Install an Anti-Scald Valve in Your Shower

There is an aspect of the fairy tale Goldilocks that applies to a good shower.

You can suffer potentially dangerous burns if the water is too cold or too hot.

The perfect balance is to find a warm enough shower that is comfortable without scalding you. Installing an anti-scald valve can help prevent a sudden jump in temperature during a shower. Showers can still be affected by forces beyond your control, regardless of how carefully you adjust the water temperature. Someone flushing the toilet or turning on the dishwasher could abruptly change the water pressure, causing it to become icy cold or fiery hot. Anti-scald valves are plumbing installations that protect you from unexpected temperature changes. Your shower handle must be disassembled in order to install an anti-scald valve. Cut the water supply line at the point where you want to install the new valve once you’ve accessed the water supply line behind the old valve. Following the manufacturer’s instructions, solder the new valve into place. Before you put the plumbing installation back together, turn the gear on the valve to set maximum water temperature. In addition to the risk of burns, there is a secondary danger associated with hot flashes in the shower – the sudden change in temperature can make the person in the shower jump or startle, resulting in a slip-and-fall accident. One more tip for reducing your risk of burns in the shower is to keep the temperature of your hot water heater set to 120 degrees. Most heaters go up to 140 degrees, but that is hotter than many people can stand and ends up being a waste of heating energy as well as a burn danger. An anti-scald valve will still come in handy even at maximum temperatures of 120 degrees, and the overall risk of catastrophe will be lower.

 

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The rims and new tires cost me an entire bonus check

Last quarter was the first time that I ever got a bonus check from work.

I honestly didn’t expect to get a bonus check and the extra money seemed like a huge Christmas present.

I thought about putting the money in my savings account, but I was working so hard and I had gone without so much that I decided to splurge and get something that I really wanted. I have an old Chevy Camaro that I only drive on the weekends. The Camaro is easily one of my favorite things in life. The Camaro was a gift from my dad. He drove the car when he was 16 years old and it belonged to his dad. I really wanted to put new rims and tires on the car, but it was going to cost a fortune. When I got a bonus check for $2,800, I decided to use the money for custom rims and tires from the performance stop. The owner of the performance shop ordered all of the items that I needed. When the custom rims and tires came to the auto shop, they installed everything for me. They also added some graphics to the front of the window that I picked out from a book. They also worked on the suspension tuning. I thought there was a problem with the suspension tuning and it turns out that I was correct. Thankfully, the custom automotive shop fixed everything that was a problem and installed the new rims and tires for less than the amount on my bonus check.

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I needed to find a roofing company near me

A few days ago, we had a series of terrible storms.

We received so much rain, that parts of the town I live in flooded and some people needed to be rescued from their homes.

We had a lot of rain in a short amount of time, and the water wasn’t flowing out fast enough. I can only remember one time in my life when my town flooded this way, and this happened way back in the day when I was a child. I remember being scared seeing all the water accumulate near our house. Thankfully, we were lucky because we experienced no significant damages and my house escaped from being flooded. Anyway, when the rain fell a few days ago, it was followed by some heavy winds gusting to over 80 miles per hour. At one point, I was convinced that there was a tornado that passed through, but that was not confirmed by the news. Well, due to the heavy winds and rain, I ended up with a leak in my roof. Some of the shingles broke free and fell down, so I need to get them repaired. I didn’t know any roofing companies in my neighborhood, so I Googled roofing company near me and 3 companies popped up in my search. One company had a perfect 5-star rating and at first, I believed the company was new and had very little reviews. But upon further investigation, I realized that the roofing company has been in business for over 5 years and has over 1,000 customer reviews. For a company to have a perfect 5-star rating, it means that they have been performing excellent service. Needless to say, I hired that company to fix my roof.

 

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Yellow Jacket extermination has become a necessity for us.

By the time the yellow jacket exterminator showed up, I didn’t even want to leave my house, and I was keeping the kids inside

I don’t know a lot about bees, but I know that without them, there would be no vegetation on this earth. Bees pollinate flowers, vegetable plants and the trees. There are some self-pollinating plants, but bees are in the mis somewhere. When I realized I had an infestation of yellow jackets on my property, I knew I had to get a yellow jacket extermination quickly. My kids loved playing outside, and I couldn’t keep shoes on them. I worried they were going to step on a yellow jacket hive and get stung. I called an exterminator and asked if they could come out and looked into the yellow jackets. He made an appointment for three days later. In the meantime, the temperatures were soaring; the humidity was as high as the temperatures, and the bees seemed angrier than ever. I was afraid to let my kids outside, in fear of them getting stung. The bees were now hovering around the porch and I worried they would poke a hole into the screen and get onto the porch and near my kids. By the time the yellow jacket exterminator showed up, I didn’t even want to leave my house, and I was keeping the kids inside. The exterminator returned three times before he was sure he had the yellow jacket infestation under control. He ended up treating the entire yard and all around the house, then returned two more times to make sure all the yellow jackets were gone. I was afraid to stay in the house and moved in with my mom and dad until we could sell the house and buy something else.

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