In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Cringe. Oh no. I think I hear a story about your boss coming on. Peeks an eye open. That's too bad.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain has arrived.
And also don't you hate it when people try to blame you for their mistakes.
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So... With the insane heat coming down on us later this week, I was considering re-purposing a tiny vornado fan that kicks some ass into a means of pulling out air through the single window from my attic while pulling air in through my basement at night time. It's something I had always considered doing but never got around to.
But then it occurred to me that I got an old furnace blower unit from my step dad before he moved. I was actually trying to give it away to my brother the other day when he was here because I know he had borrowed it at one point in an attempt to dry out their carpet in the basement when it flooded years ago. (If it had worked, he probably would have taken it, but they had to throw all that carpet out and they got a really nice flooring down there that's flood proof now).
I'm not sure if a blower will fit in the tiny window in the attic or not. It's also not the type of window that I could slide up and down to help it fit that way either. So it's nice that there is some DIY directions online for something like this, but I'd have to figure out a way to improvise a lot here. It wouldn't make much sense to bother with it if I'm not pulling the hottest of the house air from out of the attic every night when I'd do this (especially on nights later this week that are a low of 80 freaking degrees). It also wouldn't make sense to use a window in the basement or 1st floor to do it and pull all that hot attic air down through the house either.
I'm going to do some figuring. If I build something I'll eventually have the pics up for it too and let you know if it does what I want it to do.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I actually knew someone who did this. It involved a table to lift the blower up to the window, and an extension cord. I suppose he could have rigged some kind of cowling between the blower and the window. But yes, it's doable! :)
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Quote:Cringe. Oh no. I think I hear a story about your boss coming on. Peeks an eye open. That's too bad.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain has arrived.
And also don't you hate it when people try to blame you for their mistakes.
It's about her husband but I won't bore you with the details. They just can't get their acts together is all I am saying.
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I'm glad to hear it's just non-serious stuff!
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Quote:Hmmmmm.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:To answer your question though, I don't suppose I'd live very long messing around with cyanide. I never looked into it before. Never had any reason to.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:You got me a little curious.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Went out after that and picked up a few gallons of ammonia for the racoon. Thought about mixing it with bleach to really smoke them out, but everybody seems to think that's a really bad idea.
I'm going to try just the ammonia first, but desperate times call for desperate measures. If I have to sleep out in the garage for a few days I will if that's what it takes to get them out. Seeing what I saw yesterday I really don't care if they get poisoned and die. I'm so done with this.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
In your belief system, how many breathes of cyanide do you imagine you can endure?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
You are trying to create cyanide by mixing bleach and ammonia.
But you have no interest it evaluating the effects of the cyanide you'd be creating.
Why do you think entire towns or neighborhoods are evacuated when spills of these happen? Unless your garage is in a different township. Or maybe your attic is better ventilated than THE OUTDOORS.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I'm glad to hear it's just non-serious stuff!
Ah, it is so-so stuff. He had to pay me and wrote out a cheque on his American account. He talked to me on Monday about it and then said, "You try to do a favour for someone. And you seemed like you were in a hurry on Thursday." Should also add that he dragged me to my bank to talk to them about it and I told him that they noticed the difference on the cheque.
I was waiting for his wife to get home to pay me but he was and I stress he was the one trying to rush me out of the house. He couldn't make up his mind then decided to pay me.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Hmmmmm.
You are trying to create cyanide by mixing bleach and ammonia.
But you have no interest it evaluating the effects of the cyanide you'd be creating.
Why do you think entire towns or neighborhoods are evacuated when spills of these happen? Unless your garage is in a different township. Or maybe your attic is better ventilated than THE OUTDOORS.
Mixing bleach and ammonia does not create cyanide. It doesn't create mustard gas either, which is a common misconception.
It creates a toxic chlorine reaction.
This wasn't going to be a spill either. It would have been a controlled environment with a few small cups mixed.
Dangerous? Yes.
But you're mistaken about the magnitude of the danger.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I actually knew someone who did this. It involved a table to lift the blower up to the window, and an extension cord. I suppose he could have rigged some kind of cowling between the blower and the window. But yes, it's doable! :)
I DID IT!!!!!
And it is WONDERFUL!
