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PurpleXVI posted:That's even allowed over there? Here we have a blanket ban on recommending any contractors or tradesmen, because if they gently caress up, we could potentially be on the hook to some extent. Yeah Lowes/Home Depot etc don't actually employ tradesmen, so when they offer free install on your flooring or window covering purchase or whatever they contract that stuff out to the cheapest contractors they can find. You won't find a lot of skilled contractors willing to work for those scraps.
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Enos Cabell posted:Yeah Lowes/Home Depot etc don't actually employ tradesmen, so when they offer free install on your flooring or window covering purchase or whatever they contract that stuff out to the cheapest contractors they can find. You won't find a lot of skilled contractors willing to work for those scraps. I had impact windows put in through Home Depot, and the installers were excellent. Cleaned up after themselves, did a superb job, took all the required photos for the inspector, and even put some custom trim up around my two sliding glass doors (and charged it to Home Depot as part of the installation cost.) Combined with the Home Depot volume pricing on the windows themselves (impact windows go on 20% sales in the off-season down here) and a bit of interest-free financing, I spent probably half to two-thirds what I would have anywhere else. I really couldn’t be happier with the whole project. I also fully acknowledge that I lucked the gently caress OUT, and never expect to get that kind of experience through them again. I recommended that crew to a couple other people, and the one person that went through with it had the same experience.
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Yeah it's probably really location dependent too. I had a few rooms carpeted and went with the Lowes installers because it was such a small job, and they did just fine. A neighbor had a door and a few windows replaced, and went with installation from the same store, and the job was so bad they had to complain to corporate to get it remedied.
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Slanderer posted:Looked up that unit on the wall, and then the wiki page explained what's going on:  The manual say that's the 'stale air from inside', and the outdoor air seems to be coming in/out via the insulated ducts. Is there a crawlspace or something below there? I'm wondering if the borrowed the HRV input to provide additional ventilation somewhere?
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Mar 22, 2021 15:14
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Yeah, crawl space underneath.
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Mar 22, 2021 16:28
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Vintersorg posted:Yeah, crawl space underneath. Wait a second, a brand new house in Manitoba with HRV that has a crawl space instead of slab or basement? Is that common in the area?
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This is out in East Selkirk and a slab basement would just crack too much apparently with the way the ground is. So they have giant piles underneath and in our garage too after we paid extra there. Thankfully my FIL worked concrete his whole life or that would have been hosed as he told the guy to add them there too.
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Mar 22, 2021 17:52
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Vintersorg posted:Yeah, crawl space underneath. I read it first as crawl space undeath, which should be a bad homebrewed D&D adventure.
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Mar 22, 2021 17:53
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I once bought a window air conditioner from Home Depot that offered free installation for some reason, so hell yeah a guy came and lugged that sucker up the stairs and put it in for me.
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FCKGW posted:Yeah I think they have windowless rooms because they have big fuckoff walk in closets and wine caves and cigar rooms and other places that don’t need windows and not because they’re human trafficking Or they're doing the MCM thing of having all the windows on the rear or side so your pesky 1950s neighbors can't see into the front.  p sure Frank Lloyd Wright did it first, the design below is from 1921 
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My parents' house does that - it's basically a square, and the wall towards the garage has no windows. On the first floor, there's a garage in the way anyway, and on the second floor there was a long walk-in closet all along that wall. The rest of the house has a normal amount of windows. It honestly works fine, even after we removed most of the closet to expand one room with a bed nook and convert some hallway into a small office - it just means there are two rooms that only have windows on one of their two exterior walls. The living room has bookshelves on that entire wall anyway. It's also a small Norwegian suburbian house from 1955 or so, hand-built (and designed) by my great-grandfather & family; they didn't really have the budget for human trafficking at the time.
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Computer viking posted:It's also a small Norwegian suburbian house from 1955 or so, hand-built (and designed) by my great-grandfather & family; they didn't really have the budget for human trafficking at the time. 
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 “Found a steam room and a hot tub in my basement behind a wall during demo” https://imgur.com/gallery/0lnSNIP
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Computer viking posted:My parents' house does that - it's basically a square, and the wall towards the garage has no windows. On the first floor, there's a garage in the way anyway, and on the second floor there was a long walk-in closet all along that wall. The rest of the house has a normal amount of windows. It honestly works fine, even after we removed most of the closet to expand one room with a bed nook and convert some hallway into a small office - it just means there are two rooms that only have windows on one of their two exterior walls. The living room has bookshelves on that entire wall anyway. If they'd spent some more money on human trafficking and less on the house, then they could have added on later.
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Bad Munki posted:
On one hand, something terrible probably had to happen for them to just walled up like that On the other hand, hey, free steam room
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Mar 23, 2021 02:35
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The guy who said "I'd get some luminol and a uv light in there." has the right idea.
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The Glumslinger posted:On one hand, something terrible probably had to happen for them to just walled up like that There are only two reasons I can think of: 1) Literally haunted 2) There's a plaque on the hot tub that reads "B. S. Johnson".
