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There's a grade in the old tile for a floor drain and he tried to make up the difference with grout but stepped in it? I'm trying to give credit. How does a person watch their hands doing a job like this and allow it to continue?
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DreadLlama posted:There's a grade in the old tile for a floor drain and he tried to make up the difference with grout but stepped in it? I'm trying to give credit. How does a person watch their hands doing a job like this and allow it to continue? Something obviously went wrong here, it's up to us to figure out what exactly
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Nitrox posted:Something obviously went wrong here, it's up to us to figure out what exactly Insufficient mass of concrete, the tiles were not properly secured.
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House flipper plastered over live knob and tube.
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Jul 4, 2016 17:09
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kid sinister posted:House flipper plastered over live knob and tube.  That takes a special kind of person.Person who owned a house my parents spent a few years in in Hawaii painted over a dead gecko. Seriously, what the hell?
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kid sinister posted:House flipper plastered over live knob and tube. Hahaha wow
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Blue Footed Booby posted:
I got my porch cover replaced a few years ago. The guys who painted it, sprayed the dead wasps' (multiple) nests. Honestly, I didn't expect them to knock them down and it looks kinda neat. So, now I need to see this dead gecko.
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kid sinister posted:Less talk more construction failures: Remember, you can always replace a fuse with a penny. Put the fuse back over the top and it'll look like the fuse is good when inspected but is completely un-fused. .22 shells work pretty good in old school car fuse boxes.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:
Picture of dead painted gecko isn't loading for me, anyone else??
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Manslaughter posted:Picture of dead painted gecko isn't loading for me, anyone else?? This was thirty years ago and my parents have maybe three photos of my childhood. There is no gecko photo. Sorry to get everyone's goes up. 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:This was thirty years ago and my parents have maybe three photos of my childhood. There is no gecko photo. Sorry to get everyone's goes up. At this point we need a picture. How you obtain that picture is up to you.
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Crappy Construction Tales: 400 Clauses in Your HOA Rules, And As Many Posts About Them
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I know nothing about bricklaying but I suspect this is being done poorly in some way:
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Javid posted:I know nothing about bricklaying but I suspect this is being done poorly in some way: Why? What I can see looks okay. They've got a (presumably level) string line established. They're buttering the ends of the blocks adequately and the mortar looks fine. I can't guarantee it, but it looks square, too. They're even laying out the bricks ahead.
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Magnus Praeda posted:Why? What I can see looks okay. They've got a (presumably level) string line established. They're buttering the ends of the blocks adequately and the mortar looks fine. I can't guarantee it, but it looks square, too. They're even laying out the bricks ahead. Most goons don't go out much so they don't realize actual construction work (even when properly done) doesn't look like Lego or Minecraft.
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At first glance it kind of looks like the CMUs in front of the wall are extremely haphazardly placed. But then you realize they are fulfilling the vital construction site function of "poo poo that I can pile my tools on so I don't have to bend all the way down to pick them up".
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Leperflesh posted:Actually no, I feel other people don't have a right to tell me I can't fix my loving truck in my own driveway, or for that matter, how many cars I can park on my yard, or whether or not I'm allowed to paint my house bright purple. And if it affects their property values? Too loving bad! My job in life is not to protect your property values. What if instead of an HOA, it's a municipal ordinance that says you have to mow your waist-high grass or can't park cars on your lawn? Would that be an unacceptable intrusion of your liberty?
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Powerlurker posted:What if instead of an HOA, it's a municipal ordinance that says you have to mow your waist-high grass or can't park cars on your lawn? Would that be an unacceptable intrusion of your liberty? Municipal ordinances can be just as bad. My neighbours reported me to the city for parking a (running, registered) car on my drivestrips, so now I park it in front of their house instead. It turns out that there’s a rule against parking on the street for more than seventy‐two hours, but that’s okay, I just park it there for sixty‐ish hours, then park in my driveway for a while.
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Javid posted:I know nothing about bricklaying but I suspect this is being done poorly in some way: Yeah what's wrong here? Oh well cinderblocks got mentioned. Time to repost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGjA66RSm0 Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah what's wrong here? I had a feeling it was this video. I will watch this all the way through every time. There's something hypnotic about watching a person who has mastered their craft.
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There was a video in one of these threads of some guy from the '80s or '90s who was the same way with carpentry. Laying out house frames and driving in every nail with a single hit. I can't for the life of me remember what he was called.
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Powerlurker posted:What if instead of an HOA, it's a municipal ordinance that says you have to mow your waist-high grass or can't park cars on your lawn? Would that be an unacceptable intrusion of your liberty? Yeah, very possibly, like when the municipal ordinance says that if you're within a half a mile of the new major league sports stadium you're not allowed to let people park on your property on game days: http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/no-parking-cobb-ordinance-blocks-private-lots-at-s/nrpz7/
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GotLag posted:There was a video in one of these threads of some guy from the '80s or '90s who was the same way with carpentry. Laying out house frames and driving in every nail with a single hit. Was it this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4QI1itQCw0 Around 2 minutes for the start of nail magic. EDIT: God drat it. There goes my day. Now I have to watch the entire series. Again. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Yes, that's the guy, Larry Haun.
