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bassboat1 t1_j1hz7s1 wrote

My lights flickered and the WiFi had to restart once last night - boohoo! The roads were nasty between Weare and Deering, with flooding and ice.

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bassboat1 t1_j07901x wrote

I worked for the company that built and operated Stoney Ledge in the '90s. Skillings drilled and 'fracked three wells totaling over 4000' in depth and there was insufficient water to operate the breakfast joint and sandwich shop. The next door neighbor (think he was the chief of police at the time) had like 20GPM recovery rate, only a couple hundred feet away.

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bassboat1 t1_iydjla9 wrote

Control joints are cast-in-place (look down the next time you're on a sidewalk), or sawn after the concrete has hardened (often on a 10' or 12' grid). It's expected that a concrete slab will shrink as it cures and inevitably crack. The control joints will (hopefully) limit the cracking to the grid and not occur randomly, at angles, etc... Fiber additive or welded wire mesh is embedded in the concrete to help prevent the now separated pieces from moving vertically with respect to each other. The uncoupling membrane prevents the cracks from telegraphing through bonded materials like tile. On large slabs, expansion joints are required, and they should be continued up through the tile as a caulk joint.

Do not run Ditra or the fleece products like Redgard/Custom up the wall. Kerdi can be run up the wall in some shower systems.

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bassboat1 t1_ixv3tam wrote

They will pull out a big chunk of 'crete often if you pull them. Angle grinder FTW. I usually use hydraulic cement for small patches (sets quickly, but it's fairly dark).

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bassboat1 t1_iwnfgmi wrote

Sorry, being facetious... Concord NH has a significant homeless persons problem that's been in the news for the last several years, and there are tentsites up and down the river around Concord center.

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