There are a few less kobbily ones on Amazon, however I’m not sure how good quality they will be with brand names , perhaps the bicycle equivelant of Budget Ditch Finder car tyres?
I don’t know your fatbike setup, but on my ebike changing the tires (especially the rear one) is a hassle, requires disconnecting the hub gear cables, something I can do but hate doing on the roadside. So if I were in your place I would find the best quality, even if it meant smaller size. When bad quality tires split in the field, you get nasty accidents and you cannot bike home either.
AFAIK Schwalbe’s regular line goes up to 55-406 (Big Apple) and Continental 62-406 (eContact Plus) and I would pick something like this and fill it up with Slime or similar.
But if you insist on 100-406 (which is HUGE), Schwalbe has the Super Moto X line, recently introduced.
The other issue is I’d need to check the minimum tyre width for the bike rims.
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As a follow up, a nice pair of Schwalbe Super Moto X in 20x4.0" ordered, hopefully collecting them on tuesday.
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My water heater finally gave up, started leaking all over the place. Planning to replace the furnace as well. 30+ years. RIP.
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I must be the slowest mail-writer: it took me the free time of four days just to request an inspection and a follow-up bid from an electrician.
At that speed the house will collapse before I start the renovation.
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Yep. That’s how it goes.
Out here in BC, roundabouts are increasingly common, which is a good thing on paper because they are much more preferable than classic stop-sign intersections. Roundabouts force you to slow down just to enter them, so if someone shoots into one without stopping, a crash is much more likely to be at a slower speed than someone running through a stop sign. I was the primary witness to an intersection crash a couple of weeks ago, when a pick-up truck failed to stop at a red light and ploughed right into the car directly in front of me at about 50-60km/h. It was horrible to witness.
But so few Canadians know how to properly use roundabouts from my experience. As someone who learned to drive in the land of roundabouts, I’m a roundabout snob and am always cursing those who don’t know how to use them 
My biggest pet peeve is failing to signal your exit, which means you end up stopping unnecessarily to make sure they’re not going to drive in front of you, and that defeats the whole purpose of them keeping traffic flowing.
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Carmel, IN (close to me) switched most intersections to roundabouts. It dropped the fatal accidents, but increased fender benders.
I recently learned that semi trucks have the right of way into a roundabout. I don’t think anyone practices that.
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Well, that’s definitely an improvement!
I wonder if it’s the same here in BC. I’ll look that up.
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Heat pump water tank heater secured. Basement still drying and needs cleanup. Car door replacement next; mother ran into a bollard obscured by the fog last night. All family-related expenses funded by me of course. 
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Oh, I’ve had basement-water before, I feel for you…
Wife’s mom and dad had a house in Colorado where the water line came into the basement above the freeze line. On two occasions while they were on extended travel they had pipe breakage from freezing, put six feet of water into the basement. I say a prayer of thanks to house-god every time I see mine, comes up through the floor, well-below the freeze line. Born-n-raised in the South, never occurred to me that was a thing when we bought our current house in Colorado…
Edit: our water incursion came from a different source, heavy rains soak the ground and it comes in at the interface of the basement floor to the wall. Homes in our neck of the woods need to have that separation so the floor can move as the soil shifts around.
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We had to spend more than $20k (year 2000-ish dollars) to have the back and one side of our house waterproofed. The back and side walls were cracking and starting to fall inwards due to the pressure of the ground water.
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Well, it was not that bad. I have had basement flooding twice before. Never got a chance to replace the ruined insulation. That is one of the many repairs I plan on doing this summer.
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Our house just floats – unevenly – on red clay, typical of Louisiana.
At one point there was about ~4 inches difference between diagonal corners of our (so-called) “foundation” due to the elasticity of red clay. Thirteen piers, two holes in the slab to pump sub-slab slurry and more than $10k (in past money) it’s hopefully settled down a bit.
My next-door neighbor spent over $27k getting his foundation worked on. A real growth industry in this area.
But it’s far from level. Our bedroom closet bi-fold doors are plumb, but the gap at the top goes from 3/4 inch at one side, to 1/4 inch in the middle, then 3/4 inch again to 1/4 inch on the other side. We can’t install a threshold on the garage / laundry room door due to the slope. Liquids in pots on the kitchen stove all run to the north side of the pan. One day when I was installing LED under-cabinet lights in the kitchen, I put a center punch down on the counter top… it started rolling to the north all by itself.
Oh well… the fun of home ownership in Louisiana!!
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$10K is not bad at all. $27K on the other hand while worth it is a pain if taken all at once in duress.
Our soil is pretty clayey too. I suppose it makes sense because it is adjacent to a creek. In the distant past, organic soils were likely swept away. Removing the clay and replacing it with a certain pebble grain improved drainage, but then made heat exchange better. Since the two aforementioned basement floodings, the basement is now often the temperature of the outside. Hence, why more insulation work is required at some point; perhaps this summer. Well, not just the basement; the whole house is porous like a sponge. 
Then again, that was in 2005 dollars, so today it would be more ($27k was in ~2020). The second slurry pump was more than 2x the first one, despite being exactly the same process.
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Same with my house a few years ago. The 60 year old foundation drainage had filled with silt and my sump well was bone dry in the midst of the rainy season. It’s pretty scary to see your foundation failing.
I had to remove the walls and flooring before the company could come in and tear up the basement. Putting it all back together was not fun. It was a mess, but I’m glad I don’t have to worry about it any longer
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I still do not think it is that much. Maybe things are more expensive in Canada.
We were told (and I’m sure it’s correct) we’ll never be able to level the foundation – the goal is to keep it floating as “level” as possible. And that’s not very level. We have cracks in just about every wall, in one place or another as well as over many windows and doors. We have two door frames that are laterally separating due to stress.
We long ago reached the point of not caring whether the cosmetics ever get fixed. There’s no point in even trying, given the sucky location we’re in and the impossibility of any “fixes” remaining actually fixed for any period of time.
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