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it just now registered to me what the oddity is, which means it's been forever since I had to put up drywall that had wiring inside it. is this a case where you're supposed to notch/drill to make a straight run or no?
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Mar 7, 2022 21:36
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Empty Sandwich posted:it just now registered to me what the oddity is, which means it's been forever since I had to put up drywall that had wiring inside it. Probably drill. The smallest hole possible, as close to the vertical centre of the joist. Or you could do it the professional way and just cut a big notch in every joist along the wiring run, and run all the wires through it together. Use zip ties to hold the wires in a bundle to make your work look tidy.
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Mar 8, 2022 00:29
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mr.belowaverage posted:Here we go again no advice, goonspeed
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Mar 8, 2022 00:36
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poo poo like this is why it blows my mind people would EVER waive a pre-purchase home inspection.
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Mar 8, 2022 00:37
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Sloppy posted:poo poo like this is why it blows my mind people would EVER waive a pre-purchase home inspection. It's generally the only way to get an accepted offer these days.
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Mar 8, 2022 00:40
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wesleywillis posted:Probably drill. The smallest hole possible, as close to the vertical centre of the joist. I feel like that second option may be sarcasm. Sloppy posted:poo poo like this is why it blows my mind people would EVER waive a pre-purchase home inspection. Baronjutter posted:It's generally the only way to get an accepted offer these days. Most houses are currently being sold for over asking no questions asked by "investors" as fast as they can be listed. Good luck if you want to actually *live* in the house.
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Mar 8, 2022 00:54
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Darchangel posted:Most houses are currently being sold for over asking no questions asked by "investors" as fast as they can be listed. Good luck if you want to actually *live* in the house. This is why I'm looking at land instead. I saw a parcel listed recently, 2.odd acres in the mountains, well, septic, and power already in place. Turns out the house burnt down and instead of rebuilding, they collected insurance and left. $24k in the Sangre de Cristos. I don't blame them for leaving either. There are 5 acre parcels here for $5-10k. Getting a (40-60ft) well drilled is $10-12k right now (3-4 month wait). Lots with wells sell for $30-40k. I'm starting to think the way to make money on land here is buy a plot, drill a well, sell it for $8-18k above what I sink into it, and repeat until I have enough money to build my personal monstrosity on the edge of the San Juans.
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Mar 8, 2022 01:12
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CarForumPoster posted:Am I crazy or are all those nails sticking up making it impossible to drywall? It was drywalled. They have yet to pull the nails (or screws, hopefully) CarForumPoster posted:Otherwise whats wrong with this? Wasps. And non-NEMA wire runs. mr.belowaverage posted:Here we go again Well, no poo poo. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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Mar 8, 2022 02:46
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For your consideration, whiteboxhouses (English description at bottom of each page.) https://www.yamauchi-arc.com/works/house-at-niihama This one is literally called "five voids house." https://www.yamauchi-arc.com/works/five-voids-house Lots of links to other houses at the bottom.
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Mar 8, 2022 02:50
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I was scrapping and sanding to prep my basement for repainting. Turns out there's lead paint down there. I don't spend much time down there, and I don't have kids. How hosed am I? I know there are remediation things you can do, but I don't know about the costs, time, etc.
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Mar 8, 2022 02:55
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Sloppy posted:poo poo like this is why it blows my mind people would EVER waive a pre-purchase home inspection. Baronjutter posted:It's generally the only way to get an accepted offer these days. Definitely varies by market. I'm buying now, and just had an inspection today on the new property, and we were one of 8 offers  We wrote into the contract a shorter (5 day) inspection period, and also wrote in that we weren't going to bug them with anything under $2k expected repair. It's like an inspection contingency with a $2k deductible  I think it's a good compromise that lets the seller know you're not going to waste their time with a nickel and dime punch list but also lets the buyer flee with their earnest money in case it turns out to be a meth lab or needing five/six figure dollar amounts of remediation.
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Mar 8, 2022 03:11
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PainterofCrap posted:
It made short work of about 4” of water above those 3” of solid ice. But it’s still not a solution. I’m kind of stressed about it.
