u/drahcirdk

My parents purchased a 100 year old cabin with some foundation issues. They hired a foundation repair company to replace a section of the foundation and raise up one end of a room a couple of inches on one side. So far the work looks good. They redid the floor in the room that had the work done to the foundation. My question is: is it normal to have crack control joints in interior cement? I know this is normal for exterior cement, but I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it inside a house. I’m anticipating this adding some difficulty to my putting in new floors. If it is a big issue, I’d like to know before my dad meets with the repair people for the final walk through this week. Thanks in advance for any insight and suggestions you can give!
Oh, and if it is relevant, the cabin is in the Sierra Nevada mountains and not winterized (yet). It will see cold temperatures and snow for 3-5 months out of the year.

I have a 2004 Sedona that I have owned for about 4 years. If you don’t want to read all the backstory feel free to skip to the questions at the end of the post. At the end of last summer I decided to redo the plumbing in the trailer as I discovered a previous owner had deleted the interior city water line (thankfully I had never tried to use it!) I had a heck of a time finding a 3/8 y valve to manually switch between tank and city water, but finally found and purchased the one pictured from Amazon. When I went to get the trailer ready for another trip last week I discovered that the fitting had corroded enough to stain the vinyl tubes on all three sides with what looks like rust, despite the valve claiming to be brass. Over the last few days I’ve worked to replace it again, but I’m having a heck of a time finding the right size fittings still.
My water pump is a little tiny 1.2 gallon one that has built in 3/8 barbs on both the inlet and outlet sides. The line under the trailer was 3/8 pex. The best valve I could easily source was 1/2 inch pex. I really want everything to match, but I don’t see how I can without getting a significantly bigger (and more expensive) water pump that works with pex. I ended up just replacing the valve pictured above with the 1/2 inch pex valve, doing short 4 inch sections of 1/2 pex on all three sides, then using a pex 1/2 to 3/8 reducer on each. These then connected to the existing 3/8 inch vinyl. They leaked until I really tightened the hose clamps down, as I don’t think the pex connection works as well as the barb connects did.
If you made it this far, I have 2 questions:

1. has anyone else used pex connectors with the vinyl tubing and did it hold up over time?
2. does anyone know of a really small water pump that has either pex inlet and outlet or removable inlet/outlet fittings? The smallest I have found is 3 gpm.
   I’m also open to any other suggestions or general wisdom. Thanks in advance!

My family was disappointed when Maria’s Tacos on Clovis and Kings Canyon closed. Their veggie burritos were amazing! They had a variety of grilled veggies, including grilled zucchini, and we haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Tonight we tried Taco Pinto, and while their asada tacos and bean burritos were good, when I arrived home with their veggie burrito I discovered it was a bean, rice and cheese burrito with a big scoopful of salad in it, including dressing (possibly thousand island, we were not sure). Now this is partly my fault, as they didn’t have veggie burrito on the menu and I should have asked more questions when I asked if they could make a veggie burrito and the response was simply “we can do that”. So after that disappointment I am reaching out to all of you for help finding a restaurant or taco truck that makes a decent veggie burrito. Thanks in advance!