Moving to AZ - research thread

ya no choice so just going to have to deal with it

 

ya not much I can do about it so just have to suck it up and make the best out of it

monsoons and humid all the way through August and September or just August?

the times I’ve been out there in sept it wasn’t humid and no rain

then again maybe my definition of humid is more lol

 

Yup, it's f'n miserable out. Work will suck this weekend.

 

That’s one thing I have going for me, I don’t work outside anymore, that must be rough out there

 

I love it when we go to a call at work and people are complaining it’s 78 in their office, I want to be like, hey come up on the roof with me for two hours…..

 

holy shit dude, your a roofer out there in the summer? I can’t even imagine that

 

I don't actually HAVE to work outside. But, I really hate sitting trapped inside locomotives for 12 hours a day (or night).
So, the trade off for having a schedule and working 8 hour shift is dealing with the weather.

 

He's a HVAC dude, lot of roof time in that trade.

 

That would be pretty brutal.

After every summer I always tell myself it's the last summer I'm going to work in the yard.

For awhile I had a Ford Exploder at work to roll around in. That was nice, heat, a/c, stereo. Then it did lived up to it's name. Now I'm back to the Kawi Mule. With a windshield for extra hotness ( although nice in the rain)! We break so much sh't, the rental companies don't want to rent to UP anymore.

 

I bet, I know who to call if one of the heat pumps shits out, ha!

 

HVAC and low temp refrigeration, plenty of work out here in the desert.

 

Yes, thankfully we do have a lot of water cooled and rack systems inside, but I’m always sweating. Lots of up and down a ladder, in and out of drop ceilings with bullshit access to condensers.

 

The trash guys at work have these sweet kubota type utv things that have AC and the works. That seems to be the only good thing about their job. How they pickup and move these mobile trash bins is sooo stupid. I’m not a smart man, but I could think of at least 3 ways to make their life/job easier

 

Ummm.. No thanks. I love living here, but have no illusions of doing roofing in the summer, or at all. However. I do get half a dozen estimates on things, and usually go middle of that range.

 

Nice! I so wish we had that. Although we are supposed to get a new actual truck soon. So, we'll see if that pans out.

 

PS:Ceramic window tint, including the windshield, makes a big difference in comfort in the tundra during furnace season.

 

Mines ceramic all around already same in the sienna

 

Driving them out probably

 

77 dew point is just awful , ugh

I had some landscape repairs to get done for our photos for the listing coming up, humid as shit

 

ya much better out there it was 93 dew point 77, just awful

 

It was a nice break from the 110+ days we had. Those were miserable!

 

this will be my first septic system, its only 2 years old and is getting fully pumped and inspected per the contract, but after that....

guidance ?

 

Don't flush ANYTHING besides piss, shit, and TP. And make sure all your guests know that. Another thing I didn't know about at first, newer systems have a screen filter that collects "solids" at the tank exit to the leech field. That needs to be cleaned every 6 months or so, or more frequently if you have people that use half a roll of TP per visit.

 

First septic system here too. 3motors in 5 yrs. New motor and fix to field when we moved in, 2020. New motor after tree fell on house/yard, broke discharge pipe, motor burned up. 3rd motor about a week ago. Its a moving part, its gonna go out. Several float switches replaced, all warranty.
If you hear a loud buzzing/ alarm sound it’s probably septic alarm. 1st time you hear it, WTF is that sound!!!

 

Gravity system?

I'm on a gravity system and pump it out every 5 years, no other maintenance