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Mar 23, 2021 02:50
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GreenNight posted:The guy who said "I'd get some luminol and a uv light in there." has the right idea. Spare the mental horror. Just do several days of pressure washing those spaces. Then burn the house down.
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wesleywillis posted:If they'd spent some more money on human trafficking and less on the house, then they could have added on later. You know how it is - it's expensive being poor.
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Re: Home Depot contractors. I knew a guy who was a fantastic contractor (skill wise), but couldn't run the business side to save his life (couldn't quote, was bad at estimating time, couldn't manage finances, do his taxes for the business right, etc.) He ended up working for First General, and before that was an installer for Lowe's. Some people just need someone to adult for them while they have fun with tools. . . but yeah. Don't get big box contractors if you can avoid it.
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The Glumslinger posted:On one hand, something terrible probably had to happen for them to just walled up like that Someone suggested that it was built without any permitting or inspection, and the sellers decided that it was easier to simply wall it up and hide it rather than try to deal with the headache of selling it unpermitted. Seems like that would be the best-case scenario for this.
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Bad Munki posted:
Uggh I hate it when the demo is actually the full version but with stuff walled out.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Uggh I hate it when the demo is actually the full version but with stuff walled out. Just need to crack it, as in this case.
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Bad Munki posted:
The gently caress is a steam room? An erzats sauna?
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By popular demand posted:I read it first as crawl space undeath, which should be a bad homebrewed D&D adventure. Many years ago, shortly after moving in to our first home, my wife “heard noises” in our crawl space and was convinced that we had rats or some other animal down there. To make a point out of how ridiculous she was being, I got my suppressed .22 pistol out of the safe, made a show of loading it right in front of her, and ventured onward into the crawl space at 930pm on a Saturday because that is what counts for entertainment in suburbia when you don’t have kids yet.
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That sounds like great entertainment for any time if you switch to a BB gun and have some drinks. But yeah you don't want kids anywhere while this happens.
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devmd01 posted:Many years ago, shortly after moving in to our first home, my wife “heard noises” in our crawl space and was convinced that we had rats or some other animal down there. To make a point out of how ridiculous she was being, I got my suppressed .22 pistol out of the safe, made a show of loading it right in front of her, and ventured onward into the crawl space at 930pm on a Saturday because that is what counts for entertainment in suburbia when you don’t have kids yet. What the gently caress.
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Loezi posted:The gently caress is a steam room? An erzats sauna? It's like a sauna but it uses heated water instead of rocks. Same temperature, but much higher humidity.
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So was it rats or what???
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Vintersorg posted:What the gently caress. Hi, welcome to America, we have guns here. Honestly, not the gun I would've chosen (Mostly because I only have one gun), but a real solid choice. .22 doesn't have much power, so you're not going to damage much beyond the rat, and if I was potentially going to be crawling out of my crawlspace with blood on me, the suppressor would at least keep me from surfacing in a crowd of very interested cops.
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ultrafilter posted:It's like a sauna but it uses heated water instead of rocks. Same temperature, but much higher humidity. Traditionally, you throw water on the rocks in a sauna.
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Dareon posted:Hi, welcome to America, we have guns here. Your behavior is genuinely concerning.
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Dareon posted:Hi, welcome to America, we have guns here. Tests show that .22lr will penetrate 4 or 5 interior walls or 3/4" of plywood, so it's not exactly safe to be shooting indoors or anywhere without a solid backstop.
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Wet noodles in this thread missed a chance to call him a bitch for not taking out a blunder bus to repel freeloaders.
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Dareon posted:Hi, welcome to America, we have guns here. And plenty of batshit crazy gun owners!
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packetmantis posted:Your behavior is genuinely concerning. I reiterate, as a gun-owning American.
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spiky butthole posted:Wet noodles in this thread missed a chance to call him a bitch for not taking out a blunder bus to repel freeloaders. Flamethrower for tunnel work. Obvs. A pellet gun will take out mice. Not sure about rats or squirrels. A trap is more effective but way less interesting.
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stealie72 posted:Flamethrower for tunnel work. Obvs. A decent powered .22 cal pellet gun will take out rats no problem.
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packetmantis posted:Your behavior is genuinely concerning. Genuinely confused about this statement, have I done... anything? My post was a shrug of tacit approval, are those somehow worthy of concern now?
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To the vast majority of the rest of the world, someome thinking "better get my loaded gun" immediately after "heard a noise I don't recognize" is weird and scary. That being said, a single mother friend was hearing weird noises under the floors at night in a rental house. She started finding dolls and toys hung on her fence shortly after. turns out there was a crawl space under a trap door under the porch that her landlord didn't tell her about and the homeless guy had broken in and had been living in there for weeks. But her first thought was to call the police and then move out, not grab her piece and start firing rounds into the floorboards. Dillbag fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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