u/spangbangbang

Wondering if anyone has a dedicated washing machine in their garage or something, separate from their household washer. My wife uses ALL kinds of stuff in that washer, and it's getting up there in years so I'msure it has untold amounts of filth inside. Also used to use the tide pods. I never ate them though, was just for clothes.

 Anyway I've been thinking about buying one, because these towels are just crazy expensive and I also don't like combining all these chemicals with my toddlers clothing, who is pretty sensitive to foreign chemicals. The less stuff I throw in the main wash, the better is my thinking.

But, I also don't know where I'd put it, sort out what size I'd need, and if anyone has good/terrible experiences or anything with trying this out in their garage or shed or wherever.

I am in Southern Florida

This isn't enough, correct ? I recently crawled in my attic because I accidentally cut the wrong coax cable and needed to replace it

I was not prepared at all to see most of the space over my room and bathroom without any insulation, let alone with a meaningful depth of coverage. I am far too poor to do this properly. I had some leftover r13 fiberglass batts from my attempt at cooling my garage area....I don't think it worked lol....and I threw those into the empty places I could fit my fatass. Then I Great Foamed around exhaust fan opening because there was lots of daylight, and the top plate...anything else that looked like it had a gap as well. There were some weird cuts, multiple out of place framing boards I went around just in case, air vents I could reach, electrical boxes.

But there are many other areas that seem problematic...after finding my first exhaust fan without a hose running to the soffit, I assume the other one was exactly the same. So I started crawling around inspecting more of my attic.

There is reflective paper lining the entirety of the attic, but has fallen down on top almost everywhere, and the rest that is hanging on is tattered and super dirty. Should I remove all of it, or what I can reach anyway? Or is it not hurting anything.

There were those foamy type baffles installed at some point, most have broken off or...just...broken down lol. I couldn't see most of the remains for the others so I presume they're in my soffit.

When I had the bathroom exhaust fans replaced, the guy isn't to blame for the next part because that isn't his job, but there was a ton of insulation removed from around the vents...like a 12"*12" area with nothing at all, so either he pushed it aside and didn't try to pull it back, or it was always just ...not covered/blown away.

Anyway, while redoing the coax cable by my master bath, I noticed the hose just sits 2ft away from the exhaust vent, on top of some blown in insulation. So I did fix that up and run 3" to my soffit.

Today, almost a month later, I did the other bathroom exhaust. Same thing there....tons of daylight around the fan, much much insulation everywhere I could see except directly above my peak living room area...there's still fiberglass batts there.

None of the insulation was above the actual 2x4s except in certain, non specific spots. Just seemed randomly heaped.

And the blown in isn't light and fluffy....most of it is dirty, I expect that in an attic, but I could remove chunks of it and had to scrape it away with some force, around the light box and vents, to foam around them.

The rest of it seems to be mostly the same condition. Is that average or needs redone?

And, most importantly, can I simply just build one of those giant foam walls between my living area and my garage? Garage easily hits 140 in the summer and there's NO ridge vent above the garage area, only about 10ft over the living area attic/roofline.

The rest of my roof has the same weird ridge vent layout...only like half the roofline done instead of most of the roofline.

I'm shaking, btw, from being in the attic for 2 hours this morning. Lol.

Poorly designed, lazy, poorly ventilated attics, are the work of devil worshippers

Air hose reels are just so much cheaper/widely available for second hand on Marketplace. I'd love a reel, but I cannot justify that cost for one. Crazy expensive.

There's a few people within my radius selling their entire rigs, which I thought about doing as I keep getting asked more and more in my neighborhood to detail cars; word is spreading. But I'm super hesitant because....why are these guys selling their setups? Car detailing seems like such a huge hassle...outdoor conditions need to be nearly perfect if you're mobile. If you're not mobile and you rent a space, you damn sure better have a STEADY income to meet that monthly overhead. Just seems like such a volatile career.

For instance, if you're a landscaper...that persons house still has a yard and trees and whatnot...those don't get up and go on vacations. You can still show up and take care of the property and get paid, it still needs done. But say you detail this client's car once a month, and he/she has been too busy to come before the usual day, but also they leave on vacation as soon as they are off work that day for a 2 week camping trip or some shit...now you have that happen times 10 of your monthly cars....another person on vacation, another person got in a fender bender and it's been sitting waiting on parts, another person simply didn't have the cash this time- lost their job, medical emergency completely drained them...any number of things. Now all the sudden you are on super thin margins.

Just thinking it through, as it seems you gotta have a REALLY solid business plan and marketing already going for you, and then also *definitely* know your shit. The last thing you need when starting out is to mess up a detail and lose that client, maybe even word gets out you don't know what you're doing even though you can do 95% of the job without googling anything lol. Too volatile of a field to consider doing it full time, yet not enough free time on the weekends to build your reputation and get it all done.

Um....Anyways, I was hoping to grab an air hose reel for much cheaper and customize it maybe? I don't need auto rewind or even for the hose to actually run THROUGH the reel with the onboard connectors....I'm just really tired of trying to wind up my M Mingle 50' hose every time I need it or move it around the neighborhood and flop it on top of my other stuff, hoping it doesn't fall off

It appears this is the best of the best from the absolute best brand...but I can't seem to find it for purchase. The place I want to go does not offer a package for the sunroof, as well, and I figure it's covered 95% of the time with my shade cover, so I'll give it a go myself...I do not care what it looks like as long as it works lol. Good way to save money.

The shop charges $780 for all windows/windshield, except the sunroof. I was really not expecting it to be that big of a price tag, but the shop is very trustworthy and well reviewed.