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Jaded Burnout posted:I’ve been wondering why the installer bothered putting a security lock in the back door when the hinges are on the outside. Locks are to keep honest people honest anyway. Anyone who would take your door off the hinges would find tossing a rock through a ground floor window a lot faster.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I’ve been wondering why the installer bothered putting a security lock in the back door when the hinges are on the outside. That's super cheap to fix. You pull out a single screw from at least the top and bottom hinge and put a security pin in its place. 3x pins. You can find them cheaper. https://www.amazon.com/HINGEMATETM-DOOR-SECURITY-PINS-PACK/dp/B01HRPW5D0 It completely prevents people people knocking the hinge pins out and taking the door off. Anti-kick reinforcement kits are reasonably priced too: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01GWF2R70/ref=pd_aw_fbt_60_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SVCBEWVKY1YA0Y1DS7ZM Goes well with replacing those half/inch screws in pre-hung doors.
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Double post, and I'm not sure what thread this is best in, but enjoy this collapsed bridge
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May 22, 2018 06:40
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"Okay, you live here now. Bye!"
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May 22, 2018 06:50
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It's now waterfront property.
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Collateral Damage posted:It's now waterbottom property.
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May 22, 2018 07:00
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Look we could argue about who's at fault here but that's all water under the bridge now.
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May 22, 2018 07:01
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MisterOblivious posted:Double post, and I'm not sure what thread this is best in, but enjoy this collapsed bridge Assuming the home is potentially salvageable, I wonder if it’s cheaper to get specialists in there to save the thing or to just demolish everything and clean up the debris.
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May 22, 2018 07:03
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I'm p impressed with that prefab home's structural strength but why the heck move the whole drat thing in one piece?
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As a company that makes prefabs, you have to decide which will cost more: assembly on site coupled with multiple, but cheaper transports, or ONE BIG FUKKEN TRANSPORT that may cost a lot, but minimal assembly on site. The equation must have tipped towards the latter. E: there's a small chance that it's someone actually moving out of their mobile home park (99PI just had an episode about this, actually -- people are getting kicked out of mobile home parks because they usually don't own the land, even for double or triple-wide homes) and paying the $15-20k cost to do so. A lot of manufactured homes can't be disassembled after the fact without causing massive structural damage.
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May 22, 2018 07:34
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/a-bridge-too-far-2/ details
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Collateral Damage posted:It's now waterfront property. Someone saw Fallingwater and wanted to make one for themselves cheap
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Jusupov posted:Someone saw Fallingwater and wanted to make one for themselves cheap Well they hosed up. It’s too structurally sound.
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Liquid Communism posted:Locks are to keep honest people honest anyway. Anyone who would take your door off the hinges would find tossing a rock through a ground floor window a lot faster. It's a floor to ceiling glass door anyway so if someone wanted in loud that would be the approach. I'm thinking more that a more secure lock is there to keep quiet entry out, which would be the equivalent of removing the hinges. MisterOblivious posted:That's super cheap to fix. You pull out a single screw from at least the top and bottom hinge and put a security pin in its place. This is a slightly different style of hinge, you wouldn't need to take a pin out. If you unscrew the hinges the door would fall right off. I'll take a photo, maybe there's still a solution. MisterOblivious posted:Anti-kick reinforcement kits are reasonably priced too: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01GWF2R70/ref=pd_aw_fbt_60_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SVCBEWVKY1YA0Y1DS7ZM Goes well with replacing those half/inch screws in pre-hung doors. All the doors and windows are multi-point locking so they're decently protected from being forced, plus this one opens outwards. If it came to a noisy entry they'd definitely just chuck a brick through it.
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Didn't the owner of Fallingwater call it Risingdamp?
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peanut posted:I'm p impressed with that prefab home's structural strength Looks like there are some pretty big I beams under that poo poo.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:As a company that makes prefabs, you have to decide which will cost more: assembly on site coupled with multiple, but cheaper transports, or ONE BIG FUKKEN TRANSPORT that may cost a lot, but minimal assembly on site. There must be some company in Alabama that ran the numbers or just has an assumption that moving the whole house is easier/best because I see one rolling down the highway at least once a week.
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MisterOblivious posted:Double post, and I'm not sure what thread this is best in, but enjoy this collapsed bridge
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Yawgmoth posted:Groverhaus Roadshow It's Groverbridge. The house is still together so it must have been built by someone competent.
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MisterOblivious posted:Double post, and I'm not sure what thread this is best in, but enjoy this collapsed bridge Kick out the short walls, hey presto! You've got yourself an upgrade to a covered bridge.
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Man, I know Game of Thrones had some serious budget issues early on but that just never would have been a believable Riverrun.
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 Contractor friend on FB posted this. Comment: "When your only tool is a sawzall all your problems look like they can be solved by a bigass hole"
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quote:2,100-square-foot home that's a lot to move at once
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there wolf posted:It's Groverbridge. The house is still together so it must have been built by someone competent.
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Haifisch posted:Groverbridge, with added insulation that somehow caused structural failure. I thought  already established that drywall can't support a house?
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there wolf posted:I thought It's load-bearing dryfloor.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:It's load-bearing dryfloor. not dry anymore
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MisterOblivious posted:Double post, and I'm not sure what thread this is best in, but enjoy this collapsed bridge The McMansions of Madison County.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
I already know the answer, but that's a floor joist, isn't it?
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is it under a tub? beatmasterj has a Sawzall 
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boo_radley posted:The McMansions of Madison County. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:I already know the answer, but that's a floor joist, isn't it? I hadn't thought about that until you said it, but yes, most definitely.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
This is probably still more structural than cutting the bottom of the floor joist.
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dreesemonkey posted:This is probably still more structural than cutting the bottom of the floor joist. True, for bending the extreme fibers carry most of the stress...but there isn't much left, and for shear...it is a function of cross-sectional area sooo...good luck with that?
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DrBouvenstein posted:I already know the answer, but that's a floor joist, isn't it? You'd be surprised how large a hole you're allowed to drill in a floor joist. I believe it's up to 1/3 the board width. That's over 3" for the average 2x10.
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Are their restrictions on how you do it? Because I would guess that those ragged holes and over-cuts around the edges make that worse for stress than if you drilled a proper round hole in it.
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Back to hinge chat, a properly fitted door isn't removable while closed. Even with the pins out the hinge plates overlap and interfere, it would take a lot of pounding with a hammer to bend them back enough to clear each other. The reason doors open inwards isn't to keep the hinges inside but to keep the top of the door out of the rain when it is opened. This is less important now that covered porches are common and exterior doors are made with metal skins and concrete foam filler.
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boo_radley posted:The McMansions of Madison County. McRanchsions?
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