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Thanks guys for more advice. Yes the walls are drywall in the garage. I know because when I was installing some cabinets years ago, I drove a screw right through the drywall into a drain pipe thinking it was stud and as a result created a pinhole leak…I found out about it when my drywall ended up being a dampwall a few weeks later, and ended up ripping it out and replacing it. I guess worst comes to worst I can bust it out.

Why of why did I not cover up the pipes when I spray painted the walls of my garage years ago… :(.

Looks like I’ll need to stock up on a lot of elbow grease.

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9&products_id=23&zenid=lhcxOiPzn,1ikTnpz6r,c2

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Thanks guy. For most plumbing jobs I normally tackle the job myself but this one has me concerned as I thought that getting things off would be a PITA. I remember the last guy that replaced my water heater changed the valve and was using a torch to install a new valve near the water heater, and he did end up sorching my walls, which annoyed me.

I think what I will do is order the parts, try it myself, and worst comes to worse get a plumber to bail me out.

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Thanks hobbie. I have a propane torch, but maybe this is a good excuse for me to go get a mapp one.

So if I understand you correctly,

1. I need to remove both the valve the regulator together, by desoldering the elbows from both ends…..

2. Since I end up desoldering the both the valve and the regulator, I might as well replace the regulator too since it’s 20 years old too

My concern is that I don’t know if the regulators built today are going to last as well as things built 20 years ago, that’s why I was hoping to keep the old one. I’m finding a lot of the new plumbing hardware just isn’t as reliable.

Do you have a recommendation on a brand of valve and regulator? I think the diameter of my pipes are 1″….Given that the valve as a “1” on it 🙂

For example, what is the difference between

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Watts-1-in-Lead-Free-Brass-FPT-x-FPT-Water-Pressure-Reducing-Valve-1-LF25AUB-Z3/203804614

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Watts-1-in-Lead-Free-Brass-FPT-x-FPT-Pressure-Reducing-Valve-LFN45BU1-M1-1/203473943?MERCH=REC-_-PIPHorizontal1_rr-_-203804614-_-203473943-_-N

besides the $70-$130 price difference. I’ll gladly pay for the one that costs more, if it means it’s of higher quality. But are you really getting more?

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[quote=AN]

As for those high paying jobs, if you net out cost of living, I don’t think those high tech W-2er are better off here. They just have more opportunities, but once they have a decent job, their pay vs rent isn’t as good as places like TX. But our weather and diversity here is awesome, so, people who can stretch it will stay/move in and put up w/ the higher cost of living.

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There might be not much of a choice. There might not be a comparable job elsewhere. For software and lesser extent hardware, your skills probably more readily transferable opportunity to opportunity all over the U.S…But I think for a lot of the high tech jobs, IE biotech, these jobs aren’t prevalent across the U.S…So that’s also maybe why you have some migration here, despite the cost of living. Defense business is another area prone to migration in and out depending on the political winds of change.

[quote]
The question is, what would happen when this migration trend continue for a few more decades. What would happen to all the rural area and small cities of CA? If you make min wage and live in Bakersfield, why wouldn’t you just move to places like Waco,TX? Weather is about the same, but you can buy a small house for <$100k vs $200k in Bakersfield. Also, in the big cities, I think that with more blue collar working (plumber/electrician/etc) moving out, those who are left will charge more for their service to afford the cost of living and due to simple supply/demand. So, net income for those high tech earner might not be so great. [/quote] True.. I look at that as more problems for engineers and automation/robotics to solve :)... Maybe we get to a point that for some types of work, we simply don't need as many people to do those jobs anymore. Eventually, there will be some equilibrium. Whether it's increasing minimum wage, which leads to companies depending on more machines and/or increasing consumer costs, or both.... When that happens, don't know.

