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Saw this and thought of thread Also the fact that it looks like a loss edit is good too
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Well, I can't. Our clawfoot tub is a little over knee height and flares outward, and to get out of it without the grab bar, I'd have to bend way over, grab the rolled edge, straddle it, then swing the other foot over and stand up. Built-in tubs aren't usually that tall. If you're bending over anyway, I would simply somersault out of it like a true chad
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Jul 7, 2023 18:09
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Cat Hatter posted:I once saw an adult film that basically turned into an infomercial for bathroom grab bars halfway through. They were in the shower and most of the dialogue became "and if you have this bar you can do it like this...then you can grab this other bar and do it like this...or you can open the shower door and grab the bar attached to the toilet and do this". It was bizarre but persuasive.
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Jul 7, 2023 19:15
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I'd be worried that installing grab bars would just encourage people to pull the walls over on themselves.
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Jul 7, 2023 19:20
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It's OK. The walls are reinforced by miles of pre-stressed wires and stiffened with giant conduits. The real concern is anchoring the grab bars to the foam, one good yank and they'll just come off with a comical puffball of powdery fluff attached to each end.
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Jul 7, 2023 19:25
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Load-bearing grab bars you can hold on to to reinforce the frame during storms.
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Jul 7, 2023 19:31
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Cat Hatter posted:I once saw an adult film that basically turned into an infomercial for bathroom grab bars halfway through. They were in the shower and most of the dialogue became "and if you have this bar you can do it like this...then you can grab this other bar and do it like this...or you can open the shower door and grab the bar attached to the toilet and do this". It was bizarre but persuasive. An old guy lived (and then died) in my house before I bought it and he had some mobility issues. Consequently there were 6 grab bars in the 35sqft bathroom and I left all the ones in the shower (mostly just because it would look like poo poo if I removed from from the fiberglass shower surround) and they're...honestly really nice to have? I do tend to hang onto one as I am stepping and in out of the shower, and there is one that is in the perfect place to hold on to while leaning into the water. The shower also has two seats, which I highly recommend to anybody in the process of installing or remodeling their bathroom.
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Sirotan posted:An old guy lived (and then died) in my house before I bought it and he had some mobility issues. Consequently there were 6 grab bars in the 35sqft bathroom and I left all the ones in the shower (mostly just because it would look like poo poo if I removed from from the fiberglass shower surround) and they're...honestly really nice to have? I do tend to hang onto one as I am stepping and in out of the shower, and there is one that is in the perfect place to hold on to while leaning into the water. The shower also has two seats, which I highly recommend to anybody in the process of installing or remodeling their bathroom. Yeah we are redoing a bathroom and building a little bench across the end of the shower opposite the head. It’s tiled, not a fiberglass shell, so pretty easy to incorporate. I dunno that I’ll ever want to just like sit there but it’s convenient for a number of things. My wife wanted it to ease shaving in particular. Wasn’t planning on a railing as we aren’t that decrepit yet but now I’m thinking a little about preemptively adding one…
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Jul 7, 2023 20:06
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I'll just take one of my building site plastic chairs in there and sit on that
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Jul 7, 2023 20:14
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Docjowles posted:Yeah we are redoing a bathroom and building a little bench across the end of the shower opposite the head. It’s tiled, not a fiberglass shell, so pretty easy to incorporate. I dunno that I’ll ever want to just like sit there but it’s convenient for a number of things. My wife wanted it to ease shaving in particular. I realize this sounds cliché as hell but honestly I find myself doing some of my best thinking while sitting in the shower. After a long stressful day it is the best way to destress and cogitate on whatever issue I have or future project I need to plan. I dunno, it's just very relaxing.
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Jul 7, 2023 20:15
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Sitting in the shower will only ever make me think of the Reply All episode where it is revealed that Alex sits in the shower
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Jul 7, 2023 20:17
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Little plastic stool in a dull tiled wetroom, no real shower just a hose with a spray head. It's a mood.
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Jul 7, 2023 20:29
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If I could sit down in the shower then I would stay in there for far too long.
