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duz posted:It was just a shed where the inside walls were doors cut down to cover the insulation. it's hard to describe but it looked way worse than this description would imply
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fuckin' small towns well-regarded hvac company: - professional attitude - quality installation - quote was almost exactly final cost - cleaned up any messes better than i would have - located and labeled the breaker for what they were working on - sent me a nice thank you card (i don't give a poo poo but it's a nice gesture) - invoice for completed job ready about 3 hours after they left, variety of payment options well-regarded licensed (lol) electrician: - installed five new breakers, repurposed one, labeled zero (including two brand new runs) - pulled molding off, didn't put it back, left it stacked in corner with nails sticking out - quote was semi-accurate, presuming the quote was only for labor (actual cost was about 2x as much) - took 3 weeks to even get an invoice out of him which ended up being scanned and sent via Facebook, cash only well-regarded licensed gas fitter: - did, in fairness, install a functional and safe tankless water heater - hosed up the exhaust vent flashing on the side of the house and only caulked the sides but not top, water can totally get in - no idea what e-mail is - no idea what text messages are - communicates solely via phone messages i guess? - flipped his poo poo to the point of nearly calling police after i took a cell phone pic of his mailbox after he said to "leave it with reception" (the business is his house, he told me to come over, i was expected) SoundMonkey fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Jul 6, 2017 |
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Architect & structural engineer: modern human attitudes to electronic communications (also the only ones that work in offices) Window fitter: hates email, just about responds to text messages Electrician: will receive email grudgingly, never got any other means of comms from him, had to explain the A/V/W triangle to him Builder: email maybe, text message probably, whatsapp instant response
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Can't wait to meet the contractor I can only get hold of on Instagram.
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I am sure they'd love Snapchat, all evidence of their promises and estimates self-destructing before you get pissed and confront them.
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Jul 6, 2017 14:36
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my favorite subs are the ones who use the cloud quickbooks, click link in email, pay online like any other store.
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Jul 6, 2017 14:56
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Once I asked a contractor if he could break up his prices in line items and he just never got back to me. I reckon he just didn't want to do a $1k job at all.
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Jul 6, 2017 14:59
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I've only ever had one contractor do line-items more granular than "time, labor, tax".
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SoundMonkey posted:fuckin' small towns Can you explain this? I have no idea what happened or why he got mad
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And what's the A/V/W triangle?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:And what's the A/V/W triangle? I think that's supposed to mean what's more often called a VIR triangle (or maybe something similar for power):  Basically Ohm's Law in picture form
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amps/volts/watts
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Contractors are irritating in that they have so many jobs to choose from, they don't have to adapt to modern business conventions like email, smart phones, or proactive communication. If Tessa was smart, they would start working on robots that can solder and do tile work.
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Tunicate posted:amps/volts/watts Yeah this, there's probably a better name for it but I'm not an electricker. The younger guy knew what I was talking about, I guess he was closer to his education. High Lord Elbow posted:Contractors are irritating in that they have so many jobs to choose from, they don't have to adapt to modern business conventions like email, smart phones, or proactive communication. Proactive communication is the thing that drives me the most insane. I can deal with almost any setback provided they a) don't promise something unless they're actually going to do it and b) loving tell me if and when they can't do it and not when I call up 2 days after it was due over and over.
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Tunicate posted:amps/volts/watts Yeah, I had the units read into my head pretty quick, but I've never heard of someone using a triangle for it, even though P=IV is the same setup as V=IR. I guess mainly because power usually comes across as not a concern with anyone I've known outside of a physics/electronics course.
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High Lord Elbow posted:Contractors are irritating in that they have so many jobs to choose from, they don't have to adapt to modern business conventions like email, smart phones, or proactive communication. Part of that is that they regularly work in places without power or data.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:And what's the A/V/W triangle? Hopefully not the first Google result for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_death_triangle
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YamiNoSenshi posted:Hopefully not the first Google result for that. Yeah, I saw that and figured it probably wasn't what was being talked about.  I mean, if it had sounded plausible, I wouldn't have had to ask the question in the first place!
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Oh man that anchor is one of the first things you learn about when lead climbing. Appropriate for a thread featuring many misunderstandings of the transfer of load. It was the sparkie's mate that referred to it as a triangle, I was just trying to explain that you could calculate current pretty easily from voltage and power. The only triangles I know are M = m/L and the one with Avogadro's number.
