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Rayo in Escondido

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Visit a wholesale flooring distributor ask for names of good contractors. Better than the Home Depot contractors. Cash talks.

Go with heavy duty or commercial grade vinyl. Cheap stuff tears and dents easily. ( take a look where the refrig rolls in ) Labor cost same just material is a bit higher.

Engineered floor snaps together easily and can be replaced quickly as well. Handyman ok for square/rectangle rooms. More skill needed for nice transitions to other rooms, angles, under stairway thresholds, fireplaces, etc.

Spend the $ to flatten the floor. If not, there will be dips which will flex causing the connection between each board to fail.

One problem w/laminate is the is something heavy drops on it, it will chip. Be sure to include damage replacement costs in lease and note any pre-existing damage w/ photo at time of lease sign. Also water damage will wreak floor too. Nothing new for you here, I’m just on a roll.

Remember to include new baseboards in your budget.

Depending on the property ( style ) some people use different wood floor in each room. Some like the artsy feel, while others do not like the dissymmetry. The advantage is you may find at the wholesale supply small lots of leftover material at a great price. Enough to do a 10×12 room, say.

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CAR: The trenching is the reason for the $$. City permits, marking out, working around existing utilitys add to cost. If you had underground conduit sized accordingly for the new service, cheaper or free new wire upgrade to the meter, me thinks.

More $$ if drop is from overhead pole supplied by undersized xformer as Blog mentioned.

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How about M-Th=$
Weekends=Free

..sounds like a Verizon ad.:)

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CAR: Can’t speak about the solar, but maybe it has something to do with selling more electricity. When I did it it was an upgrade to allow 400 amp service when an accessory building was built. About 4 yrs ago and maybe just lucked up and got the right planner at SDGE:)

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You need a larger amperage panel (>=125amp). The recontact your utility. Tell them the solar is part of a larger remodel where as you will be upgrading the electric in the home including a larger panel. They will pull new cable up to the meter at no charge.

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[quote=6packscaredy] then send kids home with hours of homework to cover up their own failure to get anything done in school.[/quote]

Huge amount of truth this statement. Nice.

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I thought ‘Midnight Basketball’ was the fix. //

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C-mon Brian, as mentioned by the OP, this is just a simple econ lesson. Nothing more, nothing less. Just a down and dirty econ introduction.

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I don’t know but educators are supposed to understand how children think. Specifically, at the elementary level, boys thinks girls have cooties, or whatever term is hip today. To introduce them to the gay concept is off their radar at this age. But they do understand an adopted kid.

I really think rather that get bogged down in the gay issue, the text and lesson should focus on adoption of a child. Period. Teach these kids that an adopted child is the same as every other kid in school. Big lesson here.

Now as the kids mature, you can introduce gay parents, non-traditional lifestyles etc. Fine. Early elem education including two mom adopting a kid complicates the issue and to me points to an agenda.

I could be argued that captitalists are exploiting the liberal educators and playing into their hand and creating new textbooks for sale at taxpayers expense.

I dunno.

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[quote=The-Shoveler]I really hope Fuel-Cell-V’s (and even pure EV’s) become cheap, I just have little faith that they will, the tech is always perpetually 5 years away, it never seems to come to fruition (been like that for at least 15 years – think Ballard Power), meanwhile 50 MPG Hybrid’s are here today and cheap today. (some under 20K)..[/quote]

So true. I still have a Ballard play and kick myself as they are just going in circles. Still have hope for fuel cells at every home and business. Using natural gas that is already plumbed in seems like a easy adoption. But we just wait.

While initially enthused with fuel cell for autos and charging them again with natural gas at home, I’ve had a change of mind as I’m not so sure we can trust the masses with connecting high pressure natural gas lines. Even with interlocks, venting, quickcouplers, etc. Cable for EV, fine. But the risk of gas leaks, read liability, are huge.

Still pullin’ for diesel or diesel/electric.

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[quote=] weight Vs. energy density [/quote]

This is where turbo diesel wins out. Clean, proven technology and in place infrastructure.

Has anyone thought of the collectors of the future with EV autos? Perusing the internet looking for a propitiatory controller board for xx model EV. Unobtainium. But they can still get Model A and ’57 Chevys running. Hmmm.

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Say goodnight, Dick. I think this has run its course.

btw, ( Dick Martin reference on Laugh In. ..old school, ha. )

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[quote=sdduuuude]
The point is that the school is forcing discussions of sexuality earlier than he is comfortable with.

It’s a good point.[/quote]

Bingo. SDD. Everything else is another discussion.

And Flu, friggin’ genius wrt Brian. Nicely done.

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I think he is just spoofing as Westside advertises on AM radio.

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