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Elviscat posted:In-floor radiant heat is probably the best way to heat a house, if you have the $$$ I don’t think it should even more expensive for a new build. Another advantage of underfloor heating is that it uses lower temperature water than radiators, which makes for higher efficiency when using things like heat pumps.
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toplitzin posted:How long til someone falls out of that master "porch door" although i'm not sure renting some kind of lifter to get at it would really be in my budget
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Oct 8, 2020 08:49
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Build it with an overhanging beam so you can use a block and tackle.
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Platystemon posted:What’s funny is that they traditionally don’t wear socks in Russia. They wrap their feet with flat pieces of cloth called portyanki. I'm now expecting a lengthy thread de-rail about the definition of a sock.
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EasilyConfused posted:I'm now expecting a lengthy thread de-rail about the definition of a sock. Is a sock a sandwich?
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Vindolanda posted:Is a sock a sandwich? Only if you wrap it in a tortilla.
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A sock creates a foot burrito.
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Platystemon posted:What’s funny is that they traditionally don’t wear socks in Russia. They wrap their feet with flat pieces of cloth called portyanki. What do they masturbate into?
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wooger posted:I don’t think it should even more expensive for a new build. I know it's a ton of labor to set up all the piping and stuff, but now that I think about it, maybe not more than ductwork?
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Elviscat posted:I know it's a ton of labor to set up all the piping and stuff, but now that I think about it, maybe not more than ductwork? My parents installed it in their cement slab for a house in upstate NY and their entire HVAC system is some tubing in the pad (just tied to the rebar before it was poured, I believe), a manifold, and a tankless hot water heater. And I guess if you want to be pedantic, a wood stove and some ceiling fans.
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Platystemon posted:Build it with an overhanging beam so you can use a block and tackle. ...and? This was the easy way to get hay into hay lofts back in the day.
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Oct 8, 2020 18:08
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And unironically use it to hoist furniture into the master bedroom.
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Oct 8, 2020 18:23
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Platystemon posted:And unironically use it to hoist
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Oct 8, 2020 18:39
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Just on it's own that pulley block could hold a sweet gently caress swing. Though I always thought that sex dungeons were found below ground?
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Oct 8, 2020 19:29
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wesleywillis posted:Just on it's own that pulley block could hold a sweet gently caress swing. Though I always thought that sex dungeons were found below ground? There's a joke here about being a cave dwelling goon but I just can't dig it out
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Oct 8, 2020 19:37
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BonerGhost posted:There's a joke here about being a cave dwelling goon but I just can't dig it out Despite the chains, I guarantee no sex happened in this dungeon.  https://imgur.com/a/av0QJwh
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Oct 8, 2020 19:40
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corgski posted:Despite the chains, I guarantee no sex happened in this dungeon. If I was a computer, that would be terrifying
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BonerGhost posted:There's a joke here about being a cave dwelling goon but I just can't dig it out There was that thread where the goon wanted to hand dig his underground
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Platystemon posted:When the homeowners get too fat for EMTs to carry down the stairs, they can show up in front with a lift. I used to work with a guy that broke his ankle on a pallet that broke. Problem was he weighed about 350. Solution was that there was an overhead crane in the bay he broke his ankle in.... I felt so bad for the guy as he had to hold onto a drat crane hoist to help get onto the stretcher. Silver lining is eventually his doctor told him if he kept up his lifestyle he was going to die and lost like 150 lbs and quit smoking.
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Underfloor heating is common enough in Scandinavia that my great grandfather added it in the bathroom when he built his own house in the '50s. Still works fine, though the modern stuff uses more and finer heating wires; it has a couple of hot spots. Nothing extreme, but you don't want to stand on them for more than twenty seconds. The 1990's city block I live in now doesn't have any, but there are limits to how cold your floors get when there are multiple heated apartments below you. I wonder if there is any connection between the different interest in underfloor heating and wall-to-wall carpeting between here and the US? It sort of seems like they try to solve the same problem.
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corgski posted:Despite the chains, I guarantee no sex happened in this dungeon. Thanks for this, I had only ever seen the picture with the creepy bed in it, never knew it was part of a series.
