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When my house was built in 1930, it was a bath only, so the window being partially over the tub was not a problem until they installed the shower plumbing in the 1950s. I have to sand & refinish the window sashes & sill every few years. One thing that worked well: I took a page from my R/C aircraft building, and ironed Monokote (or Ultracote) wing covering over the window trim; it's held up well for 15-years. https://www.horizonhobby.com/product/ultracote-white/HANU870.html
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If a window trim has a chance of getting wet, as it's sometimes the case, I build the entirety of that window opening out of plastic (cellular PVC). Never a problem
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ullerrm posted:+1 for Rambalac. Some of his "wander around Tokyo on rainy nights" videos are fantastic fall-asleep content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hndf5JRwUL0&t=489s Rambalac posted that he was stopping the walking videos a couple months ago: quote:Almost 7 years ago I started this channel with the main goal to do something to stop being boring person to find a girlfriend. I could find a girl whom I still love but she never had any interest in me and I screwed up even that weak relationship I had. After these years I'm still a lonely boring person. For the last 3 or even more years I forced myself to continue through constant depression, but this channel is just a waste of time. 600k people subscribed to your channel and many many millions of views and depression still causes him to believe he's boring. Such an insidious condition. The response was overwhelmingly supportive and reassuring, I don't know if he has reconsidered but I hope so.
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i don't want to know any rambalac lore
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I don't have a funny video but my wife and I are doing some work on the house we recently bought. It's a split level, downstairs bathroom has this AWFUL light/fan combo that turns on together and sounds like some Vietnam era helicopter. Started ripping it out to replace with something quieter and once we got up into the ceiling we quickly found out that it doesn't vent anywhere. It's just sucking moisture from the shower up into the space between the bathroom ceiling and the subfloor of the upper level. Why the gently caress would you ever do this lmfao. Rhetorical question, obviously previous owner heard he had to have an exhaust fan to meet code and decided to beat it with one weird trick. The only saving grace was that this bathroom sucked so bad nobody ever used it so there wasn't some kind of sentient mold colony up there.
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The extractor for my kitchen hob was similar, they installed it but they didn't put a hole in the ceiling to attach it to anything. What made this decision even dumber was the fact that about a foot to the right was the hole where the old extractor used to be, complete with ducting to the outside vent. All they needed to do was put a hole in the ceiling and move the duct over. Bizarre.
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tile, how does it work? 
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When life gives you shards, make mosaic.
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`Nemesis posted:tile, how does it work? That’s just a Tangram puzzle.
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My buddy just bought a house from a couple he described as "an aesthetically challenged house flipper couple". The house is full of questionable paint combos - any of the myriad feature walls alone would merit a post here but the revolting highlight is undoubtedly the master bedroom - the ceiling of which is finished in a textured brown with cream borders:  and this revolting texture that looks like someone laid on their back and blasted brown ropes on the ceiling   There are also gold painted ribbon trim highlights at waist height. Anyone got any idea how to get rid of this poo poo? Buddy thinks it's either a shitload of time with a sander or literally replacing the ceiling - I figured if anyone had a better idea it'd be you fine folks.
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Easiest would probably be slapping some quarter inch drywall right over the top of it.
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Or decorative ceiling tiles, or wallpaper
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Half an inch of paint to keep with the house-flipper tradition
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sarcastx posted:the revolting highlight is undoubtedly the master bedroom - the ceiling of which is finished in a textured brown with cream borders: It has a “smoked in for the better part of a century, then stopped halfway through powerwashing” look.
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`Nemesis posted:tile, how does it work? you can't tell where random piles of tiles will line up, so you make due
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sarcastx posted:My buddy just bought a house from a couple he described as "an aesthetically challenged house flipper couple". Painting over it with flat white paint and then trying to forget it exists is going to cause your friend the least amount of psychic pain imho
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`Nemesis posted:tile, how does it work? On a project I was on the tile guy brought me two patterns as to how he could cut the tile around the drain. Honestly either of them were fine to me and I think the architect didn't have a strong opinion, the fact that he asked alone meant he was going to do a good job. It really stuck with me as good craftsmanship and practice. This is the opposite of that experience, where I hadn't yet conceptualized how lovely of a job someone could do.
