Here’s how to set your site up for technical success:Plan Your Site Structure A well-organized site structure helps visitors navigate your website and allows Google to find all your pages. Here’s a good starting point for your site structure: Home Page -> Service Pages -> Blogs to Informational and How-To Pages Use HTTPS HTTPS is a secure way for visitors to access web pages. It’s important for SEO because it’s been a ranking factor since 2014. Check if your website uses HTTPS by looking for a lock icon in the browser’s search bar. Monitor Your SEO Health Regularly monitor your website’s SEO health using tools like Google Search Console. These tools can help you identify and fix common SEO issues. Key metrics to track include organic traffic, keyword performance, and site health score. 8. SEO Content MarketingCreating valuable content can attract traffic and customers from organic search. Here’s how to create and promote content that ranks:Keyword Research Topics Finding the right topics to write about is crucial for attracting organic traffic. Here’s how to identify proven topics: Begin with broad keywords related to plumbing, such as “leak repair,” “drain cleaning,” or “water heater maintenance.” Enter these into keyword research tools like Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, Google Keyword Planner, or SEMrush. Use these tools to find related keywords and phrases that people are searching for. Look for questions and long-tail keywords (phrases with three or more words) that indicate specific user intents. For example, instead of just “drain cleaning,” look for “how to clean a clogged drain” or “best drain cleaning services in [city].” Evaluate the search volume and competition level for each keyword. Ideally, target keywords with high search volume but low to medium competition. This increases the chances of ranking well without facing too much competition. Analyze the search engine results pages (SERPs) for your target keywords to see what type of content is ranking. Look for featured snippets, people also ask boxes, and top-ranking articles to understand the type of content Google favors. Use Questions and Informational Keywords Focus on questions and informational keywords, such as “how-to” guides, tutorials, and tips. These types of content tend to attract more engagement and backlinks, boosting your SEO. Publish Optimized Blog Posts Once you have identified the right topics, it’s time to create optimized blog posts that rank well and attract traffic. Analyze the top-ranking pages for your target keywords to understand the user intent behind the searches. Are people looking for how-to guides, detailed articles, or quick answers? Align your content with what users expect to find. Ensure your content fully addresses the search query. If users are looking for a guide on fixing a leaky faucet, provide a step-by-step tutorial with images, videos, and troubleshooting tips. Use Clear Headings and Subheadings Organize your content with clear headings (H1, H2, H3) and subheadings. This not only improves readability but also helps search engines understand the structure of your content. Break down information into bullet points and numbered lists where appropriate. This makes your content more scannable and user-friendly. Include Images and Videos Use relevant images, infographics, and videos to enhance your content. Visual elements can help explain complex topics and keep readers engaged. Write Compelling Titles Your titles should be engaging and accurately describe the content. Use power words and numbers to make your titles more compelling. For example, “10 Easy Tips for Fixing a Leaky Faucet” or “How to Unclog Any Drain in 5 Simple Steps.” Keep It Under 60 Characters Aim to keep your titles under 60 characters to ensure they are fully displayed in SERPs and not cut off. For a blog post on drain cleaning, a compelling title could be: “How to Clean a Clogged Drain: 7 Effective Methods” 9. Promote Your Content Creating great content is only the first step. You also need to promote it to ensure it reaches your target audience and attracts backlinks. Share your blog posts on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Tailor your posts to each platform’s audience and use engaging visuals and descriptions to attract attention. Join Relevant Groups and Communities Participate in relevant Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, and online communities related to plumbing and home improvement. Share your content when appropriate, providing value to the community. Engage with Your Audience Respond to comments and questions on your social media posts. Engaging with your audience can increase your content’s reach and build relationships with potential customers. 