Ask This Old House | Seismic Retrofit, Dryer Vent (S17 E11) | FULL EPISODE
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- čas přidán 15. 10. 2019
- Kevin travels to Portland, Oregon to learn how to protect homes from earthquakes; Mark stains concrete; in Open House, Tom explains why and how to change the locks in a new home; Richard travels to Cleveland to reroute a lengthy dryer vent.
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Ask This Old House | Seismic Retrofit, Dryer Vent (S17 E11) | FULL EPISODE
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In Alaska our gaslines are connected with a flexible attachment that way it moves and doesn’t break. Also gas company immediately shuts gas off when we have an earthquake as well as power to prevent fires/explosions etc.
The dryer vent. Reminds me of a Ron White skit. Said his wife (who is lower upper class, BTW, and he is upper middle class. Or so he says. :D) said that the dryer quit working. He asked her if she had cleaned out the lint trap. She gave him a blank confused look so he said that he would check it out. Takes out the lint trap and his wife asks him what he sees. He replied "A sweater." :D
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I worked to restore services after the Lome Prieta earthquake. Houses were shaken from their foundations especially in the Aptos mountains. The one that survived the best was a geodesic dome house that was tied together with steel cables through the perimeter walls. It was 30 years ago this year.
Don't know why I bother watching the video when the experts are in the comments
Lol. Drilled through a stud. The dryer vent. 🤣
Anchor plates? Is that to say the house was built without anchor bolts through the sill plates?
love this program
Man says to Richard " welcome to Cleveland " he said something no one else has ever said "glad to be here" 😂😂
Very nice
when the christchurch earthquake struck it was the concrete and brick houses that suffered the most structural damage, the wooden houses flexed, cracks appeared in the walls and the floors sagged but, but you could still live in them, whereas the houses built on a concrete pads in the same area tended to be uninhabitable
Did it bother anyone else that he wasn't covering the whole slab of concrete with the stain?
It was a test piece to be tossed out after anyways, why waste more paint?
That dryer is going to have to work 60-70% less hard, now that the vent is 6' instead of 37' !
What I'm surprised by, is most dryers have a side discharge option also and why they didn't use it or show if it had the option. If there was, they could have eliminated the elbow which adds like 5-6' of pipe and would have a direct shot outside and then could be put right against the wall. Either way, 100% better.
Need some caulking around the dryer vent pipe on the inside & some on the outside, too. If the holy is bigger than 1/4" around the pipe, probably should use some spray foam, too.
That 'seismic retrofit' is gonna come apart like a dollar suit in any significant seismic event.
Proof?
History has actually shown the opposite. The retrofit systems were designed by university mechanical and civil engineers and physicists based on inspecting tons of damaged buildings and undamaged buildings in California's 1989 and 1991 earthquakes as well as places like Japan, to see what survived and what did not. They've been proven to save tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages from happening even in very severe events. And they cost a fraction of the price of earthquake insurance or other measures.
About your dryer vent install. What did you end up drilling through? Did you check for studs, electrical, or plumbing before drilling? A 4" hole saw can do a lot of damage in the wrong hands.
shouldn't be any plumbing on exterior wall.
For the dryer vent, shouldn't there be some type of insulation (foam maybe?)
You can but not really needed unless it starts to sweat.
Any body know if those stains can be used on concrete the has old point on it? And if not, what's the easiest way to get old paint of concrete?
“We’re going to install some specialty EXPENSIVE hardware” and if the impending quake is as big as they say that house will be rubble anyway....
No caulking around the siding fixture?
How do you ever pull the dryer out for cleaning etc ??
Sorry Tommie but it's easier and cheaper to remove the locks and have them rekeyed at a lock shoo. Cheaper and then they can be all keyed alike.
maybe you take that drywall cutout from new hole and patch the old. no?
Shear transfer tie lol. Just a fancy term for an A-35. Nothing fancy about those. One thing they don't mention here is that the foundation will most likely crumble in an earthquake of the magnitude possible on the Cascadia fault line. Any home built before the early 90s most likely has insufficient rebar. Any home built before the 1950s may not have rebar at all. He did touch on the old old homes pre 1930 that will be cobble stone foundations which can be taken apart by hand. These preventative measures aren't a total waste of time but don't think that because you retro fit your 1960s ranch that you will be safe in a good rumbler. Ideally any strapping you do should go the full height of the foundation and should be a thru bolt with a plate or strap on the other side. Those FAP plates are useless imo. Short little screws near the top of the wall where there will be no bar. Feel good story though
Unreal that the earthquake building codes weren’t established until 1990. Only 30 years ago that they started building structures to with stand an earthquake.
looks like homie in cleveland bought a Ryan home. Those don't even come with a second coat of paint...
Hopefully they make it code that gas company needs to install the emergency gas shutoff safety on all their meters.
I saw this man take the brush, I have not seen a painter, do you have a painter that shows how to paint and use the rolland brushes?
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nothing said about installing plywood shearwalls
The Gas meter Should Be Kept Well Away from the house,
people have to be told a dryer has a lint trap?
Can that concrete stain be used on cinderblock
Should work on most masonry surfaces like stone, concrete, brick and block.
Yes but I'd thin it out a bit with some water or mist the block with water with a spray bottle. The CMU block will be way more absorbing than concrete. If you're applying the same color on a concrete floor then onto a block wall I'd experiment in a less noticeable area to make sure you have the color matched.
Those people’s are paranoid by earthquakes from too much rain
if there a over due "big one", it will be big enough to rip the house down
Put a little sealant on that cap.
And never just drill a big hole in a wall with out checking the wall 🙏🏻
@@geissler7457 what's the worst that could happen? They were several feet from the electrical service
Kevin used the term coverage describing the concrete stain when he should have used hiding power.
Well Tori, I think you're in pretty good shape", and that shape is: a sphere.
Please don’t confuse Portland with the rest of Oregon it’s completely different. Thank you from Douglas county
Her: OMG that must be 7 inches
Him: 5 I measured it 😉
You're not funny.
Home adviser IS A Complete RIPOFF!!!
I used it to just see companies for some plumbing issues. Because you cannot find them without putting in what you need done.
I never submitted my info to be contacted by anyone. Now they are keep contacting me.
Have the Americans found front loading washing machines yet .You don’t find many top loaders now in the uk
Most are front loading now. What I don't understand is why is it taking forever to bring ductless heat pump dryers to the US. From my understanding those are extremely popular and energy efficient.
Dryer vents should be aluminum, not galvanized. "Moisture"
Yes aluminum would be better but not really needed.
Spend thousands... or just run outside...
gangisspawn1 Or don’t spend thousands on your house, go through a major quake, have your house red tagged, then have to stay in a motel for who knows how long while spending thousands of dollars having your house repaired or rebuilt. Which would you choose?
@@GalapagosPete the guy literally said this does not protect against damage. So your house is totalled reguardless. Anything else you want to misrepresent?
gangisspawn1 A building can be damaged while not being anywhere near totaled, or even uninhabitable. The point is to keep the house habitable, or at least more easily repaired as opposed to being totaled.
@@GalapagosPete good go pay for that on your house, fool. Get volcano insurance too.
gangisspawn1 So you don’t think that it is in anyway reasonable to attempt to mitigate damage from a relatively frequent natural event?
I'm sorry and not trying to sound mean but this guy with his earthquake bs don't know anything he just one of these college people who have degrees in nothing probably can't even read a tape measure