u/spangbangbang

Unfortunately for the audio I can't get it to sound right. And maybe my description is wrong I guess it just sounds like AM static?

I have my power and signal lines separated opposite sides of the car.

I connected everything to a PRV DSP 2.8X , and that's likely where my issue is. I just have no idea how to remedy it. Theres SO many adjustments on those things.

But, it didn't start until a few weeks after I installed it, it wasn't immediate.

Everything turns on with the battery like normal, but the weird static background doesn't begin until I turn on a source...Android Auto or FM or Bluetooth. As soon as sound starts playing, the static doesn't stop even if I turn off the head unit power.

I've gone through and checked my connections, everything is snug.

Just...a bit flabbergasted at the amount of sprays each spot received, especially when loading up the accessory outlet and OBD port. But the rest...I mean every button was flooded with cleaner, as well. I know it's a nasty car to start with, but like....damn. Water is getting into places you cannot get it back out of. For SURE.

It's honestly laughable where I'm at right now. Approaching 3 months unemployed this week.

I am a : straight, white, male in his 30s, living in FLORIDA, with a clean driving record, no criminal or drug history, and almost spotless work history.

What in the everloving FK am I doing wrong?

Right so, about $200 in insulation and the foamgun+foam....3 AC registers, 5 top plates, and several wire penetrations have been foamed. 2 ductwork tears have been fixed ( or, I guess...I probably didn't do too good a job but certainly better than it just leaking into the attic lol). And Rockwool for my first layer, overlapped with R30 fiberglass, then re-fluffed and filled in the stupid awkward corners and spots with the old, matted down cellulose.

I also repaired or replaced all the old torn baffles, except the 2 very back corner areas, I could not get my body in there, nor probably staple anything even if I did. I doubled up fiberglass in that corner but it can still breathe.

Anyway...the bathroom and closet temps haven't budged AT ALL. Those areas are still 4 degrees warmer than the rest of the home.

I'm pretty pissed about the entire weekend spent in my 130F + attic , on top of money I didn't really have but knew this needed to get done asap, just to see no improvement.

2 full days later, btw, I didn't expect anything drastic as soon as I plopped the scuttle hole cover back on. Which btw, has a double layer of 1" Foamular that's trimmed nicely enough you need to tap one side up at a time before the air seal releases and you can actually get the cover to move out of the hole. I didn't forget about it! But yeah...not sure what I did wrong.

No clue if it's allowed, but good GOD, man.

I was laid off at the end of May, and didn't panic at all. I had lots of contacts from my prior job I thought I'd land on my feet.

I was blindsided; that company made it through plenty of slow summers without laying people off.

Turns out, everyone I spoke with is in the same boat...no bones to throw, the work is too slow.

So, I began watching some HVAC videos, interacting with this sub and the HVAC sub, and looking into education. Applied for about 10 jobs, beginner thru experienced service tech.

No luck so far.

But this was about a month ago so I gave up....because the schooling doesn't start until August and I thought, well j definitely need a job before then so fuck it, I'll buckle down and get whatever I can.

And here I am , ANOTHER MONTH LATER , with no damn job...and now just a couple weeks away from the schooling programs opening day lmao.

I'm honestly not sure I want to do HVAC, because I'm in Florida and attics are extremely unsettling...spiders, snakes, lizards/giant iguanas, rats/mice, and God knows how many sharp things just laying in the old insulation to bite you...and then...well if none of those scare the fk out of you and you slam your head into an errant nail...well then you gotta worry about the heat. That'll sneak up on you and have you falling through the customers drywall in no time.

Now, I know I can go service tech route...but I sorta need experience installing systems to know how they fully operate, where a leak might be etc. And on top of that, there's literally 50 companies within 20 minutes of me, almost all of them lone operations or smaller crews who don't do installs. So, the market is just a teeny bit overcrowded, here.

HVAC is definitely something I want to learn. I've never been afraid to repair stuff myself, in familiar with ducting, plumbing, and electrical. Just did a bunch of each around my house.

But...will it pay enough to be worth it, with how saturated my area is? I just don't know....but I thought it was ironic that a month ago I said NEVERMIND, I'll have a job long before the schooling even starts!

Super recessed access with the block walls....my attic sucks so bad and I'm so fat. But there's some existing wind/blow in insulation blockers someone made a poor attempt at installing, so I'm able to reuse most of those. The problem is my attic is crazy small, and I'm squished between an HVAC register box and the edge, I can't get my normal stapler in there. I also can't get very far down on the ones I DO have in place already, so half the baffle is hanging loose. Stapled the shit out of the tops of them, though lol.

My attic is much worse off than I remember seeing back there a couple months ago...the 2x4s behind that big register box have nothing underneath and nothing behind except a matted down layer.

But anyway, I really need another solution for something that's way easier to slide in and pop the staple out, the big old school one I've got takes a ton of grip strength to fire.

Curious if anyone has an affordable option for me, since I'll never be doing this again for damn sure. Lol.

