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drgitlin posted:Didn’t he have some dangerous overhanging thing on top of his bed too? That was from a year previous to the notched joists in the electric thread. He made some ugly built in lighting/headboard combo thing. He was a turd then, giving us attitude for insisting he not violate code and do what he wanted instead. kid sinister fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Dec 12, 2018 |
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FCKGW posted:I met a traveller from an antique land, LiVe lAuGh LoVe
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FCKGW posted:I met a traveller from an antique land, Art. Also man that thread has been a wild ride. I've been reading the entire thing over the past few days -- I remember following it when it was fresh, but ended up losing track of it pretty early on after he was calling in contractors. What happened after that was just magical  He also seemed like a nice enough, if foolhardy, dude at first... but man, when the defensiveness over his sexism came out, wow. Total rear end in a top hat. That last followup quoted here really sealed the deal. IT WAS GONNA HAPPEN ANYWAY SO NO IT WASN'T A MISTAKE! Hahaha man what logic. If he'd never posted that thread, there's no doubt he would absolutely not have reinforced those joists and done the whole project himself with no contractor or structural engineer involvement. Hubris off the charts.
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Crapper Construction Tales
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That's one way to make it flush.
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Zamujasa posted:That's one way to make it flush. 
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Zamujasa posted:That's one way to make it flush. You have to plan a head.
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Deuces cracked by a flush.
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kid sinister posted:Crapper Construction Tales that's amateur hour 
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FCKGW posted:that's amateur hour So there's no lock to keep someone else from pushing open the flap and watching me drop the deuce??? Also, that was a very nice solid wood door before they ruined it.
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kid sinister posted:So there's no lock to keep someone else from pushing open the flap and watching me drop the deuce???
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kid sinister posted:So there's no lock to keep someone else from pushing open the flap and watching me drop the deuce??? You tape a baggie to the inside of the door and make people push quarters through the flap for the peepshow.
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...or leave the flap open to vent out your toxic rear end in a top hat gasses into the hallway as permitted by code.
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kid sinister posted:So there's no lock to keep someone else from pushing open the flap and watching me drop the deuce??? The flap needs to stay open or you wont be able to get out after without breaking the door/sink.
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poo poo, that looks better than a lot of "home theaters" I've seen in person.
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Yeah assuming there are no structural issues, that doesn’t break code (but it probably does if the wall opening isn’t sealed?), and that’s a spare space behind it — i think it’s a good move.
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Yeah looks like a laundry room, I've definitely seen worse.
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i'm never letting any of you freaks inside my house, jfc
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The Dave posted:Yeah assuming there are no structural issues, that doesn’t break code (but it probably does if the wall opening isn’t sealed?), and that’s a spare space behind it — i think it’s a good move. Check out how the door in the other room opens.
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kid sinister posted:Check out how the door in the other room opens. Well thats why they put the big cushion on the handle.
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It's funny how technology advancements can make house 'mods' obsolete and stupid. Another one I would add is people recommending multiple CAT5e/6 drops to every room in the house. 10 years ago when we were stuck with 802.11g and everything had an Ethernet port that sounded smart. Now, fast-enough WiFi and most devices being totally wireless makes those multiple runs of Ethernet about as valuable as the multiple runs of RJ11/TP sitting next to it crying out in loneliness for a POTS hookup. That said, I did pull 2 CAT5e runs to my office recently, since I have desktops in there, but I'm not about to preemptively pull runs to rooms that will likely never use it.
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Ethernet drops are still useful in places that have a ton of wireless congestion like densely residential areas.
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Ethernet jacks are small and unobtrusive. Making a media cabinet for your rear projection TV is really drat obvious when it gets dated. Also WiFi’s main problem now is congestion, not speed. The more people get WiFi in your area the worse it gets.
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Ethernet in every room means you can add a WiFi access point in every room.
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I have a 16 port switch in my media cabinet, 12 ports full.
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There are at least 15 home wifi networks in range of my townhouse. I'll gladly stick to Ethernet connections for anything even remotely important.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Ethernet in every room means you can add a WiFi access point in every room. Mesh networks are surprisingly easy nowadays, and there's always MoCa as well. But when I'm less lazy I'm probably still going to run some Ethernet, since it would be nice to have the cable modem tucked away somewhere, add a NAS with a fast and reliable backhaul, etc. (Though my Synology AR/MR link appears pretty drat fast so far, it's still slower than wired. I'm a detached house, too, if I were in a condo or townhome I'd definitely wire it up.)
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My impression is that the smart thing to do currently is to run conduit, which can then be used to supply many types of wire.
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I certainly prefer a wired connection over wireless, but besides my home automation junk (Smartthings/Hue) that lives next to the primary switch (and ironically use a wireless protocol themselves), I just don't see enough devices that still support wired to justify drops in every room. Even media streamers, which are guaranteed to require decent bandwidth, have largely tossed the Ethernet port (except for high-end models.)
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Maybe that woulda looked cool 15 years ago, but a 60" TV is like 600 bucks nowadays. Not worth the effort/risk/money to do that today.
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Load-bearing TV.
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Lain Iwakura posted:Load-bearing TV. That was my thought as well: what are the odds they framed out that hole properly after cutting the studs? Load-bearing wall or not, it still needs proper framing or it's asking for trouble.
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Bad Munki posted:That was my thought as well: what are the odds they framed out that hole properly after cutting the studs? Load-bearing wall or not, it still needs proper framing or it's asking for trouble. Zero. Look at the back of the TV. They didn't even cut the drywall straight. To do that properly you'd need a header and jack studs. To put those in that you'd need cut back more drywall and then patch. It's pretty obvious from the "workmanship" none of that was done.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:My impression is that the smart thing to do currently is to run conduit, which can then be used to supply many types of wire. This is the way to go. Of course, adding conduit to a finished house is a pain in the rear end. The conduit runs don't even have to be all the way to a central location either. You can just run it to an attic or basement where it's easy to feed in wires.
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And for everybody's sake, no matter what method of wire run you do, please also run a pullcord of some sort alongside. Future you will thank you.
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As I work on wrapping up a hidden fort I built into the side of my kids closet in a wall space above a staircase I'll need to share some of the crazy lengths of making a room for barely two kids fitting inside of it hold a god drat grizzly bear in terms of weight loading.
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Queen Combat posted:And for everybody's sake, no matter what method of wire run you do, please also run a pullcord of some sort alongside. this so hard.
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B-Nasty posted:It's funny how technology advancements can make house 'mods' obsolete and stupid. I ran network and phone (existing phone was... substandard, and ran outside under the eaves, because the original inside wiring was even worse) in my house. Then WiFi got cheap. Ah, well. I still use the wired connections for my Xbox and other streaming devices. Queen Combat posted:And for everybody's sake, no matter what method of wire run you do, please also run a pullcord of some sort alongside. Did that, too. Haven't needed it yet, but it cost me almost nothing to do. Similarly, it's why I ran phone and network at the same time.
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