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GotLag posted:Yes, that's the guy, Larry Haun. His mother must have been some woman: quote:Mr. Haun was 5 when the local Klu Klux Klan burned a cross on his family’s front lawn. “What do you do when there are no Jews or blacks around as the focal point for your frustration and hatred?” he wrote. “That’s an easy one. We were the only Catholic family in the entire county.”
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flosofl posted:Around 2 minutes for the start of nail magic.
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Collateral Damage posted:Who needs a nailgun? Not this guy. He is the nail gun.
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flosofl posted:His mother must have been some woman: I had never read that article. Now I'm off to Amazon to find his book.
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah what's wrong here? The best part is how he puts just enough extra on top of the block to scrape off when he puts a block down and put it on the side of the next block.
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I was in a Starbucks this morning and I looked up at the ceiling and walls while waiting for my order. Try it sometime, you'll find some unfinished work. The workmanship in this morning's Starbucks was particularly shoddy.
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Phanatic posted:Yeah, very possibly, like when the municipal ordinance says that if you're within a half a mile of the new major league sports stadium you're not allowed to let people park on your property on game days: If I'm reading that right, you aren't allowed to CHARGE people to park.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:If I'm reading that right, you aren't allowed to CHARGE people to park. Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted:Ordinance could bring litigation But hey, it's not like an ordnance would ever be interpreted in a way that profits a large corporation/the local authorities, right?
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Elsa posted:I was in a Starbucks this morning and I looked up at the ceiling and walls while waiting for my order. Try it sometime, you'll find some unfinished work. The workmanship in this morning's Starbucks was particularly shoddy. I do this in basically every building I go into now because it's just become habit from my job. Fast food places are gold mines of half-assed work.
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You want to see an old-school human staple gun, check out spitting tacks: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LOKMhoIS9ck (super slow because it's a demo) http://youtube.com/watch?v=oCviBqqWAv0 (more of an explanation) Not construction but still nuts.
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I met people in Norman, OK who lived near the OU Stadium and pretty much paid their mortgage during the fall by charging for parking for football games. Stand on the curb with a sign that says $20 PARKING, and stuff 10 cars on your front lawn and driveway. Profit!
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Related, (but barely), in Wrigleyville, there are street signs all over that say 'No parking during night games'. It's infuriating, because I don't watch baseball, so I have no clue if there's gonna be a night game later on or not.
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Powerlurker posted:What if instead of an HOA, it's a municipal ordinance that says you have to mow your waist-high grass or can't park cars on your lawn? Would that be an unacceptable intrusion of your liberty? It's still bad, but not nearly as bad. Why? Because (theoretically) municipal ordinances are passed by the voters, or at least the representatives of the voters. And the voters are not universally the property owners. And municipalities have to operate within well-established state and national laws, they're more accountable, and they're less likely to pass new punitive ordinances specifically designed to punish one specific property owner for failing to be sufficiently respectful of the existing ordinances, etc. But I wouldn't buy a house in a municipality that had egregious ordinances. I'm OK with measures that are specifically about safety - waist-high dead grass is a fire hazard in California, so if it puts my neighbors' houses at risk, sure, it's reasonable to say I have to clear it. But it's not reasonable to say I can't just have a dirt lot, or mowed weeds, or use my lot to park vehicles I'm working on. As I see it, the purpose of community regulation is to protect the safety and welfare of the people. Not specifically to maximize property valuations for the property owners above all other considerations. Communities are places to live, houses are places to put your poo poo and live in. Spotless perfection, having an idyllic perfectly conforming neighborhood is actually kind of grotesque to me... I'd much rather see some character and variation in homes, some signs that people live here and use their property and pick out their own goddamn curtains. But that's just my aesthetic judgement, and I don't think aesthetic judgements should be enforced by law, because they're variable and basically just matters of opinion. E.g., I have a right to think my neighbor's pink house is an eyesore, and maybe tell him so... but I shouldn't be able to force him to paint it a conforming color of medium beige. I'm also not especially upset about ordinances that are super easy to comply with, like the thing that says I need to not have my garbage cans out front. It'd be a problem if any of the houses in my area didn't have side-yards or back yards... if someone had no choice but to put their cans in their garage I'd have an issue with that, because they can kind of stink and they take up a lot of room and come on, they're just garbage cans. Even that one is a nuisance ordinance, though. I don't think it's actually accomplishing anything very important and I'd be happy to see it gone. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah what's wrong here? flosofl posted:Was it this guy? GotLag posted:Yes, that's the guy, Larry Haun. Saving all this for later. Mr. Haun.
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