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Javid posted:I'm in if the other window-half also opens so I can at least get a couch and stuff in there. I can deal with the urban hobbit hole door as long as I can get my stuff in first It looks like there's a vertical piece between the windows, so probably not. Hopefully there's an interior door somewhere, otherwise it's all inflatable furniture or one-way trips from Ikea.
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therobit posted:If you want a place to park your motorcycle it’s 400 pounds! is this about the concrete again?
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My Lovely Horse posted:I think I'm just gonna ramp it up the stairs and out the window every day You laugh, but a good percentage of Asia does exactly this. The entrance to the house is basically an open wall with an expanding gate, mostly because it's so drat hot. You need the air flow even at night, yet you still need security. The front room doubles as the garage. If you're lucky, they'll have a ramp from street level up to your place!
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Empty Sandwich posted:is this about the concrete again? Just to cement to concept for you, the idea is to block anyone from stealing your bike.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I knew London was pretty bad but seven hundred and fifty pounds Property in central London is mostly used for money laundering. Actually housing human beings is a minor concern at best.
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"the UK has a much better electrical system than the US"  (has exposed, high-voltage wiring running to surface mount outlet boxes)
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Speaking of US electrical boxes.. after drilling a hole to release the water in the bottom Messadiah posted:And only the orange wire has a proper drip loop, shame. 
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Yeah.....so that bus bar is trashed and will never be safe again.
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How did that house never burn down?
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That looks like a total replacement of breaker box and breakers. no way id trust anything in that box with the amount of visible rust i see.
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Absolutely total replacement. Junction boxes can take a surprising amount of punishment. Well before the Zippo stage, lights would be flickering, breakers would trip, etc. The real fun starts as it's drying out. I've handled losses that involved this very thing. Philadelphia rowhomes are mostly brick, so there's a surface-mounted conduit at the front or rear to carry the feed into the basement to the panel. Either the conduit is installed with the top open to the elements, or the tar seal used has deteriorated, so that during heavy rains, the water is funnelled directly into the panel. I have also seen steel conduit rusted away, leaving some extremely dodgy feed wire / worn or missing insulation hanging right out on the sidewalk. Code now says that they have to install a proper sealed bullnose/drip-leggy thing where the two legs enter the conduit. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Aug 3, 2021 |
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Vintersorg posted:How did that house never burn down? It was so wet it wouldn't burn
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Harry Potter on Ice posted:Speaking of US electrical boxes.. after drilling a hole to release the water in the bottom Now you have to replace it, you drained all the breaker coolant!
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shoutout to routing a neutral wire and bare ground between the branch circuit breakers and the main, especially with all the water helpfully at the ready to make all sorts of connections either they got lazy and took a short path because they hadn't cut it to the right size to go under everything and into the neutral bar OR they just didn't know better. i love how panels become the accumulations of every contractor's sins Extant Artiodactyl fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Aug 3, 2021 |
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Motronic posted:Yeah.....so that bus bar is trashed and will never be safe again. Oh ye of little faith. A splash of vinegar and a wire wheel. . . <service will be Sunday evening, closed casket>
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Wolfsbane posted:Property in central London is mostly used for money laundering. Actually housing human beings is a minor concern at best. Same in a lot of large cities in the US. We were just
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PainterofCrap posted:Absolutely total replacement. Beg to differ. The only reason that I found the total extent of water damage in my panel was when I had the cover off to put in a new circuit. Wife had just started a load of laundry, and the well pump kicked in while I was standing there. The arcing going on between the breaker and bus was very impressive but tripped nothing and there were no visual cues like flickering. When I got the breaker out it looked like someone had taken a mig welder to the bus clamps and surrounding plastic. Panel replacement moved to the top of the to-do list that day.
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https://twitter.com/MoistenedTart/status/1423136260294463495
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Someone upload a bunch of windows into the truss generator?
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I've accidentally the entire facade!
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That is so perfectly horrible that I kind of like it.
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It's like living in the Pella showroom.
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Captain Crunch’s WHOOPS, ALL WINDOWS!
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It wants to die. Why won’t anyone do the needful?
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Thwomp posted:It wants to die. Why won’t anyone do the needful? Because people who live in glass houses
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You know how hardware stores have demo windows or prefab ones that don't move? I'm guessing someone got a hell of a deal on those and wanted to use all of them.
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I took the bad acid! Hellllllp!
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PainterofCrap posted:Absolutely total replacement. Let's not forget "hollowed out logs" as sewer mains ya east coast people sometimes have to deal with.
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I feel like this is a spite house, like there was some regulation about max window size, so they put in a million tiny windows to be jackasses about following the building code
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It looks like it got stuck in the middle of transforming.
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MisterOblivious posted:Let's not forget "hollowed out logs" as sewer mains ya east coast people sometimes have to deal with. Water mains, usually - I believe they don't quite have the diameter for sewer usage? (And I think I've already posted the picture I have from when they replaced the last wooden water mains here in Oslo a few years ago)
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We just replaced our hollowed out redwood logs here in Sacramento within the last decade. Not just the east coast.
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This wraps around from terrible and back to awesome. It gives no fucks at all and I like it. 
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MrYenko posted:This wraps around from terrible and back to awesome. It gives no fucks at all and I like it. Yeah, I like things that are weird and exactly what that person wanted. Something like this isn't done out of laziness or ignorance. They weren't just blindly chasing a trend. No, someone set out that this was what they wanted and they likely had to deal with some pushback to get it done. They might be insane but they know what they like. Good for them.
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Here's my large cracking wall in our apartment kitchen. I want to patch it up eventually. Is there a specific name for what this covering is called, and is there a common culprit in this warping? I'm assuming it's covering plaster since this is an older house. Here it is  Here you can see a zoom up  The board or whatever it is, is warped entirely. 
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zaepg posted:Here's my large cracking wall in our apartment kitchen. I want to patch it up eventually. What exactly am I looking at? What's the point of this large sheet covering the plaster? I'm assuming it's plaster since this is an older house. It looks like drywall tape over drywall, not plaster. It also looks like a non-load bearing wall is now load bearing. That wall is probably carrying more weight than it should if it's bending like that.
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That's not something that gets "patched up", it's something you tear down all of that wall board and figure out what is wrong in there. The most common culprit is water damage. It could also be structural damage.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yeah, I like things that are weird and exactly what that person wanted. Something like this isn't done out of laziness or ignorance. They weren't just blindly chasing a trend. No, someone set out that this was what they wanted and they likely had to deal with some pushback to get it done. They might be insane but they know what they like. Much like this house that I used to drive past going to work.  It's the "Mushroom House" in Cincinnati.
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