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Reminds me of how weirded out I was when I had classmates who always used, for example, E=IR because they were taught to use E for electromotive force instead of V for voltage like I was (as a transfer student to the particular university).
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The Bloop posted:Can you explain this? I have no idea what happened or why he got mad i guess with the mailbox being part of his house? except his house is also his place of business? i dunno i was just like "ok dude i'll get someone else to inspect it next year i guess"
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Partycat posted:The hardwood ones are the best, but most durable (like CHEP) and have a deposit or are reused. The cheap poo poo ones are garbage pine and break if you so much as stand on a slat. They're designed to distribute weight. I've built some great stuff out of pallets and pallet blocking. The hardwood stuff isn't impregnated and tends to be really clear. I even got an A/A Baltic Birch pallet once that I made some really nice boxes out of. Plus, it was all free. Granted, I didn't just screw pallets together. That just looks terrible no matter what.
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I don't know about the quality of construction, but I've been watching this house morphing over the last year or so from an old farmhouse into a mcmansion. Looks like they got just one of each type of window from HD and put them in accordingly. http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/5545-Berkshire-Valley-Rd_Oak-Ridge_NJ_07438_M66874-09432
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Ugh, terrible fake stone almost makes me angry. No, actually, I think it does make me angry. I'm trying to figure out why this house near me is listed on Sotheby's. Not only is it ugly, but it's not even unique -- literally that entire block of the road is filled with identical houses. They must work there or something. The site generally skews toward other places like this that I've driven past, or perhaps like this which I will never see unless I buy a drone. (Seriously, check out the views from their deck.)
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I don't know about the quality of construction, but I've been watching this house morphing over the last year or so from an old farmhouse into a mcmansion. Looks like they got just one of each type of window from HD and put them in accordingly. Oh my god that really is worth a look through.  What the gently caress, this can't possibly be a code-legal way to have basement windows  This is fine until you notice the chandelier.  Why would you not extend this over to at least one wall? Also the wall to the right, is that an optical illusion, I can't tell what angle it's at to the wall behind the sink. It's messing with my head.  I like to stare at myself in the mirror while I'm making GBS threads too!  Wait... what the heck? Is this a different bathroom, or... the same one, but it has two vanities/sinks? e. OK now I see them both, yeah, two different bathrooms. So this house has at least three, I guess.
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I didn't even notice that kitchen chandelier when I looked, what in the actual gently caress.
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Just noticed neither toilet has a TP dispenser, hence the TP sitting on top of the tank. Those bathrooms just look super bare-bones. Nice tile work I guess, clean, spacious, but weirdly unfinished, and the vanities just seem super small and weird against so much wall space.
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That wall angle looks like a right angle, just distorted by the magic of realtor lenses.
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`Nemesis posted:Lots of houses around here have basement windows like that. Maybe code changed and it isn't done on new construction, but it's really normal to see. I think the issue is the size, because those look like an emergency means of egress for hobbits only
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Leperflesh posted:
What is that rounded lump on the far side of the vanity counter? At first glance I thought it might be a paper towel roll holder or something but that can't be right. EDIT: Oh duh, it IS a roll of paper towels - to go with that bottle of blue Windex and clean the mirror. Right.
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canyoneer posted:I think the issue is the size, because those look like an emergency means of egress for hobbits only Only needed if there is a bedroom in the basement, and just for that bedroom. The other windows can be tiny or non-existent.
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Leperflesh posted:
This is naught but the finest AssetCampusHousing architecture. Literally every single item in this image is in the bathroom of the lovely housing I currently live in before flying back home. What this is doing in a standalone house someone built and that is selling for five hundred grand is beyond me.
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Leperflesh posted:
Maybe they're going to hang (swag?) it from a hook so it's over the center of the room and not so low. But who takes pictures before that gets done? The same person that doesn't move the toilet paper and Windex before shooting the bathroom.
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"We have to build the biggest house we can possibly afford, which means we need to make sure everything we buy is the cheapest we can possibly find."
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I think the chandelier is over the peninsula of the counter so it isn't actually in the way. They probably figured since people will be eating there, it should be hung more like a chandelier over a dining room table. Looks bizarre though.
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It may be over the peninsula (I think you're right) but it's still in the way, it's way too low, even if it were right over the center of a full-size formal dining table. I mean, just picture it: with a chandelier that low over your 18-seat table, how will you fit the comically large flower centerpiece that completely blocks the view of your estranged spouse at the other end of the table? It just doesn't work.
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Leperflesh posted:
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