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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

Jampy00 said:
I totally agree, We've just finished the "inspection stage" of our house and I'll say that the inspector filled the buyer with so many "might lead to" situations it made our heads spin (we have camera's in our house). Luckily I made them an offer they could not refuse (I gave them a slight discount and 3 hours to either buy or F-Off) they bought, we're done... Thank sweet baby Jebus...
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So that means the inspector did exactly what he was supposed to do!

A house inspector's job is to find issues, and 'protect' their client. They 'found' issues with your house, the buyers used that leverage to get you to drop your price.

I'd say that inspector was worth his fee.
 
mimico_polak said:
So that means the inspector did exactly what he was supposed to do!

A house inspector's job is to find issues, and 'protect' their client. They 'found' issues with your house, the buyers used that leverage to get you to drop your price.

I'd say that inspector was worth his fee.
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A house inspection is always a good investment, never said it wasn't.

But at the end of the day the deal was done and that is all that matters.
 
GreyGhost said:
First impression isn't going well. Bought a couple in a store. Checked the dates when I got home. There is a hard expiry date coded into the detector. One was 1.5 years old, the other 2.5 years old already. WTF. Make it 10 years from install or clean up your bloody supply chain and pull all of the ones you didn't sell fast enough. You advertise a 10 year life, people don't expect that to be 25% over when purchased. I will try to swap these out and see if I can get better dates. More incoming from another supplier, no idea about dates on those. If the other stock doesn't have good dates, I will return the two I bought and buy direct from google to see if I get something recent. Useless tits.



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They should just make these subscription. They basically are anyway with the hard coded end date. Charge $15/yr/detector and ship you new ones three months before they expire (as the last two months have excessive beeping and are basically useless). That solves the supply problem as I don't care how old they are.

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Returned the ones I had. Store had three aug 2032 expires and one apr 2031. Screw that, I understand there is some supply chain but anything over six months is unacceptable imo when they are hard coded with a death date. These need to be treated like cheese not pencils.

Tried chat in the google canada store to see how new their stock is (or more likely how they deal with shipping old crap). Fast response. Uber painful. Not sure if I was talking to AI or ESL. Very friendly. Very little understanding. Got passed to Nest Protect support. Still very friendly with very little understanding. They went away for a few minutes (real human swapping in?). More stupid answers like they hadn't read the thread (warranty is two years). They talked about warranty as two years and "replace by" is 10 years. I ask to confirm that I can return for free if replace by is much less than 10 years from order. They say warranty is two years. They are stuck in a loop. Ask about returns if I am not happy. "Warranty is two years." F me. This is very painful. We're at 30 minutes with no answer yet.
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Slightly better experience this round. Ordered from Google and Best Buy on Tuesday. Both got delivered today. Expiry dates of May and July 2033. I can live with that. I still think they should give you 10 years of useful life (including the ability to silence the last few months of annoyance) but this is close enough. Two installed with no issues. More to go. They can't enunciate custom names (which seems ridiculous, you think they could try as part of the setup and you give them a thumbs up or down). Furnace or mechanical rooms are not options so that one is called Cellar when it yells at me. I'll know what that is and others may guess basement somewhere but won't know exactly where.
 
Speaking of siding, the new house has a number of wires (5-10) running along the back, on top of the siding. My guess is years of different internet and Sat. TV providers. While we plan on changing the siding (in the near future) the wires will remain. Anyone have a similar situation but has found a solution to tidy them up or hide them?

The picture is not our house (Thank God) but gives you an idea of what we are dealing with, luckily ours are mostly horizontal.
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Jampy00 said:
Speaking of siding, the new house has a number of wires (5-10) running along the back, on top of the siding. My guess is years of different internet and Sat. TV providers. While we plan on changing the siding (in the near future) the wires will remain. Anyone have a similar situation but has found a solution to tidy them up or hide them?

The picture is not our house (Thank God) but gives you an idea of what we are dealing with, luckily ours are mostly horizontal.
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Why would the wires remain? You are probably right that they are generations of abandoned tech. I would disconnect them and see what stops working. If you don't lose anything important, throw them in the bin as part of the siding project.

If you need to leave them or if you want to run ethernet places, you could strap that wall, run wires in the created space and then install siding over the strapping. Wires where you need them and hidden. Just be careful not to nail into the wires.
 
Jampy00 said:
Speaking of siding, the new house has a number of wires (5-10) running along the back, on top of the siding. My guess is years of different internet and Sat. TV providers. While we plan on changing the siding (in the near future) the wires will remain. Anyone have a similar situation but has found a solution to tidy them up or hide them?

