Is a scatmat out of the question?

This sounds like it should have been disclosed on the sellers report (seek attorney help). With no other information, I would speculate that this is a groundwater issue and my first guess at solving this first would be to install a sump and pump. You'll have to remove flooring and dig a hole. Hopefully, this is a relatively simple fix and once you start opening things up you'll get more of an idea what is really going on.

I am getting started with kickstarting our basement finishing project as well. Can you please let me know how did you develop this floor plan. Which software and any quick tips on how to learn to model. Thanks!

oh well in that case carry on good sir

I am a real man. It has to be complicated and has a high chance of failure. But it will be fun and I will be very proud of myself if it works.

These guys can jump very high. This would need to be a big gate.

One of the reasons I want to "scare" them is because I believe that after few weeks they will just learn to avoid being over there when we sleep. I will keep doing that with a hairdryer as this seems to work but I was hopping building a more elegant solution and since I like tinkering I thought this could be a fun project.

Right now I am thinking a small fan with a piece thin plastic mounted so blades will be hittting it making extra noise. Plus blue/red spinning light?

I understand. I have 4 cats total, 2 of them Covid kittens (now 2.5 years old lol) and they do cause a racket sometimes. They usually play hard right before food time and I encourage that by throwing toys for them to fetch. Then they pass out once their bellies are full.

>g my cats at 10am and 10pm so that they aren’t hun

Interesting idea. We might try that but I think it's not hunger. It's the young blood. They are 1.5 years old so they just bored and want to have fun. I don't blame them

No, but the Bohr valve may need re-Bohring.

Play with them til they’re tired, then feed them, go to bed. Solid night sleep. Making it more complicated than it has to be.

That would require recalibrating the flux capacitor!

A modified baby gate at the foot of the stairs?

Can they be relegated to the basement?

So how does that get you instant hot water at the far bath?

Honestly I started feeding my cats at 10am and 10pm so that they aren’t hungry in the middle of the night. It’s the only thing that shuts them up haha.

The examples I saw the tankless would only be heating water when a faucet was running

Not bad but this will make much more noise than cats. But yeah, it would scary away them at least for the time of cleaning :)

Set up a roomba to start vacuuming every morning at 4

wow, this guy is on the up and up.

But wouldn't you just be running the heating elements constantly?

Well it may be broke somehow then

Sure you didn't turn it the wrong way first and spin the handle on the shaft?

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For a ball valve, open position is normally with the handle parallel to the pipe. The only thing that makes sense is your handle turned independent of the valve somehow. Most metal valves have a keyed hole and shaft, so this shouldn't be possible. I think pvc valves have the handle press fit with an indexed shaft, so same thing there.

Really, it doesn't matter. If someone opens it they can figure out that it needs to turn 90° no matter what direction it's facing.

I’m sure. It’s a ball valve. The water worked fine. I tried to turn it off. It just kept coming. I turned it back to the on position and it stopped

When green electricity is available, I think hybrid electric tanks win. ?