We're building a small-ish deck/landing attached to our house. Ideally, the whole thing will be 4'x10' and about 2.5' above grade. For code purposes this is in Calgary, Alberta and we have got a permit, so it will have to pass inspection.
The problem: our ledger is only 8' long and cannot be extended due to utilities in the way. We also can't dig another footing due to these same utilities. This leaves us with a corner section about 2'x2' that's pretty much unsupported.
Referring to the image below, can you think of any way of supporting the region shaded in red? Our building code does allow a 2' cantilever, but we have no real way of putting a beam in place. Our neighbours have the same
I've been making saurkraut for a while now, but recently tried kimchi and something odd happened. I started it a bit less than a month ago in a few mason jars with pickle pipes airlocks. The airlocks puffed up initially, and then sucked back down, which was nifty. The first jar was opened after about 10 days and it was delicious.
I left the second jar in the basement (around 18-20 C) and at some point it started to puff back up again, as if fermentation had stopped for a bit and then re-started. Is there a possibility that a second stage of fermentation occurred with a different strain of bacteria? I opened this jar last night and the smell is much more pungent than the first, almost overwh
Hey all! I posted a couple months ago asking if the IKEA SOMMAR Beverage dispenser would be a suitable brew vessel, with potential concerns about the spigot leaking, getting corroded, or clogging.
Since then I've made a half dozen batches or so and I think it's perfect. The spigot makes bottling super easy, and because I don't need to disturb the container for bottling, I don't even strain it anymore. The spigot has not gotten clogged or corroded at all.
Anyways, just figured I would update you all in case anyone is looking for an awesome
I've been brewing kombucha in a 1-gallon jar that I found at an estate sale, but I also use it for saurkraut and it seems I need two vessels. I found this beverage dispenser at Ikea and it looks pretty great at 5.5 L with a wide mouth for $20 CAD.
My only concern is the spigot - is there an issue with having a stainless steel spigot in contact with the brew? I don't necessarily plan on doing continuous brewing, but I've read conflicting reports on metal spigots, even with stainless due to variations in grade. Has anyone used this particular jar or similar?
I have a Watts Premier AF-40k water softener from Costco that was installed about a year ago, and it's probably only worked for about two months of that year.
It worked okay at first and I basically stopped thinking about it. Eventually I realized I should check the salt level, and it hadn't used any salt in about 6 months. I bought a test kit and sure enough, hard water. After much troubleshooting we realized that the soft plastic drain line was collapsing and creating too much backpressure, so we replaced it with pex.
After fixing the drain line issue we again had nice soft water for about a month, and again I forgot about it. The water started feeling hard after a while so I tested it a