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I have one small grab bar that has a removable shelf insert, added when I had bathroom Remodeled. The lead guy said it would be dumb not to add something like it with the wall down, added reinforcement behind it. Added nothing to the job cost except for the $50 part.
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goatface posted:Little plastic stool in a dull tiled wetroom, no real shower just a hose with a spray head. A very Buffalo Bill mood
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Jul 7, 2023 21:40
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no loving way he is going to be able to dig a barement now
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'll just take one of my building site plastic chairs in there and sit on that Trying to laugh it off, but can't resist the compulsion to add fully optimized grab bars and seats. He had grown to hate what he was building, hate what it had become, hate what it was causing him to become. But there was no escape. When had he lost control? Had he ever been in control? Had he laid solid foundations, or had he only brushed off the dust from the eternal chains which tie him to his prison?
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Realised i missed a few more wiring bits. Gonna have to remove some lids. Couple of switches should have had two live lines, for indoor light and outdoor light. Also smoke alarm in hallway, that one was easy to add back in though. For now I'm just gonna stuff everything in the trunks though and get them covered up as... Man coming to assess first fit electrics on Tuesday morning. So we shall see. Decided to change the sinky toilet box thing. Can't reliably find a low enough slung in wall cistern so basin will now sit on a legless extruded timber box thing and the back bit will just go up a bit higher. like wicker basket in it or something to put all the crap. hmmm actually need to check theres suitably sized basket available before I finalise dimensions. So once I bolt that to the wall and floor a million times hopefully, and I don't think I'm wrong to largely rely on hope at this point for most things, the sticky out bit with the basin on will be well enough supported by the four uprights next to it. If not, I'll drill through all the way into the guest bedroom and install grab handles on the back side of the wall and put up a sign saying don't fill the sink unless theres someone on the other side holding the bracing handles.  get wood  darren, the manager at wickes is loving gormless. I could just walk out with things from there without paying and tell him its fine and he'd accept it. Something weird is going on there if he really is, as they all insist, the boss.  design doesnt quite survive reality of course what with the waste pipe to deal with and wonky walls, scruffy floors and whatnottery. Same end result. much the same in the en suite, but 10cm narrower cos I made the shower 10cm wider here for all the seating I plan to drag in there.  Unrelated but something else odd I noticed today is a weird sort of stain around the bottom of all the wall straps on the external walls.  Some sort of moisture thing I guess? Or some weird unexpected chemical reaction between two commonly installed elements in every house in the country? I'm sure its nothing. Or terrible. Then my elderly neighbours came round, not with a cup of tea but a can of beer.  He doesn't drink, and if this is whats in his fridge I can see why.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:06
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Is the UK immune from the unbelievable stupidity surrounding Bud Lite in the US? If so I envy your innocence where it's just piss beer and not an icon of the culture wars
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Jul 7, 2023 22:25
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er... oh dear yeah I think so. Like I say my neighbours are in their 80s and dont really have the internet. Like I can imagine a bud light isnt a real manly pickup driving all american can of beer. But as we all know when it comes to pickups, I drive a fiat panda.
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Jul 7, 2023 22:32
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Docjowles posted:Is the UK immune from the unbelievable stupidity surrounding Bud Lite in the US? If so I envy your innocence where it's just piss beer and not an icon of the culture wars It's just another generic piss beer around here as far as I'm aware.
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Jul 7, 2023 23:11
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone ever drink a bud lite in the uk. Normal bud is light enough.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:
Will this be live-streamed?
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It is surprising to me they even sell Bud Light in the UK, or it’s readily available enough for your neighbor to just pick some up. Nothing to do with politics just thought it was an American focused product. Yes Budweiser is available and known all corners of the earth.
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i thought terf island would've gotten rid of any bud lights by now, maybe that's why they're giving it to you
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I can only imagine that someone brought that round for a BBQ one day and they left it there. I have only had bud light once but never again. Interesting story about poo poo lager, I was going for a bit of a long walk and eventually got to a pub that only did fosters but it was cold and fancied a cold pint. A poo poo lager on a hot as gently caress day when you are thirsty does hit the spot, I don’t know if it is because it is pretty much water or not but since then always done this.
