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Hence the downspout in the middle of the image
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Saw the downspout. Never before seen a gutter riddled with holes though.The bottom of the hole appears to be made out of chipboard and wtf is going on on the wall side? lordofthefishes fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Jun 29, 2019 |
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Jun 29, 2019 09:55
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It took me halfway through that image before I realized I wasn't staring at someone's scrap wood pile. It has a central vertical support! See, it's so close to the edge that it's exposed on one step! 
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Jun 29, 2019 10:23
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lordofthefishes posted:Never before seen a gutter riddled with holes though. If your gutters overflow (because the geniuses didn't put enough downpipes in or put the downpipes at the flat spots) they hopefully drain through the holes instead of overflowing through the roof cavity. The rest is all fuckup.
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Jun 29, 2019 12:17
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Synthbuttrange posted:It has a central vertical support! See, it's so close to the edge that it's exposed on one step! You cannot convince me that whatever that is is actually aligned with the local gravitational force vector.
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Jun 29, 2019 15:19
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goddamn it spock its wood. stop making it all sciency
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Jun 29, 2019 15:21
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The gravitational force vector is out of alignment, but if we reverse polarity on the deflector dish we can generate a contained tachyon pulse to stabilize it until the county inspector gets here to condemn the whole thing.
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Jun 29, 2019 16:51
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Aight, I see I used too many fancy words for y'all's brains. It's not straight up and down. Is that plain enough for you? 
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Jun 29, 2019 18:07
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Aight, I see I used too many fancy words for y'all's brains. It's apparently not plane enough for you.
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Jun 29, 2019 18:13
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Jaded Burnout posted:It's apparently not plane enough for you. Listen here bucko, if I wanted a plane I would have specified two vectors, like gravity and local magnetic north. Maybe throw in the direction of Earth's spin and get a nice little volume going, yeah, that sounds nice.
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Jun 29, 2019 18:52
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:local magnetic north Is that the new kim and kanye baby?
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Jun 29, 2019 18:56
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Really crappy construction tale: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ontar...biUvoI1A8cyo7G4
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Jun 29, 2019 19:26
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Pyroclastic posted:I came across this on imgur last night, and felt it it needed sharing in here.
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Jun 29, 2019 23:42
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Jaded Burnout posted:Is that the new kim and kanye baby? lol
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Jun 30, 2019 00:22
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terrenblade posted:Is there a good construction thread? I like this. Art Deco design is always good my man
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Jul 1, 2019 00:27
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My house fan was on a dimmer, which obviously doesn't work to vary the motor speed. I finally got the ambition to replace it with a timer switch. Found the next level of crappy construction, no box... And using wing drywall anchors to hold it in. Delightful.
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Jul 2, 2019 01:52
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StormDrain posted:My house fan was on a dimmer, which obviously doesn't work to vary the motor speed. I finally got the ambition to replace it with a timer switch. Found the next level of crappy construction, no box... And using wing drywall anchors to hold it in. Delightful. Power transmission lines are 13.8kV so, if you think about it, 120v is low voltage and needs no box. 
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Jul 2, 2019 02:34
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Hah! Crappy homeowner tale, I got a remodel box and faceplate I forgot at Ace. Went to wire the switch and realized there is no neutral so my fancy timer won't work. Checked out my electrical tub to see if I had a switch and I did, along with a remodel box and faceplate. I could literally have done this project at any time with zero trips to the store.
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Jul 2, 2019 02:49
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StormDrain posted:My house fan was on a dimmer, which obviously doesn't work to vary the motor speed. I finally got the ambition to replace it with a timer switch. Found the next level of crappy construction, no box... And using wing drywall anchors to hold it in. Delightful. Ehh, that's better than it being in a crappy box, just slap on an old work box, or is there something I'm missing?
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Jul 2, 2019 02:59
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Hey at least they used anchors. Let me tell you about some ceiling lights in our house.
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Jul 2, 2019 03:30
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StormDrain posted:I could literally have done this project at any time with zero trips to the store. Heresy!
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Jul 2, 2019 03:36
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StormDrain posted:My house fan was on a dimmer, which obviously doesn't work to vary the motor speed. I finally got the ambition to replace it with a timer switch. Found the next level of crappy construction, no box... And using wing drywall anchors to hold it in. Delightful. Get a flashlight and look closer. I bet you do have a box, it's just that it's pushed way in and barely attached to the stud.
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Jul 2, 2019 03:54
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kid sinister posted:Get a flashlight and look closer. I bet you do have a box, it's just that it's pushed way in and barely attached to the stud. Look at whats its attached with though.There cant really be a box.
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Jul 2, 2019 07:17
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fist4jesus posted:Look at whats its attached with though.There cant really be a box. You'd be surprised what POs over the decades have done to just make poo poo work.
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Jul 2, 2019 07:18
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kid sinister posted:Get a flashlight and look closer. I bet you do have a box, it's just that it's pushed way in and barely attached to the stud. Bahaha no. The cutout in the drywall was too small for a box, I had to enlarge it. The wire was unsupported up to the top plate of the wall to the fan above. That's why there was two drywall anchors to hold the switch in. Surprisingly though for this house I've only found two things done poorly, it was owned by one family who did not update anything since '78 and then painted walls, new flooring and some new fixtures before selling. The other was an abandoned light switch in the old laundry room. The space was too small for a box between the studs so they gave up when building it. It was totally hidden by the jamb under a piece of painted cardboard.
