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Honey I’ve Shrunk Your Patience
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Nov 7, 2023 13:35
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There is apparently a bolt that can be undone near the hinge to make them do that. Meaning they might be missing the bolt. Or not. Ordinarily you'd ask your installer, but I think the installer was you? Nah some hinges just open like that. It's sort of the default, in fact. If you've got flush casements (i.e. the opening part of the window, when closed, is recessed back into the frame) then the sash HAS to move over into the opening a little, otherwise the edge of the sash will clash with the frame edge due to the opening geometry. Anyway yeah you can get "fire escape" hinges which open at close to a 90 degree angle and closer to the frame jamb. Pretty sure I had this convo with 99 earlier in the thread. Source: Have worked as a joiner and window system designer in the UK for about 20 years, for a window/door/conservatory manufacturer. Vid here showing difference between a regular hinge and a fire-escape/egress hinge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG31aM9CINI In truth there are a few different kinds of hinge combining regular opening, "easy-clean" and "egress" in different combinations, plus different manufacturers and models have different geometries which means your window can open a bit differently... but generally the above is true, in that if you want your window to NOT slide across the opening, you have to specify an "egress" hinge. Also worth noting that if you do get an egress hinge, they usually have lower weight limits, which can be a factor if you have particularly big and/or heavy sashes (triple-glazing can contribute to this). Edit: I posted the wrong vid and now I can't find the other one and now I can't be bothered. Oh well it's still relevant. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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Nov 8, 2023 22:07
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Gutters. I've bought the middle sized ones. I tried to do some calculations on it all but it seemed kind of pointless. The bigger issue really is that my reclaimed/scavenged roof edge forms quite a varied and jagged edge. I think the skinny gutters risk not averaging out over the whole roofline to make sure they catch all the runoff. The biggest ones are for like loving huge warehouses roofs or something. So I'll go middle. Stainless steel. Weirdly not that expensive. Still, given the house is like 90 per cent roof (10 per cent house and another 90 percent foundation) it adds up. Its over a thousand quid. Its almost a 100 metres of guttering though. at least the downpipes are short. Its going to be one unbroken gutter all the way around until the plantroom where there will be two ends. Then the plant room gets a little, lower down private gutter too that will feed into the closest downpipe with a Y. The instructions say to put up a stringline between end brackets and infill from that? ok   The string sags like poo poo no matter how tight I try and pull it? Like its going to bend the brackets before the line goes anywhere close to tight enough to be level. So ignore the instructions. Also I've had to buy fascia board brackets rather than rafter brackets as rafter brackets apparently needed installing like loving ages ago before all the tiles were on? Luckily I'm now ignoring the instructions so not an issue. Although I don't have a facia board so have to put in little spacer lumps to get the gutter to sit in the right position relative to the tiles. I think I'd have had to that anyway. As I say, we're in unchartered territory now so nothing to worry about.  Also got the end piece on and bent the leadwork into the gutter, all seems pretty good.  As I say I'm going to have this continuous gutter all the way round except for the break at the back there where I've started so I'm going to roughly keep it all level. But I've got 4 strategically placed downpipes so I figure by being clever and exacting I can sneak in some cheeky falls to keep runoff water going in the desired directions without it being visibly obvious that its all up and down all the way round.  So I set it at a slight fall down this first run and spray the hose on the roof to simulate heavy rain as we never get any here so I need to simulate it. Water falls out the end. AMazing.  down to the end and corner on! I've had to cut that length of gutter there. And well somehow...   I've sliced the top of my thumb to bits lol then I find a compass and play with that for a bit  The carry on with gutter, steaming along, have this finished in no time. It is now raining.  hmmm. remember my windows that open funny?  well solved that, they won't open at all now.   faaack. who the hell designed this mess? Yeah so gotta take all that back down and rethink my fall  Gutted! In order to get the gutter on also needed to sort out those wave sensors I was talking about as there were little bits of under eave boarding i'd not finished to allow me to sort it. which means hacking away at my lovely perfect new plastered walls.    Eh... not so bad, It'll sand back out. Fortunately its not like the walls were exactly blemish free in the first place. Found a new bit, I call it "the bear attack finish". 
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Nov 8, 2023 22:30
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NotJustANumber99 posted:well solved that, they won't open at all now. Lol. Also looks a bit odd with crooked wonky tiles and wooden siding and stainless gutters? Would've gone with cast iron to keep it looking consistent. Or at least cast-lookalike.
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Nov 8, 2023 22:50
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you look a bit odd
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Nov 8, 2023 22:52
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Towards L shape architecture: Luckily I'm now ignoring the instructions so not an issue
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Nov 8, 2023 22:53
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Cybergutters
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Nov 8, 2023 23:03
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knox_harrington posted:Cybergutters  Let's be fair, the gutter segments connected without huge gaps
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Nov 8, 2023 23:14
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Surprised the gutters haven't got some kind of integrated sensors necessitating an extra 64 ethernet cables tbh.