10. Tracking SEO ProgressTracking your SEO efforts is essential to understand what’s working and what needs improvement. Here’s how to do it:Google Business Profile Performance Monitoring your Google Business Profile (GBP) performance is crucial for understanding how well your business is performing in local search results. Check Profile Performance Log into your Google account and search for your business name. This should bring up your Google Business Profile. Click on the “See profile performance” button to access detailed metrics about how your profile is performing. Key Metrics to Monitor Views: The number of times your business profile has been viewed. This gives you an idea of how visible your business is in local searches. Search Queries: The specific queries that led users to your business profile. This helps you understand what terms potential customers are using to find your business. Customer Actions: This includes actions like visits to your website, requests for directions, calls to your business, and bookings. Tracking these actions helps you understand how effective your profile is at converting views into interactions. Photo Views: The number of times your business photos have been viewed. High-quality photos can attract more attention and engagement. Optimize Based on Insights Use the insights from your profile performance to optimize your GBP. For example, if you notice that certain photos are getting more views, consider adding more similar photos. If specific queries are leading to your profile, ensure those keywords are prominently featured in your profile description and posts. Google Search Console (GSC) is a powerful tool that provides valuable insights into your website’s performance in organic search results. Key Metrics to Monitor Performance Report: This report provides an overview of your site’s performance in Google Search. Key metrics include: Total Clicks: The number of times users clicked on your site in search results. Total Impressions: The number of times your site appeared in search results. Average Click-Through Rate (CTR): The ratio of clicks to impressions, showing how effective your site is at attracting clicks. Average Position: Your site’s average ranking position for the tracked queries. Search Queries: This section shows the specific queries that users are entering to find your site. Analyze which keywords are driving the most traffic and consider creating more content around those terms. Pages: Identify which pages on your site are performing best in search. This can help you understand what type of content resonates most with your audience. Devices: Understand how users are accessing your site (desktop, mobile, tablet). This helps you ensure your site is optimized for all devices, particularly mobile. Optimize Based on Insights Use the data from GSC to optimize your site’s SEO strategy. For example, if you notice that certain pages have a high number of impressions but a low CTR, consider updating the meta descriptions and title tags to be more compelling. If specific keywords are performing well, create more content around those topics to capture additional traffic. Set up Google Analytics on your website to analyze and gain even more valuable insights. Hope this helps! Credits: Original Source |
2024.05.18 06:57 Worst_Artist The Best SEO Plumber Guide From an Industry Expert
| | https://preview.redd.it/1shzb3ov541d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=95ea6f2823224f56986ee0f53fb9e6d65e740c46 submitted by Worst_Artist to u/Worst_Artist [link] [comments] Every month “plumbers near me” is searched up to 800,000 times globally (Google Keyword Planner. 2024). Is your plumbing company a top result in your target location? To thrive, your plumbing business needs to be visible where most potential customers are searching, Google. This guide will provide you with top Plumber SEO tips to enhance your plumbing business’s online visibility. First, what is Plumber SEO?Plumber SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the practice of affecting local search engine rankings for plumbers. Plumber SEO is a subspecialty of Local SEO, which is the practice of affecting local search engine rankings.Understanding Why You Should Do Plumber SEOPlumber SEO is crucial because it helps your plumbing service appear in search results when potential customers in your area look for the services you offer.A cool 68.7% of all clicks go to the top three organic search results. If you're not effective with SEO you're invisible (Unless you're paying to play). Can You Do Plumber SEO Yourself?Yes, you can certainly get started with the basics of Plumber SEO, but advanced SEO, like Technical SEO, will require a technical specialization.The most accessible way to learn is through reputable sources like Barry Schwartz's Search Engine Roundtable and experienced Local SEO professionals like Joy Hawkins. Let's get started with some basics. 1. Optimize Your Google Business Profilehttps://preview.redd.it/flmgg13e641d1.png?width=1277&format=png&auto=webp&s=262a86e4fa578c3cba939d4d83ece4125a76f9eaTo appear in Google’s local search results, including the Map Pack, start with your Google Business Profile (GBP). Here’s how to optimize it: Claim and Set Up Your Google Profile If you're not on the map already, add your business name and category. Choose a primary category such as "Plumber" and you can add more later for more specific services like Gas Installation Service, Drainage Service, or Bathroom Remodeler. Complete Your Profile Details Review Darren Shaw's Whitespark Local Search Ranking Factors to see how you should prioritize your time. If you're here doing pre-research before you even start a plumbing business take advantage of the knowledge that the keywords in your business name and the proximity to the location you want to rank in are top-ranking factors. Set up your service area and you can choose up to 20 locations, but the guideline is that it must be no longer than a 2-hour drive from where your business is based. 2. Local Citations and Reviewshttps://preview.redd.it/nu4jmc8j641d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=46befefb7b8ad525a5b6d1e51d937291841701aeMost business directories list your business name, address, and phone number. These listings are known as NAP citations. Consistent NAP citations across various directories improve your Local SEO. Here’s how to get started: Get Listed with Top Local Directories You can either use a data aggregator service to list you on multiple directories or take care of some of the free ones first. Once you're verified for Google Business Profile you can import your business onto Bing as well with a few clicks. Don't forget to get listed on Yelp as well since Apple Map searches rely on data from Yelp. Facebook and Instagram also allow you to put your address which helps your Local SEO. YellowPages, Better Business Bureau, and Manta are some free ones to get as well. 3. Boost Your ReviewsReviews not only enhance your credibility but also improve your SEO rankings. Here are some effective ways to gather more reviews:
4. Keyword Research for Targeted VisibilityUnderstanding what potential customers search for helps tailor your website content to meet their needs. Effective keyword research is the foundation of successful SEO.Identify Service-Related Keywords Identifying the right keywords is the first step in creating content that attracts potential customers. Here’s how to get started: List Your Services Start by making a comprehensive list of all the plumbing services you offer. Think about every specific service you provide, no matter how niche. A detailed list might include: Drain unblocking, Burst pipe repair, Drain Cleaning, Toilet installation, Water heater repair, Sewer line inspection and repair Listing these services helps you understand the scope of your business and provides a basis for keyword research. Make sure to include all services, even those you might consider minor, as they can attract targeted searches from potential customers looking for specific help. Use Keyword Tools Once you have your list of services, the next step is to use keyword research tools to find relevant keywords that potential customers are searching for. Here’s how to leverage these tools: Google Keyword Planner Google's Keyword Planner is a free tool that helps you find keywords related to your services. Here’s how to use it effectively: Enter Your Services Input the list of services you created into the tool. For example, if you offer "drain cleaning," enter this term into the Keyword Planner. Analyze Keyword Suggestions The tool will generate a list of related keywords, showing their search volumes and competition levels. Look for keywords with a high search volume and low to medium competition. These are the sweet spots that can drive significant traffic to your site. Include Local Modifiers Add local modifiers to your keywords to target searches in your service area. For example, “drain cleaning near me” or “emergency plumber in [your city].” This helps attract customers who are looking for services in specific locations. Develop individual pages for each service, optimized with relevant keywords. Each page should include the following elements: Create Service-Specific Pages By creating dedicated, optimized pages for each service, you can attract more targeted traffic and convert visitors into customers. These pages not only improve your SEO but also provide valuable information to potential clients, helping them choose your services with confidence. Once you have identified the right keywords, the next step is to create dedicated pages for each service you offer. Here’s how to optimize these pages: Service Areas Clearly list the areas you serve for each service. This helps with local SEO and lets potential customers know if you can assist them in their location. For example: "We proudly offer our drain cleaning services to residents in [Your City] and surrounding areas, including [Nearby City 1], [Nearby City 2], and [Nearby City 3]." Unique Selling Points Highlight what makes your service unique. This could be your experience, certifications, special equipment, or customer satisfaction guarantees. For example: "With over 20 years of experience and state-of-the-art equipment, we provide unparalleled drain cleaning services. Our certified technicians ensure the job is done right the first time, giving you peace of mind." Customer Reviews and Testimonials Include positive reviews and testimonials from satisfied customers. This builds trust and credibility with potential clients. For example: What Our Customers Have to Say "Professional and courteous. The best drain cleaning service I’ve used." -Mark S. Contact Information Make it easy for visitors to get in touch with you. Provide your phone number, email address, and a web form for inquiries. Including a call-to-action (CTA) encourages potential customers to take the next step. For example: "Contact us today for expert drain cleaning services. Call us at [Phone Number] or fill out our online form for a free quote. We’re here to help 24/7." 