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MagusofStars posted:Based on that disaster of wiring, anything that's labelled is probably wrong, but sure. The three phase ended up all being labeled correctly except for one thing which was misspelled  Actually didn't end up taking as long as I thought - maybe three hours. Turned out one of the 20A 110V branches is powering... a single florescent light. Those circuit locator things are pretty cool
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Jul 3, 2019 16:09
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protectionfault posted:The three phase ended up all being labeled correctly except for one thing which was misspelled You mean those little pen detectors or what?
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Blindeye posted:You mean those little pen detectors or what? we used an older, 8-branch version of one of these that was loaned to us. It really, really helped. Just clipped in 8 circuits at a time and walked around with the little handheld doohickey and a notepad until you've checked everything, and then do the next 8.
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Nah, he means a dedicated circuit mapping device that uses RF or magic or something to help map multiple circuits at a time. (I’ve heard of them but never looked into how they work. ) E: f, b. E2: woo, those are pricey.
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Darchangel posted:(I’ve heard of them but never looked into how they work. ) I have used one now, and for all I know, it contains a very small wizard with a walkie talkie. It would explain the price. Some sort of RF magic like powerline ethernet, which I also do not understand. edit: I guess it would contain two very small wizards with walkie talkies, now that I think about it.
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Sick of capricious clients who proudly wear their ignorance on their sleeve? Don't put in for a contract at the new Berlin airport, a project where the decisions were made largely by a comittee of politicians:Duzzy Funlop posted:If you'd like to point and laugh at Germany some more, it's now looking like it's likely that the 2020 opening of the Berlin-Brandenburg airport (BER) will have to be postponed yet again, probably to 2022. If you haven't read anything about BER, it might surprise you to hear that it was originally scheduled to open in 2011, but the opening had to be delayed several times due to countless technical flaws. Germany's technical oversight agency had found more than HALF A MILLION technical flaws in its audit that caused the last significant delay a couple of years back. Duzzy Funlop posted:Some more choice facts from BER: Acebuckeye13 posted:oh my god I'm reading the attached wiki article and you forgot to mention that a whistleblower was loving poisoned Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jul 3, 2019 |
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Jul 3, 2019 22:30
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Holy poo poo, that's an amazing sunk cost parable. They should have just dynamited the whole thing ten years ago.
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Jul 3, 2019 23:39
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Seriouspost: anyone who thinks Germans are capable of efficiency or organization have never worked with Germans on a large project. Even when they manage to make something smaller, anyone with any competence who isn't German can point out a few hundred glaringly obvious things that could easily be changed to improve both the process and the end product. They're just coasting on memories of old glories (and fraud).
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Jerry Cotton posted:Seriouspost: anyone who thinks Germans are capable of efficiency or organization have never worked with Germans on a large project. Even when they manage to make something smaller, anyone with any competence who isn't German can point out a few hundred glaringly obvious things that could easily be changed to improve both the process and the end product. They're just coasting on memories of old glories (and fraud). Serouspost: iirc the dutch loving love miracle whip too
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Jul 4, 2019 00:23
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I'm getting overtones of every time someone tries to convince people letting the state takeover control of Hartfield-Jackson from Atlanta would be an improvement.
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Ashcans posted:Holy poo poo, that's an amazing sunk cost parable. They should have just dynamited the whole thing ten years ago. quote:There were some who believed - as the scale of the problems emerged - that it would be best to abandon the new airport altogether and start again from scratch. Mr Delius was one. But he has changed his mind. "There's a point of no return," he says. "It's public money. If you spend it, you need to get something out of it."
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Jaguars! posted:Sick of capricious clients who proudly wear their ignorance on their sleeve? Don't put in for a contract at the new Berlin airport, a project where the decisions were made largely by a comittee of politicians: "Die Zukunft unseres Bezirks liegt in Zimpren."
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Jerry Cotton posted:Seriouspost: anyone who thinks Germans are capable of efficiency or organization have never worked with Germans on a large project. Even when they manage to make something smaller, anyone with any competence who isn't German can point out a few hundred glaringly obvious things that could easily be changed to improve both the process and the end product. They're just coasting on memories of old glories (and fraud). As someone who works with Germans, dear God yes, I've never dealt with a group of people so conservative before. An entire national franchise is clamoring over how something is a terrible idea and not working right, and the Germans insist we have to keep working with it, even as the delays get worse and worse by the week and month. A) because it's how things have always been done and B) because how dare the locals who actually engage with the customers and systems pretend they know better than us here at the top in Germany who are German.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Seriouspost: anyone who thinks Germans are capable of efficiency or organization have never worked with Germans on a large project. Even when they manage to make something smaller, anyone with any competence who isn't German can point out a few hundred glaringly obvious things that could easily be changed to improve both the process and the end product. They're just coasting on memories of old glories (and fraud). When I visited Germany I was blown away by the number of solar panels on the shaded sides of buildings while the shingle roofs were completely unused...
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insta posted:When I visited Germany I was blown away by the number of solar panels on the shaded sides of buildings while the shingle roofs were completely unused... God drat this kills me.
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