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The posts only break off because the horizontal bars connecting them have been removed. Of course you can pull off any balcony fence railing post by itself, but together they will hold any weight.
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Nenonen posted:The posts only break off because the horizontal bars connecting them have been removed. Of course you can pull off any balcony fence railing post by itself, but together they will hold any weight. Absolutely not. While it's true they'd be stronger if tied together, any individual post should be able to support an adult running into it without falling down.
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May 6, 2023 15:07
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Cat Hatter posted:Absolutely not. While it's true they'd be stronger if tied together, any individual post should be able to support an adult running into it without falling down. Pro-tip, don't show off how safe your structures are. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/window-strength-death/
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May 6, 2023 16:01
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those bars were only sunk like an inch in the questionable quality cement, even with horizontal bars it wasn't going to work
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May 6, 2023 16:40
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Cat Hatter posted:Absolutely not. While it's true they'd be stronger if tied together, any individual post should be able to support an adult running into it without falling down. Now why would I trust you, a total stranger on the internet?  Meanwhile in Finland, a woman somehow stumbled through a 7th floor balcony glass panel. 
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May 6, 2023 17:02
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Nenonen posted:Now why would I trust you, a total stranger on the internet? If it was Finland she was probably drunk and looking for her cigarettes. (Source: am half Finnish)
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May 6, 2023 17:14
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Clayton Bigsby posted:If it was Finland she was probably drunk and looking for her cigarettes. (Source: am half Finnish) Very likely, according to reporting she was a downstairs neighbour of the woman living in the apartment and we don't usually do neighbour visits unless there's some booze. Smoking and drinking kills, the panel manufacturer and construction company are innocent.
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May 6, 2023 17:19
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Uthor posted:Pro-tip, don't show off how safe your structures are. Obviously not, but people walk into things because they aren't paying attention all the time and a railing should at least slow them down before they die. Alternatively, two people should be able to lean against it at the same time. It's funny to look at how a modern deck railing is supposed to tie into the rest of the structure vs the way everyone used to just notch a 4x4 post so it was effectively as strong as a 2x4 and then just put two lag screws into the rim joist.
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May 6, 2023 17:20
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House is "award-winning". Hope you don't stumble on that midnight trip to the bathroom! https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10560-Kelly-St-Mendocino-CA-95460/19214895_zpid/?mmlb=g,29
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May 6, 2023 19:34
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I think "award winning" in this case might mean someone was awarded damages in court after being injured by that lovely stair design.
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May 6, 2023 20:31
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Arsenic Lupin posted:House is "award-winning". I know that it's in Mendocino, but that is not a 2 million dollar house.
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May 6, 2023 20:35
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binge crotching posted:I know that it's in Mendocino, but that is not a 2 million dollar house.
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May 6, 2023 21:36
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Arsenic Lupin posted:House is "award-winning".
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May 6, 2023 21:45
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Uthor posted:Pro-tip, don't show off how safe your structures are. When is the sidewalk fully dressed? When it’s Waring Hudsucker.
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May 7, 2023 17:25
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Arsenic Lupin posted:House is "award-winning". Many years ago I stayed in a youth hostel that had a mezzanine floor with two of the beds on it and it had those weird half stairs up to it, but they were polished wood and turns out my footwear had no grip left so wheeeeee down I went!
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Many years ago I stayed in a youth hostel that had a mezzanine floor with two of the beds on it and it had those weird half stairs up to it, but they were polished wood and turns out my footwear had no grip left so wheeeeee down I went! My wife fractured two vertebrae slipping down hardwood stairs in socks. Luckily she fell on the short stretch and stopped at the landing, and didn't end up permanently crippled, just bed/couch bound for a few weeks.
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May 7, 2023 20:07
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My neighbor tripped and broke her ankle on the single step outside her kitchen back door when taking out the trash. Never trust stairs.
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May 7, 2023 22:35
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We moved into our house three weeks ago and I've already cracked my tailbone and currently have a bruised elbow and hip from slipping on the mud room stairs and main stairs, respectively. Some carpet treads are on order now. I guess you just aren't allowed to have cozy feet in a house with plain hardwood stairs?
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May 7, 2023 22:47
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Yeah. Don't wear socks on stairs
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Shifty Pony posted:We moved into our house three weeks ago and I've already cracked my tailbone and currently have a bruised elbow and hip from slipping on the mud room stairs and main stairs, respectively. Some carpet treads are on order now. Get some slippers with a decent tread. Very cozy. https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/65637?page=mens-wicked-good-moccasins
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May 7, 2023 22:57
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Get grippy socks like they have in psych wards.