Constructed a table from some scrap 4"x4"'s I had from an old pool teardown that I deemed inappropriate for my new stairs, but it was perfect for this job.
When I was looking around for something I had to make the tabletop, I found an old piece of artwork that was framed that I picked up 20 years ago at a goodwill that has followed me around for years but I was getting rid of. I wasn't going to be able to get rid of it until after garbage day, so the timing couldn't have been any better. It was PERFECT for this job.
I got my heaviest thickness tarp from my garage and cut it to the size of the window. Then I took my sweet ass time making the cutout for the blower to make sure I didn't overcut and eventually wrapped it up heavy with duct tape before fitting it on the blower and then wrapping it around the interior of the window frame. I'm sure it's not airtight up to NASA specs, but it's great for what I need.
Had a few extra extension cords when my folks left, so I got the shortest heavy duty one I could find and cut it so I could make a plug for the blower. Made it short since I have an outlet right under the window and don't have to worry about extra heat from voltage drops of a long cord. :)
Most of this work I did while in a 120+ degree attic because it was easier than making a ton of trips up and down from my garage to the attic. I was covered head to toe in sweat and my clothes were soaked by the time it was done.
But then I plugged it in and the wind tunnel blew all that moisture away.
This thing is so powerful that at the slightly downward angle I had it pointed I could feel the wind gusting at me 20 feet away from the front of my house from that window.
Within 20 minutes my attic temperature dropped 40 degrees. This type of temperature drop would normally not have happened until at least 4:00AM in the morning with the windows open by themselves and no forced air flow.
It's still 80 degrees out even though the sun is down, and it's only going to get down to 75 degrees tonight and 78 degrees the next two nights. So it's not exactly going to be A/C here for the next few days, but I should be able to get the indoor temperature down to whatever the outdoor temperature gets down to by the time the sun comes up and I close the windows for the day.
This is so awesome.
I'll be starting my morning off tomorrow with a temp in the mid to high 70's on my 2nd floor and in the attic instead of the low 80's and low 90's respectively. The attic will still get super hot again, but the house will not get as hot tomorrow as it did today because it started off cooler than it did yesterday even though it will be hotter tomorrow.
Next week the temps will be getting in the 90's during the day but the mid 60's at night. I might actually need a blanket when I'm sleeping now if I've got this thing running then.
The entire house has so much airflow right now that even though it's still around 80 I don't even need a box fan on me in front of the TV now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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78 degrees on the 2nd floor as I write this. 
So... I didn't quite get down to an equal temperature outside. The low last night was 74 degrees a few hours ago, but only for that hour. Right now it's around 76 degrees. It might be impossible to get it completely even without any actual cooling forces at work. You've got to figure that there are heated up areas, particularly in the shell of the house that's exposed to the sun all day long, that are just not going to have all of the airflow necessary to cool off completely in the time between sundown and sun up.
Seeing a temp in the 70's is still amazing though, given how hot it was yesterday and how it didn't drop that low last night. I do believe that the next few days will be entirely manageable without A/C, even if they aren't 100% comfortable.
I actually woke up at some point in the middle of the night and with the box fan on me I was so chilly I had to pull up my blanket!
It was 85 degrees on the second floor at around 9:30PM when I first turned it on for the whole night. By that time, since I had already run it about 20 minutes earlier, the attic was already much cooler than it normally would have gotten until around 4:00AM. I figure that compared to my average night here without the new system in place, I got an extra 4 degrees of cooling on that 2nd floor thermostat than I would have in the livable space. The attic is just as cool now, which never happens. It's unknown how much effect this will have though.
My hope is, that overall, the temperature on the 2nd floor thermostat doesn't go over 83 today with the windows closed, even though it will get to 94 outside. Fingers crossed.
...
I would have already shut it off now, but we're having a thunderstorm and the humidity is plunging a bit in the next 1 1/2 or so. Maybe I can get a little of that drier air in the house before I button it up for the day.
Next 3 days will be the real test. High of 94, Low of 79. High of 98, low of 79. High of 93, low of 73.
After that, the highs all seem to be in the 80's with the lows in the 60s. I won't count on that until it happens though.
Oh... and the house has probably never smelled so nice. I'd imagine that there were parts of the house that haven't seen much if any airflow in decades that got all that fresh cool air.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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