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sarcastx posted:My buddy just bought a house from a couple he described as "an aesthetically challenged house flipper couple". Two boxes of drywall finishing mud and shoulders of iron. Prime the whole ceiling first, skim it out, light sanding, skim it again, light sand, and paint. It looks like everything else has an orange peel texture, so they may want to get a texture gun and rent an air compressor to run it. I assume anyone who's asking how doesn't own any of that or have the skills yet, but it's a very fixable problem. All my ceilings are just smooth finish and walls are textured, which is fine. It's preferrable to a lot of folks to just go smooth everywhere. Honestly not fun but not the worst. I am coming from a higher level maybe though as I am far enough away from having scraped a whole house of popcorn ceiling and refinished it.
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sarcastx posted:My buddy just bought a house from a couple he described as "an aesthetically challenged house flipper couple".
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New McMansion Hell and dear god is it a doozy https://mcmansionhell.com/post/725564236607176704/mojo-dojo-casa-house 
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StormDrain posted:This is the opposite of that experience, where I hadn't yet conceptualized how lovely of a job someone could do. They can do worse. Such as the drain being higher up than the rest of the floor.
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`Nemesis posted:tile, how does it work? Do you think they laid all the substrate stuff (I don't know poo poo about tile) and just had a fat guy jump on it to "form" it?
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A place I lived in for a while was like that. All the floors were sloped & uneven. Except the bathroom, which was almost as flat as a machinist's surface plate, and had all the issues you'd expect from that.
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"found in new construction"
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`Nemesis posted:"found in new construction" “Grover, you can’t have all the ducts.”
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I didn't know HR Geiger designed HVAC systems
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Jows posted:I didn't know HR Geiger designed HVAC systems i didn't either, but maybe Lovecraft did?
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it's giving "HVAC, but make it look like a Missy Elliot video"
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Angry Pie posted:it's giving "HVAC, but make it look like a Missy Elliot video" I love this more than is explainable.
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I was going to joke about it being easier to balance air distribution with a manifold like that, but aren't most of those air return lines? Why would you insulate air returns? Is this an unconditioned space? Even when I was living in Atlanta and had my furnace in a sweltering garage I don't think they insulated the returns, although it probably wouldn't hurt. I have no idea how they do it if your furnace is laying on its side in a crawlspace or attic.
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His Divine Shadow posted:They can do worse. Such as the drain being higher up than the rest of the floor. How else are you going to get the drain up above the pipe into which it drains?
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Youth Decay posted:New McMansion Hell and dear god is it a doozy I too remember the palace improvements from Civilization 1 fondly. The Greek pillars should be bigger though.
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Cat Hatter posted:I was going to joke about it being easier to balance air distribution with a manifold like that, but aren't most of those air return lines? Why would you insulate air returns? Is this an unconditioned space? Even when I was living in Atlanta and had my furnace in a sweltering garage I don't think they insulated the returns, although it probably wouldn't hurt. I have no idea how they do it if your furnace is laying on its side in a crawlspace or attic. It will be harder to balance because nobody who built it like that would balance it. Also soft duct has more resistance so the effectiveness of those is awful. None of them have dampers anyway. And what about that makes you think it's the return? It looks to me like a downdraft furnace based on the refrigerant line location. Which... Also looks like it's in a basement which doesn't make sense but seems right considering how dumb the rest of it is.
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StormDrain posted:It will be harder to balance because nobody who built it like that would balance it. Also soft duct has more resistance so the effectiveness of those is awful. None of them have dampers anyway. I noticed the condensate line location right after I posted, but I'm not changing it. The other trunk is insulated anyway.
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Cat Hatter posted:Why would you insulate air returns? Heat recovery, maybe?
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Ideally you insulate everything as any time you have duct work in an unconditioned space it'll bleed energy into or out of the system in the opposite way you want. That's why modern good construction typically has the attic or crawl space as part of the building envelope. You don't have to worry about losing efficiency if you're doing everything in the conditioned space.
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