I have a Ryobi table saw and want to know if there is any device which I can buy which will allow me to use my portable plunge router with the table saw? I’m thinking maybe some sort of guide which would slide down one of the mitre grooves in the table.
Can a landlord turn on the furnace directly at the furnace?
June 28, 2011 By 6 Comments
I live in a small 3 unit apartment building. My apartment is directly over a garage which is used by the landlord for a home workshop. Sometimes I will be gone from my apartment for 2 days or so at a time. When it started getting cold outside, I decided to turn the heat off while I was gone so I didn’t waste money. I found out that the thermostat in my apartment does not have an "OFF" setting, you can only turn the thermostat down to 50 degrees. I asked the landlord if I could have a new thermostat installed (at my cost for the thermostat and labor) so I could turn the thermostat off while I was gone. He denied my request to do this, and stated that he wouldn’t allow this to be done because the temperature on the thermostat needs to stay above freezing so that the water pipes for my apartment, which run through the garage, do not freeze and bust (as the furnace is in the garage and has a vent to vent heat into the garage). I was not too pleased about this, as I don’t feel it is my responsibility to pay for the furnace’s gas usage to keep the pipes from bursting, but I let it go and can accept that.
So this morning I am getting ready for work, and I hear the landlord go into the garage and start working with his mitre saw. Then I hear the furnace come on about 2 minutes after he goes in there. I didn’t think anything of it at first, but then the furnace stayed on for a solid 25 minutes (it usually stays on for about 10 minutes) and I noticed that on the thermostat that the temperature in the apartment was about 6-8 degrees above what I set the thermostat to (the furnace usually turns off when the temperature is 2 degrees over the thermostat setting).
I’m thinking that the landlord turned the furnace on directly at the furnace somehow so that he could be warm while he was working in there (it is about 5 degrees outside) which really got my blood boiling. I didn’t confront him about it yet, as I was too angry at the time and didn’t want to go off on him and make a huge scene outside, so I will talk to him when I get home.
Alright, here is the question finally:
Would it be pretty easy for him to turn on the furnace directly from the furnace itself without actually using the thermostat in my apartment?? Maybe having another thermostat wired down there that overrides my thermostat? Or a manual "on" switch on the furnace itself?
Besides the fact that I feel this is morally wrong, I can’t imagine that it is legal either for him to be doing this. I accepted the fact that the temperature must stay above freezing to keep the pipes from busting (even though really he could wrap the pipes in heated insulation specially made for pipes, which you plug in, and it is sort of like an electric blanket for pipes) but I refuse to be paying for him to be toasty warm in his workshop, while I am wearing a jacket in the apartment and using multiple blankets while sleeping to keep the utility bills down.
Thanks
I pay the heating bill
Only my furnace is in the garage. The furnaces for the other two units are in a separate utility closet. Each tenant pays for their own gas usage.
It is a two story apartment building. The other apartments are one on top of the other, and then my apartment is over the garage.
Bamboo flooring chips in the floor?
June 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Since you have so promptly responded to my questions I have another one for you – nothing to do with my mitre saw. We have bamboo flooring – which to our understanding is supposed to be really tough. Ours must NOT have a zillion protective coats on it like some of the hardwood flooring I see advertised (with 7 coats or whatever). Anyway – our floor has a few chips and scratches – one particular area where the protective surface is literally peeling away (it cracked after my husband moved the fridge) – can I do a spot repair? Would I just buy some clear varathane – sand where it is peeeling and coat it a couple of times. I do not want to redo the floors yet – we have only had it in for a couple of years. Maybe part of the mistake was putting it in the kitchen (our main floor is open concept and the bamboo it throughout).
Thanks – yet again
what power tool do you most use in the garage?
June 28, 2011 By 10 Comments
Im 21 in jan, wanting to start a tool collection so when come around to buyin a home with my new wife, for xmas i just got a few tools and a chest and cabinet to store tools from my inlaws, im looking to ask for a larger power tool for my birthday, though after browsing lowes and home depot im finding it hard to decide on which power tool id like, id like to know what power tool is most used in your garage, for example a mitre saw, table saw, circular saw….? i already have electric drill screwdrivers hammers etc, hand tools, im looking for a power tool for the garage that will be used almost as much as it is stored, i am a believer in building/constructing most things around the house from things i see in the store rather than buying them for convienience. Many Thanks, oh and also if you dont mind, could you also tell me what you mainly use it for?
2nd answer.. i belive in building things for around the house, example you see a closet you like, or a dresser, (or the wife, most prolly) dont buy it for convience go to a home imporvement store check the prices to d.I.Y and if cheaper, get in the garage and do it, right now i dont own a house so i believe the land lord should be doing that! Im talking for bigger projects i guess~!
I want to learn how to build things from wood!?
June 28, 2011 By 7 Comments
I have always had a love for things made out of wood. I recently purchased a bunch of tools for woodworking at an estate sale. I purchased a mitre saw, table saw, scroll saw, circular saw, plunge router, and many hand tools and clamps. There is just one problem!! I don’t know how to start!! I have never made anything or even used these type of tools before. What is the best way to start making stuff from wood? I bought a couple of woodworking magazines but I think I must be too dumb because I can’t always figure out what there talking about. Maybe I need it explained like it is for a kid or something. Or is it really that hard to be starting from square one to be a woodworker.
I don’t know anyone that does that type of stuff
