brownstuff007

We just had a contractor finish up putting a new bathroom on the second floor of our cape cod where it was just unfinished attic space. The other room on the second floor is our master bedroom, which has hardwood floors. We had spray foam insulation done so they had to open up the walls/ceilings in our bedroom as well.

In addition to repairing the drywall in the bedroom after the spray foam was done, the contractors used the bedroom for a lot of the work they were doing in the bathroom (cutting material/staging equipment, etc.) They put down ram board and plastic on some parts of the floor, but not until later in the project and it didn't cover the whole floor.

They just finished up after

I've got a new bathroom and used MDF for the baseboards/casing. Bought and installed them before realizing MDF isn't great in high-moisture areas (first time homeowner here!).

They came from the store primed, but I feel like I should seal them with something before painting them (white).

I've got some shellac left over from a previous project, would that be a good choice to seal them before painting?

I've got an MSI 5700XT Mech OC, and I've got a custom fan curve in Radeon Software. When I open up Afterburner, the Fan Speed slider is showing ~37% in the Afterburner window itself, when at the same time the Fan Speed is showing 51% in the OSD.

GPU is at 32° so according to my fan curve, fan speed should be around 35%

Why are these readings inconsistent?

Looks like I have to replace my 25-yo Lennox WhisperHeat furnace. I'm in between a Lennox EL296E or the ML296V. As far as I can tell, the only difference I'm seeing is that the EL has an insulated cabinet. Am I missing anything else?

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If that's really the only difference between the two, is the insulated cabinet worth the upgrade?

I ran the CPU benchmark in Fan Xpert 4, and it gives me a "score" of 0.99(°C/w). It says the lower the score, the better but it does not say exactly what is good or not. Anybody have an idea?

Probably a noob question, I just built my first pc a couple months ago. When I run the Heaven benchmark, I'll see 100% load on the GPU and temps will be around 65-70°. When I'm playing Godfall, GPU load will get to 100% load and temps will get between 80-85°.

Why the difference if load is 100% on both applications?

Probably a noob question, I just built my first pc a couple months ago. When I run the Heaven benchmark, I'll see 100% load on the GPU and temps will be around 65-70°. When I'm playing Godfall, GPU load will get to 100% load and temps will get between 80-85°.

Why the difference if load is 100% on both applications?

Just got my first build put together (minus the case, will post pics later). I got the Asus TUF GAMING X570 PLUS motherboard and an MSI Radeon 5700XT MECH OC GPU. The GPU is basically sitting right on top of the chipset fan. Is that an issue?

My wife and I put in butcher block countertops in a couple months ago and decided we'd just use mineral oil on it for the long term. Now, we want to just use polyurethane so we don't have to keep oiling it all the time. Any tips on how to do this? I was planning on just removing all the caulk, sanding the whole thing down and then applying a couple coats of the poly. Is there anything else/different I should do?