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"Slump" is a quality of concrete mixes that is basically the degree to which it will stay still under pressure from gravity. You have trade offs between sculptability and final durability, but you can create concrete mixes that basically act like canned cranberry sauce if you want to.
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Contemplating buying a house to get away from this rental horror show and this thread paralyzes me with fear sometimes.
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Nah, if you own the house you're free to fix it right. Or wrong. Whatever makes you happy, you're not beholden to anyone but yourself.
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Yeah its a wonder that the banks haven't figured out how to put wording into the mortgage contracts about how you can modify/repair your house.
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FogHelmut posted:Yeah its a wonder that the banks haven't figured out how to put wording into the mortgage contracts about how you can modify/repair your house.
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FogHelmut posted:Yeah its a wonder that the banks haven't figured out how to put wording into the mortgage contracts about how you can modify/repair your house. Something like the below, you mean? quote:Borrower shall not destroy, damage or impair the Property, allow the Property to deteriorate or commit waste on the Property. Whether or not Borrower is residing in the Property, Borrower shall maintain the Property in order to prevent the Property from deteriorating or decreasing in value due to its condition.
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Nov 14, 2016 19:58
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FogHelmut posted:Yeah its a wonder that the banks haven't figured out how to put wording into the mortgage contracts about how you can modify/repair your house. If a tree falls and punches through my roof, I'm running out and getting a tarp before I call the bank. Some repairs need immediate action to prevent them from getting worse.
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Bad Munki posted:Nah, if you own the house you're free to fix it right. Or wrong. Whatever makes you happy, you're not beholden to anyone but yourself. The problem is inheriting hidden disasters, especially if an unscrupulous flipper was the prior owner. Being able to handle your own general maintenance tasks is great. Discovering that that freshly-painted wall is harboring a slow water leak that's turned the entire corner of the room's framing into something resembling chunky oatmeal is not so great.
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Buy a new house like I did, then all you have to deal with is the amateur plumbing (drain should go down, not up, toilets should have a shutoff valve that's accessible without removing the house from around the toilet) Apart from that though honestly it's fantastic, I hated renting when I had to do it.
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Here is why you use your tools properly and don't hold things in your mouth when building things. https://gfycat.com/FrailFilthyHare
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kid sinister posted:Here is why you use your tools properly and don't hold things in your mouth when building things. Something about that reaction says this isn't the first time.
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I know gfycat picks the url randomly, but that was drat near spot on.
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   Is this tile as crooked as it seems, or is this some weird optical illusion? Also, that wallpaper ugh.  This is a $500k house. also:  edited to fix images BonerGhost fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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Nov 15, 2016 02:45
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More appropriately, they desperately want it to be a $500k house. Some of the listings in my area are getting stupidly optimistic about their valuations. Price it at its real value and it's sold the day you list it. These overpriced idiots get stuck sitting on the market for months.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Hey, really quick about animal antibiotics, in the US you wont be able to get them without prescription from a vet pretty soon, in order to try and cut down on antibiotic resistant infections in livestock. They've been used as a cure-all for decades, and it's really starting to have pretty crappy consequences. But then what am I going to do next time I get a nasty infection and my finger starts swelling up? drat nanny state
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Ironically, Dr. Dad used to prescribe human antibiotics for our dog when she got sick, because the veterinary ones were so much more expensive (and usually, according to him, discontinued stuff that was no longer approved for human use etc.)
