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Jerry Cotton posted:There's a home network thread already isn't there?
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Nitrox posted:Fence guy, what kind of terrible city do you live in, that replacing existing fence with an exact same fence requires a permit? I mean yes, city will be happy to take your money and issue construction permit for anything, but doing what you do is the last thing L&I will ever bother to pursue. I'd go ahead and start building if I were you. It's a ship of Theseus kind of situation, you should be allowed to repair existing structure, even if it ultimately replaces 100% of it. Oh, repairing it wouldn't need a permit, from what I can tell. Replacement may or may not. In my case it does. If it's getting replaced with the same size, style, material, and same location, no zoning permit is needed (though a construction permit still is.) I'm changing the style slightly, and the material is going from wood to vinyl, so I need a zoning permit. The zoning permit one is the real bitch. It takes like 3 weeks to get, because of a mandatory state-required 15 day appeal period after it gets approval. I wish I knew why it was such a hassle, or why they can't just streamline it into one single application/permit process instead of the two slightly-related-but-technically-different permit processes they have now.
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Oct 27, 2016 16:43
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Do you mind sharing roughly where you are, so the rest of us can know to stay the hell away from there?  I mean, I live in California, home to the nanny state, and the permitting process for my workshop has been a completely sane list of "let's make sure that the structure you build isn't going to get anyone, including yourself, killed" checks.
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Oct 27, 2016 17:03
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Man, im glad I bought a house here and not permit nightmare land. Spoke with the permitting office before starting some remodeling, as long as it's not structural and the costs stay under ~$3,000 I don't even need to apply for a permit. Old fence was sawzalled apart and burned in a heap. Then again my neighbors across the street have a big river in their back yard and are fighting some massive erosion lately. City permits are easy, but to even touch the river they also need permits from State, Federal, and Army Corp of Engineers. Studies need to be conducted, watershed analysis, there's salmon in here too so that adds another wrinkle. They already lost a portion of their back deck, wouldn't be surprised if their house washed away before they're allowed to put big rocks in their shoreline. TheDon01 fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 19:45
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TheDon01 posted:Man, im glad I bought a house here and not permit nightmare land. Spoke with the permitting office before starting some remodeling, as long as it's not structural and the costs stay under ~$3,000 I don't even need to apply for a permit. Yeah, but... free salmon. Totally worth it.
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Oct 27, 2016 20:01
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Ghostnuke posted:Yeah, but... free salmon. Totally worth it. But then I bet you need to buy a license to fish on your own property 
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Oct 27, 2016 20:20
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TheDon01 posted:Man, im glad I bought a house here and not permit nightmare land. Spoke with the permitting office before starting some remodeling, as long as it's not structural and the costs stay under ~$3,000 I don't even need to apply for a permit. People just don't seem to understand that rivers move. Like, naturally, they erode their banks and shift course all the time. Your neighbors across the street made a bad investment.
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Oct 27, 2016 20:29
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Leperflesh posted:People just don't seem to understand that rivers move. Like, naturally, they erode their banks and shift course all the time. Your neighbors across the street made a bad investment. There's plenty that can be done to mitigate it though. Backfill, Rip-Rap, boulders, and they mainly want to move this large boulder that is causing a weird whirlpool eddy that is really undercutting their shore. The erosion can be delt with, if they were allowed to actually do any sort of shoreline maintaince.
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Oct 27, 2016 20:43
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TheDon01 posted:There's plenty that can be done to mitigate it though. Backfill, Rip-Rap, boulders, and they mainly want to move this large boulder that is causing a weird whirlpool eddy that is really undercutting their shore. The erosion can be delt with, if they were allowed to actually do any sort of shoreline maintaince.
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Oct 27, 2016 21:05
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I work in a car parts factory with 480vac bus bars and 100hp motors and probably tens of thousands of mechanical relays all blasting emi everywhere and all the network plant is unshielded cat5 mostly run right next to power conduit.
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Oct 27, 2016 22:18
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shame on an IGA posted:I work in a car parts factory with 480vac bus bars and 100hp motors and probably tens of thousands of mechanical relays all blasting emi everywhere and all the network plant is unshielded cat5 mostly run right next to power conduit. And how's that working out for you?