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May 7, 2023 23:24
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Shifty, where did you order your stair treads from? We should probably have some.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Shifty, where did you order your stair treads from? We should probably have some. I got them from here: https://oakvalleydesigns.com I can let you know how they turn out.
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peanut posted:Never trust stairs. My parents pulled up the carpet and put hardwood floors down upstairs. Instead of... Anything else, they put the flooring right on top of the top step, making it twice as thick. It took me like five years to stop tripping on it.
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May 8, 2023 01:27
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Get some slippers with a decent tread. Very cozy. House slippers are kind of definitively Old People Stuff, but hell if they aren't useful now that everything's grey LVP everywhere that gets slick as hell if someone tracks in water.
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Sash! posted:My parents pulled up the carpet and put hardwood floors down upstairs. Instead of... Anything else, they put the flooring right on top of the top step, making it twice as thick. The body is exceptionally good at being lazy and after a few steps of exactly the same height it takes a surprisingly small amount of variance to gently caress with people climbing stairs. https://youtu.be/seieuz__B_g
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May 8, 2023 03:03
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...which is why there are very specific codes for riser height at rise/run for the entire flight.
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Shifty Pony posted:The body is exceptionally good at being lazy and after a few steps of exactly the same height it takes a surprisingly small amount of variance to gently caress with people climbing stairs. You never realize how close your hand comes to things until you break a finger, get one of those metal finger splints, and then snag it on literally everything around you.
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Sash! posted:You never realize how close your hand comes to things until you break a finger, get one of those metal finger splints, and then snag it on literally everything around you. Or a watch. I feel like I've never whacked my hand into a door frame in my life but the first week after you start putting an expensive amulet on your wrist...
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Shifty Pony posted:The body is exceptionally good at being lazy and after a few steps of exactly the same height it takes a surprisingly small amount of variance to gently caress with people climbing stairs. A while after I moved out the cafe downstairs took over the space. I wonder how many waiters have tripped on those three steps carrying a tray full of hot coffees.
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I love pubs that just have a staircase in the middle of the floor. They don't even have to be wonky in any way, people will regularly just fly down majestically and then contuse, break, and/or become divested of every part of their body less majestically.
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Sash! posted:You never realize how close your hand comes to things until you break a finger, get one of those metal finger splints, and then snag it on literally everything around you. My BF wears a continuous glucose monitor, and I have worn a surplus one once. It's a plastic disk the size of a coin that you stick to your arm with double sided tape*, and it makes you acutely aware of how closely you brush door frames and corners and the like. He has managed to tear off two of them over a few years, and I banged the one I borrowed into the bathroom door. * It comes in a spring-loaded deployment tool that also punches a chunky needle through the sensor, into your arm, and then immediately pulls it out again, leaving a thin silicone tube behind.
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May 8, 2023 13:32
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You can wear a glucose monitor on any squishy part of the body. Thigh or stomach are the safest areas.
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Sure, but doesn't mean that's the person's preference. I wear both a CGM and have an insulin pump and while I would have best absorption with my stomach, I couldn't stand that location and it made me constantly aware of the devices. Now I do CGMs on the arm and pump sites on my thighs and keeps things mostly out of the way (as they can be). Sucks to get your pump tube stuck on a handle while walking though. I'm also on the fence about ditching CGMs. They start to tread into knowing too much and really affecting your mental health.
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I just started wearing a pump a month ago (Omnipod 5) and it's a fun little game finding sites that I won't knock as I do normal movement and also won't knock against doorways that I get too close to. Also you can get closed loop pumps that get real time data from your CGM to better dose your basal, so keep that in mind before you ditch the CGM. I guess the only crappy construction here is our bodies.
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Shifty Pony posted:I got them from here: https://oakvalleydesigns.com Please do!
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Computer viking posted:My BF wears a continuous glucose monitor, and I have worn a surplus one once. It's a plastic disk the size of a coin that you stick to your arm with double sided tape*, and it makes you acutely aware of how closely you brush door frames and corners and the like. He has managed to tear off two of them over a few years, and I banged the one I borrowed into the bathroom door. I'm exactly the right height for my belt loops to catch on door handles. It's infuriating.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm exactly the right height for my belt loops to catch on door handles. It's infuriating.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm exactly the right height for my belt loops to catch on door handles. It's infuriating. I find that only happens to me when I'm in a hurry and/or already annoyed about something else.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm exactly the right height for my belt loops to catch on door handles. It's infuriating. Ha, his main complaint is that the tube from his insulin pump catches on door handles - it's basically the same thing but it pokes out a little bit further. I say we go for panic bars and pull handles on all doors.
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