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[quote=EconProf]

Actually FIH, it is pretty well documented that outmigration from CA to other states far exceeds in-migration from other states. Our population still grows due to a higher than average birth rate plus the influx of foreigners, legal and illegal.
They leave not only for jobs but the lower taxes and cost of living. Your money simply goes farther.
Allow me to cite my own examples, since I spend half my days in San Diego and half in Yuma, AZ, two and a half hours east of El Cajon, (we own and manage commercial properties in and around Yuma).
A typical Mira Mesa house (3,2, 1600 SF) would cost $220,000 in a good Yuma suburb. Property taxes, @ 2% of market value would be less than the roughly 1.25% of the Mira Mesa house value.
BTW, That MM type house would rent for $1,000 in Yuma.
Yes, AC costs may be $300 during the summer, but drop to $100 in and around winter. Water and sewer bills much lower.
Since traffic is lighter and most everything is within twenty minutes, commuting costs are lower and you save scads of time in your day.
Gasoline is $2.09. Hired labor is cheap. Tonight we will go see La La Land for $5.50 each. Groceries are far cheaper, even compared to the same
grocery chain as San Diego. Fruit and vegetables are cheaper because Yuma is the salad capital of the country.
As for state income taxes, mine are 60% lower in AZ compared to CA, which has the highest rates in the nation.
I suspect Texas is much like Yuma in these respects (except no income tax whatsoever). In short, one’s standard of living depends heavily on the differing cost of taxes, goods, and services in each area.[/quote]

Yes, but I doubt you can find all the biotech and engineering jobs in Yuma as you can in Sorrento Valley….And because you have all those biotech and engineering jobs, you have people spending that can support all the ancillary businesses in the neighborhood, restaurants,shops, day care, kids activity businesses, etc,etc,etc. And since you have mom and dad in techville, mom and dad probably ends up spending money on little jane on john to send them to thinkgs like kumon and piano/violin lessons, etc,etc because they want them to be little tiger moms and tiger dads when they grow up.

Hence why MM is where it is where it is.

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svelte,

That probably makes sense to what we’re seeing in CA. High skills, higher paid jobs are in CA drives more people with those skills to come here. And people with those higher income levels can deal with the higher cost of living and taxes. Probably still more opportunity than many other places in the u.s.

People without those skills and who can’t obtain those skills are being driven out of the state due to the cost of living and availability of those jobs, which is getting harder to sustain in CA. And probably, their standard of living would be better off elsewhere.

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I went with Google home and all its companion products.

Amazon did everything intentionally to make Alexa, Echo, etc not work with chromecast and other Google media services even before Google came out with competing products.. Amazon also stopped selling chromecasts a while back because it wanted to push its fire products.

Google fired back and intentionally made things incompatible with Alexa, echo, fire.

Google had a black friday sale where Google Home was $99, and $25 cash back if you ordered with a visa.

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[quote=spdrun]Buy stocks in uranium miners and prefab fallout shelter makers for after Trump realizes Putin was stringing him along.[/quote]

if you say so 🙁

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[quote=harvey]Temecula is now 9%[/quote]

Really? Even after the .25% repeal?

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I think I’m going to start a fake news version of piggington.com..

Think of a cheap chinese copy of piggington, complete with the misspelling…

pinyington.com… It might constitute trademark infringement, but I promise to run the fake news pinyington.com off of a server in China.

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[quote=CA renter]Ask phaster! ;)[/quote]

No way man. He has is own website with a low hit count, and that’s why he needed to post on a bigger medium on piggington with indirect links he posted here to some of his “publications” he makes on his websites. I don’t think it generates that much money with the web hits count.

I want real paid trolls that are making a lot of money off of this…If there are any state sponsored trolls from Russia or China, even better. Where do I sign up?

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Damn, people actually get paid to troll???? You mean all this time I could have been getting paid for posting all my posts? WTF????

Where do I sign up????? I want to get paid for this!!!!

Please… Anyone who is a paid troll posting here. Can you please share where do I sign up to get paid to troll? If you don’t want to share publicly. Can you please PM me and tell me how to sign up?

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What’s up with the conspiracy theories proping up all over the place?

It doesn’t appear to be a left or right thing. It’s more like a “bunch of people in this country have lost their marbles” thing….

Have people in this country been eating too much beef and mad cow is setting in or something?

Sorry, that’s a conspiracy theory..Damn, I should go get myself checked out too….

Anyway, carry on… Don’t mind me. I’m just trying to make sense of all this apparent paranoia.

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I look at craigslist to see the comparables near my units and what they renting for.

I figure when I do raise rent prices, the tenant will first look at craigslist to see if there are places nearby that are as good or better, for a better price.

I make sure they won’t find anything better at a better price 🙂

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But seriously… at $16/share, maybe I should buy twitter shares. I mean, I don’t believe in their business model… But part of me thinks they won’t ever go under….

I mean, it’s the President’s primary way of communicating to the american people…. It’s not going anywhere….

Thoughts?

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