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Mar 8, 2022 03:21
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From redditquote:I've owned my home for 14 years (my first.) I came into it with little to no DIY experience and did a lot of learning along the way. We've renovated just about every room on the main floor (kitchen, bath, living room, bedrooms) and each time found terrible and sometimes dangerous work done by previous owners. For example, when renovating the kitchen we removed a floor-level cabinet from the wall and there was a power feed behind it. It was like they were going to put an outlet on the wall and instead put a cabinet. It was just wires pulled through a hole in the wall, stripped, exposed, and live. Elsewhere, since day 1 our shower never really drained well. When doing the bathroom over we discovered the shower drain had no pitch and was using a pipe half the normal size and wasn't vented properly.  
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Mar 8, 2022 03:34
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mr.belowaverage posted:It made short work of about 4” of water above those 3” of solid ice. But it’s still not a solution. I’m kind of stressed about it. It was a trite echo of the thread title  Your long-term solution, eventually, is to trench along the uphill outside wall and put a pump out there. Although if memory serves, you discussed this option.
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Mar 8, 2022 04:08
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deoju posted:I was scrapping and sanding to prep my basement for repainting. Turns out there's lead paint down there. I don't spend much time down there, and I don't have kids. How hosed am I? I know there are remediation things you can do, but I don't know about the costs, time, etc. As an individual homeowner most states require very little of you. You are generally free to poison yourself to your hearts' content. What do you want to accomplish? No matter what you were doing, I'd wash everything you were wearing while sanding and scraping. Wear a respirator (p100 is the standard for lead i believe) while you're down there until you've got the dust cleaned up. The ideal way to clean up lead paint chips and dust is with a HEPA vac. A shop vac with drywall or HEPA bags is better than nothing, probably. If you still need to sand down there, you can put down plastic and wet sand and then roll it up and throw it away. In general, keeping things moist will prevent the dust from going anywhere. Encapsulating is one of the most common ways of dealing with lead paint, i.e. paint over it.
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Mar 8, 2022 05:18
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mr.belowaverage posted:It made short work of about 4” of water above those 3” of solid ice. But it’s still not a solution. I’m kind of stressed about it. Salt the basement! (I dunno if it will solve your problem or make it worse, but either way, please post pics.)
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Mar 8, 2022 05:21
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StormDrain posted:Or my more mischievous guess is that the electrician was unsupervised and did all that before the contractor caught him, and the contractor was forced to add the furring. Electricians and plumbers will put poo poo wherever if there isn’t somebody watching them.
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Mar 8, 2022 07:01
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ryanrs posted:Salt the basement! You're right, that would definitely be a solution! Not the right thread to really get into it, but PainterofCrap is right. A trench on the uphill side (where the garage door is) is probably the fix. If it's big enough and deep enough to direct water under and around the garage, I can probably avoid the need for an external sump pump. The exacerbating issue, is my neighbours yard is elevated above mine, and twice the size. I get all the runoff from his yard and my own, and it's especially bad this time of year as the snow melt start. During spring/summer/fall, there's no water in the garage. Vim Fuego posted:From reddit I found a similar issue in my basement after removing ceiling tiles. Four joists had been notched to accomodate a duct. And by notched, I mean 90% cut out to fit an 8" trunk. Fortunately the remaining massive true dimensional joists in this 122 year old shitheap were able to hold without issue. There isn't even a dip.
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Mar 8, 2022 14:32
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Hello thread, I have wanted to post pictures of this house for the last 5 years. Its about a mile away from where I live. I finally had the chance to take some pictures while my teenage son and I were out on a driving lesson. I dont know much about who owns it but its been under construction for at least 10 years. It sits across the road from a small "no wake" lake in a really nice neighborhood in the country. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I've recently heard the owner is fighting a battle with his HOA because he wants to make it a VRBO. I'm pretty sure the outside facade is made from some sort of Styrofoam. Around here this place is simply known as "The Castle".        Edit: we rode by on the 4 wheeler once and the two front doors were wide open. The best I could tell directly inside the doors is the kitchen. Not a grand entry or stair case, just a boring rear end kitchen with standard Home Depot cabinets. Another thing that stood out was the kitchen was full of exercise equipment. Like bowmaster type things and treadmills. mds2 fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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Mar 8, 2022 15:38
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mds2 posted:I've recently heard the owner is fighting a battle with his HOA because he wants to make it a VRBO. That is their problem with the house?
