No real reason for this question, I don’t need one for anything but..
I’m curious, as I look at a lot of these on homes around here etc.
Are there any through the door mail slots that are more weather tight then the next, everyone I’ve seen and the few I’ve put in are all pretty shotty and look like a great place for a winter draft or hot summer air to pass through. Even the expensive solid brass ones.
Is this considered to be a negligible weakness if they are used or are there “top end” models that seal better then others?
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.
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This may be a sign U have entirely too much time on your hands....
Or ....U are completely overworked and your brain is short circuiting....
Either way ....
there is a cure....
Cool beer and a lawn chair.
Say that five times ....slow(southern accent helps too) .....then do it.
Works faster with a female-type chick drinking and sitting next to ya.
Trust me ....... This is a sign ... U do need help.
Jeff
Buck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
"Works faster with a female-type chick..."
As opposed to a male-type chick???!!!!
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
As opposed to a male-type chick???!!!!
Yeah, I think he has a point, If Ru Paul were next to me I'm sure I'd drink a lot more, but not so sure on the relaxing part.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.
It was a good question. my sons house in mid state NY has the same mail slot they use in SC. Are there any that are weather tite?
Mine isn't any better thana any others. That's why I put it behind a storm door. This house stood for fifty years, with a mail slot in the front door, and no other protection from the elements.
Man! I love the south!
Vast projects should not be founded on half vast ideas.
Build a little insulated box to hang over the slot on the inside of the door.
Only problem I've ever encountered with mail slots was drunks urinating through them. A couple of wires hooked to 120v solved that problem.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
"Only problem I've ever encountered with mail slots was drunks urinating through them. A couple of wires hooked to 120v solved that problem."
...not to mention won the heart of the mail carrier.
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
...not to mention won the heart of the mail carrier.
Nah, took something more conductive than a bill to get your attention. Like a stream. Assuming he wasn't the drunk.... In which case, "heart"?PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I guess Rick or Jeff haven't heard about or met WICS.
OK, whats WICS?
UH... CAG you want to tell him?
Women In Comfortable Shoes.
a nick name for some of the womens Imerc has working for him up in those mountains, no ask hasbeen what a GG is for further info ;)Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.
CAG
I guess you learn something new everyday, I was hoping to learn something good today, oh well, theres always tomarrow.
Doug
GG = Guffy Girls, AKA: WICS
Sort of a "you can look, but you can't touch" part of IMERC's life....
But, oh, some of those looks... ;)Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Wouldn't say I have to much free time, and not quite overworked.
Yeah I probably need help
and a beer or two, n'fact, I'm heading to the fridge right after this.
what made me think of it was putting my rent check into the office after I got home from work yesterday, the one on the office door is really cheap, that got me to thinking about the one in my grandmothers house, which was expensive, yet still sucks, which led to.....
In reality I'm just trying to avoid thinking about other things such as work, or the fact that class starts again in a few weeks.
well...
It's miller time.
sorry though, no highlife in the fridge, just MGDNever be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.
I doubt that insulating your mail slot is going to solve the national energy problem, but they do make insulated mail slots. The ones I've seen sure ain't as purty as the brass ones, though, and more expensive, too. Around here they solved the problem of leaky door mail slots by stopping delivery of mail to the door - ya now gotta have a curbside box. They claimed it was because of safety for the postperson - didn't want them falling down the stairs. They let people with no steps keep their door slot, but I had a single step and had to go to a curb box. Maybe we just have klutzier mailpeople than other cities, but I don't recall seeing climbing stairs to the front door as a major cause of on-the-job accidents.
Anyway, Google on "insulated mail slots" and you will see some pricey numbers for fancy insulated front door.
It's the union at the post office. Park you truck near the curb side box and you won't get delivery. The PO tickets your truck as an obstruction and stops mail delivery till you make their life easier...
The Post Office people are some kind of major lazy.
They stopped my curb side and put in these inconvient central mail boxes. It's about 6 miles round trip to the mail box now.
put in these inconvient central mail boxes. It's about 6 miles
And the common boxes all leak, so that your bills are glued together and the periodicals soggy.
One good thing about those boxes, you will meet the people with matching addresses on adjacent streets--when you get their mail; yours they threw out, "Oh I didn't know who that was, so I tossed it out--do you do a lot of business with 1st National Bank . . . ?"
Mail is slow. I mean slow. Slower than all stop. I average 2 missing FHB and 3 FWW a year. Thank God Taunton is so good to me. A third of the mail is shredded. Another third is preread. All of it gets soaked....