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I mean, if you're dumping it in a pot on a stove, the temperature it comes out the tap isn't gonna affect much except a few extra minutes to boil, so unless you've got sludge coming out the first few seconds then who gives a poo poo. People are really overthinking all this.
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Fender Anarchist posted:People are really overthinking all this. Goons.txt
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When I was a kid our house definitely had water issues, I distinctly remember brown water from the tap for a few seconds. It's only gotta happen a few times before you check that it's clear obsessively.
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StormDrain posted:When I was a kid our house definitely had water issues, I distinctly remember brown water from the tap for a few seconds. It's only gotta happen a few times before you check that it's clear obsessively. That is a symptom of a different problem that is narrow in scope. If you have copper or pex pipes and unleaded water the first drops are as good as the last.
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H110Hawk posted:That is a symptom of a different problem that is narrow in scope. If you have copper or pex pipes and unleaded water the first drops are as good as the last. Yeah, I know that logically, but compulsions don't really respond to logic. For the record I don't have any strong feelings about pot fillers or water use. I actually think that house may have had a backflow problem since it was older and had a very old sprinkler system.
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Fender Anarchist posted:I mean, if you're dumping it in a pot on a stove, the temperature it comes out the tap isn't gonna affect much except a few extra minutes to boil, so unless you've got sludge coming out the first few seconds then who gives a poo poo.
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Feb 16, 2019 18:42
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Splicer posted:In some places cold water from the kitchen sink is straight from the mains but hot water, toilet water, and bathroom sink water will come from a water reservoir in the attic, which is not something you want to be drinking regularly. Uh why a separate reservoir
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Feb 16, 2019 19:08
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y’all live in some real hosed up houses
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Burt Sexual posted:Uh why a separate reservoir The British like having legionella and rats in their water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
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Qwijib0 posted:what? Well, you have to let some of the water out before the water can get out.
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Splicer posted:In some places cold water from the kitchen sink is straight from the mains but hot water, toilet water, and bathroom sink water will come from a water reservoir in the attic, which is not something you want to be drinking regularly. Some places are colonzied by loving idiots who like legionella.
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Liquid Communism posted:Some places are colonzied by loving idiots who like legionella. The Danes should never have colonized Britain.
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We had an attic reservoir because lovely infrastructure meant the mains pressure was sometimes too low to get the water moving, so you'd fill the reservoir when there was pressure (in the night mostly) and then at least you could rely on gravity to feed it down. The pressure is poo poo but at least you get it out the tap. Also colonized by legionella lovers though. Coming to America and experiencing a shower with actual water pressure was pretty amazing. And then machine-dried towels  Truly the west is a land of decadence.
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Here’s how I almost died this week.  I was cleaning up my in-laws basement from a hot water heater leak. I leaned in behind the heater to get in with the shopvac and huge spark went off. That copper line is just floating back there, not sure if that’s from an old fridge or the AC unit. That grey wire was just hanging there, bare ended and apparently live (I put the tape on it afterwards). Me standing in water with a live wire and a copper conductor just swinging around. Not how I planned to spend my Valentine’s Day.
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Burt Sexual posted:Uh why a separate reservoir When my dad lived in a tiny country village they didn't have mains, and the bore water there is super hard. So drinking, washing and bathing water came from the rainwater tank, flushing the toilet and watering the garden came from the bore.
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Burt Sexual posted:Uh why a separate reservoir
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Splicer posted:So your toilet water can't back up into the mains. So, other countries with stone/brick-built houses can make fun of Americans for their 'toothpick' framed houses, but we can make fun of them for having non-potable water faucets like an airplane lavatory. Enjoy going all the way down to your kitchen in the middle of the night to find a faucet that you can legally get a glass of water from.
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B-Nasty posted:So, other countries with stone/brick-built houses can make fun of Americans for their 'toothpick' framed houses, but we can make fun of them for having non-potable water faucets like an airplane lavatory. a) like you fucks drink water b) my house has no stairs
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GotLag posted:b) my house has no stairs 
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B-Nasty posted:So, other countries with stone/brick-built houses can make fun of Americans for their 'toothpick' framed houses, but we can make fun of them for having non-potable water faucets like an airplane lavatory.
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And parts of west Virginia, and anywhere they do a lot of fracking.
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B-Nasty posted:So, other countries with stone/brick-built houses can make fun of Americans for their 'toothpick' framed houses, but we can make fun of them for having non-potable water faucets like an airplane lavatory. More like they get to enjoy Raw Water® straight from the tap!
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tomapot posted:Here’s how I almost died this week. That copper line was probably for a humidifier. Also, find why that exposed wire is still energized and unhook it!
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GotLag posted:b) my house has no stairs You are not protected then.
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https://twitter.com/CursedArchitect/status/1097271473780285440
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That really looks like a screwed up render. Impressive!
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Youth Decay posted:
Why?   What could the designer have possibly been thinking when they did this!?More importantly who would ever buy a home with this?
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Tile for countertops is the worst and that floor ugh.
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The tile floor is the worst part of that image, and that’s saying something.
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My bet is the columns are just to hide wires for the outlets, coming from the ceiling above.
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GotLag posted:My bet is the columns are just to hide wires for the outlets, coming from the ceiling above. If that were the case, why would there be two columns and two sets of outlets? Cram them all into one. I mean, the whole room is the product of a deranged mind, but still.
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Yeah, my guess is the pillars are a compromise to enable open floorplan elsewhere. Max unsupported span lengths are a big problem for open floors, especially when they're retrofit onto existing houses so you can't (easily) just add more floor joists or something. The windows and the floor are bigger horrors than the island. The floor especially looks like I'd be constantly tripping on 2mm height variations.
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If you really badly want that open floor plan, that's not even close to the worst place for the pillars to be. You're already walking around it, unless the fridge and sink are on the far side of it it's a perfectly usable kitchen. The tile countertop is loathsome, however.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Yeah, my guess is the pillars are a compromise to enable open floorplan elsewhere. Max unsupported span lengths are a big problem for open floors, especially when they're retrofit onto existing houses so you can't (easily) just add more floor joists or something. I looked at a house that had a corner window like that. It was all one solid piece, not just two normal windows abutted against each other. No idea if that's the case here. And while there's logic to putting the pillars in the island it looks ugly as hell and king of defeats the purpose of the open floor plan with how it disrupts the eye line. Is there a structural reason they couldn't at least move them out to the edges of the island? Maybe it's just easier to built a cabinet around them that way.
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Probably there were two load bearing king studs there and they just built the island around them and then added the pillar bases and capitals to make it look "better".
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Leperflesh posted:Probably there were two load bearing king studs there and they just built the island around them and then added the pillar bases and capitals to make it look "better". I'm guessing that this used to be an office building or other commercial space that's been converted (badly) for residency. The odd windows and seemingly in the way pillar location wouldn't be a problem in an office building, and the corner window might even be considered a feature for a corner office.
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I guess if you've got columns on your kitchen island and really really want to put a spotlight on how they're not even centered, countertop tile is the way to go.
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