5. Website Content & Optimizationhttps://preview.redd.it/j6ium1c0741d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=efaa4073122592e847bd0b476d4e1b37d104709cCraft Compelling Content Each service page should clearly describe the service, its benefits, and why customers should choose you. Include certifications, unique selling points, and customer testimonials to build trust. Additionally, create engaging and informative content such as blog posts, FAQs, and plumbing tips to attract and retain visitors. Optimize Title Tags and Meta Descriptions Ensure these elements are compelling and informative as they appear in search results and can influence click-through rates. Here are some tips: Title Tags Your title tag should accurately describe the content of your page. Include specific details that make your page stand out. For example, instead of a generic title like "Plumbing Services," use something more specific like "Expert Drain Cleaning Services in [City]." Meta Descriptions Clearly summarize what the page is about. Include the most important points that users should know before clicking. For example, for a drain cleaning service page, you might write: "Get expert drain cleaning services in [City]. Our plumbers are available 24/7 to handle any blockage. Call [number] for a free quote." Google typically displays the first 150-160 characters of a meta description. Aim to keep your meta descriptions concise and within this limit to ensure the full text is visible. Include your phone number in the meta description as this is clickable on mobile. Create Mobile-Friendly Pages With most local searches being conducted on smartphones, it’s essential to ensure your website is mobile-friendly. Here’s how: Responsive Design Responsive design refers to a web design approach that makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes. It ensures that your website looks and functions correctly on desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Optimize Images Large images can slow down your website, leading to a poor user experience, especially on mobile devices with slower internet connections. Optimizing images ensures faster loading times, which can improve both user experience and SEO. Use a site like TinyJPG to compress images for free. Simple Layout A simple, uncluttered layout improves user experience by making it easier for visitors to navigate your site and find the information they need. It also ensures that your site loads faster, as there are fewer elements to load. Click-to-Call Buttons Click-to-call buttons are crucial for mobile users, allowing them to contact your business with a single tap. This convenience can increase conversion rates and improve customer satisfaction. 6. Build a Strong Link ProfileBacklinks are one of Google’s strongest ranking factors. Here’s how to build a robust link profile for your plumbing business:Guest Blogging and Community Participation Guest blogging and engaging in community participation are effective ways to build high-quality backlinks and establish your authority in the plumbing industry. Identify Target Blogs Find blogs in the plumbing, home improvement, and DIY niches that accept guest posts. Look for blogs with a good reputation and engaged audiences. Use search queries like “plumbing blogs accepting guest posts” or “home improvement write for us.” Reach out to the blog owners with well-crafted pitches. Propose topics that are relevant to their audience and showcase your expertise. Ensure your pitch is concise and highlights the value you can provide to their readers. Write well-researched, informative, and engaging articles. Focus on providing valuable insights and practical advice. Include relevant keywords naturally and ensure the content aligns with the blog’s style and tone. In your author bio, include a brief description of yourself and your plumbing business, along with a link back to your website. Some blogs may also allow you to include a link within the content itself. Ensure these links are relevant and add value to the article. Join Relevant Communities Participate in forums and online communities related to plumbing, home improvement, and DIY. Websites like Reddit, Quora, and specialized plumbing forums are great places to start. Join groups where homeowners seek advice on plumbing issues. Offer helpful and knowledgeable answers to questions. Avoid blatant self-promotion; instead, focus on providing genuine value. Share your expertise and build a reputation as a helpful professional. When appropriate, include links to your blog posts or service pages that provide additional information. Make sure these links are relevant to the discussion and genuinely help the reader. HARO (Help A Reporter Out) HARO connects sources with journalists looking for expert quotes. This can lead to high-quality backlinks from reputable sites. Sign up for a free HARO account as a source. You will receive daily emails with journalist requests categorized by industry. Plumbing-related requests might fall under Home & Garden or Business & Finance. Monitor the HARO emails for requests related to plumbing, home maintenance, or small business operations. Respond promptly with concise, informative answers. Highlight your expertise and provide useful insights. When responding, be detailed and professional. Include your full name, title, business name, and a link to your website. Journalists are more likely to use your quotes if they are well-articulated and relevant to their article. Replicate Competitors’ Links Analyzing your competitors’ backlinks can help you discover new link-building opportunities. Identify your top competitors by searching for your target keywords in Google. Note the websites that consistently appear at the top of the search results. Use tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, or Moz to analyze your competitors’ backlink profiles. Enter their domain into the tool to see a list of websites linking to them. Assess the quality of these backlinks by looking at metrics like organic traffic. Focus on high-quality backlinks from reputable sites. Look for backlinks that you can replicate. These might include guest posts, directory listings, or mentions in articles. Reach out to these websites with a similar pitch to get your site linked as well. Reclaim Lost Links Reclaiming