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Oct 28, 2016 04:59
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Leperflesh posted:People just don't seem to understand that rivers move. Like, naturally, they erode their banks and shift course all the time. Your neighbors across the street made a bad investment. Seriously, masses of moving water is nothing to gently caress with. My parents used to own a condo that was quite literally falling into the ocean. I wish I had a picture of it, because the back deck was concrete sheaf hanging over about a twenty foot drop into the tidal zone, as in, there used to be earth underneath it, but now the only thing holding this piece of concrete together was rebar. There used to be a road in front of the condo, that had also washed into the ocean. Despite the fact that the ocean was reclaiming the land on which this condo was built, they managed to sell it to another idiot with the vague promise that eventually there would be a sea wall in front of it.
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Oct 28, 2016 20:33
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shame on an IGA posted:I work in a car parts factory with 480vac bus bars and 100hp motors and probably tens of thousands of mechanical relays all blasting emi everywhere and all the network plant is unshielded cat5 mostly run right next to power conduit. I've been out of the IT business for a long time but I thought the point of differential signals over twisted pair cables was to provide resistance to that kind of stuff
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Oct 28, 2016 20:54
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BattleMaster posted:I've been out of the IT business for a long time but I thought the point of differential signals over twisted pair cables was to provide resistance to that kind of stuff It definitely helps, but if you have an environment like that shielded cable is really nice and of course fiber is the best. I've had plenty of VoIP customers with a phone out in a machine shop, garage, etc. where the network "works fine" for the computer (read: TCP retries lost packets and it's not so slow that they care) but it's utter garbage with real-time traffic like a phone call. Check the port stats and see the error counter making like one of those fake web hit counter GIFs from the '90s, then sigh as I realize I'm going to have to explain to the customer how the fact that their email works is meaningless and the line's still poo poo. I'm so glad media converters are relatively cheap these days. The cable run through the shop at least tends to be accessible, so a SFP for the central switch and a media converter at the far end plus a premade cable and the problem is solved for about $200.
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Oct 28, 2016 22:37
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TheMadMilkman posted:Could some of you home networking guys post pictures of your network closets? The geniuses who invented my "smart home" system (i.e. patch panels inside a wall cavity) didn't provide any way to have a switch in there. I had to hammer out an indentation in the cover, and drill a couple of 1" holes in my wardrobe solution to switch all the outlets.  I didn't bother unscrewing the cover because inside is merely patch panels for ethernet, TV and phone. Edit: just saw the post about the derail. Fair enough. (At least mine is crappy construction?) ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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Oct 29, 2016 08:42
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 Somewhere in russia.
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Oct 29, 2016 19:46
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It's not just your neighbor down the street with the cars parked on his front lawn and a collapsing pool fence who does work without permits: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/28/clinton-house-renovated-without-permits-records/92878768/ quote:Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton have been renovating a house they bought next to their Chappaqua residence without several required local permits, according to building department records.
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Oct 30, 2016 22:08
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Permitgate
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Oct 30, 2016 22:11
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I'm fairly certain you can't change a goddamn lightbulb without a permit in NY. Only exaggerating slightly. Edit: I would also imagine neighborhood busy bodies in Westchester County drop dimes on each other like Stasi informants.
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Oct 30, 2016 22:28
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I would imagine that during an election cycle pretty much everything a candidate does is reported to various government watchdogs in the hope that something sticks.
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Oct 31, 2016 10:40
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Had to get a new expansion tank on my hot water heater right after we moved in since the old was rotting at the fitting and it dinged on the inspection; a 2-cubic-foot piece of metal required a loving permit. I don't understand why. I really don't. The part of Florida I live in is permit hell. Have a screen door that's NOT on an existing door? Permit. Want to put up a single storm panel on that odd-sized bathroom window? Gonna spend more on the permit than the panel. It's worse because I generally have a pretty rapid turnaround in my department at work, usually 1-1.5 months, but sometimes I have to turn a job over to our GC for permitting, which adds 2-4 weeks. Minimum. I hate municipalities.
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Oct 31, 2016 13:26
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Lime Tonics posted:
The opposite of this happened at my work. We installed a 24x24 Black Galaxy granite floor, which is an absolutely beautiful black granite with gold flecks in it. Everything went well until the owner's wife went to do her business and saw the reflection of her neighbor in the floor while doing so. We had a guy come in and etch the floor with acid, which took away the reflection.