The picture is not our house (Thank God) but gives you an idea of what we are dealing with, luckily ours are mostly horizontal.
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I know the picture is not yours but what is in the picture is most likely CableTV coax unless there is a dish connected.... There is a double ground block and a three way splitter, green wire is ground and likely going to an outdoor (water) tap. Depends if you have older set-top boxes or not if it is required or not.

Modern deployments will just feed the modem and then WiFi to the IPTV set-tops. Older systems (still running) required a coax feed to each TV box. Grounding should remain!
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Edit, it could also be connected to an OTA antenna, where it is coming from is easy enough to figure out by looking up :)
 
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Jampy00 said:
Speaking of siding, the new house has a number of wires (5-10) running along the back, on top of the siding. My guess is years of different internet and Sat. TV providers. While we plan on changing the siding (in the near future) the wires will remain. Anyone have a similar situation but has found a solution to tidy them up or hide them?

The picture is not our house (Thank God) but gives you an idea of what we are dealing with, luckily ours are mostly horizontal.
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I had a very similar thing as well here at our house. Thanks to @oioioi we were able to open up the Rogers box and figure out that 2/3 cables coming out weren't actually connected to anything, just left behind over time by lazy techs.

Snipped the non-functioning cables, and was left with 1 single cable for the internet. The other cables were outright disconnected.

Once you figure that out, you can actually tuck the cables under the siding. We have a similar setup at the cottage, and I ran the cables with clips under a row of siding, and then in the corner trim tucked underneath for a nicer look.

EDIT: You can use these vinyl siding clips (or something like it) to re-route the cabling as you see fit.

 
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@Jampy00
Those are all Coax which you may or may be using in the future dependong on the services you will have. (internet/TV)


Let me know and I am happy to come out and help with with figuring out the wire sitruation.
Running Ethernet is your best option for best internet service thorught the hosue.
 
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backmarkerducati said:
I know the picture is not yours but what is in the picture is most likely CableTV coax unless there is a dish connected.... There is a double ground block and a three way splitter, green wire is ground and likely going to an outdoor (water) tap. Depends if you have older set-top boxes or not if it is required or not.

Modern deployments will just feed the modem and then WiFi to the IPTV set-tops. Older systems (still running) required a coax feed to each TV box. Grounding should remain!
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Edit, it could also be connected to an OTA antenna, where it is coming from is easy enough to figure out by looking up :)
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The picture was simply to show wires on top of the siding not a specific use and/or product. But we won't know until spring 2024..
 
oioioi said:
@Jampy00
Those are all Coax which you may or may be using in the future dependong on the services you will have. (internet/TV)


Let me know and I am happy to come out and help with with figuring out the wire sitruation.
Running Ethernet is your best option for best internet service thorught the hosue.
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I will 100% take you up on this offer. Again I have no idea what the wires are for and if any can be removed.
I do know that for TV it will be Bell Expressvu and for Internet it could either be Bell fibe (They say it is available now) or Xplore (I think this is what the house has now. Antenna thingie on roof)
 
Jampy00 said:
I will 100% take you up on this offer. Again I have no idea what the wires are for and if any can be removed.
I do know that for TV it will be Bell Expressvu and for Internet it could either be Bell fibe (They say it is available now) or Xplore (I think this is what the house has now. Antenna thingie on roof)
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If you can get bell FIBE. TAKE IT.

Explorenet is horrible.

PM me and we can make arrangemnets
 
oioioi said:
If you can get bell FIBE. TAKE IT.

Explorenet is horrible.

PM me and we can make arrangemnets
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We're be looking into what the best option is Once we're settled and I could be wrong about what is currently in use.
I have to make sure P@rnhub is 4K or what's the point right?... LOL

I'll be sure to PM you. Thanks again.
 
Jampy00 said:
We're be looking into what the best option is Once we're settled and I could be wrong about what is currently in use.
I have to make sure P@rnhub is 4K or what's the point right?... LOL

I'll be sure to PM you. Thanks again.
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On a slightly related note. If you have a rental hot water tank or furnace, there is a very very small window to make it go away after closing. 48 hours or less. If you miss that window, you are stuck with their extortion.
 
Jampy00 said:
I will 100% take you up on this offer. Again I have no idea what the wires are for and if any can be removed.
I do know that for TV it will be Bell Expressvu and for Internet it could either be Bell fibe (They say it is available now) or Xplore (I think this is what the house has now. Antenna thingie on roof)
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Do not do xplor it is worse than dial up. Anything else is better.

Sent from the future
 
GreyGhost said:
On a slightly related note. If you have a rental hot water tank or furnace, there is a very very small window to make it go away after closing. 48 hours or less. If you miss that window, you are stuck with their extortion.
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Both purchased
 
Scuba Steve said:
Do not do xplor it is worse than dial up. Anything else is better.

Sent from the future
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We had Xplorenet at one of our rural sites -- changed over to Starlink, a bit pricier but so far so good.
 
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