If you had to get a bricklayer in and could find one, it would't be cheap. Trowel trade knowledge is handy for the small jobs. Bricking your own house is a different matter.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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Pics or it didn’t happen!
Standard recommendation is full dump and refill every 100 days or so. In practice, I normally do it twice a year. Maybe I could get away with less. I try not to do it in the middle of winter for obvious reasons. Dumped gives you a chance to scrub (normally minimal stuff to clean) and repair any minor issues. Most people use stabilized chlorine (granules or pellets) in their hottub. If you never dump, the cyanuric acid level keeps rising and eventually you are up the creek as CYA too high prevents chlorine from working.
As for down the drain, official municipal policy is normally get it to zero before disposing in sanitary sewer, do not dispose in storm sewer. In practice, city water is normally about 1 ppm chlorine anyway so dumping a hot tub at 5-10 ppm into the sanitary sewer will have almost zero impact on the treatment plant. Storm sewer often goes directly to a creek so they discourage dumping chlorine in it.
I dump pool/hot tub water into some bush. No noticeable effect on health/growth.
Somebody I worked with, bought a backup hard drive, then returned it every six months for a bigger one, until they changed the store policy.
sburns
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Lol
A guy I use to work with use to by a camera every time they went on vacation, and returned it afterwards.
I dumped mine every three months minimum , sometime more in summer as sunscreen ect builds in the water , filters only get so much. Mine went out onto the lawn , no issues that I ever saw , I tried to time it over winter so late Dec got a dump and late March so I was not dumping when freezing. Most don’t take as much water to fill as people think .
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The one that came with our house is a little over 2000 liters. Thats about two hours with a hose and then a day to get up to temp. So about $10 worth of water and $15 worth of electricity. I normally fill from a hot water tap so it uses a lot less electricity and some natural gas. Should be cheaper. I havent clocked the gas meter to see how much gas that uses.
One of my friends buys a tv and returns it a week before the return period…
‘I was not satisfied with this product’
And they take it back every time.
I’m too honest for my own good.
sburns
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Yeah I told my bud he was trash for doing it, his response was they let me do it.
Mad Mike
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Chlorine has a pretty short life, dumping/backwashing to the storm sewers is pretty much standard in most places.
I dump straight to the grass -- seems to be OK as my grass is pretty good.
Technically it's grey water, a No-no at cottages. Septic systems don't like the flood. In the city the bird, raccoon and squirrel crap is worse.
Well there’s some u happy Torontonians now….I love this service in our area but who knows how much longer we’ll have it still.
I think leaf vacuum vs bag makes a lot of sense. The level of entitlement of the homeowners is appalling. If they think it is a valuable service, private contractors can do the same job for them. Oh wait, they want others to subsidize their perk and wouldn't dream of paying for it themselves.
Agreed. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out we have this service.
I’ll use it while it lasts but won’t be upset when they eventually remove it.
I mean hell we have it, and majority of Mississauga doesn’t have it.
We get it 2x in the season. The rest is bag pickup.
I’m in central Etobicoke and have to bag, dozens of them.
Last week I noticed the house across the street had left a huge pile at the curb. An hour later a private suction rig showed up and hoovered them away.
sburns
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Never knew this was a thing. I have a ravine out back.
A friend was the same. He raked all is leaves onto a tarp, dragged it into the ravine and dumped them. In the spring they were almost gone
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