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Sagebrush posted:Ironically, Dr. Dad used to prescribe human antibiotics for our dog when she got sick, because the veterinary ones were so much more expensive (and usually, according to him, discontinued stuff that was no longer approved for human use etc.) I used to make dog scripts out of my people pharmacy all the time :3
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Interestingly, yes, a lot of animal drugs are old human ones. Humans and Animals have different reactions to drugs. Often, older drugs are more thoroughly studied and have much better known effects. Also, research and development for animal medicine lags far, far behind human development, for obvious economic reasons. It does not necessarily mean that those old drugs suck. But it does mean people dumping oxytetracycline on every boo-boo and sniffle are making oxytetracycline resistant bacteria very prolific.NancyPants posted:I used to make dog scripts out of my people pharmacy all the time :3 My dog Mulan gets her prozac from Publix. The pharmacy people there know all about her 
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Suspect Bucket posted:Interestingly, yes, a lot of animal drugs are old human ones. Humans and Animals have different reactions to drugs. Often, older drugs are more thoroughly studied and have much better known effects. Also, research and development for animal medicine lags far, far behind human development, for obvious economic reasons Unless you have a pet mouse or rat, in which case they probably have enough drugs to make them immortal
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kid sinister posted:If a tree falls and punches through my roof, I'm running out and getting a tarp before I call the bank. Some repairs need immediate action to prevent them from getting worse. There was a microburst over my neighborhood a few months ago and there are still houses here with trees sticking through the roof/wall, missing sections of roof, and torn off gutters. It's really disappointing. I'm pretty sure a lot of these homes are owned free and clear and the owner doesn't want to pay for insurance so we get poo poo like this.
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Are they inhabited? We have a problem locally where property owners just squat on lots, doing no upkeep on the house or property. They'll rent them out until they're pretty much uninhabitable and then they just sit vacant unless a tree or a fire takes them out.
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Tunicate posted:Unless you have a pet mouse or rat, in which case they probably have enough drugs to make them immortal Not necessarily drugs, but I it looks like simply modifying the DAF-3 gene will do the trick
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there wolf posted:Are they inhabited? We have a problem locally where property owners just squat on lots, doing no upkeep on the house or property. They'll rent them out until they're pretty much uninhabitable and then they just sit vacant unless a tree or a fire takes them out. Yeah they are inhabited. My area has very high property taxes (millage is about 200 on about 66% of assessed value) and we have point of sale inspections which restrict transfer of ownership based on the condition of the house, so people who paid off their house decades ago are paying 6-10k a year on taxes so they skip insurance, something happens then they can't sell or take out a mortgage and the house falls apart or burns down. Edit: there are 7 houses in tax foreclosure within 2 blocks of me. One of them went into delinquency when the owner died and the county is going after one of the heirs. The home is worth maybe 120k but has 80k in back taxes and would require a buyer to put up ~20k into escrow with the city to satisfy POS requirements. Edit2: when these properties go up for sheriffs auction the county is required to set the minimum bid at the delinquent tax amount including penalties and fees. This is often times more than the value of the home. After two failed auctions the home is transferred to a land bank and is then sold to flippers or housing assistance non-profits. It's almost impossible for individuals to participate in the foreclosure auction market here due to the frequent tax delinquency and POS requirement. If you win an auction the city will order a POS inspection and put an escrow requirement on the property before you're allowed to file the deed, then the county can start fining you for failing to take title of the property. Long story long it's a loving mess. Jealous Cow fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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kid sinister posted:Nah, you just park the truck up top and pour it from there. It hardens by the time it reaches the bottom. Theory checks out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
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Power tools are overrated. http://i.imgur.com/yvDfVVA.gifv That's actually pretty impressive.
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kid sinister posted:Power tools are overrated. Six foreigners doing the work of one American.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Six foreigners doing the work of one American. But at 1% the cost!
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Holy poo poo, the dude with the tambourine.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Six foreigners doing the work of one American. I don't know that the average American weighs *quite* as much as six foreigners, but point taken.
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deoju posted:Holy poo poo, the dude with the tambourine. Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, drive a pile for me...
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BAH GAWD KING, IT'S A 6-MAN PILEDRIVER 
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Dagen H posted:BAH GAWD KING, IT'S A 6-MAN PILEDRIVER STOP THE CONSTRUCTION, THAT PILE HAS A FAMILY!
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"Good" construction http://imgur.com/gallery/U9faFNB
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Bahahaha (from MMH)
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edit: nm dumb fake poo poo
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Exposed, finished roof beam in a living space. Somehow, this managed to go unnoticed by the owner.  Meanwhile, we're all trying to figure out how termites made it to the roof of a 3-story building.
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PainterofCrap posted:Exposed, finished roof beam in a living space. At first I thought that was a load-bearing pen.
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baquerd posted:At first I thought that was a load-bearing pen. It is now.
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Found under the floor, driven into the original utility step of the garage, while converting a finished garage room back into a garage:
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I've left snapped bits in things when the alternative is scrapping a piece of otherwise good lumber.
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