Thanks.

So, the calculations I've seen on here for how much baffle sqft is actually needed for an attic was shocking, but also seemed like good news since they're expensive for a piece of plastic. I live in Florida and the old styrofoam baffles were shredded by hurricanes, and there always seems to be some level of moisture blowing in, so I'll be avoiding cardboard 100%. That leaves me with ADO ProVent, which I've already bought 12 of. But...I am unsure how many, and where specifically, to place them. The home is completely surrounded soffit system, every metal sheet has dozens of holes, and there is daylight all the way around from what I can see.

But, my ridge vent only runs over 2 areas of my roof, and not even fully. Hopefully you can make them out from the photos.

I am just unsure of what the best attack plan is. Like I mentioned, I've got 12 of them, I cannot access the vaulted ceiling area at all because I'm too fat and its impossible, anyways; and I've got a couple bags of mineral wool and then some thicker fiberglass batts to criss cross with them. Unfaced. I figure vapor barriers are a bad idea in Florida, because I'm trying to prevent my blown in insulation from disappearing and getting matted/damp from driven rain entering the attic space.

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Sadly, I need the money too badly to pop it open and use it for my first time...pop my mega foam Cherry.

I was using up my Adams Car Shampoo first, and I'm almost out of it, but maybe another 2 washes. I supplement my bucket with some turtle wax stuff that works okay, and use car shampoo in the foam cannon. It's works alright, but was really excited for that Mega Foam experience.

And unfortunately, Florida's unemployment program is so busted on purpose, and they left the website broken for the entire long weekend, I have no idea if or when I will ever get any money being unemployed. I'm trying my best to game the AI application process but so far no luck, really hoping I can get some under the table details or something to hold me over

So I need help in the form of generous pockets, or more internet friendly advice in the form of something that will give me anywhere near the suds for a lot less money. And I'm talking about the large gallon of it because its literally half price...when I had some cash in my account a couple weeks ago, it didn't even occur to me to pay for the small squeeze bottle for twice the cost per ounce....but I'm after something that is under $30 that gives me decent foam, and more importantly the cost per ounce is closer to the .44 mark.

Like I said, economically, it's a serious bummer, but I could really use the extra $20.

Edit: I am bad with money, sure, but I've never been concerned with how much is coming out of my account on the first of the month, or I wouldn't have bought it to begin with. But I need another option as I need it on hand for neighbors vehicles when they ask to have it done, as they do from time to time. Thats just some quick cash under the table, it won't hold me over more than a week. It's not like it justifies the cost of the Mega Foam with where my account sits

My whole house in 24inch O.C. Walls, trusses, joists.

I did my attic with R13 16Inch batts and had to cut half of them in half and randomly try to stuff them together and it was SO time consuming and annoying...just curious if anyone knows how i find this stuff? Because my bathrooms are on exterior walls and they are DYING lol. 78 degrees at night, when it's 73 in the rest of the house.

There are just specific spots I need batts, the perimeter most importantly, as last hurricane blew away all our blown in insulation.

Also, I have a soffit and ridge vent system, there were foam baffles up before, they were torn and dirty and mostly fallen...what brand do you recommend to replace them with? And I need to figure out exactly how far down I place them into the soffit area, as one side of the home I can reach my hand between the roof and the block wall , and other parts there's hardly any daylight, let alone room for my fingers.

I have a stick thing that was highly recommended on amazon. Then I also just check the Hayward box on the wall, and do one of those instant-read calibrations once a month. And I also take it to the pool store.

My wall box is always a couple hundred higher than both the store and the stick thing I bought.

Which leads to a follow up question...do I need the taylor test kit that has the salt or can I save a TON of money and get the k-2006 without the salt stuff, and trust sorta trust that wall box?

So today I took my grandmas car to get a tire repair done, she broke her hip but we need to use her large SUV to get her back n forth to P.T. , sedan isn't ideal for broken hips.

Anyway, decided to bring it back to my place and detail it to about perfection (impossible, she hits too much stuff lmao).

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I finished the exterior and was already near death, but had the entire interior to do, and it wasn't great. Not bad, not good.

I am in Florida, and it's already lethally hot out. I had shade for most of the time, until I started on the interior vacuuming.

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The wide brim hat I use was obviously quite annoying to maneuver inside the vehicle, so that came off, but it doesn't stop sweat, anyway, just blocks sun.

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So, I had sweat dripping from every part of my body, and long sleeves help when there's air movement and you aren't sweating actual buckets, but my shirt was seemingly making it worse. I didn't know how to keep sweat from constantly getting on everything...even a totally unaware brush against something from my shorts and it left a salty, sweaty spot a few minutes later....I'm sitting there like " I already cleaned that door off, there was no giant white spot."

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Anyway, I figure there are likely some pretty uppity customers who don't want you to drop your sweat in their vehicle, either, and I was curious how to combat this without just like....lining your head and arms in sweat bands lol.