coldpudding posted:

This sparked an old memory, I got dragged along to watch my sister perform in a junior ballet show and I got assigned a seat behind a big pillar.
Lucky I had zero interest in watching the show anyway with 80% of the view blocked.

canyoneer posted:

Things not great:
Did zero maintenance on the tankless water heater, which means every fixture's hot water line was clogged with water scaling sediment.

PurpleXVI posted:

I always warn people that tankless/on-demand water heaters are gonna clog up their systems with more limescale compared to a traditional water heater, but every customer always ignores it as they see a chance to save a bit of space and simplify their system. It's good to know that I'm not wrong and one day they will rue that they disregarded my advice.

Then again poorly maintained traditional water heaters aren't much of an improvement. A couple years back I helped my grandmother remove one that was about twenty years old. Now, normally a water heater of that size, when empty(of course we emptied the water first), one healthy adult could probably have heaved it on to the wall bracket with the right lifting technique, and two could've done it effortlessly.

In the end it turned out to contain so much limescale that four grown adults(three of us working physically demanding jobs, so not exactly frail) were panting and sweating by the time we got it out of her basement, we couldn't even carry it up the stairs, we had to lay out ramps and haul it up with ropes. I was tempted to cut the thing open with an angle grinder just to see how much of the internal volume was limescale, but at the end I just wanted to see the back of the loving thing. I'm pretty sure it was heating up two hundred pounds of limescale just to get started on a couple liters of hot water.

PurpleXVI posted:

I always warn people that tankless/on-demand water heaters are gonna clog up their systems with more limescale compared to a traditional water heater, but every customer always ignores it as they see a chance to save a bit of space and simplify their system. It's good to know that I'm not wrong and one day they will rue that they disregarded my advice.

Then again poorly maintained traditional water heaters aren't much of an improvement. A couple years back I helped my grandmother remove one that was about twenty years old. Now, normally a water heater of that size, when empty(of course we emptied the water first), one healthy adult could probably have heaved it on to the wall bracket with the right lifting technique, and two could've done it effortlessly.

In the end it turned out to contain so much limescale that four grown adults(three of us working physically demanding jobs, so not exactly frail) were panting and sweating by the time we got it out of her basement, we couldn't even carry it up the stairs, we had to lay out ramps and haul it up with ropes. I was tempted to cut the thing open with an angle grinder just to see how much of the internal volume was limescale, but at the end I just wanted to see the back of the loving thing. I'm pretty sure it was heating up two hundred pounds of limescale just to get started on a couple liters of hot water.

Jows posted:

It's that a Chili's?

LimaBiker posted:

I once crimped two RJ45 plugs because the network cable had to fit through a small hole, so a ready made cable wasn't an option.
I never did it before. I had to use a lovely aliexpress crimping tool. It took me just over an hour to crimp those two loving plugs onto the cable.

Fun fact: i grabbed the cable from the roadside trash to replace a piece of worn, bent, old cat5 that didn't make it to the full gigabit speed. I think one of the pairs didn't even work.

For some reason someone was throwing out some perfectly fine cat6 and ever since fighting with it, my desktop has a gloriously fast network connection.

Powered Descent posted:

To bring all this back to crappy construction, twenty-some years ago I had a friend living in the house next door and we wanted to connect our LANs, both for local multiplayer games and to share a DSL connection (which at the time was still fairly rare). I already had a spool of Cat 5, so I crimped plugs onto a big piece of it to make a big long ethernet cable, and we strung it between our second-story windows like a clothesline.

It worked fantastically well, and to this day I'm extremely glad it never got struck by lightning.

kid sinister posted:

It's often better on old water heaters to unscrew the drain valve out of the base so that bigger pieces can drain out. You also might need to stick a long screwdriver in the drain hole to bust up the big pieces so that they can fit out the hole. Do this before you disconnect the water lines on top so that you can open up the cold side and rinse that poo poo out.

Powered Descent posted:

To bring all this back to crappy construction, twenty-some years ago I had a friend living in the house next door and we wanted to connect our LANs, both for local multiplayer games and to share a DSL connection (which at the time was still fairly rare). I already had a spool of Cat 5, so I crimped plugs onto a big piece of it to make a big long ethernet cable, and we strung it between our second-story windows like a clothesline.

It worked fantastically well, and to this day I'm extremely glad it never got struck by lightning.

Mister Dog posted:

Were we friends twenty-some years ago?

evobatman posted:

We recently bought a house, featuring a bathroom which made one of my friend ask if this is where Elvis died

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

That's weird. Is there something causing people to be sick all the time lately or something? Strange!

Lead out in cuffs posted:

Don't know the story. Someone I know who does construction posted it on Facebook without comment.

Lead out in cuffs posted:

Don't know the story. Someone I know who does construction posted it on Facebook without comment.

evobatman posted:

We recently bought a house, featuring a bathroom which made one of my friend ask if this is where Elvis died





We got the old shower and fixings thrown out and walls replaced in a couple of days, but for the last two weeks we have been staring at this, while we wait for the crew to come in and finish the job we were told would be done quick:



After a lot of astronaut washes, one night at a hotel and some showering at work, they have promised (hah!) to come in on Monday. In the meantime, I bought some washing machine hose and did some crappy construction of my own and rigged this:



If it's stupid and it works, it's slightly less stupid.

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

value-brand cereal posted:

This is so good. I love the little cut on the doorway step corner, to prevent.... ????? Something?!

value-brand cereal posted:

This is so good. I love the little cut on the doorway step corner, to prevent.... ????? Something?!

SyNack Sassimov posted:

Used to work with a construction company that would move their office trailers (connected via wide-area radio mounted on a pole, usually) around a lot, and they wouldn't inform us - instead they would take a Cat5 and run it from the old location to the new location, and splice the wires like they were Romex. Usually managed to get 100 megabit going, which considering the Internet connection was less than 5 megabit was good enough. I was shocked this worked, but yeah Ethernet is pretty resilient, not like Token Ring where you could lose the token out one end.

Lead out in cuffs posted:

Don't know the story. Someone I know who does construction posted it on Facebook without comment.

kid sinister posted:

captkirk posted:

I'm guessing that's more for bringing a dolly down than bringing a human in a wheel chair down.

Jows posted:

One of the biggest crimes in modern architecture is the complete lack of embellishments on buildings anymore. Walk around your town or city and older buildings have all kinds of purely decorative stuff on them. Nothing built since the 80s (is this another thing we can blame on Reagan?) has that stuff anymore.