Have followed This Old House since I was a kid. Learned much over the years. Wish I could afford to hire Tommy and gain to build my river cottage!! Keep on doing what you guys do!
I love what I just learned about the coffee pot, and the fridge! Going to save money right now! I'm cleaning the front of the fridge right now! I absolutely love this show for the new technology! Sorry but the guttterless gutter is not a good enough design for where I live. It would be great for people that live in California's L.A. area due to the massive loss of water there system has there. Thanks for everything you guys do! I absolutely love this RU-vid Channel! I tell everyone about it!.
The gutters aren’t intended to gather roof runoff - but to keep the siding-sheathing dry. All the experts chiming in should look at homes a little more outside of their immediate area. A lot of locales don’t even bother with gutters and mitigate erosion at the ground and handle drainage by site.
@@Kevin-mp5of in a lot of architecture traditions they don’t do gutters - in heavy snow areas? You don’t even bother. Grade the site properly. It’s how the Romans built. Building Science Guru Joseph has talked at length about it. There are diff strategies around the world and everywhere in the country. Pretending like one solution is optimal for every circumstance is just plain arrogant.
Is that a style in AZ to have houses with no fascia or were those houses just built on a strict budget and they needed to mitigate cost so they did without it?
Jumping cactus - Jumping Cholla (pronounced: choy-yah) A nursery would NOT be selling Jumping Cactus because it's VERY invasive. So, no fear of accidentally buying that arid and native plant. You can find an image of the jumping cholla cactus online. You'll see thousands of spines, versus a "regular" cactus might have up to 100 spines. The comment made that the cactus is attracted to water isn't really true. We would throw rocks at it, just to see the spines shoot out all directions...up to 10-feet out. Also, we could walk by them without any of the spines jumping out. It's when they're disturbed that they eject the spines. The spines are NOT poisonous. It hurts when it pierces the skin, like a splinter, but there isn't any poison. They shoot out into the coats of animals walking by, in order to spread it's seed. At the end of each spine is the seed, much like at the end of a hair follicle is a bulb. When walking out in the desert, you'll see them long before they would eject spines. Again, don't disturb them, you're safe. We learned if we threw rocks, it basically ejected everything that was available to eject, so that when we walked by it, it would maybe weakly shoot off a spine or two.
i have the same idea on that sensor device, but the only difference is, it is not a sensor, but it is a small multiple LED on a single panel that will detect which outlets/device/component etc that are still turn on. i know it is a complex idea but i am trying to figure it out.
@@Kevin-mp5of I guess from all the recent videos and woodwork, that's why I've heard Dado so much. I literally can't hear the word Dado and not thinking about Tom Silva give a Bob Ross type thumbs up behind that person doing it
A French Drain is the only way to go. Gutters or these alternatives are terrible engineering. Got rid of my gutters a couple of decades ago. Best thing I ever did for my house.
I was thinking that, too. The homeowner is still going to have the water at the base of the garage, in between it and the house, so he could conceivably get water in his basement.
Oh, and then add a French drain. Talk about over-engineering. Nope. Put a gutter on properly, and direct the downspout towards the yard behind the garage.
@@llantup possibly install a rainwater tank? There are many thin ones available. Any overflow can go to the driveway which looked going downhill away from the garage.
Why would someone want their house gathering their energy data? So google can know what products to sell you or suggest when for you to buy a new washer? No thx. That is crazy.
@@johnlebzelter4208 Thanks dad. I am so ashamed to have asked those who know the answer to share the answer. What was my lazy butt thinking? I am so glad you shared your wisdom with me.
@@robertmontgomery7158 I was wondering too, I think this is it from the video description: White aluminum rain dispersal system Category: Roofing, Surface Protection Manufacturer Rainhandler @t
I just noticed (using iOS app) there's a drop-down arrow under the video and it's got a lengthy description about the episode - including product info. Happy to share this observation instead of criticism!
this is the worst thing I have ever seen this old house do!!!!!!! did this company pay you guys lots of money to put this up in hopes that your viewers would buy this junk??? Tom really?