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I usually go for a nice bitter shandy in those situations.
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That's time for a nice crisp cider imo
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I prefer a radler to a shandy but sure
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We've got some friends that visit from England and they love trying all of the different poo poo beers I can find for them. I procure only the most artisanal of poo poo beers now that they've tried the usual suspects. My crowning achievement was making them try "Mountain Brew," a beer that was brewed and sold by a chain of gas stations and was about as sweet as Mountain Dew. Unfortunately they stopped selling it but you used to be able to get a pallet of of for like $20.
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Come to install tile backer boards in the bathroom and been reminded of what an utterly poo poo job the screeders have made of the floor. Ffs. They texted me after to get a review which I snorted at derisively, but I'm pissed off enough now to go back and leave one.
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Jul 11, 2023 10:24
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No sign of the electrics guy, blown up the drill mixing up tile adhesive and the backer boards won't stick to the wall, going to smash the poo poo out of something.
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I'm smashing the poo poo out of that like button e. in my home where backer boards are attached to wooden studs we'd use screws, I assume you're trying to stick them using some sort of glue that won't stick to the weird ultralight foam brick things? Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Leperflesh posted:I assume you're trying to Dangerous thread for this
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Sounds like you didn't prime the block work properly. Are you using s1 flex rapid set adhesive? Not that you need much flex with the pilings...
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Yeah I'm installing hardie backer boards onto the blockwork to take the tiles. From googling nutters on forums they eventually argued their way to just using the same tile adhesive to fix up the backer boards as to fix up the tiles. So I did that. Yeah I used flex rapid set stuff. Also they said not to prime the blockwork with PVA or whatever so I didn't, not particularly because I valued the opinion but because it was less stuff to do. All they said was to wet the blocks a lot as they soak up water like nobody's business. So I caked the whole back of a board in the gunk and slapped it up but it flops and flexs away from the wall. So I used some plasterboard screws and washers to screw it up into place. As long as you don't overtighten them it works, then the adhesive will set and its all good I guess. Annoyingly there is a thing called a spanker dowel which is essentially the same thing but much funnier sounding I could have used if I'd have known.  got some more done  but then stalled out a bit as I'm unsure what to do with the electronic data lines down for the controllers. I'd just chiselled out tiny narrow/shallow chases to run them in and adhesive straight over but...  I accidentally rtfm Now i dunno, should I put them in a conduit so they can be pulled out? the connectors on the end are big fuckers  and won't fit down a normal conduit.  I dunno. Also finished off the boxing in for the final WC down the other end. This one needs a box all the way up to run a soil pipe up to a vent in the roof. I wasn't sure if i needed to do this as building regs are weird and its like I dunno 1 in 5 houses need this. It could be you?!?!?  But I do need it as I'm on my own self container sewer pump so otherwise I could blow myself up/gas myself. And heres the wiring tidied away into the trunking for my non visit.  Also note the data baskets, car charger fat black conduit and ventilation pipe runs all neatly contained in the triangle service runs. 
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drat those service triangles look good, yum yum yum Highly recommended that you prime any surface before using tile adhesive on it (actual primer not PVA). The primer is cheap as if you get it from a tiler supply shop. Hell I primed the backs of the backer boards as well and they stuck really well. Your backer boards may be only attached with dry wall screws to a low density block wall which might end badly... Also I dot and dabbed the backer boards, but I was going onto uneven 100 year old brick work rather than flat block work.
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yeah. I should have primed it. SInking feeling. Now its do I carry on doing it wrong to be consitently... wrong. Or prime from now on and know that some wasn't.
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Really pissed myself off now. What an idiot. Ordered primer from Toolstation to pickup tomorrow morning. Might tear all that back down and start again.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Really pissed myself off now. What an idiot. Ordered primer from Toolstation to pickup tomorrow morning. Might tear all that back down and start again. From the sounds of it it might not require much by way of tearing to come down.
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