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FCKGW posted:
Why are you confused? That nail is the wrong tool for hanging a picture too. The results would be the same because in both cases somebody is being dumb. If you absolutely insist on using nails at least use ones that are the right length for it. Conveniently, the correct length is easy to figure out: they come with the hanging kit.
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May 4, 2023 17:57
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if it was a picture the result would be the same.
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I would have punctured the A/C thing as I drove a drywall anchor into the wall, please stop being angry about it being a nail instead also lol, "the hanging kit"
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May 4, 2023 18:00
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For want of a nail, etc.
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May 4, 2023 18:07
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The nail was the wrong tool for that particular job, but there are also rules about not having things in the wall within a certain distance of the surface without it being armored in case someone wants to put a screw into the wall. ... At least there are with electrical and I think plumbing. I've never even considered running air conditioning lines through the wall cavity like that.
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May 4, 2023 18:08
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No see you're supposed to hang everything with command strips/poster putty like a college student. No risk of puncturing anything then! 
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May 4, 2023 18:15
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Picture rails need to make a comeback.
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May 4, 2023 18:19
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I use those little brass picture hangers that come with nails that Home Depot sells because they don’t back out of the hole like a regular nail. Hope that’s not crappy construction?
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May 4, 2023 18:33
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Cool Dad posted:If there's a dense metal object in the wall would a cheap stud finder report it as a stud? I don't really even know how stud finders work tbh I just assumed they'd use ir or something and find anything denser than the surrounding material. Yes. I had one reporting the entire wall opposite (behind) my service entrance panel was a stud. Stud finders work one of 2(3) main ways: Magnets (find the nails holding the wall panel to the stud) Dielectric constant detectors. The second kind are the ones that will also find live power lines, pipes, and other metallic objects in the wall in addition to studs. There are some radar based ones now as well, like the Wallbot which can find just about everything including the rodents in your walls. Side note: If I don't get a call back from the garage door vendors today or tomorrow, i guess I'm doing a self install this weekend.
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May 4, 2023 18:45
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don't die the coil spring in an overhead garage door is an insanely dangerous thing that you should not gently caress around with unless you are extremely certain you've got the procedure right
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May 4, 2023 18:50
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not the door, just the opener.
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May 4, 2023 18:52
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^^^  Leperflesh posted:don't die This is what I've always heard as well, so definitely......film it.
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May 4, 2023 18:53
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if you're just hooking the opener up to the door which is already properly hung, that seems safer to do (obviously still don't die, you're putting something heavy overhead, etc.)
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May 4, 2023 19:00
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Its hung, yes. Properly? Doubtful. (So many gaps) I've been waiting all week for a callback from Overhead Door with no luck. Ideally I would like to replace the door with an insulated one and an opener all at once, but if no one is gonna call me back, I'm going to install an opener on the one I have then continue waiting on callbacks for the door itself.
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May 4, 2023 19:08
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Swapping openers on a working door is easy. I'd call it a two beer job, it can be done solo but a second set of hands makes it almost trivial. I'd never touch the spring and would be very cautious working on track but the worst you can do putting up an opener is fall off the ladder.
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May 4, 2023 19:28
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Net new opener, existing door.  It seems like a reasonable job that is pretty easy to not Gary in an afternoon. Run a new circuit, and then follow the instructions for the rest.
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May 4, 2023 19:47
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All this talk about just using a stud finder is moot since it only consistently finds the guy that's using it.
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Leperflesh posted:don't die wolrah posted:Swapping openers on a working door is easy. I'd call it a two beer job, it can be done solo but a second set of hands makes it almost trivial. I'd never touch the spring and would be very cautious working on track but the worst you can do putting up an opener is fall off the ladder. I've replaced my springs (the windup torsion kind, not the tension style) twice now, and am not dead. Actually, I am. I am posting from Hell, because that's what Hell is - you can never not post on SA. FWIW, the last opener I did as a replacement had a number of nice features that made it fairly easy to install with one person, which was nice. Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:All this talk about just using a stud finder is moot since it only consistently finds the guy that's using it. That's never happened to m- waaaaaaaaaiiiiit a minute.
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The house my parents live in was built by my great grandfather, a very DYI engineer kind of guy. The garage door is original, and instead of springs it has arms with counterweight buckets filled with lead scrap. It has worked fine for ~60 years, and the only real drawback I can see is that you have to avoid blocking the swing arms. I'm sure getting rid of the lead will be a bother when the time comes to replace it, but at least there's no risk of spring death.
