Started 10 yrs ago only on 1 finger. as time went on, it's slowly spread. 10 yrs later, it's on 4 fingers now. GP said it's ezcema. looking it up online, might be mild Hydrosis. flares up when season changes, and from irritants.

Recent heat might be making hands more sweaty/clammy, so acting up more. I've noticed it as well. In fact, i've seen a couple spots up the hand/arm these past weeks.

Things I do:
-use hydrating soap
-Eucerin hand cream for when it acts up
-lotion to moisturize when dry, but watch what you use, cause it might end up irritating the skin and making it worse
-if it gets itchy, do your best not to scratch, cause that'll also make it worse

I use Vaseline Extremely Dry Skin Rescue, but this is only for when the skin is dry/cracked. For the eczema, you'll want something to deal with it specifically.

Also same for me, left hand is generally fine.

Dual hose by design are better/more 'efficient', depending on your definition of efficient.

Both systems bring in hot air from the room, cool it down, and expel it back in the room. The heat is exhausted outside. The difference is that dual hose units also draw air in from the outside, which exclusively cools the condenser. Because of this, air from the room goes into the room, and air from the outside goes back outside, resulting in a neutral pressure system.

Single hose units, because it's taking air from the room, but some of it is being spat outside through the hose, creates negative pressure. Which means it's going to draw air from somewhere else, most likely hot air from the outside, resulting in 'poorer' performance. So it's taking air, cooling it down, some of which gets exhausted, and then you're cooling it again because it's getting drawn in.

That's a quick summary - but there are studies of single hose units outperforming dual hose units either because of better design, etc. For a similarly rated AC, dual hose will cost more, yes - but not all dual hoses are more expensive (or better) than all single hoses.

Now, all that being said, if it's hot as fuck and the only AC available is single hose, then fuck yes just get that one. I see people on RFD be like I'm just gonna swelter in the heat because I can't get a dual hose one. That's just silly.

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I, on the other "hand," do not discriminate. It's whichever's "handy".......... good god, someone stop me.

Both hands are just as bad.

So, investigations into the cause of the wildfires in and around Lytton has not been finalized yet, but there's a distinct possibility it was caused by a railcar(s). I was just wAndering, with all this technology we have nowadays, could we not have some system in place where railcars built to hold liquids can supply much needed water to places that need it to fight wildfires? I'm sure someone has thought about this already. Anyway, each town along the corridor can have these cars at the ready on a side track ready to be deployed at a moment's notice. I guess the engines will have to be modified to handle the situation. The story "sparked" my curiosity, but too lazy to look any information up. Actually, need to go galavanting.

I have the new dual hose costco, and a 12K single from costco a few years ago.

When the heat was at it's peak, the dual hose was blowing much warmer air than the single hose. Usually, the dual hose room is cooler, but when its 45 outside.. different story.

Operating temps are a thing.

Hmm, that's interesting - At the peak I had an old Whynter 14K dual hose and a random LG 8K single hose, and the Whynter was definitely cooler/stronger...but also the rating is significantly higher.

My biggest surprise from my initial setup was the amount of negative pressure the single hose produced. I had those casement window zipper hose outlet thing, and the negative pressure was ripping velcro out, it was crazy.

There’s about 20 Winix air purifiers if anyone’s looking for them at Costco Brighton

8 when I was there about an hour ago.

Thomas Creek fire in OK Falls started about 2 km from our house...this was some of the skimmer plane action yesterday evening. Thankfully, north winds have pushed the fire away from us but we remain on evacuation alert and have bags packed.

35 degrees for the next few days makes me feel bad for ground crews!

Thanks! I dropped by the Costco at Production Way last night and picked up a couple. I also noticed that the purifier & replacement filters are available online again.

Been watching for weeks. Back in stock in short supply for sure.

https://www.costco.ca/.product.100715465.html

man how do you keep on top this, I keep missing the restocks!

Drops are usually around 6pm PST.

Gotta keep refreshing Revscene! Lol

I just check Costco multiple times a day. This was a bigger restock, lasted over an hour. I bought 2, one for me one for the in-laws.

I picked two (for me and my brother) up at Still Creek Wednesday night at 6pm. at that time there were only 6 left.

I use Eucerin Healing OINTMENT, slap on gloves and let it soak overnight. It's practically like vaseline, thick and oily so you won't really be touching things throughout the day, but this has helped immensely with my dry cracked hands throughout the years.

None of the other creams worked for me - OKeefes, Glysomed, Aveeno.

gotta set it as your homepage :lol

Set a page monitor for restocks.

About a dozen Winix air purifiers at Willingdon Costco right now. No line ups.

Is that what people are looking for?

Wrong thread, but what the fuck, lol.

In-stock in-store at Richmond Costco ( Winix ) . Didn't cross my mind to count but definitely more than a pallet or two.

I guess people who are thinking ahead, already got theirs and those who wait for the last minute are, well, doing what they do best. Wait until it's too late. So far, none of the smoke from forest fires have made it up here. The last time we had all that smoke was when all of California, Oregon and Washington State were on fire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/w...ada-smoke.html

Yeah, went to fill a prescription at Willingdon Costco this morning. A full pallet of the Winix. Nobody’s even stopping to check them out.

Anyone know if they have them in stock at the Richmond location? I wonder if I should stop in.

Edit - just saw Teriyaki's post. I might just stop in on the way home. Much better deal than the one's at Home Depot.