lost links involves identifying and fixing broken or redirected links pointing to your site. Use tools like Ahrefs or Google Search Console to identify broken links pointing to your website. These tools can help you find 404 errors and other issues. Identify links that are redirected to other pages or domains. Ensure that the redirects are still relevant and pointing to the correct pages. Reach out to the webmasters of the sites linking to your broken URLs. Politely ask them to update the link to the correct page. Provide the exact URL to make it easier for them. If you have moved content to a new URL, set up 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new ones. This ensures that any backlinks pointing to the old URL still pass on link equity to the new page. 7. Technical SEOTechnical SEO ensures that search engines can find and index your pages. Here’s how to set your site up for technical success:Plan Your Site Structure A well-organized site structure helps visitors navigate your website and allows Google to find all your pages. Here’s a good starting point for your site structure: Home Page -> Service Pages -> Blogs to Informational and How-To Pages Use HTTPS HTTPS is a secure way for visitors to access web pages. It’s important for SEO because it’s been a ranking factor since 2014. Check if your website uses HTTPS by looking for a lock icon in the browser’s search bar. Monitor Your SEO Health Regularly monitor your website’s SEO health using tools like Google Search Console. These tools can help you identify and fix common SEO issues. Key metrics to track include organic traffic, keyword performance, and site health score. 8. SEO Content MarketingCreating valuable content can attract traffic and customers from organic search. Here’s how to create and promote content that ranks:Keyword Research Topics Finding the right topics to write about is crucial for attracting organic traffic. Here’s how to identify proven topics: Begin with broad keywords related to plumbing, such as “leak repair,” “drain cleaning,” or “water heater maintenance.” Enter these into keyword research tools like Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, Google Keyword Planner, or SEMrush. Use these tools to find related keywords and phrases that people are searching for. Look for questions and long-tail keywords (phrases with three or more words) that indicate specific user intents. For example, instead of just “drain cleaning,” look for “how to clean a clogged drain” or “best drain cleaning services in [city].” Evaluate the search volume and competition level for each keyword. Ideally, target keywords with high search volume but low to medium competition. This increases the chances of ranking well without facing too much competition. Analyze the search engine results pages (SERPs) for your target keywords to see what type of content is ranking. Look for featured snippets, people also ask boxes, and top-ranking articles to understand the type of content Google favors. Use Questions and Informational Keywords Focus on questions and informational keywords, such as “how-to” guides, tutorials, and tips. These types of content tend to attract more engagement and backlinks, boosting your SEO. Publish Optimized Blog Posts Once you have identified the right topics, it’s time to create optimized blog posts that rank well and attract traffic. Analyze the top-ranking pages for your target keywords to understand the user intent behind the searches. Are people looking for how-to guides, detailed articles, or quick answers? Align your content with what users expect to find. Ensure your content fully addresses the search query. If users are looking for a guide on fixing a leaky faucet, provide a step-by-step tutorial with images, videos, and troubleshooting tips. Use Clear Headings and Subheadings Organize your content with clear headings (H1, H2, H3) and subheadings. This not only improves readability but also helps search engines understand the structure of your content. Break down information into bullet points and numbered lists where appropriate. This makes your content more scannable and user-friendly. Include Images and Videos Use relevant images, infographics, and videos to enhance your content. Visual elements can help explain complex topics and keep readers engaged. Write Compelling Titles Your titles should be engaging and accurately describe the content. Use power words and numbers to make your titles more compelling. For example, “10 Easy Tips for Fixing a Leaky Faucet” or “How to Unclog Any Drain in 5 Simple Steps.” Keep It Under 60 Characters Aim to keep your titles under 60 characters to ensure they are fully displayed in SERPs and not cut off. For a blog post on drain cleaning, a compelling title could be: “How to Clean a Clogged Drain: 7 Effective Methods” 9. Promote Your Content Creating great content is only the first step. You also need to promote it to ensure it reaches your target audience and attracts backlinks. Share your blog posts on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Tailor your posts to each platform’s audience and use engaging visuals and descriptions to attract attention. Join Relevant Groups and Communities Participate in relevant Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, and online communities related to plumbing and home improvement. Share your content when appropriate, providing value to the community. Engage with Your Audience Respond to comments and questions on your social media posts. Engaging with your audience can increase your content’s reach and build relationships with potential customers. 