u/Full-Mouse8971

Reinforcing South facing wall sheathing on cabin

I have plywood exterior walls with pinetar/lineseed oil for protection in my cabin. I have vertical boards covering the gaps where the plywood meet. Interior I have typical pink insulation and drywall.

I want to reinforce the south facing wall to help with heat in the summer and combat the elements / uv degradation and heat. I have a ton of extra roofing metal. Im considering putting the metal roofing on this south facing exterior wall leaving a 1" air gap between the metal roofing and the plywood wall.

Googles saying "Putting a metal exterior on a south-facing wall can cause massive heat gain" but I am not sure how exactly, there will be an air gap and the metal roofing is what will be heating up, not the plywood walls.

Would this be an effective solution? Or is there a better idea?

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u/Full-Mouse8971 — 2 days ago

Reinforcing South facing wall sheathing on cabin

I have plywood exterior walls with pinetar/lineseed oil for protection in my cabin. I have vertical boards covering the gaps where the plywood meet. Interior I have typical pink insulation and drywall.

I want to reinforce the south facing wall to help with heat in the summer and combat the elements / uv degradation and heat. I have a ton of extra roofing metal. Im considering putting the metal roofing on this south facing exterior wall leaving a 1" air gap between the metal roofing and the plywood wall.

Googles saying "Putting a metal exterior on a south-facing wall can cause massive heat gain" but I am not sure how exactly, there will be an air gap and the metal roofing is what will be heating up, not the plywood walls.

Would this be an effective solution? Or is there a better idea?

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u/Full-Mouse8971 — 2 days ago

Reinforcing South facing wall sheathing on cabin

I have plywood exterior walls with pinetar/lineseed oil for protection in my cabin. I have vertical boards covering the gaps where the plywood meet. Interior I have typical pink insulation and drywall.

I want to reinforce the south facing wall to help with heat in the summer and combat the elements / uv degradation and heat. I have a ton of extra roofing metal. Im considering putting the metal roofing on this south facing exterior wall leaving a 1" air gap between the metal roofing and the plywood wall.

Googles saying "Putting a metal exterior on a south-facing wall can cause massive heat gain" but I am not sure how exactly, there will be an air gap and the metal roofing is what will be heating up, not the plywood walls.

Would this be an effective solution? Or is there a better idea?

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u/Full-Mouse8971 — 2 days ago

Solar randomly stopped charging

Left for a day came home and the battery was discharging in full sun at 89%, the PV leads had 0 volts so I unplugged everything one by one and checked all the panels, they all have voltage, reconnected everything back up to the AIO inverter and it has voltage again.

I have no idea what could have caused this. Maybe the panels shorted somehow? They are older 250w panels butted next to eachother on a wooden platform at 30 degree facing south.

Any ideas what happened? Im not only curious but dont want to jeopardize my home losing power

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u/Full-Mouse8971 — 3 days ago

Browsing internet on TV on home internet

Im looking at some 40" TV's on walmart, a lot seem to be integrated with hulu, netflix, roku, etc but I dont want to buy a streaming service. I have home internet id like to access without hooking up my laptop to the TV.

Do tv's typically have web browsers so I can go to streaming sites like 123movies etc or youtube? This probably a noob question but the tv descriptions are not clear and I have basically just used my laptop as a quasi TV for streaming most of my life so im not savvy on TV's.

TVs I am looking at currently:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hisense-40-Class-FHD-1080P-Roku-Smart-LED-TV-40H4030F1/470905078

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hiro-Roku-TV-40-1080p-Full-HD-Smart-Roku-TV-with-Dolby-Audio-for-Streaming-H40C3C4

u/Full-Mouse8971 — 7 days ago

"No, the same market forces DON'T work for medical care as work in any other industry. If you get hit by a truck, ir have a heart attack, or a stroke, you can't just shop around for the cheapest medical care, and you have very little meaingful way of assessing quality, and if you decide you can't afford any of the care offered, you die or are crippled for life.

Regulations are written in blood. The practice of medicine and the provision of insurance were both regulated to try to curb truly horrific abuses by practitioners, hospitals, and insurers against people who needed care.

Medical care was a lot cheaper when we didn't actually have much advanced medical care that we could do."

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How I would respond:

Personally, I believe medical care costs would be a fraction of what they are if they were not regulated to death, and if you were worried about a medical disaster insurance exists, the same way you could ensure things against acts of god such as house fire, tornado, car accident, etc. The but major point is, under a truly free market prices would be drastically lower and services less scarce.

Regulations is government interference with voluntary exchange in the market that only curbs competition, increases bureaucracy costs and enables monopolies. As if the minimum sq ft regulation by local government is saving me from death barring me from building a house <1500 sq ft.

CRT tv's and computers were rudimentary 40 years ago and cost multitudes more then more advanced tech we have today.

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u/Full-Mouse8971 — 14 days ago

There was an old craigslist ad that turned in to a meme many years back, someone posted an ad for a car with its description in the title something along the lines like "4wd 6 cylinder 2008 pickup truck" but the picture was some passed out dude on a couch leaning forward (and probably drooling on himself). I think people were saying it was a crackhead posting but accidently posted a picture of their friend passed out / high on their couch.

Anyone know what I am talking about?

I AM NOT ASKING ABOUT THE TOURETTES GUY, ITS A RANDOM IMAGE I UPLOADED AS THIS SUB REQURES AN IMAGE TO MAKE A POST. SORRY ABOUT CONFUSION.

u/Full-Mouse8971 — 17 days ago