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Shifty Pony posted:Really want to see how that brain trust secured the house-side ends of the rafters. This is located in Denver, and the garage is old enough to be structural brick, at least.
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wheatpuppy posted:Well if they live in a part of the world where there is never snow or wind or earthquakes, and roofing materials are very lightweight, and nobody ever plans to lean on any of the uprights ... it might be ok? Where on the Moon is this being built?
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StormDrain posted:This is located in Denver, and the garage is old enough to be structural brick, at least. Minor update, the ledger board was shot into the brick with ramset fasteners. He reported seeing daylight between the ledger board and every single rafter.
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Jenkl posted:Im struggling to find words for this. I just keep going in circles. I can't figure out where to start. Lemme try Hinged post/beam connection Toenailed no seat cut rafter/beam connection
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I'll take a picture when I next open this particular Pandora's box but it appears that the inexplicable "soft spot" in the carpet is in fact because when they put the pipes in for the radiator instead of cutting a small notch in the floor to do it they cut about a 15cm square around the pipe and just sort of left it there so needless to say the piece fell into the floor space and the carpet just sort of hangs out over it, supported via it's own tension. There was clearly an apprentice on the team that built this place because for every 4 well built things there's one inexplicably stupid or badly done one. I think this might be the worst one. Or maybe that's the huge number of TV and satellite aerial cables run through down to the cupboard under the stairs but never actually connected to anything because I guess the electrician got bored. No wait maybe it's the external plastic meter box fitted internally for no reason and screwed into place with 4 inch tapered screws such that it was impossible to get off the wall without ripping it apart. The power company engineer that came round to refit the meter and move it up the wall said he couldn't work out why it had been done except some combination of an incorrectly placed power line and a massive misunderstanding about the regs on meter placement.
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Last time I dealt with load-bearing carpet was in a double-wide
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PainterofCrap posted:Last time I dealt with load-bearing carpet was in a double-wide Same. Tell your mom hi for me
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the yeti posted:There seems to be some light colored thing periodic on the house side but I can’t make out what it is.
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PainterofCrap posted:Last time I dealt with load-bearing carpet was in a double-wide at least in a doublewide the walls help hold the carpet in place
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cephalopods posted:at least in a doublewide the walls help hold the carpet in place You say "doublewide", but I hear "Mother in law suite".
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kid sinister posted:Another one: Curb aside, why even bother with steps on the right? StormDrain posted:
I'll take "what is a rafter tie?" for $500, Alex. Or maybe "what is a rafter notch?"
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Darchangel posted:Curb aside, why even bother with steps on the right? It's probably like 1" over the maximum step height by code. I'm trying to eye ball the step height, and it does look a little tall if they didn't put in the other step in.
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No. No! Why is the insulation melted on the far right? 
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Helluva time delay on those
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skybolt_1 posted:No. No! for the same reason the fuses that used to be there have been replaced with giant stranded wire, perhaps: someone was sick of the fuse constantly blowing because of the, to use the technical wording, large extra amounts of electricity happening in that region the bonus electrons xtra large energy bois being boisterous over there
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I just realized that the reason so much bare aluminum is exposed on the blue feeder is because the insulation melted and slid down.
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Leperflesh posted:the bonus electrons I like this one, as it has the same simple understatement and levity that power excursion does.
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kid sinister posted:I just realized that the reason so much bare aluminum is exposed on the blue feeder is because the insulation melted and slid down. it's copper cable, and it's that color because of the scorching, burning of insulation, and/or arcing e. oh you said the feeder, the lower cable. Odd that it's silver, might be copper with a soldered silvering (a good practice for twisted strand cable going into a connector I think?) but maybe it's aluminum wire in which case, yuck
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....God drat I hope that's not three-phase.
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mycomancy posted:....God drat I hope that's not three-phase. Three phase: possibly Five alarm: likely
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I love so much that they did this but also took the time to match the insulation to the other cables.
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VelociBacon posted:I love so much that they did this but also took the time to match the insulation to the other cables. Look, there's reckless, and there's insanity.
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mycomancy posted:Look, there's reckless, and there's insanity. 
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Leperflesh posted:it's copper cable, and it's that color because of the scorching, burning of insulation, and/or arcing Aluminum is pretty common for larger cables. It has to be larger anyway for the same power conduction I beleive, but still a lot cheaper for a long run. Doesn't get loose here the same as it does on outlets since it doesn't have as much activity vibrating it. Chances are the cables from the local transformer to your home are alu.
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Aluminum conductors require larger cross section than copper for the same resistance, but they’re lighter despite the greater bulk, and they have better tensile strength.
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brugroffil posted:Trying to imagine the cost of high voltage copper transmission lines When I first started working at the electric utility in Northern Indiana in the early 2000s, there was one or two 138kV lines left that had copper conductor. They eventually got replaced because it had a really low thermal limit. At least compared to modern ACSR conductors. Supposedly copper conductor has a problem with annealing, so if the current gets to high for to long, the line stretches too much and then it’s proper hosed. Or more correctly, anything underneath it is at higher risk of getting crispy. For those that don’t know, ACSR = Aluminum Conductor, Steel Reinforced. There is a braided steel core, with aluminum strands wrapped around the outside. The steel is the primary load bearing part, and the aluminum is the conductor. Electrons only really flow on the surface layer of metal, so making the core of it something else doesn’t really hurt the conductivity of it. Orvin fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Sash! posted:I like this one, as it has the same simple understatement and levity that power excursion does. My favorites of that type from rocket science are "rapid unplanned disassembly" and "engine-rich exhaust." Honorable mention goes to "lithobraking," because that may occasionally be a valid move.
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Orvin posted:When I first started working at the electric utility in Northern Indiana in the early 2000s, there was one or two 138kV lines left that had copper conductor. They eventually got replaced because it had a really low thermal limit. At least compared to modern ACSR conductors. Supposedly copper conductor has a problem with annealing, so if the current gets to high for to long, the line stretches too much and then it’s proper hosed. Or more correctly, anything underneath it is at higher risk of getting crispy. An old electrician I worked with told me a story of when some 69kV overhead copper lines faulted, when the fault cleared and they went to clean up the mess those overhead lines had the flexibility of a 16ga extension cord.
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Orvin posted:Electrons only really flow on the surface layer of metal, so making the core of it something else doesn’t really hurt the conductivity of it. This isn't really true. You're thinking of the skin effect, which results from the changing magnetic field creating a back-EMF towards the center of the conductor which opposes current flow. This is frequency-dependent (and hence doesn't apply at all with DC), and is comparatively minor at low frequencies. In aluminum at 60Hz, the skin depth is almost half an inch.
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Wonder what ghosts are after this builder.
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PurpleXVI posted:Wonder what ghosts are after this builder. Good lord. I don't know where to begin, and they didn't know where to stop. The electrical and plumbing have GOT to be a nightmare. Not to mention foundation and joints between the disparate additions.
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PurpleXVI posted:Wonder what ghosts are after this builder. This is 3k/night on Airbnb
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PurpleXVI posted:Wonder what ghosts are after this builder. Uncle Fenestration.
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PurpleXVI posted:Wonder what ghosts are after this builder. Look, I know I’m not much of an architect, but can we please not post candid screenshots of my Sims 4 gameplay in this thread
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PurpleXVI posted:Wonder what ghosts are after this builder. The Borgrover Cube "Regulations are futile"
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Don't sleep on what appears to be three(visible! could be more!) chimneys.
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PurpleXVI posted:Wonder what ghosts are after this builder. I think the door on the left might have been the original shotgun style house.
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