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Nov 8, 2023 23:37
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hmmm. interesting. some king of realtime water level measuring system and like canal system style locks around the windows to allow the gutter sections there to raise and lower according to optimal window opening regimes. Yeah I think that could work.
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Nov 8, 2023 23:43
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If you had a moat you wouldn't need to worry about gutters. Just an idea.
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Nov 8, 2023 23:45
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Housebrain, please initiate the gutter protocols thusly
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Nov 8, 2023 23:47
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What you need is a series of AI controlled umbrellas the house brain can deploy to channel the water over next door's fence.
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Nov 9, 2023 00:20
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Or just have it all run into the plant room, it's good for the plants.
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Nov 9, 2023 00:21
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<Kramers in, panting wildly> Why don’t you build another roof over top of the first roof so your upper gutters will drain right into the lower gutters?
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Nov 9, 2023 00:34
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just swap the window around so it opens inward. bingo bango
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Nov 9, 2023 00:49
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Reinstall it 90 degrees off so when it opens you have a sheltered bird feeder
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Nov 9, 2023 02:36
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cover the window frames with sandpaper and open them repeatedly until they create clearance from the gutter
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Nov 9, 2023 02:47
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Just jack the roof up like 5cm it’s e-z
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Nov 9, 2023 04:10
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Just don't open the windows.
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Nov 9, 2023 04:14
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are gutters really required when the foundation extends to the earth’s core
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Nov 9, 2023 05:42
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Drill into your foundations, hollow them out and have the gutters drain into them for water storage. Useful in the future apocalypse.
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Nov 9, 2023 07:53
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Mexican Radio posted:are gutters really required when the foundation extends to the earth’s core If the earth around the foundation erodes other people might see it, and humanity at large is not ready to gaze upon things such as this.
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Nov 9, 2023 08:08
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Mexican Radio posted:are gutters really required when the foundation extends to the earth’s core Gutters also protect the facades by keeping them dryer and generally just leading water away is good for general house health. Gets more important when you live where it gets cold and you get frost heaving, dry ground frost heaves less. Not a huge concern for 99 who live in mild britain, though who knows what the weather can be like if the gulf stream stops?
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Nov 9, 2023 08:35
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All good suggestions, but what I've done is tuck them up a bit higher. And as above, the walls get all the roof water blown back against them and the floor gets soggy and muddy, and the neighbours fence gets rotted away. Plus I spent ages laying my ham soakaway so I want it to get used.
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Nov 9, 2023 11:11
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loving cackling when the windows won't open
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Nov 9, 2023 15:53
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I’d laugh harder if the exact same thing didn’t happen to one of mine.
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Nov 9, 2023 16:15
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Put a mechanised hinge on the gutters and a sensor on the window so the house brain can open the gutters when you open the window.
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Nov 9, 2023 16:21
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Somewhere in the house there should be a lil alarm light that goes off everytime someone posts itt
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Nov 9, 2023 16:36
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Failed Imagineer posted:Somewhere in the house there should be a lil alarm light that goes off everytime someone posts itt Make it the same noise as the CO alarm
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Nov 9, 2023 17:21
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Just combine into one "Brain Damage" alarm
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Nov 9, 2023 17:24
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aniviron posted:If the earth around the foundation erodes other people might see it, and humanity at large is not ready to gaze upon things such as this. This is (shrub) a place of (shrub)or.
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Nov 9, 2023 18:06
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Who needs windows in passivehäus
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Nov 9, 2023 18:37
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Stick a few cameras up and put screens on the walls.
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Nov 9, 2023 18:50
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Is this some kind of Passivhaus deal anyway? I watched a guy on Grand Designs last night whose build took as long as this one, but it was 800m², had enough solar to power the rest of their village, and was going for some kind of Ultra-Passiv cert that noone else in Britain has ever gotten. Pretty sure if you farted in that house at Christmas you'd still be smelling the Brussels sprouts in April
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Nov 9, 2023 19:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:Is this some kind of Passivhaus deal anyway? I watched a guy on Grand Designs last night whose build took as long as this one, but it was 800m², had enough solar to power the rest of their village, and was going for some kind of Ultra-Passiv cert that noone else in Britain has ever gotten. Pretty sure if you farted in that house at Christmas you'd still be smelling the Brussels sprouts in April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-lpYd2dZk seems absolutely insane lmao, 800m2!
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Nov 9, 2023 19:51
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Yeah well we're not all made of m².
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Nov 9, 2023 20:38
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More focused on just m, this house.
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Nov 9, 2023 21:00
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My house is only 84 m²
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Nov 9, 2023 22:05
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