10. Tracking SEO Progresshttps://preview.redd.it/arej4v26841d1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9d0dd295f91e56cfc542386a4f4d2ff1a0a54c3Tracking your SEO efforts is essential to understand what’s working and what needs improvement. Here’s how to do it: Google Business Profile Performance Monitoring your Google Business Profile (GBP) performance is crucial for understanding how well your business is performing in local search results. Check Profile Performance Log into your Google account and search for your business name. This should bring up your Google Business Profile. Click on the “See profile performance” button to access detailed metrics about how your profile is performing. Key Metrics to Monitor Views: The number of times your business profile has been viewed. This gives you an idea of how visible your business is in local searches. Search Queries: The specific queries that led users to your business profile. This helps you understand what terms potential customers are using to find your business. Customer Actions: This includes actions like visits to your website, requests for directions, calls to your business, and bookings. Tracking these actions helps you understand how effective your profile is at converting views into interactions. Photo Views: The number of times your business photos have been viewed. High-quality photos can attract more attention and engagement. Optimize Based on Insights Use the insights from your profile performance to optimize your GBP. For example, if you notice that certain photos are getting more views, consider adding more similar photos. If specific queries are leading to your profile, ensure those keywords are prominently featured in your profile description and posts. Google Search Console (GSC) is a powerful tool that provides valuable insights into your website’s performance in organic search results. Key Metrics to Monitor Performance Report: This report provides an overview of your site’s performance in Google Search. Key metrics include: Total Clicks: The number of times users clicked on your site in search results. Total Impressions: The number of times your site appeared in search results. Average Click-Through Rate (CTR): The ratio of clicks to impressions, showing how effective your site is at attracting clicks. Average Position: Your site’s average ranking position for the tracked queries. Search Queries: This section shows the specific queries that users are entering to find your site. Analyze which keywords are driving the most traffic and consider creating more content around those terms. Pages: Identify which pages on your site are performing best in search. This can help you understand what type of content resonates most with your audience. Devices: Understand how users are accessing your site (desktop, mobile, tablet). This helps you ensure your site is optimized for all devices, particularly mobile. Optimize Based on Insights Use the data from GSC to optimize your site’s SEO strategy. For example, if you notice that certain pages have a high number of impressions but a low CTR, consider updating the meta descriptions and title tags to be more compelling. If specific keywords are performing well, create more content around those topics to capture additional traffic. Set up Google Analytics on your website to analyze and gain even more valuable insights. Hope this helps! Original Source: Canonical Link |
2024.05.18 04:12 pen15horny69 Knocking Sound After Valve Stops Water From Specific Bathroom
Need some insights here:
I recently had to replace a saddle valve, in the basement of my house, so I turned off the main valve and only drained the sink in the basement. After repair I turned the main back on.
Now without draining the 2nd floor valves, everything is usually fine from previous times I had to shut off the main valve, but this time there was a lot of air I'm guessing? 2 toilets had a loud boom, that air actually shifted the top lid of the toilet a bit (As I heard it). A bit of sputtering from the faucets, but are fine now.
The issue I have now is in the bathrooms with the loud boom, every time the sink, shower, or toilet stops refilling or turning off the valve, in a specific room I can hear a knocking noise, sort of like dun-dun dun-dun pattern. It ranges from one dun-dun to two dun-duns.
Searched what it was and found out about water hammer, but I already tried draining and filling, still hear it, although it has gone down from three dun-duns to two. I think it's coming from the walls, but I can't isolate it exactly where it's from. I just know it happens on a specific side of the house.
Thanks in advance
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I recently had to replace a saddle valve, in the basement of my house, so I turned off the main valve and only drained the sink in the basement. After repair I turned the main back on.
Now without draining the 2nd floor valves, everything is usually fine from previous times I had to shut off the main valve, but this time there was a lot of air I'm guessing? 2 toilets had a loud boom, that air actually shifted the top lid of the toilet a bit (As I heard it). A bit of sputtering from the faucets, but are fine now.
The issue I have now is in the bathrooms with the loud boom, every time the sink, shower, or toilet stops refilling or turning off the valve, in a specific room I can hear a knocking noise, sort of like dun-dun dun-dun pattern. It ranges from one dun-dun to two dun-duns.
