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Quick! Retreat to the panic plant room and disable oxygen supplies to the rest of the house
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Sep 4, 2023 09:16
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Jaded Burnout posted:Even with the best intentions and materials brick will blow and mortar will soften over a hundred years. Is that a “house stays up” service life or a “materials will stand up to remodelling” service life? I think piles of rocks hold up fairly well.
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Sep 4, 2023 13:53
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In the same way Koreans have fan death is 99 going to bring hermetically sealed house death into the general consciousness?
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Sep 4, 2023 14:05
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Lol back from the builder's merchants and their vans are now next door at the pub. Knocked off at 2!
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Sep 4, 2023 14:27
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Did they want to start at 7?
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Sep 4, 2023 14:29
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Is it too hot for the stuff to do the thing?
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Sep 4, 2023 14:30
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Survivorship bias. A whole bunches of houses from the previous century got torn down and rebuilt, and some of them might well have fallen down otherwise. survivorship bias is a real thing, sure. But houses built in 1963 have not started falling apart en masse, either. Even really shoddy ones.
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Leperflesh posted:survivorship bias is a real thing, sure. But houses built in 1963 have not started falling apart en masse, either. Even really shoddy ones. Tangent: There's a '50s Frederik Pohl called Gladiator-at-Law about a near-future fallen American society, and one of Pohl's theses is that the American Levittowns have instantly become slums because of the poor quality of the building. (A) whoopsy and (B) Pohl didn't seem to contemplate that people constantly repair their houses.
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Sep 4, 2023 17:14
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I don’t know why 99 is so worried about the crumbly bricks, the plaster will add structural integrity, and become load bearing
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Sep 4, 2023 23:33
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Right got my floorboards! Continueing to pile fibreglass horror budges in the ceilings  So I've still got a bunch of door linings to get in before the plasterers arrive but thats old hat, you know how that works. What hasn't been decided is the hallway entranceway situation in terms of whats going on with the loft. attic? So basically when you pay someone loads of money and get scared cos theyre actually coming and youre about to look like a moron is you quickly make some decisions. OK so spiral staircase. 1200mm diameter. model it. doable.   Doesnt impact entryway hallway too much  So do that. I aleady have the right timber to make this up. but its being a temporary floor in the GREAT ROOM so I'll kust buy more because imagine upsetting a plasterer.  wood in  wrap everythi9ng in airtightness  Stick plasterboard up  LOL this is all happening at an incredibly stressful canter in order to not look like a charlatan not ready for plasterers person.  Lots of stupid little jobs to do, cut off ends of big metal brackets holding front door in  Upstairs sorting too  ... And then... The plasterers I don't take any pictures whilst they can see me incase it sets them off, plasterers have a terrible reputation but actually Theyre cool. Maybe I'm weirder than I remember. Yeah they seem to sing and dance and enjoy themselves which is very much not a this site thing. Yes the language is... choice. But at the same time they all refer to each other as darling which is quite endearing. Lol as documented they apparently finish at 2:30 each day and relocate to the pub next door. It is so relaxing when theyve gone. blissfull. But then I walk outside and can hear the same booming voices only now from next door and not doing any work lol. It is good to have sent some trade the pubs way. Not sure the pub is going to survive if they need each neighbour to pay 13 thousand pounds to get some tradies to come in and buy a couple of pints but what do I know about running a pub.    window reveals (is that the term?)  how they gunk over my cable stuff  I have identified this tool as the one they use to do the big messing every up scribbles on the walls. I'm thinking about hiding it at like 3 or something after they've left and I'm still on site for like another 5 hours. Maybe they wont mess up all the walls then?  What I'm particularly enjoying is the care and attention they give to all my wiring I have spent months carefully colour code braiding just the way I like it    lol. I'm a big boy. I can deal with this Corner bits. I had to drive back to town seperate to get these  Also theyve blown through all the 3 pallets of KD2 already, reckon another 2 or 3. hmmm. so like another grand? yeah cool. I do quite like this finish though? just leave it like this. Torture sheek  It smells funny though. and all the rooms are very echoey now. Weird how much its changed the acoustics. But I'm holding them up now. Need the two last complicated door linings in. The brick one I've spoken about and the wide, double door one between the bedroom wing of the L and the great room. But its very difficult to do work with the bigger boys there. They keep doing funny voices and stuff. I need to do this in my own time. I've decided to not gently caress about with lintels and poo poo in the brick doorway. Just buy some extra whitewood timber and make my own door linings then buy at probably huge expense a custom door.  For all I bitch and moan about the blocks. gently caress me screwing that lining into the bricks is a massive ballache. Figure out a way to do it with my gentle drill but its jumping about. So I decide to foam it first to hopefully help hold it in place as I properly mechanically screw it in. Seems to go ok but my drill bit burns out and wont do poo poo so I decide rather than think about it to deploy bigger, harder drills.  and blow out the bricks. Fuuuck. Eh I Figure it out. Use some fixing gunk. That one blown out half brick doesnt delay the plasterers and I think I can just come back later and carefully grind out the face of it and match the mortar and put back in like a fake brick slip from a leftover brick. Eurgh though I tell them this room is ready and theyve not interested. Need the hallway door at the other end of the lounge done. No way I'm doing that with them here. Wait for them to go. So Its 1.5m wide the aperture for that door. But I'm not sure I want double doors there anymore. One will hit the woodburner So now its a single big door. Need to make up the lining myself   and its not a fuckup  But I don't think they do single big doors really that wide so I've shaved it down to 1200mm. As if I'm dealing with that with them there. Chopping up some blocks   Doing my own little relaxed wall with my podcasts on  getting a bit wobbly, probably tie it in  stressfree new door aperture.  Fit the lining tomorrow morning. Also been in the loft glueing down floorboards so I can get round to plasterboarding that out to give them that to do  Looks like good progress not from this angle  Phew big couple of days. Get home to drink wine, cook dinner and make post. But some combination of all the things I've done today has rendered my hands uncleanable. Nothing will strip this poo poo from me, this is like an hours attempt 
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Sep 5, 2023 22:59
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it's just loads of cocks and balls, isn't it all scribbled on top of each other, some kind of insane full-house Rorschach test, made entirely of cocks and balls
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Sep 5, 2023 23:13
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I enjoyed that “leperflesh” posted just after that picture of 99s hand
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Sep 5, 2023 23:18
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And with an accurate summation of said hands activities these days
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Sep 5, 2023 23:21
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Is that a child or have I grossly unserestimated the size of the house?