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May 4, 2023 23:59
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Computer viking posted:The house my parents live in was built by my great grandfather, a very DYI engineer kind of guy. The garage door is original, and instead of springs it has arms with counterweight buckets filled with lead scrap. It has worked fine for ~60 years, and the only real drawback I can see is that you have to avoid blocking the swing arms. Just find someone who reloads ammunition and casts their own bullets, they'll be stoked to take it off your hands.
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May 5, 2023 00:08
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Nuevo posted:Just find someone who reloads ammunition and casts their own bullets, they'll be stoked to take it off your hands. Ha, that's probably a good idea. No idea how many of those are around where they live (in a town on the Oslo fjord), but it only takes one. 
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May 5, 2023 00:12
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I went outside while the sun was going down at exactly the right angle to highlight a handprint and initials in the concrete patio "foundation" of my horrible Stupid Newbie room and now know who to blame for loving up this house: MH (or possibly HW). Surely there is some kind of witchcraft you can do with someone's handprint, right? I wanna curse this guy.
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May 5, 2023 02:23
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Crappy Construction: Load-Bearing Curses ITT
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Leperflesh posted:don't die My girlfriend had parked her car in the garage at our last house but hadn't gotten out yet when the coil spring blew. She thought a shotgun had gone off in the garage. I've also been at two different retail stores, literally seconds before walking out the garage style door, when the springs broke and the doors slammed down. Those fuckers are heavy.
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May 5, 2023 02:49
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Bad Munki posted:Crappy Construction: Load-Bearing [redacted] Curses ITT Just as a heads-up, the word I redacted is a racist slur. A lot of people outside of Europe don't realize it. "Romani" is the proper term, but maybe don't apply an ethnicity to your curses?
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May 5, 2023 02:54
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Wasn’t aware. With that in mind, I updated to generic load-bearing curses.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Just as a heads-up, the word I redacted is a racist slur. A lot of people outside of Europe don't realize it. "Romani" is the proper term, but maybe don't apply an ethnicity to your curses? It's also one of those complicated cultural things - the group that drive to Norway from Eastern Europe in the spring prefer Romani, the group that has lived here for a few centuries prefer sigøyner/zigeuner ("we're not even Romani!"). Reminds me of the entire "what do the different US native groups actually prefer to be called if you have to group them together" discussion. So yeah best to just skip the entire thing.
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Computer viking posted:The house my parents live in was built by my great grandfather, a very DYI engineer kind of guy. The garage door is original, and instead of springs it has arms with counterweight buckets filled with lead scrap. It has worked fine for ~60 years, and the only real drawback I can see is that you have to avoid blocking the swing arms. Is DYI "Don't, You Idiot"?
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May 5, 2023 08:50
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Hah, oops.
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toplitzin posted:Yes. I had one reporting the entire wall opposite (behind) my service entrance panel was a stud. What kind works best if you have plaster walls?
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May 5, 2023 11:51
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Dielectric or radar.
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toplitzin posted:Dielectric or radar. Atomic.
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https://i.imgur.com/UydVbp1.mp4
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May 6, 2023 00:05
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That guy is either incredibly brave or insane to be standing on that balcony.
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May 6, 2023 00:30
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The railing posts are only failing inward, not outward. Not sure what the problem is.
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May 6, 2023 00:38
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FCKGW posted:The railing posts are only failing inward, not outward. Not sure what the problem is. And even so, those posts are sparse, odds are if you stumble and fall, you won’t hit one of them anyhow, so it doesn’t matter how strong they are. Seems fine to me.
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He made it safer by removing an impalement hazard. I mean, falling would suck badly enough already, can you imagine how much worse it would be to do that with an iron post through your abdomen?
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Bad Munki posted:Wasn’t aware. With that in mind, I updated to generic load-bearing curses. Only the finest of crystal loving white women curses from me.
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May 6, 2023 02:37
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 Is that like styrofoam I'm seeing under that stucco?
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May 6, 2023 05:44
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Kowloon Walled City, just taller
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:All this talk about just using a stud finder is moot since it only consistently finds the guy that's using it. I was having this problem, turns out I accidentally bought a spud finder instead. I'm blindly ramming screws through all sorts of poo poo but at least I know I'm a potato, and that's what matters.
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