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CarForumPoster posted:Well you renting it certainly saves him money on having it torn down. Yep.
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GreenNight posted:Another good dump. The shag cave is terrifying.
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Proteus Jones posted:The shag cave is terrifying. WHICH ONE?
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Proteus Jones posted:The shag cave is terrifying. The shag cave is a little old place where We can poo poo together Shag cave baby A shag cave baby Shag cave, baby shag cave Shag cave, baby shag cave Shag cave, baby shag cave Shag cave, baby shag cave
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Clayton Bigsby posted:I'm sorry, but I would actually love to have this bathroom. Looks like a FMV game background.
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By popular demand posted:I never wanted to live in the credit sequence to an early 90's kids sitcom. This kitchen is where they filmed the opening for Saved by the Bell.
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CarForumPoster posted:This is baffling. For about $1000 in steel and supplies, a junior level Mech E student could design a frame to look basically like a door frame and I can even imagine some ways where its not ~that~ bad. Like...making an equivalent member that a person could walk through looks pretty easily doable in that scenario. Looks like the UK, but they're fairly generic.
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Wolfsbane posted:Looks like the UK, but they're fairly generic. I (in the UK) have a friend who lived for years in a similar-ish barn conversion. Apparently the building, or the site at least, had been a barn probably since before William I, and a dwelling for a good long time. Nothing quite as dramatic as that but there were a couple of 4 foot doorways and a couple of ones just high enough for me to think I’d be fine but concuss myself on iron-hard oak. The family are all strapping six-footers and up but were so used to the doors that they just didn’t hit their heads.
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That reminds me of a house I went to look at 2 years ago in the suburbs of Chicago. It was a beautiful house on the first two floors, but had made some weird design choices in the basement. It was like they broke through parts of the foundation to expand the basement. I had to almost get on my hands and knees to crawl through a small 4 or 4.5 foot opening to get to where the washer and dryer were (I am 6ft 6in). And there was a whole storage area that had the same issue. I think the ceilings down there we’re all over the place as well, so I had to constantly watch my head. The only saving grace was all the concrete was painted or epoxied, so at least it looked pretty nice, even if it wasn’t super functional. I did not buy that house.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:I'm sorry, but I would actually love to have this bathroom. Brass Monkey of Damocles rules.
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CarForumPoster posted:This is baffling. For about $1000 in steel and supplies, a junior level Mech E student could design a frame to look basically like a door frame and I can even imagine some ways where its not ~that~ bad. Like...making an equivalent member that a person could walk through looks pretty easily doable in that scenario. It actually looks like what you are suggesting was done with the door in the background.
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A very honest real estate listing https://www.yourmainagent.com/avocaave quote:Here it is, literally the worst house on the street! The Seller has done the hard work of cleaning up the almost half-acre property (it only took 7 dumpsters!), so now is your chance to take it from here. Have you ever watched HGTV and thought, "I could do that!"? If so, pack up your tape measure and start Googling how to identify a load-bearing wall because it's time to put your money where your mouth is! The roof leaks, the floor creaks, and there's a terrible draft, but this 3 bed, 1.5 bath home is very open concept. And by that we mean the inside is open to the outside because several of the windows are broken. There is a large, sunny window in the kitchen... and absolutely nothing else - a wonderful feature for someone interested in a bright reading space (and ordering take out for every meal). Now I know you've heard of a detached garage, but have you ever heard of a detached foundation?! Because that's what you'll find here in the large bonus room at the right of the home. And if you're looking for a house that screams "I've got bizarre and ominous energy!" then honey stop the car because you've found it right here conveniently located off of US-301 in North Zephyrhills. If you need a place to stage your next post-apocalyptic zombie movie, this is it (the covered porch has really good "rest here on your way to the safe zone" vibes). And whether you like to turn up the heat or keep it cool, it won't matter here because there is no HVAC system. Oh and don't forget about the brick chimney that perfectly epitomizes how we all feel after 2020 - about to collapse and going nowhere (literally, there is no fireplace inside the house). What else can be say about this one-of-a-kind opportunity? It's not in a flood zone and will be conveyed with clear title! But we don't have a survey and the Seller has never seen the property, so buyers are strongly encouraged to do their own due diligence. And if you're not interested in crying yourself to sleep every night while you rehab this home, might we suggest tearing it down and building a brand new one in its place? The neighbors would likely thank you. 