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Sep 5, 2023 23:28
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quote:Maybe I'm weirder than I remember.  quote:some combination of all the things I've done today has rendered my hands uncleanable 
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Sep 5, 2023 23:30
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Is that a child or have I grossly unserestimated the size of the house? Jack and the beanstalk, but the beanstalks are subterranean piles.
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Sep 5, 2023 23:31
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Is that a child or have I grossly unserestimated the size of the house? I'm paying per msq. Its up to the plasterers who they employ and how legal it is
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Sep 5, 2023 23:36
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The scribbling is so the next plaster has something to grab on. v good builder work, 99
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Sep 6, 2023 06:29
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Might suck and be stressful but look at how much house you're getting out of it! It's another big step in the important progression of Looking Like A House.
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Sep 6, 2023 06:53
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quote:some combination of all the things I've done today has rendered my hands uncleanable
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Sep 6, 2023 07:26
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will these hands ne'er be clean?
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Sep 6, 2023 07:56
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You can try turpentine, acetone or gasoline if you are desperate.
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Sep 6, 2023 08:07
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NotJustANumber99 posted:What I'm particularly enjoying is the care and attention they give to all my wiring I have spent months carefully colour code braiding just the way I like it lol, told you
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Sep 6, 2023 08:38
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Still better than the underfloor heating butchering by the concrete guys.
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Sep 6, 2023 09:51
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crowdfunding a Kevin MacLeod cameo where he comes to NJANs house and slags it off
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Sep 6, 2023 12:29
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Gasmask posted:crowdfunding a Kevin MacLeod cameo where he comes to NJANs house and slags it off I'm sure AI can whip something up
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Sep 6, 2023 12:31
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Gasmask posted:crowdfunding a Kevin MacLeod cameo where he comes to NJANs house and slags it off I think Kevin would say all nice, poetic things. While keeping one eye on an exit at all times. E: just checked and Kev isn't on Cameo, sadly
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Sep 6, 2023 13:37
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I reckon Kevin MacLeod would come and compose some royalty free music for the occasion. If Kevin McCloud is unavailable maybe we could get Kevin Bridges instead?
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Sep 6, 2023 14:40
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Failed Imagineer posted:E: just checked and Kev isn't on Cameo, sadly Rudy Giuliani is, if you want to see if you can get him to say this house is worse than 9/11. I think the house is coming along well, all things considered. Don't tell OP though 
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Sep 6, 2023 18:07
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vanity slug posted:lol, told you Ya not sure what was expected there. Seems there are off the shelf solutions too https://blank-it.co.uk/ https://www.protection.co.uk/products/backboxshield-backbox-cover
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Sep 6, 2023 20:09
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Epitope posted:Ya not sure what was expected there. Seems there are off the shelf solutions too Not happening. Can you link a lot of similar sized yogurt lids on ebay?
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Sep 6, 2023 20:16
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Yeah I knew these products existed but I partly didn't look into as I knew I was too tight to spend money on things I'll throw away. And partly just didnt have time seeing as the build is moving so fast. But lol that link is literally just the 2 ply plastic stuff i've got poo poo loads of from sticking up protecting the bifolds cut into little squares and sold for 70quid. Annoying I could have done that and saved myself some future effort. Maybe I will get round to doing it for the other half of the build although 90% of the backboxes are in the already done wing. I guess I can cut up my leftover protective window stuff and sell it on ebay for probably like... hold on... 33,600,000mm2 of it, a single socket is like 5,184mm2 That company was selling 240 units for 70 quid - 1,244,160 so...hmmm only 27 sets so 1800 quid ish. Half that if double sockets.
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Sep 6, 2023 21:06
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Elastic bands and cling film? Aka the poor man's condom
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Sep 6, 2023 21:10
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Epitope posted:Ya not sure what was expected there. Seems there are off the shelf solutions too Anybody else as surprised as I am to see that 99 is doing things very similar to the example photos? England is wack.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:19
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NotJustANumber99 posted:stressfree new door aperture. Lmao is that how bricks are meant to work?
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Sep 7, 2023 06:07
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WhatEvil posted:Lmao is that how bricks are meant to work? Shh, they're not bricks
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Sep 7, 2023 06:36
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Shoulda taken the chance to use wood, for some structural integrity.
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Sep 7, 2023 06:46
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Why not lower the top part of the house and make the foundations part of the internal structure?
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That's a good idea. Along with the cheeky loft space which isn't really counted as usable internal house volume for government reasons, you can add an extra thirteen basement levels which they also don't need to know about. You've already got most of the work done, just fill out the spaces between the pilings! As an added bonus it's guaranteed to be airtight and won't add much to the heating bill.
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