Searched what it was and found out about water hammer, but I already tried draining and filling, still hear it, although it has gone down from three dun-duns to two. I think it's coming from the walls, but I can't isolate it exactly where it's from. I just know it happens on a specific side of the house.
Thanks in advance
2024.05.18 03:03 WantonHeroics What do I need to repair this toilet?
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2024.05.17 23:25 rbrill9213 1 year post-op.
31, male. I’ll put a before and after picture in a comment to this post! Overall, I'm very happy with the results, and would opt to undergo the procedure again. Feel free to ask me anything, but some additional thoughts and comments below:
The Procedure.
I had a full 360 tummy tuck with liposuction and muscle repair. Following the procedure I stayed in the hospital for one night. They had me up and walking around within a few hours of waking up. I don't remember being in too much pain (or much of anything from that day) - the meds were strong. I went home the next morning via car.
Recovery.
I purchased an electronic reclining chair prior to surgery, and I found it to be very helpful in staying comfortable. I utilized a "potty chair" that essentially fits over the toilet to make utilizing the bathroom easier. This was a lifesaver for me and I would recommend getting one prior to your procedure. The chair could also be set in the shower, which made that process much easier too. I had 2 drains that exited my body through my groin. They were definitely uncomfortable, and they came out about 2 weeks post-op. The removal was very easy and painless - though does create a strange sensation. I wore a compression binder for about 6-8 weeks. After that, I wore some compression garments from Marena. I continued wearing the compression garments for approximately 6 months as it kept the swelling from becoming too uncomfortable. In my opinion, you cannot undergo this procedure without having someone there to help you for at least a few weeks post-op. Be sure to treat that person with grace - you're probably being very needy/annoying, and they're a saint.
Complications.
I was allergic to the surgical tape and broke out in an extreme rash about 2 weeks after surgery. The rash devolved into a yeast infection on the skin and I had to use a medicated powder to treat it. It took about 2 weeks for that to clear. I developed a seroma in my back about 3 weeks after surgery. I went to see my surgeon every few days to have it drained. Draining the seroma was not painful, and it was completely gone after 5-6 treatments. I had several wounds pop up on the right side of my incision. YOUR WOUNDS WILL HEAL. Read that again. At one point I had 9 areas that were open, and they took about 6 months to finally close. It's mentally taxing dealing with wounds, so be kind to yourself. I used silvadine on the areas that opened, silver alginate dressings, and various bandaids to keep them covered.
Today.
I still swell in the lower part of my abdomen, and it happens most days. However, it's nothing compared to the swelling you might experience post-operatively and for several months afterwards. SWELLING IS NORMAL - YOU WILL BE (VERY) SWOLLEN. Because of the issues I had with healing, the right side of my incision is darker than the rest and a bit bigger. My surgeon is currently lasering that area to lighten the scar, and it's helped significantly. At some point, I may decide to undergo a scar revision, but it doesn't bother me too much. The area underneath my belly button is still numb, along with the outer part of both my thighs. I'm back in the gym, able to run, cycle, and lift like I could pre-op. Prior to surgery, I weighed 193 pounds. Today, I weigh 195 pounds.
For The Guys.
To the men in this group - the swelling and bruising will naturally migrate to your junk. Seriously. I was black and blue for probably a month in that area following my procedure. Eventually, it will return to normal. I found that a jockstrap was the best underwear following surgery - it makes using the bathroom very easy as you don't have to fiddle with a waistband. It also provides additional support and helps to reduce the swelling and bruising in that area. Marena makes a compression brief that works well once you're into that phase of your recovery, and you can wear it like any other pair of underwear.
Summary.
This procedure is no joke, and the recovery process is long. I dealt with several post-surgical complications, couldn't fully care for myself the first few weeks, and still swell. If I had known at the time what was in store for me post-operatively, I'd still choose to undergo the procedure. I can sit down without my skin falling over my pants, my clothes fit how they're supposed to, I don't have to yank my jeans up and over my skin, and I feel more confident in myself. Ultimately, it feels like this was the last step in ridding myself of the old (300+ pound) me. I would encourage you, if you're on the fence, to get the surgery.
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The Procedure.
I had a full 360 tummy tuck with liposuction and muscle repair. Following the procedure I stayed in the hospital for one night. They had me up and walking around within a few hours of waking up. I don't remember being in too much pain (or much of anything from that day) - the meds were strong. I went home the next morning via car.