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Orvin posted:That reminds me of a house I went to look at 2 years ago in the suburbs of Chicago. It was a beautiful house on the first two floors, but had made some weird design choices in the basement. It was like they broke through parts of the foundation to expand the basement. I had to almost get on my hands and knees to crawl through a small 4 or 4.5 foot opening to get to where the washer and dryer were (I am 6ft 6in). And there was a whole storage area that had the same issue. I think the ceilings down there we’re all over the place as well, so I had to constantly watch my head. The only saving grace was all the concrete was painted or epoxied, so at least it looked pretty nice, even if it wasn’t super functional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago quote:During the 19th century, the elevation of the Chicago area was little higher than the shoreline of Lake Michigan, so for many years, there was little or no naturally occurring drainage from the city surface. The lack of drainage caused unpleasant living conditions, and standing water harbored pathogens that caused numerous epidemics including typhoid fever and dysentery, which blighted Chicago six years in a row, culminating in the 1854 outbreak of cholera that killed six percent of the city’s population.[2][3][4][5] So they decided to raise the buildings of Chicago up one story and make the old ground levels basements, and lay sewers in the former streets. Meanwhile ... quote:Many of central Chicago’s hurriedly-erected wooden frame buildings were now considered inappropriate to the burgeoning and increasingly wealthy city. [...] Consequently, the practice of putting the old multi-story, intact and furnished wooden buildings—sometimes entire rows of them en bloc—on rollers and moving them to the outskirts of town or to the suburbs was so common as to be considered nothing more than routine traffic. So it might have been a hasty lift, or an awkward match to an existing hole? HelleSpud fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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This was way out in the suburbs, in Naperville. I doubt this house was raised up. Much more likely that additions were added on later, and they expanded the foundations or basements for the added on part of the structure. The land the house was on slopes down away from the street pretty significantly so it might have required putting a full basement level foundation for support, rather than the usual slab foundation additions get around here.
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CarForumPoster posted:This is baffling. For about $1000 in steel and supplies, a junior level Mech E student could design a frame to look basically like a door frame and I can even imagine some ways where its not ~that~ bad. Like...making an equivalent member that a person could walk through looks pretty easily doable in that scenario. Or just design the added floor so that one doesn't have to go through that point. Like, I see the stairs there. Have them split from a landing ~7' below the beam - one branch to the floor on either side of the beam.
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FCKGW posted:A very honest real estate listing So, based on the sales history, the 'sellers' (aka failed flippers) bought it a year ago for $34K, threw out some trash/demo and realized they were in way over their heads. Now listed at $69K and under contract. A $30K profit to throw out some trash and sit on a glorified shed for a year ain't too bad a gig if you ask me.
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B-Nasty posted:So, based on the sales history, the 'sellers' (aka failed flippers) bought it a year ago for $34K, threw out some trash/demo and realized they were in way over their heads. Now listed at $69K and under contract. Seven dumpsters of whatever the gently caress was in there probably shortened their lives by a decade.
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Shame there's already been an Evil Dead remake because boy would that house be perfect for one.
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My Lovely Horse posted:
a kitchen modelled after a trapper keeper
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My Lovely Horse posted:
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The 'dryer vented into the crawlspace' was my nightmare. We bought our house in 1992; estate sale. Apparently older folks weren't satisfied with having a 140K BtU furnace in a 1600-SF house, let's save energy by re-using the excess dryer heat! The crawlspce looked like the Easter bunny exploded in there. It took several years to clean out the lint, and we still have a dust problem, thirty years on. The worst part? It was a gas dryer. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Pro click.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:A Gandalf beam it's beatMasterJ's nemesis ...beamMasterJ 
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PainterofCrap posted:The 'dryer vented into the crawlspace' was my nightmare. We bought our house in 1992; estate sale. Apparently older folks weren't satisfied with having a 140K BtU furnace in a 1600-SF house, let's save energy by re-using the excess dryer heat! One spark was the difference between your house and charred remains, I hope you know that.
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VanSandman posted:One spark was the difference between your house and charred remains, I hope you know that. My house should have burned down at least five times. That's one. We stopped using the dryer the week after we moved in until I could duct it outside. I found a number of loose lugs on the Wadsworth panel when I was swapping out that fossil for a Siemens. Explained all the weird random blinky light issues I could never solve over the first fifteen years. Then there were the three separate flying splices in the attic, each one lovingly wrapped in a baseball-sized accretion of friction tape, which literally fell apart from heat charring when I grabbed it. Each splice was thoughtfully stapled to an 80-year-old piece of framing lumber for the kneewall. Those made my nuts retract.
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Stolen freon the cursed images thread. https://twitter.com/JimmyJazz1968/s...ingawful.com%2F
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Elviscat posted:Stolen freon the cursed images thread. I came here to post this exact thing.
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Blistex posted:
Amazing! I need to get good audio/video of my boyfriend's hardwood floors. This is a 150-year-old rented apartment and the floors are nothing but extremely loud creaks with every step and nails that just won't stay hammered down. All our socks have little holes in them.
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Twitter threads are the worst loving medium for things like this because half+ of the images you can't tell what the thing is due to the crop.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AkilahObviously/status/1351814414068977665
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This could be awesome to throw parties in
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So long as nobody gets dopey enough to try for a triple jump.
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~Coxy posted:Twitter threads are the worst loving medium for things like this because half+ of the images you can't tell what the thing is due to the crop. Agreed and this one is just someone stealing an Imgur album: https://imgur.com/gallery/aNzjhk9
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