Just raising it helps some, but in general any newer laptop draws air from below and exhausts it from the sides so a cooler on the bottom doesn’t do a lot for the laptop.

The exception is if you are resting it on a soft surface that could block vents, like your f-ing lap! In that case any of those coolers will make a big difference in both your comfort and the laptop. On a good hard surface that will make very little difference unless your laptop vents are clogged up as others have said.

Anyone want to take one for the team and give is a TL; DW? Or link to something worthwhile that is not a google sheets spreadsheet you have to input 72 variables to determine if you should salvage it?

I’m not a deisgner and you pissed me off…

Not gonna happen, house are insanely cheaply built these days.

But they did on the other side? And holes are holes (he said) so all of them need to be sealed.

Took me a second, but gd, this fits the mildly infuriating…

Won’t click reddit link to see but tear it apart if it won’t get warrantied, what do you have to lose?

And don’t buy “new” shit from ebay. I hate what amazon does but you do have a record of who you bought it from and usually the lowest price on something like this.

It’s actually more of the problem. They can pay wait staff 2.13 an hour, but they cannot make them pack up take out orders for that. So it literally does cost them more to do take out.

100% on check valves; technically each fan has to have it’s own vent per code. Decent fans have a check in them but better safe than sorry. I’d put a separate exhaust unless it’s really hard to get to.

+1 on humidity sensors but they can make wiring more complicated especially if you have a light as well.

I love Panasonic’s. Not cheap but humidity sensor, variable cfm and quiet.

Noisy fans make you feel better but all that higher pitched exhaust fan noise stays in the room to make you feel better but trust me the bass noise comes through outside!

I was putting in a bathroom and the panasonic fan I bought had a humidity sensor. As this was a guest bathroom off a porch, I broke down and reran the wiring to have that working properly. Is on a timer and will come on when humidity is too high. Love that piece of mind.

Right on! I am luckywhere I live now, but those fan type traps work great.

Lol, I have one coming tomorrow and the wife is dead set against it. I think she’s afraid she might like it :-)

Other comment is great, but a lot of it flat out depends on your siding. Indside is all cosmetic, outside is important to get watertight. If in doubt throw feelers out for a contractor that will come by and just give you advice. Give em $100-200 for an hour one night after you have one window out and ready to replace and ask him if there are any things to look out for.

Rarely monetarily worth it, but those kinds of things can really improve comfort by keeping temps consistent, etc.

Yeah, they want to hang around you or at least someone else. At that age they don’t want privacy, they want interaction. Now put a nice exhaust fan in there and your soon to be teenager will probably padlock the door and live down there.

That’s an indent where the drywall has sagged and the nail is still holding. Not at all easy to pull that back up on a ceiling. Probably need 4 screws total, 2 on either side. Apply mud, level it down with a wet sponge (grout sponges work well), dab primer with a brush (think happy little trees) and roll over it after with a half roller to match (3/8 nap usually). Repeat any of the steps if needed. Don’t skip primer as it will always show in a different texture since the mud will absorb the paint. Makes for minimal cleanup of brush and roller and done well, will just disappear.

Yep, think happy little trees. Tried to do a quick search but every video is 20 minutes long. Just barely put paint on the brush and stab at the wall, straight brush, stab straight, angle brush, stab at an angle so all the bristles hit at once. You are looking to get a rough texture and then rolling it after just knocks he sharp peaks down. Do that twice with primer and then a couple times with paint (mixed well) and it should just disappear. The beauty is you have just a tiny bit of cleanup of the brush and roller instead of loading things up with paint, which frankly won’t work anyway as you get way too much paint in a patch area and it looks overbuilt.

Always prefer a smoother 3/8 nap roller look, but I’d say dabbing thinned joint compound with a brush, let it dry, and then a wet sponge to knock down the tops of the dabs. Can lightly sand if it’s really dry. Prime well and paint.