Recovery.
I purchased an electronic reclining chair prior to surgery, and I found it to be very helpful in staying comfortable. I utilized a "potty chair" that essentially fits over the toilet to make utilizing the bathroom easier. This was a lifesaver for me and I would recommend getting one prior to your procedure. The chair could also be set in the shower, which made that process much easier too. I had 2 drains that exited my body through my groin. They were definitely uncomfortable, and they came out about 2 weeks post-op. The removal was very easy and painless - though does create a strange sensation. I wore a compression binder for about 6-8 weeks. After that, I wore some compression garments from Marena. I continued wearing the compression garments for approximately 6 months as it kept the swelling from becoming too uncomfortable. In my opinion, you cannot undergo this procedure without having someone there to help you for at least a few weeks post-op. Be sure to treat that person with grace - you're probably being very needy/annoying, and they're a saint.
Complications.
I was allergic to the surgical tape and broke out in an extreme rash about 2 weeks after surgery. The rash devolved into a yeast infection on the skin and I had to use a medicated powder to treat it. It took about 2 weeks for that to clear. I developed a seroma in my back about 3 weeks after surgery. I went to see my surgeon every few days to have it drained. Draining the seroma was not painful, and it was completely gone after 5-6 treatments. I had several wounds pop up on the right side of my incision. YOUR WOUNDS WILL HEAL. Read that again. At one point I had 9 areas that were open, and they took about 6 months to finally close. It's mentally taxing dealing with wounds, so be kind to yourself. I used silvadine on the areas that opened, silver alginate dressings, and various bandaids to keep them covered.
Today.
I still swell in the lower part of my abdomen, and it happens most days. However, it's nothing compared to the swelling you might experience post-operatively and for several months afterwards. SWELLING IS NORMAL - YOU WILL BE (VERY) SWOLLEN. Because of the issues I had with healing, the right side of my incision is darker than the rest and a bit bigger. My surgeon is currently lasering that area to lighten the scar, and it's helped significantly. At some point, I may decide to undergo a scar revision, but it doesn't bother me too much. The area underneath my belly button is still numb, along with the outer part of both my thighs. I'm back in the gym, able to run, cycle, and lift like I could pre-op. Prior to surgery, I weighed 193 pounds. Today, I weigh 195 pounds.
For The Guys.
To the men in this group - the swelling and bruising will naturally migrate to your junk. Seriously. I was black and blue for probably a month in that area following my procedure. Eventually, it will return to normal. I found that a jockstrap was the best underwear following surgery - it makes using the bathroom very easy as you don't have to fiddle with a waistband. It also provides additional support and helps to reduce the swelling and bruising in that area. Marena makes a compression brief that works well once you're into that phase of your recovery, and you can wear it like any other pair of underwear.
Summary.
This procedure is no joke, and the recovery process is long. I dealt with several post-surgical complications, couldn't fully care for myself the first few weeks, and still swell. If I had known at the time what was in store for me post-operatively, I'd still choose to undergo the procedure. I can sit down without my skin falling over my pants, my clothes fit how they're supposed to, I don't have to yank my jeans up and over my skin, and I feel more confident in myself. Ultimately, it feels like this was the last step in ridding myself of the old (300+ pound) me. I would encourage you, if you're on the fence, to get the surgery.
2024.05.17 21:23 A_locomotive Did two small plumbing repairs, should I be concerned, if so what should I do?
Hello. Wife and I live in a rental and have for a few years, I have done two small plumbing repairs since we moved in and I honestly didn't realize it was an issue I did it and wondering what if anything I should do. First was we had a toilet that would not stop filling so I replaced the valve in the toilet, very simple job done it before but first time in a rental. Other was our water heater had never been drained to flush build up the entire time we lived there, I decided to do it myself(again I know now I really probably should not have) and the valve pressure relief and drain valves would not close properly afterwards so I looked up and found the parts and replaced them myself. Should I be concerned at all that I made these repairs? I have a background working with piping and alongside plumbers(pipefitter by trade) so I know how to do these sort of things correctly but read an article about home repairs you should not do yourself and one was plumbing, which got me looking stuff about about working on the place you are renting and I had a moment of clarity realizing what I did was really stupid. What if anything should I do? Should I inform our rental management? Totally worried now...
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