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Oct 31, 2016 20:33
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DrBouvenstein posted:Yup. The permitting process in my city is absurd. Here's a reply I made about it in another thread: Wow, that's just stupid and such a obvious money grab. Around here you can just put up a new fence without a permit as it would be considered a repair to pre-existing structure.
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Oct 31, 2016 21:19
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Permit costs are often a way for a local authority to make up revenue if they can't raise property taxes for some reason. Because the largest cost increases are mostly borne by developers, it tends to be quite a popular measure until people want to build and then they whinge endlessly about the red tape. "No, the 50% hike in permit fees has nothing to do with the proposed rates rise being canned after public outcry." Yeah, right.
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Slugworth posted:Model/make? In my experience, with plaster, magnets are the *only* option, unless it's plaster on that chicken wire nonsense, at which point your only option is fire. The reason why people think stud finders are useless is because every stud finder they have used is in fact useless. A neodymium magnet is a poor substitute for a proper stud finer.  Yes, they cost more money than that piece of poo poo you bought and no longer use, but there's a reason for that.
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Nov 2, 2016 15:40
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This is the best stud finder. Everything else is just voodoo dousing. 
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Nov 2, 2016 15:56
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If you aren't finding studs by banging on the wall with your fist as god intended, you're a heathen. If god intended us to use gadgets to find studs, he would have given us gadgets to find studs.
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Nov 2, 2016 16:08
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lol if u dont have a photographic memory of the support framework of your entire building
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Nov 2, 2016 16:13
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Motronic posted:The reason why people think stud finders are useless is because every stud finder they have used is in fact useless. A neodymium magnet is a poor substitute for a proper stud finer. Oh I don't think they're useless, I just don't have much luck with them on plaster specifically, and most reviews I've seen of higher end ones indicate the same issue. Even reviews of that model say if you're having trouble with plaster, switch it to metal mode to look for nails, which, you know, magnets are already in metal mode 
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Nov 2, 2016 16:57
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Polio Vax Scene posted:lol if u dont have a photographic memory of the support framework of your entire building Photographic memories are poo poo. I took photographs at a 1:1 scale. When I need to find a stud I just tape all the photographs to the wall and hammer through where the studs are in the picture.
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Nov 2, 2016 17:00
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Arivia posted:Photographic memories are poo poo. I took photographs at a 1:1 scale. When I need to find a stud I just tape all the photographs to the wall and hammer through where the studs are in the picture. That sounds like a lot of extra work when you could just paint stripes on your walls where the studs are.
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Nov 2, 2016 17:06
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:That sounds like a lot of extra work when you could just paint stripes on your walls where the studs are. Don't drywall, just put up plexiglass instead.
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Nov 2, 2016 17:11
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Use 5/8" artificial sapphire sheets when you need fire resistance.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:That sounds like a lot of extra work when you could just paint stripes on your walls where the studs are. Has this thread taught you nothing about half assing it? You can't protect a motorcycle with only 200 pounds of concrete. Content: So ever since we moved into this house a decade and change ago, there's been one bathroom that's always stunk. It's in the basement, and no matter what we did we could never make it smell clean. The house is kind of a mess, lots of bad old handyman fixes and so on. Last weekend, we went to replace the sink in that bathroom and found the source of the smell - an uncapped drain leading directly to the sewer. There was a foot deep six inch wide hole cut into the concrete, with no piping for the last eight inches. The drain pipe for the sink just sat on top of this, without any seal and about an inch or so of gap around it. For bonus points, the intake for the sink has two shutoff valves, both marked cold, the second of which was installed improperly and does not actually shut off at all. Both shutoff valves are pointed in different directions. 
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Nov 2, 2016 17:18
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Bad Munki posted:Don't drywall, just put up plexiglass instead. Just hang the drywall on the inside of the studs! If anyone asks say it a tribute to that french museum with all the ducting on the exterior.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:20
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Just build your house out of 100% studs, with no gaps in between. Then you don't need drywall, and you can put a nail anywhere and it'll go into a stud. e. Or just build your house out of one really big stud, that you hollowed out. 
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Nov 2, 2016 18:27
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Log buildings are the poo poo when it comes to hanging things on the walls, no joke.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:34
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protip: build your house out of stones and concrete and hang your stuff anywhere you want. Lifehack: chain yor bike to your concrete dwelling - no extra block needed!
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Dr Sun Try posted:protip: In that case would you use a concrete anchor rated to at least 400lbs?
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