u/SwissMaestro95

I have a gas-fired rooftop unit being installed for a healthcare application. The gas has a flu that ends well within the healthcare required 25 ft intake radius of the equipment. This seems to be a very common design. How is this resolved typically? I've seen us run outside air duct work on the rooftop to get away from the flu, but this could get extremely expensive especially if wind and seismic rated supports are required. Can you just have the flu terminate above the intake? What can be done, this is a very common design in healthcare and I've never seen it explicitly solved

Off limits for toddlers

Do you purposely have things in your house to teach your child to avoid touching/potentially breaking things?

We recently stayed at in laws and our 2.75 yr old son broke a curtain rod. My wife was alone with him and our 4 month old and he did it in the minute when she turned away to change a diaper. My MIL cried and said we should have things in our house that are off limits to teach him how to respect things.

Of course, whenever our son is within sight we're constantly monitoring him and how he treats their things. At our house, we've childproofed everything dangerous and accept that if he breaks something it is what it is (though of course always try to prevent him from doing so if we can).

Am I wrong for disagreeing with MIL? Am I insensitive to other people's belongings? When we stayed at her house when baby 2 was born, it was so hard because she refused to close doors and let a robot vacuum run in the house all day and would get mad when our son took interest in it or in going in rooms he shouldn't. In my opinion it's a failure to adapt to having kids in your house knowing how they are.... But I could see both sides..

EDIT: I realize now this was a petty post. While I tried to provide context, I'm sure I missed just as much context that paints my MIL in a more understanding light (in her defense for crying, I think it was more the straw that broke the camels back in all the chaos that unfolded this day, not specifically that the curtain rod was sentimental).

While I do believe my wife did everything in her power to prevent it, as we've constantly told our son the importance of respecting things and what not to play with, I shouldn't shrug off the consequences. I do think the curtain rod is repairable from when I removed the rest of it to keep it out of his reach, and will offer to do so. I had noted to MIL I thought it was fixable (my wife had thought it broken beyond repair) but I should have stepped up to take ownership for the damage.

For future reference, I agree with both sides I've read. We must take responsibility for our child and teaching them, and owning up for the failures when they happen. Though I agree there should be some ownership the other way as well, I think it can be summed up as "shit happens" and I guess even in those moments we can only take responsibility. All we can do is try to use these moments as teaching moments for our children (though I will say our wild son did undoubtedly did not learn his lesson from this).

Thanks to all for the comments.

I've test driven a car I'm interested in and left the lot. I'm planning to attempt to purchase this tomorrow, but I struggle with the aggressive sales tactics, and it wastes my time. I have a stressful job and a baby and toddler at home. I've found the listing online with a price that supposedly includes dealer fees. I know this is a bait and switch price, as the sticker price on the car is 4k higher. I've had a salesperson reach out to me multiple times to get me in the door. They don't realize I've test driven it (unless a different salesperson told them). Is it possible to email them and say I'll pay cash for that online price, otherwise I'm not interested and get a response that leads somewhere without having to go in and do the whole process? I don't have time for it. I bought my last car at this same dealership and took 4 hours before I could leave, and I got stuck paying more than I hoped for just because I was exhausted. I don't want to waste a day to just walk away if they won't meet my price

I'm sure you can't tell the condition of this decks main structure from these photos, but anyone have any educated guesses whether, if I removed/replaced the surface boards, I may be stuck either replacing the whole thing or removing altogether? Many boards are rotted and loose, requiring me to re nail new ones down frequently

Has anyone else ever done this calculation, especially for institutional occupancies? I have a 675 square foot mechanical room that's about 14 feet tall, and my effective dispersion volume charge limit is 14.44 pounds, and I have some heat pump chillers where the largest independent circuit charge is 35 and a half pounds and I can't find any way to avoid being in a Machinery room and having a 10 000 CFM exhaust fan added. this just feels insane to me that institutional occupancies with any sort of decently sized refrigerant equipment with A2LS will require massive CFM fans. has anyone else run into this? should I start working for an exhaust fan company and point this out on everyone's projects that didn't used to have to worry about this?