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Mar 8, 2022 16:42
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Blue Moonlight posted:That is their problem with the house? I almost feel bad for the people that live next to The Castle. There are about ten really nice $700,000-1,000,000 houses sitting around it in this neighborhood. Here is the zillow listing. There are zero pictures on zillow or google street view of this place. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9191-W-Burnham-St-Lincoln-NE-68339/245733059_zpid/
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It's no Gwynn castle, that's for drat sure. https://castlegwynn.com/ 
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Mar 8, 2022 16:56
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When my old kitchen ceiling had to be taken down due to a flood from the bathroom above, the wiring for the spotlights had been stapled onto the joists and the plasterboard just sort of shimmed on top of it. The electrician that came to sort the lights out looked at it and said "I would characterise this as amateurish at best" and rewired it all.
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That castle is magical. My old house (the one that was crushed by the tree in Jan 2019, I posted it in this thread) was sold by my landlord for $99k after we moved out June 2021 and is back on the market for $195k now. It's been remodeled into a gray void with new kitchen, bathroom, windows, paint, etc, but somehow I have a feeling they didn't do anything about all the dry rot under the siding (or any of the other real structural issues). They did, however, appear to have moved the heat vent so there's now heat in the master bedroom. It used to be right outside the door, which was very stupid. edit: is it bad that I kind of want to go tour it? I went to pick up some mail and I wanted to peer in the windows but all the blinds were closed.
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Mar 9, 2022 06:34
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It’s for power making GBS threads.
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They didn't even remove the toilet paper roll when they spray painted that room. And what's with the open pipe (vent stack?) with hoses?
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Mar 9, 2022 15:18
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Jaded Burnout posted:It’s for power making GBS threads. 
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Mar 9, 2022 15:27
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Wandering Orange posted:They didn't even remove the toilet paper roll when they spray painted that room. Washer hookup?
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Wandering Orange posted:And what's with the open pipe (vent stack?) with hoses? Either they're just hanging there when not in use or the only thing I can imagine is that they're intended for power-washing the drain pipe system. Considering that it has a trap at the bottom, it's clearly connected straight to the drains and isn't just there to keep the hoses in place.
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Wandering Orange posted:They didn't even remove the toilet paper roll when they spray painted that room. This is a level of not giving a poo poo that I haven't seen since I lived in a place with a painted-over dead gecko.
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Mar 9, 2022 16:05
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Just yesterday I discovered that the strange disc protruding 1/16" from the top of the radiator is a painted-on penny.
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America posted:Just yesterday I discovered that the strange disc protruding 1/16" from the top of the radiator is a painted-on penny. LOL. I removed a bunch of shelving in our master closet and found about a half dozen pennies painted over and a puzzle piece. Last week I replaced a return air vent and the duct had about two dozen children's letter tiles, like paper scrabble tiles, and someone's announcement for something at a church from 1983, it was nearly completely unreadable. I was able to get a date from a clean corner and a location from the opposite corner. For a moment I thought it was going to be a note from the original owners but it was just garbage a child slid into the return most likely.
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My grandad used to leave stuff inside walls, behind panelling etc. When he would renovate something. I guess so he would remember when he did it or something? Newspaper clipping from 1968 under the bathtub, 1972 Hamilton tiger cats schedule under the counters in the kitchen and so on. It's kinda neat finding that stuff. Or maybe not depending on your view of the world.
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Mar 9, 2022 18:24
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wesleywillis posted:It's kinda neat finding that stuff. Or maybe not depending on your view of the world. I remember once while we were doing some renovations at this kinda mansiony-looking place, we found some ancient newspapers, narrating the uncertainty and upheaval of mandatory public schooling's introduction in Denmark. Stuff like that is kind of interesting.
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Mar 9, 2022 18:50
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wesleywillis posted:My grandad used to leave stuff inside walls, behind panelling etc. When he would renovate something. I guess so he would remember when he did it or something? I found some load-bearing crushed beer cans used as shims under radiator pipes when I renovated my flat in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Yeah granddad may have done some questionable construction thing WRT concrete that was way thicker than a normal walkway need be, or poles set like 7 feet in to the ground but I never remember hearing about or seeing any structural liquor bottles or ironing boards etc.
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wesleywillis posted:Yeah granddad may have done some questionable construction thing WRT concrete that was way thicker than a normal walkway need be, or poles set like 7 feet in to the ground but I never remember hearing about or seeing any structural liquor bottles or ironing boards etc. There's a body under there, friend.
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Danhenge posted:As an individual homeowner most states require very little of you. You are generally free to poison yourself to your hearts' content. Thanks for the info.
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