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Oct 8, 2020 23:12
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Proteus Jones posted:Ha ha, what? The radiant baseboard heat really put this top tier
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Oct 8, 2020 23:21
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My dad back on the day built a garage with underfloor heating and it was a massive boon because the concrete floor wasn't sapping the heat of t of your soul 8 months a year. That said, we had a lot of reasons to be in the garage, so cost benefit.
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Bad Munki posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3819901&pagenumber=168&perpage=40#post492921243 thanks bro
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Jows posted:I used to work with a guy that broke his ankle on a pallet that broke. Problem was he weighed about 350. Solution was that there was an overhead crane in the bay he broke his ankle in.... Funeral home supply companies now sell modified engine hoists to load people into caskets.
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Heated floors are quite common in Korea, which has serious winters, and less common in Japan. Water floor heating cheaper running cost than electric floor heating, but electric is more adjustable, and easier to install during a remodel. https://suumo.jp/article/oyakudachi/oyaku/remodel/rm_knowhow/yukadanbou/ 12x15 ft room, 8 hrs/day, 1 month Water Installation $5674 Use $39/month Electric Installation $6426 Use $68/month
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we have neither lol
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Jows posted:I used to work with a guy that broke his ankle on a pallet that broke. Problem was he weighed about 350. Solution was that there was an overhead crane in the bay he broke his ankle in.... One of my former bosses had a massive stroke inside a factory mezzanine office and maintenance had to hurridly cut the guardrails off so they could bring him down on a forklift.
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peanut posted:We always lived in rentals in California and the lack of overhead lighting annoyed me the most. My grandmother had a house in Austin, probably built in the 70s, that had no overhead lights, except in the kitchen and bathrooms. The lower half of every outlet in every room was wired to the wall switch for that room. also:
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HelleSpud posted:Funeral home supply companies now sell modified engine hoists to load people into caskets. Patient lifts in a hospital setting have been a thing for a long time.
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Empty Sandwich posted:My grandmother had a house in Austin, probably built in the 70s, that had no overhead lights, except in the kitchen and bathrooms. The lower half of every outlet in every room was wired to the wall switch for that room Dual outlets are typically horizontal here, I read this and spent too long wondering why somebody would want a switch that disconnects all their earth pins.
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uvar posted:Dual outlets are typically horizontal here, I read this and spent too long wondering why somebody would want a switch that disconnects all their earth pins. For when that pesky GFI just won't stop tripping!
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Finally got my house painted. Before Remodel:  After Remodel: 
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StormDrain posted:Patient lifts in a hospital setting have been a thing for a long time. Hell, my county has an ambulance that is specially designed for bariatric patients. It has a 1500lb winch in the patient compartment to pull the stretcher in when the patient is too large to manually roll the patient up the ramp.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:Hell, my county has an ambulance that is specially designed for bariatric patients. It has a 1500lb winch in the patient compartment to pull the stretcher in when the patient is too large to manually roll the patient up the ramp. This sounds like a rollback ambulance. I could have used one even years ago when I was still a medic. Instead we had airbags that we could dump for loading. Sometimes it wasn't enough.
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ntan1 posted:Finally got my house painted.  looking fresh
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Perhaps late for underfloor heating chat, but since I was very recently flat hunting: In Germany, underfloor heating seems to have become more common for newer apartments, though it depends for whole houses. There are both the regular water tubes and electric options. My parents have it in the living room and bathroom of their house, but that was an addon. My grandparents have it in their rented flat, and my current rented flat (built in the mid-90s) also has it, as do many newer places I know. Underfloor heating is fantastic since it's more evenly spreading heat. I wonder if it has to do partially with the type of flooring used, since it traditionally didn't get along very well with certain types of wooden floors?
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Motronic posted:This sounds like a rollback ambulance. I could have used one even years ago when I was still a medic. Instead we had airbags that we could dump for loading. Sometimes it wasn't enough. Most of the rigs around here have Stryker Power Load cots, which are battery/pneumatic and can lift up to 750lbs. They're an absolute back saver, but sometimes just not enough...
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one of the houses I lived in as a kid had radiant heat in all the ceilings. this struck me as profoundly and variously stupid.
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Empty Sandwich posted:one of the houses I lived in as a kid had radiant heat in all the ceilings. this struck me as profoundly and variously stupid. It was meant for the floor ABOVE silly  One floor's floor is another floor's ceiling.
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